The National Register.
London, England, 1813-10-03 00:00:00

S UND A V; OCTOB 10t.3„ 1S1!3.

GENERAL AIOREiIt

In times when steadiness in Loyalty is derided as weak
tress, when the unprincipled ambition of . dating Revolu-
tionists has broken through all restraints, and too success-
fully attempted to pervert every principle of right, we can-
not too often revert to the conduct of those few men whose
bears, like the chosen vessel, has constantly kept unsullied
the sacred fire which is one day to purify and re-animate the
European Society. Such was General .MOREAU, of whose
life ve presented a hasty sketch in our last Number. Steady
from the beginning in his principles of loyalty and patriotism,
he had only waited, through a variety of the most difficult cir-
cumstances, for an opportunity of asserting; them, and of
delivering his country and Europe, when he met his death
before Dresden. No event perhaps could have had a greater
influence on the five of the world. General MOREAU, en-
joyed at that tithe the full and entire confidence of all the
legitimate sovereigns of Europe; he had been called from
America by their joint wishes; Louis XVIII'. had given
him unlimited powers with respect -to France, pledging
his royal word that he would take no • measures either
of internal or external policy without consulting him
On hearing of his &..arh, that Prince exclaimed, " l have lost.'
my crotch a second time." (J'ai perdu ma ceuromre une sc-
conde
.fifris") According to the suggestion of the Prince of
CONDE, as we mentionedhefore, be intended to giveMcIREAV
the rank of Coundtible of Rance, the. highest station under
the old Monarchy, and the French Blue Ribband. We un-
derstand his Majesty now proposes sending; both the diploma
and the ribband to Madame MOREAU, as a posthumous.
tribute of gratitude to the memory of her great and viltuous
husband. Louis XV. his grand father, acted in the same
manner, as to the blue ; ibband, towards the widow of Comte
de Iliasi, who bad died of wounds received in battle.
The manner in which Cenetal MOREAU met his death
is pc uliatly remrkable. Ile was, as reportcd, riding and
in .close .conversation with the Emperor of Rustra, when
their way was impeded by a wide ditch ; the Emperor pro-
pOsed to go ronnd, acd actually set about it with rot rest
his retinue; but MO R E -AV, • who excelled in all military elt,
ercises, made light of leaping over the ditch,' and in the
very -act w,as struck by the fatal ball ! Ai if Providence
wanted to show Olt no human means, however strong and
well combined, were intended to 'deliver Europe from the
scourge slie has sent to chastise it; and that to her alone
belongs the puni,liment of crimes which Atheism has pro-
duced; A 111 r.LECH died by the hand of a woman.
Louis XVIII. intents to have a solemn servi ee performed
to the memory of General MOREAU, when a funeral oration
will. be delivered, reCOrding the uninterrupted instances of
st!irtui and loyalty w-hieb marked his conduct, even when iv
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the,service of those monsters whom his soul ahhor ed, and
whom lie, for a while, stooped to deceive, to insure the
punishment of their crimes. Strange as it niay api.ear, the
Prince of CONDE is now preparing an a%.count of all the re-
markable traits iu the conduct of General MOREAU, (VihiCh
came to his knowledge when his Serene Fiightiess cona•
mandett the corps of Emigres opposed to MOREAU') to be
mentioned in that oration. •
The opinion of Mott EAU, that the peace Of Europe and
the repose of mankind, could be limited only by the re-ev•
tablishment of the Bourbons, was fully known to the people
connected with him and his_ family, even previous to his-
appearance on the theatre of war ; in 'fact it had ht eu bi•.
leading principle throughout his career. Long before it was
Ittrtywa.• te was coming to Europe, a conversation took place
• betweenthe two celebrated ladies Madames de Stael and
Moreau, of • which one of our friends was present, on
the means .4 restoring order.' in France and pewee in
Europe. Malltnie DE STA EL, with her usual experimental'
taste for
.political con:titivions, expressed her- opinion,
that a Dica'or was absolutely necessary in France, which
wanted a strong Covernment, ..7nd that her husband wfts de•
signed by public opinion fortgat important station. To this
Madame MOREAU answered, elnitkas far as she knew Ge-.
ineral MOREAU'S opinion, in which she humbly but per.
Meetly coincided, the General knew but one way to re-es-
..tablish order in France and in Europe, and this was to re-
-establish the Buy RBONS•
This conversation assumes an additional degree of im.
portance, :from the circumstance of its not being thee
known that Gem Moreau intended to visit Europe again.

After thus having paid to the memory of this Comioandero
the tribute which we owed to' his virtues, our attention la -
nattmaily directed to the interesting companion which flea-
yen had marked for him.
Bleeding under the terrible blow which has deprived
France of it. Deliverer, and Europe of its Hero, Widanie
Moreau has beheld, with uncommon magnanimity, the clqse
of those brilliant prospects which the genius of her hus-
band, and the marked confidence placed in him by the Al-
lied Powers, had put almost within her reach. Rising su-
perior to the calamity which weighs upon her. she seems to
feel only for the evils to which this unhappy event way again
iexpcse her country, and for the sorrows of an unfortunate
in ince, in whose glory all her other affections are lost.
Surrounded by sincere ft iends who shale in her sufferings,
the attempts to smother her grief, in order to lessen the
weight of the anxious cares which the interest she inspires
'has imposed upon them; and when shrinking into herielf
she fathoms the craving void which the Supreme Being
• has made in her breast, religion alone offers her the nieans
of resistin

most unda,
Next T'
Sec vice w

ig the pressure of evils calculated to subdue the
Rimed souls.
'hursdav, October 7, at eleven o'clock, a Solemn
ill be performed by her directions in the Frau))

AVE

Chapel, King-street, Portinin-square. We are sure, that
notwithstanding the difference of religious opinions, the
ceremony will be attended by all those whose sensibility is
awakened by the loss of departed worth.
Madame Moreau was able to leave her bed-room for the first
time xesreidAv. She has, since the exile of her husband by
that " scoundrel Buonaparte" lost her mother, Mrs. Hulot,
and her two brothers. She is a native of the isle of France,
and a Lady of the greatest accomplishments. On the death
of her nicther, she proceeded frcm America to Bourdeaux,
with the intention of going to Paris, to settle with her bro-
thers about the inheritanCe, but she could not obtain per-
mission to that effect, and it was only after repeated applica-
Coos that ,he obtained leave to land, and to remain on shore,
until her hualth, which was greatly impaired, should be suffi-
chmt ie-estati!i•licd to enable her to prosecute her journey
to Liighoid, which she did not effect in less tan thirty days
passage. S: e has, of course, received nothing from her mo-
il-Ir e!. property, as no settlement could take place, and no
doubt but it has been since confiscated.
Besides this, 6eneral Moreau's fortune, -which never was
considerable, for he always disdained the revolutionary means
Of increasing it, had been greatly lessened by the expence
of the trial in which he was involved by the " Scoundrel."
By the revoloti,,:,7ry law of France, which passes under the
name of Code ::arolcon, the ex pence of the trial falls on
the persons accused, and the Government have the choice
amongst all the individuals iml heated in the accusation.
It fell of courFe, on General Moreau, and Madame Hulot,
his mother-in-law, who had undertaken to send him the
produce of his prone, ty in America, was obliged° to prey out
of it the whole expence of the tt ial of George, Pichegru,
and their friends.
We understand that the PRINCE RECIENT and Louts
XVIII. are vying for the honour (for an honour it certainly
is to the proudest Monarch engaged in the sacred cause of
Royalty and Religion) of the first visit to Madame Moreau,
as soon as she can admit visitors, which her Physician,
who also waits en his Royal Highness, has declared would
slot be for some time.,

EXTRACT or. A I.r.TTER FROM TOPLITZ, SPPT. 4.
" Gen. Morean died yesterday. He was in the act of giving
some opinion on military matters 4 while passing with the Emperor
of Russia behind a Prussian battery to which two French batter:6l.i
were answering, one in front and the other in flank. and Lord Cath-
cart and Sir R. Wilson were listening to him, when a ball struck
Ids thigh and almost curried his kg off, passed through his horse, and
ahattered his other leg to pieces. He gave a deep groan at first, but
Immediately after the first agony of pain was over, he spoke with the
utmost tranquillity, and called for a segar. They bore him off the field
on a litter made ofCossack's pikes, and carried him to a cottage at a
short distance, which, however, was so much exposed to the fire,
that they were obliged, after just binding up his wounds, to remove
him Nigher off to the Emperor's quarters, where one leg was am.
putated, he smoking the whole time. When the surgeon informed
him that he must deprive hint of his other, be observed, without
aliew ing any pain or peevishness, but in the calmest manner, that lead
be known that before his other was cut off he should have preferred
dying. The litter on which they had hitherto conveyed him was
covered %yid' nothing but wet straw, and a cloak drenched through
with rain, which continued in torrents the whole day. They now
placed mote cloi:ks over him, and laid him more comfortably in a
good litter, in which lie was cat ried to Dippoldeswalde ; but long
before his arriv;il there, he was soaked through and through. He
was bought, however, sakly to Latin, where lie seemed to be going
on well, till a long conference syhieh took place between him and
three or four of the Allied Generals, by which he was completely
exuausted. Soon alter this lie became extremely sick, and hourly
rem worse. Through the whole of his sufferings he bore his fate
surpassed, and ap-
'More but little pain
le died at six o'clock

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