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"that they did this to make themselves amends for the bad success they (the Hudson's Bay Company) had hitherto had in their trading concerns in Athabasca." Multiplied instances might be adduced of similar sentiments and conduct; but nothing further will here be stated than the additional circumstance that John MacLeod, the person upon whose sole testimony the indictment charge against Joseph Paul was found, Pierre Paul, and Pierre Boucher was found grounded, and who was also one of the party at the Grand Rapid when they were taken, instead of being sent down with them as a witness, as must have been the case had there existed any intention of bringing them to trial, was sent off from the Rock depot to winter at English River, a distance up the country of upwards of three thousand miles, and in a contrary direction.

M Some More stress is here laid on all those various circumstances that appear foreign to the narrative relation of M^r Frobisher's individual sufferings and deplorable fate, than would be necessary in a mere narrative; but this is done because they all illustrate the malignant spirit that pervaded the perpetrators of the outrage under who the effects of which that unfortunate gentleman suffered worse than death – death in all its bitterness – death preceded, as he himself will describe it, by "the last stage of wretchedness".

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