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SIXPENCE 1-IALFPEZINt

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REPLY oP- GEN.Efidt S'ARRAZOI
TO .1•118'./cAfillatiVE NAD.R GENERAL CLARK
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MINISTER OF' WAR, TO ZNE.ItAI..73I,JUNAttiARtfi-

" Grkitit At, • le Lcindoni My it, 181:6
" I have perused, with equal astOnightttent end at-
tention; a narrative respelling thyself, vvhiarii wi.
givvnlin the 4110niteur of the 4th of thi4
" You quote only my Memorial of 13th or 23ct
Friniaire; bui I have addiessed nt) Io,s than twenty
to. you !be last dated trim) the camp at Bou!og‘ies
August i tog, which contains font-teen ogcs,
where this .which You hate quoted has only tuuc
pages.
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Since you' Ut-oke me with the.army of Italy oh
being only suspe!:ted, why did you restore me with
the army, ot Brest ? ft we would ,oht ,in &edit, we
must at least tre consistent, and preierve an aucar-
ance of truth.

" Whoever shall read your NarratiVe, and reflect
upon wlat he trus read, v‘ ill diScover, in the tone of
indightitiOn with which you speak, your mart!fica....
!ant on qty having had the good fo7 toile to escak -
from your- :{catges.
"-yoU have Appealed to niir twenty-first and last
Memoiial: I bc.g y 0,2 td relld it throbOout
sooner or later, truth will -get'the tsetter of impo.s.4
titre.
`sol the t sth of June you had given General
Clarke no orders to rilake any repot t to you re pea-
ing me on the 2d of July you-learned that I was
iri'4ondon busy In unmasking, your designs. YOrl
thereupon diela.'ed to your S. oretary, what yoU
lieved would do‘rne-injury, and you made Generid
'Clarke sign it With his sname. Tie whole world
knoWs that your Ministers_ are only but SOIllatl,"
pOppets, not even eacepting General Berthier ill al-
sel t.

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" ±laving purchased my diSCharge"frOm the re-
ginent of the f.2olonel General of Dt.tgoons, I wal
appointed Govetnot to a young N blettilit, the
Count de Verdutan; with whom I retnain_td in that
capaci y for the space of t hr. e years. - I r 1790; I
accepted the office of Mathematical Profes,or iu tho
Royal Military School of Sorite, and 131 the care
of three sons of the Prince de Bethune, as their pro .
vate tutor.
" Having joined the Army of the North, in 1792,
I anted as volunteer in the first engae°emenit. I wag
app inted to the ai'tillery-school at Chalons; a can-
didate .foryrOmotion. The taking of Veldt.*
the King of Prussia's approach, occasioned a batta-
lion to be raised, to which I was appointed Adjutz-nt;.
Major, and in which Mr. Demarsais, now a Colonel
of Artilhrc, was obliged to serve as a colunteer;
This oericer w'yn,certify this fad; of Which you seem
to hate your doubts.

- " Indepe:ident ' companies have arways been at-
tached to the troops of the line ; the ChficefS were
nominated by the Government, and not, as you say,
by -a majority of voices.
" General Houchard, cortrt,anding the army f
the Moselle, had a nephew-whom he Wished to esta-
blish ; my company was a fine one; the Nobles were
dismissed from. the army ; Houchard would insist
that I was the S9ll of the count de Sarrazin, an emi-,
grant, who was his- Colonel, and that ' I was very
like'my father. It was in vain that I deClared myself
to be a peasant's son : so lAvas Obliged, to serve aia
private soldier in the aim.y. of La Vendee.
" Bving appointed by' General Marceau, in No,
veinber, 1793, as his Secretary, I put in order 'the
notes Of General Kleber, his particular friend, re-
lating to 'the siege of Mentz and the war of La
Vendee. It.was by the, direotion of these two Ge-
nerals that I first set about my work; intitled,
sit-nations for .7-rcops during a cantpaign.",
" Having followed
.Lienerld M.itcean to the
Army of FI indtrs, in April '1794; I was present at
the battle of Fleurus, which ‘viii gaintd, as I have
• proved' in' my observations, by (tie resolutiJn and
foresight of Gerieral:Sonit.'
" 13:ing aPpointed to the-Corps or engineers,' I
was employed by General Joordan to make the
junction of the armies of:die San.bre and Mense
and. (lie Moselle. •In the attack of.COblentz, I suc
ceeded iu carrying the recionbts wind). covered the
bridge of the
.o life.
"
Maestrecht I was appointed
Ai
General, Chief of Bottalion; and Chief of
Adjutant-General, A
atititf
Briode at the blockade of,Ltixernbourg. I was
poltred to t'SCort the garri-on of this place with
Mar;irallieticier, who vvds 84 years of age, as tar as
the Rilirte; and I have tile Marstia.'s commendation *
of my attention to him.

" Lwployed on the left' wing of General Kieber'S
waA taTgag-ed•io til.cike the preparations for
the- first cro!isitig of the - Rhine, which took, place
in. Septemoer, 1795. The army bore upon 'the
Maine, .front witence -n was diii,en by Genera/
Clairtait, who thence tcrced the lines at Mentz.
" I w.is with the right wing of the-army during
the campaign of .1-itnidsruck. I m,,de the cam.;
,paign of Gertnavy with Generzrl Bernadotte; as the
Ohief Officer of fits Staff; whets Ciial les de-
feated Jourdan in Atigui, t 790; and forced him to
retreat to the Ithifit.. Ail this time it was that:-
(.letteral Moreau effected !he retreat so o.eseilieuly
admired, and that you" made, your' first campaign
in ltaiv.

" fiercadotte'S division lefl•Coblentz in D..cern-
ber 1790, and joined your army w March ,1797.
Appointed Colonel` of the 14th• reginiielit of L ht
Dragoons, I made the campaigns of Vienna in that
capacity. Being recalled tiy Getter .1 Beruado 4; to
my toy user situation at .thy 'mai of his -n4l, after
the prc.liminarie4, of L6oben, y;;,, :charged inc with
the commission of pay lug the hvuours due to the
Count of ,Cobentzel, the Marquis de Gito, the
Count de Merteld, and the General Clarke, as
Plenipotecalaries for-tie treaty of Campo Formic?.