Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1804-07-31


menfs after cltlzsn Barthelemi's arrest an
the Director to whom il was RENTED re
CURED OF me the papers had mention
ed.
!" Pichegru went to Cayenne and re
turned afterwards to Germany and Eng
land hadno connection with him. A
short time after the peace with England
NJ. David, uncle of general Souham, who
had passed year with MIN in the army oi
the north, wrote me that Pichegru was the
oply enc OF the tructdores not returned
and he mentioned that he was surprised tc
hear that il was upon my opposition alone
that YOU refused his return to France.
replied TO NJ. David, thai so Iar from o..
posing wouid make II a liuty to denlAod
j.. He communicated my lctter;o several
persons, ani have positive assurance thai
this demand has been naade to you.
/ " Some time afterward M. David wrote
to me thar he enjoined pichegru to ask you
himself for his recall but that he had an.
, swered he would not demand it wilhou,
the certainty Of It's being granted Above
ali he charged him to thank me for the an
swer | had made to the lmputatiop Of being
opposed to his return; that he had never
thought me capable of such an acs and
that he even knew, that in the affair Of the
. correspondence Of Klinglin, | had found
{ myself in very delicate situation. NJ.
David again wrote me three or four very
| insignificant letters upon the subject. Since
his arrestation he wrote to me- requesting
| | would take some steps in MS favor. I
was very sorry that my distance from go
Vernnent wcuidnot permit me TO emil ghter
your justice in that respect; and doub:
not but 1T would have been easy to remove
the prejudlces you might have received.
heard no more Of Plchegru but very ind
rectly, and by persons whom the war oblig-
ed to return to France. From that period
to this, during the two first campaigns il
Germany, and since the peace, he has made
distant overtures to me, to know if it would
be possible to draw me into a coalition with
the French Princes. [ found all this so ri.
diculous, that | did not even reply to his
overtures.
8. AS to the actual conspiracy, I car
equally assure you that am far from nav,
ing the smallest part in it. acknowledge
to you that am at a loss to conceive how {
handful of scattered men could hope to eff
feet a change In the state, and to replace up
on the throne family which the efforts O.
all Europe, aided by sivil war, could no
succeed IN accomplishing and that, above
al, | should be so unreasonable, by con.
curing, TO lose the fruits of all my labor,
which would have insured me perpetual
reproaches.
$ I repeat to you. General, whatever
proposition has been made 70 me have re.
iected. and nave considered it as the basest
Of tollles; and that when the chances of a
descent upon England have been represent.
ed 20 me as favorable to a change of go.
verpment, have answered that the Senate
was the authority to which all Frenchmer
would yield obedience in case of trouble
and that l should be the first to submit tc
It's ord rs.
g Such overtures made to me, an insolat
ed citizen, not wishing to preserve any
kind of relation either with the army O
which nine tenths have served under my
orders or with any of the constituted au
thorities, could not but meet with my re
fusal. To become an informer was too re-
pugnant TO my character; to always iudge
with severity becomes odious, and impress.
es a seal of reprobation on him who has
rendered himself guilty of it towards per.
,sons to whom he owed gratitude and with
whom he was in ancient connections Of
friendship. Duty itself will some times
yield to the voice of public opinion.
6 This general, is what had to say res.