under the inspection and tuition of excellent men; for he was aware that
want of employment would lead to dissipation; and that the season of youth
was to be diligently improved for the cultivation of the mind. He desired
Mr. C. to call on him to meet any expenses which might accrue in his
education and support. The French tutor, who attended young Lafayette,
chose to have him under his own private instruction; and he did not enter
the university. The kindness and generosity of Washington were not the less
meritorious in the appeal made to him by the son of his own, and of his
country's friend.

Among the many eminent characters by whom General Lafayette was visited in
his retirement at La Grange, after his return to France, (in 1800) was
CHARLES J. FOX, the celebrated British statesman. The family of Mr. Fox,
for several generations, was ranked among the whip party in England, and
firm friends of the glorious revolution of 1689; when the House of Stuart
was excluded from the throne, and William and Mary acknowledged as the
legitimate sovereigns. Mr. Fox was of the same political school with the
elder PITT, whose powerful talents were successfully exerted for the glory
of Great Britain, in the latter part of the reign of George II. and who was
a firm and decided advocate for the rights of the British colonies in 1775.
When Lafayette and family were confined in the dungeons at Olmutz, Mr. Fox,
with others, then members of the British Parliament, pleaded the cause of
these unhappy sufferers, with great eloquence, but without effect. He had
been personally acquainted with the celebrated French philanthropist,
before this period; and was attached to his character and principles, as a
zealous friend of civil liberty. The interview between these two highly
distinguished reformers is represented to have been peculiarly interesting.
Perhaps, the plans of reform proposed by Mr. Fox, could not have been
carried into effect, at that time, without danger to the stability of the
British government; but the general character of Fox, gave evidence of the