all the Officers (except one Field Officer to each Brigade, and one Battalion Officer to each Regiment on the east side of the river, who are to remain with their Corps) are requested to repair to West Point, where the General expects the pleasure of their company at

dinner.

"Dinner will be on the table at four o'clock, at which time a proportion of liquor will be distributed to each Regiment and Corps by their respective Quarter-Mas

ters.

"After dinner thirteen Toasts will be drank, and each Toast announced by a discharge of Artillery.

"As soon as the thirteenth is drank, the Officers will rise from the table, and join their respective Regiments. "At half after seven, the feu de joie will commence with the discharge of thirteen pieces of cannon from the Park, succeeded by a fire of musketry from the Infantry, in the following order, viz. :

2d Massachusetts Brigade.

"The firing being three times repeated in the same order, the Officers commanding Corps will, with an audible voice, pray to God to bless the Dauphin of France, and grant him long life and happiness, and the Troops give three cheers.

"The fireworks will then be displayed from Fort Webb, and the ceremony concluded by a discharge of three pieces of cannon from the Park, which will also serve

as a signal for the Troops to return to their cantonment."*

The expectations which these preparations gave rise to were amply realized, and are thus fully described:

"The 31st of May being the day appointed for the celebration, between 12 and 1 o'clock P. M., His Excellency General Washington and Lady, and Suite, His Excellency Governor Clinton, with his Lady, Major-General Knox and Brigadier-General Hand, with their Ladies, Mr. Benson, the Attorney-General, Mrs. Livingston [of the lower Manor], Mrs. Montgomery [widow of the Hero who fell at Quebec], and a great number of ladies and gentlemen from the States of New York and New Jersey, arrived in their barges at West Point, and were conducted through the grand colonnade which had been erected for the entertainment, situated on the gently rising ground in the rear of Fort Clinton, commanding the level of the Plain with a variegated view of all the barracks, encampments, and fortifications of the garrison.

"The situation was romantic, and the occasion novel and interesting. Major Villefranche, an ingenious

*Revolutionary Orders.-Colonel Whiting, U. S. A.

Major Villefranche was one of the many French Officers who came to America early in the autumn of 1777, after the news of Burgoyne's overthrow reached Europe, to seek employment in the army. On the 4th of October of that year, Congress "Ordered," That there be paid to Mons. Villefranche, who has tendered his services to the United States, $100, for which he was to be accountable.* In the following winter, Mons. Villefranche laid a memorial before Congress, setting forth that though he had received a gratification" and money, to return to France, he would prefer to remain, if he could be employed as an Engineer, under General Du Portail. Whereupon, on January 1st, 1778, Congress "Resolved, That the Chevalier de Villefranche be appointed a Major of Engineers under Brigadier Du Portail." [The Corps of Engineers was organized as a distinct branch of the army, March 11, 1779.] He built the stone magazine on the west end of Con

* Journals of Congress, II., 274.

+Journals of Congress, II., 390.

Journals of Congress, III., 224.