mony to him of the national gratitude. At length, after a year spent in these receptions and festivities, he took leave of the country, with the parting benediction of the President at Washington, embarking in a national vessel, the Brandywine, on the Potomac. His last farewell was to the home of Washington. brethren in the Chamber of Deputies, and call the Duke of Orleans to the throne, which he designed should be a monarchy, surrounded by republican institutions. Lafayette survived but a few years the accession of Louis Philippe. One of the last scenes in which he was prominently before the public, was at the funeral of General Lamarque, in 1832, when a popular manifestation was attempted. The people removed his horses from his coach and would have dragged him in triumph to the Hotel de Ville, but he had no taste for irregular movements of this kind, and quietly managed to get conducted to his home, while the government was calling out all its forces to suppress an insurrection, of which he was supposed to be at the head. He survived this event about two years. Another funeral which he attended, of a colleague of the Chamber of Deputies, was the cause of his death, from the exposure to which he was subjected. He took a cold, which settled on his lungs, and after an illness of more than two months, aggravated by a relapse, died in Paris, May 20th, 1834, in his seven. ty-seventh year. He was buried in a humble, quiet cemetery, in an out-ofthe-way part of the city, by the side of his beloved wife. A plain, reclining slab, with a simple inscription, marks his grave. There are few Americans who visit Paris, who do not turn for a few moments from its pomp and gaieties to visit this unpretending On his return to France, in the autumn of 1825, Lafayette carried with him the prestige of his importance in America. He became more prominent in the Chamber of Deputies. He was the available leader of the popular party, as, the rule of Charles X. revived the despotic principles of his race. A tour to his birthplace, in the sum mer of 1829, was the occasion of a striking popular manifestation. Wherever he appeared, crowds and a welcome attended him; towns were brilliantly illuminated; there was a great demonstration at Lyons-all significant, not only of the personal regard in which he was held, but of the approaching downfall of the government. The next year the course of Charles X., and his minister, Polignac, brought affairs to a crisis. The Three Days of July, of barricades and popular outbreak, ended in the dethronement of the king. Lafayette, who, as in 1789, had been called to the command of the National Guard, and was a prime mover in the revolution, was acknowledged master of the position. An influential popular party would have made him president of a republic. He preferred to fall in with the views of his spot. : Threttesson Fimm the original painting by Chappelan the possessien of the prbhsiu ve. Johnson Wilson & Co., Publishers How Yak. THOMAS JEFFERSON. IN his Autobiography, written to wards the close of his life, the author of the Declaration of Independence, thinking, doubtless his new political career a better passport to fame with posterity than any conditions of ancestry in the old society which he had superseded, while he could not be insensible to the worth of a respectable family history, says of the Randolphs, from whom he was descended on the mother's side, "they trace their pedigree far back in England and Scotland, to which let every one ascribe the faith and merit he chooses." Whatever value may be set by his biographers upon an ancient lineage, they cannot overlook the fact-most important in its influence upon his future history that he was introduced by his family relationships at birth into a sphere of life in Virginia, which gave him many social advantages. The leveller of the old aristocracy was by no means a self-made man of the people, struggling upward through difficulty and adversity. His father, Peter Jefferson, belonged to a family originally from Wales, which had been among the first settlers of the colony. 1619, one of the name was seated in In the Assembly at Jamestown, the first legislative body of Europeans, it is said, that ever met in the New World. The particular account of the family begins with the grandfather of Thomas Jefferson, who owned some lands in Chesterfield County. His third son, Peter, established himself as a planter on certain lands which he had "patented," or come into possession of by purchase, in Albermarle County, in the vicinity of Carter's Mountain, where the Rivanna makes its way through the Range; and about the time of his settlement married Jane, daughter of Isham Randolph, of Dungeness, in Goochland County, of the eminent old Virginia race, to which allusion has already been made, a stock which has extended its branches through every department of worth and excellence in the State. Isham Randolph was a man of talent and education, as well as noted for the hospitality practiced by every gentleman of his wealthy position. His memory is gratefully preserved in the correspondence of the naturalists, Collinson and Bartram. The latter was commended to his care in one of his scientific tours, and enjoyed his hearty welcome. His daughter, Jane, we are told, "possessed a most amiable and affectionate disposition, a lively, cheerful temper, and a great fund of humor," qualities which had their influence upon her son's character. Her marriage to Peter Jefferson took place at the age of nineteen, and the fruit of this union, the third child and first son, was Thomas, the subject of this sketch. He was born at the new family location at Shadwell, April 2d (old style), 1743. Scottish clergyman. It was his parent's dying wish that he should receive a good classical education; and the seed proved to be sown in a good soil. The lessons which the youth had already received, were resumed under the excellent instruction of the Rev. James Maury, at his residence, and thence, in 1760, the pupil passed to William and Mary College. He was now in his eighteenth year, a tall, thin youth, of a ruddy complexion, hist hair inclining to red, an adept in manly and rural sports, a good dancer, something of a musician, full of vivacity. It is worth noticing, that the youth of Jefferson was of a hearty, joyous character. Peter Jefferson, the father, was a model man for a frontier settlement, tall in stature, of extraordinary strength of body, capable of enduring any fatigue in the wilderness, with corresponding health and vigor of mind. Williamsburg, also, the seat of the He was educated as a surveyor, and college, was then anything but a schoin this capacity engaged in a govern- lastic hermitage for the mortification ment commission to draw the bound- of youth. In winter, during the sesary line between Virginia and North sion of the court and the sittings of Carolina. Two years before his death, the colonial legislature, it was the which occurred suddenly in his fiftieth | focus of provincial fashion and gayety; year, in 1757, he was chosen a member of the House of Burgesses. His son was then only fourteen, but he had already derived many impressions from the instructions and example of his father, and considerable resemblance is traced between them. Mr. Randall, in his biography, notices the inheritance of physical strength, of a certain plainness of manners, and honest love of independence, even of a fondness for reading for the stalwart surveyor was accustomed to solace his leisure with his Spectator and his Shakespeare. The son wås early sent to school, and, before his father's death, was instructed in the elements of Greek, and Latin, and French, by Mr. Douglass, a and between study and dissipation the 4 |