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services to the English govemmenf, 

 the enemy of the French people. — • 

 Srdly, ot having received and accre- 

 dited agents of the said government ; 

 of having procured for them the 

 means of maintaining an understand- 

 ing in France, and having conspired, 

 with them, against the internal and 

 external safety of the state. 4thly, 

 of having placed himself at the head 

 of an assemblage of French emi- 

 grants, and others in the pay of 

 England, formed in the countries 

 of Fribourg and Baden. 5thly, of 

 having maintained a correspondence 

 in the town of Strasburgh, tending 

 to stir up the neighbouring depart- 

 ments, for the purpose of effecting 

 there a diversion in favour of En- 

 gland. 6thly, of being one of the 

 favourers and accomplices of the 

 conspiracy planned by the English 

 against the life of the first consul, 

 and intending, in case of the success 

 of this conspiracy, to enter France 

 hostilely. 



Upon each of these charges the 

 court found the prisoner guilty, and 

 judgment was pronounced in the 

 following words. 



*' The special military commis- 



'' sion 



of the French emigrants who were assembled at OJenhurg, as the first Consul, 

 from successive arrests of the banditti which the English government has sent to 

 France, and from the result of the trials which have been instituted, has obtained a 

 complete knowledge of the extensive part which the English agents at OtFenburw 

 have had in those horrible plots which have been devised against bis own person, 

 and afrainst the saftty of P'rance. He was, at the same time, warned that the due 

 D'Enghieu, and general Dumourier, were at Ettenheim. As it is impossible that 

 they should be in tliat city without the permission of his electoral highness, the 

 first consul, therefore, could not see, without the deepest concern, that a prince, 

 whom he had distinguished by every mark of friendship, should iiive an asylum to 

 the most determined enemies of France, and permit them, so tranquilly, to project 

 such unprecedented conspiracies. From these extraordinary occurrencfis, the first 

 consul has found it necessary to order two small detachments of troops to repair to 

 Oft'enburg and Ettenheim, lo seize the authors ol'a crime, the nature of wliicli is such 

 fis to place those, who arc proved to have had a share in it, out of tlic j)rotection of 

 the law of nations. It is general Caulincourt who is charged with the execution of 

 these orders of the first consul, and who, there is no doubt, will employ every 

 care and attention in fulfilling the same, which his electoral highness can wish, lie 

 will have the honour to deliver the letter which 1 have been directed to write." 



to Paris, in consequence of orders 

 received by the telegraph, and was 

 ©bliged to continue the journey, a 

 distance of about 400 miles, with- 

 out the smallest intermission, es- 

 corted by relays of ge?is cfarmes. 

 At six o'clock in the morning of 

 the 20th, he arrived at Paris, and 

 was conducted, in the first instance, 

 to the Temple, as it were to wound 

 his feelings by the sight of a prison, 

 %vhere so many of the royal family 

 had suffered such atrocious cruel- 

 ties ; even there he was not permit- 

 ted to repose, but was hurried away 

 to the castle of Vincennes, where a 

 tribunal, under the appellation of a 

 special military commission, com- 

 posed of persons devoted to Bona- 

 parte, selected by his brother-in- 

 law, general Murat, governor of 

 Paris, had been convened. At 9 

 o'clock in the evening of the same 

 day, almost exhausted from want of 

 rest and nourishment, he was forced 

 to appear before his judges, who, 

 in the course of two hours, passed 

 upon him the sentence of death. 



He was accused, 1st, of having 

 borne arms against the French re- 

 public. Sndly, of having offered his 



