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. Count Charles de Damas, another of the French commander's aides, during the campaign of 1781, a bold and dashing officer, and throughout life, a faithful friend and fol-lower of the Bourbons. Association for considerable period with persons such as these, was of lasting benefit to the guide of Whiteplains, not only by imparting polish to his manners, but enlargement and liberality to his knowledge and opinons. Oakley continued with the Continental and State troops upon the lines, until the spring of 1783. After the proclama-tion of peace, he returned to agricultural pursuits, and at a subsequent period married. Like his old friend and com-panion in arms Odell, he was ambitious of being a skillful cultivator of the soil, and steadily refused to engage in polit-ical life. His original education had been such only as the ordinary country schools of that day afforded, but careful self improvement in after years, enabled him to write and speak readily and correctly. Upon the great questions which agi-tated the public mind, he invariably formed opinions for him-self, sometimes reducing them to writing. In disposition, he was sanguine, kind and sociable, and blameless in all the domestic relations: although having occupied stations of authority in early life, there was sometimes a seeming sever-ity in his manners, and where he had a right to command, he always exacted a prompt obedience.