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Was known ^ that he had fdzed a magazine 

 belonging to the king at Angoncy, a village 

 fituated to the north of the Bay of An- 

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The Louifa caft anchor at Foulepomte on 

 the 17th of the fame month; and Count 

 de la Croix, after procuring fuch provifions 

 as he flood in need of, quitted that port and 

 proceeded to Angoncy. He arrived there on 

 the 23d J but inftead of anchoring in the bay, 

 the entrance of which is diificult, and the 

 fituation badly laid down in charts, he chofe 

 rather to anchor at the diftance of half a 

 league from the ihorci in the bay of the 

 ' eaftern cape near to that of Angoncy. When 

 the veDTel was fafely moored^ M. Larcher 

 prepared to make good a landing ; and fome 

 boats well manned, and having each two 

 pieces of cannon in their bows, advanced 

 towards a part of the coaft where no ohftacl^ 

 appeared to interrupt them : but when the 

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