#^USod him to be secretly dispatched 

 hy a party of mamclukcs *. 



It is, morcoTcr, confidently pre- 

 tended, that he had previously been 

 put to the torture, ia hopes of ex- 

 torting from him the crimination of 

 general Morcau. 



Georges, and several of his ad- 

 herents, were publicly executed in 

 the Place de Greve. In their last 

 moments, as well as at their trials, 

 they conducted themselves m ith the 

 most heroic fortitude, and exemplary 

 resignation, such as could only be 

 inspired by a conscientious devotion 

 to the principles which they had 

 espoused. 



ia order, as it wcr«, to make a 

 deeper impression, and inflame the 

 public mind against England, and 

 consequently to weaken the indigna- 

 tion excited by the deaths of the 

 due d'Enghien, and of general Pi- 

 dicgru, together Avith the arresta- 

 tion of general Moreau, a second 

 report was published, on the 11th 

 of April, by the grand judge, " re- 

 " spccting the plots of the person 

 *' named Drake, minister of Eng- 

 *' land at Munich, and of the per- 

 *' son named Spencer Smith, minis- 

 " ter from England at Stutgard, 

 *' against France, and the person of 

 " the first consul," founded princi- 

 pally on the relation made by a per- 

 son of the name of Rosey, who re- 

 presents himself to have obtained an 

 interview with those gentlemen, un- 

 der the mask of being an agent of 

 the persons in correspondence with 

 Mr. Drake from France +. 



This measure was not, however, 

 sufficient to satisfy the inhabitants of 

 Paris; for, on the 14th of April, 

 general Murat, the commandant, 

 deemed it necessary to recommend, 



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in general orders to the aides de 



camp, officers, and non-commission- 

 ed officers of the garrison and na- 

 tional guard, to enlighten the citi- 

 zeas, on the false rumours propa- 

 gated by the disaffected — namely — 

 that the death of Pichegru was not 

 the effe<5t of suicide, and that num- 

 bers of prisoners were shot every 

 night : and to acquaint them, tha't 

 military, as well as civil, justice was 

 in no case exercised without public 

 forms ; and that not a single indivi- 

 dual had been condemned, by the 

 military tribunals, without his sen- 

 tence having been printed, and post- 

 ed up iranjediately ; that whatever 

 had been reported, relative to the 

 fafts of which the prisoners were ac- 

 cused, must be considered as false, 

 and that the subsequent arrests had 

 substantiated the guilt of general 

 Moreau, and that undeniable proofs 

 existed of every circumstance ad- 

 vanced by the grand judge. 



Nothing could be more auspici- 

 ous for Bonaparte's personal ambi- 

 tion than the present state of things. 

 All ranks of Frenchmen were more 

 than ever prostrate before hin, and 

 ready to anticipate his wishes by 

 the most abjeft submission. Had 

 his vanity and pi'esumption prompt- 

 ed him, in imitation of some of the 

 heroes of antiquity, to claim to be 

 recognised of divine origin, he would 

 probably have experienced no resist- 

 ance on the part of the nation. But 

 the crown of France was the object 

 to which he had long aspired. The 

 regrets of the people, for their an- 

 cient nronarchy, rendered, indeed, 

 any system of government approach- 

 ing to it, even in the person of Bo- 

 naparte, to a certain degree palata- 

 ble: and we find this prevailing sen- 



Vide State Papers, p. 638, 



t Vide State Paper?, p,622. 

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