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 APPENDIX A.

��SECTION I. — BRITISH AUTHORS.

No. 1.

Extract of a Letter to one of the Captains of the A^jth, at Fort George, dated Montreal, March 17, 1804. — See pp. 3 to 5. " The execution of the four mutineers and three deserters took place at Quebec on the 2d instant, and as I have a letter of the 3d, giving the most minute account that I have seen of it, I therefore transcribe part of the same to you. — * I embrace the earliest opportunity of saying that the seven mutineers and deserters were executed yesterday. At a quarter past ten, a.m., the procession moved off from the prison in the following order : —

Two Bugle Horns.

Major Campbell with a large party of the 41st as the advanced guard.

Artillery with a Field Piece.

The Firing Party, fifty-six in number.

Seven Coffins borne by two men each.

Escort with the Prisoners attended by four Roman Catholic Priests and the

Rev. Mr. Mountain.

Surgeons of the Garrison and Regiments.

Band of Music of the 41st playing a Dirge.

General Mann and Staff Officers of the Garrison.

Field Piece.

Colonel Glasgow with the main body of the Artillery.

Field Piece.

Colonel Proctor at the head of the 41st Regiment, with the Colours.

M^jor Muter, of the Gth, with the two flank Companies of that Regiment.

New Brunswick Volunteers, about seventy in number, without arms.

'At about half-past ten they arrived on the ground, when the sentence and warrant of execution were read ; after which the prisoners about to suffer were led to their coffins, upon which they respectively kneeled : they were kept nearly three quarters of an hour in prayer, during which time the weather was very cold and bad, a strong wind blowing from the eastward with a great drift of snow. The whole was conducted with the greatest propriety till it came to the firing, when, by some mistake, instead of the party

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