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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guards, proclaim Louis the seventeenth, king;" and this once
more silenced the fury of democracy In Paris, and rcstored
order and submission to legislative authority. If the charge
of having instigated the royal family to escape, for the purpose of afterwards arresting them, were founded in fact, no
odium could be too great, no obloquy could attach a sufficiently just reprehension, for so cold-blooded a piece of duplicity But the proof of his innocence is so incontrovertible, so positive and direct, that the mention of it must
stamp an indelible impression on the mind of every man,
and clear him entirely from so foul a calumny. The test
of his innocence was the unfortunate Marie Antoinette, who,
being asked on her trial, whether Lafayette had connived at
their escape, positively answered, that he was totally ignorant of it.'
The assembly wvas compelled, by the popular ferment, to
declare that the king should be kept prisoner in the palace
of the Tuilleries, until the constitution had been presented
for his acceptance. Lafayette as commander of the national
guards, had the misfortune of being doomed to carry this
decree into effect. But if, on the one hand, he placed sentinels at the gates of the palace, he opposed, on the other,
with conscientious energy, the party which'endeavoured to
pronounce the king fallen from his throne. He employed
against those who pressed that measure, the armed force in
the Champ-de-Mars; and he thus proved, at least, that it
was not from views of ambition that he exposed himself to
the displeasure of the king, as he drew on himself, at the
same time, the hatred of the enemies of the throne.t On
the motion of Lafayette in the assembly, a general amnesty
was subsequently granted to all those who had participated
in the king's journey, or committed what could be called po.
* Stael Consid. French Rev. i. 410-Il.-Hist. French Rev. i. 227233. -Wars French Rev. i. Introd. xcii.-Etienne Rev. 156-160.Senator. ix. 645, 659.-Moore's View, ii. 206. —Quart. Rev. xxviii, 305
-8. —roulon-. Hist. ii. b. 28, Ap. 59, 115.
Stael Consid. i. 423.