The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-23

SUNDAY MORNING, ] finally got an old East India tub. the
 he named % the Bonhomme % Richard. the Duchesse de Chartress, mother of the yet to be king, Louis Philippe, not satis- fled with what she had done, sent for her
 ing nearly s5o.ooo for his personal ex- penses; sum equal in purchasing power to S1O0.0o0 or even S150,000 in our day. Five or six years later, when Jones was flush of money, he proposed the re- Chartres. now the Duke of Orleans, whom he approached on the subject. said: If you mention it to her she win dismiss ns ane She aa lend the money to you, she gave 1t to the cause" Noble, hapless ladyl She de- served far better of fate than she re- ceived!
 Next comes the great sea fight be- tween the Bonhomme Richard and the
 Serapis. Mir. Watterson gave 1t with minute detail. Concluding, he said:
 Thus ended the greatest ses fight Of of took his prize into the Texel. He had a long. wearisome time of 1t thereafter in his diplomatic and fiscal relations; but
 
 naval commander there could not be and there was not the least equivocation. The King of France made him chevalier and presented him a sword; Paris went wild. reigned the Duchess de Chartres, soon to
 be the Duchess d'Orleans. flew open wide.
 "Defying convention. the duchesse as- signed suite of apartments to her hero and entertained him as though he, too,
 had been born to the purple. She gave great banquet in his honor. It was at this banquet that Jones fulfilled the prom ise he had made when. carrying the chro- for a timepiece. he had first sailed in the Ranger. Choosing an opportune moment. he asked the duchesse if she remembered that, when two years before she had so favored i'm he would lay an English fri- gate at her feet. She remembered 1t well. Jones had the sword of Pearson near at hand. Releasing this from its leathern easement and placing 1t before her. he said:
 May it please your royal highness. 1t would be inconvenient. if not embar rassing.. to undertake the literal fulfill
 gate however. rides in the harbor of Torrent with French colors flying from
 her masthead. The best, that I can do
 to keep % my word t,o is to iag s at % ySur feet manded that English frigate. have the
 honor to surrender to the loveliest of
 women the sword surrendered to me by
 the bravest of men-the sword of Captain
 the Hon. Richard Pearson, of his Britain
 nic Majesty's late battleship. the Seraois.' 'ro this day, among the treasured rel ics of the house of Bourbon-O Orleans, this trophy is held not only as priceless. but as most impressive and unique"
 Tn the Russian Service Of the Russian episode MT. watterson said:
 "The War of the Revolution was ended Jones had closed his accounts with the
 Marine Committee We had no battle ships. nor need of them and though he
 was now technically our ranking officer, there being no employment for him he
 was free to accept service of Catherine It was urged upon him, indeed. by Jeff ferson. though. as Franklin said 1t must be. it was a great mistake. No man, exclaimed the doughty old doctor, who had learned his lessons of battle, as Jones had. in the school of liberty. could ever serve acceptabiy in the cause or pro- l mote the aims of despotism.'
 He entered the Russian service as Rear Admiral in the early spring of 17sS. and on two years leave of absence | quilted 1t in the late autumn of 17Ss. En route to St. Petersburg he had been com
 missioned America's plenipotenuary to Denmark. Returning by way of Vienna, | he was the object of continuous distinc- | tion, finally reaching Paris. which. more than any other place, had been his home the last or May, lI5u -
 Returning to Paris, he took up his abode in a little house, having a gar den, in the Rue de Tournon. which he had purchased. and here, with few
 brief intervals of absence. he lived until the dread messenger-not dreaded by him-came to find him, his boots on. ready to meet mans final foeman half
 way, and as it were, cap-a-pie. when Mime Arbergne. his housekeeper. entered his apartment about o'clock the even ing of the 18th of July 17s2. Jones lay | face downward across the middle of his | couch his arms outstretched, one hano clutching the counetrpane, the other yet 1 holdinf in its grasp the watch which l Adelaide of Orleans had given him. her 1 portrait upon the dial, by which ne had | always timed himseli in battle. Fit finale | for such valiant! ,ad "Gouverneur Morris at once adv1sen 1 that the great Admiral had passed away, was SO overcome that he was struck | down with nervous prostration A Few | weeks after a package arrived rom | America. It contained his commission: signed by Washington, to be chiet or | the movement to extirpate the Barbary 1 pirates along with letter or enusioh | and eulogy from Jefferson, who, antlcl-
 nating this present exigency two years l hafore had thus written: The President | Chat is Washington directs me 10 say | that ii does not seem necessary to m dicate inc identity of that naval com mander to whom all eyes would be turn cd should the United states De aoie to | fit out a squadron of magnitude % %suit- | able to form a command for an oIicer | of bieb rank and extraordinary distinc- | tion Yet. in the face of all this, ex- | claimed MT. Watterson there are those l who think he died a stranger in d strange | land obscure and poor.