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3^d of September that it was determined he should be embarked with Joseph, Paul, Pierre Paul, Louis Majeau, and Pierre Boucher, on board the brig Weir, Capt. Thompson for Moose Factory thence to be sent to Canada. They embarked on the 7^th and arrived at Moose on the 26^th September, whence after a most fatiguing, and indeed perilous journey by New Brunswick, and Michipicoton, which they reached the 18^th of October, and Sault S^t Marie's, Penetanguishine they, having passed by way of Hollands landing and York, got to Montreal on the 30^th of November last 1819. Nothing further is necessary to be stated relative to them than that, being hav having been all of them of on their way to Canada to obtain their trials on the charges brought against them, they were, by being havi[ng] been taken prisoners being detained so long at the Bay, and and carried round so many hundreds of miles out of their way, precluded from appearing at the court of Oyer and Terminer which had been appointed to meet at Quebec on the 21^st of October for the special purpose, and for which they would have been in ample time had they proceeded by the ordinary route.

M^r Frobisher now found himself alone with the two Canadians Turcotte and Lepine, who had been taken out of the Engl. R. brigade with the Pauls and hHis enfeebled body and irritated mind could scarcely bear up against support the horrors of his situation. As a last effort and pre

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