The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-10-03

ths unaliuining folder relinQuiihed the chef
rank, could not refrain from giving him the
mot public marks of veneNnion and gratitude.
We7havefeen him, at the fsqueG of his fuccel-
Tor, without any command, but, as he himftlf
uied ina laughing manner TO fay, as an amateur,
Esti't at the too celebrated and too unfortunate
{bsttle OF Now, where the brave bat ill-fated
Joubert was killed in the FRA Charge. There
1--WE have feen him, fighting in the ranks as pri-
vate folder, while three hories were killed un.
der him retarding by the effects of his valour,
defeat which he had foretold in the moment of
trout and diiaiter, accepting the perilous honour
OF commanding beaten army, aligned to him
by the unver!al reclamation of generals, off,
GERS, and folders; re!toring it to order, and
preienting it with iuch terrible afpeSf to its G.
nemlcs thatthey durlt not venture to purfue, as
he re-eonduGted it in fafety to its arong pofti-
. ons in the territory OF Genoa thus holding the
key or Italy, aud preparing victory for the gene
raj who was 70 fl-ceed him. And we have feen
him., finally, deliver this army, at the order of
the Directory. TO General Championnet. Thus
have we beheld him, with the dociIity of an in
FAINT, aiume and lay down, re-afume and again
reign, as neceifty, or the caprice of thofe whom
he always Acknowledged as his magistrates,
might dictate, the command of an army wholly
devoted to him; and which he might ealiIv
have retained by the double power derived from
his talents, and the ilial love of grateful foldia-
ry, who acknowledged him as their Iaviour and
their father.
Such was Moreau until the month of Vende-
naire, year s. That fame Moreau whom this
act OF accufation compels to vindicatc himielf
againtt charge of contpiracy. Let US fee how
| lie has betrayed the intereits Of his country.
Early in the eighth year he returned to Paris.
There he found one OF the Directory defpairing
OF the government on account of is weakness
weakuets 10 dependent on the vices of its ma
! tgfTa FOL otf -l.n ~
OF any executive. This director feened conviu-
ced that every thing in France was lott, If more
energetic government were not devfed; whole
administration being lcls divided, fiiould be bet
ter calculated for the affairs of great aud ex
tenlive empire.
He cXprefed his fentiments TO Moreau, and
Moreau was convinced of their iultice. But
where was the man who 2t fuch a iun6tu.e
could grafp, with hand efficiently firm, the
helm of affairs, and recover for France that az
tendency over Europe which ihe had lately
pofieted? The vifionary policy of The Directo-
iry had deprived France Of her fiirelt fnpport,
then, in manner, banihed to Egypt, whence
1t WAS fcarcely poliibc the fleets of England
would permit MIN to returns Moreau had only
to fpeak one word, and his was the iupreme
power. He ;not afraid to confefs, that, had
he believed himfef capable of FIGURING the pub
lie good, he would not have heftated to accent
ia A1Lt CH SNti4iG!4P nl!IlGI, ne CllEi net
ceive any indication that he was the perfon
deHgnated BY heaven TO tx the deGinies of
France.
Far from his mind, even at this moment of
unmerited humiliation, be every idea of falie DIFF
.idence. Moreau is not guilty, in this acknow-
ledgment, Of injuitice towards himfelf at the
came time that he does not win to be uniuft to
any other. He knows, and he may be permit
ted to avow it, wherein bis own worth conliits
he knows what itation nature de6gned him in
the political order; his place will be found in
the hour of danger and in the field of battle, |
whenever and wherever the chief of the nation
ihali deign to ahgn it to him. Every other flu |
alton appalled, his courage. The weight of no.
htlcal affairs he never could endure. That to-
talrenunciation of domeitic endearments that !
unremlttlng iublecton of the mind to public !
concerns, whichis the iirlt and rigorous duty Of
thote on whom devolvc the chief magiRracy :
that iatiguiTg attention to the cares of govern ,
ment, preffng from morning till night and from
night till morning, which cannot be eyaded by ,
thoie who accept the place to which they are
attached; that extent ofjudgement which NUT
be pofleiied in orGer to regulate the concerns of
great nation that deci.ion Of character which
is neceOary, after the forms of long revoluti.
on, to fubugate the various palons of various
parties; that rare dicernment which is reluiiite
in order 20 fteer clear of thofe quickfands that
are ready to ingulph an unilzlful pilot, and TO
know exactly how far to indulge, or where to
oppoie, popular opinion, to manage the paffi-
onS 10 as to render male-contents or even enc
mics uftful that genius, in one word, which
com2rehendS every thing, regulates every thing,
and foreiees every thing; which conceves the
whole and diitribute the details which at the
fame time is occupied with external dangers,
and internal regulations, with men and with ]
things, with the PROPERTY of the governed and !
the iatetY cf the government the aiiemblage OF
all thele qualities, 70 requihte but which we t
nau 10 long deIpaircd OF nnding united, NIoreau
without bluthing, acknowledged could not be
found in him. Led by an irrefaible propenftvl
to The happy walks Of doIpe1ic life, he thought
that, after having paid TO his country the debt
which, as 4 citizen, he owed her, he might be :
allowed to indulge his private tate that he :
might at Leaf return to the pough-ihare, after :
having f. long managed the fword. Such en- -.
ioymcnts he looked to as ihe end and confum-
nation of hislabours. Judge then how FIR he
to profit by The oyertures Of the y
director.
The conaaDt fabie6}s Of their private dfcnc. e
lions were, the ncce;Iity of fuch government, v
md the mpoBbility Of then finding, in France, h
-hat periou IN wnofs hands it could be ffely
iepohted, when they learnt that, by miracle l
rs ircomprehenGb!e as fortunate, Bonaparfe had /
fi'eubarked at Fregus. Noreau Immediately p
I as q. q ft.s.s. IL. Ill