BETAGH's account of PERU* 2^ 



Frenchmen had received their proper fhares, they, forgetting the 6ld antipathy of the 

 Spanifh to the French nation, gave themfelves extravagant airs afhore, by dancing and 

 drinking ; and this flill incenfed the Creolians more againfl: them, who called them 

 cavachos and renegados, for falling foul on their own countrymen. From one thing 

 or other, their mutual quarrels grew fo high, that the Frenchmen were forced to go in 

 parties about Lima and Calao, the better to avoid public outrages and affronts. At 

 laft, a young gentleman, who was enfign on board the Ruby, and nephew to Captain 

 Jonquiere, was Ihot from a window, and the malefador took refuge in the great church 

 at Calao. Martinet, Jonquiere, and the other captains, joined in a petition to the vice- 

 roj, that the murderer might be delivered to juftice ; but the viceroy, being an arch- 

 bi/hop, would by no means violate the rights of the church to humour any body; upon 

 which they ordered all their men on board by public beat of drum, and brought their 

 three fliips, with their broadfides, to bear on the town of Calao, threatening to demolifh 

 the houfes and fortifications, unlefs the affaflin was delivered up or executed. All this 

 bluftering could not prevail with the viceroy to give them any fatisfadion, though they 

 had feveral other men killed belides that gentleman. 



At laft, Jonquiere, unwilling to ufe extremities, and no longer able to bear the place 

 where his nephew was murdered, obtained of his commodore Martinet, that he might 

 make the beft of his way home. About this time, many fathers, and many rich 

 pafTengers, were got together at the town of Conception, intending, when this fquadron 

 came by, to take their paffage to Europe ; for they knew, that all fhips bound to Cape 

 Horn muft touch at Conception, or thereabouts, for provifion : herein Jonquiere got 

 ftart of his commodore, having now the advantage of fo many good paffengers in his 

 fhip ; for, as the king of Spain has no officers at Conception to regifter the money 

 fhipped there, fo it is unknown what vaft fums thofe paffengers and miffioniaries put 

 on board the Ruby. By this opportunity, the padres and others gained two great 

 advantages ; firft, they were fpared the trouble of a voyage to Panama or Acapulco, 

 and thence traverfmg the continent to Porto Bello, or La Vera Cruz, where they muft 

 have had their coffers vifited, to fee if the indulto to his Majefty was fairly accounted 

 for ; and then they faved every fhilling of that indulto, or duty, becaufe the Ruby 

 touched firft in France, where no cognizance at all was to be taken of the affair ; fo 

 that as they faved one moiety of the duty payable in America, they likewife got clear 

 of the other payable in Spain ; becaufe the fhip arrived in France, where they put all 

 the money on fhore. There was on board the Ruby, befides thefe paflengers money, 

 a confiderable fum arifmg to his Catholic Majefty for the confifcation of the thirteen 

 interlopers taken by this fquadron ; all which together, I was well informed, amounted 

 to four millions of dollars aboard that fhip : what a fine booty then we miffed througli 

 Shelvocke*s obftinate conduct ? For, when this fame fhip the Ruby found us in the 

 harbour of St. Catherine's, Jonquiere's company, as I faid before, were fo infirm, that 

 he had not more than fixty found men out of four hundred, fo that he really was afraid 

 of us, and would not even fend his boat afhore to the watering-place, where we kept 

 guard, and our coopers and failmakers were at work, till he had firft afked our cap- 

 tain leave ; nor is this at all ftrange, for underftanding we had a confort, he was 

 really in pain all the time he was there, left the Succefs fhould come in. 



After Captain Martinet had cleared the coaft of Peru and Chili of his countrymen, 

 he fent exprefs with the news to Madrid, his brother-in-law Monfieur de Grange, who 

 came by way of Porto Bello, Jamaica, and London. Upon delivering his meffage, 

 the king afked him what he fliOuld do for him : De Grange humbly begged, that his 

 Majefty would pleafe to give him the command of a fhip to go round Cape Horn again. 



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