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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general principle which forbade her to interfere in the ins
ternal administration of foreign countries. Mr. Fox admi.
rably combatted this wily and evasive answer; but, both
motions were finally lost.* One good effect, however, followed from them. A solemn and vehement discussion, in
which the emperor of Austria found no apologist, had been
held in the face of all Europe; and all Europe was, of
course, informed of the sufferings of Lafayette, in the most
solemn and authentic way.
The illustrious individual who presided over the government of the United States, did not forget, in the dungeons of
despots, the gallant soldier, with whom he had fought, side
by side, on the plains of America. During the first year of
Lafayette's imprisonment, in 1793, two letters were addressed to the American ministers at London and Paris, respectively, at the sole instance of the president, stating the
interest taken by the president, and people of the United
States in the fate of the Marquis de Lafayette, and requiring
them to avail themselves of every opportunity of sounding
the way toward his liberation, which they were to endeavour to obtain by informal solicitations; but if formal ones
should be necessary, they were to watch the moment when
they might be urged with the best prospect of success. In
fact, the attachment of these illustrious personages to each
other, yielded neither to time, nor to the remarkable vicissitudes of fortune with which the destinies of one of them had
been chequered. The extreme jealousy, however, with
which the persons who administered the government of
France, as well as a large party in America, watched the
deportment of Washington toward all those whom the ferocious despotism of the Jacobins had exiled from their
country, imposed upon him the painful necessity of observving great circumspection in his official conduct on this delicate subject. A formal interposition in favour of the virtuous
* The motion on seventeenth March, 1794, was lost, 40 to 153.Parl. Chron. ix, 642. —The motion on sixteenth December, 1796, was
lost, 32 to 132.-Ibid. xvi. 375.