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afcertained his non-emigration in the moft 
“convincing manner, Reflegnier gave an 
account ‘of the manner in which he had 
lived at Paris from day to day, of the 
“name he had affumed, of the drefs he had 
worn, of thie connexions ke had formed, 
“and of the diftrefs he had undergone. 
jury declared that | there were no grounds 
of accufation againft the witneffes ; and 
Reflegnier was erafed from the lift of emi- 
grants. 

THE PROBABLE CAUSE OF DUMOURIER’S 
TREACHERY. 
EVERY one is agreed as to DUMOU- 
RIER’S. treachery, but not as to the 
date of it: fome carry it as far back as 
the convention he entered into with the 
King of Pruffia, in the plains of Cham- 
paign ; others think that it did not begin 
tillthe time of his defeat at Nerwinde, a 
defeat generally difputed, and denied even 
by the German public papers, which 
afirm, that on that day not a foot of 
ground was loft on either fide. 
There exifts a third opinion lefs widely 
diffufed but far more probable. It is 
that of two general officers who hed fre- 
euent opportunities of teeing Dumou- 
RIER, and carefully ftudied his conduét. 
When the commander in chief arrived at 
Bruffels, there was not fufficient cafh in 
the military cheft to pay the troops their 
fubfiftence ; nothing remaining but the 
fam allowed him as fecret fervice money. 
He communicated his embarraflment to 
Malus, and Efpagnac: ‘‘ Do not be un- 
eafy,”” faid the latter; ‘ only give me 
half an hour, and you fhall have a fup- 
ply.” He went out, and half an hour 
atter returned with a hundred thoufand 
crowns. 
Shortly after, Malus and Efpagnac 
were taken into cuftody. This arbitrary 
aét, upon which he had not been con- 
fulted, added to his perfonal refentment 
againft Pache,. the minifter of war, who 
counteracted, he faid, all his operations, 
and to the attacks made upon him by the 
Jacobins after the fchifm took place be- 
tween the mountaineers and girondifis, de- 
termined him to act the complete traitor ; 
and to give up his army and all France to 
the coalefced powers, rather than to con- 
quer for the Jacobins. From that mo- 
ment he gave no more orders figned by his 
own hand, an adjutant general fent them 
in -his name without adding, according to 
cuftomary form, the words: a true copy. 
One of the two general officers, by whom 
thefe particulars are communicated, find- 
Original Anecdotes of the French Revolution. 
The_- 
[July 
ing himfelf in an unfavourable pofition, 
contulted him concerning the fteps it would 
¢ advifeable for him to take. Dumou- 
RIER contentented himfelf with returning 
this verbal anfwer : Do «whatever you think 
proger. ' 
DuMOURIER:- was at once, foldier, 
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general, commiffary, and above all defpot 
infhisarmy. ‘If a general does not do 
every thing,’ he ufed to fay, ‘© he does 
nothing.” “This ptinciple is in general 
true ; and has been juftiied by the fuc- 
ceffes of the French armies in Italy; but 
then it reauires generals lefs ready than ~ 
DuMounRIER to capitulate with circum- 
ftances, with the foreign enemy, and with 
that enemy which a man fometimes carries 
in his own bofom. 

D’ESTAING AND PEYROUSE. 
AMONG the victims facrificed to Ro- 
berfpierre, blind jealoufy and infatiable 
fury, was d°Eftaing, who fo often com- 
manded the French fleets and armies, 
and bled more than once in the fervice 
of his country. Bold, aétive, and enter- 
prizing, his name was equally famous is 
the two Indies, and in two fucceflive 
wars. , 
D’Eftaing was born of poor parents in a 
village of the department of Aveyron, that 
bears his name. According to feme, he 
was at an early age bound apprentice to a 
lockfmith, which others with a greater 
appearance of probability fay that he w&s 
bred to the fea. The father lived entirely 
unknown to the court, and had no means 
of exiftence but the preduce of a few acres 
of land, which correfponded ill with the 
grandeur of a fortified caftle, whofe archt- 
tecture befpoke the high fortunes of its 
former inhabitants. It appears that this 
man, as carelefs as the greater part of the 
ci-devant country gentlemen, did not know 
whether he was defcended or not of the 
great family of the d’Eftaings. - He was 
contented to vegetate in poverty, and his 
fon was the vitim of his apathy, till in 
one of the cellars of the Chateau, a ftrong 
box was difcovered full of old parchments, 
which had fuffered no injury from time, 
and which, by afcertaining the origin of 
the young failor, procured him his pro- 
motion to a rank worthy of his birth. 
“Colomb, the phyfician, was prefent at 
the opening of the box, and it is on this 
authority that this anecdore is given. 
D’Eftaing having once broken his _ 
parole, and once exchanged himfelf on his 
own-authority, while in India, during 
the war that began in 1756, was particu- 
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