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.

MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE. 183
de-cachet were permitted to have the effect of laws, and were
considered as necessary and essential parts of government.Lafayette also supported the cause of the protestants, particularly in a memorial presented to the king during the session of the notables in 1787, which led, in a great measure,
to the edict in their favour introduced on the nineteenth of
November, 1787, and registered by the parliament on the
twenty-ninth of January, 1 788. " A portion of our citizens,"
said M. de Lafayette, " who unfortunately do not profess the
catholic religion, find themselves condemned to a kind of civil death. The bureau is too well acquainted with the heart
of his majesty not to be convinced that his majesty, (wishing
to extend the love of religion among all his subjects, of whom
he is the common father, and knowing that truth will support
itself, while error alone requires constraint,) unites the benevolent spirit of tolerance to the other virtues which have
attracted the love of the nation. The bureau, therefore,
hastens to present to his majesty its earnest solicitations,
that that numerous portion of his subjects may no longer be
suffered to groan under a system of proscription, equally opposed to the general interests of religion, to national industry, population, and all the principles of policy and morality)."
As a powerful opponent of the plans of the minister, he demanded a reform in the government, and supported,his opinions by four memorials, which particularly embraced "the
miserable state of the finances, and the absolute necessity of
introducing a more efficacious system of finance, and which
he submitted to the bureau, or section, over which M. le
Compte D'Artois presided. Much excitement was occasioned
by the demands of Lafayette relating to the public economy,
andl the count D'Artois particularly expressed his disapprobation of the course pursued by the marquis. The king having objected to the memorials which, at various i:stages of
their (leliberationrs, had been transmitted to hlm.'by the no.
tables, because they wTanted the signatures of Ithe memorialists, M. de Lafayette, whose patriotism was as active and