[Footnote A: Alluding probably to the Nootka Sound controversy then pending between these courts.] [Footnote B: The affectionate interest General Washington took in this adopted son is well known. Mr. Custis still lives (1856) and still dispenses the hospitalities of Arlington, his estate and home in Virginia near the city of Washington; which it overlooks from its beautiful heights. His house exhibits paintings, illustrative of our revolutionary annals, the work of his amateur pencil; whilst the productions of his patriotic pen have charmed the public by the anecdotes they record in attractive ways of the personal, rural, and other habits of the great Chief.] [Footnote C: The latter mean his slaves.] [Footnote D: Alison] End of Project Gutenberg's Washington in Domestic Life, by Richard Rush