356 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1800. 



In 1787, he was appointed se- 

 cond in command in the province 

 of Strasburg, and was continued in 

 it on the revolution taking place in 

 1 789 ; the following year the com- 

 mand-in-chief of that province as 

 well as of Alsace, Lorrain, and 

 Franche Comte devolved on him, 

 and he was afterwards nominated 

 general of one of the four armies 

 which composed the new military 

 establishment of France. The Me- 

 moirs, published by him at London, 

 in 17.97, and which, according to 

 M. Mallet du Pan's judgment of 

 them, are written with the simpli- 

 city of a soldier and the veracity of 

 a conscientious man, appear to give 

 a faithful account of the conduct he 

 adopted, and the difficult situation 

 in which he was placed by the 

 peculiar circumstances of the times, 

 it maysuffice to say, that in the midst 

 of disorder and confusion he main- 

 tained the strictest discipline in the 

 troops under his command, and was 

 universally respected by them. He 

 quelled in a signal manner an insur- 

 rection of the garrison and inhabi- 

 tants of Nancy, August, 1790, and 

 by his promptness on this occasion 

 disconcerted, or at least delayed.the 

 measures taken by the jacobins. 



Calm and moderate in the midst 

 of two enraged parties, who equally 

 sought his support, and only atten- 

 tive to the interests of his unfortu- 

 nate sovereign, he maintained him- 

 self by his own ability and strength 

 of mind in a post as dangerous as 

 difficult, in the sole hope of being 

 useful to his master, and adopting 

 the plan the latter proposed to him 

 in 1790, he in 179 1 proposed a 



retreat for the king in his own go- 

 vernment. Butfor this once, fortune 

 abandoned him, * and it is to be 

 regretted that she had not reserved 

 for this scheme the favours she had 

 so bountifully showered on him on 

 former occasions. 



From that period he participated 

 in the exile and misfortunes of the 

 other royalists, and faithful to those 

 principles of integrity which had 

 always influenced his conduct, he 

 remitted to the royal brothers of 

 Louis XVL the sum of 670,000 

 livres which he had received from 

 the king preparatory to his flight 

 from Paris. 



The consideration attached to his 

 services and to his devotion to the 

 cause of his king followed him 

 abroad and obtained for him the 

 offer of splendid terms from the 

 empress of Russia and Gustavus 11 L 

 king of Sweden, the ancient ally of 

 France, who at that time meditated 

 a descent on Normandy, and pro- 

 mised the command in it to M. de 

 Bouilli', but the desire of serving, 

 and if possible, of yet saving Louis 

 XVL induced him to reject all 

 motives of interest that interfered 

 with that pui'pose. 



In ]791> he joined the celebra- 

 ted conferences at Pilnitz, and fol- 

 lowed the emperor Leopold, by his 

 order, to Prague, there to concert 

 with the imperial generals and the 

 Prussian general prince Hohenlohe, 

 the military measures to be adopted 

 with respect to France; and the 

 king of Prussia, making, in 1792, 

 preparatives for war, sent for him 

 to Magdeburg, to concert the oper- 

 ations of the ensuing campaign. 



• We gave an .xtiact in our Register for 1791, fioiii M. de Bouille's Memoirs, 

 of hi.'! account of tlie king's journey from CLalons to Varcnnes, when his majesty 

 and the royal family left Paris to go to Montmedi, 



