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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mildness beams in his countenance, which, in conversation, is
brightened by a smile which carries with it evidence that it proceeds from the heart. He is lame, from a fracture of the thigh
bone in the year 1803, but not so much as materially to impede
his progress. His dress is that of the plainest citizen.
Such is Lafayette..:His name has long been consecrated to
fame; and his existence has been so intimately woven into the
history of his country, that her records and her chronicles must
have mouldered into nothing, ere his renown shall be forgotten,
or the memory of his deeds have faded into oblivion. His illustrious name will be venerated by posterity; for his virtues
and his deeds have distinguished it in an age, "when extensive
celebrity is no trifling possession; when the world appears to
have conspired for the destruction of mediocrity; and is agreed
to repulse, with contempt, the ambitious pretenders that besiege,
on all sides, the temple of renown."'
Lafayette, desirous of again beholding the scenes of his youthful glory,; having expressed his intention of re-visiting this country, congress, on the fourth of February, 1824, "Resolved, that
whenever the-president shall be informed of the time when the
marquis may be ready to embark, a national ship, with suitable
accommodations, be employed to bring him to the United States."
The modest, unassuming, and consistent patriot, declined the
honour of going in a national vessel, preferring a passage in a
private ship. On the twelfth of July, 1824, he embarked on
board the packet ship Cadmus, and on the sixteenth of August,
landed at New-York, Whena' first arose the sound of that universal acclamation, which has si'-Ce been echoed from the Cordilleras and'the Andes.
Republics have been charged with' ingratitude, and Europeans, ignorant of the whole structures df our government, and the
course of our policy, have supposed that the charge is justified
by our own example. Bu..wt'when it shall become fully known.abroad how the United States have, on all occasions, acted towards general de Lafayette; when it shall be understood that,