C a p. 1 1 The Caribby-Iflands. 



cicieiit fnews how careful he was to preferve the Rights and 

 Privileges of his Nation and what he did then had this fur- 

 ther confequence, that the two Governours were ever after- 

 wards very good friends. 



CHAP. II. 



Of the fcflablifbments of the French in the Iflands of 

 S. Bartholomew, S. Martin, and Sante-Cruce. 



AFter the death of Monfieur Defnambuc, one Monfieur du 

 Halde, who was his Lieutenant in that Government, was 

 nominated to be Governour in Chief by the Gentlemen of the 

 Company : But not long after, the faid du Halde coming over 

 into France, Cardinal Richelieu, whofe care extended to the 

 rnofr remote places where the French had any thing to do, un- 

 dertook the confervation and advancement of that Colony in 

 America, out of an endeavour to render the name of France 

 as glorious in that part of the new World, as it was here. To 

 carry on that defign he thought it requifite that the Iflands 

 fhould be fupply'd with a Governour accordingly : Having 

 therefore fome while fought for a perfon fit for that Employ- 

 ment, one eminent for his condufr, prudence, generofity, and 

 the experience requifite for fo great a charge, he at laft pitch 'd 

 upon Monfieur de LonviUiers Voincy Knight, a Gentleman of a 

 very ancient Houfe. 



The Cardinal prefented this excellent Perfon to King Lewis 

 the XIII. who approving the choice, inverted him with the 

 Charge of -Governour, and Lieutenant- General under his Ma- 

 jefiy in the Iflands of America: Whereupon Letters Patents 

 were granted him in September M. DC. XXXVIII. That qua- 

 lity had not been given to any of thofe who had preceded him 

 in the Government of thofe Iflands. 



In the Year M. DC. XXXIX. the faid new Governour fetting 

 fail from Diep about the midft of January, arriv'd about a 

 month after at the Caribbies, and was firft receiv'd at Martini- 

 co by the Inhabitants in Arms. He afterwards went to Garde- 

 loupe and S. Ch.ijtophers 5 but his nobleft reception was at the 

 latter: All the French Inhabitants being in Arms receiv'd him 

 in the quality of General with univerfal applaufe, and he was 

 conducted to the Church, attended by his Gentlemen and 

 Guards, where Te Deum was fung. 



Immediately upon his reception the Ifland began to put on 

 a new face, and within a fhort time after things were vifibly 

 ehang'd from better to better 3 infomuch that he not only an* 



fweff'd 



