The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-06-16

power. However, you can allure yoiIr com.
nittee, again, that the chief obje9 flall be pur-
iued on my part without relaxation, and in the
manner mott conformabe to your original in
ituttions; but it reits with your committee, on
a due confederation of the fate of affairs, and
the difpoGtions of perfons in the interior, to de-
| terrnine in what manner they can beft be com.
piled with.
+" Since have touched on this fubieSt, will
add, as reply TO an article in one of your lait
notes, that have a correct knowledge that eve.
~ thing is decided upon in the fccret commit
tee at st. Cloud but ALTO know, that, as the
meafures of detail and execution mutt neceiIari-
Iy be confined to the public Offices we can de-
rive from them very correct idea of what has
been, or is about to be, done.
" have no knowledge Of Nj. Talon and
repeat to you, on this location, that l am not
connected with any other agency at Paris than
yours: but by this DO not with to be under-
food, that j maintain no crtefpondence, for
have correspondents, in order that may be a.
bic to Judge of the correctness of reports and to
compare them with each other.
{" / fliall tranfirit you, by the next courier
" a letter from an Engliihman to B....."
If your committee think it will anfwer any pur-
pole, the letter may be printed at Paris, and af-
terward circulated: it is rather too long, but
may be eafilly abridged by emitting fome of the
paragraphs"
EXTRACT FROM LETTER, NO. 6. Esd. Jan.)
{" I conceive it proper to inform YOU that an
emiiIary Of the French government has been ma
king enquiries at the pof Office in Raditadt re-
ipe6ting correspondence fnppofed to exit be.
tween me and the mai-eontents at France: but
from the manner, in which the emiGary has exc
cuted his cOmmifIir,n n ic vsr,- ey;J.,+ 49,,
French government has not the mott diftant idea
OF the exiftence of ours. 1t was the appearance,
in almoit all the departments, Of &c t5e letter.
from an Engl;I5nan TO Bona arfe," which cree
ated the iufpicions that that letter originated
here. However, merely mention this incident,
TO prepare you in cafe you fhoud hear it fpo-
ken of.
I" have juft converted with perfon recently
arrived from Paris, from whom | learn that the
frft conful becomes every day more and more
extravagant that the reign of terror is rapidly
returning that this violent conduct proves,
that he is not eafy in his fituation; and that e.
very thing which paffes before him prefages
form more or lefs ditant. 1t appears evident
that the conful is much embarraiied about the
deficient on England for although he affects 2
fixed refolution to make the attempt, he Is I'M
doubtedly aware ofthe danger of the entefprize;
not knowing beGdes, how he could retire from
the CONTEXT or relieve himielf in that kind oftn-
gagement which he would undertake. beg
you will payevery attention tothe prefent fate of
things, which according to the well informed
perfon with whom / have iuft converted, mutt
fooner or later produce mott important and
Deceive crifis.
81 have no knowledge of what is paIing in
La Ven6ee. 1t is unneceflary for me to repeat
my opinion, that every partial mo4emenf, ard
all meafires which are not eiientially combined
with general ard fixed bian can produce nc
thing but mitchell. i am, however, inclined to
confder all thcfe inuTeetions as abfolutelv fpon-
taneous, arifng foley Out of fpirit of oppoGti-
on to the confcriptions.
&c In an article of your inftruStions, recon.
mended that you fhould qvrite tqvice a eveek;
but, that we may not make too great a ute Of
our means of conveying intelligence, think it
will be advifable that you fhould write at fuch
times only as matter of an interefting nature will
preient itielf.''
EXTRACT FROM LITTER, NO. z. (27th JAM
Z" am extremely grieved to hear of the parti-
al movements, of which you inform me, and
perfectly agree with you in opinion, that, they
will have no other effect than tha. of exciting
the government to increafed vigilencc, and Of
producing meafures of fecurity, which may be
fatal to many bonef men, who might render in,-
boytant /ervieeJ if they were well employed.
ut late WHICH IdS DtIdiiSH Tue COIDmftreeS
of whole exiftence you queftioned me in your let
ter of the 5th, and which knew nothing of un-
til then heard from you, ferve without doubt
to put you on your guard againf falfe friends,
and render you very crcumfpef as to the per-
fons to whom you confide aHyour fecret. The
great art cfeonduaiag dangerous enterpr Se, Gocb
as That in qvlbieb you are engaged, coniifts
in giving 10 much information to each individual,
as will enable him to perform the particular dn-
fy entrufted to him, but conhding no more.
" AS to the dehre which your general has ex-
preHed, according to the bulletin No, of
knowing Tire moment when be ought to give the
impulfe to the machinery, anfwer that, be muft
be regulated on this point, by the intelligence
which fhall be received of the progrefs of yon,'
oberationJ. BY your letter of the 25th Decem-
/ Der, find, you propofed TO make an eepiofon IN
fonr departments on one giz,en dar, but doubt
that fuch a meafure, if unconne6ted with Others,
could produce great effect. It might give the
J irf confuI monetary embarraiiment, but it
| feems impofible it could fucceed if Bs. army is
faithful to him, or at leaf if we could not allure
! ourfelves of the aid of large portion of his
troops.
Pray inform me what may be reckoned on
concerning this latter Object, in order that
may regulate my ideas and ground our pro-
ceedings thereon. The principal point, in my