The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

A Paris paper of January 26. has the following paragraph, The American officers, in forming the Society of Cincinnati, came to a determination to give each according to his rank, such a sum as may form a sufficient fund for avoiding an annual assistance to the widows and children of such officers as have fallen in the late war.--The French officers, highly approving of their intention, came to a resolution of following their example,and, in their last assembly,they agreed to raise a fund of 60,000 livres. which is to be sent to General Washington. to be disposed of agreeable to the plan of the society. The Comte de Rochambeau has subscribed 6000 livres : M. de Chastellux 4000 ; the Field Marshals have been taxed at 2000 : the Brigadiers at 1500; & every Colonel at 1000.