"I went to Boston," he used to say, "an entire stranger and destitute of means, yet, while sojourning there, I was not only received and entertained with more genuine hospitality than I ever experienced elsewhere, but the merchants of the city, from time to time, then and afterward, advanced all such moneys as I required, solely upon my promise that I would, at some future day, repay them." La Rouërie possessed quick parts, a lively wit and great eloquence, both for conversation and formal discourse. A seven years' residence in the United States, which tempered and gave stable and distinctive qualities to his youthful char-acter, is acknowledged by his admirers as the first cause of his celebrity. The ardor with which he embarked in the chief undertakings of his life seemed to lighten up a corresponding enthusiasm in all who came within the sphere of his influence; but he united also to this vehement earnestness, a grand and elevated character which combined all the talents requisite for negociation, with the extended views of a general and the intrepidity of a soldier. These characteristics were fully shewn in the formation and conduct of the vast conspiracy which disclosed itself after his death and of which he was the projec-tor. At the time of his passion for the celebrated actress he was very young, and the subsequent course of a busy life spent in seeking honorable distinction where liberty and duty led the way, fully demonstrates the problem, that the greatest capacity for active life is not inconsistent with the strongest susceptibility. Although in common with most of his country-men who had served here, he zealously favored the most extensive reforms at home, and even upon its first appearance welcomed the approach of the revolution which swept over his native land, yet he opposed with zeal the total subversion of the ancient Gallic institutions, avowing himself an advocate