Capture of the flotilla on Lake Borgne. Barrataria men join the army. Proceedings of the Legislature. Generals Coffee and Carroll. Major Hinds. Embargo. Affair of the twenty-third of December.

CHAPTER XVII.

p. 334.

Jackson establishes a line of defence. Morgan crosses the river with his detachment. Destruction of the Carolina. Action of the 28th of December.The legislature prevented from sitting. Affair of New Year's day. Both armies reinforced. Battle of the 8th January. British operations on the right bank of the Mississippi. Suspension of hostilities. Armistice. Bombardment of Fort St. Phillip.Retreat of the British army.

CHAPTER XVIII.

p. 359.

The legislature adjourns. Fort Bowyer taken. First intelligence of peace. Jackson's proclamation.Confirmation of the intelligence. French subjects demand their discharge from military service. Apply to the consul, and are discharged on his certificate. The Consul and them ordered into the interior. They remain at home. Louaillier's publication. His arrest. Writ of Habeas Corpus issued by Hall, who is also arrested. The Clerk of the Court brought to head-quarters. A record taken and withheld from him. He avows his intention to issue the writ and is threatened. The Marshal avows his intention to execute it, and is threatened. Intelligence of the treaty being ratified. State militia discharged. Proceedings against Hall and Louaillier.

Order against the French subjects suspended.Lewis and Dick ordered to be arrested. Orders against Lewis and Dick countermanded. Supreme Court. Hollander discharged. Louaillier acquitted. The sentence disapproved. Hall sent out of

the city. Peace proclaimed.

CHAPTER XIX.

A rule to show cause why an attachment for contempt, issued against Jackson. He shows cause.

rule is made absolute.

The

He declines answering in

terrogatories, and is fined.

HISTORY

OF

LOUISIANA.

CHAPTER I,

Commission and powers of O'Reilly-His assessors-Census of New-Orleans-Arrest of Foucault and others.-Death of Villere.-Proceedings against the prisoners; their pleas, sentence, and execution.-The superior council abolished-A cabildo established.-The Spanish laws substituted to the French-Regidors--Alcades.-Attorney-general-syndic, and clerk-Alforez Real-Principal provincial Alcade.-Alguazil mayor-Depository General-Receiver of fines. Regiment of Louisiana.-Dearth of provisions. -Oliver Pollock-Don Louis de Unzaga.Governor-Commandants-O'Reilly visits the German and Acadian coasts.-lberville and Pointe Coupee-Bobe Descloseaux-French paper money.-Ordinances for the grant of lands, and police regulations.-Slavery of Indians.Black code-Don Cecilio Odoardo.-Ecclesiastical arrangement.-Hospital.-Nuns.--Revenue of New-Orleans-Departure of O'Reilly-Massacre in Boston.

VOL. II.

- DON Alexander O'Reilly, a lieutenant-general of the armies of Spain, had, by a commission bearing date Aranjuez, April 16th, 1769, been appointed governor and captain-general of the province of Louisiana, with "special power to establish in this new part of the king's dominions, with regard to the military force, police, administration of justice, and finances, such a form of government as might most effectually secure its dependence and subordination, and promote the king's service and the happiness of his subjects."

The Intendant of the province was Don Francisco de Loyola.

Don Manuel Joseph de Uristia, and Don Felix de Rey, accompanied the captain-general as his assessors or legal advisers in the judicial functions of his office,and his authority was supported by a military force equal to three times the number of persons capable of bearing arms in the colony. We have seen that he fook possession of it, with as little opposition or difficulty, as if he had been a French governor, coming to supersede a former one.

He was waited upon, by every class of inhabitants, with respectful submission. A canopied seat was placed in the largest hall of the house he occupied, where he held a numerous levé, at which the ladies were not unfrequent attendants. An undisturbed tranquility seemed to prevail. Surprise, and afterwards anxiety, were excited by his delay to comply with the promise in his message from the Balise, to publish, after he had taken possession of the province, the ultimate intentions of his sovereign.

One of the first acts of his administration was an order for a census of the inhabitants of New-Orleans. It was executed with great accuracy. It appeared