The Sun.
London, England, 1804-03-26 00:00:00

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LET TER FRO if 4110REAU
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•T H E following Letter has been published, said to
be extratled tram a French Paper, called Les Note.
,velles a la purporting to be written by Mo-
RE tO BONAPARTE. We give it as we find it,
but have little hesitation in pronouncing the whole
to be a fabrication.

Ler Nauvelles a la ,liain,Ventose, An. XII. No. 11. or Paris,
March 9, 1804,.coniains what follows
This:,Letter has been circulated all over Paris, and many
thousand Copies have been sent into the Departments. It
is. addressed to " MonsiAir I3oN Ara TE, the First Consul,
by Citizen MoREAu, the vietor of Hohenlinden, now a
cioscYrisoner in the Temple."

44 To MONSIEUR BONAPARTE, THE FIRST CONSUL.
" From the Dungeon of the Temple, Ventose loth,
. Year XI I. March ISt, 1804.
-Sinte your ambition requires more vifUms,
strike, but "do-nor, calumniate thoselon butcher.--
Wade in the blood of innocence, but spare honour
in taking atita, life. • '
" If yoteexpea from me the Supplicant's Petition,
read' nolarthet, In this dungeon, where your ty.
ranny has pluriged me, lam more elevated than you
upon yotit' Usurped Throne. So say all just men of
my '=contemporaries, and future ages will confirm
their sentence: No,'Sir;.on the borders of eternity
I call you.-to- account for your treason against my
Country, and against myself. Do you remember our
mutual agreement, on the' Bth of NoVember, 1799 ?
TALLEYRAND, Sieves, and LE FEVRE were pre-
sent, "I promised to die by your side in the attempt
of removing the Direaorial Tyrants. You swore
to establish a Government, not depending upon the life
of one individual, not tyrannical, but firm, stable, and
liberal ; bestowing Freedom on Frenchmen, and
worthy to obtain, by gratitude from foreign nations,
that confidence and esteem which your predecessor
and yourself have commanded by the dread of your
bayonets. When I shortly afterwards went to head
armies—disorganized and defeated—your last words
were I knofzu your love of your Country ; be
ntigoriorts, and F, ance shall force admiration, even
from her rivals and foes, by the Liberty she enjoys at
home, and by the generosity of her external negoti.
ations !'—How have you fulfilled these great pro-
mises ? How have you reepeCied these oaths ?. In
my degraded Country I see nothing hut cringing
slaves and proud Tyrants ; base •Placemen, and in-
famous Spies. Every where in Europe, from Sicily
to Moscow, yotirself and your Government are alike
feared and detested. Deny those filets if you can !
You have long followed the example of Sylla the.
triumvir ; imitate for a• month only, Sylla, the pri.
vate Citizen, and you shall be convinced that the
compliments of selfish and enslaved Princes, prove
no more the standard of merit in a Governor, than
the flattery of vile Courtiers, or the praise of cor-
rupted Counsellors. • •
" But as this will probably be the last time that
you will hear from me, consider whatlnOW tell you,
not as the envious-d-e-elamation of an imprisoned ri-
val General, but as the genuine effusion of the mind
of a dying Patriot, who forgives his'death and your
ingratitude. You pretend that my countrymen are
happy, and satisfied with your Government. Let it
be so, though slaves can have no opinion, or at least
dare not express one. But you are mortal as well
as myself. If you love Frenchmen, let not their
happiness depend upon your life. You have too
much sense not to know that, with you, the Con.
sulate for life will expire in the BoNAPARTE Family;
and other pretenders of other upstart families com-
bat for, annihilate, or occupy a Consular Throne,
of only some few years standing. As to your right-
of appointing a successor in your Will, remember
that Louts XIV. the Royal Descendant of Fifty
Kings, was, after a reign of upwardi of threescore
years, not five minutes a corpse, before his Will
was overturned ; a Will approved by the Princes of
the Blood, registered in his Parliament, and ap-
plauded by all his Courtiers ; and that the Duke of
MAINE was shut ap as a prisoner, when he expeeled
to rule as a Regent.
" To prevent our children and grand children
from suffering the wretchedness of their forefathers,
by turns tormented by anarchy, or crushed by ty_
ranny, and from witnessing those scenes_af-frotto-r,
terror, and scandal, we have seen, recal the legal
Heir to the Throne of France, and limit severely his
authority : make him a King, but not a Despot.
Such was the plan of PICIIEGRU, of myself, and of
GEORGES ; and with this plan your preservation was
necessarily contieeled, because we wanted your for-
tune, your talents, and your rank, as well as our own
services, to watch the reign of a Sovereign who,
though misfortune may have made him prudent, suf.
ferings liberal, and gratitude just, may, by rela-
tives less patriotic than myself, be tempted to ex-
tend his power.
46 I defy your Grand Judge and his horde of Spies
to prove any thing contrary to this assertion. My
wife, my mother-In-law, and my brother, know
nothing of this Loyal undertaking. I should regard
the day of my death with greater satisfauion than
those .of my triumphs, could I but hope that it serv-
ed to make my country flourishing, my fellow.citi.'
tens free and prosperous, and worthy of liberty and
.prosperity:

" MOREAU."