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The Louisiana Historical Quarterly
said Sieur de Bienville and whether he knew anything about his conduct or his person declared that he did not, but that one day when he had refused to put together and clean a gun that Sieur Darrac had brought to him the said Sieur de Bienville had made him spend twenty days in irons, and that he has always had him put into prison for very slight causes. Declares that the vessels on all their voyages have brought goods for the account (p. 251) of Bienville and of Sieur de Chateaugue, his brother, but that he does not know their quantity.
Declares that he knows Madame15 Le Sueur, a relative of Messrs. De Bienville and De Chateaugue; that she sells their goods which consist of brandy, linen, hats, shirts, shoes and other [goods]. These goods she keeps in her house and in another warehouse near the water which belonged to the late Mr. D?lber-ville; that Mr. D?Iberville had had some there and that he had bought powder there;' that at that time this warehouse was full; that he had seen twenty barrels of powder and all other sorts of ? merchandise there.
Declares that he also saw powder and much other merchandise in the house of Sieur de Bienville at the fort and that the powder that was being sold at the warehouse belonged to the King?s powder-magazine.
Declares that Sieur de Bienville once gave an Indian two pounds of powder (p. 252) to oblige him to say that he had sold him a share belonging to the King.
Declares that while he was in the pay of the King he worked for the private service of the family of Sieur de Bienville, on account of which the arms of the King have been damaged, and that he has heard it said that more than three hundred guns had been lost.
Note that of these eight witnesses Mr. De Bienville challenges16 Burel, Boutin, Lalemand17 and Boyer.
Burel, because having been accused and convicted by a soldier .of having been his receiver and of having bought from him what he had stolen from the King?s warehouse to the value of fifty crowns, he condemned him to a fine of fifty crowns and prohibited him from keeping18 a wine-shop for six months by the advice of the officers of the garrison and of Mr. De La Salle.
Boutin, because having gone to Pensacola in spite of him and having remained there five months in contempt of his orders, he had him put under arrest, (p. 253).
Lalemand, because he had him put in irons in order to punish him for a fraud and a crying injustice that he had done to an inhabitant, and Boyer because he had him likewise put in
15The translator thinks that, the title here used, la d&mllerefers to social standing and not to the fact that the lady was unmarried. Le Sueur?s mother was a first cousin of Bienville.
16The French word is recuse.
17The translator thinks that this must be the nickname by, which one of the eight witnesses was commonly known. See the note on page 310 (last page).
^Literally ?and not to keep."