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Documents Covering Impeachment of Bierwille	17
Questioned whether it is not true that Sieur de Bienville drinks the wine of the sick and causes it to be drunk and sold, he said ?No.?
Questioned whether he knows the man named Humery and what sort of a man he is, he said ?Yes? and that he is a man who was a warehouse-keeper for a long time.
Questioned whether he has no reason to complain of this man, he said ?No.?
Questioned whether it is not true that the Canadians have sold at exhorbitant price goods that were delivered to them from the warehouses at a moderate price, (p. 260) he said ?No.?
Questioned whether he, the deponent, has not bought some from them, of what sort and for how much, he said ?No.?
Questioned whether it is not true that they have even sold them back to the King at four hundred per cent above the price at which they had been delivered to them, he said ?No? and that he had never heard any talk of it.
Questioned whether it is not true that goods have been unloaded from the King?s vessel L?Aigle for the account of Mr. De Noyan and what amount, he said that he has not had any knowledge of it at all.
Questioned whether he, the deponent, has not bought any of them at all, how many and at what price, he said ?No.?
Questioned whether it is not true that Sieur de Bienville, the Commandant, and Sieur de Chateaugue, his brother, have bought some, how many and at what price, he said that he knows nothing about it.
Questioned whether it is not true that they have sent them to be sold at Vera Cruz by the King?s vessels (p. 261), he said that he knows nothing about it.
Questioned whether it is not true that on all the voyages the vessels have carried goods on the account of these two brothers, he said that he knows nothing about it.
Questioned whether it is not true that Sieur de Bienville dispatched a ship?s-boat after another which was bearing the letters of Mr. De La Vente, curate on board the Aigle, he said that he has never heard any talk of it.
Questioned whether it is not true that the ship?s-boat dispatched by Sieur de Bienville having overtaken the one dispatched by Sieur de La Vente he had the letters delivered to him, he said as above.
Questioned whether he does not know at all the people who were in these ship?s-boats, he said that he saw several of the inhabitants depart to go and buy merchandise and no others.
The present interrogatory having been read to him he said that it contained the truth, maintained it and signed.
Thus signed De Lery. Collated with the original.
D?Artaguette.