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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Th'le surgeon proved to be a man of intelligence, probity,
and feeling. After several interviews, when the conversation turned on.the effect of moral impressions on the constitution, Dr. Bollmann, drawing a pamphlet from his pocket,
abruptly said, " Since we are on the subject, you attend the
stite-prisoners here. Lafayette is among'them: his health
is much impaired. Show him this pamphlet. Tell him a
traveller left it with you, who lately saw in London all the
persons named in it, his particular friends: that they are
well, and continue attached to him as much as ever. This
intelligence will do him more good than all your drugs." —
At the same moment, he laid the pamphlet on the table, and
perceiving that the surgeon knew not rightly what to reply,
changed the conversation, and shortly after left him.
The manner of the surgeon convinced him that Lafayette
was at Olmutz; and he knew the latter would devise means
to improve the opportunity, should he receive the pamphlet.
In a few days, the surgeon mentioned, of his own accord,
that Lafayette wished to learn some further particulars respecting the situation of one or two of them, whom he named.
On hearing this the doctor, appearing to have accidentally
about him some white paper, but which, in fact, had been
prepared for the emergency, satimmediately down, and wrote
a few lines in French, which language the surgeon understood,
in reply to the inquiries made, and finished with the sentence,
" I am glad of the opportunity of addressing you these words,
which, when read with your usual warmth, will afford to a
heart like yours some consolation." The paper had been
previously written over with sympathetic ink, a writing invisible unless brought out by the application of heat. The
slight hint conveyed in the last sentence sufficed; Lafayette
became acquainted with his projects; and his readiness to
serve him in any practicable way. But the mode could be
pointed out only by the prisoner, as he alone, from within,
could judge what might be attempted, with any chance of
success, from without.