Mobile register and journal., 1845-03-15

l could not, therefore, answer Il earlier. Ia com. pliance wiih your wish will, with pleasure, com- lnunicaie to you iacis relating to my family. The branch from which am descended has nndOab iedl, the same ancesior that from which the American branch descended, which proved also by the same coal of nrms
 The family oi Washington is descended frOm q good old English family. which in early times, own ed considerable possessions in the counties Of York and Northampton. and in other places It became connected, by marriage, with the family of Shirley, Earl Ferrers Sir Lawrence Washington married Elizabeth, daughter of tue second Earl Ferrers.- It also connected with that of Wiliers, Duke o Rockingham. branch of the family. from unknown causes, for they wealthy, einigraed about the year 1850 to America; and the well known (one may say with truth. the universally famons) General and President George Washington descended from it. #5.-rr
 My great grandfather, James Washington, was Sd deeply imp Heated in the unfortunate affair oiihe Duke of Monmouth, in ihe time of Charles II. 1t S5 and 1881, that he obliged lo fly from England, and after losing by shIpwreck on the coast of Portugal every thing of his personal property that he had been able to carry away from England, he came to Holland. While there he was frequently deInandet on he part of Eng land by it's ambassador, and his delivery insIsted upon; but the General States did not consent; and thus he became the founder Of tla branch which then began 10 fl urish in Holland, and IS still in existence in the persons of two individuals cousins, lieutenants in the army and navy.
 possess an autograph letter of the great man, George Washington from Mount Vernon, January 20 l799, m which, among other things il is said :- "There he but itte doubt, sir, of our descending from the same stOck the branches of il proceed ed from the same country; at what lime your ances- tors left Eng is not mentioned; m ine came to America nearly one hundred and fifty years ago"
 At the age of sixteen I received, in l794. a com. mission in the Dutch service, but was unwilling tn serve the Batavian Republic founded in 1795? and ka,r f..t f.it. f .l.. emigrated. Al the formation lhe Datch brigade of the Prince of fOrange in the English service in l799, I was appointed lieutenant in that brigade, until the dsbanding of the latter, alier the peace oi Amiens, in 1902. A few months laler had the good fortune to enter the Bavsran service. Since lhen nearly ioriyiwo years have passed, of which have been attached less than lhiriy-seven years the most high person of the King, partly as marshal oi ihe Court, and partly as aid da. camp.
 have also planted a stock m Bavaria, which, il God will, is some time to beat good fruit 10 the King and country. have three sons--the eldest Ludwig, sixteen years old, is page of his Majesl, the King; the second, Max, fourteen years old, is pupil in the Royal Corps of Cadets; and ihe third Karl. ten years old licQuenis the public school. - By my two marriages with daughters of famil o the highest mobility m inc land, my children are nlaced in agreeable circumstances, even when shal be no nore and m this manner, this branch of the family in this new country may flourish. God give his blessing to il
 IL would lead me too far to enter into details o my biograpny; for, being in earlier frequenily exp's'd to the soi m of fate brought on chiefly by revol,Itions and at later period placed In impor- tan offices and other relations, 1 could not do il without being very long; and, since this letter has already attained considerable extent, that wl,,cf has been said will, hope, satisfy you. will only add, m order that you may become altogether ac. quainted with my situation here, that will subjoin to the signature of my name what is otherwise mol usunl; but in this case think may make an ex. cepiion, because 1t forms in a part of m, | biography .,.sa= .r
 Thanking you for the literary production trans miited to me, which possesses by the preface of the renowned Professor Hedmann, an enhanced value, remain with sentiments of perfect esteem, your de. voted. BARON VON WASHINGTON Royal Bavaran Chaml,e lain, Lieutenant General and AId-de-Camp 10 his Majesty the King, Com l mander of the Order of Civil Merit of the Bava l rian Crown; of the Greek Order of the Saviour
 of the British Military Order of the Bath, Knigh
 of the Royal French Order of the Legion of Hon | or, and Lord of Notzing.
 I To Dr J '. K. FLUZEL, as
 Consul of the U. ofN. America in Leipzic.