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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would be meliorated, provided he w>uld draw up plans
against France; but Lafayette exhibited, in an energetic answer, his scorn of such a proposition. Hence, the rigour of
his confinement was increased; and he, and his companions,
were soon after thrown into a wagon, and conveyed to the
dungeons of Magdeburg. The most brutal care was taken
that they should learn nothing respecting their families, concerning whose fate they experienced the most anxious solicitude, in consequence of the proscriptions that prevailed
in France. They remained during a whole year at Magdeburg, in a dark and humid vault, surrounded by high pallisades, shut up by means of four successive doors, fortified
by iron bars, and fastened with padlocks. Their fate, however, now appeared to be milder, as they were permitted to
see each other, and allowed to walk for an hour each day,
on one of the bastions.
After having been transported to Glatz, the prisoners
were at length trasferred to Neisse, for the purpose of being
delivered up again to Austria: their dungeon was still more
dismal and unhealthy than any of those they had previously
inhabited. Alexandre Lameth, who was dangerously ill,
could not be removed with his companions. His mother obtained permission from Frederick William, for him to remain
a prisoner in his states; and finally obtained his liberty.
The Prussians, at last, became unwilling to bear the odium
of such unlawful and disgraceful treatment of Prisoners of
war, entitled to every degree of respect from their rank and
character; but especially from the manner in which they
had been taken. They, therefore, gave them up to the
Austrians, who finally transferred them to dark and damp
dungeons in the citadel of Olmutz. The sufferings to which
Lafayette was here exposed, in the mere spirit of a barbarous
revenge, are almost incredible. He. was warned that he
would never again see any thing but the four walls of his
dungeon; that he would never receive news of events or
persons; that his name would be unknown in the citadel