52. The French in Prince Edward Island 
     
    
   
   
    
     no help comes,” he exclaimed in despair. But no 
     
     help came and on November 27, 1724, de Mézy, 
     
     Commissaire at Ile Royale, wrote the Minister that 
     
     almost all the habitans of Isle Saint Jean had been 
     
     obliged to abandon the colony and had come to Ile 
     
     Royale; that he had embarked all those who would 
     
     have been at the charge of the King and sent them 
     
     with their families to France; that those who had 
     
     claims on the insolvent Company were sent back to 
     
     Port La Joye to lay their case before M. Dubuisson 
     
     as he himself had no jurisdiction on the island; that 
     
     M. Dubuisson and Roberge had seized all the effects 
     
     of the Company including the brigantine La Chi- 
     
     mene, and had come with the creditors to Ile Royale 
     
     to settle their affairs with the much-harassed M. 
     
     Aubert; that he had tried to bring the different 
     
     parties to an agreement, but, having failed, allowed 
     
     matters to take their course when everything was 
     
     sold at auction and the proceeds divided among the 
     
     creditors in proportion to their claims; that M. Au- 
     
     bert had then set out for France on Le Héros.*” 
     
    

    
     The departure of M. Aubert on Le Héros was the 
     
     last incident in the local history of the enterprise of 
     
     Comte de Saint Pierre. It had begun in dishonesty 
     
     and ended in disaster. Comte de Saint Pierre, a syco- 
     
     phant and a supple dependant upon Court favor, 
     
     was not the type of man to make great sacrifices for 
     
     a far-off colony without prospect of immediate gain. 
     
     The 1,200,000 livres which the Company expended 
     
     had been almost entirely subscribed by Farges and 
     
    
   
   
    
     19 C11 IV, Vol. 7, p. 88.