e a sortie from Palace Gate, only
a remnant of the assailants, with considerable difficulty, managed
to get back to camp. Montgomery approached by the road under the Cape,
called Pres-de-Ville, with another division, but was stoutly resisted,
and fell mortally wounded. After the attack, Montgomery's body was
found embedded in the snow, together with the bodies of his two
Aides-de-Camp, Captain McPherson and Captain Cheeseman. Arnold now
retired about three miles from Quebec, where he encamped during the
winter.

[5] People are sometimes in the habit of making light of a
tempest in a tea pot. This tea tempest was no laughing matter.

[6] See the Journal of Charles Carroll, of Carollton, published
by the Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore--page 6.

[7] U.S. Catholic Magazine, vol. 4, p. 251, and Brent's Biography
of Archbishop Carroll, p. 69.

On the 15th of February, 1776, the American Congress appointed Dr.
Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Chase, and Charles Carroll, of
Carrollton--the last mentioned gentleman being requested to prevail
upon his brother, the Revd. John Carroll, a Jesuit of distinguished
theological attainments, and celebrated for his amiable manners and
polished address, to accompany them--to proceed to Canada with the view
of representing to the Canadians that the Americans south of the St.
Lawrence, "had no apprehension that the French would take any part with
Great Britain; but that it was their interest, and, the Americans had
reason to believe, their inclination, to cultivate a friendly
intercourse with the colonies." They were to have religious freedom,
and have the power of self-government, while a free press was to be
established, to reform all abuses.[8] The Committee, or, more properly
speaking, the Commission, were, however, far from being successful in
their attempt to negotiate Canada into revolt. The clergy of Canada
could not be persuaded that, as Roman Catholics, they would be better
treated by the Revolutionary colonists than they had been under the
British government, after the expression of such sentiments as those
addressed to the people of Great Britain, on the 21st of October, 1774.
The Americans, uncouth in manners, were, in truth, most intolerant of
papacy. In the "Cradle of American Liberty," a dancing school was not
permitted. While in Boston a fencing school was allowed, there were no
musicians permitted to exist, and the anti-papal charact