the western side of the mountains; and a distinct government was established for the people who dwelt to the south-west of the Ohio. It was called the South-western Territory, and William Blount was governor of it, until the erection of the state of Tennessee.

Morales and Marigny de Mandeville were chosen ordinary alcades for the year 1791.

Don Nicholas Maria Vidal succeeded Postego, as auditor of war and assessor of government.

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Congress now added a new regiment to military establishment, and authorised the president to raise a body of two thousand men for six months, The president placed this force under major-general St. Clair, governor of the North-western Territory, who had served with distinction in the army of the revolution, and had filled the chair of congress.

In the summer and fall, two expeditions were conducted against the villages on the Wabash, in which, with a very small loss, a few of the Indian warriors were killed, some of their old men, women and children made prisoners, and several of their towns, with extensive fields, were destroyed. The first was led by general Scott, in May, and the second by general Wilkinson, in September,

The major-general was more unfortunate. His small army, consisting of about fourteen hundred ef fective rank and file, was routed by the Indians on the third of November. His defeat was complete. Six hundred and thirty-one were killed or missing, and two hundred and sixty-seven wounded. Among the killed was the brave and much lamented general Butler. This happened about fifty miles from the Miami villages.

The people of Kentucky complained that congress were too sparing in furnishing means for their protection. They were clamorously calling for admission into the Union as a state. Altho' Miro favoured them with an intercourse with Louisiana, in which they found a vent for their produce, they were dissatisfied with the terms under which they were permitted to enjoy the navigation of the Mississippi.

In the night of the twenty-third of August, a preconcerted insurrection took place throughout the French part of the island of Hispaniola, and an immense portion of its white inhabitants were massacred. Those who were so fortunate as to make their escape, sought a refuge in the islands of Cuba and Jamaica, or the United States, and a few came to Louisiana. Among these, was a company of comedians from Cape Francois; and the city of New-Orleans now enjoyed, for the first time, the advantage of regular dramatic exhibitions. Some of the other refugees, availing themselves of the wants of the province, opened academies for the instruction of youth. Hitherto, the only means of education were confined to a school in which a Spanish priest, aided by two ushers, taught the elements of the Spanish language, and the convent of the Ursuline nuns.

Miro sailed for the peninsula, where he was employed in the army, and obtained the rank of mariscal de camp. He carried with him the good wishes and the regrets of the colonists.

Altho' not a man of superior talents, he governed the province in a manner that accorded with the views of his sovereign and of the colonists. He showed every possible indulgence to a commerce with the United States. Since the conflagration, vessels came freely from Philadelphia, and some other ports of the Union;

and the people of Tennessee afterwards manifested their gratitude towards him, by giving his name to one of their judicial districts.

On the fourth of March, the state of Vermont was admitted into the confederacy of the United States, as its fourteenth member.

Archives-Gazettes-St, Mery-Clark-Marshal.

CHAPTER VII.

The Baron de Carondelet.-Bando de buen gobierno.-Regulations as to slaves.-Gen. WayneGuinea trade--Louis XVI--War against France -Fortifications--Militia-New commercial regulations.--Don Francisco de Rendon.--Bishoprick of Louisiana-Don Louis de Penalvert. Genet's meditated expedition against Louisiana.-The Floridas.--Moniteur de la Louisiane. -Canal Carondelet.-Manufacture of sugar resumed.-Conflagration-Negro plot at Pointe Coupée. Police regulations-Extensive grants -The Marquis de Maisonrouge-Gayosoe sent to confer with Kentucky patriots.-Treaty of Lorenzo.

Don Francisco Louis Hector, Baron de Carondelet, colonel of the royal armies, was promoted from the government of San Salvador, in the province of Guatimala, to the rank of governor and intendant of the provinces of Louisiana and West Florida, and entered on the duties of these offices on the first of January, 1792.

The ordinary alcades, for this year, were Marigny de Mandeville and de la Pena.

Don Nicholas Maria Vidal, the auditor of war, received a commission of lieutenant-governor.

The Baron's bando de buen gobierno was published on the twenty-second of January. Among the new regulations it introduced, it provided for the division of the city of New-Orleans into four wards,

in each of which, an alcade de barrio, or commissary of police, was to be appointed. In order to procure to government a knowledge of all the inhabitants, and every stranger among them or in the city, it was made the duty of all persons renting houses or apartments, to give the names of their new tenants to the alcade of the district, on the first day of their occupation, or, at farthest, on the succeeding one. The alcades de barrio were directed to take charge of fire engines and their implements, and to command the fire and axe men companies, in case of conflagration. They were also empowered to preserve the peace, and to take cognizance of small debts.

In one of his first communications to the cabildo, the Baron recommended to them to make provision for lighting the city and employing watchmen. The revenue of the corporation did not amount, at this period, to seven thousand dollars. To meet the charges for the purchase of lamps and oil, and the wages of watchmen, a tax of one dollar and twelve and a half cents was laid on every chimney.

In a letter to the minister, the Baron, this year, mentioned that the population of New-Orleans was under six thousand.

Having received instructions from the king to attend to the humane treatment of slaves in the province, he issued his proclamation on the eleventh of July, establishing the following regulations:,

1. That each slave should receive monthly, for his food, one barrel of corn, at least.

2. That every Sunday should be exclusively his own, without his being compelled to work for his master, except in urgent cases, when he must be paid or indemnified.

3. That, on other days, they should not begin to