Lawrence, whither numbers of those two Nations have of late years been debauched and gone to live.

Tho' our Indians do not now resort to those places as frequently and familiarly as l

Equal to $653.23.

EARLY SETTLEMENT AT OGDENSBURGH.

they formerly did, yet some among them do occasionally visit there, when the French and the Indians in their interest poison the minds of ours with stories not only to the disadvantage of our good intentions towards them, but endeavour to frighten

them with pompous accounts of the superior

prowess and martial abilities of the French.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE REV. ABBE PICQUET. [

Abridged from Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses, XIV. ]

Francois Picquet, doctor of the Sorbonne, King's Missionary and Prefect Apostolic to Canada As early as the seventeenth year was born at Bourg in Breese on the 6 th December, 1708 functions of in his country and at twenty the a missionary commenced successfully he age, of his the Diocese of Lyon, gave him, by a nattering exception, of Suffragan Sinope, of years the Bishop which depended on his diocese. of Breese and Franche-Comt6 permission to preach in all the parishes The enthusiasm of his new state rendered him desirous to go to Rome, but the Archbishop of Lyons advised him to study theology at Paris. He followed this advice and entered the Congregation of The direction of the new converts was soon proposed to him but the activity of his Saint Sulpice. him to seek a wider field, and led him beyond the seas in 1733, to the Missions of induced zeal North America where he remained thirty years, and where his constitution debilitated by labor, acquired a force and vigor which secured for him a robust health to the end of his life. M. Picquet was among the first to foresee the war which sprung up about 1742 between the English and the French.