An officer in the army, he had repeatedly, during the progress of the Revolution, sought opportunity to come to America and fight under Washington, but to his intense clisgusi had been denied that privilege. Finally, in the spring of 1782, he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel in the regiment of the Soisonnais, then with Rochambeau in Virginia; and he also was intrusted by his father, the minister of war, with dispatches to General Rochambeau and a large amount of gold for the royal troops. Landing on the coast of Virginia after a perilous voyage, he proceeded to Rochambeau's camp in our county, where he arrived on the 26th of September. The observations that he made there, and particularly his remarks upon the personality and character of Washington, are extremely agreeable and instructive; but, being quite lengthy, and having no practical bearing on the course of events, it is not convenient to reproduce them in this narrative, which already threatens to pass the bounds fixed by the publishers.1 Count Segur's dispatcher from the ministry to Rochambeau directed that general to transfer the operations of the French army from the United States to the Antilles, and preparations to that end were soon begun. On the l'lM of Octobei the French struck their tents at Crompond ami marched across Westchester County on the route to Newport, whence they sailed on the :24th of December for the West Indies. An amusing incident of local interest, which occurred just as the French were making ready to leave, is thus related by Segur: At the moment of our quitting the camp of Crampont (sic), as M. de Rochambeau was proceeding, at the head of our columns, surrounded by his brilliant staff, an American approached him, tapped him slightly on the shoulder, and, shewing him a paper he held in his hand, said to him: " In the name of the law you are my prisoner!'' Several young officers were indignant at this insult offered to their general, hut he restrained their impatience by a sign, smiled, and said to the American: "Take me away witli you if you can." "No," replied the American, " I have done my duty, and your Excellency may proceed on your inarch if you wish to set justice at defiance; in that case I only ask to be allowed to withdraw unmolested.