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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ertions in the cause offreedom,. he was already marked out
for destruction by the clubs, for his strenuous attachment to
constitutional monarchy. The spirit by which he was governed, cannot be better displayed, than in his reply to the
eager enthusiasm of the mob, when, in the day of his brightest popularity, the ever-memorable fourteenth of July, he
exclaimed to those who pressed around him, " Aimez les
amis du peuple, mais reservez l'aveugle soumission pour la
loi, et l'enthousiasme pour la liberte." (Love the friends of
the people, but remember submission to the laws, and enthusiasm for liberty.) When the march of the revolution -was
interrupted, and its objects frustrated, by the intrigues of faction and the fury of democracy, Lafayette opposed himself
steadily to the colossal and'disorganizing power of the Jacobins: *' Que le regne des clubs," he exclaimed, "aneanti par
vous, fasse place au regne de la loi." (May the reign of the
clubs, annihilated by you, give place to the reign of the law.)`
The minister, De Calonne, fully sensible that the finances
of the kingdom could never be placed on a solid basis, but
by the reformation of what was vicious in the constitution of
the state, was at the same time convinced that something
more was necessary to give weight to this reform, than the
royal authority. He perceived that the parliament was
neither a fit instrument for introducing a new order into
public affairs, nor would submit to be the passive machine
for sanctioning the plans of a minister, even if those plans
were the emanation of perfect wisdom. An assembly more
dignified and solemn in its character, and which should consist, in a greater degree, of members from the different provinces of the kingdom, was necessary to give force and effi-'
cacy to his proceedings. The true and legitimate assembly
of the nation, the states-general, had not met since the year
1614; and was, moreover, a meeting which a despotic sovereign could not but regard with apprehension. Another assembly had been occasionally substituted instead of the states* Lady Morgan's France, p. 317. —Port Folio, vol. xix. p. 504. 5.