The Sun.
London, England, 1824-08-19 00:00:00

THE MARQUIS DE LA FAYET`M

[Prom o York Pap& of the 241:44 f. 11.1
During the InA Session of Congress, white the
Hon. Mr. Lt.ol-1.) WB3 at Washington, he ad-
dressed a letter to the Marquis L.l FA TETTE,
inviting him to reside at his house in Boston dur-
ing his visit to that city. The following is the
Marquis's answer

" Paris, May ?9, 1824.
r DEAR Sit rt-1 have with the most lively sense of gra-
titude received your kind letter from Washington, and anticir
pate the happy day when it will he in my power to present you,
under the hospitable roof to which you are pleased to invite me,
my very affectionate thanks. While I have to mourn the lots
of many intimate ft lends and companions of my younger days,
I feel a peculiar and most pleasing gratification to find in their
posterity sentiments congenial to those with which they had
honoured me. No feelings of that kind can be more welcome
ito me than n the renewal of my old acquaintance with the
darling child of my friend Sam. Week, now become•yoar
worthy lady. Present her my tender anti grateful respects.
Whatever be the part of the United States where l will find
myself on my attaining the beloved shore, I shall not lose, timo
in my eagerness to revisit the city of Horton, and answer the
flattering invitation I have lately received. ou do justice to
wthtt:icla eliriaha be
t Ishen the due.alli'eela
re
t the sight
r, of a
of t he felicityvirtltouaa v
ndrieirooslpateiontity,
founded on the principle of true liberty and ttelf.goverutbent-
With the fond hope to have before long the pleasure to tax,
you by the hand, I beg you, my dear 'Sir, its the mean while,
to accept my best acknowledgments, high regard, anti sincereattachments,
attachments, 'cLA FA VETTE."

A TrECTI 4O INC; M.:MT.—Baltimore, July IA.—
The attendants at the Hanover market were yes-
terday thrown into confusion for awhile, by a
woman apparently beating a young man, and ex-
hibiting, both by voice and gesture, the most
frantic passion. It turned out to be a very affect•
ing scene however ; it was a Mrs. Dunn, who ad-
vertised on the 3d instant for the recovery of the
body of her son, " who was drowned, on the
Wednesday preceding, off Poplar Island," beat-
ing " in the joy of her heart," this very, surOy'ho
had that moment made his appearance, alive and
well, while she was sitting in the market. It ap-
peared that he had been washe4,4sr knocked
overboard, and swum to the shore', Or-wn* picked
op by some other vessel, of
board the vessel and his mother were ignorant.—
(Patriot.) which fact those on

The Philadelphia National Gazette of July la
says—" A curious public dispute is waged' in
this city. Two of 'mir clergymen, the Rev. Mr.
111‘CAuLeY and the Rev. /tomtit KNIMAND, have
row audience in the Univorsalists' church, iti
, ,
bean for soma days debating before a 'Very name.
Lombard-street, the point wnetner a part of the
human race will be eternally damned or the
judges have been chosen, who sit behind each of
NVe Learnsave
df
r.omTgherne
the contending divines as he urges his opinion ac.
cording to his favourite Px p I Ann ti an of the test of
swctiloi
plet 0
re ultimately
entered the 'church for a short time, that the dis-
putants seemed intensely earnest and the mode-
rators profoundly attentive.
Stenographeri, it is
added, are employed in
taking down the' argis-.
• .
ineuts, in order that they may be reported."
gentlemen I:ll,:evirahloprhsavir

The repairs of the Royal Exchsap are kat
completed, MO the whole no* presents an BP-
pear:mu highly credita4le to. theoGresharn Com-
mittee, under whose
eqpeeleteedence, we.believe,
the works have been carried on.