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We can well believe that it was with heartfelt satisfaction that soon after independence was at last assured he wrote to his old comrade-in-arms the Marquis de Chastellux: "I am at length become a private citizen on the banks of the Potomac, where under my own vine and fig-tree free from the bustle of a camp and the intrigues of a court, I shall view the busy world with calm indifference, and with serenity of mind, which the soldier in pursuit of glory, and the statesman of a name, have not leisure to enjoy."
You wrote to the Chevalier de Chastellux, my dear marquis, that the interview I requested of our general has embarrassed him, because it only becomes necessary after the arrival of the second division, when there will be quite time enough to act.
"I saw many of our friends Madame de Chastellux and the Duchesse d'Orléans, Madame de Staël and Madame d'Azay she is much broken, Ned; the emigration of so many of her friends, the tragic death of many, the disrupting of her whole social world, has begun to tell seriously on her health, though her spirit is still indomitable. She and Madame de St.
Chastellux, Marquis de. <i>Travels in North America.</i> London. "To drum-beat and heart-beat A soldier marches by; There is color in his cheek, There is courage in his eye, Yet to drum-beat and heart-beat In a moment he must die." The story of Nathan Hale is the story of a short life and a brave death.
Necker never became a thorough Frenchwoman; she always lacked the grace and charm which are the necessary qualifications of a salon leader; intelligence was her most meritorious quality. Her dinners were apt to become tiresome and to drag. A very interesting story is told of her by the Marquis de Chastellux, which was reported by Mme. Genlis, one of her intimate friends: "Dining at Mme.
"Happy his country," said Chastellux, "if she employs his services; happier still if she has no use for them!" It was during this autumn that Benedict Arnold made what Lafayette called that "horrid compact with the enemy" an event that amazed and distressed him beyond any words. Lafayette was with Washington when the plot was discovered.
And in a less personal sense he wrote to Chastellux, "In reading your very friendly and acceptable letter,... I was, as you may well suppose, not less delighted than surprised to meet the plain American words, 'my wife. A wife! Well, my dear Marquis, I can hardly refrain from smiling to find you are caught at last.
Grenville, The Present State of the Nation, 35; but this statement is made in a political pamphlet, answered and apparently refuted by Burke, Observations on a Late State of the Nation. A. Young, i. 596. Chastellux, ii. 169. Under the old monarchy the taxes were unequally assessed in two ways. There were differences of places and differences of persons.
The Marquis de Chastellux, author of De la Felicite Publique, describes him as a small, eager-faced man, full of zeal and activity, constantly engaged in works of benevolence, which were by no means confined to the blacks. Like Woolman and Lay, he advocated abstinence from intoxicating spirits.
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