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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fusils and pistols, swords and poniards, lances and hatchets,
and dragging two pieces of cannon. At length they took the
road to Versailles, compelling all whom they met to enlist
under their banners. Terror and dismay preceded their van;
and the frantic crowd, intoxicated with rage and liquor, precipitated themselves on Versailles. Presenting themselves
with loud cries and imprecations at the doors of the assembly,
they were permitted to enter, and the benches were instantly
occupied by a crowd of women, covered with dust and sweat,
deaf to reason, inflamed with liquor, and insatiate of blood.
With menacing gestures, and tumultuous cries, they demands
ed bread for themselves, and for Paris; and the assembly, dismayed by the imperious voice of the insurgents, sought only
to avert destruction by the most degrading compliances. —A
deputation, consisting of the president, fifteen deputies, and
twelve women of the dregs of Paris, entered into the royal
presence, and described the distress of the capital. The
monarch answered in the language of sensibility, and with
every assurance of prompt and effectual succour. The report of the female deputies was far from satisfying their impatient companions, and the ferocious multitude directed
their disorderly steps toward the castle, where the garde-ducorps, from the defection of the militia of Versailles and the
regiment of Flanders, beheld themselves alone, and without
resource, exposed to the headlong torrent.'I'he hostile fury
of the mob soon burst upon them, and many of them were
severely wounded —About ten o'clock at night, Lafayette
arrived, at the head of the national guards of Paris, amoiunting to eighteen thousand men. He first presented himself to
the national assembly, and assured the president both of his
own pacific intentions, and of those of his followers. He
then passed to the royal presence, where he repeated the
same assurances, and after making the necessary arrantements, he again returned to the castle, and communicated to
the king the welcome tidings of public. tranquillity. It was
now about two o'clock in the morning, and his majesty, op