Cautious Reserve - Mirò and the South Carolina Com- Page . 257 CHAPTER VI. CARONDELET'S ADMINISTRATION. 1792 to 1797. Carondelet's Administration-Factions in the Colony-Capture 312 CHAPTER VII. GAYOSO'S ADMINISTRATION. 1797 to 1799. CASA CALVO'S ADMINISTRATION. 1799 to 1801. Page Gayoso's Administration-Gayoso's Bando de Buen Gobierno- CHAPTER VIII. SALCEDO'S ADMINISTRATION. 1801 to 1803., Rufus King's Despatch-Mr. Madison to Mr. Pinckney-Treaty the Senate-The House of Representatives to the Senate- Page 447 CHAPTER IX. SALCEDO'S ADMINISTRATION. 1801 to 1803. Importance of the Cession-Talleyrand's Way of Explaining— 527 CHAPTER X. SALCEDO'S ADMINISTRATION. 1801 to 1803. Page Morales and Casa Irujo in Conflict-Intended Reorganization of - HISTORY OF LOUISIANA. SPANISH DOMINATION. CHAPTER I. O'REILLY'S ADMINISTRATION. 1769 to 1770. In a preceding work on the French domination in Louisiana, I have related the cession of that colony to Spain in 1762, the attempt of that power to take possession of its new domain in 1766, the insurrection of the colonists in 1768, who drove away the Spaniards, the arrival of O'Reilly at New Orleans with overwhelming forces, to avenge the insult offered to his Catholic Majesty, the trial and punishment, on the 25th of October, 1769, of the leaders of the insurrection, and the final and complete occupation of the province by the Spaniards. The object of the present work is to record the history of Louisiana, as a Spanish colony, from 1769 to December 1803, when again her destinies were changed, and she was transferred to the United States of America. O'Reilly, having secured the obedience of the new subjects of Spain, and having, by the terror which the blood he spilt had inspired, guarded against the repetition of any attempt, similar to the one which he had so severely |