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.

322 HISTORY OF THE
bank of North America, without any explanation of its object.
The grateful stranger hastened to the lodgings of the general,
to express his feelings on the occasion; but the benevolent
hero had taken his departure from the city, on his way to NewYork, to embark for Europe. —With the money thus received,
a paper was forthwith established; and, after years of laborious,
honourable, and patriotic exertions, the Irish gentleman, who,
from adverse events in Ireland, never received the expected
remittances from that country, has attained a degree of respectability, wealth, and eminence, no less useful to the public, than
creditable to himself.-Comment on an act so opportunely
beneficent, proceeding from motives so purely philanthropic, so
evincive of his ardent attachment to liberty and to its friends
throughout the world, and so productive of valuable private and
public advantages, would be entirely superfluous: the facts will
touch the heart of every man of sensibility, and shed additional
lustre on the pure and exalted character of the "friend of
Washington, of America, and mankind." -At Green Spring,
Virginia, Lafayette dashed into the fire of Cornwallis' infantry,
and met with captain Doyle, of the third Pennsylvania regiment,
wounded in the leg, and leaning against a tree. The general
ordered his servant to dismount, and dismounting himself, placed
Doyle on his attendant's horse. While he was assisting him to
mount, the wounded officer received a musket ball in his left
shoulder. But the gallant Lafayette did not leave him until he
saw him in a place of safety, and thus saved the life of one of
the bravest captains of the Pennsylvania line.t —During the
French revolution, when. the commune of Paris insisted on his
acceptance of his emoluments as commander-in-chief of the
national guard, which he refused to accept, he used to them the
following language:"TIf I required pecuniary...assistance, I
* It is a remarkable circumstance, that after a separation of nearly half a
century, the actors in this scene again met on the spot where it was first
opened by the well-timed munificence ofLafayette; and that, with singular
keeping, it was closed by the voluntary and honourable repayment of the
gift.
f Allen M'Lane's Journal.