2. Martin, in his De Montcalm en Canada, p. 239, describes an English MS. in the Bibliothèque du Ministère de la Guerre (Paris), called for a general title Memoirs of a French Officer, and divided into two parts:—
(1.) Begins with a narrative of the Scottish rebellion in 1745, and then gives “An account of the war in Canada to the capitulation of Montreal in 1760, with an account of the siege of Louisbourg in 1758, and an exact and impartial account of the hostilities committed in Acadia and Cape Breton before the declaration of war.”
(2.) a. Dialogue in Hades between Montcalm and Wolfe, reviewing, in the spirit of a military critic, the mistakes of both generals in the conduct of the campaign, not only of Quebec, but of the other converging forces of the English. This portion is given in English in the Hist. Docs. of the Lit. and Hist. Soc. of Quebec. Martin has a French translation of it.
b. “A critical, impartial, and military history of the war in Canada until the capitulation signed in 1760.” Published by the Lit. and Hist. Soc. of Quebec in 1867.
The whole MS. is attributed to a Scotch Jacobite, Chevalier Johnston, who after the suppression of the Scotch revolt went to France, and served in the campaign of this year in Canada as aid to Lévis, and afterwards as aid to Montcalm.
3. In the first series (1840) of the Hist. Docs. of the Lit. and Hist. Soc. of Quebec there is a “Relation de ce qui s’est passé au siége de Québec, et de la prise du Canada, par une Religieuse de l’Hôpital Général de Québec: addressée à une communauté de son ordre en France.” It is thought to have been written in 1765; and the original belongs to the Séminaire de Québec. It was again printed at Quebec in 1855.
There was also published at Quebec, about 1827, an English version, The siege of Quebec, and conquest of Canada: in 1759. By a nun of the general hospital of Quebec. Appended an account of the laying of the first stone of the monument to Wolfe and Montcalm.
4. Parkman (ii. 438) considers one of the most important unpublished documents to be the narrative of M. de Foligny, a naval officer commanding one of the batteries in the town, namely a Journal mémoratif de ce qui s’est passé de plus remarquable pendant qu’a duré le siége de la ville de Québec. It is preserved in the Archives de la Marine at Paris.
5. In the Hist. Docs. of the Lit. and Hist. Soc. of Quebec, 4th series, there is a paper, “Siége de Québec en 1759—journal tenu par M. Jean Claude Panet, ancien notaire de Québec.” It is the work of an eye-witness, and begins May 10.
6. “Journal tenu à l’armée que commandait feu M. le Marquis de Montcalm” is also printed in the Hist. Docs. of the Lit. and Hist. Soc. of Quebec. Parkman calls it minute and valuable.