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.

GENERAL LAFAYETTE. 415
Lafayette, bore on it, " Brandywine," 1 Monmouth," and
"York-Town."
The associations of this entertainment were most delightful. It seemed as if the men of two ages had met to do honour to one whose nameshall live through all time. At the
head of the table, where Colonel Maccrea presided, sat Lafayette, and his old associates of the Cincinnati. At the foot,
Colonel Bankhead, with George W. Lafayette, and the officers of the army, most of them young men. The interval
was occupied by the guests generally. The soldiers of other
days, and the soldiers of this, together with those who owe
to the one the possession, and to the other the preservation of
their independence, all united in homage to the friend of
Washington, the companion of Hamilton, the pure and virtuous Lafayette.
On Thursday the Fire Department mustered to the utmost
of their strength, and paraded in the park, where the General,
(after returning from the Oratorio given by the Choral Society in St. Paul's Church,) viewed their engines, and the other
apparatus belonging to the dauntless guardians of the city.
All the Fire Engines in the city, amounting to 44, with
hook and ladder companies, and two engines from Brooklyn,
were arranged in a line around the park, and all the Firemen
stood a little in advance, holding their drag ropes. After
passing round the line, the General returned to the hall, and
made his appearance on the piazza, where he remnained in
company with Thomas Franklin, Chief Engineer, and many
ladies and gentlemen, to witness the exhibition.
In the centre of the Park, the ladders of the company were
erected in the form of a Pyramid, on the top of which was
placed a miniature house, filled with combustibles. The
Engines having all approximated the centre, to within a suitable distance, and having been charged with water, at a signal the house was fired, and forty-six powerful water spouts
were all directed at the object in an instant. The spectacle
for the moment was beautiful beyond description. Such was
the skill of the engineers that every spout seemed to strike the
common centre, and a mighty fountain in the form of a colossal column, or cone, was thus, as if by enchantment, in the
twinkling of an eye, beheld rushing up and descending like a
shower of liquid silver. When the sun shone out the fountain
sparkled all over like a palace of ice, or a magnificent dome