former. M. Dulong was a young and able member of the liberal party, and a friend of Lafayette and his family. Lafayette was deeply affected by the fate of his youthful friend, who had thus fallen a victim to a false code of honor and to infuriated party zeal. He visited M. Dulong in his last moments, and joined on foot the procession which followed him to his grave. He supported with difficulty the long walk of several hours, and immediately on his return was violently attacked with a disease to which he was predisposed, and which had its seat in the region of the kidneys. To the assiduity of the best medical skill, the disease had partially yielded. Lafayette was enabled to take the air occasionally in his carriage; and hopes were entertained, that if he did not recover completely, he might be enabled to live free from pain and inconvenience. On the 9th of May, he had ridden out as usual, to the country house of his grand-daughter. A sudden thunderstorm arose ; Lafayette was exposed in it to a cold northwest wind, and became wet with rain. From that time, the disease assumed a painful and a fatal character.

"On the 20th of May, (says Cloquet, one of the attendant phy. sicians) about one o'clock in the morning, the gravity of the symptoms increased. Respiration, which for the last eight-and-forty hours had been much impeded, became still more difficult, and the danger of suffocation was more imminent. Drowsiness, delirium, and prostra. tion of strength, became more decidedly pronounced, and at twenty minutes past four o'clock in the morning, Lafayette expired in our arms!

"A few moments before he breathed his last, Lafayette opened his eyes, and fixed them with a look of affection on his children, who surrounded his bed, as if to bless them, and bid them an eternal adieu. He pressed my hand convulsively, experienced a slight degree of contraction in the forehead and eyebrows, and drew in a deep and lengthened breath, which was immediately followed by a last sigh. His pulse, which had not lost its force, suddenly ceased to beat. A murmuring noise was still heard about the region of the heart. To produce reannimation, we employed stimulating frictions, but in vain; the general had ceased to exist. His countenance resumed a calm expression-that of peaceful slumber."

Such, his death bed surrounded by his family and many of his most intimate friends, were the last moments of Lafayette the great, the good man-the patriot and the philanthropist.

The funeral obsequies of Lafayette were attended by all the distinguished residents in Paris, including the members