The Secret History of the Court of France, Under Louis Xv
The Secret History of the Court of France, Under Louis Xv
Annie Emma Armstrong Challice
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le Due de Mirepoix^ Amhas- sador from Versailles at the Court of St James's (following) is preceded by ^* Narrative from 1754 of the Hostilities committed by the French upon the Ohio, ^e. ^c* '* The pretensions of Prance seem to be founded " (this is in English) ''npon the prior Disooyery of the Mississippi by M. de la Salle in 1684, a constant and nninterrapted Naidgation and Commerce carried on in the neighbouring Lakes ever « B&s Appendix, Vol. I. Canada, IiOiiiiiaaa, Secret Note of Jnbrigue.... 28 APPBNDIX. since that tiine» and in consequence thereof a pretended title set np to the Spring Heads of all the Biyers and Waters falling into the said Lakes and Biyer Mississippi, but no actual Possession by erecting Fopts, Culture, or Plantation is Pretended, at least to the Territory in Question, till the pre- sent settlement. " The title of the Crown of Great Britain may in like man- ner be founded upon Discoyery, Charters, and Grants from the Crovn, preyious to any Discoyery on the Part of the French, &c 8cc." So the dispute continues — ^France continues to build forts, &c., with a yiew to connect Canada and Lousiana— mutoal suspicion is fostered and fermented.
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