The royal party, after returning the jewels of the crown, went slowly to Cherbourg with their own escort, under the protection of three commissioners, and were there permitted quietly to embark for England." In 1834 Mr.Gallatin's sympathies were greatly excited by the arrival at New York of a number of Poles, many of them educated men, and among them Etsko, a nephew of Kosciusko.

A public committee was raised, called the Polish committee, of which Mr.Gallatin was chosen chairman.

Besides superintending the collection of funds, he arranged and carried out in the minutest details a plan to quarter the exiles upon the inhabitants.
A list of names ending in _ski_ still remains among his papers; to each was assigned a number, and they were allotted by streets and numbers,--number 182, one Szelesegynski, was taken by Mr.Gallatin himself, to look after horses.

These unfortunate men were then distributed through the country, as occupations could be found.

In October Mr.Gallatin's notes show that all had been provided for except fourteen boys, for whom a subscription was taken up.