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 The undersigned has his own reasons for publishing 
 without abiridgement or comment the Statements 
 which follow. Those reasons were partially 
 disclosed in a note dated 23rd May, 1855, pub- 
 lished in the Quebec Gazette, in the following 
 ' terms : 
 
 To the Editor of the Quebec Gazette. 
 
 Sir, — People often enquire why I caused to be published 
 in the " Journal de Quebec " so many certificates and attes- 
 tations. It is that question which I propose to answer. 
 
 In the events which took place in *37 and '38 rumor as- 
 signed to me a frightful part. I had waded knee deep in 
 French Canadian blood ; I had drunk of it ; I had torn out 
 the hearts of slain husbands and sent them to their bereaved 
 widows. What is more, I had entered a church on horse-back, 
 and made my horse drink out of the sacred vessels. All this I 
 heard seriously imputed to me with my own ears. It was in- 
 vented and circulated, it is true, for electioneering purposes 
 by those who must have known that they were lying ; but 
 these calumnies sunk deep in the mind of, at least, the lower 
 classes. Then the Government of Earl Gathcart confirmed 
 that impression, for they inferred, or were taught to believe, 
 that my conduct must have been very atrocious indeed— else 
 had I not been abandoned and injured as I was by the " Per- 
 manent Representative of the Queen," as he styled himself. 
 
 Last autumn at a public meeting I was reminded of these 
 charges, and whatever might be the opinion of the educated 
 classes, I found that the lower orders looked upon me as a 
 veritable cannibal, and a sacrilegious ultra Protestant, to boot. 
 I confess that I felt alarmed, and doubtless had I by any ac- 
 cident been brought before a jury, I should, however innocent, 
 have been convicted long before I could have entered upon 
 my defence. I was told so, and felt it to be true. Then in 
 those contests in the courts of law which the possession of 
 property entails, I always found it difficult, sometimes impos- 
 
sible, to obtain evidence. Witnesses having a full knowledge 
 of facts became suddenly oblivious, and refused to testify to 
 the truth, while my adversaries were over-supplied. People 
 who are ignorant of the class out of which jurors are taken 
 may be incredulous, but these are not slight' evils, — and so 
 long as elections are to be carried as they are, by enormous 
 lying, these evils were and are likely to be aggravated. — 
 When Governors from Europe induce men, as I was induced, 
 to take side against the majority, they expose those men, be- 
 ing colonists, to unnumbered difficulties, beyond the reach of 
 which European Governors and their satellites soon place them- 
 selves by leaving the country. Thus, then, my position became 
 not merely painful, but fraught with danger ; and I resolved, 
 if possible, to undeceive my French Canadian countrymen — 
 Such was the motive, such the object. 
 
 Quebec, 23rd May, 1855. 
 
 The then pressing danger, the immediate cause of a pro- 
 ceeding intended to deprecate French Canadian animosity, 
 has not altogether subsided. — Subsequent events have also 
 had their effects. In 1775, and before that memorable period, 
 a conviction, co-extensive with the then thirteen colonies, had 
 taken possession of the native mind. It is a conviction, 
 forced upon that of the undersigned, that the Colonists, 
 bom in Europe, supported by European sympathies and in- 
 terest, enjoy many advantages which were then — as they now 
 are — denied to the Provincial, born in America. 
 
 According to Montesquieu, honor is the principal of mon- 
 archy, an axiom attested by Governor Sir Francis Head in 
 one of his a dmirable state papers. The incidents related 
 below in connexion with their result point, however, to a 
 diflFerent conclusion — That result recorded in the Portrait 
 Gallery by an able contemporaneous poLacal writer, proves 
 at least that there are exceptions to the rule. — The account 
 there given of that resnlty however incredible^ is true! After 
 he had sacrificed his professional prospects, to fill an office 
 tendered for his acceptance in reward of services previously 
 performed, the undersigned was legislated out of that office. 
 The facts are avowedly common place enough, but the conse- 
 quence is surely extraordinary. 
 
 Remembering the first Continental Congress and the re^ 
 volution of which it was the germ, English statesmen cannot 
 
be unanimously disposed to promote the projected confederacy 
 of the North American Colonies. The Royal parents are, 
 however, understood or believed to favor the scheme as holding 
 out the prospect of a three after the manner of that of 
 Brazil for their second son. In this connexion the events 
 herein under related — and more especially the consequences 
 of those events — may not be unworthy of notice. The man 
 who conduces to the comfort, convenience or pleasure of a 
 prince, who caters for his table, or provides other means of 
 gratification, has certainly his use and his merit — but, between 
 such a man and one, who by repressing revolutionary move- 
 ments, and conducing to the stability of government, ensures 
 the welfare of millions, there is a wide chasm. To reserve 
 all the favors and distinctions for the former will assuredly 
 not predispose any American community in favor of royalty, 
 nor will it tend to the establishment of the desired kingdom. 
 So also, although it should be right, wise and politic to heap 
 wealth, honors, and distinctions upon all those who have been 
 engaged in armed rebellion against their sovereign, it does 
 not necessarily follow that those who, remaining faithful, 
 suppressed that rebellion, should be, because of that suppres- 
 sion, ruined and disgraced ! 
 
 The prediction contained in Dr. Bouthillier's letter is wor- 
 thy of note, and what has been done may be repeated. In 
 the event therefore of any future struggle, some use may be 
 made of the knowledge, thus disseminated, of the fate of 
 
 A. GUGY. 
 
 Quebec, 11th March, 1861. 
 
 Translation of the original introduction in the Journal de Quebec, of 
 the I zth of May, iS^^,of a communication intended to appease the 
 French Canadians, of which every document hereinunder marked 
 ( Translation) formed part. 
 
 The following publication is the result of a recent incident. 
 In the course of the last autumn the electors of St. Roch 
 were assembled to deliberate on the choice of a candidate. 
 I was present on horseback, and to please one of my friends 
 made my horse show his paces. At that moment a rough 
 % hoarse voice issued from the crowd, angrily enquiring whether 
 that was the horse upon which I had entered the church of 
 
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 St. Eustache. I might have replied that that church was 
 then gaiiisoned by armed men who opposed all access with 
 gunpowder and shot. I had several other grounds of defence, 
 but I confess that at that time I was not aware of the impor- 
 tance which I ought to have attached to that question. — I 
 have since been made acquainted with it. I have learned 
 that the part which I took in the insurrections of 1837 and 
 1838 has been fatal to me. I had believed that the world 
 was not altogether ignorant of my heart, and have been rudely 
 undeceived. 
 
 I therefore submit some facts which seem to me to be cal- 
 culated to produce an impression on my French Canadian 
 countrymen. They now admit that their failure was fortu- 
 nate. On that single ground, then, I might expect to be 
 pardoned the opposition which conduced to that failure. Let 
 us, however, reflect for a moment. I have been forgotten by 
 the party whose opinions, whose interests and rights I sustain- 
 ed with grtit warmth and perseverance. Going a step fur- 
 ther, the government which I have served so well, the gov-. 
 ernment for which I have often exposed my life, and for which I 
 have shed my blood, has unfeelingly delivered me over to 
 the vengeance of those whose hostility my loyaltyand zeal 
 have provoked. I have been thus deprived of all the dis- 
 tinctions to which I had aspired. Younger men occupy every 
 desirable position. 
 
 Granting that I entered the church, is it not notorious that 
 I was there struck by a musket ball fired by a Patriot. It 
 passed through both my shoulders. At that moment a soldier 
 of the regiment which I had led to the assault, and which I 
 had necessarily preceded, seeing that I was wounded, drove 
 his bayonet into my breast. 
 
 This certainly seemed to presage the fate which awaited 
 me in the dissensions of my country. My temperament and 
 my habits probably contributed to that result for I never 
 could stoop or play the courtier. It accordingly followed 
 that so soon as the danger was past, the courtiers, who had 
 never exposed themselves, calumniated me. They thus contri- 
 ved to deprive me of all the advantages which my services 
 ought to have ensured. Rewards are, however, awarded more 
 generally to suppleness than to merit, and in fine I am nothing,* 
 not even a Queen's Counsel. 
 
In taking sides against my French Canadian countrrmen I 
 may havb done wr ng — but have I not been sufficiently 
 punished ? Have I not suffered enough ? Should they want 
 revenge could they not find perfidious men who led them to 
 the edge of the precipice and there left them ? Are there not 
 men who have attained high positions who were bound to 
 defend them and who have conducted them to the gallows ? 
 Impelled by the prejudices of my education, I took part, it is 
 true, with the minority, but I never betrayed anybody, and 
 far from benefitting by it, what have I not lost ? In the 
 division which followed nothing but reproaches was allotted 
 to me — advantages and profit fell to the share of others — a. 
 painful distinction. 
 
 I was, it is true, in an exceptional position and clad with 
 almost unlimited authority — Nevertheless I never made a 
 political prisoner, nor abused my authority, nor vexed any 
 individual whatever — I never even entered the room in which 
 the Court Martial was held — I interposed to prevent plunder- 
 ing and I invariably succoured the distressed. Although a 
 Protestant I manifested all due respect for the Roman 
 Catholic Priesthood, and restored to liberty more than 500 
 French Canadian prisoners. 
 
 I could render those services only because I was in the 
 royal ranks — but I could not not thus lend my assistance to 
 the unfortunate without incurring the displeasure of many of 
 mine own party. T claim then, that these facts be put to my 
 credit. Debit me with my opinions and parliamentary 
 conduct if you will, but enter my acts and deeds on the 
 credit side of the account. To exclude all doubt I submit 
 facts which ought to have their influence on all those who 
 have any respect for truth. My hopes are not extravagant 
 for all I ask is exemption from abuse ; oblivion — no more. 
 
 A. GUGY. 
 Quebec, 12th May, 1855. 
 
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 EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM DR. NELSON, SOMETIME MAYOR 
 
 OF MONTREAL. 
 
 • Montreal,' 26th September, 1854. 
 
 * Mt Dear Colonel, — I regret much to understand that 
 certain wicked calumnies that were circulated to your preju- 
 
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 dice during the eventful times of 1837 and '38 should be 
 still fresh in the minds of some people, and operate to your 
 disadvantage. 
 
 I shall ever deem it a sacred duty to exculpate you of 
 cruel conduct while on Eiver Ohambly, especially at St. 
 Denis, where my wife and family were subjected to much 
 ill-treatment, as well as other parties, and who would have 
 been made miserable, if not rendered totally destitute, but 
 for your manly ^ kindy Ju»tf nay, truly philanthropic interfe- 
 rence. I have heard of many other instances of your bene- 
 volent deportment at that memorable period ; not the least of 
 which was your refusing to fill the gaols with every individual 
 who was denounced by the pretended friends of the Govern- 
 ment. Your excellent judgment and natural perspicacity, 
 however, led you at once to form a correct estimate of the 
 motives by which the real enemies of the government and 
 society were actuated, and by your judicious and vigorous 
 measures, you saved many persona from utter ruin, and a 
 greater number from extreme distress and misery. 
 
 A man who has thus demeaned himself cannot be a bad 
 man ; but on the contrary, must be endowed with a good 
 heart and clear head. 
 
 Personally, I certainly know nothing at all to your disad- 
 vantage ; and I can never forget the protection you afforded to 
 my family, when almost every one else had the cowardice of 
 discountenancing them ; but you, a high government officer, 
 who, if any, would have been suspected of severity, were kind 
 and obUging. Never shall I forget these services, the spon- 
 taneous outpouring of a manly and liberal mind. 
 
 You may shew this hastily written epistle to whom you 
 may think proper, for I am not afraid to avow my sentiments 
 when I conceive they are based upon fact and correct prin- 
 ciple. 
 
 With best wishes, my dear Sir, yours gratefully and 
 faithfully, 
 
 (Signed,) WLD. NELSON. 
 
 Colonel Gugy. 
 
 P. S. — I am intimately acquainted with many persons who 
 took an active part in the events of 1837 at St. Eustache, 
 but while I have heard of some execrable conduct on the part 
 
of certain very " loyal " men at that place, I have never 
 heard your name coupled with any impropriety. I have 
 understood that you fought manfully and nothing more. 
 
 (^TranslatioTi) 
 
 EVIDENCE OF MR. L. FRECHETTE. 
 
 In eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, I was arrested at 
 St. John's and sent as a rebel, under an escort of armed 
 volunteers, to the Montreal gaol. On board the steamer 
 crossing from Laprairie, an English gentleman, who was 
 unknown to me, seeing the state of affliction I was in, asked 
 me what the matter was, and what he could do for me. I 
 told him I was so unfortunate as to be a prisoner charged 
 with high treason, threatened with trial by Court Martial 
 and with b?-~'shment. I begged of him to go to Colonel 
 Gugy and state this to him. I must say that I had never 
 then seen the Colonel. I had never had anything to do with 
 him and knew him merely by reputation. He had been 
 represented to me as a kind hearted and compassionate man. 
 This was all I knew of him, and without knowing the reason 
 why, I thought he would interest himself in my behalf, al- 
 though I was a stranger to hi.n. These were the reasons why 
 I appUed to him: and I could not do otherwise, my country- 
 men, and my friends in particular, being on the same side as 
 myself, they could be of no use to me. 
 
 The strange gentleman did not forget me, and I was hard- 
 ly lodged in gaol when Colonel Gugy came to me. After 
 making a patient enquiry into my case, he ordered the gaoler 
 to release me. I was thus returned to my family, but what 
 was my despair when I was arrested a second time and sent 
 to Montreal charged with high treason. The armed volun- 
 teers, who were keeping guard over me, appeared to take a 
 brutal pleasure in frightening me, and talked in a free and 
 easy way of shooting me. Being again shut up in the Montreal 
 goal, I did not delay in making my situation known to Colonel 
 Gugy. He came to the gaol a second time, and soon became 
 satisfied that I was persecuted by personal enemies. Mv 
 suflferings produced upon him the effect which I expected, 
 and as he was, at the time, entrusted with great power, he 
 caused my prison doors to be opened a second time. On this 
 
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 occasion he gave me a passport prohibiting all parties whom- 
 soever from arresting me, unless for an offence committed 
 subsequently. My personal liberty is therefore due to two 
 men who were entire strangers to me. I have only seen 
 Colonel Gugy once since, but I have never seen the generous 
 man who spoke to him in my favor. 
 St. Jean, 14th February, 1855. 
 
 (Signed,) LOUIS FRECHETTE. 
 
 In presence of T. R. Jobson, and J. E. Burke. 
 
 (^Translation.') 
 
 CERTIviCATd OF DR. ALLARD. 
 
 It is with the deepest gratitude that I certify, that since I 
 have had the honor to know Colonel Gugy, I have completely 
 changed the opinion which I had entertained of his poUtical 
 conduct. 
 
 I had thought that in 1837, that he would take pleasure 
 in harrassing the Canadians, especially after he had exposed 
 himself to the chances of war. But to my extreme surprise 
 he has acted with the utmost gentleness, and has sought to 
 extend, by all the means in his power, protection to the Cana- 
 dians. For ii^y own part, I can affirm that without his 
 assistance I should have been imprisoned in 1837. I was 
 incarcerated in 1838, and he exerted himself to procure my 
 enlargement, and I am convinced that (owing to the efforts of 
 some implacable enemies) I should, without the Colonel's 
 help, have been long detained and perhaps tried for treason. 
 In fact, in the adjoining parishes, people with one accord talk 
 of Colonel Gugy as a man who has rendered signal services to 
 the Canadians. I am certain that, but for his interposition, 
 the number of prisoners to the south of the St. Lawrence 
 would, in 1838, have been great. Having further frequently 
 conversed with him in 1838 and 1839, I always renarked 
 that his conversations tended to the amelioration of the con- 
 dition of the Canadians. 
 
 (Signed,) ^ J.B. ALLARD, M.B. 
 Beloeil, SOth October, 1840. 
 
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 (^TranBlation.'y 
 
 STATEMENT OP LUBIN LEBLANC, 
 
 ESQ. 
 
 In November, 1837, at the period of the breaking out 
 of the rebellion, I lived with Mr. Soupras at St. Mathias. 
 The troops on their way from Chambly to St. Charles passed 
 through that parish. The night was very dark — and an 
 icy rain which poured in torrents, but more particularly the 
 bad state of the roads, compelled the commanding officer to 
 halt there and to billet his soldiers. Mr. Gugy accompanied 
 the troops, and with a considerable number of officers and 
 soldiers he entered into Mr. Soupras' house — His first care 
 was the preservation of order, and he begged the commanding 
 officer to take precautions to that effect. 
 
 He spared no pains to restrain the soldiery within proper 
 bounds, and caused one who had exceeded them to be pun- 
 ished. In fine, without that gentleman's benevolent protection, 
 we should have had to deplore such scandalous excess as an 
 infuriated soldiery can commit. His honorable conduct and 
 continued care deserved and obtained, at the time, the thanks 
 of the family. On the return of the troops from St. Charles, 
 an officer, who had cause to complain of the villagers, desirous 
 of punishing them, threatened to burn their houses, where- 
 upon some one begged of Mr. Gugy to interfere. He did so, 
 at once, and succeeded in saving the village. Having been 
 an eye witness of these facts I can certify them to be 
 true. I must add that on every occasion on which I met 
 Mr. Gugy, he seemed to me to devote himself to the noble 
 mission of mediator. 
 
 (Signed,) L. LEBLANC. 
 
 Henry ville, 10th June, 1845. 
 
 Mr. Gugy will make such use as he may see fit of the fore- 
 going certificate. L. L. 
 
 
 ( TranBlation.) 
 
 AFFIDAVIT OF CLOVIS PATENAUDE. 
 
 Clovis Patenaude, of the Parish of St. Constant, farmer, 
 being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists, deposeth and 
 saith : 
 
 That deponent has a knowledge that Colonel Gugy pro- 
 tected a great number of persons, and did much good during 
 
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 the Rebellion and even afterwards, in the said parish and its 
 vicinitj, and among others to this deponent himself. 
 
 That being apprehended by the Police and accused of se- 
 ditious crimes, Deponent was on the point of being imprisoned 
 by a Justice of the Peace, but that Colonel Gugy while going 
 his rounds happened to repair to the spot and caused Deponent 
 to be set at liberty. 
 
 Furthermore, the Colonel in a moment ascertained the truth 
 amidst the mass of fal°e statements. He saw at a glance 
 through the designs of certain old countrymen, neighbors of 
 Deponent, who had conspired to despoil Deponent of his pro- 
 perty by accusing him of high treason and causing him to be 
 committed to goal, and Deponent declares that he cannot sign. 
 
 Sworn before me at Montreal, 
 19th February, 1841. 
 
 (Signed,) JOSEPH MASSON, J.P. 
 
 (^Translation.^ 
 
 AFFIDAVIT OF EUSEBE HEBERT, ESQUIRE. 
 
 Province of Canada, 
 District of Montreal. 
 
 Eusebe Hubert, of St. Philippe, Esquire, having been duly 
 sworn, deposeth and saith : 
 
 That during last Rebellion which occurred in this Province 
 in 1838, this Deponent has a personal knowledge of the ar- 
 rival, at St. Philippe, towards the end of November, of 
 Bartholomew Conard Augustus Gugy, Esquire — That he then 
 required this Deponent to repair to Napierville, in order to 
 give information touching some 28 persons of St. Philippe, 
 who had been imprisoned as having been concerned in the 
 Rebellion — That on reaching Napierville Deponent saw Mr. 
 Gugy, who presided over the Court of inquiry held upon the 
 conduct of the prisoners then in the common gaol. Mr. 
 Gugy then said to me is it possible that we are to allow our 
 poor Canadian habitants to be detained in prison — give me 
 the names of those who are innocent and I will enlarge them 
 immediately. That Deponent thereupon gave the names of 
 the whole 28, and that on the ensuing day they were all set 
 at liberty. I know, too, that from that day forward every pri- 
 soner who could be recommended was enlarged — In one word 
 
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 the conduct of Mr. Gugy at the time was that of a man of 
 very great humanity, and he sought by all the means in his 
 power to alienate the sufferings of the French Canadian Ha- 
 bitants. 
 
 (Signed,) EUSEBE HEBERT. 
 Read and sworn before me, this li2nd January, 1845, at 
 Montreal. 
 
 (Signed,) Hbnrt Corse, J.P. 
 
 DECLARATION OF HUBERT BOURASSA. 
 
 I, the undersigned, Hubert Bourassa, heretofore Captain 
 of Militia, dismissed by the GovemmentjTesiding in the parish 
 of Laprairie, declare that Colonel Gugy has rendered me a 
 service in interceding for my son who was accused of having 
 been concerned in the Rebellion. He was much moved by my 
 sorrow and manifested much sympathy for me. It is notori- 
 ous that this gentleman has rendered all th** service in his 
 power to our unfortunate countrymen. I never heard any- 
 body blame Colonel Gugy, and had people spoken ill of him 
 I should, in all probability, have heard of it, and would have 
 contradicted them. 
 
 his 
 (Signed,) HUBERT X BOURASSA. 
 
 mark. 
 In presence of A. M. Delisle, 
 
 Charles Schiller. 
 
 Laprairie, 21st October, 1840. 
 
 (^Translation.^ 
 
 AFFIDAVIT OF (A LOYALIST) FREDERICK SINGER, ESQUIRE, 
 
 Province of Canada. 
 
 District of Montreal. 
 
 Frederick Singer, of the Parish o? St. Philippe, being 
 sworn upon the Holy Evangelists, dcth depose and say : 
 
 That at the time of the last rebellion which took place in 
 this province in eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, it is to his 
 personal knowledge that B. C. A. Gugy, Esquire, of the 
 city of Montreal, came to the parish of St. PhiUppe, in the 
 
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 sjttd district of Montreal, towards the end of November of 
 that year, and requested this deponent to go to Napierville, 
 in order that he might obtain from deponent some informa- 
 tion in relatioh to the parties from the parish of St. Philippe, 
 
 vho had been arrested by one , of Laprairie, 
 
 as having been engaged in the rebellion. They numbered 
 about twenty-eight. That this deponent having gone to 
 Napierville, found Mr. Gugy there presiding at the enquiry 
 which was being held in relation to those parties who were at 
 the time incarcerated in the common gaol of the district. Mr. 
 Gugy then said to deponent : Is it possible for us to allow all 
 our poor Canadian habitants to remain in gaol in this manner ? 
 ^ve me the names of those whom you consider not guilty, 
 and I will have them liberated from gaol immediately. That 
 this deponent then handed in the names of the twenfy-eight 
 persons from St. Philippe, and they were all set at liberty 
 the next day. It is also to my knowledge that subsequently 
 to thi.j!, all those parties who could obtain Recommendations 
 to Mr. Gugy and who were imprisoned, were also set at 
 liberty. It is t my knowledge also and to that of Lieut. 
 J. Brisset, of St. Edouard, that with the view of setting those 
 at liberty who ought not to suffer. Colonel Gugy went to the 
 residence of Colonel Languedoc, * of St. Edouard, and upon 
 information given by the latter. Colonel Gugy again enlarged 
 from eighteen to twenty persons from that parish, who were 
 arrested and were to be sent to prison after the investigation. 
 He discharged them all and sent them home. In one word 
 the conduct of Colonel Gugy at that time was that of an 
 extraordinarily humane man towards his fellow beings and one 
 who zealously endeavored to lessen the misfortunes of the 
 Canadian habitants. 
 
 (Signed,) FREDK. SINGER. 
 
 Sworn to before me, at Montreal, this 5th July, 1844. 
 
 (Signed,^ A. Rambeau, J. P. 
 
 • A Loyalist. 
 
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 (^Translation.^ 
 
 AFFIDAVIT OF CASIMIR AND CHRYSOSTOME MARTINEAU. 
 
 Lower Canada, 
 District of Montreal. 
 
 Casimir Martineau, passed church-warden and farmer, 
 of the parish of St. Cyprien, and Chrysostome Martineau, 
 formerly of the same place, being duly sworn, depose and say : 
 
 That in November, 1838, Colonel Gugy arrived at the 
 villa{;e of Napierville, in the capacity of Commissioner on the 
 part of tb» Government. At that period the gaol contained 
 some hundreds of political prisoners, the greater part of 
 whom had been taken with arms in their hands. Colonel 
 Gugy conducted himself in the most humane manner, and 
 enlarged between four and five hundred prisoners whom he 
 returned to their families. 
 
 That gentleman is therefore looked upon as a benefactor 
 and protector by the Canadians in those parts. 
 
 The said Colonel Gugy did so much to cause justice to be 
 done to the Canadians and to improve their condition, that 
 his own party accused him of being a rebel. TFe, ourselves^ 
 have heard him denounced as such. Wherefore that gentle- 
 man is considered to have been a true benefactor by the 
 Canadians in our neighborhood. And the said Chrysost6me 
 Martineau, for himself, says that he is one of those whom 
 Colonel Gugy liberated from gaol. 
 
 (Signed,) CASIMIR MARTINEAU. 
 
 his 
 CH6.YS0ST0ME >^ MARTINEAU. 
 
 mark. 
 Sworn before me, at Montreal, this 28th January, 1841. 
 
 Signed, E. Guy, J. P. 
 
 (Translation.') 
 
 certificate of jean CORMIER. 
 
 I, the undersigned, certify that having taken part in the 
 Rebellion which broke out in the district of Montreal, and a 
 warrant having issued for my apprehension, I was sought 
 after that I mi^t be lodged in gaol. Colonel Gugy took much 
 
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 pains to procure and to preserve my liberty. I know that I 
 owe it to him and shall be grateful to him all my days, I had 
 never previously seen him and he knew me not, so that he 
 can have been moved so to act only by a benevolent dispo- 
 sition. 
 
 (Signed,) JEAN CORMIER. 
 
 Contrecoeur, 8th October, 1840. 
 
 (Translation.) 
 
 letter from thimothee franohere, eustache soupras, 
 
 and dr. davignon. 
 
 Colonel Gugy, 
 
 Sir, — Having learned that you were accused of having 
 always been the enemy of Canadians, and of having as Com- 
 missioner of Police oppressed them, we hasten to intimate to 
 you that such is not our opinion. On the contrary, we are 
 fully convinced that you protected the Canadians and their 
 possessions, especially in 1837. As Commissioner of Police, 
 we, with pleasure, affirm that your conduct has been impartial, 
 and as humane as possible. 
 
 (Signed,) THIMOTHEE FRANCHERE, 
 
 EUSTACHE SOUPRAS, 
 PIERRE DAVIGNON. 
 
 St. Mathias, .3rd October, 1840. 
 
 (^Translation.') 
 
 EXTRACT FROM A LETTER OF ANDRE OUIMET, OF MONTREAL, 
 ESQUIRE, ADVOCATE, TO COLONEL GUGT. 
 
 Montreal, 26th February, 1841. 
 
 My Dear Colonel, — I wish you success* with all frank- 
 ness. Since you dispense justice in Montreal I have learned 
 to know you. Of you, at least, it may be said that you admin- 
 ister justice. Before you the Canadian has been able to be 
 heard, and when he was in the right, the balance was on his 
 side. I will not forget the praise you gave the Canadians 
 about their conduct towards some Irish and Scotchmen who 
 
 * As a Candidate for a seat in the Legisiatire Assembly. 
 
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 had ill treated them, and whom you immediately punished. 
 On more than one occasion, I have heard Canadians, on tlie 
 other side of the river, say, without Mr. Gugy, who set us 
 at liberty, we would have been tried by Court Martial ! ! !" 
 A man like you is an acquisition ; so much the worse, if your 
 value is not understood. I shall be pleased for my country's 
 sake, if, on your return, I can welcome you as a member of 
 the next assembly, whose talents and eloquence we will be able 
 to say belong to us. 
 
 Courag'e, Colonel, I trust in the electors. May they res- 
 pond to my hopes. 
 
 Believe me your sincere friend, ^ 
 
 (Signed,) ANDRE OUIMET. 
 
 COPY OF A LETTER FROM CAPTAIN COLMAN. 
 
 Montreal^ 2nd June, 1844. 
 
 My Dear Colonel, — Having been so fortunate as to bo 
 placed under your command in the late Rural Police by His 
 Excellency Lord Seaton, at a very critical moment, I beg to 
 assure you that I, at all times, felt quite satisfied that the duties 
 of the D.>partment would bo efficiently performed from your 
 zeal, energy and talent. 
 
 In my two-fold capacity of Stipendiary Magistrate and 
 pctymaster, I was constantly travelling through the entire dis- 
 trict of Montreal, and had, therefore, better opportunities than 
 any other person in the Force of ascertaining public opinion 
 of you as a Commissioner, and I have no hesitation in saying 
 that you were a great favorite with the officers and men of 
 the Corps, and you were considered very impartial and even 
 kind by the habitants. I can further bear testimony that 
 your instructions to me and the other Magistrates in my part 
 of the country (St. Hyacinthe) were, that while performing 
 my duty with firmness we were not only to protect the people 
 from injustice, but to treat them with every possible indul- 
 gence in order to popularize the government, which you are 
 aware was strictly attended to, and produced the desired effect. 
 
 I have great pleasure in complying with your request and 
 will always be happy to hear of your welfare. 
 
 BeUeve me, my dear Colonel, faithfully ^ours, 
 
 (Signed,) THOS. COLMAN, Captain unattached. 
 Col. Gugy, Adjutant General of Militia. 
 
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 (^Translation.^ 
 
 EXTRACT FROM A LETTER OF DR. BOUTHILLIER, DATED 
 
 St. Hyacinthej 26 July, 1840. 
 
 My Dear Sir, — I delayed some days writing to you, for 
 reasons which it is almost useless to mention. I assure you 
 that I did not require any suggestion (although yours are 
 always agreeable to me) to make me think of what we owe to 
 Messrs. Colman and Rainsford*. I may tell you with all the 
 frar^kness possible, and I have said it to several of my friends, 
 that I regret exceedingly to see Captain Colman leaving us. 
 Since his residence at St. Hyacinthe, we have lived in secu- 
 rity and under the firm conviction that we were in no way 
 exposed to the persecutions of an;^ person. His conduct has 
 been that of a 1 3nevolent and judicious man. And from the 
 statements I have heard from influential persons at St. Denis 
 and St. Antoine, the same may be said of Mr. Rainsford. 
 We do not fail to appreciate the excellent qualities of these 
 gentlemen, and for my part, I would be desirous of having a 
 favorable opportunity to give them proofs of my esteem. But 
 our political acts (if I may so express myself on the present 
 occasion) are looked upon in such a bad light, so badly inter- 
 preted by the party in power, that it is better, until we can 
 form part of a good sound government, to have as little as 
 possible to do with the present one. Without doubt, you have 
 a large share in the good we have to say of Captain Colman 
 and Mr. Rainsford, the stipendiary magistrates, who have 
 lived among us for nearly two years. Since that time the 
 country has been quiet, and as we expected, the people have 
 not experienced from you, or from the stipendiary magistrates 
 in this part of the country, any of those little persecutions 
 which we might have cause to fear from the indiscreet zeal 
 or party spirit of some individuals. It is also a matter of some 
 difficulty to explain the course followed by the government 
 towards you and some of the magistrates ! What does it in- 
 tend to do ? What are we to expect ? It was in fact predict- 
 ed to you that you would not ascend the latter very high. 
 You must have believed that prediction ; you console your- 
 
 * Stipendiaries in the Rural Police (under Colonel Gugy) then about to 
 be removed, and to whom the latter had recommended that some proof of 
 the public satisfaction should be offered. 
 
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 self with it, and you do well. You will soon see that the 
 greatest and most inveterate enemies are not those who have 
 met on the battle-field. 
 
 Believe me, to be with much sincerity, Sir, 
 Your very obedient servant and friend, 
 
 (Signed,) T. BOUTHILLIER. 
 
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 (Translation.^ 
 
 STATEMENT OF THE REVD. MR. AMIOT, CUR^ 07 NAPIER VILLE. 
 
 Notes upon the impartial conduit of the Honorable Colonel 
 
 during the enquiry which took place in Napierville, 
 
 after the insurrection of 1838. 
 
 It seems that in several places people have been found to 
 take pleasure in detracting from Colonel Gugy's character, in 
 describing him as a harsh, inhuman and cruel man, the sworn 
 enemy of the French Canadians. Without affecting to cen- 
 sure the acts of others, I offer to give a faithful and succinct 
 account of his conduct at Napierville after the insurrection 
 of 1838. 
 
 Shortly after the unfortunate attempt of the rebels at 
 Napierville, a Court of Enquiry was held, of which Colonel 
 Gugy was named President. Upon his invitation I attended 
 ity sittings. I was moved thereto by two motives : I desired, 
 firstly, to be a witness of the sort of justice which would be 
 dealt out to the guilty : secondly, I wished to be useful to 
 such of my parishioners as had been misled. During the 
 enquiry, I remarked on the part of Colonel Gugy much 
 humanity, gentleness and justice ; — not a single day passed 
 that twenty or thirty prisoners were not enlarged, and on 
 a particular Saturday the numbsr reached fifty. 
 
 During that enquiry Colonel Gugy had to contend contin- 
 ually against certain men, who vaunted the eflScacity of the 
 gallows, but the fertility of the Colonel's mind and the 
 firmness of his character enabled him to triumph over every 
 obstacle, and he was invariably actuated by clemency in 
 the decisions which he pronounced. It must be borne in 
 mind that the number of the prisoners, at Napierville, 
 amounted to several hundreds, and that a very few were 
 eventually tried by the Court Martial. 
 
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 I remember well an occasion upon which Colonel Gu<i;y 
 successfully showed mucli prudence and firmness. Having 
 soUicited fron. the then Governor, Sir John Colborne, per- 
 mission to recall many of my parishioners who had fled mto 
 the States, I obtained his consent, provided none were 
 admitted to whom the loyal part of the population objected. 
 Colonel Taylor, the officer commanding at Nai)ierville, and a 
 local Justice of the Peace, whom I consulted, agreed that 
 every man whom the Court should refuse to bail would 
 be sent back into the States. I therefore sent an express 
 requiring some thirty or forty individuals to re-enter the 
 province. Colonel Gugy arrived just at that time, and he 
 entered upon an examination which lasted three hours. Dur- 
 ing that examination the Colonel proved himi^clf to be a just 
 and liberal man, and more especially a humane man towards 
 those unfortunate fathers of families who had not seen their 
 children for four months. 
 
 It was on that occasion especially that the Colonel displayed 
 the energy which he is known to possess. Having refuted 
 
 the 
 
 arguments 
 
 of those who insisted on refusing to admit 
 
 to bail certain persons who had come in, having proved that 
 it was more politic to excite the gratitude of the Cana- 
 dians than to irritate them by harsh treatment, he concluded 
 by determining that every man whom the Curd had sent for 
 should be admitted to bail. He went so far indeed as to 
 become in his OAvn person surety for one individual in whom 
 he remarked much candor and delicacy. It is due to the 
 Colonel to remark that he never used towards his adversaries 
 one harsh or humiliating word. On the contrary, he was 
 decorous, civil and poUte throughout. Hence it can be no 
 matter of surprise that Colonel Gugy was respected and 
 esteemed by all parties. 
 
 One fact may serve to show how truly Colonel Gugy was 
 the protector of the Canadians. A volunteer dragoon having 
 been made prisoner by the rebels, his father, himself a 
 dragoon, seeking revenge, repaired to the residence of the 
 man who had taken his son prisoner. This was after the 
 troops had plundered, and the dragoon took away a horse, 
 harness, cart and other effects, and after threatening to set 
 fire to ike house, carried away his booty to St. John's. The 
 fanner's wife alarmed by those threats, complained to 
 
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 Colonel Gugy ; thereupon the Colonel summoned the dra- 
 goons, father and son, to appear before him, and having 
 caused the stolen property to be restored, and reprimanded 
 them, discharged them. 
 
 Some months afterwards, this same dragoon, being intoxi- 
 cated, entered the house of one llcmillard, of the parish of 
 Ste. Marguerite of Blairfindie. After having insulted Re- 
 millard, the dragoon first fired his pistol at him, luckily 
 missing his aim, then struck him with a sword and left 
 Remillard bleeding. On the ensuing day Remillard laid his 
 complaint before Colonel Gugy. The Colonel entertained the 
 complaint and would have punished the dragoon had not the 
 friends of the latter, knowing Remillard's generous disposi- 
 tion, induced him to forgive the dragoon. 
 
 These facts show that Colonel Gugy proved himself at 
 Napierville to be the father and protector of the Canadians. 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 C. V. L. AMIOT, PrHre. 
 
 Napierville, 14th July, 1841. 
 
 {Translation.') 
 
 CERTIFICATE OF THE REV. MR. TIIEBERGE, CURE OF ST. 
 
 VALENTIN. 
 
 I, the undersigned, do certify that the behavior of Colonel 
 Gugy at St. Cyprien, after the troubles of 1838, appeared 
 to me as very humane and liberal towards the prisoners. 
 During his residence, the curd of St. Cyprien and myself, on 
 several occasions had business at the gaol with reference to 
 our parishioners, and on all occasions, we could not but 
 acknowledge the kindness of the Colonel towards the prison- 
 ers, and we were frequently surprised to see him set them 
 at liberty on the slightest recommendation. Far from hearing 
 any complaint against him on the part of the inhabitants 
 of those neighborhoods, I heard only the most flattering 
 praise, which is saying a great deal in his favor. 
 
 After the rebellion, almost all the inhabitants of St. Va- 
 lentin were imprisoned, but not one underwent a trial ; and 
 I attributed this favor only to the facility with which the 
 Colonel enlarged the parties arrested. The pleasure which 
 Colonel Gugy then made me feel by so generously setting 
 
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 my parishioners at liberty, has not subsided. On the present 
 occasion it is as much an act of gratitude as of justice to 
 comply with his request to testify to the facts to which I was 
 a witness. 
 
 (Signed,) CH. TUEBERGE, FrStre. 
 
 (^Translation.') 
 
 CERTIFICATE OF REVD. MR. MIGNAULT, CURfe OF CHAMBLY. 
 
 I, the undersigned, priest and curate of Chambly, by these 
 presents, do certify that, during the troubles of 1837 and 
 38, 1 several times had business with Mr. Gugy, and that 
 during the whole period I could not but admire his humane 
 way of proceeding both towards myself and towards those who 
 were implicated in the troubles, and whom I recommended to 
 his favor. 
 
 (Signed,) P. M. MIGNAULT, PrSire. 
 
 Chambly, 1st December, 1840. 
 
 (^Translation.) 
 
 DECLARATION OF THE REVD. MR. MANSEAU, CURE OF LON- 
 GUEUIL, AND THE REVD. MR. HUDON, CURB OF BOUCHERVILLB. 
 
 We, the undersigned, owe to the strictest truth to declare 
 that Colonel Gugy, already so well known and recommenda- 
 ble on account of his parliamentary career, has since continued 
 to merit the confidence of the Canadians in general, by the 
 frank and equitable mode in which he has during three years 
 performed the duties of a public office conferred on him. 
 
 We, moreover, testify that he has always paid the greatest 
 respect to the Clergy when acting in concert with him, pay- 
 ing proper respect to all the requirements of religion and to 
 the individual rights of every body, and it is to our know- 
 ledge that, on one occasion, he drew upon himself the censure 
 of a whole regiment, for having insisted that the government 
 should render justice to a habitant to whose property some 
 damage had been done. 
 
 (Signed,) ANT. MANSEAU, FrStre. 
 
 H. HUDON, Prfj^re. 
 Montreal, 25th November, 1 840. 
 
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 (^Translation.') 
 
 TESTIMONY OF THE REVD. MR. PRIMEAUX, CUR^ OF VARENNES. 
 
 The undersigned, in order to satisfy a feeling of justice, 
 is desirous of making it known that Colonel Gugy always 
 acted in the most favorable manner for the inhabitants of his 
 country. And that at the unfortunate period of the last 
 troubles, several of them owed their exemption from imprison- 
 ment to him ; and others who were imprisoned, owed their 
 liberty to him. I therefore am of opinion that the brave 
 Colonel is worthy of obtaining a seat in the next Parliament 
 of the united Provinces, inasmuch as he unites in his person 
 all the qualities necessary to advance the dearest interests of 
 his Canadian countrymen. This is the conscientious testimony 
 which I can give in faVor of the gentleman in question, from 
 the knowledge which I have obtained of his political life and 
 of his secret ideas during the few months which he was my 
 neighbor at Varennes. 
 
 (Signed,) C. TH. PRIME AU, Pr^<r<?, CurS. 
 
 Varennes, 5th October, 1840. 
 
 (Translation.') 
 
 LETTER FROM THE REVD. MR. CHINIQUY. * 
 
 Beauportf 16th April, 1841. 
 
 My Dear Colonel, — I trust you will pardon my not having 
 expressed to you sooner the joy I felt on hearing the news of 
 your promotion to the rank of Adjutant General, when you 
 learn that I have been employed in making my congregation 
 perform their Easter duties, and that I hare not had a momenf 
 to myself since almost two months. I congratulate you, or 
 rather I congratulate the government for having recompensed 
 in your person, the man to whom his country is so much 
 indebted. 
 
 What does you the most honor, and at the same time what 
 gives me the greatest pleasure, is that your promotion is 
 among the small number of those which have satisfied all 
 parties ; a proof that the merit of my worthy friend and 
 neighbor is appreciated by every body. 
 
 * The father Mathew of Canada. 
 
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 You will doubtless remember the rude and insulting manner 
 in which the efiForts you made two years ago to deprive one 
 of our tavemkeepers of his license, were received. On that 
 occasion it required all your energy and independence to suc- 
 ceed. Well, at this day, the inhabitants of Beauport are 
 resolved to allow not one single house where liquor is sold to 
 remain in their parish. 
 
 I will never forget that you were tlie first to assist me in 
 this work of regeneration, and I shall be for ever thankful to 
 you. 
 
 Believe me, your devoted servant, 
 
 (Signed,) C. CIIINIQUY, Priest- 
 
 (^Translation,^ 
 
 CERTIFICATE OF LT. COLONELS TACIIE, CASGKAIN AND MAJOR 
 
 DIONNE. 
 
 We, the undersigned, certify that in the counties of Kamou- 
 raska and Rimoiiski, Colonel Gugy worthily acquitted himself 
 of his duty as Adjutant General of Militia. On all occasions 
 he has evinced a disposition to be just and impartial towards 
 all Her Majesty's subjects of every origin. We have reason 
 to believe that if any injustice has been committed in the 
 nomination of officers, it is owing to the recommendations of 
 the Lieutenant Colonels commanding battalions in the different 
 counties in the province, but no complaint of that nature has 
 yet been heard in the county of Rimouski, or in relation to 
 the first battalion of Kamouraska, nor do we believe in the 
 existence of any cause of complaint. 
 
 (Signed,) J. B. TACHE, Lt. Col. 173, Kamouraska. 
 C. E. CASGRAIN, Lieut. Ool. 
 A. DIONNE, Major. 
 Kamouraska, 16 May, 1840. 
 
 (Translation.^ 
 
 DECLARATION OF COLONEL GUILLET. 
 
 I, the undersigned, declare that I have personally known 
 Colonel Gugy for thirty years, during which I have had 
 oflScial relations with him. I have never known any part of 
 
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 his conduct in connection with the post of Adjutant General 
 of Militia, which was prejudicial to the French Canadians, 
 and he has appeared to me to discharge his duties with im- 
 partiality. • 
 (Signed,) LOUIS GUILLET, Lieut. Col. 
 26 May, 1846. 
 
 {Translation.') 
 
 DOCUMENTS GIVEN BY COLONELS JOLLIETTE, DIONNE AND 
 
 DRUNEAU. 
 
 The undersigned, Avho have known Colonel Gugy, Adjutant 
 General of Militia, a native of Canada, by reputation and 
 personally for about thirty years, and have had with him official 
 relations — have enquired into his conduct, especially since 
 the Journal de Quebec, the Minerve and the Pilot have 
 published complaints against him. All those complaints appear 
 to the undersigned to be unfounded. The undersigned ?,re 
 perfectly convinced that he has conductca himself well, and 
 they cannot understand cither why the Canadians of French 
 extraction should entertain any prejudices against him — nor 
 can they understand that he v/ho is allied to them by marriage, 
 who has at a criticial period rendered them signal services and 
 who has always been on friendly terms with them, should 
 entertain prejudice against him. Now desirous of recording 
 our sense of his impartiality toward the French Canadians 
 under all circumstances which have come to our knowlege,we 
 have given him this document to be used as he may see fit. 
 
 (Signed,) BART. JOLLIETTE, Lt. Col. Com. 2 B. C. B. 
 JOS. DIONNE, Lieut. Col. Com. 2 B. N. 
 FRS BliUNEAU, Lieut. Col Com. 4 B. C. C : 
 
 AFFIDAVIT OF CHARLES EDWARD SCHILLER, ESQUIRE. 
 
 Charles Edward Schiller, of the city of Montreal, 
 Esquire, Deputy Clerk of the Peace and Deput/ Clerk of 
 the Crown, being duly sworn doth depose and say : — 
 
 That deponent has known Colonel Gugy for twenty-two 
 
 years. 
 
 That during part of that time, namely, for about five years, 
 that gentleman acted in the capacity of Superintendent of rolice 
 
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 and Chairman of the Quarter of Sessions, and that, while en- 
 gaged in those capacities deponent was from the nature of 
 his duties, in daily close contact with Colonel Gugy, some- 
 times as much as twelve and thirteen hours of the day with- 
 out intermission. 
 
 That Colonel Gugy was in constant attendance in the dis- 
 charge of the duties of his office of Superintendent of Police, 
 from a much earlier hour in the morning than was usual, and 
 despatching all the business that presented itself, in no case 
 left arrears of business for the following days. 
 
 That he gratuitously discharged the duties of Chairman of 
 the Quarter Sessions, at a time when no other officer or 
 person connected with the commission of the peace would or 
 could perform them, and was indefatigable therein, as he had 
 been in the other above mentioned capacity. That constantly 
 associated with him as deponent was for years, deponent ne- 
 cessarily had the best opportunity for acquiring a knowledge 
 of that gentleman's character, and having been the subject of 
 more or less newspaper abuse. Colonel Gugy's conduct be- 
 came a subject of particular attention to deponent. 
 
 That deponent thus can confidently swear, and does swear, 
 that Colonel Gugy, throughout, behaved in a just, upright, 
 and honorable manner, that no political or religious bias could 
 over be detected in any of his actions, that he was influenced 
 neither by race or color, that he showed no favor or partiality 
 to any body, and that though energetic and fearless in de- 
 ciding upon every case as it presented itself, his judgments 
 and conduct gave great general satisfaction. That his mode 
 of pronouncing his judgments was so admirable that crowds 
 were daily attracted to the office for the purpose of hearing 
 and receiving instruction from him. 
 
 That at that period, a spirit of license and disorder was 
 very perceptible, and that he repressed it so long as he was 
 in office, in a most effectual way ; that subsequently, this 
 spirit broke out into open insurrection as it were, and that 
 commotions and riots of a most dangerous kind frequently 
 occurred, threatening life and property. 
 
 That upon most of those occasions the police, as well also as 
 the military, were used in vain for the purpose of restoring 
 order, that it was restored on several occasions, by the in- 
 fluence of Colonel Gugy's personal exertions, and the respect 
 
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 entertained for his name and character. That hundreds in 
 the city and district of Montreal can no doubt be found who 
 would be readj to testify to the excellence of his character, 
 and that certainly no man could have combined more energy 
 and humanity, than he did during the disastrous period of the 
 insurrections of eighteen hundred and thirty-seven and eigh- 
 teen hundred and thirty-eight. 
 
 That to prove by one example the nature and extent of 
 Colonel Gugy's influence, and the respect in which he was 
 generally held, deponent was present upon one occasion when 
 an infuriated mob, bent upon mischief, were met by Colonel 
 Gugy in Notre Dame street in Montreal. That he contrived 
 to address them and to induce them to listen when no other 
 man in the community could or would have been permitted to 
 interfere with impunity : that eventually, however, after an 
 address of an hour or more, Colonel Gugy pacified the crowd 
 and induced it to disperse. That at that period violence pre- 
 vailed so extensively that hundreds of persons were assaulted, 
 maimed and wounded, but that such was the respect in which 
 Colonel Gugy was held by all parties, that he ventured alone 
 into any and every part of the city without being molested 
 or injured. 
 
 That at the time this surprising circumstance led to some 
 remark relative to the carrying of weapons for self-defence, 
 and that deponent assured himself by inspection that Colonel 
 Gugy had on his person no weapon whatever. 
 
 Finally deponent swears, that the course pursued by Colonel 
 Gugy while in office as Police Magistrate was so excellent as 
 to have produced permanent effects still felt in the amended 
 conduct of many members of the community, and further de- 
 ponent saith not, and hath signed. 
 
 (Signed,) C.E.SCHILLER. 
 
 Sworn before me, at Montreal, this fourth day of June, 1858. 
 
 (Signed,) Charles Mondelet, J. S. C. 
 
 EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM LIEUTENANT GENERAL LORD 
 SEATON, G. C. B., TO COLONEL GUGY. 
 
 Lynbham, Yealmpton, Devon, February 27, 1841. 
 Dear Sir, — I have to offer my apologies for the delay 
 which has taken place in acknowledging the receipt of your 
 communication of the 11th May. 
 
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 I think, however, that your public services, while I admi- 
 nistered the Government of Lower Canada, demand from me 
 an expression of my opinion of your claims, and that even at 
 this late period a letter from me will not be unacceptable to 
 you, although your prospects are not likely to be improved 
 by my recommendation or influence. 
 
 I shall now advert to the circumstances which first 
 brought your services under my notice, and which led to 
 your being employed under my authority in consequence of 
 my acquaintance with your zeal and exertions, and my desire 
 to place you in a situation where the public might derive 
 advantage from your ability, knowledge of the country, and 
 your active habits. 
 
 On nay arrival at Montreal in 18B7, the first subject I 
 pressed on the consideration of the Attorney General was the 
 necessity of selecting an active magistrate to superintend the 
 police arrangements in Montreal, and to be made responsible 
 for obtaining correct information as to the state of affairs in 
 the district and in the province generally. You were imme- 
 diately fixed on by him as a fit person for that important 
 appointment, and promised, I beheve, £400 per annum con- 
 ditionally. Lord Gosford on hearing of your being employed 
 objected to your appointment, and was so irritated at the 
 nomination which the Attorney General had made and wrote 
 to him in such harsh terms, that the affair was nearly 
 leading to a serious misunderstanding between them. 
 
 On that occasion I stated to the Attorney General that 
 although it would not have been proper on my part to have 
 proposed a person for employment under the local govern- 
 ment so objectionable to him, I should have no hesitation 
 in attaching you to the Military Staff, since your appoint- 
 ment had not originated with me, and a promise had been 
 made to you by the Attorney General. You accompanied 
 Colonel Wetherall to the Richelieu, then the Head Quarters 
 of revolt, and afterwards you were found useful in the march 
 to the Riviere da Chene ; and your zeal and activity induced 
 those officers to represent to me in the strongest terms the 
 assistance they had received from you. 
 
 After my return to Montreal in 18?i7, my time was entirely 
 occupied by the proceedings in Upper Canada, the menaced 
 incursions on the frontier of Lower Canada and the forma- 
 
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 tion of a Special Council and the Ordinance? previously to 
 the arrival of Lord Durham, that I did not attend to the 
 re-organization of the Militia, and I decided on deferring all 
 appointments which were not immediately necessary till 
 the arrival of Lord Durham. But at that time it certainly 
 was my intention, had I continued at the Head of the govern- 
 ment, to have nominated you for the appointment of Adjutant 
 General of the Militia. I considered that you had strong 
 claims. You had from the first preparation for revolt taken 
 a decided and active part, had received a severe wound, and ^ 
 had served in the MiUtia in the last American War,* Some 
 weeks after Lord Durham had assumed the Government, 
 Colonel Cowper acquainted me that any officer that I might 
 name would be appointed Adjutant-General. In consequence 
 of this intimation I recommended you and stated that it had 
 been my intention to employ you in that capacity. 
 
 The Attorney General, Colonel Wetherall and Colonel 
 Gore, are, as well as myself, fully aware of your claims, your 
 abihty and activity, and I am persuaded that they will not 
 be forgotten by the government. 
 
 I remain, dear Sir, 
 
 Yours faithfully, 
 
 (Signed,) SEATON. 
 
 LETTER t FROM COL. ROWAN, MILITARY SECRETARY TO SIR 
 JOHN COLBORNE, TO COL. COWPER, MILITARY SECRETARY 
 
 TO LORD DURHAM. 
 
 [Copy] 
 
 Military Secretary's Office, 
 . Quebec, 30th June, 1838. 
 
 Sir, — I have the honor by direction of the Commander 
 of the Forces, to transmit to you for the favorable consider- 
 ation of the Governor General the accompanying letter from 
 Lieut. Colonel Gugy and the copy of a communication which 
 was transmitted to him a few weeks previously to the arrival 
 of the Earl of Durham. 
 
 From this document it will be perceived that Sir John 
 Colborne, with reference to the services of Lieut. Colonel 
 
 ♦ A mistake, it was in the Regular Forces. 
 
 t Which remained unuoticed and was followed by no result. 
 
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 Gugy at the time Lord Gosford authorized the Attorney 
 General to avail himself of his assistance at Montreal, and 
 to his subsequent employment in the Quarter Master Gen- 
 eral's Department, was of opinion that his qualifications and 
 clain^s as an oflficer of the Militia of Lower Canada, entitled 
 him to promotion on the staff on the retirement of the officers 
 now at the Head of the MiUtia Staflf of the Adjutant General's 
 Department of Lower Canada. 
 
 (Signed,) WM. ROWAN. 
 
 To Colonel Cowper, K. H., &c., &c., &c. 
 
 LETTER FROM COLONEL WETHERALL,C. B., ADJUTii VT GENERAL, 
 
 TO COLONEL GUQT 
 
 Montreal, 29th December, 1837. 
 
 My Dear Sir, — It not only affords me the greatest plea- 
 sure to record my opinion of your services whilst attached 
 to the force under my command during the operations against 
 St. Charles in November last, but in so doing I only acquit 
 myself of a duty I owe to your merits. 
 
 In my despatch to H. E., the Lieutenant General Com- 
 manding, I deemed it necessary to mention how much I was 
 indebted to you for your valuable aid, and I subsequently 
 stated the same personally. 
 
 I also wrote to the Attorney General, by whose advice 
 you were attached to the Force, stating more fully my sen- 
 timents, and so far as I was competent to do so, recommended 
 your being further employed. I have no copy of the letter, 
 but the substance was : That from your zeal, unwearied 
 activity, pesuliar tact in eliciting intelligence — ^your hardy 
 courage and promptitude in execution —you were the best 
 Partisan Soldier I ever met with, and that with a select troop 
 of Mounted Police you would do more to secure the peace of 
 Lower Canada than any other measure that could be devised, 
 for that no rebel or treasonable agitator could escape your 
 vigilance and decision. 
 
 Subsequent events have made me better acquainted with 
 your character and have strengthened the opinion I had 
 before deliberately formed and which I shall always be happy 
 to avouch. 
 
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 I was sorry to bear from Dr. Farnden yesterday that your 
 wound was not in so wholesome a condition as he wished. 
 You must be patient, confinement is irksome to one of your 
 active habits, but be patient. 
 
 Believe me to be always, most truly yours, 
 
 (Signed) G. A. WETHERALL. 
 
 Major Gugy, Provl. Assist. Q. Master General, 
 
 I hoped before now to see your promised rank announced. 
 
 EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM COLONEL THE HONBLE. CHARLES 
 
 (JORE, C. B., QUARTER MASTER GENERAL, TO 
 
 COLONEL GUGY. 
 
 My Dear Sir, — From your having served under my 
 orders in the outbreaks of 1837 and 1838, you certainly 
 have a right to expect that I should speak of your conduct, 
 and I am happy in being able to say that during the period 
 you served with me, your conduct was liis^hly gvontlemanly, 
 gallant and most zealous. On your l)eing attached to me 
 on a particular service, finding you were also equal to 
 military duties, I requested Lord Seaton to attach you to my 
 Department as a Provincial Assistant Quarter Master Ge- 
 neral, which His Excellency very Avillingly consented to, and 
 you performed the duties to my entire satisfaction and 
 particularly at the attack on St. Eustache, where you were 
 severely wounded while endeavouring to find out a prac- 
 ticable entry to the Church which was then stoutly defended. 
 
 After your recovery you were attached to the counties 
 on the RicheUeu and also to St. Hyacinthe, and employed 
 in disarming the Habitants in conjunction with Capt. Crompton 
 of the 66th Regiment, and other miliary oflScers. You were 
 also directed to exert yourself in quieting these sections 
 of the country, and you addressed the Habitants at St. 
 Hyacinthe and other places at the assemblies called by the 
 priests in their parishes, with good eftect. Altogether I 
 consider your services in 1837 and 1838 as highly merit- 
 orious and I shall be happy if any testimonial from me can be 
 of service to you. 
 
 I am, my dear Sir, yours faithfully, 
 
 (Signed,) CHARLES GORE. 
 
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 P. S. I sliould have mentioned that although you reported 
 yourself fit for duty after your wound, it was still open, and 
 you proceeded on your duty to the RicheUeu, still suffering 
 from its effects. 
 
 (Signed,) C. GORE. 
 
 FROM CAPTAIN BROWNRIGG, ON THE STAFF OF LORD METCALFE. 
 
 Steamship Britannia, off Halifax, 3rd December, 1845. 
 
 My Dear Gugy, — I have mentioned to Lord Metcalfe the 
 substance of your recent conversation with me as well as that 
 of part of your note of the 20th ultimo, and I am desired 
 by him to assure you of his entire approval of tbe zeal 
 and ability which you have evinced in the conduct of the 
 office of Adjutant General of the Militia of Lower Canada 
 during his admhiistration of the government. 
 
 Lord Metcalfe desires me to add that he is very happy to 
 have this opportunity of expressing his sense of your effi- 
 ciency as a ]iublic officer and of your loyalty and devotion as 
 a British subject. 
 
 I remain, my dear Gugy, your most faithfully, 
 
 G. STUDHOLME BROWNRIGG, 
 
 Captain Grenadier Guards. 
 
 From the Quebec Mercury , 4th January, 1855. 
 
 Sir, — The following extracts from a private letter, written 
 by a member of the Canadian Parliament* relative to one who 
 for a number of years occupied no obscure position in the 
 pubhc mind, struck me as containing so rruch of truth and 
 justice, that I obtained from him the liberty of its publication : 
 
 " Yesterday I encountered my old friend Gugy ; glad am 
 I to say he was looking as fresh and as vigorous, and posses- 
 sing spirits as buoyant as in days of yore, when he stood forth 
 
 • W. Powell, Esquire, M. P. for Carleton. In a note dated 2nd 
 March, 1861, authorizing the use of his name, this gentleman, after the 
 lapse of twelve years, expresses himself as follows :— " Would that 
 " the episode had been related in a manner more worthy of the 
 " coolness, the intrepidity and the judgment exhibited — which were 
 *' the instruments used by Providence to arrest what, in its immediate 
 " effects and its ultimate consequeQces, must otherwise have been a 
 " very terrible calamity." 
 
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 the prominent representative of the British or Anglo-Saxon 
 interests in the Parliaments of Lower Canada. Time has 
 dealt gently with him, and in his port and mien are all the 
 constitutional evidences of a conscience which is no accuser, 
 of a mind serene and undisturbed in the midst of difficulties. 
 Few men are there who have occupied a more prominent 
 position in the public eye of this province of Canada, few 
 who have been more unjustly dealt with, few who have 
 received so little credit for the good they have accomplished. 
 
 I trust that the historian of the future will, at least, do 
 more justice to Colonel Gugy than has the journalist of the 
 present. Less he cannot do. I speak not of the past, when 
 for years at the sacrifice of promotion — at the sacrifice of 
 personal interest and of personal ambition, — he stood forth in 
 Lower Canada as the champion of a minority, and battled 
 with a powerful majority ; and this with an energy, an ability, 
 and capacity seldom equalled in our Colonial Legislature ; I 
 prefer to speak of events much more fresh in your memory 
 and mine. I speak of events of which I am better fitted to 
 be the faithful recorder, from the fact that of them I was no 
 indifferent eye witness, and to a certain extent no uninterested 
 sharer. 
 
 There is a dark spot in the page of Canadian history ; the 
 angry passiors of men were aroused by an act* which was 
 by them deemed to extend, not only the sanction of the law 
 to treason, rebellion and murder, but worse still — to reward 
 them. The spirit of those who had lived obedient to law all 
 their lives rose in passionate revolt against an enactment to 
 their minds subversive of every principle of religion, morality 
 and law. The flames of the House in which the statute 
 was passed, with all the most valuable records of the coun- 
 try, fearfully attested the state of men's minds. It was at 
 such a moment, when energy and determination were most 
 required, that the energies of those whose duty it was to quell 
 the storm seemed thoroughly paralyzed. There was one man, at 
 least, who proved an exception to the prevailing cowardice. 
 That man was Colonel Gugy. Dark as is the memory of 
 those days, they would have been darker still, but for him. 
 
 • The Royal Assent given by Lord Elgin to the Act for maliing 
 compensation to all persons who had suffered loss during the two 
 Rebellions. 
 
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 Not only did he throughout those trying scenes, by his in- 
 fluence — by his example — by his unwearying exertion, restrain 
 the passions of the enraged multitude, but on one particular 
 occaaion he stayed the tide of riot, of bloodshed, and what 
 might have terminated in a rebellion worse than that which 
 had been so lately rewarded.* 
 
 Well do I remember the second night after the Parliament 
 House was burnt, when the tidings spread like wild-fire 
 through the City that the Government had armed their sup- 
 porters in the suburbs, and that even at the moment they 
 were assembled at Bonsecours Market. A spirit was evoked 
 in the breast of every opponent of such a rash and one-sided 
 act as the arming of one part of the population against the 
 other, that boded fearful results, had the flame once buret its 
 bounds. Arms were in the hands of every man and boy who 
 could bear them, and a stern determination in the minds of 
 all to meet in deadly hostility. The military were drawn up 
 across Notre Dame street, near Jacques Cartier Market, 
 cutting off communication by that street. It was at this time 
 when all were resolved to force their way through the armed 
 troops to reach the Bonsecours Market, when Gugy appeared 
 amongst them — and from the paling of the wall upon which 
 I was standing by his side, addressed the assembled multi- 
 tude, and by his commanding eloquence, his boldness, his 
 energy and strong common sense, succeeded in allaying the 
 popular excitement, and inducing all to disperse in quiet to 
 their homes. Had he not been the instrument in the hands 
 of that power which rules over all, he alone knows what might 
 have been the consequence of the shedding of that blood which 
 must have flowed on that night. 
 
 Up to the present time, I have never, amid all the obloquy 
 which has been heaped upon his name, seen one word of 
 tribute in justice to conduct which was as honorable to the 
 man, as invaluable to our common country. 
 
 Such is the testimony of an eye-witness. Under a lamp 
 elevated about ten feet, above an armed and infuriated mob, 
 in the full glare of the light, hearing the imprecations of the 
 
 * Mr. Roche, of the CroTva Lands Department, another eye witness, 
 who has authorized the use of bis name, is of the same opinion, and 
 no one can overrate the consequences of the massacre by the troops 
 of 400 or 500 men of the British population. 
 
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 frantic multitude around him, varied by the occasional flash 
 of fire-arms and the whistling of a ball, Colonel Gugy was a 
 mark which no man could miss. He could at any moment 
 have been killed, even with a brick bat, and as every man 
 has his friends and his enemies, he must have felt that his 
 time was at hand. He knew that within 150 yards were 
 two guns charged with grape — and upward of 200 soldiers 
 loaded and capped, and he must have heard the officer in 
 command press on the troops the neoe,9sitjf of firing with effect. 
 He must have felt that any half dozen imprudent or drunken 
 fellows might have brought all that fire upon him. Yet, for two 
 long hours and more, despite continual interruption, he never 
 faltered. Avoiding all irritating topics — gently insinuating 
 a respect for order — appealing to the hearts of his audience 
 — drawing affecting pictures of desolated hearths, widowed 
 mothers, and helpless orphans, — soothing this one, cracking 
 a joke with another, then provoking the laugh which indicates 
 the calming down of irritation ; he eventually induced the 
 assembled thousands peaceably to disperse. He performed 
 the same part on several evenings, always at more or less risk , 
 and it is undeniable that it was owing to his efforts that no 
 blood was shed. 
 
 On the night above referred to, considering the proximity, 
 number, and disposition of the soldiery, with the dense mass of 
 closely packed thousands in the street, no one can affect to 
 rate the killed and wounded, had the troops fired, otherwise 
 than by hundreds. No credit was ever given him for these 
 services, but the Pictorial Times contains engravings of 
 scenes far less striking and momentous. Eminence has been 
 achieved by more fortunate actors on occasions of less peril 
 as well as less interesting to humanity, than the position at that 
 period assumed by the gallant Colonel. Who has not heard 
 of the heroic deeds of Col. Gugy at St. Eustache and else- 
 where ? The deeds of some men, however, whose lives are one 
 continued scene of active courage, seem to excite less admi- 
 ration or wonder than a single, and perhaps accidental act of 
 heroism of an ordinary or obscure individual ; whereas, any 
 act at which the most trifling exception could be taken, is 
 frequently distorted and magnified, and vigorously retailed 
 by the centilingual monster of scandal. Such has too often 
 been the case of Colonel Gugy. Yours &c., 
 
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 From the Quebec Chronicle, 5th April, 1855. 
 
 We received from a disinterested party, the following letter, 
 and can vouch for the facts therein alluded to. 
 
 I perfectly coincide with the opinions of the writer of an 
 article on the police force, in the Quebec Chronicle of the 
 17th inst. The circumstance therein alluded to must be that 
 which occurred here during the election in 1841. An 
 immense crowd of " oanallers" as they were then termed, 
 came into the town from Lachine, armed and prepared for 
 anything. It was I* who pointed out to the presiding magis- 
 trate, (Colonel Gugy,) the ring-leader of this formidable 
 mob — he was a tall and powerful fellow. The Colonel acted 
 promptly on the information, and quietly riding alone into the 
 midst of this crowd, armed as they were with sticks and stones, 
 seized this man by the collar, surrounded as he was by his 
 own people, and hauled him out a prisoner — much to the sur- 
 prise of us all, and not less so of the fellow himself, who 
 seemed to be perfectly astonished. It was a bold and danger- 
 ous act, not only requiring nerve and tact to execute it, but 
 also physical strength and a firm seat on horse-back, all which 
 qualities Col. Gugy certainly exhibited on that occasion — I 
 believe that Colonel Gugy's conduct during the election was 
 the means of saving life, for the mob was of no ordinary 
 character. 
 
 • Benaiah Gibb, of Montreal, Esquire. — The Canallers, Irish " navTies," 
 employed in digging the Lachine Canal, estimated at between three or 
 four thousand men, hnd marched into town in a kind of military array. 
 They were understood to hnve resolved to control the election then in 
 progress, and to live at free quarters if not to fire and sack the town. 
 These results were expected and might well hare happened, but the cap- 
 ture of their general awed them, and their dispersion without bloo(^hed 
 followed. By way of rewarding the captor tor his successful exertion he 
 was in the next ensuing Quarter Sessions indicted for false imprisonment I 
 But the Petit Jury, though charged to convict, disagreed and were dis- 
 charged. At the following Session, another Justice presided, and as he 
 charged the other way, the second Jury, without leaving the box, acquitted 
 the prisoner. The latter was thus twice tried and twice defended by 
 himself at bis own expense. Nota Bbnb —The Government bad been 
 petitioned, and refused, to file a nolle prosequi. 
 
 But the two Candidates whose election the Canallers had assembled to 
 defeat, became members of the Legislative Assembly, and being members 
 they concurred in the enactment of the Statute which deprived of his 
 office and of bread the Magistrate to whose exertions in repressing the 
 i< Canallers" they owed their election ! 
 
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 been noticed and rewarded by some mark of Royal favor. If 
 I am rightly informed, the founder of a titlea family was 
 ennobled for an instance of such presence of mind and devo- 
 tion, but of course, mere colonists can expect nothing but 
 oblivion. Indeed it is so much the fashion to sneer at Colonial 
 zeal and merit, that the only wonder is that there are not 
 more who agree in opinion with Mr. Hoi ton. — (Vide his 
 speech on the Militia Bill.) 
 
 Quebec, 26th March, 1855. 
 
 6th January, 1866. 
 To the Editor of the Morning Chronicle. 
 
 Sir, — In your leader of this morning, alluding to the 
 mistrust, by the Government, of Mr. Maguire, in relation to 
 the St. Sylvester murder, * and to the necessity of employing 
 high handed measures to put down the insubordination and 
 contempt of the Law which have been manifested on this 
 occasion, you saw fit to mention the name of Colonel Gugy 
 as a proper person to have been employed in such an emer- 
 gency. 
 
 After the manner in which the gallant Colonel has been 
 treated by the Government, I do not know whether he would 
 have accepted such an appointment ; but, whether he would 
 or not, there is no doubt one more competent could not be 
 found. His presence of mind in cases of danger is strikingly 
 perceptible in his conduct on the occasion adverted to in the 
 accompanying communication, which I send you under the 
 supposition that you will not deem it unworthy of a repro- 
 duction in your valuable paper. 
 
 Lest Colonel Gugy's enemies should, as usual, insinuate 
 that this article has emanated from himself, I enclose you my 
 card. 
 
 Fiat Justitia. 
 
 Quebec, 27th December, 1855. 
 
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 To the Editor of the Sun. 
 
 Sir, — The appointment of Col. Gugy to the charge of the 
 armed police, lately added to the force of this city, * has 
 naturally caused a good deal of reirark, and I am glad to see 
 that the public journals generally regard it as a judicious 
 appointment. 
 
 Whatever may be my opinion of the gallant Colonel in his 
 public capacity, can be of no consequence to any one, and I 
 may state that I have no intimacy with that gentleman. My 
 object in addressing you on the present occasion, is to make 
 known to the public through your columns a circumstance of 
 which I was an eye witness, and which struck me at the 
 time as so extraordinary an instance of courage, coolness, 
 and presence of mind, that at the present time it ought to be 
 made known, in order to set at rest the fears or doubts of 
 those who may be laboring under either of these emotions in 
 regard to this appointment. 
 
 You will doubtless recollect the circumstance of the young 
 man Mason having been shot in an attack of Mr. LafontR ^'s 
 house some years ago. At the inquest, which took plat . in 
 a hotel opposite the Court House, a guard of the 71st Regi- 
 ment was drawn up in the lobby.f A cry of "Fire":): was 
 heard, the audience rushed pell mell to reach the street, the 
 soldiers partook of the panic and were in confusion, and some 
 rushed down stairs, fixed bayonets and all. The officers in 
 charge were nowhere ! I happened to be outside the door of 
 the inquest room, and close to the soldiers. I remarked to 
 the sergeant that there was no hurry, and to let the men 
 take care of their bayonets. In the confusion, out stept Col. 
 Gugy, who immediately called out in the sharp, clear tones 
 which soldiers instinctively obey — " Soldiers ! order arms ; 
 unfix bayonets ; left face ; march ! and get down stairs quietly, 
 my lads — plenty of time." And so there was, but had not some 
 man of mettle done this, what would have been the consequence? 
 Several people must have been wounded§ with the bayonets, 
 as all were in a dreadful hurry to get out. You, and most of your 
 
 • During the ferment caused by the Gavazzi riots. 
 
 t This was upstairs. 
 
 % This fire eridently the work of an incendiary, began in the atory 
 just above that in which the Court sat, and was ezteudiug to the latter 
 before it was noticed. . 
 
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 readers will remember the circumstance, but I do not think any 
 civilian but myself was present at that particular sueno in the 
 drama, and assure you, much as I had heard of Col. Gugy in 
 former times, and seen during that stormy period, I never did 
 see a greater proof of coolness and presence of mind than that 
 occasion presented. I am perfectly aware that Col. Gugy has 
 enemies, and who has not ? But let me tell you, Mr. Editor, it 
 would have been well for Montreal if her rulers, as a body, had 
 for the last few years possessed half the physical qualities of 
 our new Police Magistrate. 
 
 A Citizen. 
 Montreal, 18th October, 1855. 
 
 Chronicle^ 1st March, 1856. 
 
 THE PARLIAMENT. 
 From the Brockoille Recorder. 
 
 Among the number ostracised in Lower Canada, we may 
 mention the name of Col. Gugy. It is not our intention to 
 become Col. ^Gugy's champion ; we have sufficient matters 
 appertaining to Upper Canada to call for our space, but love 
 of fair play compels us to notice one honorable and brave 
 action performed by the Colonel in a time of great danger 
 and excitement, as tending to show his fitness for the com- 
 mand of the MiUtia in Lower Canada. 
 
 On the night the ParUament House of Montreal was burn- 
 ed, the writer of this was seated in the reporter's box, 
 gathering fragments for the paper with which he was connected. 
 Bells were ringing, and men, mad with excitement, were 
 shouting outside the building ; while showers of stones were 
 driven through the windows. At length the shouting and yelling 
 was heard on the stairs leading to the Assembly room, and 
 in a few moments after a number of men made their way into 
 the Assembly begrimmed with dirt and sweat, and commenced 
 tearing up the members' seats, and breaking everything in 
 their way. The House was empty, but the Hon. Mr. Robin- 
 son entered the Assembly room just at the time, and smilingly 
 remonstrated with the vagabonds. Col. Gugy entered a 
 minute or two after, and seeing one tall fellow about to lay 
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 • ,r one man. Had twelve of the members followed the noble 
 
 '>^C- •'! example of the Colonel, when the riot first commenced, the 
 
 "^. Parliament House might have been saved, and the reproach of 
 
 71' ' . such a vandal action spared to Montreal. 
 
 Col. Gugy has had a hit from the Recorder as well as from 
 many papers in Upper Canada for his crusade against the 
 Press, but we honor the bravery of a brave man, and now 
 that he is in conflict with those who seek to crush him, justice 
 demands that in the hour of his trial and affliction he should 
 receive the aid his conduct on the occasion referred to fairly 
 entitles him to. 
 
 We see by the Quebec Gazette that Col. Gugy has ad- 
 dressed several letters to His Excellency Sir E. Head, on the 
 injustice of slighting native Canadians. We think where 
 native born Canadians can be found qualified they ought to 
 have precedence, but not otherwise. The letters alluded to, 
 however, are too long for our columns, and we must only 
 content ourselves with the notice of the noble conduct of Col. 
 Gugy we have here given. 
 
 9th December, 1860. 
 
 Extract from the " Canadian Political Portrait Qallery^^ 
 published in most Canadian newspapers. 
 
 COLONEL GUGY. 
 
 " He quarrelled with his family and he quarrelled with the 
 " Government, and he quarrelled with the press*, and he has 
 *' always taken the aggressive or the defensive with skill, 
 ** pertinacity and pluck." 
 
 * The first imputation is not a fit subject for public discussion — but 
 tbe third grew out of the second. An Englishman is understood to have 
 a freehold in his ofiSce and is not to be turned out to starve, unless he 
 commits some offence. None could be imputed to the subject of this 
 notice, and it became necessary to enact a Statute to abolish his office, 
 re>enacting it with a slight modification. The Government then quar- 
 reled with him — not he with the Government, and his offence consisted 
 in this that be was not silent when fatally injured. His quarrel with 
 the press amounted to this, that when the journals subsidized by the 
 Administration, tojtist\fy its act, libelled him, he vindicated himself and 
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 " He was a member of the Parliament of Lower Canada, 
 &nd fought the battle of British interests tvith a steadiness 
 which earned him the undying hatred of the French. He 
 has always been a Tory and pro-British to the back bone. 
 In that he has never varied. He was active in suppressing 
 the rebellion of 1837-38, and earned a reputation in both 
 for humanity and bravery." 
 
 " Toward the latter part of Lord Metcalfe*8 reign, and in the 
 commencement of Lord Cathcart's, when the Oregon ques- 
 tion began to move us from our propriety, it was proposed 
 to reorganize the militia, and Mr. Draper's administration 
 thought this a capital opportunity to show their political 
 power. Accordingly, under this pretext, they managed to 
 get quit of Col. Bullock in the Upper Province and of Col. 
 Gugy in the Lower, and after an ineffectual attempt to 
 hook Sir Allan McNab, who was too big and too active a 
 fish for them, secured the Parliamentary interest of Col. 
 Macdonald and the national influence of Col. TachS.\" 
 
 Damoc by Quebec, 8th Dec. 1867. 
 
 As they advance in years, men naturally desire and expect 
 to increase their sphere of utility, as well as to make some 
 provision for their offspring. I really, at one time, expected 
 that our French rulers would have admitted that they owed 
 me a debt of gratitude , but what was called my loyalty has 
 excluded me from every career. It has driven me into soli- 
 tude, but I did not promise to die immediately : and livings I 
 even dared, in Lowef Canada, to resist aggression. While so 
 engaged I have been cruelly treated by the courts. This, 
 however, is a part of the system, and my complaints to Par- 
 liament, specifying several cases of gross judicial misconduct, 
 including habitual drunkenness, were summarily and contempt- 
 uously stifled. 
 
 It is the cowardice — the submission of the multitude which 
 constitutes the power of tyrants, but in my seventy-second 
 year I can no longer remain passive — nor can I, nor will 
 I submit. — On the contrary, awakened, alarmed, impelled by 
 recent events and their obviously inevitable effects, over- 
 coming the prejudices of my education, undeterred by any 
 difficulty or obstacle not absolutely insuperable, I shall do or 
 attempt whatever in my judgment may tend to the peimanent 
 well being of my progeny. 
 
 y A. GUGY. 
 
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