Postscript, Paris, December 27 [1697]
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1697
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Discovery and exploration; History; Découverte et exploration; Histoire; Discoveries in geography
Notes: Broadside news sheet reporting on news from Paris, Brussels, The Hague, Weymouth, and London, Dec. 1697.

Incipit: The [French] Council of Trade is very busie about restoring our Plantations in America into their former condition, and have given leave to bring in proposals; and 'tis thought a great number of disbanded soldiers will be sent thither. Our Company of Canada has been very much alarmed, since one Father Hennepin has published an account in Holland, of the discoveries made by himself and La Salle in the northern America, for should the English or Dutch settle themselves upon that river, which he calls Mescharipi ... 'tis certain that they would ruin ... our commerce with Canada, and settle a very advantageous trade with the Spaniards of New Mexico. In order to prevent this, a Company of 30 merchants have subscribed 10,000 livres a piece, to begin a settlement there; and to encourage them, the King grants them all that large country, to hold it by homage from the Crown of France; and is pleased besides, to give them 8 Companies of Foot ... and provisions for 18 months, for those men, and such families who will go and settle themselves in that country ... No foreign troops are to be disbanded, the King keeping them in pay and disbanding his own subjects, that they may marry and apply themselves to the culture of the land, which are fro the most part neglected and unmanured ...