The National Intelligencer And Washington Advertiser

PICHGRU AND MOREAU.

A pamphlet of 100 pages with this title has just been published at Paris. - The following account of the pamphlet is translated from a paper called La Clef du Cabinet.

"This work is chiefly a detail of facts relative to a correspondence seized at Offenburg in the year 5, when the army of the Rhine, passed on the right bank, and took that city: the correspondence disclosed by general Moreau to the Directory, the 19th Fructidor, of year 5, the day after the arrest of Pichegru, and then sent by him to the Minister of Police, by whom it was published. It will be recollected that it related to the negotiations which took place at the end of year 3, & commencement of year 4 between the Prince of Conde the pretender, and Pichegru for invading France, and proclaiming Louis XVIII. We perceive in the affair all the intermediates who served in that negotiation; the Baron de Reich, Fauche, Beel, Demonge, Badenville, Montgaillard, &c. - But we notice above all Mr. Wickham, the treasurer of England, and the soul of the conspiracy.

In the beginning of year 4. Pichegru offered to the Prince of Conde, to cause his brave French troops to pass the Rhine, to place them between the army of Conde and that of the Emperor, and then to hoist the white flag, and proclaim the pretender. The Prince of Conde, on the contrary wished that Pichegru should deliver up to him Huninguen or Strasburg and proclaim Louis the XVIII, in his army on the right bank. In the discussions relative to this subject. Pichegru was called to Paris, named ambassador to Sweden, which he eluded and succeeded to the command of the army of the Rhine by Moreau. He abandoned himself to intrigue, he endeavored to taint the spirit of the frontier departments, as he had essayed to corrupt his army. always aided by the money he received from Wickham, always keeping up his correspondence with the Prince of Condé.

He advised Conde to break the armistice, of the 1st Prairial; at the same time, he recommended to the Austrians to attack the French at all points; hoping that such an event would restore him to the command of the army of the Rhine. and elevate him to a sort of dictator ; that it would enable him to make one explosion in that army, and another in the state.

Unfortunately for his designs, the army of Italy ran from victory to victory when the campaign of year 4, again opened on the Rhine. The example of this army had electrified all the others, that of the Sambre and Meuse, commanded by Jourdan, had replied to it at first, and took the lead in passing the Rhine. The 6th Messidor, the army of the Rhine, under Moreau passed it also. It is true he was, a short time after obliged to retreat, and Kehl was taken through the aid of hints given to the Austrian army, by the agents Pichegru had left about Moreau.

Pichegru being without command had himself named to the legislative body, as also a certain Colomes agent of Louis XVIII, at Lyons, "At this period," says the author of the pamphlet, the nation groaned under a crowd of revolutionary laws. The separation of the good and evil of the revolution, had not yet been made : to preserve all, was the cry of one faction, to destroy all was that of another. The Legislative body was divided like the nation. The directory composed of five members, was in the same situation. In this corps composed of heterogeneous materials, each member was astonished, was indignant at having the other by his side. Hatred, personal dislike irritated their spirits still more than difference of opinion. The press which had been thought free, and which was regarded as the palladium of public liberty, was an instrument in the hands of a foreigner, and served only to envenom these hatreds. In this period of agitation, when men were influenced by their passions more than their reason, Pichegru hoped to form a party in the body of the representatives of the people.

"We cannot forget the tempestuous and disorganizing motions which were every day brought forward. We recall
The conduct pursued by Pichegru, and the party for which he had declared.

While on one side the armies were called to the succour of the republic, on the other, Pichegru and his adherents would oppose to them the mass of citizens under the title of national guard, as if the armies, notwithstanding their proofs of devotion so often reiterated, were no longer a suitable national guard, since they had disappointed the general's hopes of becoming dictator. We recollect the efforts made at that time by the faction of Pichegru, to drain the public treasury, to overthrow every thing the government was pledged to support, and with them the government itself. We remember the clamour raised on a draft being made on the treasury, of the funds accruing from the contributions, levied in Italy, a draft destined to supply the wants of the army of the Rhine, then in a state of desperation. Such was then the confusion of ideas, the uncertainty of principles; such were the prejudices for or against individuals, that we beheld in our Councils, a great number of representatives, the most distinguished for wisdom, integrity, and religious attachment to their words, allowing themselves to be controlled by a small number of unworthy colleagues, who had a criminal understanding with the internal and external enemies of the republic.

At sight of the general confusion and danger that menaced the government, the hopes of foreign powers were revived, the conference opened at Montebello, between France and Austria languished. The couriers from Vienna stopped or brought only idle words. The peace seemed to fly. The armies beheld the fruits of their glorious victories vanish. All, even the army of the Rhine expressed their alarms, their indignation; the Directory menaced that it is about to perish; the revolution of the 18th Fructidor prepares itself--and, in the mean time, what does Moreau--Moreau who has in his hands proofs of the treason of Pichegru, the most influential and most dangerous of the legislative body, Moreau preserves silence! How shall we rank the man, who could prevent by a word, both the anxiety of the armies and those of the citizens, the Fructidor catastrophe, the revolution is produced, and the melancholy scenes that result. Yet is silent? What a weight should rest on that conscience of that man, who by sending to Paris the papers he retained, could have preserved so many victims and prevented so much evil.

The author of the pamphlet here, analyzes the excuses alleged by Moreau for his delay, and refutes his reproaches.

Nothing, says he, can here obscure the truth. It was the duty of Moreau, gen. of the army of the Rhine, to inform government without delay, of the existence of papers which accused of conspiracy his predecessors, because the chief of a faction. The pamphlet proceeds in a similar strain of invective and thus concludes.

All Europe knows the conduct observed by Pichegru at Bareuth, and in England, since his return from Guayana, and knows how he confirmed the proofs, that Moreau produced against him the 18th Fructidor. It is known by the whole world that it is in the pay of England; that it is with the gold and the dagger of England; that it is to serve England or the cause he has confounded with hers, that he has come to Paris.

If it be true, as every thing announces, as we must believe, after the report made to government by the grand judge, that Moreau has had particular intercourse with this declared enemy of his country, it must only be true that he has been accessory to this man, who concealed himself from all citizens, who could only have been conducted to Paris by the most criminal arts, the strongest presumptions result against Moreau, & the minds most favorably disposed are unable to defend him.

One of two things, either the accusation of Pichegru, made by Moreau, the 18th Fructidor, was made voluntarily and with sincerity, or it was constrained by circumstances.

In the first case, Moreau would have had a horror of the traitor who since the 18th Fructidor, had thrown off the mask, and whose presence in Paris must have a criminal object. Pichegru on his part, would see in Moreau, a base enemy, who had gratuitously accused him only for the pleasure of adding to the ignominy of a sentence already executed. Thus in this case an eternal obstacle, opposed the reconciliation of these men. It was impossible that they should inhabit the same city, that they could appear in each others presence except sword in hand, and to destroy life.

The re-union can only be explained by a new interest, a capital interest, an interest stronger than that of honor, in a word, by the interest which had brought Pichegru to Paris--a conspiracy to assassinate the chief of the state, and to subvert the republic.

If on the other hand, Moreau, on the 18th Fructidor, denounced Pichegru, to turn from himself suspicions which might destroy him, but could not save his friend, it follows, that from that period, he has held intelligence with him, and has been concerned in the conspiracies he has formed.

The pamphlet is published without the author's name, some idea of its nature and object may be formed from this specimen."