These young soldiers, the most elegant and accomplished of the European nobility, although from early life accustomed to the splendor and gaiety of Versailles and Paris, on their arrival in America, had at once accommo-dated themselves to the manners of the country, and over-coming ancient prejudices by urbanity and address, had acquired general popularity with the inhabitants. They have now all passed away, but among them were those whose celebrity will justify a bare mention of them here, and whose disinterested services, gratitude requires us forever to remem-ber and acknowledge. Count Charles de Lameth, then assistant quarter-master-general, dangerously wounded in the following October at the siege of Yorktown; in the early years of the French revo-lution a member of the National and Constituent Assembly, republican in sentiment, and a leader of the Constitutional party. The Chevalier Alexandre de Lameth, at that time employed as an officer of the general staff, during his whole subsequent career strongly inclined toward democracy; one of the ablest antagonists of Mirabeau in the Constituent Assembly, and the fellow laborer, friend and fellow prisoner of La Fayette. Count Mathieu Dumas, then one of Rochambeau's aides-de-camp, who during the empire, became a lieutenant-general, and wrote the memoirs of the times. Count Axel de Tersen, a Swedish nobleman in the French service, remarkable for personal beauty, and elegance of manners, then also one of the French commander's aides:

THE WESTCHESTER GUIDES 95 distinguished in after years for a chivalric admiration of the unhappy Marie Antoinette, and whose assistance in 1791, was invoked and rendered, upon the unfortunate occasion of the royal flight to Varennes, as driver of the King's carriage. The two brothers Berthier, adjuncts in 1781, to the general staff, the elder of whom (Pierre Alexandre) was long celebrated for his devoted attachment to Napoleon, one of whose marshals he was, and under whom he became Prince of Wagram and Neufchâtel.