Norfolk Gazette And Publick Ledger

NEW-CONSPIRACY.

"He makes the giants first, and then he kills them."

Fielding's Tom Thumb.

A letter from Paris of the 28th ult. says, 'The first occupation of Fouché, since his return to the ministry of police, is to crush what Buonaparte calls the faction of generals, which is the only one he now seems to dread; but, to be able to do so, he must invent some new plot, and publish new acts of conspiracy and new lists of proscriptions against pretended conspirators, in which those generals suspected or hated by him are inculpated. It is already reported, with confidence, by Buonaparte's favourites, that a tail of the late royalist conspiracy has been found out, as much to be apprehended, and as deserving punishment, as the body of it. The particulars are, however, not mentioned; and every party therefore publishes them according to its own notions or wishes. The only thing known is, that the late royalist chief, count De Bourmont, who, in January 1800, made his peace with the consular government, and was, in the December following, contrary to the treaty, arrested and sent to the citadel at Besançon, where he remained shut up, in the beginning of this month was carried to the temple, where he still remains, accused of being at the head of a new conspiracy, in which La Horie, Macdonald, Souham, Lecourbe, Salm, and Bonneau, and other celebrated generals, who have fought under Pichegru and Moreau, are incriminated, or said to be so. Even generals Regnier and Dessaix are mentioned as suspected of belonging to the faction of generals; and though still employed, are watched by other generals in whom Buonaparte confides. La Horie, Souham, Salm, and Bonneau, are now confined in the temple; but Macdonald and Lecourbe are exiled forty leagues from Paris; and remain until further orders, under the inspection and responsibility of the police commissaries of their places of exile. It has been reported that they were to be tried; but it is now commonly believed, that Buonaparte has no other object in view, than to force these obnoxious generals, who have many friends and adherents in the army, to leave France, and follow Moreau to America.'