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Laa diagrammas suivants illuatrant la mAthoda. 1 2 3 32X 1 2 3 ♦ 5 6 • 5S-t AFFIDAVIT OP lAElA WmW% MOTHll. ** On this day. the twenty-fourth cU^ of f Jctober, one thouaand eight hnndred and thirty-five, before met William Robertson, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the diitrict of Montreal) came and appeared Isabella Millsi of thi} city of Montreal) widow of the late William Monk) formerly Bar- rack master at St. johnSi Que. irho declared, that wishing to guard the public itgainst the deception which has lately been practised in Montreal by disigning m^n^ who have taken advantage of the occasional derangement of her daughter) to taiake scandalous a Htoyle requested hie tb walk at a dislknce from hiiti) AH he was a ||entlKifiam I fMloWed tun to Mr. Geodeneugh's Hatch and he di>«ctaKt mt M nWm Nil. if , end te dktoiand th« child i a servant maid gave it to nil ; Mir. Hoyta came api and gave tae thie ekilhingt 1 eame heme with the child, iiiHstttt Mrs; larlmt) an ^d aequaintaiMe, in siarch of my dAughterj Htr dkjpMitien can be ietat The ll«sl irib^, Mrt Hiqrte canic in with in elderly man, Dri |tdgte Turneri dcfcently drMacdi whom he iMrodoetMl to mm ae a Mr. Turner, Of 6ti Albinsi They damaliicd to sec ihtf eMIdi which I prt>diiccd. Mr. Ht^te deMandtd iC t had diievVkrcd 1Mb mother } I siid no) she mist be fbundf said ha ; kht has takci Mray a iMkwl and A bMnct belonging to a bervant girl at Goodc- nough's ; he would not pay for them ; she had cost him too much already ; that his things were kept at the hotel on that account. Being afraid that this might more deeply involve my daughter, I offered my onrn shawl to replace the one taken; Mr. Hoyte first took it hut aAerward returned it to me on my promise that I would pay for the shawl and bonnet. In the course of the day, Mrs. Tarbert found my daughter, but she would not come to my house; she sent the bonnet and shawl, which were returned to their owner, who had lent them to my daughter, to assifct her in procuring her escape from Mr. Hoyte at the hotel. Early on the afternoon of the same day, Mr. Hoyte came to my house with the same old man, wishing me to make all my efforts to find the girl, in the meantime speaking very bitterly against the Catholics, the Priests, and the Nuns ; mentioning that -my daughter had been in the nunnery, whi^re she had been ill treated. I denied that my daughter had ever been in a nunnery ; that when she was about eight years of age she went to a day-school. At the time came in two other persons, whom Mr. Hoyte intro- duced, one was Rev. Mr. Brewster, I do not recollect the other reverence's name. They all requested me, in the most pressing terms, to try to make it out ; my daughter had been in the- nunnery ; and that she had some connection with the Priests of the seminary, of which nunneries and Priests she spoke in the most out- rageous terms ; said, that should I make that out, myself, my daughter, and child, would beprotectetl for life. I expected to get rid of their importunities, in relating the melancholy circumstances by which my daughter was frequently deranged in her head, and told them, that When at the age of about seven years, she broke a slate pencil in her head ; that since that time her mental faculties were deranged, and by times much more than at other times, but that she Was far from being an idiot ; that she could make the most ridiculous, but most plausible stories ; and that as to the history that she had been in a nunnery, it was a fabrication, for she never was in a nunnery ; that at one time I wished to obtain a place in a nunnery 'for her ; that I had employed the influence of Madame de Montenach, of Dr. Nelson, and bf our pastor, the Rev. Mr. Esson, but without success. I told them notwithstanding I was a' Protes ant and v4id not like the Catholic religion — like all other respectable Protestants, I held the priests of the seminaiy andthe nuns of 'Montreal in veneration, as the most pious and charitable persons I ever knew. After many more solicitations to the same effect, three of them retired, but Mr. Hoyte remained, adding to the other solicitations ; he was stopped, a person hav- ing rapped at the door : it was then candlelight. I opened, the door, and found ■Doctor McDohald, who told me that my daughter Maria was at his home, in the most dsstressing situation ; thait she wished him to come and make her peace with me ; I Went with the Doctor to his house in McGill street ; she came with' me to near my ttouse, but would not jome in, notwithstanding I assured her that she would be kindly tfeated and that i would give her her child ; she crossed the pa- 'rade ground, and I went into the house, and returned for her — Mr. Hoyte followed me. She was leaning on the west railing of the parade ; we went to her : Mt. Hoyte tbld her ; my dear Mary, I am sorry you have treated yourself and me in .this manner ; I hope you have not exposed what has passed between us, never- theless, I will treat you the saihe as ever, and spoke to her in the most affectionate terms ; took her in his arms ; she at first spoke to him very cross, and refused to go with him, but at last consented and went with him, absolutely refusing to come to my house. .Soon after, Mr. Hoyte came and demanded the child ; I gave it to 3 him. Next morning Mr. Hoyte retiirned, and was more pressing than in his for- mer solicitation, and requested me to say that my daughter had been in the nun- nery : that should I say so, it would be better than one hundred pounds to me ; that I would be protected for lile.and that I should leave Montreal,and that I would be better provided for elsewhere I answered, that th3usand9 of pounds would not induce me to perjure myself; ihen he got ninicy ynd abusive to the utmost ; he said he came to Montreal to detect the infamy of the Priests and the Nuns ; that he could not leave my daughter destitute in the wide world as I had done ; afterward said, No ! she is not you; daughter,-ihe is too »ensible for that, and went away — He was gone but a few minutes, when Mf^ iJoiicet^an atnuent Magis- trate in Montreal, entered. That gentleman told me that Mr. tioodeiioi^h had just now called upon him, and requested him to let m^'kn^w that I had a daughter in Montreal ; that she had come m with a Mr. Hoyte am^ a child, and that she ha4 left Mr. lioyte and the child, but that she was still in Montreal, so as to er. ible me to look for her, and that [ might prevent some mitchief that was going on. Then I related to him partly what I have above said. When he fta* going, two other gentlemen came I refused to give them any information at first, expecting that they were of the party that had so much agttat«>d me for a few days ; but being imformed by Mr Doucet,thatheknrw one of them, particularly Mr. Perkins, for a respectable citizen (or a long time in Montreal, and the other Mr. Curry, two ministers from the United States, that if they came to obtain some information about the distressing events she related to have occurred in her family, he thought it would do no harm, and I related to them ; they appeared to be afflicted with such a circumstance ; I have not seen them any more. I asked Mr. Uoucet if the man Hoyte could not be put in jail ; he replied that he thought not, for what he knew of the business. Then I asked if the Priests were informed of what was going on ; he replied, yes, but they never take up these things ; they allow their character to defend itself. A fews day after, I heard that my daughter was at one Mr. Johnson's, a joiner, at Griffintown, with Hr. Hoyte ; that he passed her for a nun that had escaped from the Hotel Dieu Nunnery. I went there two days successively with Mrs. Tarbert ; the first day, Mrs. Johnson denied her, and said that she was gone to New York with Mr. Hoyte. As I was returning, I met Mr. Hoyte on the wharf and I reproached him for his conduct. I told him that my daughter had been denied me at Johnson's, but that I would have a search- warrant to have her ; when I returned, he had really gone with my unfortunate daughter ; and I received from Mr Johnson, his wife and a number of persons in their house the grosses abuse, mixed with texts of the Gospel, Mr. Johnson bringing a Bible ibr me to swear on. I retired n ore deeply afHicted than ever, and further sayeth not. (Signed,) ISABELLA MILLS, Widow oj the late Wm. Monk. " Sworn before me, on this 24lh of October, 1835," (Signed,) VVILLIAM^ROBERTSON, M.D., J.P. o, (: X. ^-TTiZ N.B.— Mrs. Monk was house-keeper of the *' Governnlent House," the old Chateau de Ramezay, where the Commander of:;l^«^t]cc.s, and (he Governor General always resided during their stay in Montreal. J^ /i: