The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-08-04

two oihce-s who had knowledge of this eorr.irar.
dence engaged me give no.ict to gove,nn,snt and
gave under tand that it was becoming public <
that at Strabugh they preparing 10 inform the
Directory thereof
was apublic funttionary and could not prer.rye
longer nience but, without addreng uyelf dir CT
iy to government, wrote of it IN confidence 10 the
director Barthelen, one ofits members reorenino his
opinion, and telling him that heie papers a:hoa N
genuine, were 10, iucent Judiciary proof AS none of
them were hgned and nearly ,he whole written in cy
pliers.
My letter arrived in Paris Il few moments after
citizen Bartheiemis arreit and the Directory to
whom IT was RENTED, required =. me the papers
had mentioned
" Plchegru went to Cayenne, and returned after
wares to Germany and England; had 10 come Sion
with hiin A hort time after the peace with England
NJ David, uncle of general Souham who had s2!ed
ayear with him IN the army of the north wrote me
that Pichegru was the only one of the Frueldorors
not returned and ne mentioned that he was iurprzsd
to hear that 1T ws Upon my oppotion alone tha, YOU
reiuted his return to France. l replied to NJ David
that 10 tar from oppoing, would make it a duty TO
demand 1t. He communicated my letter to feyeral
perons, and have the poG,ive aurance that this de-
inand has been made 20 YOU
=" Some time afterwards NJ David wrote ~ mo
that he had enjoined Pchegru to ak you hmlesf for
ms recall but that he had anfwered he would not de-
mand 1t without the certainty of its being GRANTED
Above all he charged him thank me for the anyer
had made to the irnpuation of being oppoied to his
return that he had never thought capable Of rch
an act; and that lac even knew, that in the affair of
the correspondence of kinglin, had found myielfn
very delicate iituaton M. David AGAIN wrote me
three or four very insignificant letters the fbiet-
SINCE ms arreitation he wrote to me requeny would
take Tome teps in his favour. was very iorrv that
my dtance from government. would not permit me to
eniighten your jutice in that retpea, and doub not
bur 1t would have been eay to the preudices
you might have received. heard no more Of P;cbe-
CRU but very indirectly, and by perions whom the
war Obliged to return to France. From that period
to this during the frR two campaigns in GERMANY
and ince the peace, he has made dsnt oyertures TO
me to know if it would be poible to draw me into
coalition with tine French Princes found all this
70 ridiculous, that did not even reply to thee over
lures.
AS to the aetual coufpiracy, ean~equallv allure
you that am far from having taken the lnaet part
IN it, acknowledge to you that am at lois TO con-
eeVe how an handful of fcattered couldfhobe to
effect change iii the rate, and to replace ufoh the
throne family which the efforts of all Europe aided
by ciVll war, could not fucceed in acconpil thing and
that, above ALL lhould be 70 UNREASONABLE by concur
ring, to loie the fruits of all my labour which would
have eniured me perpetual reproaches.
u" repeat to you, General, whatever propofition
has been made to me have rejected, and have conf
dered 1t as the baieh of folies; and that when the
chances OF deficient upon England have been repre-
tented to me as favourable to change of government
nave aniwered that the Senate was the authority RI
which all Frenchmen would yield obedience in cafe
OF trouble and that hould be the firf to fubri, -,
its orders.
such overtures made to me- an ifola,ed citizen.
not wiihng to preierve any kind of relation either
With the army of which nine tentls have ferved un
Ger my orders, or with any of the conitituted autho-
rites, could not but meet with my refulal To be-
rXNas foo,
TO always Judge with feverity becomes odious, and
imprees lea ofreprobation on him who has render
ed himief guilty of it towards perfons to whom he
owed gratitude, and with whom he was in ancient
oi ftendifP. Duty itieif will iomet,mes
yield to the voice of public opinion.
This, general is what HAD 20 fay refpetanp NV
vince you that very faiis and dangerous differences
have been drawn from my feps and actions, which,
though perhaps imprudent, far from being
criminal and doubt not, had you requested an ex
PLANTATION OF mott of the facts which would have hat.
tened to give you, they would have prevented the re-
greet OF ordering detention, and me the humiliation
OF beng m letters perhaps obgedto appear before the
tribunals to fay that am conlprator and to appea
for my Qualification to probty of 25 years which has
never been impeached, and to the fervice which have
rendered tomy country. lhall not dwell upon thefe
general atter nlyfelf they are not vet efaced from
your memory but will remind you that if the cieire
OF taking part in the French Government had been
for Jingle moment the object of my fervces and of
my ambition, the career open before me in very
advantageous manner Tome time before your return
from Egypt and furely you have not forgot the dfin
tereilednefs ihewed in feconding you on the 18th
Brumaire.
!" Our enemies fnce that time have kept us aiunder
1t lswith much regret find am of my
ielf and what have done: but in moment when
am accuied oil being an accompice of thofe who are
coniidered as acting at the mitigation of England
hal perhaps have to defend nyelf again her lnares
have the vanity to believe fhe mutt Judge of the nu-
ries can do her from thofe have already done.
II obtain, general, Your complete attention, I
have no doubt of your jufice.
al fhall wait your decifion of my fate with the
tranquility of innocence, but without an apprehen-
lion OF feeling thote enemies triumph who are always
attracted by celebrity
am, with reipea,
MOREAU, General"
SPEF III OF NOR F. A II