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At Path, on my way, General Wernadotte, then a y I signed your appointment as Emperor ; I waste
Minister, gave me the office of the Marches of Troops of the Generals present when Murat made his procla-
in the War Department, and afterwards that of the mation speech to you at the Thuillerizs. I recollect
appointments. You were still in Egypt. It was at, well all that the Generals Massena, Augereau, Mac-
that time intended to overthrow the Directory, and donald, Bernadotte, Btc. said to you, as well as your
CitNES AL, London, July 21st, leis. appoint three Consuls—Jourdan, Augereau, and Ber- answers. You will find them very exactly related in
I have perused, w-ith equal astonishment and env,. nadotte, were the Generals named. I was to have my observations.
tion, a narrative respecting myself, which was given been appointed the War Minister. Acting upon the I never solicited to serve With Augereau ;
I had
in the Moniteur of the 4th of this month, information I received from Bernadotte, and thinking very good reasons-for despising that man, who dis-
You quote only my Memorial of the 13th, or 23d that my obligati ins to him required of me to extricate graces the General's uniform, and whose stupidity
Frimaire ; but I have addressed no less than twenty him from so dangerous a step, I acquainted him with and greediness for plunder constitute him a true
to you ; the last, dated from the camp at Boulogne, all that was doing by the Directors Sieyes and Barras, leader of banditti. Do you recollect that General
August 27th, 1809, which contains 14 pages, whereas who set the machines of the Jacobins to work. Bernadotte asked you to allow me to be at the head
this which you have quoted has only four pages. ln order to requite my zeal, the Directory appointed of his staff with the army of Hanover, and you re-
• Since you broke me with the army of Italy on being me Ambassador to Holland, but I refused to accept plied to him, in my presence—General Sarrazin hat
only suspected, why did you restore me with the army of this embassy, being attached to the army by taste been in Ireland ; I would have him return thither? It is
of Brest ? If we would obtain credit, we must at least and inclination. possible that I may remelt there ; but it shall be to
be consistent, and preserve an appearance of peace. On your return freen Egypt you received me with put the brave Irish on their guard against your ?era-
Whoever shall read your Narrative,and reflect upon transports of joy. You advised me not to give in my dicus insinuations, and to advise them to be faithful
what he has read, will discover, in the tone of indig- resignation, and you told me yoti would in a little to their own Government, lest they meet with the
nation with which you speak, your mortification on my time appoint me General of a Division. I was your same unhappy fate as has befallen France, which you
having had the good fortune to escape from your Bastiles. fellow labourer on the 18th Brumaire (November), have had the cruel address of forming into one vast
You have appealed to my twenty-first and last Me- 1799. Bernadotte, who had refused you his assist- t prison. _ . .
morial ; I beg you to read it throughout—sooner or i ance, and who was near running you through the 1 What you say concerning my conduct with the
later, truth will get the better of imposture. I body when you first proposed your designs to him, 1 army of Brest is of very little importance. What
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On the 18th of June you had given General Clarke . had retired to my estate in the country, near Paris.— , probability is there that you would have suffered me
no orders to make any report to you respecting me ; You employed me to visit him, to pacify him, and to i to be with that army, if I had accused forty Generals,
on the 2d of July you learned that I was in London, bring him back to his true interests. You may re- I apd forty land and sea officers settled in that place?
busy in unmasking your designs. You thereupon member that it was at this very time that I presented
,i General Lamarque, now with the army of Naples,
dictated to your Secretary, what you believed kr ould you and Madame Bonaparte, as well as nearly the `I will inform you whether I was deficient in point of
do me hurt, and you made General Clarke sign it' whole ef your family, with some very valuablei-courage, or the author of that false report which you
with his name. The whole world knows, that your cameos, which were accepted of, and gave great satis- mention. Your spies are known ; there were two of
Ministers are simply but so many puppets, not even faction. My delicacy would never have permitted ethem with the army of Brest. They often suggested
excepting General Berthier himself. . ,me to have declared this circumstance, if you had not ito me the measure of sending my Memorials to the
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Having procured my discharge from the regiment forced me, by your infamous narrative, to the necel... Minister of the General Police ; but I corresponded
of the Colonel• General of Dragoonsel was appointed shy of shewing the footing of intimacy I was once , with you for the benefit of my troops and the good
governor to a young nobleman, the Count de Verdu- ; upon with you. 1 of the service, as the Prussian Generals did with
zan, with whom I remained in that capacity for the : 'ln December, 1799, being with the Army of the : Frederick the Great. •
space of three years. In 1790, I accepted the office Rhine, commanded by General Moreau, I had the As you have made mention of this Memorial, you
of Mathematical Professor in the Royal Military command of General Ney's division, he being absent . should have mentioned others, and particularly my
School of Sorize, and had the care of three sons of on leave. •! Dissertation of the 11th Frimaire, which is an ana-
the Prince de Bethune, as their private tutor. 1 General Bernadotte having the command of the •
lysis of all the good you have ever done. I therein
Having joined the Army of the North, in 1792, I . army of the Coasts, you gave me orders, in April, speak warmly against the English Government ; but
acted as volunteer in the first engagements. I was .; 1800, to repair to that General, who intrusted me in your opinion I express myself too favourably of the
appointed to the artillery school at Chalons, a candi- i with the command of the camp of St. Renan, near nation, which I stile brave and virtuous ; and particu-
date for promotion. The taking of Verdun, and the Brest : I had with the troops under my command larly when I speak of the English Constitution of ,
King of Prussia's approach, occasioned a battalion : 2000 Spaniards, landed from the fleet under the corn- Government, and call it immortal and wise. Yon have
to be raised, to which 1 was appointed Adjutant-Ma- ( mend of Admiral Gravina, which lay in the Road of made no mention of it, because you know all that is
jor, and in which Mr. Demarsais, now a Colonel of i Brest. , said against a Government is but a form of exprese
Artiilery, was obliged to serve as a volunteer. This 1 In August, 1800, General Murat had the corn- sion, allowable in time of war ; whilst the praise of a
officer will certify this fact, of which you seem to have , mand of 10,000 grenadiers, part of the camp of people who are enemies can only proceed from the
your doubts. lAmiens. You ordered me to go there to discipline sentiment of the heart.
Independent companies have always been attached ; them, a duty which the General was incapable of per-1 I never had any dispute with General Headelet.
to the troops of the line ; the officers were nominated' forming. In October, there was a plot to set the You were displeased at my writing to the King of
by the Government, and not, as you say, by a majo- i Opera House on fire, and to assassinate you in the Prussia, on the 23d of June, 1806, three months
rity of voices. !midst of the contusion. In 30 hours I marched 30 before the battle of Jena. This Monarch, to whom
General Houchard, commanding the army of the i leagues with these grenadiers. You were as much I transmitted my dissertation of the 11 th Frimaire,
Moselle, had a nephew whom he wished to establish t i astonished as you were please 4 with this forced march. condescended to send ate an answer, dated the 3d of
my company was a fine one; the nobles were dis- Murat was with you at Paris at this time. i July following, in his own hand. YOu were jealous.
missed from the army—Houchard would insist that You reviewed these troops near Versailles : you of my connexions with Prince Lewis of Wurtemberg,
I was the son of the Count de Sarrazin, an emigrant, 1 overwhelmed me with compliments upon the occa- General in,the Russian service, and uncle of the Erne
who was his Colonel, and that I was very like my fa-Ision, and you had not less than sixty General Officers peror Alexander. I resided with this P three rince for
ther. It was in vain that I declared myself to be a , with you at the time. It is certain that the grena- months at the Castle of Weibourg, belonging to the
pe isent's son : so I was obliged to • :ve as a private diers belonging to the marine, who had been only , Prince of Nassau, his brodier-in-law. I.comphindild
soldier in the army of La Vendee. twenty days on shore, exercised as well as if they had the 2d division of Augereau's corps. In Germartye
Being appointed to General Marceau, in Novem- been veterans. las well as at Brest, I made you acquainted, witfethe.
ber, 1793, as his Secretary, I put in order the notes 1 During our stay at Versailles, I often went and thieves and marauders whose actions were beyond my
of General Kleber, his particular friend, relating to mounted guard at Malmaison. You cannot have for- centroul, and equally derogatory to the good of m
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the siege of Mentz and the war of La Vendee. It got the circumstance of a ladder having been disco- coops,
:and the justice due to the inhabitants of such
was by the direction of these two Generals that I first 1 vered fixed up against one of the windows of your , cOuntries as were tinder my command. .
set about my work, entitled, " Instructions for Troops ! apartments. The discovery is noted in my observa• t In October, 1806, I was employed in the 21th di-
during a Campaign." tions. 'vision, under General Chambarthac ; 1 commanded.
Having followed General Marceau to the Army of Having joined the Army of Italy with these gre- -in the department of the Scheldt at Ghent • the Pi&
Flanders, in April, 1794, I was present at the battle nadiers, it was a matter of astonishment to this army , feet was a robber, and you deprived him of office.
of Fleurus, which was gained, as I have proved in to see my troops in such good order, after a march ;In June, 1807, yoti employed me with the army of
my observations, by the resolution and foresight of over the Alps in'the midst of winter, for it happenediAntwerp, commanded by General Ferino. I had
General Soult. in December, 1800. They were exercised in pre- , under me the young Prince of Hokenzol
a ern-Sigma-
BeUg appointed by the Corps of Engineers, I was sence of General Murat in the great square of Milan. -fmgele, with his regiment.
employed by General Jourdan to make the junction I frankly replied to the compliments paid me on thel; In the month of August of the same year, you em-
of the armies of the Sambre and Meuse and the Mo. occasion, that the appearance of these men was the division, result ployed me in the 16th military commanded
selle. In the attack of Coblentz I succeeded in carrying of six months of labour and fatigue. Motet animated by Iby General Morino and afterwards by General Van-
the redoubts which covered the bridge of the Moselle. the meanest kind of jealousy, observed, with a shew I'damme ; it was but just in me to oppose the iniquity
At the siege- of Maestricht, I was Appointed Adju- of great spite, that he would furnish me with labour and of the prefect, M. Chauvelin, formerly Ambassador
tant General, Chief of Battalion, and Chief of Bri- fatigue for six other months.. Accordingly he took the ,to the Court of St. James's, who caused double the
gade at the Blockade of Luxembourg. I was appoin- grenadiers from me, and gave me two regiments of number of conscripts to be levied, which the depart-
ted to escort the garrison of this place with Marshal new raised men. I remonstrated against the arbi- ment was bound to furnish. You removed me, and
Beeder, eighty-four years of age, as far as the Rhine, teary proceeding, but to no purpose ; I spoke to him i you continued that officer at Bruges, in the depart-
and I have the Marshal's commendation of my atten. with the freeddm of an old tellow collegian, in the ment of Lys, contrary to the advice of General Van.
tion to him. presence of his two Aides-de-Camp, the Colonels La- i damme, who was the Commandant of the 16th divi-
Employed on the left wing of General Kleber's grange and Beaumont. He turned a deaf ear to my tOm General Chamberthac never commanded the
army, I was engaged to make the preparations for complaints, which usage has been since returned to i 16th division. The public can only excuse the falsities,
the first crossing of the Rhine, which took place in him in Egypt by the teeneral Lannes, to the know. Mistakes and absurdities of your narrative, by imput-
September, 1795. The army bore upon the Maine, ledge cf the whole army. i: g them to the flurry which the accident of the
from whence it was driven by General Clairfait, who I returned to France on account of my health ; st of July, at the hotel of the Austrian Ambassador,
then forced the lines at Mentz. and. had been at my country-seat about a month, , must necessarily have thrown you into•; and what
I was with the righteeing of the army during the when General Berthier acquainted me that I might : the more confirms me in this opinion, is, that this nar-
campaign of Hundsruck. I made the campaign of soon expect fresh orders. . eative is dated on the 2d ofJoly.
Germany with General Bernadotte, as the• chief of- You broke me ; and in so doing you did well'; it Stationed on the island of Cadsaod, I then began
cer of his staff, when Prince Charles defeated Jourdan was my duty to obey, to make my representations to to detest you. All I did was out of regard for the
in August, 1796, and forced him to retreat to the you, and wait your 'determination. This error, thee troops. 1 established an hospital in an empty house;
Rhine. At this time it was that General Moreau ef- only one yop can lay to my charge, as committed complaint was made of this circumstance, and on the
ficted the retreat so deservedly admired, and that you during the whole course of my military career, was foundation of this complaint you sent me to the camp
made your first campaign in Italy. occasioned by the persuasion you had wrought in me, tat Boulogne, where 1 remained fifteen months. You
Bernadotte's division left Coblentz in December, that you gave me preference to Murat, allowance be had your private reasons, which will be known some
1796, and joined your army in March, 1797. Ap. ing made for relationship. i time hence ; I saw them in your eyes when you re.
pointed Colonel of the 14th regiment of dragoons, I I have never solicited to resign ; I have denounced. Viewed at Boulogne, on the '2sth of May. Fouche
made the campaign of Vienna in that capacity.' Being no one person ; my conduct has been generous and ' would not put me under an arrest because you only
re called by General Bernadotte to my former situa- open, and by no means insidious and doubtful. Youe went upon suspicion. You ordered him to walk about
tion at the heed of his staff, after the preliminaries of have endeavoured to excuse the dastardly and unge-
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Rome, and you appointed as his successor one Savary,
Leoben, you charged me with the commission of pay- nerous behaviour of your brother-in-law ; you have a man as ready to execute all your orders as he was
irg the honours due to the Count of Cobentzel, the I used means that were very base. If there had been to strangle Pichegru. If I had staid only four-and-
Marquis de Gallo, the Count de Merfeld, and the Ge- ! any denunciation, you would not have failed to men- twenty hours longer in Boulogne, you must own that
meal Clarke, as Plenipotentiaries of the Treaty oft lion the date, and to name the persons so denounced. i I should have been consigned to a dungeon at Vin-
Campo torn-in. 1 Falsehood is a certain character istie-of degradation— cennes, or to the ditches of that castle, as was the truly
You expressed yourself well pleased with the ma. I you will find'hy my observation; that this is not your unfortunate Duke d'Enghien ! ! !
ruscript copy of e Instructions for Troops during a first attempt. i have constantly lived in the greatest harmony
Campaign," which I had sent you at Passerieno, in I passed the time I was unemployed with the army, with General Officers and Public Administrators, that
July, 1797. which continued for sixteen months, in the perusal of were creditable.
It being intended that 1 should make one to accom- my tni itary books. I furnished many articles to the
I have commanded, or have been known to all the
pang the embassy to Vienna, and being come to Pa- Editor of the " Young Officer's Guide ;" I signed
regiments that form the French army; all of which
Its to proceed on my diplomatic mission, you gave me the act of continuation for life of your Consulship ; I esteem and value me. I have levied no contributions
a good reception, and proposed to me to accompany asked permission to go into the Dutch service ; you
but in the country about Naples, by order of General
you to Egypt ; but on my refusal to leave Berna- consented to it ; but when I waited upon the Ambas-
Macdonald, for the supply of the military chest.
done, you insinuated to the Directory, that a RepuZ. sedor, Schimmelpenninck, at Paris, I discovered from
tic ought to have no gentlemen following their Ambassadors; his embarrassment that you had given him orders to lam well acquainted with Germany, Italy, and
and I was sent off to the Army of England, comman- make me this answer, that "he write to his go-
would France; all the places of strength, and nearly the whole
led by General Desaix. vernment, but that it would take a considerable time.e___ coast from the Scheldt to Trieste.
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•1 I after having been taken General Bernadotte can relate to you a very delicate The entire substance of this Narrative is supported
' -yed with the Army scene concerning you, which took place betwixt him by eighty.four official documents, which are deposited
, me with eight batta- and me respecting this licence ; you will, moreover, in the hands of the Secretary of State for the Foreign
commanded by General find it in my observations. -Department, in London. I shall now produce oily
General Macdonald.. When I set off to join the Army of St. Domingo, fifteen of different dates • the remaining documents,
army joined that of General Btrthier assured me that I should find my under the hands of Roclambeau. Berthier, Macdo-
by General Moreau. commission as General of Division with it. General nald, Bernadotte, Murat, and others, will be printed
of service for the army Rochambcau, of whom I inquired concerning it, with my observations; wherein, I beg leave to assure
General Massena. laughed very much at my credulity. . you, you will find some very Whin. details, the re.

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REPLY OF GENERAL SARRAZIN
TO Tkll NARRATIVE MADE BY GENERAL•CLARKE, MEI-
STER Of WAR, TO GENERAL BONAPARTE.

Being returned to France, afte
prisoner in Ireland, I was emplo;
of Italy. General Joubert sent w
1., ni to the army of Rome, corn
Championnet, and afterwards by I
After the retreat of Naples, this
paly at Genoa, then commanded
Government sent me out letter. of
of itzur,..nd, commanded by (