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 ss ,. al came n contact with so many remarka- be persons from all the countries of the ssoFld as lafayette. With lis extensive correspondence, he must have left q greater number of letters, which were addressed to him during the revolutions, by persons of all ranks, and no deubt their publication would be attended with many strange dis closures. Ii appears. that the family have been apprehensive lest their letters should be wrested trem them on some pretext or other. for it has frequently happened, that on the decease of influential statesmen, theu papers. and especially letters, have been arbitrarily seized, upon ptetence that they belonged to the state. A considera- ble collection of letters, written by the diff ferent soyereiens of Europe to Napoleon, during the period of his highest power, were made away with in different man. ner. Unluckily they got into private hands, and speculator sold them to foreign am- =bassador in London, who in his own name or that of his master, sent back 10 the po- tenates by whom the letters were written, those evidences of their former cfinging submission, and thereby caused them most agreeable surprise. Those important documents are now probably all destroyed and lost to posterity. Though the docu- ments left by Lafayette may not possess equal importance, they may nevertheless serve to shame many individuals but this Is not the principal reason why their publi- cation IS desirable They cannot but filrn-s ish information respecting the events of later times and make US better acquainted with the character of many celebrated per- -sons. Ii is probable, vt understand, that they will soon appear, and as the press is free, and the family of the General inde- pendent, there is no cause to apprehend any thing material will be suppressed.