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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circle were increased by the arrival of George Washington
Lafayette from Mount Vernon, and by the marriage of Anastasia, the eldest daughter of Lafayette with M. Charles de
Latour Maugourg, brother of the person who had. shared her
father's captivity.
Here Lafayette continued to reside, contented and happy,
but anxiously observing the progress of events in France,
until the revolution of the eighteenth Brumair, tenth November, 1799, promised for a time, to settle the government
of his country on a safe foundation. He immediately returned to France, and established himself at La Grange, a fine
old castle, surrounded by a moderate estate, about forty
miles from Paris, which has ever since been his customary
residence.
Returned to his country, Lafayette remained steady to
those principles which had guided him through life,'-which
had led him to the wilds of America, —which had inspired him in the conflicts of revolutionary France, —had
shielded him from the corruption of courts, and consoled
him in the dungeons of captivity. When he discovered that
his opinons of the character and views of Bonaparte were
ill-founded, that he who had generously assisted to unlock his
own chains, was already engaged in weaving shackles for his
country, he broke off all intercourse with him, refused the
share offered to him in public affairs, declined the senatorial
dignity anxiously pressed on his acceptance, and by his bold
restrictive vote, in 1802, against the consulship for life, snapped for ever the tie, which, under the paramount influence
of gratitude, had for a moment bound him to a man, whose
views differed so widely from his own. Bonaparte even
went so far as to refuse to promote his eldest son, and his
son-in-law Lasteyrie, though they distinguished themselves
repeatedly in the army; and once, when a report of the
services of the former in a bulletin was offered him, he erased it with impatience, saying, " These Lafayettes cross my
path everywhere." Discouraged, therefore, in every way