ginia, who had assembled for the purpose. After visiting Chester, Lancaster, and other towns in Pennsylvania, he returned by the way of Baltimore to the city of Washington. He became the guest of President Adams, and enjoyed several days of comparative repose, after his arduous and exciting journey.

The new frigate Brandywine had been tendered by President Adams, and accepted, to convey Lafayette to France; and, while preparations were making for the voyage, he twice, in company with the president, made short excursions into the State of Virginia. The principal object of La. fayette in these visits, was to take leave of the Ex-presidents Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe. They met him, for the last time, at Monticello, the residence of Mr. Jefferson. This parting interview between four aged veterans, all of whom were distinguished in the imperishable annals of their country, and upon three of whom had rested the supreme power of a nation, was solemn and sublime. They bid farewell, with a consciousness that they should meet no more on earth, and with the consolation, that their long career and their joint labors had been honorable to themselves and of enduring benefit to their fellow beings.

While in Virginia, Lafayette attended public festivals - given, or rather repeated, in honor of him, in Albemarle, Culpepper, and several other places. After his return to Washington, President Adams gave a grand dinner to commemorate the birthday of Lafayette, which closed the brilliant series of festive entertainment, and the last day of Lafayette in America.

We have endeavored to sketch in the foregoing pages of this chapter, for the reader's comprehension, the outlines of Lafayette's astonishing tour through the American States, and to illustrate the true spirit and character of his reception throughout its progress. To have described all the interesting incidents of his tour, the places he visited, and the various modes which the people adopted to testify their joy and gratitude, would have filled a space greater than is designed for this volume. His whole course was one continued scene of triumph-not the triumph of conquest or of power-but of an individual unadorned by either,―venerated for his virtues, and triumphing in the affections and confidence, and in the grateful recollections, of a nation of

freemen. Every where, in the whole progress of his journey, his path was literally a path of roses. The civic wreath was united with the warrior's chaplet; and the endearments of social life were mingled with the " pomp and circumstance" of military honors. There is no portion of Lafayette's life which afforded him more satisfaction, and none which will be regarded by an American with a prouder and deeper interest.

On the 7th of September, Lafayette took his departure. In the principal vestibule of the President's house, surrounded by the cabinet, by various public officers, and a large concourse of citizens, President Adams took leave of him, in the name of the American people and government. After an eloquent summary of the services of Lafayette to America, and of his late journey and reception, throughout the states of the Union, the President concluded as follows:

"The ship is now prepared for your reception, and equipped for sea. From the moment of her departure, the prayers of millions will ascend to heaven that her passage may be prosperous, and your return to the bosom of your family as propitious to your happiness, as your visit to this scene of your youthful glory has been to that of the American people.

"Go, then, our beloved friend-return to the land of brilliant genius, of generous sentiment, of heroic valor; to that beautiful France, the nursing mother of the twelfth Louis, and the fourth Henry; to the native soil of Bayard and Coligni, of Turenne and Catinat, of Fenelon and D'Aguesseau. In that illustrious catalogue of names which she claims as of her children, and with honest pride holds up to the admiration of other nations, the name of Lafayette has already for centuries been enrolled. And it shall henceforth burnish into brighter fame; for if, in after days, a Frenchman shall be called to indicate the character of his nation by that of one individual, during the age in which we live, the blood of lofty patriotism shall mantle in his cheek, the fire of conscious virtue shall sparkle in his eye, and he shall pronounce the name of Lafayette. Yet we, too, and our children, in life and after death, shall claim you for our own. You are ours by that more than patriotic self-devotion with which you flew to the aid of our fathers at the crisis of their fate. Ours by that long series of years in which you have cherished us in your regard. Ours by that unshaken sentiment of gratitude for your services which is a precious portion of our inheritance. Ours by that tie of love, stronger than death, which has linked your name, for the endless ages of time, with the name of Washington.

"At the painful moment of parting from you, we take comfort in the thought, that wherever you may be, to the last pulsation of your heart, our country will be ever present to your affections: and a cheering consolation assures us, that we are not called to sorrow most of all, that we shall see your face no more. We shall indulge the

pleasing anticipation of beholding our friend again. In the mean time, speaking in the name of the whole people of the United States, and at a loss only for language to give utterance to that feeling of attachment with which the heart of the nation beats, as the heart of one man—I bid you a reluctant and affectionate farewell.”

Lafayette, with deep emotion, replied as follows:

"Amidst all my obligations to the general government, and particularly to you, sir, its respected chief-magistrate, I have most thankfully to acknowledge the opportunity given me, at this solemn and painful moment, to present the people of the United States with a parting tribute of profound, inexpressible gratitude.

"To have been, in the infant and critical days of these states, adopted by them as a favorite son, to have participated in the toils and perils of our unspotted struggle for independence, freedom and equal rights, and in the foundation of the American era of a new social order, which has already pervaded this, and must for the dignity and happiness of mankind, successively pervade every part of the other hemisphere, to have received at every stage of the revolution, and during forty years after that period, from the people of the United States, and their representatives at home and abroad, continual marks. of their confidence and kindness, has been the pride, the encouragement, the support of a long and eventful life.

"But how could I find words to acknowledge that series of wel. comes, those unbounded and universal displays of public affection, which have marked each step, each hour, of a twelve months' progress through the twenty-four states, and which, while they overwhelm my heart with grateful delight, have most satisfactorily evinced the concurrence of the people in the kind testimonies, in the immense favors bestowed on me by the several branches of their representatives, in every part and at the central seat of the confederacy?

"Yet gratifications still higher await me; in the wonders of crea. tion and improvement that have met my enchanted eye, in the unparalleled and self-felt happiness of the people, in their rapid prosperity and ensured security, public and private, in a practice of good order, the appendage of true freedom, and a national good sense, the final arbiter of all difficulties, I have had proudly to recognize a result of the republican principles for which we have fought, and a glorious demonstration to the most timid and prejudiced minds, of the superiority, over degrading aristocracy or despotism, of popular institutions founded on the plain rights of man, and where the local rights of every section are preserved under a constitutional bond of union.The cherishing of that union between the states, as it has been the farewell entreaty of our great paternal Washington, and will ever have the dying prayer of every American patriot, so it has become the sacred pledge of the emancipation of the world, an object in which I am happy to observe that the American people, while they give the animating example of successful free institutions, in return for an evil entailed upon them by Europe, and of which a liberal and enlightened sense is every where more and more generally felt, show themselves every day more anxiously interested.

"And now, sir, how can I do justice to my deep and lively feelings

for the assurances, most peculiarly valued, of your esteem and friend. ship, for your so very kind references to old times, to my beloved associates, to the vicissitudes of my life, for your affecting picture of the qlessings poured by the several generations of the American people on the remaining days of a delighted veteran, for your affectionate remarks on this sad hour of separation, on the country of my birth, full, I can say of American sympathies, on the hope so necessary to me of my seeing again the country that has deigned, near a half century ago, to call me hers! I shall content myself, refraining from superfluous repetitions, at once, before you, sir, and this respected circle, to proclaim my cordial confirmation of every one of the sentiments which I have had daily opportunities publicly to utter, from the time when your vanerable predecessor, my old brother in arms and friend, transmitted to me the honorable invitation of congress, to this day, when you, my dear sir, whose friendly connexions with me dates from your earliest youth, are going to consign me to the protection, across the Atlantic, of the heroic national flag, on board the splendid ship, the name of which has been not the least flattering and kind among the numberless favors conferred upon me.

"God bless you, sir, and all who surround us. God bless the American people, each of their states, and the federal government. Accept this patriotic farewell of an overflowing heart; such will be its last throb when it ceases to beat,"

Amidst public demonstration of deep respect, and deeper regret, Lafayette entered the steam-boat Mount Vernon, accompanied by several officers of the government, descended to the mouth of the Potomac, and embarked on board of the frigate Brandywine. On the 8th of September, the Brandywine got under way, and Lafayette bid a final adieu to the shores of America.

CHAPTER XXX.

Lafayette arrives at Havre--Parting with the officers of the Brandywine-His reception at Lagrange- Carter's description of Lagrange, of the family, and domestic life of Lafayette-Benevolent acts of Lafayette-He mingles again in public affairs-In the Chamber of Deputies-- His visit to Chevaniac-Popular manifestations-The precursors of a new revolution-Revolution of July, 1830-Lafayette's prominent share in it-Is appointed commander-in-chief of the military-Repairs, in popular triumph, to the Hotel de VilleHis proclamation to the people and the army.

AFTER a passage of twenty-four days, Lafayette once more beheld the shores of his native France. A part of his

family, and many of his intimate friends, were in waiting at Havre to welcome his return. To the officers of the Brandywine, Lafayette had become doubly endeared by his deportment during the voyage. They surrounded him, when about to leave the vessel, with every demonstration of respect, and grief at parting. The first Lieutenant, Gregory, who had been commissioned by them to express their sentiments on the occasion, was unable from his emotions to give utterance to his words; but, with a sudden and fortunate impulse, he seized the American flag which floated at the stern of the vessel, rapidly detached it, and presented it to Lafayette, exclaiming, "We cannot confide it to more glori ous keeping! Take it, dear general, may it ever recall to you your alliance with the American nation; may it also sometimes recall to your recollection those who will never forget the happiness they enjoyed of passing twenty-four days with you on board the Brandywine; and in being displayed twice a year on the tower of your hospitable dwelling, may it recall to your neighbors the anniversary of two great epochs, whose influence on the whole world is incalculable the birth of Washington, and the declaration of the independence of our country.'

The general replied. "I accept it with gratitude, and I hope that, displayed from the most prominent part of my house at Lagrange, it will always testify to all who may see it the kindness of the American nation towards its adopted and devoted son. And I also hope, that when you or your fellow countrymen visit me, it will tell you that at Lagrange you are not on a foreign soil."

For Lagrange Lafayette departed the next day after landing at Havre. On the way he stopped, at Rouen, at the house of an old friend and colleague. A crowd of people, accompanied by a band of music, assembled to manifest their respect for him. Lafayette from the balcony had commenced returning them his acknowledgments, when a detachment of royal guards and gens-d'armes, charged upon the unarmed citizens, to disperse them, and several were severely wounded. The gens-d'armes, with drawn sabres, accompanied the carriage of Lafayette to the hotel where. he was to spend the night. But here, a party of young men of the place surrounded the door, kept back the minions of authority, and secured to the citizens an opportunity of