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mired, sod that yea made your first campaign in Italy. Bernadotte's division left Coblentz in December. 1796, and joined your army in March, 1797. Ap. pointed Colonel of the 14th Regiment of Deagoons, I made the campaign of Vienna in that capacity. Being recalled by General Bernadotte to my for mer situation at the head of his staff, after the pre linsiiiiiries of Leuhen, you charged me with the commitsion of paying the honours due to the Cou•!t of Cotrentzel, the Martinis de Gallo, the Coma de Merfeld, and the General Clarke, alt Plenipo tentiaries of the treaty of Campo Formio. You expressed yourself well pleased with the manuscript copy of " loirtructions for Troops dur ing a Campaign," which I had seat you at PaStli• riano, in July 1797. It being intended that I should make one tb ac company the embassy to Vienna, and being come to Pints to proceed on my diplomatic mission, you gave me a good reception, and proposed to me to accompany you to Egypt ; but, on my refusal to leave Bernadotte, you insinuated to the Directory, that a Republic ought to have no gexilernen follow ing their Ambassadors; and I was sent off to the Army of England, cousmandird by General De►aiz. Being returued to France, after having been taken prisoner in Ireland, I was employed with the Army of Italy. General Joubert sent me with eight battalions to the Army of Rome, com manded by Gen. Championnet, and afterwards by Gen. Macdonald. After the retreat of Naples, this army joined that of Italy at Genoa, then commanded by General Moreau. Government sent me out letters of service for the A►my of Switzerland, coin mended by General Massena. At Paris, on my way, General Bernadotte, then a Miniater, gave me the office of the Marches of Troops in the War Department, and afterwards that or the Appointments. You were still in Egypt. It was at that time intended to overthrow the Di rectory, and appoint three Consuls: Jourdan, Auge resit, and Bernadotte, were the Generals named : I was to have been appointed the War Minister. Act ing upon the information I received from Berna dotte, and thinking that my obligations to hint re quired of me to extricate him from so dangerous a step, I acquainted him with all that was doing by the Directors Sieges and Barrel, who set the ma chines of the Jacobins to work. In order to requite my zeal, the Directory ap pointed me Ambasradur to Holland; but I refused to accept of this embassy, being attached to the army by taste and inclination. On your return from Egypt, you received me with transports of joy. You advised nie not to give in my resignation, and you told me you would in a litle time appoint me General of a division. I was your fellow luboure• on the lath Bruutuire (November) 1799. Bernadotte, who had refused you his assistance, and who was near running you through the body when jou first proposed your de signs to him, had retired to my estate in the coun try, near Paris. You employed me to visit him, to pacify him, and to bring Mtn back to I.ia true interests. You may remember that it was at this very tiinethat I presented you, and Madame 13011 a• parte, as well as nearly the whole of your family, with some very valuable cameo, ; which were ac cepted of, and gave great satisfaction. My delicacy would never have permitted me to have declared this circumstance, if you had not forced me, by your infintons narrative, to the necessity of *hewing the footing of intimacy I was once upon *id; you. Its December 1799, bring with the army of the Rhine, commanded try General Moreau, I had the command of General Ney's division, he bring ab sent un tram General Bernadotte having the command of the Army of the C u a•to, yon gave roe orders, in April 1900, to repair to that General, who intrusted me with the cumin:anti of the C.lllll, of St. Bruen, near Brest : I had with the troops under mJ tomniaud, two thousand Spaniards, landed from the tieTt un der the cominand of Aitumid Grarimi, which lay in thereof! of Brest. In August, !Son, General Murat had the cow- trio I of 10.000 grenadiers. part of the camp of Amiens. You ordered me to 4to there to disci pline them, a duty which the General was incnpable of performing. In Octuber, there win. a 'Jot to bet the Opera House on fire, and to assas-iiiiite you in the midst •f the confusion. In thirty hours, 1 marched thirty leagues with then greondiers. You were as much astonished as you were pleased with this form' march : Murat was with you at Paris at this time. You reviewed these troops near Versailles ; yon overwhelmed toe with compliments upon the occa sion, ■nd you had not less than sixty general officers aid' you at the time. It is certain) that the grenadiers br Intigink to the marine, who had been only twenty days on shore, exercised as well' as if they had helm veterans. Durnt; our stay at Versailles. 1 often went Ind mounted guar.' at Malmaison. You vatting have forgot the circumstance of a ladder hating Iweo di.- covered, fixed up against one of the windows of pint. apartments. The diseotrry is noted in my tobNerio•tion,. tiarti.g j pioe(l the Amoy or Itg:y will ln•!sa pr. Dadiefs, It MY. bt matter or astonl.l,,neht to I , *my to KO III) tf (10.111 lo •uch go)d ottivr, uh,e* 1 march ovct the Alps in tilt midst of *Net, s for it happened iii Pecember, 1800. They *ere exer cised in presence of General Murat, in the great square of Milan. I frankly replied to the compli ments paid me on the occasion, that thi appearance of these men was the result of six months of labour and fatigue. Murat, animated by the meanest kind of jealousy, observed, with a show of great spite, that Ae womb( furnish me with labour and fatigate for six other months. Accordingly he took the grenadiers from me, and gave me two regiments of new-raised men. I remonstrated against this ar bitrary proceeding, but to no purpose; I spoke to him with the freedom of au old fellow collegian, in the presenceof his two Aides-de-Camp, the Colonels Lagrange and Beaumont. He turned a deaf ear to my complaiuts ; which usage has been since re turned to him iii Egypt by the General Lamle!, to the knowledge of the whole army. I returned to France on account of my health; and had been at my country seat about a month, when general Berthier acquainted me that I might soon expect fresh orders. Yon broke me ; and in so doing you iTid well ; it was my duty to obey, to make my representations to you, and wait your determination. This error, the only one you can 6y to my charge, as coin. witted during the whole course of ray military ea. reer, was occasioned by the persuasion you had wrought in me, that you Rave me the preference to Murat, allowance being made for relationship. I have never solicited to resign ; I have denounced no one person ; my conduct has been generous and open,and by no means ins dittos and doubtful. You have endeavoured to excuse the dastardly and un generons behaviour of your brother-in-law ; you have used means that were very base. If there had been any denunciation, you would not have failed to mention the date, and to name the persons so de nounced. Falsehood is a certain characteristic of degradation —you will find by my observations that this is not your first attempt. I passed the time I wee unemployed with the army, which continued for sixteen mouths, in the perusal, of my military books. I furnished many articles to the editor of the " Young (fryer's Guide;" I signed the act of continuati is for life of your Consulship; 1 asked permission to go into the Dutch service ; you consented to it ; but when I. waited upon the Ambassador, Schimmelpenninck, at Paris, I discovered from his enaha•rassment that you had given him orders to make me this answer, that tit would write to his goreralueat, but that it would take a cuirideratife time." General Ber nadotte cao relate to you a very delicate srene con cer.iing you, which took place betwixt him and me respecting this licence; you will, moreover, find it iu my observions. When I art off to join the Army of St. Domingo, General Berthier assured me that I should find my commissiow as General of Division with it. Crenc.al Itochambeam of whom I inquired concerning it, laughed very much at my credulity. I signed your appointment S 3 Emperor; I was one of the Generals present when Murat made his Proclamation speech to you at the Thuilleries ; I recollect well all that the Generals Masser's, Au geresu, Macdonald, Bernadotte, &c. said to you, as well as your answers. You will fiud them very exactly rilaied irs my observations. I never solicited to serve with Augerenu ; I bad very good reasons for despising that man, who dis graces the general's uniform, and whose stupidity and greediness fur plunder constitute him • true leader of banditti. Do you recollect that General Bernadotte asked you to allow me to be at the head of his staff with the Army of Haulm er, and that you seplied to him, in my presence : General Sarrazirs has been in Ireland; I *mild hare him retains thither r" It is possible that I may return there; but it shall be to put the brave Irish on their guard against your perfidious insinuations, and to advise them to be faithful to their own government, leg they meet with the same unhappy fate us has befallen France, which you leave had the cruel ad dress of forming into one vast prison! What yule say concerning my condast with the Army of Brest is of very little importance. What probability is there that you would have suffered me to by with that army, if I had accused furty Generals, and forty laud and sea officers settled iu that place? General Larnarepie, now with the Army of Naples, will inform you whether I was deficient in point of courage, or the author of that titre re port which you mention. Your spies are known; there were two of them with the urmy of Brest. They often suggested to me the measure of sending my Memorials to the Minister of the General Police; but 1 corresponded with you for the benefit of my troops and the good of the service, •s the Prussian Generals did with Frederick the Great. As you have made mention of this Memorial, you should hare mentioned others, and particularly my Dissertation of the 11th Fimmire, which is an ana lysis of all the good yam hare ever dune. I therein speak warmly against the English government ; but in your opinion I express myself too favourably of the nation, which I stile !mire and rig tams ; ■nd particularly when I speak of the English constitution of government, and call it immortal ad spiv. Yon have made no mention of it, li;cause you know all that is said against a government is but a form of txpression, allowable in Lilac of war ; whilst the praise of a people tan are encritics can o:.ly pre teed from the sentiment of the Imukt. I never had any dispute with General Ileudi let. You were displeased at tny writing to the King of Prussia on the 2.3 d of June, ►suG, three months before the battle of Jena. This Monarch, to whom I transmitted my Dissertation of the eleventh Frimaire, condescended to send me an answer, dated the art of July following, in his own hand. You were jealous of my connections with Prince Lewis of Wirtemberg, general in the Russian ser vice, and uncle of the Emperor Alexander. I re sided with this Prince for three months at the Castle of Weilbourg, belongirig to the Prince of Nassau, his brother-its-law. I commanded the second divi sion of Augerean's corps. In Germany, us well as at Brest, I made %ou acquainted with the thieves and marauders, whose actions were beyond my con trol, and equally derogatory to the good of my troops, and the justice due to the inhabitants of such countries as were under my command. In October, 1806, I was employed in the 24• h division, under General Chambarthire; I command ed in the department of the Scheldt ut Ghent ; the Prefect was a robber, and you deprived him of his office. Li June, 1807, you emplmed me with the ♦nny of AOtweip, commanded by General Frritio. I had under me the young Prince of Hohcozollern• Sigmaringen, with his regiment. In the month of August of the same year, yon employed me in the sixteenth military division, cominanited loy General Mario, and afterwards 1 / Gnwral Vaiidamme ; it was but just in me to op pose the iniquity of the Prefet.t, Mr. Charm-Ito, formerly Ambassador to the Court i.f St. James's, who caused double the numher of conscripts to be levied which the department was bound to furnish. You removed me, and you continued that officer at Druges, in the department of Lys, contrary to the advice of General Vandamme, who was the Com msndaut of the 16th Division. Gen.Cliamberthac never commanded the 16th Division. The public can only excuse the fasities, mistakes, and absurdi •ties of your Narrative, by imputing them to the flurry which the accidetit of the first of July, at the hotel of the Austrian Ambassador, must ne cessarily have thrown you tut° ; and what the more confirms me in this opinion, is, that this Narrative is dated on the of July. Siationed on the island of t'atisanil, I then be gun to detest you. All I did wits out of rsgard fur the troops. 1 established en hospital in an empty house: complaint was made of this circumstance, a:id on the foundation of this complaint, you sent me to the ramp at Boulogne, where teinained tern months. You had your private reasons, which will be known some time hence. I saw them inyour e} ea when yon reviewed at Boulogne, on the 25th of May. Fondle would not put rue under an arrest, because you only went upon suspicion. You order. ell Itim to walk about Rome, and you appoicted as his successor one Savory, a man se ready to execute all your orders, as he was to strangle Pichegru ! If I had staid only four-ant!..lwenty hours longer in Boulogne, you must own that I should have been consigned to a dungeon at Vincennes, or to flie ditches of that castle, as was the trill/ unfortunate Duke d'Etighien ! I '• I have constantly lird in the greatest harmony with general officer.s and public almiuistrators, that were creditable. • have commatitled, or have been known to all the regiments that form the French army : all of which esteem and sake me. I have levied no con tributions but in the country about Naples, by order of Genvral Macdonald, for the supply of the military chest. I am well acquainted with Germany, Italy, and France ; all the places of strength, and newly the whole coast from ft... Scheldt to Trieste. The entire subatance of this narrative is sup ported by eighty-four official documents, which ate deposited in the bands of the Secretary of State for the Foreign Department, in London. I shall now produce only fifteen, of different dates; the remaining documents, under the hands of Rocham bean, Berthier, Macdonald, Bernadotte, Murat, and others, will be printed with say observations ; wherein, I beg leave to assure yea, you will find some very striking details, the remembrance of which, and with some relson, you have nearly lost. When I quitted France. I acted consistently with my obligation to honour ; when you qualified this use of the rights of man with the odious term of cowardly desertiuw, you judged of my conduit according to your own, when you left Egypt! I gave you my ("oh of fidelity ; you swore to mske justice the principle of your government ; you were the first to violate your oath, and you have released me from all engagements with respect to yourself. On the first favourable opportunity, and the time is not distant, the whole army, and all France s will shew you that a tyrant cannot become so through petiory, celibate meeting his merited punichatene ! shall end with using the rouse address to you an the Tribune Flavius used to the Emperor Nero : Nec 141,1 gain:tam militant fidelior fait, tistomdia aware nueruisti odisse type quotaa injaistrs ergo constnilitoter,, tirannats lareadrar las Hu pariah, 45. c. 41. ertitisti. Saauazil. Here Mhos the Emrich/of the Lettere vir ltite*A4•4?.. 71.11'- 11.4 PKrr ritijiveltuvri, TVESIMY, Lig 7, i • • faretortf • . THE .SPOLVTrefII I.D. gebliof& r ; Me Noble g N:r Mailwars P 1 i (Ist 11,4 „..Miaa.Ml Migs 3j, reioport. 'lijitto (fbilitiblethis seaman) the Historical ay TM E.UATTI.F. OF MEXILIM ; MAYS MOl Gundllocri, Mr. C Kendal' , ; U, Vaiennr, Ilr. He Gregora Gobbing, Mr. Magmas. queen Margarri, Gl.moTt; 4.14 I;ne, %Ira. Fp 4 . Aficr which will toe pi ;alto oal (nerer j - Tragic Opera, Iw 11"... art, called 11:03111AVIIMS FCRI 'So Artneominotos (King of Utopia), Mr. Mathew.; (Thotigter of Slate), Mr 7';olor ; General liunil.ago,‘, Lit•tooto. Dostaffina ' !lira —onorrow, 'Elie Africans, sad 1 :''in; nu Nfur.lcr. --- N E‘V 31ELt)-DRAME—FIFTEENTH ;SCI LYCIUM 7711(.17.1217.-7-.EXCLISH TlllB EVENING, TV F.SDAY, Aug. 7, will be pert (ad time at lbw Theatre) the Comic Open of FALSE ALAttMS Sir Damon Gayland, Mr. Peugeot ; Philippi Tem Surfeit, Me J. Snub ; Llttli Mc lam, Turpin.• Lady Gayland, Misa E. Wilton • Caroline Mrs (triter; Endly, Ms a. ; Susa ' n Miss hell , With (for the I sth time) a N ew Me)o.Dresuatic called Tivcisrry YEARS AGO. The Principal Character. by Mr. %weenie!, Mr 1 Mc J. Smith, Mr.t). , rt on. M ir a E Bolton, hliw K. The new Mclo-Dratriatie Eiitertarinnent of Twein v A/0, continuing to be aecrived nab anitrisal butoi planar, will be repeated every evening the. writ. Tu moron, Tricks upon Travellers. On Monday nest will be perfneeed (for the Ant New Grand Mock Heroic Karin -erratic Ballet o called Jerk the Giant Killer; in which Mr. Bradbury make his Seat appearance at thin Theatre. 1 3 111.7 LONDON, - TUESDAY. AUGUST 7. We give, this day, the Iteply of Graprsi AAIUN to the Narrative made by Georral CLA W Minister of War, to BONAPARTE, respect deterinination of General SAItRAZIN to 6C-k asylum io Eitgtand. The first Report of the Select Cornini , tre Sinecure Offices has been printed. 11 . ..,;;ie day an extract from it, coulaining a 1 1 ,1, places which the Committee conceive nin) ur fished with advantage to the public. silent and unostentatious, but the safe, t e, efficient tundetif Reform. . • • ! rt Some Genova Papers have been received, which we havr made roust extracts. Among is a letter from Paris, which states that the Mitlister of Police, Fovea the Duke of Or To. has tined his residence at Aix iii Pf inIIICP. It thu• appears that Id+ ispr to the Government or Ronne wee merely nut' and that he ha• actually fallen into A Gottenbursgh Mail arrived last morniil Letters and Papers to the :26th last. The 41q.rg of the Diet of Sweden was announced for the It has been stated. that Lord Wti.rt octet' written for farther supplies, to enah!e him to a protracted c,onpaiAn with effect. We stand, accordingly, that a general inspeeti , ;n been ordered throughout the kingdom, to +wort. the number of reginicntallt For fortip nerviie to expedite thews (or drafts' freer' them) fur ern. talon. The •Guards' were inspected on Moo. and Lc draqing from them took place ve,terd. The ilfstrawstoon of 'war has erririd at mouth, truss the riser Plate. Banton Ayres followed the example of the Caraccan, in est tog all independent Government, professing loy, to FERDIN•III7I, hot disclaiming the authority • the Regency 4.f Cadiz. The Victor's was deieuol , and a Junta of the natives established. F. accounts Iron' the Comecon represent the new rerinnent of that province as perfectly Otgat•ised• Extract of a letter from an officer on board "meow frigote, dated off Sardinia, June 30, isi te We sailed from Palermo on Sunday lint; and Wednenday we took a va7 inside prize, which we to Malta. Last week we took two prirw; French privateer, of nix goon, and forty-five the oilier a large ship from the Levant, hone. , bound. Captain BAILIIIC in a most zeliotoi office' we are never more than two days in port at a. lost we are now compelled to go to :1141t t to and our weasel being so much out of repair, I we shalt-nbe ordered home; at all eveics, we certainly les isit England in September. Our company are very I...:althy; which in, in a gre..i sure, to be attnlnited to our having every lin vegetable, and fruit in abundance." The Spartan was released from quarantine turday. We are sorry to learn that Capt. liar. suffers much from the wound he so honours"); ceived on the coast of Naples, in attacking Mt.safe imeadiost flotilla. Capt. Whirrs First Lieutenant of the Spartan.) came home The Sparks sailed from Malta on the 13th of and from Gibraltar the 13th ult. with a MITI 4ii sail of transports and merchantmen. SI pined off Cadiz by the Akio sloop, Capt. li WELL, and the ships from that place, which creased the fleet to 67 sail, the whole of whis t Spartan patted from, off Cape Finisterre, -23 J ttlt. with a fair wind. Eight sail of mit have since arrive.l. She left the Royal 8 "" and Hydra at Gibralt a r. Mr. AD A M was to come home iii the Spasms, but accounts w. criveti at Malta, that he was taken very ih could not leave Coustant.nnple. The latest accounts from the Tagus are ‘23d. No account of an action subsequent 11th had at that date reached Lisbon. Nort,".4et• are ir. future to carry resits Fallunatfi . 4.: Surinam, Berbice, anal Demi and to returq by Barbsdnes and Martinique. Jalnoico..porket• add iu future call at Cei on their outward pswisue.. This nen arra' itei will reipme three new parkets to be ' coalitisherient at Falmouth; and they lye trillt mutat duottly. !) - -1/..ipK /1 ',n6 7, ~ i tr"al Matkests ; Mias Pickle, Mitit" e Historical pl ay,,, e f ; ; :‘ ' • n :41 : 111 : : : .3: 1 4 1 : 0 41 s . r t v 1: 6 1 1 ll_ *j obo str o njr , LtrP a iel :sresoe - PelfWertito:) P art oet Most)! ire, niers! uunrh.t„.'`gc diet) • Opti, 4 . 11 1, will I* pet( pl Comi c ° mid eeel4 111 NS prole ; Fdt.r Gxylao, y r grin 1-Itlll Me L am lb: At*. ' Caealitte tarn , jr asaii Ma t s ' WI lo• asset* tuierr,,,,, AGO. ".V RdSrlotil, pie( Holton, Miss C.ll:' ten mama uf Twenty y. x , Ks e, auit,,al WA.. the. Week. "r tun vto (foe tie Am Cu, g clap lasi! Ballet of ieti Mr. Bradburytom ' lll lect M r (kir I 1313-F „ .; SS. gic not Le , iusr 7. per sell ly of General Sit. firs y General CLAAIII, and ITS, respect ray I, e pet LIAZIX to ,e.:k pit tin the i : t ti C r e id' i n v . 4e Irailt.:111-.h:::..10co?:: feet Comm,ttee ea tke FA 00 eh! the tail WOl the safe, t, rer, and lent ngl was been received, hos eta. Among thew states that the La; e Duke of OITA,. t Aix in Proverice, ;at Ina °pp intinent A ,so merely nun ilia, illen into diver& last morning frith .1 last. The oyesiog wed for tbe :7d. T 1 WK1.1.1 NMI his nth!' hint to suet feet. I'Ve under. Aa: oral inspeeti , m his igdum, to +moiling for. i„eti sent, e, their) fur embark. rcted on :ilowlity, plsee vest•phy. orrisid ut Port. Brient.s Ayres Ins racers, in est , professing liry.lty trr r the authority of 1 estf/1 WAS dPllOOWir *Wished. Farther resent the new Co. frilly orgaLised. ficee on board the nit, June 30, ISM 0 anday lust; arid as ,rite, which we sera Ln o t i d s w n t t vo z r : le i l lir i t ! Y t i o z- t a t h i vm;e a u to f men; fi t re Thi ; a wr to Milt r. 1.1; Cr 111 events, we rfrif t or repair, I t miser. Our 410 to I iv, in • great sir awing every kind sr rte Its." t quarantine Ott S i tat Capt. lintritus so hOllOUrAbi‘ 10 ottackurg 'Mo.; a ~ apt. %VALLES (: 2 :e ifl; Came 11101110 in her. tau D the 13th of lower XI. , NI A whole of wbtch tit 1 tt sup of tr,ws},osU 110 11 he Ro al ~orerei dAr Ytlthei O :! ; 171. 1 .1: 11 1 ; :T f tr i ltl k i!' de ll haw i. at i t ,o b:e . que t Cop e N . e: n r7 i . Lh. rnv in it i t o T r i 7 t h :::: Martinique. 11 41 I new am ttr'a ll thd of