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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1804. 



Pichegru, went privately from Paris 

 to London, returned to Paris, car- 

 ried to Pichegru the ideas of gene- 

 ral ]\loreau — carried bark to Mo. 

 rcau the ideas and designs of 

 Pichegru and hi& associates ; the 

 brigands of Georges were preparing, 

 even in Paris, every thing that was 

 necessary for the execution of their 

 common designs. A place was as. 

 signed between Dieppe and Treport, 

 at a distance from molestation or the 

 eye of vigilance, where the brigands 

 of England, brought over in Eng. 

 lish ships, landed without being 

 observed, and where they found 

 corrupted men to receive them — 

 men paid to conduct them during 

 the night from fixed stations, prc- 

 ■viously agreed on, and thus to 

 convey them to Paris. — At Paris 

 lurking places were procured for 

 them in houses hired before-haud, 

 where they had confidants to pre 

 te6t them : they had some of these 

 in different quarters and streets at 

 Chaillot, in the Rue de Bacq, in 

 the Fauxbourg St. Marceau, in the 

 Marais. A first debarkation was 

 effected, consisting of Georges him- 

 self, and eight of his brigands, 

 Georges returned to the coast to 

 assist at the landing of Coster St. 

 Victor, condemned by a sentence 

 passed in the affair of Nivosc 3, and 

 of ten other brigands. In the com- 

 mencement of the present month a 

 third landing was effected, it con- 

 sisted of Pichegru, Lajoliais, Ar- 

 mand, Gaillard, brother of Raould, 

 John Marie, one of the first confi- 

 dants of Georges, and some other 

 brigands of the san^e stamp. Georges 

 with Joyau, called d'Assar, Saint 

 Vincent and Picot, went to receive 

 this third debarkation : the whole 

 assembled at the farm dc la Poterie. 

 A fourth landing was expected ; the 



vessels were in sight, but contrary 

 winds prevented them from ap- 

 proaching : a few days ago they 

 were still making signals. Georges 

 and Pichegru arrived at Paris, where 

 they lodged in the same house sur- 

 rounded by about thirty brigands, 

 under the command of Georges ; an 

 interview took place between them 

 and JNIoreau : the place, the day, 

 and the hour, were the first con- 

 ference was held, are known — a 

 second was agreed on, but did nol. 

 take place ; a third and a fourth 

 took place, even in the house ol 

 general JNIoreau. The presence ol 

 Georges and Pichegru at Paris, 

 these conferences with gcnferal Mo- 

 reau, are confirmed by incontesta- 

 ble and numerous proofs. Georges 

 and Pichegreu have been traced 

 from house to house. Search has 

 also been made for those who assisted 

 at their landing ; those who, under 

 the cloud, conducted them from 

 post to post ; those who gave them 

 an asylum at Paris: their confidants 

 and accomplices. Lajoliais, their 

 principal agent, and general Mo- 

 rcau, are arrested ; the effects and 

 papers of Pichegru have been seized, 

 and the police is employing the 

 greatest activity to find him. Eng- 

 land wishes to overthrow our go- 

 vernmcnt, and by this overthrow 

 to eflect the ruin of France, to de- 

 liver it up to ages of civil war and 

 confusion. But to overturn a go- 

 vernment, maintained by the afiec. 

 tion of thirty million of citizens, 

 and surrounded by a brave, power- 

 ful, and faithful army, was a task, 

 not only superior to the strength of 

 England, but of all Europe. Eng- 

 land, therefore, had no hopes of 

 accomplishing her design, but by 

 the assassination of the first consul, 

 and by covering this assassination 



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