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Documents Covering Impeachment of Bienville
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ON THE NINETEENTH ARTICLE
I shall do all within my power to secure the proceeds of the profits contained in the statement that has been sent to me.
Done at Fort Louis,12 Louisiana, February 25th, 1708.
D?Artaguette.
Ministry of the Colonies, Series C. 13, General Correspondence of Louisiana, Vol. 2, pages 249 to 312; copy13 Vol. 2, pages 44 to 95. Mr. D?Artaguette, Commissary of the Navy. Abstract of the testimony taken by Mr. D?Artaguette of the investigation against Mr. De Bienville. Statement of the examination of eight witnesses, all inhabitants of Mobile.
Abstract of the Testimony14 Taken by Mr. D?Aartaguette against
Mr. De Bienville, February 24-th, 25th, 26th and 27th, 1708.
This testimony is composed of eight witnesses, all inhabitants of Mobile.
Of these eight witnesses the seven first as well as the eighth declare that they have no knowldge that any effects belonging to the said Sieur de Bienville has been put on board the King?s vessels or that the said Sieur de Bienville has disposed of the effects of the King that was in his warehouses.
These seven first witnesses also declare nothing (p. 250) against said Sieur de Bienville of all the other facts contained in the instructions sent to the said Sieur D?Artaguette on the 30th of June, 1707, and in the letter of Sieur De La Salle of the 1st of October, 1707. On the contrary they said that they were very well pleased with the government of the said Sieur de Bienville and that they had nothing to say against his conduct and his person to the extent that it was to be wished that there should never be any other than he.
Rene Boyer, the eighth witness, to the question that was asked him whether he was pleased with the government of the
^he fort of Mobile.
18The copy here referred to is the transcript in the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
14The French word is information. (Note by the Editor of the Quarterly.?The word has a double meaning, (a) the process on which a written investigation would be based; (b) the evidence forming: the body of the process).
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D?Artag.uette?s Abstract of the Evidence heard by him.
(p. 249)
Joseph Chauvin Jean Baptiste Sausier Guillaume Boutin Jean Baptiste La Loire
Francois Trudeau Estienne Burel Jacques Chauvin Rene Boyer