which nature has engraved on the heart of every citizen, and which
take a new force when they are solemnly recognised by all:- For a
nation to love liberty, it is sufficient that she knows it; and to be
free, it is sufficient that she wills it." How dry, barren, and
obscure is the source from which Mr. Burke labors! and how
ineffectual, though gay with flowers, are all his declamation and his
arguments compared with these clear, concise, and soul-animating
sentiments! Few and short as they are, they lead on to a vast field
of generous and manly thinking, and do not finish, like Mr. Burke's
periods, with music in the ear, and nothing in the heart.

As I have introduced M. de la Fayette, I will take the liberty of
adding an anecdote respecting his farewell address to the Congress of
America in 1783, and which occurred fresh to my mind, when I saw Mr.
Burke's thundering attack on the French Revolution. M. de la Fayette
went to America at the early period of the war, and continued a
volunteer in her service to the end. His conduct through the whole of
that enterprise is one of the most extraordinary that is to be found
in the history of a young man, scarcely twenty years of age. Situated
in a country that was like the lap of sensual pleasure, and with the
means of enjoying it, how few are there to be found who would
exchange such a scene for the woods and wildernesses of America, and
pass the flowery years of youth in unprofitable danger and hardship!
but such is the fact. When the war ended, and he was on the point of
taking his final departure, he presented himself to Congress, and
contemplating in his affectionate farewell the Revolution he had
seen, expressed himself in these words: "May this great monument
raised to liberty serve as a lesson to the oppressor, and an example
to the oppressed!" When this address came to the hands of Dr.
Franklin, who was then in France, he applied to Count Vergennes to