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mueli altered iu appearauce iu 1805-G under direction of 

 Charles BulUncb, who designed the State House on 

 Beacon Hill ; and in 1898 was practically rebuilt with 

 steel walls, though the Bulfiuch appearauce was retained 

 outside and within. While only a small portion of the 

 original hall given by Peter Faueuil remains, it is still 

 Faneuil Hall, with all its sacred associations. In the 

 words of Lafayette, the great Frenchman who did so 

 much for America iu a critical period, and whose sympa- 

 thies were with the Huguenots, ''May Faneuil Hall ever 

 stand, a monument to teach the world that resistance to 

 oppression is a duty, and will under true republican in- 

 stitutions become a blessing." 



Words of 

 Lafayette 



Peter Faueuil died the next year after his market and 

 hall had been given to Boston, March 3, 1743. The Death 1743 

 market bell was tolled from one o'clock until the funeral 

 was over, by town order, and every honour was paid to 

 his memory. According to the obituary in the News 

 Letter, "he was a most generous spirit, whose hospitality 

 to all and secret unbounded charity to the poor, made his 

 life a public blessing, and his death a general loss to, and 

 universally regretted by, the inhabitants ; the most public- 

 spirited man, in all regards, that ever yet appeared on the 

 northern continent of America." In addition to a great Man of Public 

 funeral tliere was a public memorial service. From Will- 

 iam Nadir's Almanac, under date of March 10, 1743, this 

 extract is taken : "Thursday 10, buried Peter Faueuil, 

 Esq., iu the 43d year of age, a fat, corpulent, brown, 

 squat man, hip short, lame from childhood, a very large 

 funeral went around ye Town house ; gave us gloves at ye 

 funeral, but sent ye gloves on 11 day, his Coffin covered 

 with black velvet, & plated with yellow plates." 



John Lovell, mavster of the Boston Latin School, de- 

 livered the funeral oration at the memorial service held in 

 Faueuil Hall, and this was the beginning of such services 



Spirit 



