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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all Lafayette's vast influence to warrant him in expressing
such opinions and feelings, or to protect him afterwards.The agitation produced by this letter was extreme, and the
proceedings of the disaffected of gloomy portent. At first
the Jacobins seemed to shrink from a contest with Lafayette; they had heretofore spared, because they feared, and
even hoped to gain, him: hoping no more to be able to triumph over his principles, they vowed his destruction; and
their oaths of that description had never been taken in vain.
The meeting of the Jacobins on the eighteenth of June, was
tumultuous and outrageous in the highest degree. They proposed that Lafayette should be sent to Orleans as a traitor,
and the most acceptable motion that was made was, that a
price should be set on his head, and that chaque citoyen put
courir sus;-that is to say, that any body that pleased might
murder him. While such were the debates within doors, at
the hall of the Jacobins, their emissaries without were busily employed in exciting the people to insurrection, and
the occurrences of the twentieth of June too plainly evinced the success of their endeavours.-When Lafayette's letter was read, Vergniaux represented that the remonstrances
of a general at the head of an army to the assembly, had
the appearance of an attempt to overawe the legislature.Gauidet ironically remarked, that the letter was so much in
the style of Cromwell, that it could not possibly be written
by Lafayette. They began, therefore, by denying its authenticity; they declared it, in short a forgery."
On the twentieth of June, the excitement produced by
the machinations of the Jacobins, broke out in the most disgraceful manner. Twenty thousand men of the lowest rank,
armed with pikes and lances, marched to the Tuilleries withoul. knowing why;-they were ready to commit every crime,
or could be persuaded to the noblest actions, according to
the imepulse of events, and of their leaders. These twenty
* North Am. Rev. January, 1825, p. 163.-Toulong. Hist. ii, 150-1.
Hist. French Rev. ii. 23. —Moore's Journal, p. 115 —Moores View, ii
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