he was removed to Magdeburg, and thence to Olmutz. At Magdeburg he was
confined for a year, in a dark and solitary dungeon; during which he was
offered his liberty, on condition of his joining with the enemies of
France. He spurned the proposal with indignation; and preferred
imprisonment and indignity, to treachery or hostility to his own country.
When first taken into custody, he was treated with insult by the people of
some places through which he was conducted; but afterwards, a deep interest
was manifested in his behalf, and the warmest sympathy was expressed for
his unfortunate condition.

The following is an extract from a letter of Lafayette in 1793, while
confined at Magdeburg.

"Since my captivity, but one political paper has reached me, and that is
yours for February. I appreciate, with deep sensibility, the justice you
render my sentiments, and the approbation you bestow upon my conduct. Your
commendations are greatly beyond my deserts; but your kind exaggerations
contain, at this moment, something so generous, I cannot withhold from you
my thanks, that you have enabled me to hear the voice of liberty honoring
my tomb. My situation is peculiarly strange. I have sacrificed my
republican partialities to the state and wishes of the nation: I obeyed the
sovereign power where I found it vested, in the constitution. My popularity
was as great as I could desire; for the legislative body defended me better
on the 8th of August, than it defended itself on the 10th. But I became
obnoxious to the _Jacobins_, because I reprobated their aristocracy, which
aimed at usurping all legitimate authority.

"From Constantinople to Lisbon, from Kamschatka to Amsterdam, every
bastille is ready to receive me. The Huron and Iroquois forests are peopled
with my friends; the despots and the courts of Europe, they are the only