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. Some soldiers, of the division of Soissonnais, have cut down several trees, and burnt them to light their fires; the owner of them claims an indemnity, and has obtained a warrant against you, which I come to execute." M. de Rochambeau, having heard this explanation, which was translated to him by one of his aides-de-camp, called M. de Villemanzy. now a peer of France, and then intendant of the army, appointed him to be his bail, and ordered him to settle this affair, and to pay what should he considered fair, if the indemnity he had already offered was not thought sufficient. The American then withdrew; and the general and Ins army, who had thus been arrested by a constable, continued their march. A judgment of arbitration was afterwards pronounced, fixing two thousand francs, that is to say. a sum less than the general had offered, as the amount of damages due to this unjust proprietor, who had claimed fifteen thousand, and he was even condemned to pay costs. 1 The Marquis de Chastellux, one of Rochambeau's principal subordinates, has also left a highly picturesque description.