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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his. still more earnest solicitation to be perrniftLed to scnd to
his mother in America, merely the words "1 am alive,"
signed with his name, he received a rude refusal. —Dr.
Bollman was also put in chains, and conducted to a dismal
dungeon, half tinder ground. Only a faint light broke into
it, through a narrow, oblique aperture, made in a wall upwards of five feet thick. When he laid down at night.
chained to the walls, he was attacked by myriads of famished vermin. Neither candle light, nor books, were allowed him, and his food was limitedi to what could be procured for four cents per day. In this dreadful situation he
remained more than two months, without any communication with any person whatever except the jailer, nor did he
ever from him learn the fate of Mr. Huger. In fact, at first,
every degree of brutal severity was practised against both
of'them; but, afterwards, this severity was relaxed. They
were placed nearer together, where they could communicate with each other; and their trial, which was protracted
during the whole winter, was begun with all the tedious
formalities, that could be prescribed by Austrian fear and
caution; for they had dreamed, in Vienna, of a deep-rooted
plot, and wide-extended conspiracy, and could not believe
that such an attempt would be made merely by two individuals, and without any other design than simply that of restoring a man to fieedom and to his friends.-By the powerful, but unknown intercessions of many of the personal
friends of Dr. Bollman, in Vienna, but particularly through
the influence of count Metrowsky, a nobleman living near
the prison, the rigour of their treatment was not only greatly mitigated, but, on the conclusion of their trial, they were
merely sentenced to two weeks additional confinement, after
having been already imprisoned during eight months. —-he
doctor and Mr. Huger received many flattering marlks of
kindness and good will, even at Olmutz, before their departtre, and their progress through Germany was a kind of
t'i n.ni, toi:i):_rl I enbitcrced hby the recollection of the con