** Just before he left Philadelphia he discovered that his daughter was about to elope with Judge Griffin, who was afterward president of Congress. This doubtless hastened his departure.

*** Murray, confidential secretary to the Pretender, Prince Charles Edward.

The State House.—Independence Hall.—Hancock's Chair.—Portraits of Penn and La Fayette.


CHAPTER XI.

"This is the sacred fane wherein assembled

The fearless champions on the side of Right;

Men at whose Declaration empires trembled,