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 with tears in his eyes and had him sit among the other settlers. It is at least doubtful whether the punishment inflicted in a like circumstance by a civil judge would have produced as efficacious a result; besides, this paternal correction had the great advantage of not leaving any scar on the person who had received it.

If at Fort Van Couver we were received as a foreigner, at the mission of Saint Paul Abbe Blanchet welcomed us as a compatriot and a brother; and we felt again a keen joy in finding on these distant shores, in a country where France has allowed herself to be deprived of all her rights, a parish and villages which reminded us of those of our own provinces. But we must confess to a painful impression that we felt when on Sunday, in the church where six hundred Canadians were assembled, we heard a French priest say in French to a congregation entirely French: "Let us pray for our Holy Father the Pope, and for our well beloved Queen Victoria." After mass we asked Mr. Blanchet the reason of this strange prayer; he answered that it was enjoined on the priests to make it publicly once a month under pain of removal.

The Hudson's Bay Company sees, not without apprehension, the establishment of new families of free Frenchmen. It would like for the colonization to develop on the right bank of the Columbia. The Company fears that the free population of the Willamette will escape it some day, especially since in March, 1838, at the instigation of Mr. Lee, head of the American Methodists, a petition signed by twenty-seven Americans and nine of the principal French Canadian settlers was addressed to Congress to claim the protection of the United States Government and invite it to take possession of the territory. The