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To the Editor of The Quebec Gazette.
Sir, We respectfully beg leave to call
upon you to give us the name of the writer of the letter dated Bathurst, N.B.
17th December 1838, an extract of which appears in your paper of the
4th instant, respecting the property sold, which had been saved
from the wreck of the ill-fated Colborne. Due notice of that
sale was not only given, but it was attended from first to last by the
agents of some of the most respectable houses in British North
America, viz., Of Quebec, the County of Gaspé, Paspebiac,
Dalhousie, Bathurst, Miramichi, the office of the Customs, and
some of Lloyd's agents, and the best prices were under all
circumstance obtained. A broken box of watch glasses was sold for
43s. 6d. If it contained also gold watches and rings, as it had
already vaguely been reported, the purchaser has certainly no
right to keep them, and has been called upon to return them
accordingly. It is, however, not true that "all the boxes,
bales, &c., by which the property could be identified were
destroyed," but some were broken up at the wreck by the fishers,
the only way they had of saving the goods, and these facts the
writer probably knows as well as us, but we doubt he is one of
those folks who feel a secret pleasure in distorting facts, for
the purpose of gratifying a fiendish rankling bad feeling toward
the "conducteurs" of the sale in question. An enquiry into the
case is not dreaded, but to use the words of the writer, "a most
minute enquiry into the acts and deeds of the conducteurs of the
untoward event" is invited. These acts, &c., are no secret, but
the name of the writer, is, and we beg to demand it through the
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