ABSTRACT
M. Houel, unable to persuade M. Boisseret to sell his part of the island of Guadaioupe, returned to that island with a determination to be master of the whole; and soon after his landing, he sent his brother, the Chevalier Houel, off the island, and he returned to France. Houel then proceeded to sell all the effects of his brother-in-law Boisseret, notwithstanding the remonstrances of his son: these effects sold for a million five hundred and twentynine thousand pounds of tobacco, and were purchased by M. HouePs partizans. Some of his nephew's menaces, for unjustly selling his father's property, being reported to M. Houel, he sent the young man off the island.
