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 States, seeking some business or position, which he at length found in Philadelphia, where he married, but died in a few years, leaving two young daughters.

In the Magazine of American History, (edited by John A. Stephens,) June, 1881, may be found a translation of some of General Lafayette’s letters, and of the examination of Mr. Huger before the Court of Olmutz, which singularly resemble his own account of the transaction. These were procured from the Imperial Archives in Vienna.

The following letter from General Lafayette, written on his liberation, about three years later, will be found of interest:

, (the date is wanting.)

My Dear Huger:

The same friend whose liberties you so generously undertook and whose beating heart turns to you in the moment he regains his life and liberty, here addresses you, and hastens to offer you the tribute of his inexpressible and unbounded gratitude.

What you have done for me and how you have done it, binds me forever to you with the ties of esteem and love.

The sufferings and danger which you have borne with so much courage and spirit did not find in me so much fortutide, and in the midst of fear and anxiety from which I could not free myself from the day of your capture to that of your release. I was so cruelly tortured by my apprehensions, that it