. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. d walk when and where he pleased s prison boundaries—and on the 22d of February (1781), he■ id for the first time since the 3d of December. lid used his utmost efforts to obtain the release of Mr. 1 parole, offering to pledge his entire fortune as security, but the realm would listen to no such propositions. Overtures kinds were made:, however, through Oswald and others, to Mr. ••hi 1) he resented with much On one occasion he was he would write two or three lines to the ministers, and • sorry for what is past, a pardon would b
. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. d walk when and where he pleased s prison boundaries—and on the 22d of February (1781), he■ id for the first time since the 3d of December. lid used his utmost efforts to obtain the release of Mr. 1 parole, offering to pledge his entire fortune as security, but the realm would listen to no such propositions. Overtures kinds were made:, however, through Oswald and others, to Mr. ••hi 1) he resented with much On one occasion he was he would write two or three lines to the ministers, and • sorry for what is past, a pardon would be granted. from Mr. Laurens was quick and decisive in the nega- advised to take time and weigh the matter properly in his Mr. Laurens exclaimed : An honest man requires no time to give in honor IS concerned. I brilliant jon, John Laurens, a young man of twenty-seven, HENRY LAURENS IN THE LONDON TOWEK and the hero of many a deed of valor, appeared in Paris, in the spring of1781 as a special minister of the United States, to negotiate a loan from. IfceMgMoi?H TheEABL (£SELLSBOROUGH. France, there was a sensible commotion in the British hastened to tell Mr. Laurens that the event would prove very in-jurious to his interests. Manning wrote to him that his confinement ItlVuN ! tUREXS IN rHE LONDON TOWER ore b< the more rigorous, because the young man had now mself an enemy to his king and his country. Oswald f Mr, Lauren- would advise his son to withdraw from the would be extremely well taken at the British court. Mr. i Loth that his son was of age, and had a wall of his own ; i of honor; and while he loved his father dearly, and lis life for him, he would not sacrifice his honor to save . md he applauded him for it. tiled round and still Mr. Laurens occupied the little Lower. On the 8th of October a message was brought to ovoked liis hearty laughter. The governor sent a man to collect i the two wardens for one years attendance upon the such a grotesq
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