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.

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.