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.

70 HISTORY OF THE
litia had returned in excessive ill-humour, was so great as to
inspire fears that even the means of repairing the French
ships would be unattainable; and it was, in some degree,
to guard against the mischief to be apprehended from the
prevalence of such a temper, that Generals Lafayette and
Hancock had repaired from camp to Boston. Congress,
together with Washington, and every thinking man in the
community, foresaw the fatal consequences that would ensue
from an irreparable breach with their new ally, and took
the most judicious and persevering measures to allay the
ferment and restore confidence and harmony. That body
directed General Washington to make every effort in his
power to prevent the unwise protest of the officers of Sullivan's army from being made public, and General Greene,
by his timely personal interference, arrested the despatches
when on the point of being publicly submitted by the speaker
to the assembly of Rhode Island, which General Sullivan
had addressed to the Governor of that state, in the first moments of vexation and disappointment, and which complained
bitterly of the conduct of D'Estaing, in terms calculated to
increase the general discontent.
The Marquis de Lafayette experienced extreme anguish,
which he communicated to Washington, at the injuries he
supposed to be offered to his country, by the expressions of
resentment which fell from the officers of the American army.
But, in the expression of these feelings, while he showed his
great sensibility wherever France was concerned, he also
manifested the most unlimited attachment to the commander-in-chief. Washington laboured indefatigably to prevent the evils to be apprehended from the prejudices and
resentments arising from the conduct of D'Estaing; and
particularly exerted himself to calm the growing animosities
found among the French and American officers. "I have
not now time," he remarked in a letter to General Greene,
"to take notice of the several arguments which were made