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bry to the French Minister, 30 March, 1766, in Gayarre II. 157. Antonio De Ulloa, by a letter from Havana, announced to the Superior Council at New Orleans, that he had received orders to take possession of that city for the Catholic King; but the flag of France was still left flying, and continued to attract Acadian exiles. At last, on the fifth of March 1766, during a violent thunder-gust and rain, Memoire des Habitans, Gayarre, II. 182, 216. La pluie, le tonla Nouvelle Orleans, le cinq Mars, à Midi. Le temps le plus affreux, &c. &c. Ulloa landed, with civil officers, three Capucine monks, and eighty soldiers. Compare letter of Choiseul to Du Chatelet, 23 May, 1768. His reception by the turbulent colonists, already allured to republicanism, was cold and gloomy. He brought no orders to redeem the seven millions livres of French paper money, which weighed down a Colony of less than six thousand white men. The French garrison of three hundred refused to enter the Spanish servic