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.

MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE. 291
informed madame de Lafayette that no objectlon would be
made to her leaving her husband, but that, if she should do so,
she must never return. to him. There was a degree of refinement in this ingenious mode of heaping afflictions upon the head
of the unfortunate, which almost outrivalled in iniquity all ti~: t
had ever been written to depict the oppression of tyranny.
The heroic woman seized a pen, and immediately and formally signed her consent and determination "to share his captivity in all its details," being " fully determined never again to expose herself to the horrors of another separation." Never aferwards did she make an effort to leave him. After this
period, no complaints whatever were heard from the unhappy
sufferers, who inhaled in their dungeons, an air thoroughly impregnated with the most noxious effluvium. The situation of
the two lovely daughters was horrible.-Not allowed to be confined with their parents, they were guarded in separate dungeons; and, by a confinement of sixteen hours, they purchased
the melancholy satisfaction of being with their father and
mother during the remaining eight hours, of the day. But,
with all those soft endearments which fall so sweetly from the
lips of young and artless women, they helped to assuage, by
their touching sympathy, those keener sorrows which refused
to yield to the voice of philosophy.*
"' The history of female virtue and female heroism," says
M. de Stael, " presents nothing more rare in excellence, than
the life and character of madame de Lafayette." Her name
will be revered so long as virtue commands respect and
admiration. She has, in our days, revived the name of
Arria, who devested herself of the weakness of her sex, to
bear all the oppression -uhich a Claudius or a Nero could
inflict. She composed hers.' for death in the arms and in
the dungeon of her husband; but his deliverance produced
a reprieve to a life so precious. He bore her to her native
Parl. Chron. xvi, 378-9, 380, 394.-Wars Rev. i, Note, 59, 60.-Port
F, o, xix, 509.-North American Review, January, 1825.