SeTVATTS EOP! A PERS: 
were to pafs, had: been duly re- 
ceived, and having no further pre- 
cautions to take, as the municipal 
adminiftrations were charged with 
quertering and providing for the 
troops, he yiclded to the defire of 
feeing his family, who refide at 
Chartres, and left the route of the 
divifion to take the fhorter one by 
Soiffons. 
_ * He further certifies, that nei- 
ther the General Richepaufe, nor 
any other fteff officer, gave him‘any 
ether marching order than’ the a- 
bove, the itinérary ‘of which was 
tranfmitted to’ him-at Durenne: 
=that, during the courfe of the 
march, he did not hear any of the 
troops {peak of their deftination; 
that he only heard, at Bonn and 
Durenne, perfons, who did not be- 
long to the army, fay that the divi- 
fion was to embark at Breft.’? 
' General Richepaufe ftates, on 
his part, that he received an order 
from General Hoche, dated Co- 
logne, the 15th Mefhidor, in the 
following terms’: 
“ Geneval . Richepaufe, com- 
manding the divifion ef horfe chaf- 
feurs, is hereby ordered to proceeds 
with the four regiments under his 
command, to Breft, by the way of 
Chartresiand Alencgon: 
(Signed) “ Hocne.” 
General Richepaufe. has ‘befides 
made the following declaration, 
which he fubicribed before the Di- 
rectory on the 22d of Thermidor: | 
“I certify, that it was in confe- 
quence of the order of the General 
in Chief, Hoche, dated the 15th 
Mefiidor, directing me to proceed 
_ with the four regiments under my 
command to Breft, by the way -of 
Chartres and Alengon, that I traced 
the route by which the divifion I 
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commanded was to proceed to’ 
Chartres; that I was totally igno- 
rant of the exiftence of any law- 
which required that the troops 
fhould not come within twelve 
leagues of Paris;—that I even was: 
inclined to havé made them pafs 
through Paris; and that the diffi- 
culty of maintaining order among 
troops quartered in a large city, was 
the only reafon which determined 
me not to adopt that route; that 
my intention was evidently pure ; 
for, if it had not, I would not have 
ordered a commiflary of war to have: 
preceded me, whowas fix days be- 
fore the van of the troops, which 
was the head of the column com- 
manded by me. , 
(Signed) “ RicwhEPAUSE.” 
Such is the information whicly 
the Directory has procured refpect- 
ing the marching order given to 
the four regiments of chaffeurs 
drawn from the army of the Sambre 
and Meufe, and which were to pafs 
by Ferte-Alais to Brett. 
While the Directory confine theif 
anf{wer to this point, they confider 
it neceflary to direct your attention 
to a ftatement which appears to 
have been contained in the report 
upon which your meflage was 
founded. 
. All the journals agree in ftating, 
that you were informed that arms 
and ammunition had recently been 
diftributed at Chartres to five huns 
dred rufiians, for the purpofe of fup- 
prefiing or of threatening the frees 
dom of the legiflative body. This 
{tatement is completely difproved 
by the municipality of the place: 
the age Sy of the municipa- 
lity has been addreffed to you; fo 
that you muft already be convinced 
that the enemies ‘of the country 
ee (have 
