Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va.) 1802-1810, 1804-08-24

with q DtaZG OF gioIEs ~ itsauc hiS 10 uOpS
for happy results. | began 10 second i
when other parties pressed me toput my-
self ii their head to combat il. received
ii Paris the orders Of General Bonaparte.
In executing them ! concurred 10 elevate
him to that high degree Of power which
circumstancesr rendered necessary.
r When, sometime after, he offered me
the chief command Of the army of the
Rhine, / accepted i, from him with rs
much devotion as from the hand ofthe
republic ITSELF My military successes
were never more rapid, Nnore numerous,
more decisive, than at that epoch when
their spIendor overspread the govern.
|ment which accused me. 4 % s-9s=3=
Upon the event Of so many successes,
Of which the greatest Of all was 10 have,
ascertained, in an eificaeious manner, the
peace of the continent, the soldier heard
the lofty shouts Of national gratitude.
What moment 20 conspire If such
design had ever been able to enter my
soul Every one knows the deyotedness
Of armies to chiefs whom they love, and
whom they have just led from victory To-
victory an ambitious man, eonspira-
tor, would he have suffered the occasion
to escape when, at the head Of an army
ofa hundred thousand men so often tri-
umphant, he returned to the midst ola
nation still agitated, and always restless
with regard 70 Its principles and their dO-
ration, 49, 80 :. .y'-~f Z
only thought Of disbanding the army,
and returned TO the repose of civil life.
In this repose, which was not without
glory, I enjoyed without doubt my no.
nors--those honors which human power
can never. wrest from me, the remem-
brance ofmy actions, the testimony ofmy
conscience, the esteera Of my compatri-
OTIS and strangers, and, lift may be said,
the aattering and sweet presentiments of
posterity. T. = = :
! enjoyed fortune which was not
great, because my desires were not i'm.
mense, and which caused no reproaek Of
Coincidence. ! eniored the entertainment
Of my retreat. Surely was content
with my lott who never envied the lot
Of any. My family and my friends, so
much the more precious as not having
any thing TO hope from my credit or my
fortune, they could remain attached but
to myself alone. i -. .
All these blessings, which alone
highly appreciate, filed my soul entirely,
and could permit no undue desire or am
bilious wish to enter would il then be
opened 10 criminal projects: s
This condition OF my soul was so well
known, il was so wen g.iranateed by the
distance At which kept from all the paths
of ambition, that since the victory of Ho-
heuIindsn ill my arres,ation, my enc
mics have never been able eithsrto find
4 or 10 seek me by another crime than the
freedom Of my discourses my discour.
ses--,hey have often been favourable to
the operations of government and II at
any time they have not been so, could I
therefore think that that was q crime q
mong people who had so often decreed
that Of thought, that of word. that of the
press, and who had enjoyed much Of It
even under Kings. -
confess that, born with an openness
Of disposition, have not lost this attri-
butte Of the country (of Franee9 where /
received life, neither in the camp where
every thing gives new impetus, nor IN
the revolution which has always proclaim
ed Il as a virtue fthe man, andas . duty
Of the citizen. But do those who plot
blame so openly wha, they disapprove
IL had wished to form and pursue plans
Of conspiracy, Iwonld have dissemhled
my sentiments, and solicited all the si-
tnations which could have replaeedme in
the midst OF the forces Of the nation.
In order to trace this plan, in default
Of political genius, which never pos
sessed, had examples known TO all the
world, and rendered imposing by their
success. knew wei that Monck did
MT ,v;thdraw from the armies when he