On the 16th of Auguft general O'Reily arrived at New Orleans with one frigate and twenty-two tranfports, and came on fhore the day following to reconnoitre the ground for difembarking, and the grand parade for drawing up his troops; he was attended by Monf. Aubry and the ftaff of the garrifon; he returned on board foon after, and was faluted by the frigate and the garrifon. Orders wers given for the troops to difembark on the 18th, at four o'clock in the morning, by firing one gun from the frigate; tages being previously made to reach from the shore to the fides of the fhips for the foldiers to pass over. On a fignal being given all the troops began to move, and in lefs than ten minutes were formed on the bank of the river, and from thence marched to the grand parade, where they formed the fquare. The fhips were drefled with the colours of different nations, and the fhrouds and yards crouded with failors. On the general's going on fhore he was faluted by the frigate, and received four cheers from the failors; and on his coming on the parade there was a general discharge of cannon and fmall arms from the garrifon and militia, attended with mufic and drums. Don Alex. O'Reily and Monf. Aubry, with their attendants, followed by a croud of inhabitants, went to that angle of the parade where the flag-ftaff ftood. Monf. Aubry, as governor, opened his orders from his moft christian majesty, to deliver up the town and island of New Orleans, and province of Louisiana, to Don Alex. O'Reily, in the name of his catholic majefty; and expreffed his tappiness and fatisfaction in being fucceeded in the command of that country by a man of his humanity and worth, to which general O'Reily answered, " I shall make it the rule of my future conduct in government, to imitate thofe wife and prudent maxims in adminifting justice by which you have gained the hearts of the people, even at the most critical juncture." The Spanish colours were now hoifted, and honoured by another general discharge of artillery and small arms from the garrifon; his excellency and attendants went to church, and fung Te Deum, whilst the guards were relieving after church was over, the parade was difmiffed, and the foldiers went to the barracks appointed for them. On the 19th of Auguft the town militia was reviewed: from this day the time was paffed in receiving and making vifits until the 25th in the morning, when the iuhabitants went to pay their respects to their new governor; as they entered the hall, he defired them to place themselves fingly round the room, and holding a paper in his hand, containing the names of the perfons principally concerned in the late infurrection, fuch as were prefent he begged to walk into the next room, where an officer and guard attended to take them into cuftody, fuch as were abfent he fent for, to the number of thirteen, and confined them in feparate apartments, fome on board ship, others to guards and common prifons, where they were detained to take their trials for high treafon; their flaves and other effects were feized in the king's name. On the 27th a proclamation was publithed, ordering the inhabitants to take the oaths of allegiance, and an amnesty to all concerned in the late revolt, except thofe already in cuftody; and another was published prohibiting negroes from monopolizing provisions coming to market, or buying or felling without a written leave from their mafters. Shortly after, other orders were given out, by which all the English fubjects, proteftants, and Jews of every nation, were enjoined to depart from the province of Louisiana, and all commerce prohibited, except with Old Spain and and her islands, and neither of these having demand for the produce of Louifiana and their returns, if any trade fhould take place, could not be employed in the commerce of the Miflifippi. • General O'Reily made great profeffions of friendship to the governor of Weft Florida, and affured him, upon every occafion, of his wifhes to live in harmony with his English neighbours. His words and actions widely differed; he endeavoured to tamper with the Indians fettled on our territories, and behaved with great inhofpitality towards all English fubjects who had occafion to go up the river Miffifippi, and infringed the articles of peace by fending a party of foldiers to cut the hawfers of an English veffel, called the Sea Flower, that had made faft to the bank of the river above the town; the order was obeyed, and the vessel narrowly escaped being loft. It is impoffible for veffels to navigate upon the Miffifippi, unless they are permitted to make faft to the fhore, as has been explained in the foregoing part of this work; and if English ves fels are prevented, they cannot be faid to enjoy the free navigation of the river, conformable to the articles of the last peace. In October, great and folemn preparations were made for the trial of the prifoners charged with high treason, who continued to undergo a cruel and rigorous imprisonment until the 31ft of this month. When they were brought before the high court of justice, as it was called, (it was more properly a court martial, the general himself prefiding, and the other members being mostly Spanish officers) all the prifoners were found guilty of the charge exhibited against them; five were fentenced to be fhot, and feven to be .confined for ten years to the Moro caftle at the Havanna. Thofe con. demned to death were executed the day following, their names, Monf. La Friniere, king's attorney; Monf. De Marquis, formerly commandant of the Swifs companies at New Orleans, and knight of the order of St. Louis; Monf. De Noyant, captain of dragoons, fon of the late king's lieutenant of Louifiana; Pierre Careffe and Petit, merchants. The names of thofe banished to the Moro, Monf. De Mazant, formerly captain in the colony troops; Monf. Garic, regifter of the council; Meffrs. Douffet, Millet, fen, and jun, and Poupet, merchants. Monf. Foucault, the intendant, was fent prifoner to France. Monf. Villeroy, one of the perfons firft arrefted, had embarked with his flaves and most valuable effects, defigning to throw himself under the protection of the English; but being afterwards perfuaded of the fincerity of the Spanish general's promifes, he landed with his flaves and effects, and returned to his plantation: he was fo enraged at the treachery that had been used towards him, and at the cruel treatment he received when in confinement, that he died raving mad. The fate of Monf. La Friniere's daughter and only child is particularly lamentable; this young lady was married but fome months before this dreadful event to Monf. De Noyant, who was handsome in his perfon, and amiable in his difpofition, It is impoffible to reflect on this tragedy but with horror and deteftation. When fraud or treachery are made ufe of to destroy an enemy, or punish the guilty, it difgraces a nation and the name of juftice. It is remarkable, that the king of Spain, in his acceptation of Louisiana, promifes the inhabitants their original form of government, and to continue the French counsellors in his council: he alfo offers to receive all the troops employed by the king of France ia that country into his fervice; but the foldiers finding that they were Bb 3 to gives the language, into which they are dragged, an air of poverty. Where we want a word in our own tongue to exprefs any particular idea, we ought either to take a foreign word, and give it an English form and an English pronunciation, (as we have already done in many inftances) or to invent a word ourselves. ONE. Would a reasonable perfon believe it poffible for writers to make this word plural, where it means (as it almoft always does) an individual? and yet we fometimes find it made fo. • Not one in a hundred, fays a book called Advice from a Bifhop to a Clergyman, either read or Speak in publick with any propriety. I am afraid the good bishop himself never spoke with much propriety in regard to his choice of words. What could induce him to say read and speak, and not reads and speaks ? Could he suppose that the word hundred was to determine the perfon of the verbs? There are indeed places where the word one ought to be made plural. If I fay courtiers and anti-courtiers are pretty much alike. The one have no more the intereft of the nation at heart than the others this, is a proper way of fpeaking, and it would be wrong to fay has the intereft, because the one here refers to a fubftantive (or to fubftantives) plural. • One of the greatest barbarifms in the English tongue, and which it amazes me that fcarcely any author avoids, is the ufing the preterperfect tenfe of the infinitive mood where we ought to use the prefent or future. - I was going to have writ him a letter. -I intended to have writ to him. Can there be greater nonfenfe than this? Is it not plain we ought to say I was going to write him a letter.—I intended to write to him?· • When we talk of going to have done a thing, or of intending to have done it, we fpeak of the thing's being done, as prior to the setting about it or intending it "We have indeed one verb, which claims an indulgence in this particular, and which it is neceffary to follow with the preterperfect tenfe of the infinitive mood, where it would be proper to follow other verbs with the prefent or future. This is the verb ought, which is irregular and never varies in its termination. If it were a regular verb, its preterimperfect and preterperfect would be aughted: and in that cafe, if I intended to tell a man that it was his duty upon fome paft occafion to act otherwife than he did, the proper expreffion would be You oughted to act so and so, and not You oughted to HAVE groffer corruptions of the Chriftian doctrine and difcipline have been happily rectified, and the fpirit of Chriftianity has been improved in confequence of it. Yet he thinks, that much ftill remains to be done, efpecially with refpect to the doctrines which are generally diftinguished by the term Calviniftical, which, he fays, entirely disfigure the Chriftian' scheme, debase its fpirit, make thousands of unbelievers in Chriftian countries, and effectually prevent the general reception of our religion among Jews, Mahometans, and heathens. In the beginning of this Addrefs he tells us, that there is hardly the face of any thing that can be called difcipline among the Diffenters, especially thofe who are generally denominated rational Diffenters; and that the effects of this deficiency are very confpicuous. He therefore exhorts them, after having rejected what has proved to be tyrannical and mischievous in church authority, to refume what may appear to be confiftent with Chriftian liberty, to promote a Chriftian temper, and lead to good morals. This work is divided into feveral fections. In the first he gives a view of the outlines of the ancient church difcipline, and the general effects of it. In the fecond he endeavours to trace cut the corruptions of it. Among thofe corruptions he reckons the exaltation of the prefbyters or elders, and of the deacons alfo, into the rank of fingle bifhops, in churches; ecclefiaftical animadverfions upon particular opinions; the annexing of civil penalties to the fentence of excommunication; the injunction of a variety of ridiculous penances, as walking barefoot, repeating a certain number of pater-nofters, and ave-marias, pilgrimages, &c. and efpecially the commutation of thofe for fums of money. In confequence of which, he obferves, religion became a mere trade, and was a fund of vast wealth to the priests and the court of Rome, who fpent the fums they extorted from the fuperftition of the people in the most abominable exceffes. In the third fection he gives a particular account of the very low ftate of church difcipline among the rational Dif" fenters; and fhews, that in confequence of this neglect, the original ends of a Chriftian fociety are very imperfectly anfwered. In the fourth he endeavours to trace out the caufes which have contributed to bring church difcipline into its prefent low eftate. In the fifth he exhibits a view of the progrefs and prefent eftimation of preaching, which, he fays, is become almost the fole object of their affemblies." Eb 4 In the fixth he has given us a delineation of a me. thod of church government, the heads of which are as follow. All the members of the fociety are to meet and make choice of a proper perfon to officiate among them as a public inftructor.-Being provided with a minifter, correfponding to the office of a bishop in the primitive times, the fociety in the next place, is to chufe a number of the more elderly, grave, and ferious perfons, and withal, if poffible, the more wealthy of their own members, to bear the title and office of elders, The choice is to be made by lot or ballot, and not fewer to be appointed than ten or twenty in a fociety of three or four hundred. Thefe elders with the minifter at their head (but with no more power than any other of them) are to form a confiftory, and to meet about once a month to confult together concerning the ftate of the church, and the beft method of promoting its real interefts. With refpect to their office and the method of regulating the fociety, our author proceeds in this manner: Let it be the bufinefs of every elder to admonish all the members of the fociety that live within his diftrict or neighbourhood, of every irregularity, or tendency to it, with prudence and difcretion; taking the opinion of his brethren, or of the minifter, in difficult cafes; let notorious offenders only, and those who have rejected the repeated admonitions of one or more, be propofed to the whole fociety for public cenfure; and when a perfon incurs the laft fentence, excommunication, let him not, however, as in the primitive times, be excluded from the benefit of public worship, but let fome other method be taken of letting it be known, that he is no member of the fociety. For this, and other purposes, let a regifter be kept of all public proceedings. In very difficult cafes, let the minifter and elders of one church confult with the minifter. and elders of other churches, and give one another mutual advice. " I fhould think it advisable, that every member of the society fhould formally give in his name as fuch, that it be en-, tered in the public regifter, and that this act be confidered by the reft as an admiffion to communion with them in the celebration of the Lord's fupper, and alfo as a promise on his fide, that he will communicate, provided he really believe the rite to be an inftitution of Chrift. But let not this, or any other opinion exclude a perfon from the benefit of the fociety, if he be a believer in the Chriftian religion, and profefs obedience to it, as far as he understands it; and let not any perfons, though they be no Chriftians, be at all difcou raged |