The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-10-10
WEDNEsDAr MORNING, OCTOBER TO- 1904

been to open, or to put in better train, : plal
OF confpiracy.
Strange that Laiolais entrufted with CON
milton the execution of which was Il matter
one would fuppole, of immediate neceiiiy
| ihould have remained in France feven months
after having received it from Moreaui
| No; the mere Circumstance OF 10 long time
waited in ina6tion by Laiolais, with his family
in the department Of the Lower-Rhine, is an
unequvocal proof of the faltenefs of his 6gR de
claration, in the Interpretation given 70 it.
Another particular not lefs important, and
which at once deprives Laiolais of the title o.
| agent for Moreau in this fuppoiitious plot, is
that his conformation with Moreau, and the
proceedings Of the court, have inftruGted Us
that, at the very time when he is iad to have
| been employed to procure this interview, he ak
ed general Moreau to lend him fome money,
which the general refuied
| On this fact the examinations has not thrown
| the lealt doubt. And will it be believed that
Moreau, At the very infant when he eutlutted
his fecret to Lajoiais, and anociated him in his
| plans, would have rcfuied TO fupply him. for
| the moment, with a few louis?
| But as no plot can be natured without funds,
1t is therefore evident that general Moreau, af-
| ter having initiated Laioais into this confpira-
cy, would necehariiy have placed his Puri- at
his command, AS he had already made him maj
ter of his fortune and his hopes.
And even could the plot have progrelied with
| out money, is it reaionable to think, that Mo-
rcau, by refuGng the fupPiy requefted, would
have been 70 imprudent as to have run the ril,
| OF notifying the pride of man, who had the
power of revealing his Vaccinations.
Neceftity has ever had too great an influence
! over the pathonS, to allow us to depend entire
ly on their movements. M1reau might, the
next moment, have become the victim of a de-
nuncation, provoked by his own cupidity.
To the mind of any reafanng being, who
knows any thing of the human heart, the Yefi-
fa to adminiiter, with final! fun, to the nccet.
fities of Lajolais, is a proof iufScent to dehroy
every idea that there exitted any criminal reati-
on between him and general Morcau.
But to all theGc explanations which render 70
plain the nature of the monetary acquaintance
of Moreau and Lajolais, let lis add one other,
which will contribute to efabiiih its pcriea in
effectiveness. '
Victor Couchcry, to whom it appears Laio-
laiS had fad that general MORGAN ought 70 write
to Pichcgru, waited on the general 70 knou.
what difpotitions he had made with Laiolais, aud
whether ne did intend tow &c to PichesrG.
And Victor Couchery, when confronted with
Moreau, has attefed that the reply of the gener-
al was, that 6. he had feen Lajolas two or three
and Especially the amendments which he made
to his petition for employment that he had
nothing to communicate to, nor could he cor
reipond with, any perfon rehding iii country at
war with France.
| Couchery was then the friend of Pichegru :;
general Moreau knew him to be 70 if he had
written by Laiolais, if he had had any intention
ofwriting, or if he had even charged him with a
verbal mehage, what reafon had he 10 tlit. re-
ferve concealment with The brother of his con-
fdant, and the mott intimate friend of Piche-
CRU.
This teftimony of Couchcry, independent of
the proof it affords that he had no confidential
connection with Lajolais, confirms another faet
perhaps Efficiently etab!iihed at the trial, that
Moreau declined all correspondence with Piche-
CRU, 70 long as he remained under the protection
of the enemies of France. And that his with
was that the latter lllould remove into neutral
territory, before he could in any way intereft
himfelf in procuring the erafure of his name from
the lift of emigrantS.
To thofe who fay that any intimacy between
Moreau and Laiola;s is liable to fifpicion, on
account of the denunciation Of this officer in the
year it is eafy to reply, that Lajolas was alb
folved from all crime by judgment of the coun-
Gil ofwar that he had long iihce banifhed all
animoity or recruitment, which his arref nnight
have occafoned, from his mind and that he
I himielf fought the interviews with the general,
whole difpoGtion was incapable of repuling
him. Nay it even appeared to him, that every
ientimeit ofjuftice required his aid IN repairing
the injuries which Lajolas might have fltaned
from accommodation proved by the trial to have
been without juft cauie.
Report ftbe Grugd-J44ge, 81, Pl44,oj,S, 2.