The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-10-17


mva6oh, were made TO Moreau He irily, for.
mally, and with minute exactnels, repulfed eve.
ry idea that their return was poflible, or that
fuch an order of things as thefe remarks feen,ed
TO nave IN view could ever exit, being totally
incompatible with the national temper. No.
thing in the whole procefs is better atefted than
this conversation; which terminated here, with
renewed and urgent entreaties, on the part O!
Mcreau, that Pichegru might not return. He
promifed, and departed.
Their parting was cold, and Pichegru feemei
much tifcontented. No one was preient at this
conversation but the dissatisfaction exhibited
by Pichegru on his retiring from it, is mathem,-
tically proven. Roland, whole good will for
that general cannot be doubted, tells us that on
his return ne faid, Moreau is not ofwy quay of
Thinking. LaiolsiS and Couchery depofe that
he feemed much chagrned. The intentions
which were attributed to Moreau, and the re-
ports circulated of his fentiments, will eafily &C.
count for the modification occaioned by the
disappointment of Pichegru.
However this may be, after thefe infinuatious
and the untavourable reception given them by
Moreau, he Jaw no more OF Pchegru. Tt will
be recoeGted that he ALTO fhrt his door on ! .ao-
iais. All the ties between him and Pchegru
were in manner broken. Roland alone had
not yet been forbidden to fee him. He came a.
gam to his houfe the next day. He brought
back the conversation to fome of the ideas that
| fell from Pichegru the day before A political
dncuihon between men who had known each O.
ther almoft eight years, was nothing uncommon.
Roland took up the text of Pichegru. He fpoke
OF the pofiible evils that might attend the inv.
non OF the connections that might refult from
II or the pretentions of the Bourbons, who
might profit by thofe CONNEXIONS and plung-
ed into labyrinth of poiiibilities, from which
he could not extricate himelf, ande each of which,
he avows, were treated by Moreau as mere
marks of folly.
Pafiing from thefe primary ideas to others, he
queftioned Moreau if he had never refolved, in
cafe of new troubles, to pof1efs hmfef of any
authority. The notion of fuch thing appear
ed to Moreau 70 ridiculous, that ne replied TO it
with imiie of contempt" That if any new
connections fhould take place, there was a fe-
nate to controul them. He hoped he was not
mad and obferved, that before mere indivi-
dual, like himfelf, retired from the world, lola
ted from all affairs civil or military, could be
animated by any ambitious proieG, the whole
machine Of fate mutt be deranged, the conful,
his family, and all thofe who then pofieifed au-
thorlty, mutt be no more--That the time for
him to have coveted power, had he ever been
ambitious, was when he was at the head of vic
torous armies" --Roland receiving this fevere
check foon after withdrew.
Il
httory or all his relations and conversations with
Pichegru and Roland. No one aiifted at their
interviews, nor was witnefs of what pancd.
No writing by the hand of Moreau exits on the
fuoJect. 'Plchegru is no more but no word
uttered by him contradiGs what is here tated.
1t appears therefore, not only contravening the
presumption of law in favour of innocence, but
alio contradiction of the frlt principles of COM
mon reafon, to imagine other facts or other diff
courfeS than what are here ftated.
Why then has the act of accufation called
theie conversations criminal, and what has been
produced IN contradiction OF general Moreau |?
According to the ACT of accuiation, there had
been another interview on the Boulevard-d e-ia-
Madeleine, between him and Pichegru, at nine
O'Clock III the evening. Lajolas depofes to this
interview IN one of his examinations and
Couchery lays he knew of it, but at the trial con-
relied that his knowledge was from Laiolais.
bouvet -de-Lozier, in a mott extraordinary de-
claration, fgned by him fome moments after
having been faved from fuicide, fays that he re-
pared TO the Boulevard-de-la- Madeleine, on the
day mentioned, with Pichegru, Lajolais, and o.
theirs that Lajolais came to Pichegru in vol
tnre TO conduct him to Moreau and that there
had been conference between them in the Elv-
iIan-Fields, from which they had every reafon to
believe that Moreau was oppoied to the royal
it's.
According to the aa of accufation, Armand
Pohgnac knew, by hearfay, that there had been
a conference between Moreau, Pichegru, and
Georges, at ChaiIlot.
According to the aa of accufation, Picot de-
clared that one day Pichegru expected fome per-
fon in the Elyfan-Fields, who did no. meet him.
The Acknowledgement, in admitting that Mo-
reau did not meet him, indicates that he expec-
ted Moreau and that he would not have cxpec-
ted him, had he not received his promife to be
there.
According to the act of accufation, on the
word of Jajolais, it is hated that Moreau ap-
pointed The firit meeting with Pichegru at his
houfe.
According to the ad of accufation, on the
word of Roland, Moreau alto appointed the fe-
cond meeting with Pichegru, at bis own houfe,
and even lent Fefnieres 70 conduct him.
And according to the act of accuiation, Mo-
reau, on the word Of Roland, at their laf con-
ference, after having in form rejected every pro-
petition to unite in the views of the royaiias,
propofed that they fhonld adopt an entirely diff
terent plan; that they ihould remove out of the
way both the Firit Conful and the Governor Of
Paris, that then he, Morsau, would avail hiiu-
ielr OF party in the Senate efficiently ftroDe,
to obtain the fuprems authority; and that he
mould then be left to act in the caufe according
to the dictates of his own mind.
He NUT reply to all thefe charges in the order
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