corner of Third and Lombard Streets being the work of this distinguished artist, were especially fine. Here, encircled with stars and flowers-de-luce, palms, laurels, and rays of glory, were the portraits of Washington and Rochambeau, with the words, "Shine, Valiant Chiefs," above their heads in dazzling letters, while upon a lower window the name of Cornwallis appeared upon a ship, with the French colors flaunting above those of Britain, in recognition of the foreign ally who had proved that "a friend in need is a friend indeed." The French minister, a few days later, "entertained his excellency, general Washington, and his lady, the lady of General Greene, and a very polite circle of the gentlemen and ladies, with an elegant Concert, in which an Oratorio, composed & set to music by a gentleman whose taste in the polite arts is well known, was introduced." Alexander Quesnay de Glouvay, a French gentleman, who lived on Second Street, gave a varied and brilliant entertainment at the Southwark Theatre, in which the plays of "Eugenie " and the "Lying Valet" were followed by an illumination in which the thirteen States were represented by thirteen columns blazing with light, while a cupid supported a laurel crown over the motto, "Washington, — the pride of

his country and the terror of Britain." Why cupid was selected for this coronation instead of Mars or Minerva is not explained by the French gentleman or his chronicler. On Christmas day the General and Mrs. Washington dined with their good friends, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Morris, at their home on Front Street.

The Washingtons remained in Philadelphia for some months. On March 21st they attended the Commencement of the University of Pennsylvania, on Fourth Street, below Arch, and the next day set forth for Newburgh, accompanied by a large escort, which included "Captain Morris's troop of city light horse." On their journey northward they stopped at Burlington and Morristown, reaching Newburgh, by way of Pompton and Ringwood, on the thirty-first of March.

VIII

AFTER THE WAR

"I CAN truly say, that the first wish of my soul is to return speedily into the bosom of that country, which gave me birth and, in the sweet enjoyment of domestic happiness and the company of a few friends, to end my days in quiet, when I shall be called from this stage." So wrote Washington from Newburgh, in June, 1782; and we may be sure that this was also the first desire of Mrs. Washington's homeloving soul. Although a cessation of hostilities had been agreed upon by Parliament, nearly eighteen months of camp life lay before the General, and many trials and difficulties incident to the disbanding of an army whose just demands the treasury of the new nation was inadequate to meet.

The Newburgh headquarters had, at an earlier date, been established in the house of Colonel Thomas Ellison, which was beautifully situated upon the bluffs bordering the Hudson; but in the spring and summer of 1782, the

Washingtons were domiciled in the Hasbrouck house, named after Jonathan Hasbrouck, one of the good Huguenot founders of Newburgh. In this not very commodious one-story dwelling, containing seven rooms, the General and Mrs. Washington entertained many distinguished guests, among them the Count de Rochambeau and the Marquis de Chastellux.

Of his visit to headquarters the latter wrote:

"At six o'clock I arrived at Newborough, where I found M. & Madame Washington, Colonel Tighman, Colonel Humphreys and Major Walker. The headquarters at Newborough consists of a single house, & this house which is built like a Dutch cabin is neither vast or commodious. The largest room, which was the living room of the proprietor and his family, & which General Washington has made a dining-room, is spacious but it has seven doors and a single window. . . . I found the company assembled in a small room, which is used as a parlor. At nine o'clock supper was served, and when bed time came, I recognized that the chamber to which the General conducted me was the parlor, in which a camp-bed had been placed. We assembled, the next morning, for breakfast, at ten o'clock, and while we were at table, the camp-bed was folded up and my chamber became a reception room for the afternoon; for American manners do not permit a bed in a room where company is received, especially where there are women. The

smallness of the house and the inconvenience to which M. & Madame Washington were put to receive me made me apprehensive that M. de Rochambeau, who started one day after me, might make equally good time & and arrive at Newborough while I was still there. I took upon myself to send a messenger to Fishkill, to ask him to sleep there. My precaution was not useless, as my express found him arrived at the Landing, where he slept & thus did not join us until the next morning when I was about to take my departure." 1

Here may still be seen this oddly constructed dining-room, which also served the General as an office and reception room. Many pleasant sociable hours, as well as busy ones, were spent in this quaint apartment, when Steuben, Lafayette, Knox, and the young staff officers joined the circle around the great fireplace, and Mrs. Washington and her guests, attracted by the merriment in the dining-room, would come in from the parlor to enjoy Lafayette's spirited description of his difficulties in finding his way to Knox's quarters, to call upon his wife, or to hear his brother officers chaff Baron Steuben upon his "Hudson whale," which proved to be an eel of rather large dimensions.

The quarters of General Knox were in an

1 Voyages de M. le Marquis de Chastellux, vol. ii. pp. 234, 235.