My brief visit to Paris was made more agreeable by the fact that my kinsman, the Hon.

Henry Ledyard, was then in charge of the American Embassy, in the absence of his father-in-law, General Lewis Cass, our Ambassador, who had returned to America for a visit.

The one memorable incident of that brief sojourn in Paris that I shall recall was a visit to the tomb of Napoleon, whose remains had been brought home the year before from the Island of St.Helena.

Passing through the Place de la Concord and crossing the Seine, a ten minutes' walk brought me to the Hospital des Invalides.

I reached it in the morning when the court in front was filled with about three hundred veterans on an early parade.