. Catholic footsteps in old New York, a chronicle of Catholicity in the city of New York from 1524 to 1808 . ork at the time, said thathe had heard De Moustier boast that he had toldPresident Griffin, of Congress, that he was buta tavern-keeper, and the Americans had the com-placency not to demand his recall. The con-tempt of De Moustier for Americans was fullyequaled by their contempt for him. He wasborn in Paris thirty-seven years before his ar-rival in New York. Carefully educated in thingsmilitary and scientific, he was appointed Min-ister Plenipotentiary to England in 1783, re-turning to
. Catholic footsteps in old New York, a chronicle of Catholicity in the city of New York from 1524 to 1808 . ork at the time, said thathe had heard De Moustier boast that he had toldPresident Griffin, of Congress, that he was buta tavern-keeper, and the Americans had the com-placency not to demand his recall. The con-tempt of De Moustier for Americans was fullyequaled by their contempt for him. He wasborn in Paris thirty-seven years before his ar-rival in New York. Carefully educated in thingsmilitary and scientific, he was appointed Min-ister Plenipotentiary to England in 1783, re-turning to France in 1789. He served asAmbassador to Prussia and Minister to Con-stantinople. During the French revolution helabored in France for the Bourbons, and some ofhis letters, falling into the hands of the Jacobins, 388 CATHOLIC FOOTSTEPS were used in the accusations against Louis a sojourn in England he returned to Paris,and in 1806 was driven from France by Bona-parte. He shared the fortunes of Louis XVIIIin England, and, returning to France, died in hiscountry house, near Versailles, in IN OLD NEW YORK 389 CHAPTER XIX CONCERNING CATHOLICS AND CATHOLICITY INTHE CITY FROM THE DAWN OF THE NINE-TEENTH CENTURY UNTIL THE ERECTION OFTHE CITY INTO AN EPISCOPAL SEE The roar of thirteen guns, fired in the fort atthe Battery, at sunset, March 3rd, 1789, an-nounced to all within hearing that the old Con-federation of States was at an end, and nextmorning eleven guns, in honor of the States thatadopted the Constitution, ushered in the new following day there were more salutes, andat intervals the citys bells rang out glad peals,for on that day the Congress was to convene inthe remodeled Federal Hall. A^^ien noon, thehour for opening the session, arrived, there werebut eight Senators and thirteen Representativespresent. Not until April 1st was there a quorumof the House present. The Capital of the United States had over-come the effects of the great fires of 1776 an
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