In a memoir of MM. de St. Laurent and Begon to the French King in February 1684, they report that in the previous year some French filibusters discovered in a patache captured from the Spaniards a letter from the Governor of Jamaica exhorting the Spaniards to make war on the French in Hispaniola, and promising them vessels and other means for entirely destroying the colony. This letter caused a furious outburst of resentment among the French settlers against the English (_cf._ also C.S.P. Colon., 1681-85, No. 1348). Shortly after, according to the memoir, an English ship of 30 guns appeared for several days cruising in the channel between Tortuga and Port de Paix. The sieur de Franquesnay, on sending to ask for an explanation of this conduct, received a curt reply to the effect that the sea was free to everyone. The French governor thereupon sent a barque with 30 filibusters to attack the Englishman, but the filibusters returned well beaten. In despair de Franquesnay asked Captain de Grammont, who had just returned from a cruise in a ship of 50 guns, to go out against the intruder. With 300 of the corsairs at his back de Grammont attacked the English frigate. The reception accorded by the latter was as vigorous as before, but the result was different, for de Grammont at once grappled with his antagonist, boarded her and put all the English except the captain to the sword.--Bibl. Nat., Nouv. Acq., 9325 f. 332. No reference to this incident is found in the English colonial records.] [Footnote 457: C.S.P. Colon., 1681-85, No. 963.] [Footnote 458: Ibid., Nos. 1844, 1852.] [Footnote 459: C.S.P. Colon., 1681-85, Nos. 1246, 1249, 1250, 1294, 1295, 1302, 1311, 1348, 1489, 1502, 1503, 1510, 1562, 1563, 1565.] [Footnote 460: Ibid., No. 1938; _ibid._, 1685-88, Nos. 33, 53, 57, 68, 128, 129, 157.] [Footnote 461: Ibid., 1681-85, Nos. 668, 769; _ibid._, 1685-88, No. 986.] [Footnote 462: C.S.P. Colon., 1681-85, Nos. 1163, 1198; Bibl. Nat., Nouv. Acq., 9325, f. 332.] [Footnote 463: C.S.P. Colon., 1681-85, Nos. 1796, 1854, 1855, 1943; _ibid._, 1685-88, Nos. 218, 269, 569, 591, 609, 706, 739.] [Footnote 464: Ibid., 1681-85, Nos. 1163, 1198, 1249, 1630.] [Footnote 465: Ibid., Nos. 963, 992, 1938, 1949, 2025, 2067.] [Footnote 466: Ibid., Nos. 963, 992, 1759.] [Footnote 467: Ibid., Nos. 1259, 1563.] [Footnote 468: C.S.P. Colon., 1681-85, Nos. 1845, 1851, 1862, 2042. His ship is called in these letters "La Trompeuse." Unless this is a confusion with Hamlin's vessel, there must have been more than one "La Trompeuse" in the West Indies. Very likely the fame or ill-fame of the original "La Trompeuse" led other pirate captains to flatter themselves by adopting the same name. Breha was captured in 1686 by the Armada de Barlovento and hung with nine or ten of his companions (Charlevoix, _op. cit._, liv. ix. p. 207).] [Footnote 469: Ibid., Nos. 1299, 1862.] [Footnote 470: Ibid., No. 1249.] [Footnote 471: C.S.P. Colon., 1681-85, Nos. 1560, 1561.]