I knew that he would never tell himself, so, ill as I was at the time, I sent for Colonel O'Brien, and requested him to write down my statement of the affair, in which I mentioned how O'Brien had spiked the last gun, and had been taken prisoner by so doing, together with his attempting to save me.
When the colonel had written all down, I requested that he would send for the major, who first entered the fort with the troops, and translate it to him in French.

This he did in my presence, and the major declared every word to be true.

"Will he attest it, colonel, as it may be of great service to O'Brien ?" The major immediately assented.

Colonel O'Brien then enclosed my letter, with a short note from himself, to Captain Savage, paying him a compliment, and assuring him that his gallant young officers should be treated with every attention, and all the kindness which the rules of war would admit of.

O'Brien never knew that I had sent that letter, as the colonel, at my request, kept the secret.
In ten days we received an order to march on the following morning.