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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The proceedings of the marquis at Versailles, his inattention to the safety of the royal family, and his shameful
neglect of duty, also afford abundant food for the palates of
the malevolent. " After having amused the king," said Windham,'" with a promise that there was no danger, which threw
him off his guard; after the palace had been forced, and the
royal family in danger;-he appeared. Lulled into security
by his promises, the king and queen had gone to rest; the
mob burst so suddenly into the palace, that her majesty was
obliged to escape undressed. Lafayette said, that no farther
violence would be offered; but when called for, was not in
town. For how much mischief was he not answerable?"
Mr. Windham " would not say, for he did not believe it, that
Lafayette wished entirely to destroy the king, or to erect a
republic in the place of the monarchy, but that he wished
to lower the king to a state of dependence on himself, and
to be like Trinculo in the Tempest, vice-roy over him."*' On the first intelligence of these disastrous events," (the
attack of the palace,) says a prejudiced writer, " the marquis
de Lafayette quitted his bed, and endeavoured to atone by
his activity, for his former credulity and negligence: his
splendid promises of security were now converted into reproaches; and shame succeeded to misplaced confidence.
As he pressed with hasty steps toward the castle, he beheld
on every side, the fatal effects of his own imprudence."t" The first step of Lafayette, on arriving at Versailles," according to the Quarterly Review, whose principles are properly
appreciated in this country, "was to tranquillize the assembly,
on the presence of the national guards, since he was at their
head; and afterwards to offer his services to the king, to
whom he said,'Sire, votre majeste n'a pas de plus fidele serviteur que moi? (Sire, your majesty does not possess a more
faithful servant than myself.) These exploits achieved, the
hero of French liberty diffused the like tranquillity among
meaner mortals; and like Morpheus, shook his poppies over
* Parl. Chron. vol. xvi. p. 407.
t History of France, 3 vols. vol. iii. p. 486.