CS of three items. [1] Plessis, abp. of Québec, to Martial, vicar general in New Orleans, Québec, 5 March 1823. The writer acknowledges the addressee's letters of 13 and 24 November and the letter of the addressee's bp. [Dubourg] dated from Georgetown, 20 December [1822]. He also recalls his own letters to the bp., the first [10 May 1822] introducing the Ursulines [going to New Orleans], the second [8 October 1822] describing the "imposteur" [A.] Inglesi. Inglesi never went to Canada with the Duke of Richmond [Lennox], because the latter arrived in Québec in 1818, a few weeks after Inglesi's flight.
Inglesi had in fact arrived in 1814 as soldier or corporal of the Royal Scots regiment, had little knowledge of the French language, became an actor and a wine trader (and did not meet the writer afterwards), in 1815 married a Catholic woman [Morin] before Spark, a Presbyterian minister, but only managed to dupe the credulous abbé Daulé and the addressee's bp.. The addressee's description concides with the writer's experience. Greetings to the bp. [Dubourg] and to Janvier. [2] Excerpts from the marriage certificate of Inglesi and Morin. On 27 February 1815 Inglesi, c.20, of Québec, clerk, married Morin, c.26, of Québec, in the name of Prevost [Governor of Lower Canada]. Signed by Spark, [Presbyterian] minister, Inglesi, Morin, Tesdel, Houri, Chretien.
Original in the archives of the Scottish church in Québec [St. Andrew], certified by Perrault and Ross, guardians of the said church and "protonotaries de la cour du Banc du Roi", Québec, 19 February 1823. [3] Declaration by Amiot, Inglesi's landlord. Inglesi pretended to be sous-diacre and a former member of an English infantry regiment [Royal Scots], was an actor and a wine merchant, lived for two years and a half in one of the writer's apartments in the lower town, fled in 1818 and left $424 in rent to be paid, of which only part were later repaid by Inglesi's guarantors. Signed and dated from Québec, 19 January 1823. [4] Martial's declaration that items 1-3 are true Cs of the originals received by the [a]bp. of Québec. Certified and signed by Martial, and dated from New Orleans, 21 May 1823. PF notes.
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