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*ZPLY OF OBNIMAI. 11AftitATAN TO OSllan'
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LONDON, JObT 21; MO.
GZIIIMAL....-1 have perused, wi•h equal s4olisli.
ment and attention, a Narrative respecting myself.
which was given in the Afmeneser of the 4tb of this
month.

You quote only my Memorial of 13th or 23J
Frimaire; but I have addressed no less than twent♦
to you; the last, dated from the temp at Bou-
logne, August 9,,7th, 1809, which contains fourteen
pages; whereas this which you have quoted his auly
four pages.
Since you broke me with the Army of Italy. au
bring only suspected, why stid you re.tore me with
• the Army of Brest ? If we wool.] obtain credt, we
must at les-t be consistent. and preserve an appear-
awe of truth.
Wboever shun read your Narrative, sad reflect
opon what he has read, will discover, in the tone of
indignation with which you speak, your eadwiiifea-
ties all !sty haein hod the good forttose to eecope
titer's your Bonder.

You hive appealed to my twenty-irst and last
Memorial :.I beg you to read it throue,tiout.--sooiver
or titer, truth will get the better of impostare. •
On the liith of June you had given General
Clarke io orders to make any report to you respect..
log me; on the Mar July you learned that I IN.
in Loudon, busy in unmasking your designs. Yuu
thereupon dictated to dour Secretary, what yea be-
lieved would do me hurt, and you made General
Clarke sign it with his name. T,,, whole world
knows that your ministers ale simply but so muy
puppets, not even eseeptsug General Berthier hiea-
tell.

Having procured my discharge from the regiment
of the Colonel-Geoeral of Dra4ooto., I was appointed
governor to a young nobleman, the C out de Ver.
duzao, with whom I remained in the capacity for
the space of three years. I.i 1790, I accented the
office of Mathematical Professor in the royal mili-
tary school of Some, a al had the care of three MIS
of the Prone de Bethune, as th,ir pottote tu, or.

Ravin4.oll)o the .ircay of the North in 174, I
acted as Cr ill VW .ir.t enovariits.
appointed to the artillery school at Clad .1 can-
didate for promotion. The taking of Verdun, and
the King of Prussia's approach, occasioned a batta-
lion to he raised, to which I was appointed A.ljn-
tent Major, and in which Mr. Densarsais, now a
Colonel of Artillery, was obliged to serve as a volun-
teer. This officer will certify this fact, of which
you seem to have your doubts.
General Houchard, commanding the Army of the
Moselle, hid a nephew whom he wished to esta-
blish; my cornpauy wasa fine one; the nobles were
I f ..un the army ; Houchard woull insist
•h it I ts.l, I;le MI Of the Count dc Sa resin, an emi-
grant. who was his Colonel, and that I was very
iske my father. It was in vain that I declared my-
self to be a • sty I W.ll obliged to serve
as a private soldier in the Army ~f La Vendee.
Being appointed by General Vlsr::,nm, in Novem-
her, 1793, as his Secretary, I put iu order the notes
of General Kleber, his particular friend, relciag
to the seige of Menus and the war of La Vendee.
It was by the direction of these two Generals that I
first set about my work, intitled, lastrustisms
for Troops during a Campaign."

Having followed General Marceau to the Army
of Flanders, in April, 1794, I was present at the
battle of Ileums, which was gained, as I have
proved in my observations by the resolution and
foresight of General Soi
Bring appointed to the Corps of Engineers I
was employed by General Jourdan to wake the
juin:ban of the armies of the Sambre and abuse
and the MnseHe. In tie attack of Coblente, I suc-
ceeded in carrying the redoubts which covered the
bridge of the Moselle.
At the siege of M.estrieht I was appointed Ad.
jutont-General, Chief of Battalion, and Chief of
Brigade ut the blockade of Luxembourg. I was
appointed to escort t • g.rnstrt of this place with
Marshal Bender. eiglity-iour y. ars of age. asf.,ras
the {tone, ant 1 . are th,! commendotios
of my %Mention to tom.

Employed on the left wing of General Kleber'e
army. I wag etavged so make the p ep.n.tio a for
the Brat crossim; of Mr Rhine. wh ch toblt pl me in
Septemlwr, 1795. The army Imre upon the Mame.
from whence it was driven bs G..orral Clairton, whu
then' Breed the It e at 11t,

I WAI with the right sting of the army during the
campaign of Ilu •d-ruck. I made tne•mimpsign of
Germany with (;ener it fierinsdwie. as Ilse chief
officer ot lit.. staff, when Piince Chad- s it.feitt-d
Jourdan, i t /Woo, 1796. and forced him 'o re.
treat to ti,e L ine. At this time it WWI that Gene-
rJl Mole :u effected the retrea• so dereoreitly