AWFUL DISCLOSURES.

CHAPTER I.

EARLY RECOLLECTIONS.

Early Life--Religious Education neglected--First School--Entrance into the School of the Congregational Nunnery-- Brief Account of the Nunneries in Montreal--The Congregational Nunnery--The Black Nunnery--The Grey Nunnery--Public Respect for these Institutions--Instruction Received--The Catechism--The Bible.

My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada✝ some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I have spent most of my life. I was born at St. John’s, where they lived for a short time. My father was an officer under the British Government, and my mother has enjoyed a pension on that account ever since his death.

According to my earliest recollections, he was attentive to his family; and a particular passage from the Bible, which often occurred to my mind in after life, I may very probably have been taught by him, as