1823.] 
casernes, and their respective canton- 
ments. As to myself, I againretumed 
to Paris. _ I had, just approached the 
barrier when I met. M. Réal, who was 
proceeding towards Vincennes in the 
costume of Counsellor of State. I 
stopped him, to inquire whither he was 
going? “To Vincennes,” replied he; 
“T received Jast night an order from 
the First Consul to procced thither in 
ore Yb interrogate the Duc d’Eng- 
hien.” - I then related to him the me- 
lancholy event of the morning, and he 
appeared to me as astonished at what 
I told him as I was confounded at the 
orders which he had received. I then 
began to reflect on the whole of this 
mysterious. affair; the rencouxter with 
Talleyrand, the Minister of Foreign 
Affairs, at the hotel of General Murat, 
immediateiy, recurred to me; and [I 
began, for the first time, to doubt, whe- 
ther the death of the Duc d’Enghien 
was the work of the First Consul. M. 
Réal returned back to Paris; and I 
went direct to Malmaison, to render 
anaccount to the First Consul of what 
I had seen: I arrived at cleven 
o'clock. 
The First Consul could not con- 
ceive how the Commission could have 
caused sentence to be executed upon 
the Duke before the arrival of the 
Counsellor Réal; he regarded me with 
the eyes of a lynx, and then repeated 
the following .memorable words :— 
“There is in this affair something which 
I cannotcomprehend. That the Com- 
mission should have pronounced sen- 
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433 
tence on the confession of the Duc 
d’Enghien ‘does not-so much surprise 
me; but it appears certain; that they 
received this confession only at the 
commencement of the trial, and sen- 
tence ought not to have been passed 
until after M. Réai-had interrogated 
him on a point which it was important 
for me to have cleared up.” And he 
again repeated,—* There is in all this 
something which I am unable to 
fathom; here is a crime perpetrated 
which leads to nothing, and which 
will tend only to render me odious in 
the eyes of all Europe !” ; 
*,* General Hullin, president of the 
Council of War, has since published a Nar- 
rative of his knowledge of the affair. He 
describes the hurried manner in which he 
and his brother officers were made par- 
ties, and alleges, that the pertinacity of 
the prince led to his conviction, that the 
court referred the sentence to Napoleon, 
and that he and his brother officers were 
overwhelmed with horror on hearing the 
execution, even while they were leaving 
the castle. Inshort, he points at Savary as 
the contriver of the whole. At any rate, 
the culpability seems to le between 
Marat, Governor of Paris, Savary, and 
TYalleyrand; and the two last under. the 
Bourbons are recriminating on one ano- 
ther. In our next, we hope to. obtain 
Talleyrand’s replication. ‘The discussion 
proves, by every circumstance, that the 
First Consul was no party ; and that some 
crooked policy, or a hope of gratifying 
him, led to the sudden catastrophe. 
Legitimacy has however taken vengeance 
in the recent murder of Riego, which does 
not admit of similar exculpation. 
STEPHENSIANA. 
NO. 
XXIV. 
The late ALUXANDER STEPHENS, Esq. of Park House, Chelsea, devoted an uctive and 
well-spent life in collecting Anecdotes of his contemporaries, and generally entered ina 
book the collections of the passing day ;-#these collections we have purchased, and spropuse to 
present a selection from them to our readers. 
As Editor of the Annual Obituary, 
and many 
other biographical works, the Author may probubly have incorporated some of these scraps’; 
but the greater part ave unpublished, and stand alone as cabinet-pictures of men and 
manners, worthy of a place in a literary miscellany, 
— 
ry BONAPARTE. 
HE Bishops of France feltit their 
A. duty to conscerate, ina secular 
and solemh manner, the 1th of Au- 
gust, —a day remarkable for being the 
birth-day of the Emperor Napoleon, 
for being that of his nomination to the 
consulship for life, for being that of the 
signature of the Concordat, and that 
distinguished in the church as being 
Monrity Mac, No. 300. 
the day of the Assumption ‘of the 
Blessed Virgin Mary. 
The following is an extract from the 
mandate issued’ by the Bishop of 
Quimper upon this occasion :—‘* God 
said to the revolution, as he formerly 
did to the ‘sea, Usque hue venies; con- 
Jringes tumentes fluctos tus. He spoke, 
and we immediately saw both’ the 
blasphemy which accused bis power, 
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