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firmness and integrity. Judge Favre was a: man of education, fortune and high standing. He had originally lived in Mobile and on the Tombigbee river, but as far back as 1777,'he\vas residing on Pearl river. Bartram, the celebrated naturalist, in his travels through Florida and Louisiana, states 'that, .in thai/year, being Mobile, on his way to the Mississippi, Mr. Favre offered him ;a passage on his boat as far as his residence on Pearl, river, where he was entertained with much hospitality.	?	'
In 1812, the Indians from the extreme northwest to the Gulf, were manifesting a hostile feeling to the whites. The celebrated Tecumseh, and his brother, the prophet, were endeavoring to organize a general confederacy of the tribes. They were then in the Creek Nation, and were employing all tkei,r influence to exasperate the Choctaws, whose territory enveloped our settlements, and whdse warriors were sufBcientlv numerous to have butchered the whole country in sixty days. Under these circumstances, Gov. Claiborne addressed the following; letter to Judge Favre':	-	'	.	\
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New Orleans, June 4th, 1812.	<
Sir:?? Having received information that the Choctaws of the lower towns ?re committing depredations in the settlements on Pearl, Leaf and Chicka^awha rivers, and are. disclosing a hostile disposition towards the United States, I have addressed to them a ? Talk,? which I herewith commit to your care. I request, you to proceed without delay to the Nation, and after assembling the Chiefs and Head, men, you will deliver and ex-: plain my address, adding such observations aad* urging such means as1 your judgment and experience may suggest. During your stay you wjll make inquiries on the following points :	1st. Whether the Creeks and Choctaws tave been, furnished with military sup-
plies? 2d. The number of warriors in the Choctaw Ration, and;what portion of them 'are ' supposed to be under Spanish or British influence? 3rd. The name of the towns where the Spanish or British have the most partnans, and the names of thtvChiefa pud Mirjgoe^'bf. said towns. 4th. Whether Tecumseh or the Prophet have been in the nation or sent their talks.	?
I confide greatly in your tact and experience.?
This patriotic gentleman undertook, and ably performed this delicate mission. No man living1, commanded p the same extent, the confidence of that powerful tribe. He checked the intrigues of the hostile agents, and stayed the tomahawk, then uplifted to strike.	?	.
The first arrest ever made in this county, then the parish of Biloxi, was made by Judge Favre. On the 10th January, 1811, he arrested one Wm. Bonford, Suspected of having stolen two negroes' and three horses. ' There being no jail the prisoner was sent to New Orleans, and he was subsequently delivered on the requisition: of Gov. Holmes of Mississippi, to Thomas Torrance, to be-tried lathe county of Amite, the negroes having been stolen from Thomas' Batchelor and Agrippa Gayden of that county.
Judge Ladnier, from some unintentional misconstructidnv.o'f? his authority, got into the hands of Mr. Ellery, a prominentia^;