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he- resigned his place.,in•June 179 t, and was sue.,-
ceededin his cammand by Cotntte, a hankitspt
linen.draper, and,• of coupe a' flaming pateiot... In
Deeetnivir 'of the:smile, .year, 'his friend, Louis De
:Siarl)onne, then a7Minister 141 the War Department,
ruminated, him Adjutant. General, and cleirged hint
,to carry to:Metz,: Ara present ,on the .part of the
the-eField-.Marshal Staffs to the Generals
• Lirciener .and Rochambean. .In r 792, When .the
Brissot fattion, as,the only' means to prevent or re.
tard the punishment due 40 their treachery' and cote.
.spiraey, determined ~upon An universal war, are,i
forced Ale: unfortunate Louis attack. the
,14turee: of - Anstria,- Berthier otnained the plamof a
Chia:over:the Staff, in theeArtPY eoll.e,aing under
Luckner; but from . the intrigues. ,of enntendiog
14'ctiores, and from the various changes of plans,:',of
-.Campaigns, of Ministers, and of Gemrals,: he :le
neither. Opportunity, -nor, perhaps, inclination ;to
exhibit those talents :which have -since procured
hint so much admiration, and, to which Bonaparte is
principally indebte& Ipr all his brillitnt successes in,
Italy during,l796, 1.797, and 1800 e was-bC-•
eidea firtWy attached to. La Fayette, and .an ,enemy
of -,Dtonpurier 'and other 'am!)itious persons,.
At that period, .plotted supplant' bis friend'
in popularity :and command,. even at the .expence of
Monarchy and of
,sacrificing—their Prince: And
,after, the
:twit, of August, .La .Fayette in a .
• coward,ly manner ckserted 'his Army, and left a
C—netry whiclaiis rebellion, vanity, and ignorance,
had made, wretched, Berthier intended to lain hint;
but was, prevented' by the.vigilance:of she spies who
surrounded him,• and by the account of the well.
•I.le,serveti reception that La Fayette, had. ,met with
fronvAnstria and Prussia.
. -44 After tine losorreetion, in 1793, of the loyal
Ith ibitants of • La Venda..., in atlas to avenge. the
murder of their King,: :to .'d:fesid their Altars, and
to re-establish the •Throne,
,Berthier was sent thi-
ther to serve uteler:Senterre ••anti
,other saas.culo' le
Generals, as cruel as, onplatible. Ail well-informed
Ql4cers, formerly in the King's service, were then
reg tried as enemies of the Republic ; :and it was. as
dangerous for them to we to their abilities and
courage any advantages, as to suffer a repulse froM
not daring. to, emphy them, Beetltiet has more that)
once acknowledged that,lie now tried to find aeicath
in the field which he helieved awaited cm 'the
scaffold,. and -therefore. ors .many ocecasions, fought
as a desperate adventurer who had a character to
rather titan Its a General.who had a reputation
-to lose. At the• ttkiner„ of Stumnr he had three
horses killed under him ; and in every action during
this mtirdernee Campaign, he,,hful Aities.de-came.
shot by his side, horses under him, and his clothes
pierced with bullets; bur he was never oncewoubd-
ed. The Decree which proscribed, as •suspeCtede all
NoWeruor anti Gentlemen and their relatives, de. •
-prieed -hint of his military rank, tend forced him to
exchange the bustle of camps fur the melancholy in:
dolence c,f a prison. Though his- name was Upon •
the fatal list of victims ter the-guillotine, the death
:of 12.uhespieree, 'and his own prudence and modera.
tion, saved him from an exit, which Costive, I-Nue
chard, Dillon, Westerman, Beauharnoia, Blum, and
an mtny other,Gentrals, made. .
44 I !is eeleasefroin confinement, which soon rot_
lowed the intetruption of the Reign of Terror, was
acclmpauied by an offer from 'the Comtnittee of
Public S!fety,-of employment again in the Armies
of the Republic. Fatigue, ill-treatment, and Anxiety -
of mind, linwever; having impaired a cynsti ution •
strong by 'nature, he declitted all service, until the •
ill successes of the campaign of 1795 in Germany,
made him.think it his duty to try to repair the
•of his Country, and to preyent tlios- laurels front
withering, which Pichegru with, sn ritheelat„,,,,te,nd
honour had conquered and preserved.' lie accepted
therefore, in 1-796, 'the command as Chief ~of the
' Staff in the Army of Italy, headed •by Bonaparte,
years before occupied the
w ho, where B-rthier
same statiom in the .Atiny under Vicki Marshal
Luckner, w 'es only 'a Sub Lieutenant of Artillery.
It was the Rest step in Bonaparte's fortune, in ad.
vancing the "grandeur of her ill-chnsen favourite; ro
procure him the 'benefit 'of the knit experience *and .
superior talents of 'a General. lees .ambitious than
himself, and satisfied with the second ratik while fie
had a right to, claim the first.,►",

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