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.

20)6 HISTORY OF THE
ded with counsel, a copy of the charge, the power of confronting witnesses, and publicity given to the whole procedure.
And it was in consequence of this demand, equally liberal
and rare on the part of a military man, that the magistrates
asked and obtained from the assembly, that those precious
securities should be in force, till the establishment of juries
should prevent all anxiety about the equity of decisions.*
The fifth and sixth of October, 1789, were two of the
most memorable days of the revolution, when the populace
marching from Paris to Versailles, compelled the king and
royal family to remove to the capital. Nor is the epocha
less important in the life of Lafayette, because, if the accusations which have been heaped upon him relative to his
conduct during that insurrection, were not susceptible of entire refutation, he would indeed appear on the page of history, as the " horrid ruffian" which Mr. Burke pretended to
consider him. —An unfounded report that the king was about
to remove to Metz;-his refusal fully to sanction the proceedin:gs of the assembly which had overturned the feudal system;
an ill advised entertainment given in the castle of Versailles,
denounced by Petion under the name of a plot:-and particularly, and more immediately, the scarcity of bread in the
metropolis;-were the principal causes which produced the
sanguinary and disgraceful scenes of the fifth and sixth of
October. The commotion began among the women, and the
progress of discontent was rapid and frightful. Hundreds of
the most licentious and daring of the rabble, chiefly womean
collected from the markets and public halls, armed with
staves, pikes, and every weapon that their blind fury could
supply, poured from their dark and secret lurking places.
They surrounded the Hotel-de-Ville with fearful cries, forced open the doors, and possessed themselves of the arms
Trheir numbers were soon swelled to several thousands, by
successive and motley groups of both sexes, furnished with
* Lady Morgan's France, Appendix, i. p. xiii. —De Stael's Consid.
vol. i. ch. iv. p. 275, 6.