Eulogy On Lafayette Delivered in Faneuil Hall At the Request of the Young Men
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He was left in the most distressing uncertainty as to the fate of Lafay- ette and his companion, and could form only the darkest anticipations of his own. His food was bread and water. His cell was dark ; — and once in six hours it was entered by the gaoler, to see that his chain was sound. After six months' confinement, their case was adjudged, and owing to the kind in- terference of Count Metrowsky, a nobleman of liberal character and great influence, who found in their * A portion of these d...etails are from an unpublished letter of Latour- Maubourg, one of the companions of Lafayette in captivity, preserved among the Washington papers. I 66 crime but a new title to respect, they were released with a nominal punishment, and ordered to quit the Austrian dominions. Scarcely were they at liberty, when an order was issued for the re-investi^ation of their case 5 but they were already in safety beyond the frontier. The treatment of Lafayette, after his re-capture, was doubly severe. On his first entrance into the prison at Olmutz, he had been plundered of his watch and shoe-buckles, the only articles of value, which the Prussians had left in his possession.
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