The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-10-06
FIRST CHARGE.

MORGAN svaS the aeeomplice Of Piebegru, in tie
year 4.
This is charge which ought not to have
been introduced into the prefent procefs. Of
what confequence, in the year 12, to the confil-
lar, and particularly to the imperial government,
is confpiracy, real or imaginary, the object of
which was to annul, in the year 4, the fragile
contribution of the year 8, which the eighteenth
Brumaire TO happily reduced to duff, amidft the
general plaudits of the nation
In what predicament fhould each of us at
this moment appear, if the government under
which wenowfoh appilyrepofe, afteratempefto of
iuch long continuance, efpoulingall the quarrels
OF every government which has been erected and
profcribed in France, during the laft fifteen
years, fhOuld demand from us rigorous ac-
count Fall that we may have done, for or a.
galnft the oldeft monarchy of 1888, for or a.
gainft the constitutional monarchy of 1871, for
or agalnft the revolutionary government of the
third year, for againft the directories of Ven
dimiare, of Prairia, or of FruGtidor which
have been in fuch rapid fuccef1ion overturned
by each other ?
On the 18th Brlimaire France emerged from
chaos. 1t from that day fhe fhould date
her exiftence. All which preceded it is invoIv-
ed in midnight darknefs. On that day the natl
onal will, to fecure the public repofe, profcrib-
ed, en- malIe, all this train of ephemeral govern
ments, and ordained that no man ihould be ouef-
toned upon what had been his conduct under
their influence.
1t is then mere mockery TO make the con-
duct of Moreau againft the Directory, previous
to the Sth Fructidor, a fubject OF criminal en-
CURRY. IF he was at that time guilty towards IT,
what mutt have been his fubfeouent degree of
guilt ? Was it not he, who, on the lsth Bru
MARIE, marched to the Luxembourgh, and there
held that feeble authority Dawe, while at Saint
Cloud, another government arofe at the with,
and for the Happiness of France?
This imaginary offence of Moreau againft the
Directory, in the year 4, fhould not, therefore,
form any part of the prefent accufation. But
they will tell us that it is only inherited to bring
back, for moment, the recollection of that
want of duty which is exhibited by his letter of
the 9Th Fructidor, the motives of which were
not known, but which contemplation of his
glory, and his Victories, had long fince obliterat
| ed.
Such is not according to regular procefs, nor
confident with the nature Of an accufation In
rigorous contribution of law, there is no necenity
! OF Juitincation aSainft charge 70 advanced
| Nevertheless General Moreau feZes with plea
fure, this cccaGon to explain himfef, in the face
OF toe whole nation, on the part ne acted prior
to the 18th Fructidor.
1t appears but too true that Pichegru had,
IN the year 4, maintained a correfpondence with
the army of the royaits, and the Prince OF
Condo. The plan feens to have been, to caufe
Louis XVIII to be acknowledged, to make the
army ofthe Rhine declare in his favor, mount
the white cockade, get poieiiion of feveral frone
| places, &c. &c.
But Pichegru and the Prince could not agree
on teveral points particularly whether the
right or left bank of the Rhine fhould be the
'cene of action in the ERR nfance and alto or
| 4 general amncfty, and the confirmation of tht
iales OF national property, which the one exact
ed and The other refuied.
Such IS the general purport of the papers o.