The crops amounted to 88,349 minots "of wheat, 84,534 of Indian corn, and 28,627lbs. of tobacco. The exports to New-Orleans, consisted of: 1754. bundles of deerskins, at 40,

8 do. bearskins, at 32,

18

do.

buffalo robes, at 30,

360 quintals of lead, at 6,

20 do.

flour, at 3,

$70,160

256

540

2160

60

73,176

1340 quintals of lead were exported to the United States, by the, Ohio, Cumberland, and Tennessee rivers.

One thousand bushels of salt were made yearly

The United-States had been induced, by the conduct of France and Spain, to make warlike preparations; both of those powers having committed spoliations on their trade, and the latter (in violation of her treaty, as the United-States considered it) having ceased to allow their citizens a place of deposit in New-Orleans. General Washington had accepted the chief command of the armies of his country, but had stipulated that he should not be called on to take the field until his presence became absolutely necessary; and in the meanwhile the superintendance of the forces had been committed to generals Hamilton and Pinkney. The agency of the former had been extended to all the western army, excert that part which might be within the states of Kentucky and Tennessee; and it was deemed that Wilkinson's presence at his head-quarters was indispensable to a full and satisfactory discussion of matters relating to a section of country, with many of the most important transactions of which he had been,

in some way or other, concerned. He accordingly descended the Mississippi, and took shipping for New-York.

Government had determined on a mode of redress, of which the conception was as bold as its execution was difficult. This was nothing less than the acquisition of New-Orleans, which appeared calculated to indemnify the United-States for their losses, and appease the fears of the western people. The success of the enterprise depended almost entirely on its being conducted in such a way as not to awake the suspicions of Spain. The differences with France offered a cover for the real design. Twelve regiments were this year added to the army, to serve during the continuance of the differences. Three of these regiments were ordered to the mouth of the Ohio, and to keep their boats in constant readiness. The assent of congress was to be asked at their next meeting.

General Washington died on the fourteenth of December.

The ordinary alcades for the year 1800, were Perez and Poyfarre.

Application having been made to Don Henry Peyroux, the commandant at New-Madrid, for the purchase of several very large tracts of land, particularly one of one hundred thousand acres, he consulted Lopez, the new intendant, who refused his assent, being of opinion that it never was the intention of the king to dispose of the vacant lands, in quantities so large. He admitted the new regulations were made with a view to the sale of lands; but they were to be disposed of in compliance with the previous formalities, and a reference to the abilities and

forces of the parties desirous of purchasing; because it would not be just that, for a small consideration, one or more speculators should engross a vast extent of land, to the prejudice of others who came to settle, who would consequently find themselves driven to purchase those lands which they might have gratuitously, or at any rate at a low price.

The culture of the cane requiring an additional number of hands, the colonial government, in the beginning of November, at the solicitation of the cabildo, issued a proclamation, suspending, until the pleasure of the king should be known, the existing prohibition of the introduction of African negroes.

On the seventh of May, the north-western territory of the United-States was divided: the western part of it was erected into a distinct government, under a form similar to that established by the ordinance of 1787. It was called the Indiana territory.

The marked determination of the people of the United-States not to re-elect the president, induced him to abandon the plan he had formed for the seizure of New-Orleans.

By the third article of a treaty concluded at St. Ildefonso on the first of October of this year, between the Catholic king and the first consul of the French republic, the former promised and engaged on his part, to cede to the French republic, six months after the full and entire execution of the conditions therein stipulated, in relation to the duke of Parma, the colony and province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it then had in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it, and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other powers.

Forstall and Caisergues were the ordinary alcades for the year 1801 and 1802.

Don Dominique Bouligny took his seat in the cabildo as a perpetual regidor.

The king having disapproved of the suppression of the right of deposit in New-Orleans, allowed to citizens of the United States, right was now restored to them.

The suspension of the prohibition of the introduction of Guinea negroes, met with the king's approbation, and he decreed it to continue until he gave order to the contrary.

On the twenty-first of March, the cession of Louisiana to France was effected. Buonaparte took immediate measures to possess himself of his acquisition. An immense body of troops was destined to this service. A form of government was adopted for the province. Victor was appointed captain-general, Laussat colonial prefet, and Ayme chief justice.

By a royal schedule of the tenth of May, the king gave his assent to the proposition of the Baron de Carondelet, that three hundred toises of the commons behind the city and near the fortifications, which in their then situation produced nothing, being covered with water during one half of the year, should be divided into lots of seventy toises in front, and one hundred and forty in depth, and let out for a moderate rent to such inhabitants of the city as might wish to occupy them as gardens, and the money thus raised applied to the lighting of the city, so that in the course of a few years the whole ground could by tillage be raised above the level of the water, and the occupier of these lots draining them by trenches into the canal Carondelet, would put an end to the

putrid fevers occasioned by the stagnation of water in ponds near the city, which was the cause of much mortality.

Thomas Jefferson succeeded John Adams in the presidency of the United-States, on the fourth of March.

The differences that had prevailed between the United-States and the French republic, were terminated by a treaty entered into at Paris, and ratified on the first day of June.

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