North American. [volume] (Swanton, Vt.) 1839-1841, 1839-12-04

paign. As SAID IN biS confession, ne sue
ceeded on the 9Th Dec. 1887, in making
his escape 10 the States, in company with
the Rev. Mr.. Charter and Chamilly DE
Lorimier, Esq. From ST. Adams, he went
10 Platisburgh, N. Y. and helped his fel-
low refugees TO prepare materials for ano-
iher expedition. On Caldwel's manor he
evinced considerable fear, and seemed TO be
very much relieved when he heard the or
der given for rettealng. Since that time
TO the period he pretends he was admitted
into the society of +" Hunters" he remain
ed at ST. Adams. II was visible that bis
mind was tortured by some inexplicable
anxieties frequently was be seen alone in
the woods in deep meditation, and on
other occasions his conversation would
prove that his mind was totally absorbed
by other subjects than the one being dis
cussed by the company in which he was
present. He declared often 10 his friends,
and even to some Americans, that he would
prefer living in Canada, hiding himself
from barn to barn, or from wood to wood
than remain in the States. Sickness at
home was his regular complaint. On the
81 Of July, 1888, he returned to his native
land on the guarantee of Lord Durham's
amnesty but very soon began a cores
pondence with those who thought that
Canada ought no longer TO be under Bri-
fish slavery. BY this means he came into
contact with great number of people,
whom he afterwards basely betrayed and
and was thereby the cause either
of their deaths, Punishment, or imprson-
ment, besides the burning Of their proper
~. He settled in Ste. MARITIME, in the
county Of Beauharnois, and on tile rising
of the 81 Nov. last year, he showed the
greatest cowardice possible and finally,
after having discouraged great number of
the patriots, then under arms, he fed on
the following nigh. fron, tho Damp HE
sudden disappearance threw dismay and
discomfort among the patriot soldiers,
which was with great difficulty suppressed
by their superior officers. On the next
Jay, the 5th, he was made prisoner by
some Of the loyal volunteers oil Russeltown,
and brought to Montreal. AS soon as Mr..
ElIice, who had been made prisoner by the
Beauharnois people, was delivered from his
captivity, he made his way to Montreal,
and in the Jail OF that city he had several
with the prisoner Brien, whom
he at last persuaded TO make disclosure
to the Government Of all that he knew.
On the 18th Of November, DR.. Brien con-
scnted, and made the following declara-
ton, by which Messrs. Cardinal, Duquette,
De Lorimer, Nicholas, and Daunais, were
brought 10 their cruel and un,imely death
on the gibbet. We speak not Of those
who, in consequence Of those Infamous dis
suffered imprisonment or Danish
menl but we advert TO those brave men
that he caused to be murdered by the
vicious Colborne. His disclosures were
made with the express condition OF their
being kept secret and of his life being
spared. The first person that suspected
Brien OF treachery, was the heart broken
wife OF the heroic Chevaier De Lorimier
This unfortunate patriot had conceived a
great respect for the villanous Brien and
although he could not imagine how he
could be hung on such ,rifiing evidence
as that brought against him before the
court martial, yet he could not fix his sus-
picion on any one as having turned traitor,
and given such testimony against his life,
much less so on his pretended friend,
Brien, who in his last days appeared so
anxious, and To feel so much for his melan-
choy fate. But Mrs. De Lorimier, in her
parting visit TO her unfortunate husband,
expressed her suspicious of Brien's fidelity.
Mr.. De Lorimier Immediately rejected
such a thought with horror, and gently
his wife for harbouring such
unkind suspicious. She persisted and
when the fatal hour arrived, and Mrs. DE
Lorimier was 10 part for ever from her
beloved and Inflated husband, she tainted,