The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-07-14

and elevate hun to a tort OF dictator: that II
would enable him to make one sxplohon in the
army, and another in the fate.
Unfortunately for his deligns, the army of J.
tally ran on from victory to victory when the
campaign of year q, again opened ON the Rhine.
The example of his army had electrified all the
Others, that of the Sombre and Meufe, com
manded by Jourdan. had replied to it firit and
took the lead in pafIing the Rhine. The 6 Mef-
fidor the army OF the Rhine, under MORGAN,
palied It alto. Ii is true he was, ihort time
after Obliged to retreat, and Khel was taken
through the aid OF hints given to the Au.tran
army, by the agents Pichegru had left about Mo-
reau.
PicheSrn being without command had hrlicf
harmed to the legislative body, as aifo certain
CLONES, agent Of Louis XVIII, at Lyons, "At
this period fays the author of the pamphlet,
the nation sroaned under a croud of revoluti-
onary laws. The feparation of the good and G.
vii of the revolution, had not yet been made: :
to preferve all, was the cry of one faction, to
deftrSy all was that of another. The Legislative
body was divided like the nation. The direeto-
ny competed Of FIVE members was in the fame IL
tuation. In this corps, competed of heterogene-
cus materials, each member was aftoniihed, was
indignant at having the other by his hde. Ha-
tired, perfonal diilikes irritated their fprits tt
more than difference of opinion. The prefs
which had been thought free, and which was
regarded as the Palladium of public liberty, was
an initrument in the hands of a foreigner, and
ferved only to envenom thefe hatredS. In this
period of agitation, when men were Influenced
by their pafions more than their r-lon, Pche-
CRU hoped to form party of the body of Re-
prefentatives ofthe people.
"We cannot forget the tempcRuous & difor-
ganized MOTORS which every day brought forth.
We recall the conduct purified by Pichegru and
The party for which he declared. While on one
iide the armies were called to fuccour the re-
public, on the other Pichegru and his adherents
would oppote to them the MATS of citizens un-
der the title OF national guard, as if the armies
notwithstanding their proofs of devotion 70 Of
ten reiterated were no longer fuitabie guard,
fnce they had disappointed the generals hopes
OF being dictator. We recolle6 the efforts made
at that time by the faction of Pichegru, to drain
the public treafury, to overthrow every thing
the government was pledged 20 iupport, and
with them the government itfelf. We reIncm-
Der the Glamour RATED on a draft being made up
on the treaiury, of the funds accruing from the
contributions, levied in Italy, draft defined
to fnpply the wants of the army of the Rhine,
then In fate of deprivation. Such was then
the confuhon Of ideas, the uncertainty of prin-
ciples; fuch were the preiudices for or asainft
individuals, that we beheld in our councils,
great number of representatives, the mott diftn-
guihed for wifdom, integrity, and religious at
tachment to their words, allowing themielves to
be confronted by fmall number of unworthy
colleagues, who had criminal understanding with
the internal and external enemies of the repub-
lic.
I" AT fight of the general confuGon and danger
that nlenaced the government, the hopes of TO-
reign powerswere revived, ie conference OPEN
ed at Montebello, between France and Aultria
languiihed. The couriers OF Vienna topped or
IL
TO by. The armies behed the fruits of their glo-
rious victories vanilh. All, even the army ofthe
Rhine, eXpreis theiraiarms decentralization the
directorymenacesthat 1t is about to PERTH the re-
volution ofthe sth eparesitfelf. And
III the mean time, what does Moreau,-Moreau
who has in his hands proofs of the treaion Of
Pichegru, the mott influential and mott DANCE
rous of the legislative body Moreau preferves
fience How ihall we rank the man, who could
prevent by word, both the anxiety of the ar
mics and thote OF the citizens, the Fruetidor
catagtrephe, the revolution is produced, andthe
melancholy facrihces that refulted, yet is fent
What a weight fhould reit on the confidence of
that man, WHO by ftnding to Paris the papers
he retained, could nave preferved 10 many VIC
TINS and prevented 70 much evil"
The author of the pamphlet here, analyfes
the executes alledged by Moreau for his delay,
AID refumes his approaches.
" Nothing, fays ne, can here obfcure the
truth. 1t was the duty OF Moreau, general of
The army of The Rhine, to inform government
without delay of the eXiftence of papers which
accufed of confpiracy his preieceGor, become
the chief of faction. The pamphlet proceeds
IL 6milar train OF inve6iivc and thus COLI
clude5.
"All Europe knows the conduct obierved by
Pichegru at Bareuth and in England, iince his
return from Guyana, and knows how he has
conHrrued the proofs, that Moreau produced
agai1R him the 18th FruGtidor. 1t isknown by
the whole world that it is in the pay of En-
gland ; that tits with the gold and the daggers
of England that it is to ferye England, or the
cauie fine has confounded with hers, that he has
come to Paris.
IF it be true, as every thing Announces, as
we rnut believe, after the report made to go
vernment 10y the grand Judge, that Moreau has
had particular intercoulfe with this declared e.
nerny of his country if II only he true that he
has been acceiiibls TO this man, who concealed
himief from all citizens, who could only have
been conducted 10 Paris BY the mott criminal
arts, the ftrongef prefumptions reiut agaiHft
kIoreau, and the minds mott fayorably difpofcd
are unable to defend him.
One of two things, either the accufation Of
Pirhegru, made By MORGAN, the 9Th Fru6tidor,
was made voluntarily and with fnceiity, or il
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