1765.] HONORS TO BOUQUET. 241 



one or two companies of Virginian volunteers. 

 Virginia, which had profited by the campaign, 

 though contributing nothing to it, refused to pay 

 these troops ; and its agents tried to throw the 

 burden upon Bouquet in person. The Assembly 

 of Pennsylvania, with a justice and a generosity 

 which went far to redeem the past, came to his 

 relief and assumed the debt, though not till he 

 had suffered the most serious annoyance. Certain 

 recent military regulations contributed at the same 

 time to increase his vexation and his difficulties. 

 He had asked in vain, the year before, to be re- 

 lieved from his command. He now asked again, 

 and the request was granted ; on which he wrote to 

 Gage : "The disgust I have conceived from the ill- 

 nature and ingratitude of those individuals (the 

 Virginian officials) makes me accept with great sat- 

 isfaction your obliging offer to discharge me of this 

 department, in which I never desire to serve again, 

 nor, indeed, to be commanding officer in any other, 

 since the new regulations you were pleased to com- 

 municate to me ; being sensible of my inability to 

 carry on the service upon the terms prescribed." ^ 



He was preparing to return to Europe, when he 

 received the announcement of his promotion to the 

 rank of Brigadier General. He was taken com- 

 pletely by surprise ; for he had supposed that the 

 rigid prescriptions of the service had closed the 

 path of advancement against him, as a foreigner. 

 " I had, to-day," he wrote to Gage, " the honor of 

 your Excellency's letter of the fifteenth instant. 



. 1 MS. Letter — Souguei to Gage, 4 March, 1765. 



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