of letters owes to Louisiana."

In the same year the white men furnished a subject for a tragedy far
more cruel and vindictive than the self-immolation of an Indian father,
and far less just and amiable.

"During the summer, some soldiers of the garrison of Cat
Island, rose upon and killed Roux, who commanded there. They
were exasperated at his avarice and cruelty. He employed them
in burning coal, of which he made a traffic, and for trifling
delinquencies had exposed several of them, naked and tied to
trees in a swamp, during whole nights, to the stings of
musquetoes. Joining some English traders in the neighbourhood
of Mobile, they started in the hope of reaching Georgia,
through the Indian country. A party of the Choctaws, then about
the fort, was sent after and overtook them. One destroyed
himself; the rest were brought to New-Orleans, where two were
broken on the wheel--the other, belonging to the Swiss regiment
of Karrer, was, according to the law of his nation, followed by
the officers of the Swiss troops in the service of France,
sawed in two parts. He was placed alive in a kind of coffin, to
the middle of which two sergeants applied a whip saw. It was
not thought prudent to make any allowance for the provocation
these men had received."

The removal of the Acadians from their country; stripping them of their
lands and goods; permitting them to carry nothing away but their
household furniture and money, of which they had but little; laying
waste their fields and their dwellings, and consuming their fences by
fire, was another awful tragedy performed by civilized man upon the weak
and defenceless, upon the pretences of policy. It was an act of British
inhumanity; the sufferings of these miserable outcasts and wanderers are
described by our author.

"Thus beggared, these people were, in small numbers and at
different periods, cast on the sandy shores of the southern
provinces, among a people of whose language they were ignorant,
and who knew not theirs, whose manners and education were
different from their own, whose religion they abhorred, and who
were rendered odious to them, as the friends and countrymen of
those who had so cruelly treated them, and whom they considered
as a no less savage foe, than he who wields the tomahawk and
the scalping knife.

"It is due to th