In the Graham mansion, which fornierly stood on the site of Mr. Leggett's farm house, Mnjor Bearmore, a British officer, was surprised by Colonel Armand,^^ of the French cavalry. "November 7th,

« Tlie last whose name I recollect, (says the Marquis De Chastellux,* is Colonel Armand -- tliat is, M. de la Rouerie, nephew of M. de la Belinage. He was as celebrated in France for his passion for Mademoiselle B , as he is in America for his

courage and capacity. His family, having compelled him to abandon an attachment, the consequences of which they dreaded, he buried himself in a celebrated and profound retirement ; (the monastery of La Trappe ;) but he soon quitted it for America, where he devoted himself to a more glorious abstinence, and to more meritorious mortifications. His character is gay, his wit agreeable ; and nobody would wish to see him make the vow of silence. M. Le Marquis de la Rouerie was then very young: his subsequent conduct has proved that nature, in giving him a susceptible and impassioned mind, has not made him a present likely to be always fatal to him : glory and honor have employed all its activity ; and it is an observation which merits to be consigned in history, as well as in this journal, that carrying with him, as he did to America, all the heroic courage and romantic notions of chivalry of the ancient French noblesse, he could so well conform to republican manners, that, far from availing himself of his birth, he would only make himself known by bis Christian name. Hence he was always called Colonel Armand. He commanded a legion which was destroyed in Carolina, at the battle of Camden, and in the remainder of that unfortunate campaign. In 1781 he went to France, purchased everything necessary for arming and equipping a new legion, and on hia