The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-10-24
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
M E III o IR,
IN J US 7 IFIC TON OF
GENERAL lfCRETU.
lCoECLUDED.

FIFTH CHARGE.-Hors0u did not Ac,,o.gace fbe
eorl'irecy.
Before crime can be denounced, it is necefs-
ry that ne from whom the denunciation is ey-
pf&ted, fhould be acquainted with all the facts
winch contribute 1t, the Object intended by II.
the means employed or ready to be employed
to promote it, and the names of thore who are
to concur in the execution of it.
The law punifbes him as libeIier who de.
nounces without proof, who cannot efablifh
the offence which he alleges, who cannot a(cer-
tam the guilt OF him whom he accufes.
He who is to dcnounce is confeouentIy 4
Judge OF the offence which the law invites him
to difcover.
IT the offence is not manifet, if its circum-
frances are fuipetted but not afcertained, fociety
can exact nothing concerning it from the ciyifm
of its members.
The queftion in the prefent cafe concerns a
powerful confpiracy againft the fate.
Such contpiracy cannot be faid to EXIT un-
til number of individuals have combined, and
nave communicated to each other their ideas,
their hopes, and their wifies; until they have
olgehed ZONE plan for the execution of which
each pledges himftlf to the whole; in which
each has his particular duty aligned him. fo
that their feparate efforts may tend to one com
mon ifue; in which every thing is organized.
from the chief who directs, to the mott fubor-
dinate agent who is to execute his orders. and
obey his intruaions.
General Moreau had no knowledge of fuch a
confpiracy.-He had feen Pchegru and Roland.
There was no witnefs of the conversations be-
tween him and the former; but he has fufici-
emily eitabliihed the infignifcance of the 6rh.
All we can learn from the fecond, is, that pi-
chegru may have wlhed, provided certain events.
not likely to happen, fhoud occur, to replace
mi Off he
of France.
But it he had formed plan, had engaged az
locates, and was furnilhcd with means, tlefe he
neceiiarlly concealed when he difcovered, on the
very hrit hint, that Moreau's affections were fo
completely alienated from that family, that ne
refufed TO hear that there was even a pofIiI,ilitv
OF their return to France. This vague in6nua-
ton, then, was all that Moreau knew of GIcb y
PROJECT, and knew thus much only to laugh NJ
1t as ridiculous and extravagant.
Roland, even Roland confrfIes that on the
l7th PluVloie he did not difclofe more he does
rot fay that any plan of confpiracy was confid-
ed 70 Moreau.
II thus i'll inRrueed, and not wifbino. not
having the power, to be more infinitely inform
ed, moreau had fepped forward as an accuTer.
what would have been the confluence, Pr
chegru would either have efcaped from Paris. or
he would have been apprehended. In the frA
cafe the denunci9tion would have been ipcfTcetu-
al, and he would have been again centred nc
the tardy difcoyene of the enemy of tle,Rate; in
the iecond, Pichegru denying every thing, and
nothing being found to fupport the charge A.
gainit him, then MORGAN, falling in the proof Of
what he had alleged, would, in the contennlati-
on OF law, have been branded as beller.
Let US by way Of hypothesis, although allow
ing a icoPe for reafoning which cannot be ex-
acted from us, enlarge for a moment the fphere
OF the Intelligence communicated to Moreau.
and iuppoie that he was made fully acquainted
with the complete organization Of ccbgpirscy,
and knew the approaching moment appointed
Tor its execution: then, you will no doubt r, v.
Moreau wou;d have failed in the duty which
iociety impofes on each Of its members. hid he
not immediately difcovered to- the continued
authorities the guiph that was yswnng for thel,
! defruetion.
Ills lllence might have ficwn him TO be \ care.
leis citizen but would he have been crinina
for whom the law referved a chaftifcmept p
| No.
We refer to the Penal Code of the eia Sen.
sembtr l1"i ; ~ open The Code OF Chimes and