A complete history of the Marquis de Lafayette, major-general in the American army in the war of the revolution. Embracing an account of his tour through the United States, to the time of his departure, September, 1825. By an officer in the late army.

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That the superintendant of finance take order for discharging the engagements entered into by the marquis de Lafayette, with the merchants of Baltimore, referred to in the act
of the twenty-fourth of May last."
Ordered, That the superintendant of finance filrish the
marquis de Lafayette, with a proper conveyance to France:
That the secretary for foreign affairs report a letter to hos
most Christian majesty, to be sent by the marquis de Lafayette.
In addition to these testimonials of the love, gratitude,
and confidence, of the national legislature, he was furnished
by the great Robert Morris, superintendant of finance, with
a most flattering letter to his excellency, Benjamin Franklin,
minister in France, dated the twenty-seventh of November,
1781, of which the following is an extract:
" SIR,
"The marquis de Lafayette who is about to sail for France,
will have the honour to deliver this letter, and, consistently
with the acts of congress of the twenty-third instant, I must
request you to communicate it to him; and, from time to
time, to take his aid in the prosecution of the business which
I must recommend to your particular attention. The affairs
" This resolution refers to the supply of shoes, &c. procured by the
marquis on his private credit in Baltimore, in the month of April. On
the twenty-fourth of May, 1781, congress adopted the following resolutions:
Resolved, That congress entertain a just sense of the patriotic and
timely exertions of the merchants of Baltimore, who so generously supplied the marquis de Lafayette, with about two thousand guineas, to
enable him to forward the detachment under his command:
That the mtarquis de Lafayette be assured that congress will take
proper measures to discharge the engagements he has entered into with
the merchants.
From these resolutions, it would appear that the marquis merely acted as the agent of congress; and no one would imagine from their
tenor, that that body had not sufficient credit to procure the loan, and
that Lafayette, accomplished it on his private' responsibility.-It would
have been more noble to have acknowledged the obligation, and voted
to the marquis the thanks which he deserved. It might have wounded
the self-pride of members, as individuals, but would have exalted the
national legislature.