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SUPPLEMENTARY MEMORIAL 
 
 WITH RE?1REN0E TO 
 
 THE CUIM OF HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OP QUEBEC, 
 
 AGAINST THB 
 
 BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. 
 
 
 QUEBEC: 
 niHTID IT LOVBLLAIAIIOUEEUX. AT THEIR STEAM PRINTINO IfllABUBHMBrr, 
 
 MOUNTAIN STREET. 
 
 1851. 
 
SUPrLKMKXTAKV MKMOlilAL 
 
 WITH RRI<-KI{KNCK 
 
 Co % (laiiii of ^|)is &mt tlje ^rdjubljoi) of Oacluc 
 
 A(1AINST TIIK 
 
 liOARI) OF PUIJLIC AVOHKS. 
 
 An attempt has bocii imuli', bv iiienns ol'a circiitiistaiu'e of "o im|)()rtai)('c, <Io- 
 V()i>l ivc'u of |)(w.si!)ility, to ox|)laiii tlio cause of tlie (icwtnicru)!!, by fiff, of he 
 biiihhn<r ill question. In support of this attempt, a faet leeonh'd in the miniii's of 
 cvitleneo has been eiled; a faet so insiij;niHeaiit, tliat the Cmnmissiont is chd nut them 
 it necessary to give it the least attention, and whieh, for that reason, wo had parsed 
 Over in siU'iico. Tliis is the eirenmstanee ref rred to in llie evich-iiee ot'tiie lu V( rend 
 Sister St. Louis, (Appendix No. 10, paj^e lJ5,) " JJefji-e entering this room (hj " 
 she says," I perceived that my lantern was o[)en, I immediately shut it bef.tre \vc 
 went into the room (L)." 
 
 This room was on the fourth story, and lufore reaching it, the Nuns must have 
 passed tlu'ough the third story anil visited the rooms on that story, and ainoiigBt 
 others, the Spr(iker\<t rooi/i. When did the lantprn open? Was It jirevions li» as- 
 cending to the third story, before or after the vii^it to the Speaker's room? 'fiiis 
 is not stated in the evidence, doubtless because the lantern having opened wiiliont 
 the knovvleduc of the Nun who carried it, she could not siy when the faet oce'.irred. 
 
 The Nuns having examined the fourth, lifih and sixth stories, as high as the 
 carrot, retraced their steps and returned to the part occupied by tlie <;oMinnniity. 
 I'hc visit over the whole building, from the time of leaving the Speaker's r;M)m, 
 must have occupied at least twenty minutes. "Ingoing down," continues this 
 Nun, "we passed near the Speaker's room on the third story. It is vvvy probable 
 that if there had been a light in that room, we should have seen it, if the doois of 
 the room had been open, which I cannot f tatc was the ease." 
 
 By examination of the plan of the building, it will be p;rceived that the Nuns 
 must have again passed, on returning, by the corridor upon which the Speaker's 
 room opened, and that the door of this room was quite close to the stair-case leading 
 from the third to the second story. 
 
 Let us now examine the bearing of the faet as stated by Sister St. Louis. As 
 it cannot be known at what time the lantern opened, let us admit, for the saL^ of 
 argument, that the lantern had been opened before the Nuns entered the Speaker's 
 Room, or that it opened while they were in the room. Let us further su])pose that 
 a spark escaped from the open lantern, a very unlikely occurrence, particularly if 
 the opened part was [)laccd so as to rc< eive the current of air caused by the Nuns 
 as they walkeil along, for in that case, the spark escaping from the lantern would 
 necessarily be blown back against the sides of the lantern. It nnist be remarked 
 that what is called tlie s/ntl)', a very consideraljle portion of the wick of a burning 
 catidle, is not formed when the candle is being moved about. Did the spark, 
 escaping from the candle, ascend or descend ? 
 
 Here is another ([ucstion difTienlt of solution ; but let lis suppose that it did 
 descend. This spark in fdling must have lighted either npcm matter liable to take 
 fire on coming into contact withi^o slight a thing as a spark falling from a lantern, 
 or upon a substance which it could not set on (irr by coming into contact with it. 
 In the first case the spark upon touching a highly inflammable substance, as for ex- 
 nmple, shnvin;js, nuist cither have spontaneously set fire to it or be extinguished 
 immediately, and the fire so communicated must have spread with greater rapidity 
 from the circumstance of the room in question containing a good quantity of shav- 
 
Ill the fl(!t'oiul cat4e, if tlie Bimrk lighted U|)t)n a matter not ousilv set un fire, 
 as u<i' cxuiiiplc u[)uii wutnl, it niuat have been extiiiguiithud iiiiiiivdiutely, fur tvoiy 
 one knows ihiit u spark of tliis kind iH ixtiiij^uished as s(m)ii u» it conivH in contuet 
 with iisnbstaiice either iininnHinniuble or whieh does not easil^y take fire. Ex)ie- 
 riencc shows us, besidcH, that it is more than probable that sparks of this kind set 
 firo neither to wood norHhuvinxs, nor even straw, liecanse thrso snbstancet* are not 
 lutricicnlly intlainrnable. It might be otherwise in the case of a spark falling upon 
 dry linen, because linen then is like tinder. If a spark fall from a pipe, the case 
 \» dilLrent again, becanse Bueh a spark is but a qnantiljr more or le^^s consid- 
 erable, oi burning tubaceo, which continues to burn after its descent according to 
 th<* laws of gravitatitai upon the bodies which are beneatli it. The particle of 
 tobacco, nourishing the fire it contains, not only preserves its vigour but even forms a 
 •pocics of focus, by contact with wliich a substance not eiusily inflammable, as fur 
 instance, wool, might take fire. 
 
 If I lien, to continue the supposition, a spark escaping from the lan'ern set fire 
 to th(^ S|>eaker's lloom, the fire must have made some progress when twenty 
 ininutcs afterwards, the Nuns, un their return, }>a8sed in front of or near this room. 
 If the door of the room were open they would either have seen the light produced 
 by the flames among the shavings, or have perceived the strung and p::culiar 
 smell of the smoke of wood which is being consumed before flames are produced, 
 and the Nun tells us, as do also those who accompanied bar, that they neither 
 «aw any light nor pen^eived the smoke. 
 
 If the door of the Speaker's Room was shut when the Nuns passed thia 
 room on their return, it is evident that this same door was opened after the 
 departure of the Nuns. For, supposing it to have been closed, now was it pos- 
 sible for the watchman Rousseau who first of all perceived the li^irht of the fire, to 
 have seen it in Richelieu Street, that is to say in the Street opposite to St. Olirier 
 Street, upon which the Speaker's Room fronted P 
 
 Looking at the plan, it will be seen that the Speaker's Room fronted upon 
 St. Olivier Street ; that this room was separated from the Chapel by a corridor 
 upon which the door of the Speaker's Room opened, opposite to a door leading to 
 the chapel traversing the width of this corridor. This was the only pibce thi-ough 
 "Which Rousseau, looking across the chapel could see into the Speaker's 
 Room. He expresses himself thus, (DepositionNo.il, page 26), ''About 
 " a quarter or twenty minutes after nine, in returning from St. Olivier Street, 
 after having examined, in passing, the front of the building, where 1 perceived 
 no liqht, and as I arrived at the corner of Richelieu Street, after having come 
 up C6te-a-Coton, I perceived a light in one of the North East windows of the 
 chapel. I did not pay much attention to it, thinking it was the light carried 
 by the Nuns in going their rounds. I then went as far as the door of the 
 Chapel and a few steps farther. Then 1 turned round to see if this light was 
 that which the Nuns might be carrying. Perceiving a great light by the win- 
 dow to the North East of the door, 1 got up on a pile of wood and discovered 
 that the fire was in a heap of shavings in one of the rooms to the right, behind 
 the Chapel, and the doors of which were open." '^This room has been proved 
 by other witnesses examined to have been the Speaker's Room). The door, then, 
 was open ; it was opened, then, after the departure of the Nuns, by some one in 
 the building, and it was that person who removed the piece of wood placed above 
 the latch of the enlrance gate in St. Olivier Street ; it was the same person who 
 a second time unbarred this door and left it open three or four inches, according 
 to the statement of Rousseau ; and lastly, it was this same person who set fire to 
 the building and who escaped by the door which was left ajar. For, unless this 
 explanation be accepted, how can we account forthis strange opening and closing 
 df the doors on t»vo different occasions, which occurred in the building in the 
 course of the evening in question. (See the depositions Nos. 11, and No. 3 
 page 13.)