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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became known, it was resolved that each battalion should
assemble the following day, and make a declaration of their
sentiments on the subject pointed out in his discourse. This
was accordingly done by all the different regiments; and, in
their declarations, instead of expressing attachment to their
general, and wishes that he should resume the command,
they spoke solely of their submission to the law, their zeal
for the constitution, and their resolution to obey the comrnmander-in-chief, without once mentioning the name of Lafayette.-The municipality, having verified the declarations
of the-troops, decreed, that the mayor, at the head of a deputation of eight members of the common council, should
wait on the general, and represent to him, that it would endanger the state if he persisted in his first resolution, and
that the greatest proof of patriotism he could give, would be
to resume the command.-It was impossible longer to resist.
Lafayette returned thanks to the mayor and the deputation
in becoming terms: and the day following, having resumed
the command, he expressed his sense of the honour done
him by the various corps; and, being then on the parade before the. Hotel-de.Ville, he proposed, that they should go in
a body to the king, taking with them all their comrades
whom they might meet, and express their sorrow and repentance for what was past, and renew to his majesty, their
declaration of allegiance. This proposal was directly adopted: Lafayette conducted them to the Tuilleries; addressed
the king, in the name of all the national guards, in the terms
which had been agreed on; received a gracious reception
and answer from the monarch, and, as soon as this was
known, the troops expressed their satisfaction by repeated
exclamations of " Vive le Roi! Vive le Restaurateur de la
Liberte Francaise! Vive le Petit-Fils de Henri IV!""
This return of the national guards to a sense of their duty,
was highly provoking to a set of men who, unhappily for
France, were at this time concentrated in the capital, and
* Moore's View, ii. 167, 171. —Hist. French Rev. i. 224.