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.

260 HISTORY OF THE
shortly to divide the kingdom, the constitutionalists and the
republicans; and the event might have shown in whose favour the balance was likely to preponderate. The mayoralty of the judicious and patriotic M. Bailly, terminated in
the month of November, 1791; and the once popular Lafayette appeared as a candidate to succeed him. He was oppo-'
sed by Petion, a violent Jacobin, and a declared republican,
on the one side, and, the king and queen, being prejudiced
against him, by the whole influence of the court, on the
other. It is almost unnecessary to state the issue of this
unequal contest, and to add that Petion was elected mayor
of Paris by a great majority. The small number of votes
that Lafayette obtained was the source of great surprise to
many people, when they considered his ardour in pursuit of
the revolution, and his services to the people of Paris, which
ought to have entitled him to their peculiar countenance
and protection. But melancholy experience had evince-i
the increasing credit and power of the Jacobins, and it was
evident that that pernicious society had not only gained the
ascendancy over the minds of the populace, but was enabled to control even the assembly itself. The government
in fact, was in their hands, if that may be called a government where the people are without control, and called to
account for none of their actions;-a government from
which it was time for all honest men to retire."
Quid,est Catulle quod moraris emori?
Sella in curuli struma Nonius sedet,
Per consulatum pejerat Vatinius;
Quid est Catulle quod moraris emori?
From the happy tranquillity to which he now gladly turn.
ed, IAafayette was soon called by the war with Austria declarel April twentieth,- 1792, in which he was, at once, appointed one of the three major-generals to command the
French armies: he soon after obtained the rank of lieuten* Bertrand's Mem. i. 259.-Letters from Paris, ii. 205..-Hist. Frenchb
Aiev. i. 263-4.-Toulolgeon, ii. 94.