Part 8 (1/2)

Do you knohere old Jean and his daughter have taken up their abode?”

”I do”

”So I suspected If you will let uarantee for their personal safety if they return to their hoh some unfounded fear of me they fled, and I am anxious to stand well in the affections of all my people--I shall permit you forthwith to leave this Fort”

”Contemptible villain, liar and tyrant, I will _not_ reveal to you Begone By heaven! if you stand there I shall bury my hands in your foul, craven throat”

”Take care, Monsieur,” was all M Riel said, as he left Scott's presence But his eye burned like a fiend's

The agitator, with a spirit of thehieneral ainst the followers of Colonel Dennis, who had banded together and posted themselves in the house of Dr Schultz, a very proathered here with arms in their hands, but they seemed like a lot of little children, without any purpose There was nothem, and there was no force either to lead or to drive the thus ridiculously ian to look at one another, as if to ask:

”_Quis furores o cives?_”

They were not alone unprepared and undeterreasy Rebel and his followers, but they were by no means certain as to what they should do were the ene that the enterprising Monsieur Riel proposed to do It is said that about this ti the sudden and unexpected military movements of Napoleon And I have not the remotest doubt that the diseased vanity of the presumptuous crank enabled hie of Nations

So he said to his eese-pound

Better turn out in good force, with your arh I am quite certain that you can capture the whole caboose with brooed after his heels, and surrounded the Schultz ation of war spirits” Of course there is soether of these loyal people here, as there is for the issuing of the proclamation by the citizens of London, per the mouth of the three tailors

Beyond was Fort Garry, unlawfully seized by Riel, and now unlawfully invested by his troops This was, therefore, a itator began to dictate terms If they would come out of their ridiculous hive, and surrender their arms, he would suffer no harm whatever to befall the the them up prisoners in the fort He would, however, insist upon other formalities; and, therefore, exhibited a declaration which he would ask then

By this document each man would bind himself to rise no more, but to submit to the authority of the Provisional Govern Each brave loyalist took the paper, and put his name to it

[Footnote ] Dr O'Donnell was the first to sign his name, and after he had done the rest followed and with much credit to the celerity of their penmanshi+p Then they all moved out and were escorted up to Fort Garry, where they were held for a considerable period, despite the prayers of prominent persons who had taken no active part on either side, for their liberation

[ Footnote: I take the following fro's History of the Rebellion: ”In the meantime, there were from two to three hundred armed French half-breeds, as well as a nu; and it is said that a couple of mounted cannon (six pounders) were drawn outside the walls of Fort Garry, ready to be used in case of an assault upon the besieged prened, and the surrender handed to Riel, he said that there were two signatures not on the list, which ought to be there--and which he insisted upon having These were the nauard from the French party was therefore sent to hunt up those two men; and in a short time they returned with the individuals they had been in search of As soon as this had been done, the prisoners were taken out andthe siege, had nobly resolved upon re by the side of their husbands, also insisted upon acco are the names of the ladies: Mrs Schultz, Mrs Mair, Mrs O'Donnell; and as the first named lady was ill, probably froh was procured, and Dr Schultz hi in it, behind the rest of the prisoners When they reached Fort Garry, Mr J H McTavish, accountant in the Hudson Bay Coive up his private quarters for the use of the s more comfortable for the ladies”]

CHAPTER VIII

In the meantime, the Government at Ottawa had convinced itself that affairs were in a pretty bad mess in the North-West Therefore they dispatched, with olive branches, two commissioners to treat with the malcontents It is hardly worth while to h I may as well do so They were Vicar-General Thibeault, this prelate, I understand, being a relative of the gentleman who produced the life of Sir Charles Tupper, and Colonel DeSalaberry Mr

Donald A Smith, the chief officer of the Hudson Bay Company, was also dispatched He was instructed to inquire into and report upon the cause of the disturbances and also to assist Governor McTavish, or to relieve hiether of duties should ill health have incapacitated hiht an intervieith the Rebel leader in Fort Garry M Riel very readily adreat pity that it was not upon soovern the locks!

There were now about sixty prisoners in the fort; the British ensign had been hauled down, and the flag of the Provisional Government, a combination of fleurs de-lys and shaot abroad that an agent had come from Canada to treat with the people on behalf of the Canadian Governall was in disfavour with the Dominion an to diminish sensibly

”Let us hear what Donald San to cry; and the Arch Rebel was fain to consent Aof 1,100 people was held in the open air, with the therrees below zero Riel and his folloere not satisfied with the terent; and the arch disturber had made up his mind not to be satisfied Yet he was not secure in his position, for there washosts of his followers under his tyrannical caprices Sometimes he broke loose froe Governor McTavish, as reaching the last stages of consumption, for soht have supposed that a rave's brink would have been secure from violence and insult; but the heartless Rebel ruffian was insensible to every hued like a wild bull, stamped upon the floor, and declared that he would have hiuard he sent thee cooled down after a little, and the murderous threat was not carried into execution I have said that the loyalty and obedience of his entire folloere, so far, by no means assured

Hundreds who sy expressed adan to be shocked at his tyranny, and to hold aloof

This was the reason, we eful threats which he, about this ti counsel with his military leader, Lepine

”How does the sentio now? Do they disapprove of my severe measures?”

”They do, Monsieur; and I aenerosity, even toward your worst enemies, to maintain the confidence and sympathy of your followers”

”Suppose I release these prisoners?”

”I know of nothing more popular that you could do”