THE GENERAL HOSPITAL NEAR QUEBEC

This is a community of women; they

have a foundation for taking care of thirtyinvalids, idiots,orincurables, which they are at present in no condition to fulfil, their revenues being in no way equal totheexpence, and as a large sum is owing them by the King of France for the sick of his army. In the time of the French, they were allowed rations for as many of the above as they took in, and a pension of two thousand livres. The Ladies of this community are of the best families in Canada, and by the presents they were continually receiving from them, they were chiefly enabled to subsist ; that resource is now at an end, as the gentry, in general, are in the most distressed circumstances.

They owe a very large debt, contracted in a good measure for the sick officers and soldiers of the French army; the French King owes them a large sum sufficient to discharge it, but they must be reduced to the utmost beggary and distress if he Gucs not pay; the sale of all their houses and lands will scarcely be sufficient to satisfy their creditors.

Their whole estate in this country does not bring them in at the most above

A rent on the Hotel de Ville at PariB scrsveressporsisentssse sstientres 1800

Livres 6800 Their Numbers, Nuns. 33 Invalids

5000 Livres.