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  failure 
  in 
  the 
  discovery 
  of 
  minerals 
  to 
  which 
  its 
  expec- 
  

   tations 
  had 
  mainly 
  been 
  directed, 
  was 
  induced, 
  in 
  Sep- 
  

   tember, 
  1712, 
  to 
  make 
  a 
  grant 
  of 
  the 
  colony 
  and 
  its 
  

   exclusive 
  commerce, 
  with 
  extensive 
  privileges, 
  to 
  An- 
  

   thony 
  Crozat, 
  an 
  eminent 
  merchant. 
  

  

  Bienville, 
  being 
  appointed 
  to 
  the 
  command 
  of 
  the 
  es- 
  

   tablishments 
  on 
  the 
  Mississippi, 
  learning 
  that 
  the 
  Natchez 
  

   had 
  plundered 
  and 
  killed 
  some 
  Frenchmen, 
  led 
  a 
  de- 
  

   tachment 
  of 
  troops 
  against 
  them, 
  in 
  1716, 
  and, 
  having 
  

   decoyed 
  some 
  of 
  their 
  chiefs 
  into 
  his 
  camp, 
  compelled 
  

   the 
  restoration 
  of 
  the 
  plundered 
  goods 
  and 
  the 
  punish- 
  

   ment 
  of 
  the 
  offenders; 
  after 
  which 
  he 
  accompanied 
  the 
  

   Natchez 
  to 
  their 
  village, 
  and 
  with 
  their 
  assent 
  com- 
  

   menced 
  a 
  fort 
  on 
  the 
  spot 
  Iberville 
  had 
  before 
  chosen. 
  

  

  It 
  was 
  called 
  Rosalie, 
  and 
  in 
  June 
  a 
  small 
  garrison 
  

   was 
  established 
  in 
  it 
  under 
  the 
  command 
  of 
  an 
  officer 
  

   named 
  Pailloux. 
  

  

  The 
  earthen 
  mound 
  or 
  embankment 
  which 
  tradition 
  

   points 
  out 
  as 
  the 
  site 
  of 
  this 
  fort, 
  is 
  still 
  to 
  be 
  seen 
  

   crowning 
  the 
  bluff" 
  of 
  the 
  river, 
  immediately 
  below 
  and 
  

   in 
  the 
  suburbs 
  of 
  the 
  city 
  of 
  Natchez. 
  

  

  When 
  the 
  country 
  came 
  under 
  the 
  dominion 
  of 
  Great 
  

   Britain, 
  it 
  was 
  called 
  Fort 
  Panmure, 
  after 
  a 
  barony 
  

   of 
  that 
  name 
  in 
  Scotland, 
  a 
  name 
  it 
  retained 
  during 
  the 
  

   subsequent 
  rule 
  of 
  the 
  Spaniards, 
  being 
  so 
  designated 
  in 
  

   all 
  the 
  grants 
  of 
  land 
  made 
  by 
  that 
  government. 
  

  

  Three 
  of 
  Crozat's 
  ships 
  arrived 
  in 
  March, 
  1717, 
  with 
  

   three 
  companies 
  of 
  infantry 
  and 
  fifty 
  new 
  colonists. 
  

   Bienville 
  was 
  superseded 
  as 
  governor 
  ; 
  and 
  although 
  the 
  

   order 
  of 
  knighthood 
  was 
  conferred 
  upon 
  him 
  in 
  reward 
  

   for 
  his 
  services, 
  yet 
  the 
  arrival 
  of 
  L'Epinay, 
  his 
  suc- 
  

   cessor, 
  occasioned 
  him 
  much 
  mortification, 
  which 
  the 
  

   decoration 
  of 
  the 
  cross 
  of 
  St. 
  Louis, 
  and 
  the 
  Royal 
  

   patent 
  conceding 
  him 
  the 
  title 
  to 
  Horn 
  Island, 
  could 
  not 
  

  

  