GENERAL LAFAYETTE.
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Extract ofa letter from Paris, dated Jan. IL 826


81 have been out to General Lafavette's S
chateau, Lagrange. where ! remained two
days and three nights, spending the most
agreeable time ever spent any where.
did not expect to remnin more than day
but could not get away sooner. was par
ticularly fortunate in the time when all the
Generals children and grandchildren were
assembled together, preparatory to the OBJ
servance of some religious ceremony, to keep
in recollection the death OF the Generals
wife, and Geo. Washington Lafayette's
mother-in-law. There were about twenty
or thirty persons at table every day, the
greater part of whom were ladies, the two
daughters and the grand-daughters of the
General, with an extremely interesting
young lady, Miss Segur, daughter of the
count who wrete the Russian campaign.
had large chamber with every convenience
allotted to me, in which fire was kept,
and where were books and papers; about 10
o'clock a large bell in the castle assembled
every body in the parlour, from whence we
proceeded to breakfast; after breakfast all
ofus, except the General, took stroll over
the grounds, after which it was the usage to
retire into the chambers until about g. when
another bell assembled us to dinner: in the
intermediate time. however, was mostly
with the General, who was showing me on
one day, in the library the in mense number
of presents he had received from America;
or another what he calls his farm, which
we would call stables, barn and barn yard;
here he has all of his stock, poultry sc.
brought in the evening into their respective
stables and folds: some pigs, wild geese and
turkeys, brought from America; his flock OF
sheep counts upward of 500, and are every
one genuine merino, raised from part Of
the fock sent by the King of Spain to Louis
the 10th. who gave them to him.


"After dinner, we all continued in the par
lour together, where we had coffee, and mu-
sc from the young ladies'; about 9 or 10, 6
cup Of tea, and retired about II or 12 tt
bed"