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bay, he went to Angontzy, where he seized a store¬ 
house belonging to the French, and commenced the 
building of a town in the manner of the country, in¬ 
tending to establish a factory. He also sent a detach¬ 
ment of an hundred men to seize the French factory 
at Foule Point, but seeing a frigate at anchor there, 
they desisted. 
When the government of the Isle of France 
heard of these transactions, they sent the Louisa 
frigate, commanded by Viscount de la Croix, to 
destroy the settlement, and with it the count, if 
that were possible. This determination, however, 
does not appear to have wholly originated in the 
offensive operations of the count. We have seen a 
statement which declares that the French ministry 
sent out a frigate with orders to secure him, alive 
or dead. Be that as it may, the Louisa arrived at 
Foule Point on the 17th of May, 1786, having on 
board a detachment of sixty men, of the regiment of 
Pondicherry, under the orders of M. Larcher, a cap¬ 
tain of infantry. 
After procuring what provisions they wanted, the 
Louisa proceeded along the coast to Angontzy; and 
having moored the vessel about half a league from the 
shore, they sent two boats, well manned, with two 
pieces of cannon in the bows of each, in order to 
effect a landing. When this was done they marched 
immediately towards Benyowsky’s settlement. After 
crossing five marshes, they heard the people at work 
at the settlement, and soon after saw a red flag, which 
