The attentions of the American officers, and particularly the kind condolence of the God-like Washington, quite overcame him: and his last moments were steeped in tears of regret, for having left his native land, to fight a distant people, who had never injured him. 'See here. Colonel,' said the dying count, (to Col. Danl. Clymer, who had been sent b}- Washington to condole with him) 'see in me, the vanity of all human pride ! I have shone in all the Courts of Europe, and now, I am dying here, on the banks of the Delaware, in the house of an obscure Quaker."''

As Captain Mauduit Duplessis was traversing the scene of slaughter after the repulse, he was accosted by a voice from among the slain : "Whoever you are, draw me hence." It was the unfortunate Count Donup. Duplessis had him conveyed to a house near the fort, where every attention was paid to lu's comfort ; he languished t'cr three days, during which Duplessis ■ was continually at his bed-side. -'This is finishing a noble career earl}-," said the Count sadly, as he found his death approaclu'ng. Then, as if conscious of the degrading service in which he had fallen, hired out by his prince to aid a foreign power in

11 J.ifi.' of Gc-jr-^c Vv'a..lun,.''on oy M. L W,.'L>mg, formerly Kector of JH Vernon I'ari^ti. riiila. ISUU.

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quelling the brave struggles of a people for their liberty, and contrasting it with that in which the chivalrous youth by his bedside was engaged-- " I die," added he bitterly, '" the victim of my ambition, and of the avarice of my sovereign."* He was but thirty-seven years of age at the time of his death.