Mauritius; Or, The Isle of France: Being an Account of the Island, Its History, Geography, Products, and InhabitantsSociety for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1862 - 256 pages |
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Page 84 - ... the sum it nominally represented. As soon as intelligence reached Mauritius, respecting the laws which the two governing councils of France had decreed, relative to the payments of the debts contracted in the paper currency, the creditors, who were greatly favoured by these laws, demanded the execution of them : the debtors, on the other hand, represented with great force and truth, that the circumstances in general, under which the different contracts had been made in the colony being different...
Page 85 - ... General to sign an order for the imprisonment of twelve different members of the Assembly, with a view of preventing, by any possibility, the passing of a law, the purport of which was the reimbursement of the debts contracted during the course of a depreciated paper currency. The
Page 83 - ... whole night, and twelve field pieces supported by the young National Guard of the colony, advanced in four columns to attack the troops in their quarters. General Malartic then advanced at the head of the National Guard, and again commanded the grenadiers to embark, which however they refused to do ; the matches were lighted, and a bloody contest was on the eve of commencing, when the Committee of Public Safety of the Colonial Assembly suggested that the two regiments should embark for France.
Page 83 - French Republic) was so great as to be but a thousandth part of the sum it nominally represented. As soon as intelligence reached Mauritius, respecting the laws which the two governing councils of France had decreed, relative to the payments of the debts contracted in the paper currency...
Page 75 - M. ordered the cannon to be loaded and pointed, but the moment the grenadiers approached and hailed the seamen in the republican style, the latter refused to defend their commander, and he was conducted by the grenadiers as a prisoner to the newly...