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HISTORY OF MADAGASCAR. 
posals respecting Madagascar. Not meeting with more 
success there, he left the service in 1783, and came to 
London, where he drew up a declaration with proposals to 
his Britannic majesty, offering, “in the name of an amiable 
and worthy nation, to acknowledge him lord paramount of 
Madagascar; the interior government, and all the regula¬ 
tions of civilization, police, cultivation, and commerce 
remaining independent; the chiefs and people being only 
vassals to his majesty,’’ &c. &c. 
It does not appear that this document was ever presented. 
Whether it was or not, the result was wholly unproductive 
of the desired effect; and the Count, finding he could meet 
with no countenance from the British ministry, set sail for 
America in the Robert and Ann, with a cargo suitable for 
the Madagascar market. He reached Baltimore in July, 
1784, obtained another vessel and cargo, and sailed for 
Madagascar in the following October, On July 7th, 1785, 
he cast anchor in Antongil bay, ten leagues south-west of 
Cape Sebastian, in Madagascar, where the cargo was landed, 
and an encampment formed. During his stay here, his old 
friend Lamboin, the king of the north, came to pay his re¬ 
spects to him; and the sovereign of Boyanaalso came, with a 
large body of Sakalavas, and peacefully encamped near him. 
After his arrival at Antongil bay, he went to Angontzy, 
where he seized a store-house belonging to the French, and 
commenced the building of a town, after the manner of the 
country, intending to establish a factory there. He also 
sent a detachment of one hundred men, to seize the French 
factory at Foule Point; but seeing a frigate at anchor there, 
they desisted. 
The government of the Isle of France was not long in 
becoming acquainted with these proceedings, and they ac¬ 
cordingly sent the Louisa frigate, commanded by Viscount 
