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fell the viflims of parental love. The Indians 

 told me, that the great Spirit fent us thefe pro- 

 vifions ; indeed it was to be looked upon as a 

 manna fent by Providence, which favoured us 

 in thefe defarts. 



I have received news here from New Orleans^ 

 from whence my friends write, that every thing 

 is in great confufion there, on account of an 

 Englifh ihip which is arrived from Jamaica as a 

 fmuggling velTcl, commonly called there an in- 

 terloper. 



This fhip is called the Texel^ commanded by 

 Captain Dias-^rias, a Jew, born an Englifh 

 fubjed. The Ordonnateur having found, that it 

 ought to be conhfcated according to the orders 

 of the marine, has feized it for the King's ac- 

 count ; M. de Belleijle, who is fort major^ and 

 the governor's locum tenens^ has been rcquefled to 

 aflill with the military for that purpofe -, but M. 

 de Kerlerec returning from Mobile^ has fufpended 

 M. de BelleiJIe in the performance of his func- 

 tions ♦, that governor afterwards has had M. de 

 Rochemore's fecretary taken up at three o'clock 

 in the morning, by a detachment of foldiers, 

 who, after breaking the doors and windows, 

 dragged him out of bed, and put him on board 



a vef- 



