He was
honest and frank in council, as he was gallant on the quarter-deck.
The Intendant was not a whit behind him in point of ability and
knowledge of the political affairs of the colony, and surpassed him
in influence at the court of Louis XV., but less frank, for he had
much to conceal, and kept authority in his own hands as far as he
was able.
Disliking each other profoundly from the total divergence of their
characters, opinions, and habits, the Governor and Intendant still
met courteously at the council-table, and not without a certain
respect for the rare talents which each recognized in the other.
Many of the papers lying before them were on subjects relating to
the internal administration of the Colony,--petitions of the people
suffering from the exactions of the commissaries of the army,
remonstrances against the late decrees of the Intendant, and arrets
of the high court of justice confirming the right of the Grand
Company to exercise certain new monopolies of trade.
The discussions were earnest, and sometimes warm, on these important
questions.
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