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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United States, to procure the liberation, or at least improve
the situation, of the illustrious sufferer. He had already
solicited, and obtained, permission to supply him with small
sums of money. At length, the emperor affected to listen
with a friendly ear to the solicitations of the American government, and consented to his enlargement, upon condition
that Mr. Parish would engage that he should leave Germany
in ten days. On the twenty-fifth August, 1797, the consul
addressed a letter to the baron de Thurgut, minister of state,
containing the following passage: " Mr. Rameuf will have
the honour of acquainting your excellency with the dispositions that have been made toward procuring a vessel fox
the prisoners, on their arrival in this city, (Hamburg,) to fa.
cilitate their. passage to America. I beg permission for Mr.
Rameuf to offer to the prisoners, as well in my own name
as in that of the United States, whatever assistance and
care they may stand in need of, at the moment of their enlargement."
To this letter the baron de Thurgut replied as follows:
"The merchant Hirsch has been permitted to furnish, agreeably to your desire, the money necessary to defray the expenses that the family of Lafayette would be at for matters
of convenience and pleasure. The baron de Buol, his majesty's minister plenipotentiary to the princes and state of
Lower Saxony, will inform you of the particular deference
of his majesty to the interest which the United States appear to take in the liberation of this prisoner." The same
minister of state, in a letter of the thirteenth of September,
1797, to the baron de Buol, speaks in this language: "You
will take care, M. Baron, to inform the American consul on
this occasion, that his majesty, having made nopositive engagement with the French respecting the enlargement of this
prisoner, the motive of the particular interest that the United States of America, appear to attach to it, has contribu.
ted not a little to engage his majesty in this beneficent action; that, for the rest, his majesty will be always happ
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