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Les diagrammes suivants illustrant la mAthode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 a f I C H A R T o F HUDSON'S BAY, Jfili) an accouii oftbeAeJln.,'i::n •/ ihcCont' fcinj/'i ^■■'iit/i»ti:/:t, i.t ih.it tjuarter, by ..• da.icli- meiit fioin the V.jiijuii iiiitjhi/>> hive tomf. jiife to Ft.iKci f>om the Ciife, under convoy i oj different jl.'i pi of the z.!i:f:iijl\\iji(Ct. Dcn'Jofcph Solan^i, the Sf>,i- nijh -/-Idtiiuil, J i.rdfiom iheCupeto the Ifa- i/anr..ih ■:i;ilh hi; j'ju.idrcn, unnKkf:cdi Vuu' drcuil oijoy vjilb 13 or \^Jhifii of the line, f.tiled fi an: the Cafie for N-jrth ^/'>:ei:ci% ; n/id u / thii hm bapfKned ivillioul the /ca/i i/ilerrufiiinn J'rom turvifiutioi ijlc't. Our flipiiuttehui liightirdo' magcdx'ithc afti{,n 'f the iilb of ^Ipril in coni- f>jnjo>i wilh the i reiuhjl et. ^Ijlalion off (jape Irartcoii •wi^'lJ have blocked up the Firneh trade ,0 Europe ; ff and fucceftful oftralions abroad, Surrl'm<-"t * la GAZETTE de FRANCE. Paris, Tu*fJay, October i<)lh, 1781. ExtraH of a l.etUrfram the Saeur de la Peroufe, Ca^itaine di FaiffMUf ommanding a divijk^i ms !l IWi/imlShp Vov ijti-/ O F BAY, :cn of the C»m» ty .1 dituch- tlieinrs Jleet, in the. iJJntid of a aft,.!- th.it ''Kii\i/ Kocliiey', of the F'rnch, inch jtrcti of rr,ini:e fiom ntjhips of ihi J«o, the Sficf >f to I be i/,j- akfted: Vaui the lint, ftitti ; and a:l this riu/ilinn f>oi,i 'utjUgbtltda- ^ijiril in corn- ulion off (Jafit ' tbt Fiemh 'irnis at Hud- Idmii al in a ^ i Inn da nptn ; and liinuld to No> th A- Hu^luixtinn of \bioad, Lavi fufc for Ibi if our foi ty pijl a-j!eep. ill Counciti al rt, vigor ou if FRANCE. >, 1781. ie la Perouff, in^ a divijieti ■ I SL^9(^t 11 • - -imrnm - ■J '"^_, XORTJl London l\iMi«fit\{ttti/h- AcfJiiw a99 <;« London llfiUfA,\f tkit/te >l7<»i.^i'.Jfl#nr, nttn'St\>*r Kie, in Ihah'on'i Sliailf bicplftiiber ()lh, 1752. YOt7 have Lttn infutrntd of my Jppanurt fioin Cjj c FrHiKoii the 3 til ol .May, wiili llie Scc| lie of 74 gun;, niid the Ailite and ICi.^ajT' aiuc .4 ^li ,'uiii caih, com:naiiil''iJ l)y llu- Ciiivjlicr M- L.iiif;!f, ;ind the Situr Ai: la failli", Litniiciiai'.s dc VaUil'au, fur lUc txpt- illlioii ill Hudf.ju'; I!ay. I had rrriha/Ki-d ^t Si. Doinnii^^j 2^:j iii'-n nf Aitii;ii;iuic and Au- .xcrtoiv, and ^o .inillcry men, ; cii'^ht inch mijilar'j, jCO Ixjiiih'', .iiid 4 (.aiiiiou. ilus dein hiiieiii w xs uiu''rt!ic iciminiind of tlie Sifiir de RnlLiiiig, M.tjor of x.'m: icg'mcnt of Ann.K'ii.ic. Tl>r Sit vir. If Cri'aiii, k..'.i|it.iii of Aitiliciviii llir lr:vicc of the OoU.iii'.s was ehar;;:-d with v. liativor re! :tcd to that dfpail- tnent. The Sicur de Momivioii, t.'.ipiain In thf roya! coii'S of EiigiiiLt is wii 10 Jicil I'.ic opciMtion of the lici;ei ; audi he Sicui di; Man- fuy, Capiain-cngihct r of the Colonii"> was to take jdans of the toills and hays which we weic going to fiirvcy. Noiliiiig rt'tnaikahle happrmd in t>v navi- gation until the 17th of July, whi-o at mid- night I made the illaiid of Rcfolution. I iiad fcarccly proceeded 20 leagues up Hud- fon's Siraii, when obHacks of every kind multiplied ! my veflcls remained fc-vcral days faft in tlie ice ; ihe fcamen went on foor fio'm one fliiji to another ; the Ailree and iiv.gagc- antc fiiftcrrd infinitely, and were lb much damaged in their bows as to alarm me grtat- ly. The Seeptre alfo was very nearly li-fing Ijer rudder. Kvery thing was new to u* in this navigation, which had made me negleft t.ikiiig on hoird ice anchors, which would have been of the Rrcittll llrviie to me. At lail on the 301b of July, I had fight of Cape U'allingham, which 'is the moil weflerly jKut of the btraits. Till then I had no other guide, than Tome points all ronomically deter- mined, inferted in the Praftical Navigator, and by means of which the bieur de Manfuy andtnyflfhdve fetched nut a chart, which we corrcflcd in proportion as the fog permit- ted us to d-fcry fome rifings of the laud, I nov,' flattered niyfelf the greateft of ray diffi- culties were conquered, and I burned with impatience to arrive fpeedily at Fort Prince Wales. Thii was thefirll place which I(iro- poled to attack ; I had not an inflant to lofe, the rigour of the feafon obliging all (hips to abandon this fea in the firll days of Septem- Lcr ; but ny impatience was put to a new proof. On the 3d of Auguft, failing with fe- curity enough in the Bay of Hudfon, I was enveloped in a fog, and immediately furroun- ded with large ilUnds of ice, which forced me to make a (ignal for my divifion to bring to. The fog dirtipating two hours after, I faw the three (hips wetigeii in the tee, which extend- ed bcjfond our vie*. I had then « vreil- gruundtd app'chciifion i^f lulinf, the feafyn IW upcrauun, .tad 1 w.'d and dellioyed the hng-j !;lli Iciilcinenlb llie next Ivalou, but on ;his 5thofAuj.uu the hank of ice, in wliich I v.as enj^ai^.d, upcntd a little, aiivl 1 d. ler- m.ned 10 fin.1- tlir'iu.;u it by apitlj ol Uil, wtiatever rifqne tny lhi,!> niiijht ruu. 1 wis ha[>py enough lo accuiui'lilh it ; and on the Siiiof Augull in the evening, I fiiw ihe en- hu'rs of Fort I'iiiice Wales. 1 ai>piu.ichiit within a league and a li.ill of It, luund.ng t\\ tiie way, and 1 aixlioi'-d my divilion iii eigh- teen fjtliom water, muddy botiuhi. In ibtr ni'an lime 1 fent an odiv-er to (o'jiid ; he re- . polled that it was file lor o.ir (hips to ap- proach very near the V^jtX ; a.nd 1 wai allured, X.\\*t if tlie enemy Ihonld meditate any relift- aiae, the Stepire could ei tity of merehandife evf every kind ; the artil- Irry was in the bcl\ condition pofliblo ; ali the magazines wire covered with lead. Not having an iniiant to lolc in fiuiiliing ray operations in the Bay of Hudfon, I de- termined to burn every thing, cxceptltvii. fome beaver Tkius and other fuis, which have been (hipped 0.1 board the Ailree. 1 have givea to the Savages wliatcvc r they thought propef to carry away, pariieul.irly (xJwder and (hor, thele people living oulv by huiTtlnjr. On the tjth 1 fet fail for Fort York, the chiei' felllement of ihe F.nglilh in this Biy j but I uiHlerwent here mu^h greater ditiiculticj than thole which I had lo overcome lince my entrance into thefe fi as. I knew that th« eoall was full : f ,-ocky fliyuls ; I had no chart ; our prifoncrs obltinatelv rtfufed t^ give me the lealt infoiiaatlon : at lall alter '^ If Monfieur de la Peroufe had favourfj ys •with the number: of the giimfoit, it would battt teen a curious detail.— The Siortkeepen «i^ Strvanti of the Hudfun'i Bay Company, in tht fix difftrwt Fotfaiics in that Buy, ate in ali from lOO /• tlo ntKf Sric»tf5, in n«»ijj»tinjj in tin and feren fsthoms waier, on a rocky bottom, I airi^vrd in figlii of tlv- en- trance of Nrlfon's River, where I .inchored the toih of Augu(t, abdiit fivt: laigors rroin the tand. I had fortunately joiiieH to mv di- TifiwH three decked boats taken »t Fort I'rince Wales, which have proved of the greatefl alTirt- aiitt to me. I had ewtrnrted the command of ihem to tl>c Sieurs de Bordiiu, liiifcii-ne dc Vaiffeau, a Swede ; Dorie, Lieut, dc Frrpjte, and Carbonne.%u, Garde de la Marine (iSlid- Ibipman). It is impolTible lu b^- better InveJ than oy thefc three t)liicers, in founding a- iii-ad, and piocretling to the difcnvirv f't Have River, on which Fort York is fitu.ited, ami the approaches to which 1 kiie^v were almoin impraeliiable to lar^e vefll-Is. The iStli of Augull, the Sieurs de Boidieo and Carbon- •rau, each in (heir boat, and the Siiur de la I■ I.ai'gle, the Sie.ui de Rollaiiig and de Monneron, to tound the river, along which, 1 luppofed the enemy might hive made i'ome dif|H. lit ions to oppofe the delLciil. At five in t le evening, we had pafTcd fo near Fort York and the Company's (h'r, that by their gblfes, they might liave diltingullh- ed the colour of the cloaths of our lioops ; the Ih^p had even fired a cannon luaded with oati, hut out of reath, and the Fort had an- fwereil if. I believed this might he a lii;nal for their troops to march towards Nelfi.u Ri- ver. What I had moft to feur was fome rab- ble of favages, which the enemy might induce by brandy aiul gunpowder, to cake arms in their defence. After fouiidinc; for thr fpare of a leaf,ue, I found Nclfon River innrtefTible. The lijul- lefl bears could not appmach nearer th.ui a- bout a hundred fathoms, and the remaining (pace was (oft mud. In confequente of this v;c determined to wait until day, and 10 re- main at anchor ; but the tide falling much more than 1 had prefumrd, my boats, which had anchor d in two and a h.tlf fathom water, were left dry at three in the morning. The Chevaiier de Langle then propofrd to the Sieur dc Roliain."^ to wade through the mud, and to proceed inllantly to the lliore. The advice was found good ; all the troops debarked in this falbion, with tlieir mufkets on their Ihoul- ders ; wc marched a quaitor of a league with the mud up to our knees, and arrived at length at a mrradow, which was no more than a fwamp, within half a trcif/it of the woo.is. The troops then formed ia battalia, and marched about a league'* towards this wood, where we flattered ouifelves we thould find a dry pathi that might condufV us to the Fort, A pr'foner whom we paid gcr.croufly, having olfcred to fervf as a guide, he Ihewed us a road, which the Sieur de Roftaing eaufed to be reconnoitred, and which was Judged to be im|iraiVicabIc ; but wc have fince learned that it was' rhtf belV in the iiland. All the day was: paflfrd in fruiflefs attempts to find roads which did not exifl. At lei^gth 1 determined to truce one by the compafs, through the middle of the woods and twatnps. The Sieurs d« * Tvft iMtti htfdre it laas only half a iiagiH. Monn9« 1 Frefjcb Operations m Hudfon^s Bay. Tl^e Company* s Ships cjcape. 6S9 Moniieron aiiij M.in!'iiy were tliargfd wllU tliis cxtfmrly laboi iiiir> uflt. \\ c fii(.mi|'- e^l at the r()fited by an interval, and got on board an hour be- fore another llorm came on. The Sieur de Carbonnean, who had let off along witli me, was cart awav in his boat, but was fo fortu- nate as to get to land with hib crew. Three days after they returned on board naked, hav- ing fubfifled on herbs and fome wild fruits. The Engagcante loft two anchors in the fc- cond gale, and the Aftrec two. If it had laded tome hours longer, the frigate of the Sieur de la Jaille would have been loll, and 300 men drowned. On the i6ih, the wind having calmed, I learned that o-„;- troo|)s had arrived before the fort on the 24'.h in the morning, and that at the firft fummons from the Sieur de Roftaing, the gates had been opened to him, a capitula- tion having been propofed and accepted. I ■wrote to the' Sieur de Rollaing 10 prefs him to burn every thing, and torcimbark immediate- ly. The anchorage where 1 wa?, was not te- nable. The Sieur de Rollaing felt for my fi- tuatinn, and made all poiribledifiiatch. It is my duty to mention, that one of the fatis- faftions, which hath in fome degree alleviated the ineredilile fatigues of this campaign, is the advantage of havirtg had to concert -ny o- perations with an officer, whofe zea , ta- lents, and love for the good of the fervice, Convinced me, that all our attacks would be attended with full fucccfs. My mcafures were agaiti difconcerted by another gnle of wind, in which the Engage- ante run again new rifqucs ; her third an- chor was broken, and the tiller of her helm, and her boat was loft. My own boat, com- manded by (he Sieur du Bordicu was alfo caft alhote, and 1 loft my yawl and an anchor. At laft fair weather returned, and I had the picafure on the morning of the jift of Aiiguft, to fee Fort York on fire, and the Sieur de Roftaing with the remainder of his men, coming off in a large boat, "belonging to the Com|>any, which I had taken in the river. During the night, he anchored a lea- gue from my Jhjp, and in the morning, he ^ Vol. HI. n%z. embarked on board the Sceptre. I immedi- ately l,:t fail, -liaving on board tt'e three {;<>- vonicru of Torts I'r.ntc Wsles, York, and S'.-vtrn. This lall is a Imall kttlement de- [".riidam on Yi/rk, winch 1 U;d not dei: 1 jy, fir. u was of no iinportaiitc, .luJ as tr^y Ihijib, "illiout anihijii or boji,, and iiaviiifr jjo fick, t'lulj t'o notlnii^ b net tlmn ijuit ihefe l^a., wh'.cli fiiice the inh of Au|;ull, ai« ini.re llortny thin the Cliaunel in tiic miulli of /aii'.urv, i ihii.k I may cdimate the L.fs occafwned to tlic liidfun"i "aj Company, at 10 or li tn:l!i..ii!i'' oi livri >. I to )k tare, in burn'ng Fort York, to tavv a conlidcrable mai;a/in^', in a place remote from the tiie, and in whicit I cauud to be de- |H)(ited provifions, powdi r, Ihot, lireir.tks, aiid a ccr.ain quamiiy cf EiirO| ean merehan- diK', the molt proper for -xdiangei with tiic Swag-'s; in ordT that fome En^Ulh, whom I kni'w had tak'n refuge m the woods, ihould they return to tlicir old place of lefi- dence, find in that ms^azint; wherewith- al to I'rovidc for ilieir fubfirtencc, until England ml^hc be informed of ibeir iituation, 1 am afTured that in this refpeifl the King will approve of my conduft, and that by in- terelling myfelf in the fate of ibofe unfortu- nate people, I have done no more tlian anti- cipate the benevolent intentioni of his Ma- j^'fty- * Tnvflv! Mi//ion: of Livra is txai^.'/y half a Million SteiUng. Orkney lilandi, StrommJ., 0c7. 28, « On (he \^th current, thcjhip King (norgt, one of the Hitiifjns IJaythihi, amvej iierc, elf. ter a tediwi p.ifjhrj from I'ork For,', in llu.l. fan's Bay, and brings info'-maliii:, that a f^vj days after f})i baa arrived there, and had got on board about tiuo-thirdi rf her catuo a French i^gunpip called Le S'cflre, and tiut /a' A' fri^atesy made their afpearahte a fmall dijlance from the place tuhcre the King GcoiPs lay, and lattded fome hundreds of troops, ^U the French [hips ti-ire lyi>'g with'jul Capt. Fmu- ler's vefj'el, he was obliged to cut his cable >m the night-time and went to Jea, ind by that means efcaped being taken. On the day fotlo'.i: ing bis arrivrtl here, the Prince Rupert, Capt. Cbrifiopher, another of the Company' sjh''ps, and a /loop which had been at Churc' ' . ,' Severn, in Hudfon'sBay, alfo arrived here, and brought certain accounts that the fame French /l:>ips api peared off Churchill about the beginning of ^u- gufl tafl, had landed about 600 or 700 troops- and had taken and deflroyed Chuf chill Fort, after taking away the furs and other ar-" ticks, the cargo the Prince Rupert was voinr for, and cat ried away the people in the Fort as pri (oners of war. They alfo bring auountt that York Fort had furrendtrcd after Captaid Fowler left it ; artfltb^t the Frftitb tmpi blich Gazttte on the En^a\^ement zvlth the' Hetlor of "j^ ^uns. SuppUment a Ai GAZETTE Jt FR.-IN'U:. I'uiil, Fii'iiy, Novemi/t 8, 1781. C'/>y of a teller f'om thf. Situr lie la Tiirl;-, i.;l<:) 10 ihi ' Slirrij'Ms di C.ifiiies, ttaled S;pt.ml>o- 5at in Ihi- niglil between the 4tU iin.l ^th "t b'ptembrr, l.ituudf ^f). ir^. loir'.itvulc 67. ^;. I dffcrietl a villul to Icf.v.ird, iKcnnj, .ij niy- fdf cloi;; tn t!ic wiiul, rtarhoard tack- aho*rd, the wind wi'lt ind pretty t'reih. 1 b >r'' in fijilit. I iud ;ed from tlie Iinthorn', whii h 1 fa.v lighting in the bittries of thiri.veirol, that they intended to cnjayc ; and not thinking the match eijuaj, and rctUiftiiig on the impor- tance uf the commilTion with which I was charged, I hauhd my wind, and mad'! fill. I cxp.'^ed the Gloire would make the f.imc movement, without my having recourfc to the night (ignals to dirrA him to follow my maniruvre i but the Chevalier de Vntlongue found himfelf at that time within half mafkct fhot of the enemy, who hailed him; thry weie fpeaking each other when I made the fignal for following me. The Chevalier de Vallonfjuc, thinking thit the enemy would not fail to profit of, and give him a broadfide, during the advantageous pofition mi which the frigate would preft-nt hf-rl'-lf to him, 5»hlllt ite was executing my orders, boldly le- folved to bear down upon him, and rake him a-head ; the enemy returned his fire, and the engagement began within piflol (hot. The tirft (liot fired at the Gloire, put an end to all the reflcilions which I was making re- " I f it up, and viadi the people of that fort prifmtrt of -war alfo. The Piince Rupert 'was cbaftd by one of the Freiieh frigates for %() k0'irj, and very narrowly rfcaped being taken." The piincipal fcttlemenlt brht^ing to our Ifidfini Jiitr Company at piffrnl are, Forts (Jhurctiill, Nilfoa, New Severn, and .-l/buny, en tl.H wejl fide if the Bay, and Forii Charles and Rupert, on the bottom of the Bay. Tbis Company, wbieh does not cor.jijl of above niie or ten merchants, obtained their frjl charter fom Chailes the Second, in the year 1669, by which the Jolt properly if all the lands, trade, royal ijhfrs, and minei •uiilhin Hudfon's Straits, not usually pojfefjid by any Cbrijiian Prince was -jefitd in them. Their imports are, deer-fhins, furSf tafinreurn and btavtr-Jkins^ Je^thcrSf whaUbcrie and tiubbir. f(ic£ting th"* evc'it of an rngigimenS which I thought very uii. qual. 1 wore to join the frigate an I to fccond her. After the (ijoire and the enemy had evchangid Uym- broad- fldw, the hraig b.'twrfo tlicm leiU-'l ; the tWs capiani:i hailed e>>:i oilier again, in- trrrogiii'd one another refpi'c'tiiig their co- lours, and the engageinint mindi^trly be« gun a fi(*;h. It WIS at th . nlKint that I placed myfilf berween the lil» re anJ . iic 1;. nriny, jiuI bgin to fiie tiom .ill my artille- ry, whitU ap|itirrJ to Jic 10 ptodiii.e a y.^eat etlert. Till' lire fiom the (h.p was not fit brtik a-. ' '» wl rcafun to pxpii.-l ; hi- li.iul d tf> wi.id'vaui i\ fuch a m.iiinir, that I co.ilJ not doubt hii iniintioi) \va^ to board me. I knew fron- tht; I aliiirr of thr bullets wb ch c.i^iie oti board, of j'l, iS, and cij'.bt j.ouiiils, tiut I w.is engaged with a Ihip of ■J,^ (tun-, and hav- inz no other change than th.it winch he now otiered tni", 1 rcf iW -il not to rtl'..rc it, hav. iiig on bo.ird 50D comb:unii Ipiriicd by the exiinp'e of tlu: Sii'uis B ui>ii de Vioiiiriiil, Due dj Ljuzui), Mtrquii de I.wal, M.irquis de de Chaiii|)tenetJ, Mai-Maii.m, She'.doii, the Comtci de (Ihabaiiiie, de Tallyrand, d. Rice, and do Lin-^'Ton thi- fon, the Sieur de Ilrcn- tano, and otlior oiHters, whole cour.tije and great valour niimated my crew. Ihc ene- my's fjirilfiil yarJ'"- was c:iui;ht in my fore- fhrowdi ; in this pofit'on I juvo hirn n com- plfir bio.idfide, and made my men huzza, " boird, and Gtd [tie the Kiig." Tlie Ba» ron dc Viomenil was prepared tc leap 00 board the enemy, followed by all the iboie named olficers, when the (hip mantEuvicii to gel clear without firing a (ingle (hot, which I at« iributed to the terror that my refoloiion ha4 infufi'd into lu-r crew, who in all probability were not numerous. The men vlio loaded the guns in (he enemv's lower ii.itteiy, and thofe in mine, Aruik each other with their gun rammers. The (hips being feparated from each other, we renewed the combat at the diftancc of rauftet (hot, and the ene- my's fire diminilhed in a moft extraordinary degree. At day-break the Gloire, which bad taken a favourable pofition re-tngajed,^ anii raked the enemy fore and aft, he was unrig- ged, and mana-uvred with great diihculty. I ibould have continued thp engagjcmcnt, the iflue of which would, in all .ippearan^e, have been in our favour, when my men on the look out called to mc that they faw fever a 1 fail, one of which I could myfcif perceive to be a vcllel with three mi(Js, and havingallthe ap- pearance of a (hip of the line. I feared with rcafon the 74 gun (hip we were engaged '"i'h, was part of a fquadron, to which ihr i .'b in fight might belong; having thercfoie •■ '. ,.,ed- mv duty rrfpefting the honour of liic •' :.r. . I made a (jgnal to the Gloire to cr wd fail an<| follow rac. The enemy's (hip made mo row»;- bowfp Theyeu-d and fail luhieb rit.