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Foreign News
November 27, 1797
Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
What is this article about?
Private letters from France suspect War Minister Scherer of poisoning General Hoche following a quarrel, with Hoche accusing Scherer of surrounding him with spies. The report criticizes Hoche for atrocities in La Vendee and regrets he did not die publicly as a warning.
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According to private letters from France the suspicion of having poisoned General Hoche has fallen on Scherer, the War Minister, with whom Hoche has lately had a quarrel. In the letter written by the latter he charges Scherer with having surrounded him with spies; and it is known that the agents of the war minister are in general men whose characters will not exempt them from the suspicion of having effected the death of his enemy unfairly.
The death of such a man as Hoche is an event that must give satisfaction to every friend of humanity. To him is to be imputed all the dreadful butchery that took place in La Vendee, where every possible trespass against justice and feeling were perpetrated without remorse. It is only to be regretted that such a wretch should not have ended his life upon a public scaffold, that his death might have operated as some kind of warning to his fellow murderers.
[London Paper.]
The death of such a man as Hoche is an event that must give satisfaction to every friend of humanity. To him is to be imputed all the dreadful butchery that took place in La Vendee, where every possible trespass against justice and feeling were perpetrated without remorse. It is only to be regretted that such a wretch should not have ended his life upon a public scaffold, that his death might have operated as some kind of warning to his fellow murderers.
[London Paper.]
What sub-type of article is it?
Political
What keywords are associated?
Hoche Poisoning
Scherer Suspicion
France War Minister
La Vendee Atrocities
What entities or persons were involved?
General Hoche
Scherer
Where did it happen?
France
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
France
Key Persons
General Hoche
Scherer
Outcome
suspicion of poisoning leading to hoche's death
Event Details
Suspicion from private letters that War Minister Scherer poisoned General Hoche after a quarrel; Hoche accused Scherer of spies; agents' characters raise suspicions. Hoche blamed for butchery in La Vendee; death satisfies humanity's friends but regretted not on scaffold as warning.