The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-10-13

ces of Bourbon indeed the official Gazette of
Paris has lately found il a-propos TO republifll
extracts from thoic journals.
| In oppoiition to thoic miferable gaZetteers, TO
thofe rumours without authors, OF which two
| OF the accufed. Rochelle and Gas we are told)
| Roger, have fpoken, to thofe reports made by
Lajolais (if we credit the tefimony of two other
, accufed perfons, Bouvet and Ruflillon,) let us
| place fact to which each of thefe men has de-
| poied, and which is even admitted by the act of
accuiation itfclf. The fact is this far from Il
ny engagement on the part of Gen. Moreau to
aid the caufe of the princes, he, we will not fay
fpurned at proportion TO enter into their fer
vice, for fuch propofal never was made to him,
but refented the bare fuggeftion. when lightly
introduced into political converfation, that
with hrs aid they might recover their former au-
thority, in the event that any change might,
mott unhappilyi for France, overt,rn or flake
the confular government under which we then
lived.
But thete very royalifts who had 70 indufri-
Gully propagated thofe reports in England, on
their arrival in Paris found bitter caufe of COM
plant, when they faw how much they had been
deceived: when thofe who had infpired them
with fuch hopes, were forced to acknowledge
that they were unfounded, and that Moreau, 70
far from being royalif, would not even fuffer
the princes to be named in his prefence
This is not the time TO examine how they be-
came acquainted with this truth ; nor whether
tlloie who Informed them of il, did not with.
by miDgiing ionlething extraordinary with their
/, ftory, to difarn their recruitment and even ven
geance, for having abufed them with fuch falfe
expectations.
We merely adduce the fact, in this place, to
thew that from Moreau they derived no affif
lance that he never declared for them never
had an idea of combining with them.
\. IF this he c0rrp4 he ,,r,,caaJ;roo -. a.,
trial recognize it as correct, we are compelled TO
adopt the inference, that Moreau never did re-
celve any advances or proportions from the
Princes; that he never wrote, nor procured to
be written, any letter to London, to the princes,
to Pichegru, nor 70 any other perfon in their
confidence, neither for the purpofe of making
them any promiies, of calling them or their
friends to France, nor of fuegeiting any means
of deitroying the Confulsr government. This
concluiion we are forced to receive, in order to
avoid the moft palpable abfurdity. For we can
not perceive why general Moreau, who accord
ing to the lamentations OF the Royafts, rejected
or obtained their overtures, fhouid chute to a.
mule hirnielf, in manner cruel towards them,
and dangerous TO himicE by fending them EMF
fares, infpiring them with hopes, and in fact or
ganizing aplot, when all the fruit which he
could reap from it, would be TO involve himftlf
without the power of being extricated, and with
attain.
| But it is Unified in exculpation of the Attor-
| ney General, that fuch reports were current in
London.
Such reports were current And at what Pc
ROD of the world has fen6ble and difcrimina-
ting people fentenced its generals and defenders
to death, on the evidence of reports fpread by
an enemy The refource would really be admi-
rabe, if nations at war could free themfclves
i frNff lrf1a~ ,{N,-,fo
ed, by indirectly demanding their heads in pa
zette paragraph, or deftroying their reputation
by an inlidious report.
Such reports were current We might deny
this abortion for what proofhas been adduced
to fnpport it, farther than the juftly fufpeGted
declarations of fome co-accufed perlons who
might, for hundred reafons eaily explained,
effablifh fair hopes of fafety from welI-timed
and complainant perjury. We might, we fay,
deny that there have been any fuch reports, but
we choofe rather TO believe in their exiftencc.
And why Becaufe the Engilh dreading the at
tack with which they are menaced, doubtIe(s
wiihed to create difcord in the heart of France.
Some chiefs of the Royalifts thinking the circum-
itance favourable to their caufe, feconded if.
Partizans of the princes were, therefore, to be
fent to France TO fret the public mind, enroll and
encourage the difooDtentcd. Great motives,
ffroDg hopes, and alluring perfpectives, were ne
cenary TO reanimate Their audacty, humbled by
fifteen years of reverfes. Is it then extraordins
ry, that, in fuch a conjun6ture, the name of Nor
eau, that name which had refunded through all
Europe, fhould have been pro0ituted?
Moreau had been at the head Of our armies
and was fill beloved by them. But he was no
longer employed by the government and it was
teen that he was even treated by it with coldnefs
Some oflicious propagatorS Of hatred, vile artihs
of difcord, who fet no value upon their country,
imagined they had attained the Object of their
ridiculous ambition, when they had Town DIFF
fention between thofr great minds which ought
ever TO have been united, were not idle in per-
Petuating thistemporary alienation. The calum-
MES aganft Morcau from thence received
colour, and the vile dctrattions of his LOYALTY
were rendered more plaufible. The workers Of
evil faw their advantage and afIiduoully difperf
ed theft rumours. This no perfon living could
either foreiee or prevent. II is fad truth that
a man who has covered himfef with glory, and
fecured general elteem, cannot protect his name
againf the abufe ofintrieuers, who will commit
and calumniate il at pleafure without his knowl-
edge or content. To render him refponfble for
fuch abufe of himfelf would be equally abfurd
and atrocious.
When from thofe artful infnuations, 'dif1e-
minated as decoy for fubaltern characters, we
Attend TO their fource, we find it either in fome
anonymous pamphlet, or in the words of Laio-
- n II