Narrative of Circumstances attending the death of the late Benjamin Frobisher, Esquire a partner of the North West Company of Montreal, ca. 1820 Revised Text.

Wilcocke, Samuel Hull. Narrative of Circumstances attending the death of the late Benjamin Frobisher, Esquire a partner of the North West Company of Montreal, ca. 1820 [Revised Text]. An electronic transcription. MFTP #0020

against this illegal stoppage of the King's highway, and the scandalous defiance it evinced of the proclamation issued by the Prince Regent, he replied, in a great rage, "I do not care a curse for the Prince Regent's proclamation; Lord Bathurst and Sir John Sherbrooke, by whom it was framed, are damned rascals. I act upon the charter the Hudson's Bay Company, and, as a governor and magistrate in these territories, I have sufficient authority and will do as I think proper." Williams and his associates likewise uttered a torrent of abuse against the judges and courts of justice in Canada (though they have pretended to act upon warrants granted by the Chief Justice of Montreal.) The whole party abused M^r Shaw in the grossest manner, several threatened his life, and one soldier clubbed his musquet to strike him, but an old frenchman stepped in and pushed him away; another cocked and levelled his gun at M^r Shaw's breast, but was prevented from firing by one of his comrades, a Swiss, who pushed it aside.

During the altercation the canoes came in sight, having run down the rapids, and Williams im[-]

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