1893.) 
from a love of theatricals, he would 
not be afraid for interests, of a much 
more importantikind,, Full of jhis first 
ideas, the. officer repaired to. Etten- 
heim from Strasbourg ;observed, ques- 
tioned,;,and. concluded from every 
thing that he saw; and from all that he 
heard, that. the confederacy of the 
Due d’Enghein with Georges was a 
fact sufficiently proved. 
The. prince. lived in the simplest 
manner possible; the emigrants, who 
were collected together in the envi- 
rons of Offenbourg, were in the habit 
of paying their respects to him; he 
received them at his table, and per- 
haps gaye them some pecuniary assis- 
tance; the exercise of hunting, a 
tender connexion with a French lady, 
who shared his .exile,—these were all 
his pleasures. If be went a-hunting, 
he passed several days in that diver- 
sion ;. a circumstance of easy belief, 
when one is attached to this kind of 
amusement, and is acquainted with 
the mountains of the Black Forest. 
But, the agent sent to reconnoitre 
viewed these things in quite another 
manner; he was incapable of compre- 
hending that the absence of the prince, 
when disengaged from hunting, was 
the consequence of his respect for the 
object of his affections. He hastened 
therefore to make out his report, and 
to repair. ‘to Paris. ‘The Duc 
D’Enghein leads (said he,) a myste- 
rious life ; he:receives a great number 
of emigrants, who come from. Offen- 
bourg to mect at his house; he is fre- 
quenily absent eight, ten, and twelve, 
days, without amy one being able to 
penetrate the secret: it must therefore 
be to Paris that he resorts.” 
The first inspector of gendarmerie 
received this report, and immediately 
carried it himself to the First Consul, 
instead of remitting it into the hands 
of M. Réal, who was entrusted with 
the affair. The latter also:set out for 
Malmaison shortly after: he was asked 
how, it) was possible that the police 
Should remain ignorant of what was 
passing at Ettenheim. “Lam waiting 
(said M. Réal,) the retarn of an officer 
of gendarmerie, wlio as, been. dis- 
patched to the spot, and authorised to 
report to me what is passing there.” 
“Herve is this report (replied the First 
Consul): it. is through him, and «by 
means of the )prefect of Strasbourg 
(M. Shée, uncle of the Duke of /Feltre; ) 
that [1 am just made acquainted with 
every: thing concerning the Due 
Catastrophe of the Duc d’ Enghein: 
427 
d@’Enghein; but this state of things 
shall not lastlong ; J have given orders 
to carry him off by force, with all bis 
papers: this exceeds pleasantry. It 
would be rather too absurd for the 
emigrants to be suffered to come from 
Ettenheim to organize a_ plot of 
assassination against, me, and. that 
they should think themselves in secu- 
rity because they are on a foreign 
territory.” 
Some officious advisers had made 
the following calculation to the First 
Consul, Sixty hours to come from 
Ettenheim to. Paris, passing by the 
ferry-boat of Rhinau; sixty hours. to 
return, making five days; and. five 
days to remain at Paris, making in all 
the ten days of absence of the officer 
of gendarmerie, and the ten or twelve 
days’ distance indicated from, one visit 
to the other by the agents of Georges. 
This calculation might easily have been 
refuted; for it would have required, to 
admit it, that the Due @Engheim 
should set out from Ettenheim almost 
as soon as he arrived there., But, 
when once prepossessed of an opinion, 
it is seldom that men, submit toa 
reasonable objection. It has, been 
since confirmed to me, that, immedi- 
ately after the departure of the officer 
of gendarmerie, the First Consul held 
a Privy Council; at the termination ef 
which the Minister. of. War. gave 
orders to the colonel of the; Horse 
Grenadiers to repair to Neuf-Brisach; 
to have an interview with, the gender- 
merie which would be. placed, at ‘his 
disposal; to take from, the garrison 
the number of men, that he might 
think necessary; to ._pass:the Rhine, 
and proceed rapidly to, Ettenheim; 
carry off the Duc, d’Enghein by main 
force, and send him, to Paris, together 
with all his papers. imagen 
A great value was attached to these 
papers, from the, xecollection of the 
transactions which had formerly taken 
place between the Prince de Condé, 
Pichegru, and seyeral officers of his 
army; and, as General, Moreau was 
implicated, in, that, affair, the, idea pre- 
sented itself, that the authors of the 
project. would. have endeavoured to 
recommence -by, Moreau, what,,had 
formerly been, attempted by Pichegru. 
Now, there were, not in that part,of 
the frontiers, less than, ten regiments 
of cuirassiers; and two regiments, of 
carabineers, which had served;in dhe 
Jast affair under Moreau, were also 
assembled there, 
The 
