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Rh ested to be sent to join Napoleon at St. Helena, iut instead was arrested and imprisoned at Malta. He afterward came to the United States, and with his brother, Baron Henry, planned a colony in Alabama as an asylum for European political exiles; but, it proving a failure, they located a "champ d'asile" on Trinity river in Texas, which then belonged to Mexico. In 1817 he assembled 150 lonists at this place, but was driven out of exas by the Mexican authorities, and then returned to the former project of a colony in Alabama, ided by bountiful subscriptions from Paris, lands ere again obtained, and the colony of Marengo as founded on the banks of Tombigbee river, Lallemand. however, took no part in the Marengo scheme, and, after originating many wild projects, he settled in Louisiana in 1818. While there he began a correspondence with Napoleon, whom he proposed to liberate from St. Helena. The ex-em- peror, on his death in 1821, bequeathed 100,000 francs to Lallemand ; but the French government opposed his receiving the money in consequence of his having been condemned to death during his absence from France. He fought in the Spanish war in 1823, went afterward to Brussels, and entered France without molestation. He then returned to the United States and established a successful school in New York. He returned to Paris in 1830, was restored to his military and political honors under Louis Philippe in 1832, took his seat in the house of peers, and was for two years military commander in Corsica. — His brother. Henri Dominique, French soldier, b. in France in 1777; d. in Bordentown, N. J., 15 Sept., 1823, served with distinction under Napoleon, who made him a general of division in the " hundred days," and fought at Waterloo. In 1815 he came to the United States, married a niece of Stephen Girard, and settled at Bordentown. N. J. He is the author of "A Treatise on Artillery " (New York, 1820).

LALOR, Teresa, mother superior, b. in Queens county, Ireland, in 1766; d. in Georgetown, D. C, in 1846. She came with her parents to the United States in 1797, and settled in Philadelphia. She had desired to enter the religious state before leav- ing Ireland, and she now explained her wishes to Father Leonard Neale, who was anxious to found a religious community in Philadelphia. Under his direction she joined two other young women, and opened a house for the education of girls. No sooner was the new institution in working order than the yellow fever broke out in Philadelphia. She was urged to fly, but remained at her post and saw her two companions carried off by the pestilence. Meanwhile Father Neale had been ap- pointed president of Georgetown college, and in 1799 he invited Miss Lalor to open a school in that town. This school was the beginning of what is to-day the oldest Roman Catholic female acade- my within the limits of the thirteen original states. In 1805 Bishop Neale purchased the Convent of the Poor Clares, who had gone to Europe, and in- stalled in it the Pious Ladies (now the Visitation nuns). The property was transferred to Miss Lalor in 1808, and shortly afterward the new community was erected into a Convent of the Visitation by the pope, and Miss Lalor became first superior, under the title of Mother Teresa. She lived to see five convents of her order established in different parts of the United States.

LA LOUTRE, Louis Joseph de, French ad- venturer, b. in France about 1690 ; d. there about 1770. He was a priest in the Roman Catholic church, and in 1737 was sent by the French foreign missionary society to Nova Scotia, settling near Messagouche (now Fort Lawrence). He headed the Acadians and Micmacs in an attack on An- napolis in 1744, and so incensed the English by his revolutionary measures that in 1745 they offered a reward for his capture. He subsequently revisited France, was intrusted with a large sum of money for the improvement of his mission, and was ap- pointed vicar-general of Acadia. But, after ruin- ing the neutral French by his unwise counsels, he abandoned them in the hour of their distress, fled in disguise before the surrender of Fort Beau- sejour, and, arriving in Quebec, was bitterly re- proached for his faithlessness by his bishop. He embarked for France in 1751, and, falling into British hands on the passage, was imprisoned for eight years in the island of Jersey.

LA MADRID, Gregorio Araos de (lah-mah- drid'), Argentine soldier, b. in Tucuman in 1796; d. in Buenos Ayres, 15 Oct., 1870. When he was fourteen years old he entered the Argentine army, and on 24 Oct., 1813, became a lieutenant of dra- goons. On 28 Nov., 1815, as a major, he did good service in the battle of Sipe-Sipe, and in 1816-'17 he took part in numerous battles in the campaign of Alto Peru. During the civil war of 1820-'l he fought against the Federals, in 1822 was promoted general, and on 25 Nov., 1825, took possession of the government of Tucuman. On 27 Oct., 1826, in command of the forces of the provinces of Tu- cuman and Catamarca, he fought a battle against the Federal governor of La Rioja, and when the victory had almost been won by his troops he was wounded and left for dead on the field. On 5 Dec. of the same year he again took possession of the government of Tucuman, and continued the war against the Federals. In June, 1830, he was appointed governor of the provinces of La Rioja and San Juan, and in 1831 he obtained the same place in the province of Cordova. On 4 Nov., 1831, he was defeated by Gen. Quiroga in the battle of Ciudadela. On 7 April, 1840, La Madrid headed in Tucuman a revolution, called the " Coalicion del Norte," against the government of Rosas, but met with many reverses during that year. On 5 Sept., 1841. he was appointed governor of the province of Mendoza. and on 24 Sept. he was de- feated by the Federal general, Pacheco, in the bat- tle of Rodeo del Medio, near Mendoza, and took refuge in Chili. Two years afterward he returned to the Argentine Republic, took part in the cam- paign against Rosas, and later was senator in several legislatures. La Madrid was a poet of some merit, and his troops often sang his verses as they were going into battle.

LAMAR, Gazaway B., banker, b. in Georgia in 1798; d. in New York city, 5 Oct., 1874. He was engaged in business for many years in Savannah, and was at one time a large slave-holder. In 1845 he removed to Brooklyn, was successful in business, and for several years president of the Bank of the Republic, New York. In anticipation of the civil war in the winter of 1860-'l, he shipped large quantities of arms to Georgia. He also acted as financial agent of the Confederacy, and in that capacity procured the printing of its notes and bonds in New York. Soon after the beginning of the war he went to Georgia, and was largely concerned in cotton-speculations and blockade-running. After the occupation of Savannah he was arrested by order of the secretary of war and confined in the old capital prison at Washington. A few months after his release he was tried by a military commission for attempted bribery of government officers, and was sentenced to several years' imprisonment and a large fine, but the sen-