about the year 1744, showing the introduction of paper money in Louisiana, and its disastrous effects upon Louisiana.

The following is a continuation of the memoranda from the archives of the navy department.

PORTFOLIO NO. 2.

44th-1769. Remarks of Mr. Aubry on the rebellion in Louisiana. 45th. Memorial on the finances of Louisiana posterior to 1731.

46th-1697, 14th Oct. Quebec, letter touching information required about the Spanish possessions in Mexico, bordering the tributaries of the Mississippi. This document is interesting; it speaks of La Salle and presents some remarks on the mines.

47th-26th July. Dartaguette in Louisiana, speaks of the inundation by the Mississippi; its waters having risen to the garrets of houses in New Orleans.

48th-22d February, 1759. Survey of the domains of the king adjoining Mrs. Pradel's plantation.

49th-1748, 21st May. Memorial of Mr. Grades fils in Louisiana, showing the great advantages of that colony.

50th. Project of colonization for Louisiana; demand of a large tract of land on condition of its being cultivated in tobacco, cotton, sugarcane and indigo. This project, drawn up in Versailles, bears no date.

51st-1717. Memorial of Mr. Hubert on Louisiana, attempting to show that the colonization of that country, if energetically pursued, would gradually lead to the conquest of the whole of North America. 52d-Memorial to show that Louisiana might become as important as Mexico.

53d-1719. Memorial of Mr. Bienville, announcing the fall of Pensacola into his hands, and the events ensuing the same.

54th-1738. Insignificant letter respecting the Jesuits.

55th-1754, 20th Sept. Letter from De Kerlerec to Dauberville, on the necessity of a military station at the Balize. This letter contains an interesting account of the mouth of the river, and a proposal to establish there a floating battery with heavy guns.

56th. Statement of occurrences in Biloxi.

57th. Project to restore confidence in Louisiana, destroyed by irredeemable paper money; proposal to make the king's paper legal tender; form of an edict. This document must have been written sometime about 1754.

58th. Memorial on Louisiana, representing the necessity of retaining that colony in order to prevent the English becoming masters of not only the whole of North America, but also of Mexico. By this document it appears that M. St. Denis headed the twenty Canadians on the exploring expedition from the Red river to the province of Leon in Mexico; it appears to have been written about the year 1715. 59th and 60th. Memorial on the same subject at the same epoch. 61st-1692, 14th Sept. Account of the attack by five 60-gun vessels of the Fort Louis in Louisiana, under the command of M. de Bouillon, Governor of Newfoundland.

62d-1700. Memorial for the colonization of the Mississippi.

63d. List of officers under the command of Dartaguette, and in Louisiana.

64th-1749, 17th Dec. Memorial of M. le Bailey Messager, on Louisiana. This document is interesting; a central power is proposed to be established on the Wabash; fertility of the soil, &c. 65th-1750. Memorial of the same, on the same subject.

66th-1754, 6th March. Memorial on Louisiana, by Mr. Colon, to increase the commerce of Louisiana with the islands and the metropolis; the plan embraces the whole basin of the Mississippi, and is interesting.

67th--No date. Report of three commissioners touching an interview with the Governor of Pensacola, De Galve, for the purpose of devising the means to prevent the English taking possession of that post. Determination on the part of the Governor of Pensacola to rely upon the Bull of Pope Alexander VI., conceding the line 180 to the Catholic Kings. The power of the Pope to grant crowns repudiated by the commissioners. This document is curious and appears to have been written in 1709.

68th-1709. Observations on the Bull of Pope Alexander; development of the immense advantages to be derived by France from the possession of Louisiana,

69th-1701, 17th July. Memorial on Louisiana; advice to the king as to the measures to be adopted for its welfare.

70th-1709, 27th April. Memorial on Louisiana; situation of the colony.

71st-1712, June. Memorial of Mr. Tions de Gouville, on the advantages of Louisiana, and the causes which have checked all progress in that country.

72d-No date. Memorial on fortifications required.

73d-1738, 10th May. Hubert's memorial on Louisiana. This document is very interesting for its statistical information.

74th-1714. Memorial to show the necessity of inviting immigration to Louisiana. This document is interesting and contains extracts of letters from Crozat.

75th-1716. Great and masterly development of the destinies of Louisiana.

76th-1714, 17th April. Memorial on the wretched condition of the colony.

77th-1716. A memorial is to be found on Louisiana after La Salle's discovery, in the registers of the navy department 8f., 123 vo. (This is a memorandum in this portfolio.)

78th-1720. Memorial on the fortifications of Pensacola, and of the impossibility, on account of the nature of the soil, to establish good foundations.

79th-1723. Letter and memorial of Mr. Hubert on the advantages of Louisiana.

80th-1753. Prohibition by the Marquis Duquesne against the exportation of grain from Canada; he styles himself Governor of “la Nouvelle France, and of all the lands and countries of Louisiana." 81st-1755. Quebec, Canada, proces verbal of a voyage to the river Senaramixi.

82d-1751, Tombeckbé, 18th June. Letter announcing the capture of five deserters; speeches of the Indians who brought them back to obtain their pardon.

83d-1787. Extract of a letter from M. de Villiers on the subject of a tobacco contract with the king of Spain.

84th Canada, 1753. Ordinance of the Marquis Duquesne fixing the maximum of wheat to 3 livres per minot on plantations, and 3 livres 10 sols in town.

85th-1716. Memorial of M. Crozat on Louisiana; important developments.

86th-1751, 15th July. Accusation of Mr. Michel against Mr. Fleurian, procureur general, and Capt. Derneville.

87th-No date. Memorial explanatory of patent letters proposed to the king.

88th-1769. Grievances against Governor Ulloa and Aubry. The document is not signed.

89th-1745. Interesting memorial on the administration of Louisiana. By this document it appears that the Ursulines are bound to attend to the hospital, and to educate 30 orphan girls.

90th-1716. Letters patent projected for Louisiana.

91st-1662. Memorials respecting the doings of the West India Company; forms of concessions.

92d-1723. Memorial on the rivers, lands and Indians of Missouri. This document is interesting and shows that there was a traffic then carrying on between Missouri and Mexico.

93d-No date. Memorial for a concession of lands from Manchac to New Orleans.

94th-No date. Memorial on the subject of Father Beaubois, superior of the Missionaires Jesuites" in Louisiana. This document appears to have been addressed to Governor Bienville.

95th-1738. Memorial of Governor Bienville touching his intended operations against the Chicachas.

96th-1735. Opinion of M. Bienville in case of war.

97th--1735, 25th August. M. Bienville on Georgia; of their system of colonization, &c. This document is interesting.

98th-1735, 20th Sept. M. de Bienville on the Chicachas. 99th-1735, 14th April. M. de Bienville on the Indians. 100th-1739, 25th March. M. de Bienville on the Indians.

101st-No date. Report on the necessity of separating the government of Louisiana from that of Canada, to which, under the West India Company, it was attached. This document was evidently written in 1731; recommends a new organization.

102d-1731, 25th March. M. Paria advises the minister of the defeat of the Renards by the Illinois and other Indians living on the borders of Canada; he enters into some details respecting Indian warfare. Speaks of one of the passes at the Balize having 17 feet water which shortly before had only 12; is of opinion that two vessels employed three months each year, say April, May, and June, would give 22 feet on the bar. Speaks of a report by him on the Balize which I have not yet found. This document is very interesting. 103d-20th August. Account of the Natchez war, by M. d'Iron, 1731. 104th-1735. Bienville on Louisiana, in case of war; its relatior with the Indians.

105th-1737, 20th Dec. Bienville's report of two expeditions of the Chactaws against the Chicachas.

106th-1736, 13th August. Bienville's report of deserters brought back by the Alibamons.

107th-1738, 26th April. Bienville's report on the interior of Illinois and Ohio, and of the Indians there.

108th-1738, 22d March. Bienville's report of an exploring voyage to the river Jachoux (Yazon); details on those countries; discovery of the Chicachas road, which led to the voyage.

109th-1738, 29th May. Bienville's report of the voyage of exploration on the Wabash; interesting account of the adjoining country. 110th-1702, 20th June. Memorial of M. d'Iberville on the Mississippi, the Mobile and surrounding countries; their inhabitants; latitudes of many places taken by him; statistics of all the Indian "nations, including the Illinois and Ohio. He states the number of families at 21,860; plan of action proposed. This document is ably drawn up and full of interest; it bears the signature of M. d'Iberville. 111th-1708, 25th Feb. Memorial of M. Dartaguette, giving an account of the information received by him from M. Demny of the fort of Louisiana; statistical report on Mobile.

112th. Letter from Bienville, with a full account of the doings in Mobile and Louisiana; represents the country in a state of great poverty; contains interesting information on the Indians and the English.

113th-1731. Letter from M. de St. Denis to M. Salmon, giving an account of a battle with the Indians.

114th-1763. Evacuation of Louisiana. It is proposed to send to St. Domingo the troops in Louisiana; this plan is approved.

115th. 13th Fructidor An 10, General Milford Tastanagy proposes to answer the application made to the American minister for the purchase of Louisiana; General Milford promises to prove to the first consul that a cession would be fatal to France.

116-1747, Feb. Governor Vaudrieul states his preparations in case of attack by the English; sends a plan of the mouth of the Mississippi (not yet found); says that the bar at the Balize contains 11 or 12 feet, mud and sandy bottom; and 15, 16, and 17 feet on the eastern pass, and a shorter bar.

117th-1712, 8th Sept. Memorial to prevent debauchery (libertinage), in Louisiana.

118th-1762, 13th Nov. Cession of Louisiana to Spain; ratification by the king of Spain.

119th. Questions by General Victor to the first consul, regarding Louisiana, and his answers.

120th-1753. M. de Kerlerec, suit of André Barri.

121st-1701. Memorial of M. d'Iberville on Pensacola.

122d-1703. Project to take Charleston and to burn it.

123d-1750, 1st Feb. Letter of Pierre Rigaut, Marquis de Vaudrieul, informing the king of the necessity he had been under of issuing paper money.

124th. Memorandum to show in what light the West India Company ought to have been considered by the French government. 125th-No date. Memorial of the West India Company. 126th-1685. Memorial of the West India Company.

127th-1753, 8th March. M. Kerlerec, announcing his arrival in

Louisiana; he gives an account of his reception, and some statistical details.

128th-1770, 16th June. Memorial of M. Robé, Ordonnateur of Louisiana.

129th-1715. Instructions of the king to Messrs. Lamothe Cadillac and Duclos, governor and ordonnateur of Louisiana.

130th-1752. Three tables to carry on the official correspondence between the colony and its metropolis by the means of cyphers, and the key for the same.

No. 520, St. Yago; No. 530, lui; No. 540, ab; No. 550, Croix; No. 460, beau; 400, Canada, etc.

131st-1732, 9th May. Proces verbal of Messrs. Perrier and Salmon respecting the arrival of 146 Swiss soldiers.

132d-1760, 2d June. Result of the sitting at the government house respecting certain works to be undertaken.

133d-1707, 22d June. Proposals of M. le Count de Pontchartrain for the formation of a company in Louisiana.

134th-1733. M. de Bienville announces his arrival at the Cape François; hopes to be in New Orleans thirty days after.

135th-1732, 12th May. Letter from M. Salmon touching the condition of Louisiana and Mobile.

136th-1715. Extract of a letter written at Caskasias, a village in Illinois, sometimes called l'Immaculée Conception de la Ste. Vierge, dated 9th November, 1712, by Father Gabriel Marest, a Jesuit residing since several years in that country as a missionary. This letter was printed in 1715 in the "Letters Edifiantes ;" it is full of interest, and contains great statistical information.

137th-1761, 12th Dec. Letter of M. Thiton de Sileque in behalf of M. de Kerlerec, stating his services for the king.

138th-No date. Picture of the troubles in Louisiana, and of the demoralization occasioned by paper money; plan to restore confidence; means recommended: "to coerce forthwith the withdrawal of paper money and its payment in full." This document appears to have been written 1760.

No date. M. de Kerlerec asks the cordon rouge, and sends his "feuille de service."

139th-No date. Remarks on the commerce of Louisiana, and its cession to Spain. This document must have been written in 1770. 140th-1764, May. Memorial of M. de Kerlerec on the advantages of a commercial treaty with Spain, with the view of establishing an entrepot in New Orleans.

141st-1764, May. Letter of M. de Kerlerec inclosing the above memorial.

142d-No date. Extracts of all the Letters of M. de Kerlerec on the demoralized condition of Louisiana. This document must have been written in 1764.

143d-No date. Memorial of the corps of Engineers; the artillery and cadets of Louisiana.

144th-No date. Memorial on the population of Louisiana; Paris and other large cities of the kingdom had been sending to Louisiana their debauched women; fortunately for the colony, says the paper,