Although among those with whom he then acted many were his equals in rank and some his superiors, yet all, recognizing his remarkable abilities, sub-mitted cheerfully to his guidance, and spoke of and considered him to the last, as a man born to command. In his writings, Washington repeatedly bears testimony to the extraordinary merits and devotedness of the French legionary commander. The fact that he secured the confidence and friendship and received the praises of one who rarely uttered eulogy and was never mistaken in his estimate of men, cannot fail to add much, always, to the weight of La Rouërie's reputation. His cor-respondence with Washington was carried on almost to the end of his life. One of the last communications known to have passed between him and the great American commander, con-sisted of an introductory letter in behalf of Chateaubriand which that distinguished statesman, then in the hey-day of youth, presented at Philadelphia on the occasion of his visit to this country in 1791. The untimely departure of the marquis de la Rouërie was long and deeply lamented by his associates; and history, in times to come, while she records the heroic courage and romantic devotion that marked his career, will place him high in the roll of chivalry, along with the purest and loftiest specimens of the ancient French noblesse.