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. Si, au cours de la traversée, on ne rencontra pas de navires de course français, on connut par deux fois des moments d’angoisse en apercevant au loin des navires non identifiés. Bentom et Mitchell débarquèrent à Québec le 1er juin et trouvèrent la colonie agitée par les rumeurs voulant que Napoléon Bonaparte eût le dessein de la reconquérir.
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, which, although it encountered no French privateers during the crossing, on two occasions experienced anxious moments at the appearance in the distance of unidentified ships. Bentom and Mitchell arrived at Quebec on 1 June to find the colony agitated by rumours of Napoleon Bonaparte’s designs to reconquer it for France. “Our coming here has occasioned much conversation among all descriptions of persons,” Bentom noted in his journal. “Some report us as Aliens and perhaps Conspirators. Others ask us if we are of respectability if we have brought letters of recommendation to any of the ‘gentry’ ie visitants of the Chateau the residence of the governor. It is esteemed great presumption . . . to invite preachers from England without the concurrence of the ‘Superior Orders.’” Bentom was asked by the little congregation to remain at Quebec; Mitchell proceeded to Montreal. Bentom’s congregation consisted mostly of evangelical former members of the Presbyterian Scotch Church. A request to share that congregation’s room (used during the week as a court-house) in the Jesuit college was rejected by the Presbyterian minister, Alexander Spark. By July a room capable of holding 200 people had been rented from one of Spark’s elders, who also attended Bentom’s services, and in the first few months it was filled to capacity by the curious. They soon ceased to return, however, and the congregation had dropped to 37 members by January 1801, when, at its request, Bentom “formed a church as nearly Presbyterian as circumstances would admit.” By October 1801 he reported having 50 to 60 communicants. To supplement his meagre income he occasionally practised surgery.