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it would more likely be the circumstance which should stimulate them against the United States. The reporter's own opinion was, that a great proportion of the most influential characters in Kentucky and Tennessee, had been the instigators of the expeditions set on foot, under Lachaise and Clark, against the dominions of Spain, by Genet. The rest were unambitious of conquest from Spain, and desired only to preserve the boundary secured to them by the treaties.

During this winter, general Collet, who had travelled through the states of Kentucky and Tennessee, by order of the French government, passed through New-Orleans. It was supposed Adet, the French minister at Philadelphia, sent him on an errand similar to that on which Lachaise had been employed by Genet.

Gayoso issued his bando de buen gobierno, in the month of January, 1798. It does not contain any important new regulation.

On the following day, he published a set of instructions to commandants, in regard to the grant of land, as follows:

1. They are forbidden to grant land to a hew settler, coming from another psot, where he has obtained a grant. Such a one must buy land, or obtain a grant from the governor.

2. If a settler be a foreigner, unmarried, and without either slaves, money, or other property, no grant is to be made to him, until he shall have remained four years in the post, demeaning himself well in some honest and useful occupation.

3. Mechanics are to be protected, but no land is to be granted to them, until they shall have acquired

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some property, and a residence of three years in the exercise of their trade.

4. No grant of land is to be made to any unmarried emigrant, who has neither trade nor property, until after a residence of four years, during which time he must have been employed in the culture of the ground.

5. But if, after a residence of two years, such a person should marry the daughter of an honest farmer, with his consent, and be by him recommended, a grant of land may be made to him.

6. Liberty of conscience is not to be extended beyond the first generation: the children of the emigrant must be Catholic; and emigrants, not agreeing to this, must not be admitted, but removed, even when they bring property with them. This is to be explained to settlers who do not profess the Catholic religion.

7. In Upper Louisiana, no settler is to be admitted, who is not a farmer or a mechanic.

8. It is expressly recommended to commandants, to watch that no preacher of any religion but the Catcholic, comes into the province.

9. To every married emigrant of the above description, two hundred arpents may be granted, with the addition of fifty for every child he brings.

10. If he bring negroes, twenty additional arpents are to be granted him for each: but in no case are more than eight hundred arpents to be granted to an emigrant.

11. No land is to be granted to a trader.

12. Immediately on the arrival of a settler, the oath of allegiance is to be administered to him. If he has a wife, proof is to be demanded of their marriage; and, if they bring any property, they are to be

required to declare what part belongs to either of them; and they are to be informed that the discovery of any wilful falsehood in this declaration, will incur the forfeiture of the land granted them, and the improvements made thereon.

13. Without proof of a lawful marriage, or of absolute ownership of negroes, no grant is to be made for any wife or negro.

14. The grant is to be forfeited, if a settlement be not made within the year, or one tenth part of the land put in cultivation within two.

15. No grantee is to be allowed to sell his land until he has produced three crops on a tenth part of it; but in case of death, it may pass to an heir in the province, but not to one without, unless he come and settle it.

16. If the grantee owes debts in the province, the proceeds of the first four crops are to be applied to their discharge, in preference to that of debts due abroad. If, before the third crop be made, it becomes necessary to evict the grantee, on account of his bad conduct, the land shall be given to the young man and young woman, residing within one mile of it, whose good conduct may shew them to be the best deserving of it; and the decision is to be made by an assembly of notable planters, presided by the commandant,

17. Emigrants are to settle contiguous to old establishments, without leaving any vacant land-that the people may more easily protect each other, in case of any invasion by the Indians; and that the administration of justice, and a compliance with police regulations, may be facilitated.

Early in this year, the dukes of Orleans and Montausier, and the count of Beaujolais, came toNew-Or

leans from the western states. These grand-children of the duke of Orleans, who was regent of France during the minority of Louis XV. and descendants of Louis XIII. were seen with great interest by the inhabitants. After a stay of a few weeks, they departed for Europe, by the way of Havana.

Don Denys de la Ronde and Don Pedro de la Roche took their seats in the cabildo; the former as successor of Almonaster, and the latter as principal provincial alcade.

Captain Guion, an officer of the revolutionary war, came this winter to Natchez, with a strong reinforcement, and took the command of the forces brought by lieutenants M'Nary and Pope. On the 23d of March, the fort at the Walnut-Hills, and on the twenty-ninth, fort Panmure, were evacuated by the troops of Spain, and immediate possession taken by those of the United States. Shortly after, Gayoso gave orders to William Dunbar, who had succeeded him in the office of commissioner, on the part of Spain, for running the line of demarcation) to make arrangements with Ellicot, in order that the operations might be immediately begun. Major Trueman was the surveyor on the part of the United States, and Power, the baron's late agent, that on the that on the part of Spain.

Congress, on the seventh of April, erected the country bounded, on the north, by a line drawn due east from the mouth of the river Yazou to the Cata houche river; on the east by that stream; on the south by the thirty-first degree of north latitude, and on the west by the Mississippi-into a separate gov ernment, to be called the Mississippi territory; and a form of government was established therein, simifar to that provided for the north-western territory,

by the ordinance of 1787, with the exception of the clause prohibiting slavery.

The state of Georgia laid claim to the land included within the new government, or the greatest part of it; and congress declared that the establishment of the territorial body should not, in any respect, impair the rights, to any land west of that state, of any person or persons, either to the jurisdiction or soil of the said territory. The president of the UnitedStates was authorised to appoint commissioners to ascertain, conjointly with others appointed on the part of the state, her right to any land west of the river Catahouche, north of the thirty-first degree of north latitude, and south of the land ceded by the state of North-Carolina to the United-States; and to receive proposals for the relinquishment, or cession, of the whole or any part of the other territory claimed by the state of Georgia and out of her ordinary jurisdiction.

Winthrop Sergeant was appointed governor of the new territory; and, on his arrival soon after, with the secretary and judges, its government went into operation.

The Northern Indians continuing to manifest pacific dispositions, it was thought proper to transfer the head-quarters of the army of the United-States to the Mississippi; and, accordingly, Wilkinson came to Natchez with a considerable part of the forces. Here was fixed, at this time, the southernmost post. He removed, with all his men, to the spot called by the French la-Roche-à-Davion, and by the English "Loftus-Heights," which was the most southerly tenable point within the United-States, and immediately began the fortification which was afterwards called Fort-Adams,

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