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Documents Covering Impeachment of Bienville 25
to put me back in it because I had not thanked him at all for having released me from it. At these threats I had fled to my house. This constrained me to go to the fort at his orders, and at the urgent entreaty that I made him to take me out [of] this garrison he had retracted it. This damage costs me one hundred piastres.?21 (p. 283).
Questioned whether he saw that Sieur de Bienville disposed of the King?s goods that were in the warehouses and whether some were not delivered to him, the deponent, without Sieur de La Salle having knowledge of it, at what price and what quantity, he said that he knows nothing about it.
Questioned whether it is not true that Sieur de Bienville sold or caused to be sold the wine that he sent for for his own use, at what price, by whom and how much, he said that he sold some wine and some brandy to Poudrier and to La Loire and he does not know the quantity of it or how much.
Questioned whether he has knowledge that the King sends wine for the sick, he said ?No.?
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 that he knows nothing about it.
Questioned whether he knows the man named Humery and what sort of a man he is, he said ?Yes? and that he is a poor and drunken man.
Questioned whether he does not have reason to complain of this man, he said ?No.? (p. 284).
Questioned whether it is not true that the Canadians have sold at an exorbitant price goods that were delivered to them from the warehouses at a moderate price, he said that he knows nothing about it.
Questioned whether he, the deponent, did not buy from them, what sort of goods and for how much, he said ?No.?
Questioned whether it is not true that they 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 knows nothing about it.
Questioned whether it is not true that some goods were disembarked from the King?s [vessel] L?Aigle for the account of Mr. De Noyan and of his officers and how much, he said ?Yes? and that he was offered sixty qvjoxts of brandy on credit; that he thinks that this brandy was French brandy from Nantes and that there were also other goods such as Brittany linen and Quintin linen.
Questioned whether he, the deponent, did not buy any at all and at what price, he said ?No.? (p. 285).
Questioned whether it is not true that Sieur de Bienville, the commandant, and Sieur de Chateaugue, his brother, bought
^The French is Et sur LHnstante priere que Je Luy fis de rue tirer cette garnison il L?aurait rapelle ce Dommage me coute cent piastres. No quotation marks are indicated in the original.