He  plundered  and  burned  the  town,
drove  the  inhabitants  to  the  woods,  and
broke  up  the  settlement.  (See  Acadia.)
Unable  to  contend  with  the  English
company,  De  Mouts  abandoned  Acadia
and  proposed  to  plant  a  colony  on  the
Sf. Lawrence  River,  under  the  direction
of  Champlain  aud  Pont-Grev^.  But  his
monopoly  was  partially  revoked  in  1608.
Under  the  auspices  of  a  ctuupany  of  mer-
chants at  Dieppe  and  St.  Malo,  settle-
ments were  begun  at  Quebec  and  Mon-
treal. (See  Champlain.)  Soon  after-
wards the  fortune  of  De  Monts  was  so
much  reduced  that  he  could  not  pursue
his  scheme  of  colonization,  and  it  was
abandoned.
Denmark,  and  American  Cmisers.
Near  the  close  of  Septenil>er,  1779,  an
American  frigate  entcied  the  port  of
Bergen,  with  two  rich  prizes.  The  Brit-
ish envoy  at  Copenhagen  complained,
and  the  Danish  minister  published  an
ordinance  forbidding  the  sale  of  the
prizes  until  they  should  have  been  cou-
dennied  in  an  American  court  of  ad-
miralty. In  the  same  ordinance  he  de-
clared that  as  the  King  of  Denmark  had
recognized  neither  the  iude])endence
nor  the  flag  of  the  United  States,  its  ves-
sels could  not  be  permitted  to  bring
their  prizes  into  Danish  harbors.  The
two  prizes  were  set  free.
