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LETTER XIL 



7^0 the Same, 



The Author arrives at Court, receives a Gra* 

 tificalion frem the King, and an Order 



to go to Rochefort. He embarks there for 



Louijiana. 



SIR, 



KMM7H A M now once nnore at Rochefort 

 Q I Q from whence I failed for houiftana, 

 k,MMjM{ ^ight years ago. I come from the 

 court, where I prefented to the comptroller 

 general and miniiler of the marine, M. de 

 Moras, the governor's letter, which explains 

 the motives of my voyage. He was fo 

 kind as to fpeak with me in his cabinet, 

 in prefence of M. de U Porte, chief of 



the 



