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that he would ere long be employed to execute a status of Washington.

In London it afforded me occasion for inviting to my Room several distinguished persons whom I could not so well otherwise invite. Among these were Chantry, the sculptor, and the Marquis of Stafford. After my return to-

On my return from Europe my Portrait was brought by the United States Senate for $2000.

Simultaneously with the production of this Portrait in Senatorial Costume, I expected the Duplicate Study, in Military Costume, with the view of introducing it into a Composition intended to Commemorate the Seige(sic) of Yorkton, which I painted at the instigation of Henry Clay....This Picture is now in the Rotunda at Washington offered to Congress. 

The Equestrian Portrait of Washington, represents him in the act of giving command to commence the entrenchments, and accompanied by KKK Lafayette, Hamilton, Knox, Lincoln & Rochambeau from original painted by my father I was induced to select this subject; as the concluding act of the great Drama of the Revolution, from an anecdote told me by the Quaker Colonel Forest of Germantown. 

Washington with his Generals, having surveyed the grounds, & decided on the spot, rode to his Tent, -took a hasty meal, remounted with his staff, rode back to the ground where he found nothing done. In a voice unusually loud, he called the Col. Tierman, Chief Engineer, who rode up to him, startled & pale, "Did I not order the entrenchments to be begun here? Sir, if they are not begun in ten minutes, I shall know the reason why." In ten minutes, there were two hundred men at work. 

Washington at this moment was unusually excited He had to content with England's greatest General, and he felt that it was the Crisis of his Country's fate. 

There are some persons yet living who remember when the news arrived at Phildelphia of the reduction of Yorktown. We were awakened, young and old, by our patriotic German Watchmen, echoing from Square to Square, the triumphant note - "0 past twelve o'clock and Cornwall's taken." Sleep was soon banished from every eye, and the City joyfully illuminated.