oit, que de perdre le tems
a plaider. Il sembloit meme que tous les biens fussent communes dans
cette colonie, du moins on fut assez long tems sans rien fermee sous la
clef, et il etoit inoui qu'on s'en abusat. Il est bien etrange et bien
humiliant pour l'homme que les precautions qu'un prince sage prit pour
eviter la chicane et faire regner la justice, aient presque ete l'epoque
de la naissance de l'une, et de l'affoiblissement de l'autre.... La
justice est rendue selon les ordonnances du royaume et la coutume de
Paris. Au mois de Juin, 1679, le roi autorisa par un edit quelques
reglemens du conseil de Quebec, et c'est ce qu'on appelle dans le pays
la reduction du Code ... par un autre edit en 1685 le conseil fut
autorise a juger les causes criminelles au nombre de cinq juges ...
c'est sur le modele du conseil superieur a Quebec, qu'on a depuis etabli
ceux de la Martinique, de St. Domingue, et de Louisiane. Tous ses
conseils sont d'epee."--Charlevoix, vol. ii., p. 140.]

[Footnote 383: "The regiment de Carignan-Salieres was just arrived from
Hungary, where it had distinguished itself greatly in the war against
the Turks."--Charlevoix, tom. ii., p. 150.]

[Footnote 384: "M. de Sorel, a captain in the Regiment De Carignan, was
employed on the erection of the first fort, on the same site as the fort
De Richelieu, built by M. de Montmagny, now quite in ruins. De Sorel
gave his own name to the fort, and in time the river Richelieu, or
Iroquois, acquired it also.

"The second fort was called St. Louis; but, as M. de Chambly, captain in
the same regiment, had superintended the erection, and afterward
acquired the land on which it was situated, the whole district, and the
stone fort, which has been erected since upon the ruins of the former
one, have acquired and retained the name of Chambly. This was a very
important fortress, as it protected the colony on the side of New York,
and the lower Iroquois.

"The third fort was built under the direction of M. de Salieres, the
colonel of the regiment De Carignan. He named it St. Theresa, because it
was finished on that saint's day."--Charlevoix, tom. ii., p. 152.]

[Footnote 385: "Every omen was now favorable, except the conquest of New
Netherlands (New York) by the English in 1664. That conquest eventually
made the Five Nations (Iroquois) a dependance on the English nation; and
if for twenty-five years England and France sued for their friendship
with unequal success, yet afte