A discussion then took place in regard to the advisability of issuing a pamphlet for popular circulation, giving a sketch of Col. Bouquet and his campaigns. It was felt that such a work would form a very important factor in the celebration, and the sentiment of the meeting was that it should be issued without delay. Next day Rev. C. Cort received a letter from Gen. Richard Coulter, A. B. Kline, Esq., and James Gregg, Esq., stating that it was the sense of the meeting that a pamphlet, consisting of one hundred pages, should be prepared as soon as possible, containing a historical sketch of Bouquet and all matters of colonial interest bearing especially on his campaign against the Confederates of Pontiac. These gentlemen, forming the Executive Committee of the celebration, also stated further that it was their wish that he (Rev. C.) should prepare the aforesaid pamphlet. This task was accepted as a labor of love, with the understanding that the writer would assume all pecuniary responsibilities, and that if any profits resulted from the sale of the book or pamphlet above necessary cost of publication, the proceeds should be devoted to a fund for a monument to Bouquet

As the time was limited, and the duties of a large and laborious pastoral charge devolved upon the writer, the work has been prepared in great haste, but with conscientious care and fidelity to the facts of history and reliable traditions. I would gratefully acknowledge my obligations to writings of Francis Parkman, Geo. Harrison Fisher, C. W. Butterfield and the Penn'a Historical Socity for valuable assistance in preparing this imperfect sketch of the best military man and one of the finest gentlemen and scholars of colonial times. May it help to rescue from oblivion the memory of a truly good and great man, whose heroic efforts saved our colonial ancestors from the tomahawk and scalping knife and established the supremacy of the Anglo-Saxon race in the valley of the Mississippi.

Dr. Wm Smith's publication in 1765, and Dumas' sketch in 1769, form the basis of this present effort to present the facts of his life for general circulaton.

At a meeting of the executive committee and committee on invitation, at which Rev. Cort was present, June 19th, it was decided to issue special invitations to the governors of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, to the British Minister, Swiss Consul, Gen. R. C. Drum, &c. Also that Rev. Samuel Wilson, D.D., Gen. James A. Beaver, Hon. W. S. Stenger and W. U. Hensel, Esq., be invited to deliver addresses at the celebration on the battlefield, Aug. 6; Dr. Frank Cowan to read a poem, and Dr. Wm. H. Egle to read a paper.

May the skies be bright and all things propitious.

BOUQUET'S BIRTH-PLACE.

HENRY BOUQUET, the subject of our sketch, was born at Rolle, a small Swiss town on the northern shore of Lake

Geneva in 1719. This town at that time belonged to the Canton of Berne, one of the largest and most influential Cantons of the Swiss Confederation. It now belongs to the Canton of Vaud, which is a part of French Switzerland, the dialect spoken being the Vaudois. The inhabitants since Reformation days have been chiefly members of the Reformed church, and always ardent lovers of civil and religious liberty. They are noted for industry and intelligence. From this part of Switzerland comes a large proportion of the Swiss teachers and governesses to be met with in all parts of the world.

Lansanne, the capital of the Canton Vaud, is picturesquely situated on the southern slope of the Jura mountains and near the northern shore of Lake Geneva. It is distinguished for its religious, educational and scientific institutions. The beautiful Gothic Cathedral, begun in the 10th and completed in the 13th century, adorns the city and helps to attract vast crowds of visitors from all parts of the world. Here Gibbon, the historian resided many years, and here he wrote the greater part of his great work on the "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." Here, in the western corner of Switzerland, between the Jura and the Bernese Alps, near the French borders, Henry Bouquet first saw the light. Amid the most beau

tiful scenery on the northern shores of the celebrated Lake Geneva which is fifty miles long and eight wide, amid orchards, vineyards and fertile farming and pasture lands, in full view of Mount Blanc and the most inspiring Alpine scenery he spent the formative days of childhood and youth. All these left their impress upon his soul and aided greatly in forming the noble and heroic character which shone forth resplendantly in his future eventful career, both in the old world and the new.

Little is known of the family of Bouquet. The Deutsche Pioneer of Cincinnati has contended that his family name was originally Strauss from which it was changed into Bouquet, its French equivalent, when our hero had fairly begun his military career.

This is certainly a mistake founded on mere conjecture based on the analogy of such changes as Schoenberg to Belmont, &c. There is no reliable evidence to show that Bouquet ever changed his family name, much less to show that he had any special predilection for France or the French. The Vaudois people amongst whom he was born and reared have always spoken a French dialect, and in that language particularly he doubtless received his education. But it is a noteworthy fact that Bouquet always fought against France. He seemed to regard her as the representative of civil and religious despotism, and he gallantly fought against her under the banner of the government which for the time being best represented the cause and principles of constitutional liberty.

I have before me a copy of Bouquet's last Will and Testament made June 5, 1765, from which I transcribe a clause, viz: "I give and bequeath to my father, if then living, or after him to Colonel Lewis Bouquet and heirs all the effects of any nature whatsoever which I may die possessed of in the Continent of Europe without exception." This would indicate that Bouquet was the original and genuine family name, and not merely the result of a capricious predilection for foreign terms. It would indicate also that the family was not so obscure as some have supposed. Mr. Koradi, the Swiss consul, has undertaken to gather data on this point which we hope will be on hand at an early day.

The war of American Independence which was looming up at the time of Bouquet's death in 1765, and the fact that Col. Frederick Haldimand, his executor, and to a large extent the legatee of his American possessions remained loyal to King George III. in that struggle, prevented proper examination of these matters by those most interested in Bouquet's career over a hundred years ago. This accounts in a measure also for the obscurity and comparative injustice connected with the treatment of Bouquet by writers of Colonial history.

A hundred and twenty years ago his name was a household word in America, and the memory of his heroic deeds was cherished for a generation with fond affection, by descendants of pioneer settlers whom he had rescued from the tomahawk of the red savages. Perhaps because he was a Swiss and gained his greatest distinction in the British service on Pennsylvania soil in Colonial times the muse of history and poetry has failed to embalm and perpetuate his name and achievements in a more worthy and grateful manner.

Be this as it may, the time has come when the grateful and intelligent descendants of pioneer Colonial settlers, and all public spirited citizens are called upon to remedy the defect and rectify the wrongs or omissions of a century, as regards the memory of one of the very best men that trod this continent before our country became a free and independent republic. To this end I have begun this narrative as an aid to the forthcoming celebration of the one hundred and twentieth anniversary of the victory of Bouquet over the confederates of Pontiac at Bushy Run, Aug. 6, 1763.

BOUQUET LEAVES HOME.

Growing up amid the inspiring scenery of liberty loving Switzerland, Bouquet sought a theatre more commensurate with his talents and aspirations than the narrow confines bounded by his native Alps. In 1736 at the age of seventeen he made his way along the historic Rhine to the Lowlands of Holland and entered the service of the Dutch Republic, as a cadet in the Regiment of Constant. In

1738 he obtained the commission of an ensign in the same regiment. He thus began his career under the government that long had championed the cause of civil and religious liberty, and which was the forerunner of our own great Republic. The King of Sardinia, whose country. borders on Switzerland near the home of Bouquet, became involved in a war with the combined forces of France and Spain, then leading powers of Europe. Bouquet entered the Sardinian service and distinguished himself greatly first as lieutenant, and afterwards as adjutant in several memorable and ably conducted campaigns. At the battle of Cony especially did he display great presence of mind and strategic talent in occupying a perilous position in such a way that his men were not aware of the imminent risk to which they were exposed. His very accurate and interesting accounts of these campaigns sent to Holland, attracted the attention of the Prince of Orange, and induced him to secure the services of Bouquet in the army of the Dutch Republic. He entered it in 1748 as captain commandant with the rank of lieutenant colonel of the Swiss guards, a regiment lately formed at the Hague.

He was sent at once with Generals Burmannia and Cornabe to receive from the French the posts in the Low Countries about to be evacuated, and the prisoners of war given up to the Republic by France at the close of the war, according to the terms of the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. A few months later he accepted an invitation to accompany Lord Middleton in a tour through France and Italy. It is supposed that in his intimate associations with this nobleman, Bouquet gained his surprising knowledge of the English language which he wrote better than the great majority of English officers.

HOW BOUQUET SPENT LEISURE TIME.

On his return to the Hague, Bouquet devoted every moment not needed in the discharge of regimental duties, to the careful study of matters pertaining to military art and tactics, especially of the higher mathematics which forms their basis. At the Hague he always moved in the