REUNION ISLAND. COMMERCE. NANTES. 6 letters: Ile BOURBON (Re - Lot 509

REUNION ISLAND. COMMERCE. NANTES. 6 letters: Ile BOURBON (Reunion Island) ST DENIS October 24, 1829. Letter signed BELLET, to Madame BELLET of Toulouse. 4 pages in-4°: "This morning, my dearest Friend, I sent my N°31 (his letter) by LE PRUDENT CASIMIR to Marseille; as the Paquebot Nantais is due to leave tomorrow for Nantes, despite my busy schedule I am writing you a few lines... I have received news from Madagascar; I am told that the expedition will be back in Bourbon, with the ground artillery troops, at the beginning of December, the time when we must set out to return to France. The establishment of "Teintinogue" is completed and in a state of defense; the government has given me the plans... It has not yet been decided how we will return to France, if not on merchant ships or on a cargo corvette... The heat is beginning to bother me, and I'm suffering more than in Madagascar... Tomorrow we're going to spend the day at Mr Monginet's naturalization garden... Everyone here is getting ready for the Feast of St Charles..." (Extract) + Commercial letters addressed to BOURCARD et Cie, NANTES: SAINT-DENIS (Reunion Island) October 1, 1830. Letter from RONTAUNAY et Cie: "... We learn with sorrow that a few days after the ship LA THÉTIS entered the port and disembarked its cargo, news has arrived from England which makes us fear that the Government does not want to emancipate those Exclaves from the population of this island who have been introduced since 1814.... News from Europe has turned everything upside down and business is suspended.... We learn on the Bordeaux route of the beginnings of the Algiers Expedition, and our new elections. May political events not change their aspect and let the relations of our colonies with France continue peacefully... the price of our sugars is at the moment at 6 ½, coffees at 14..." (extract of 4 pages in-4°) + Account of expenses from Gorée (Ile de Gorée Sénégal) of the ship LE ROI HAMÉDÉE Captain Haradeau going to Nantes + Marseille March 18, 1826. Trade in ebony wood from the Senegal coast + Bayonne February 26, 1829, Sale of hams and edibles + Cette (Sète) August 30, 1824. Account of Bourbon sugar sales received by the ship l'Iris.