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.

198 HISTORY OF TIlE
present was the most extraordinary application he had ever
heard of: it was made for the author of so many horrors,
which seemed to be a summary of all that had ever before
taken place in the world!-Altera editio multo brevior et
emendatior. And of all these horrors," he continued, " there
was no circumstance of barbarity, (except the murder of
the king and queen,) more atrocious than the massacre of
Foulon." This member had even the effrontery to repeat
the mad expressions of the Abbe Foulon, a son of the inurdered magistrate,-" I'll be revenged of Lafayette; it was
he that had my father murdered; it was he who tore out and
devoured his heart!"-" I would not," concluded the consistent statesman, " debauch my humanity in supporting an application like the present, for such a horrid ruffian."-Other
members supported the groundless assertions of their leaders.
One of them, (Mr. Jenkinson,) affirmed that he was in Paris
at the time, when it was generally acknowledged that he
could, if he pleased, have prevented many of the circumstances so much reprobated; but he was unfortunately followed
by Mr. Stanley, who observed, that he also was in Paris at
the time, and must, in justice to the unfortunate Lafayette,
declare, that he not only did every thing in his power to prevent the circumstances that had happened, but risked also
his own personal safety."
Now, it is abundantly testified, that Lafayette endeavoured, in vain, to rescue the unfortunate Foulon and Berthier
from the murderous grasp of the populace. But his authority, his entreaties, and his tears, were disregarded; and the
laws of the new government, as yet too feeble to restrain
these atrocities, were unhappily often violated in his presence, by the licentious inhabitants of the suburbs. In the
case of Berthier, it was in vain that M. Bailly, the mayor,
opposed his utmost eloquence to the fury of the multitude;
in vain the commander-in-chief, Lafayette, prostrated himself on his knees to entreat that the popular cause should no
* Parliamentary Chronicle, ix. 663, 667: xvi. 406.