376 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1804. 



indolent repose. The united ener- 

 gies of the three kingdoms m ere now 

 to be called into action, and he 

 hoped that Ireland would not be 

 the last to con(riI)nte her share, 

 assert her loyalty, and vindicate 

 her ancient fame." The noble earl's 

 speech was received with long-pro- 

 tracted poals of a])plausc. 



22d. Tills' morning, a fire broke 

 out in a court near the obelisk, in 

 St. George's fields, and a poor infirm 

 woman perished in the fianie«. 



24th. This night, afire broke out 

 in the upper part of the house of Mr. 

 Adams, of Charlotte-street, Blooms- 

 bury; -which consumed the same. 



25th. Thismorning, a stage erect- 

 ed across the passage of St. George's 

 dock, Liverpool, for the repairing 

 it, gave way, by which two work- 

 men were killed, and seven men and 

 iwo women dreadfully bruised. 



*29th.The restoration of his majes- 

 ty's health, may be said to be entire- 

 ly confirmed, by the discontinu- 

 ance of th-e otVicial bidUtins respcct- 

 ijig it: and in the happy termination 

 of his illness, the prayers of a duli- 

 ul and lo)al pe()pl(^ have been heard. 



DiKu. — 7th. At Littleton, near 

 Wells, Samuel Curtis, a^cd 107. 



APRIL. 



1st. Infelligiiicc was this day re- 

 ceived in London of the murder of 

 the duke D'Enghicn, (son of the 

 duke de Bourbon and grandson of 

 the prince of Conde), at Paris, by 

 order of that scourge of the human 

 race, Bonaparte. The particulars, 

 as well as they can be collected from 

 the most credible sources of infor- 

 mation, are as follow : 



On the 20th of March the Due 

 D'Enghien having been appreheaded; 



a special commission was formed by 

 general Murat, for the purpose of 

 bringing him to trial. The commis- 

 si. ni was opened at the castle of Vin- 

 ccnncs, and included six charges, viz. 

 1st, of having carried arms against 

 the F'rcnch republic; 2d, of having 

 offered his services to the English go- 

 vernment; 3d, of receiving,andhaving, 

 with accredited agCnts of that go- 

 vernment, procured means of ob- 

 taining intcllig.Micc in France, and 

 conspiring against the security of the 

 state; 4th, that he was at the head 

 of a body of French and other emi- 

 grants paid by Jingiand, formed on 

 the frontiers of France, in ihe dis- 

 tricts of Fribourg and Baden ; 6th, 

 of having attempted to foment in- 

 trigues at Stra.-burg, with the view 

 of creating a risina; in the adjacent 

 departments, for the purpose of o- 

 perating a divei-sion favourable to 

 England : and 6th, that he was con- 

 cerned an the conspiracy for the as- 

 sassination of the first consul. — The 

 prisoner was then introduced, and 

 interrogated as to his name, birth, 

 age, i&c. ; and was allowed to speak 

 in his defence. The members were 

 next asked if they had any thing to 

 say on the subject; when they all 

 answered in the negative, and the ac- 

 cused was conducted back to prison. 

 The court then deliberated for some 

 time M ith closed doors ; and the re- 

 sult was, that they unanimously 

 found the prisoner guilty of all the 

 charges. Sentence of death was 

 immediately passed on him, on the 

 ground of having acted as a spy, and 

 corresponding with the enemies of 

 the republic. The following are the 

 names of the commission, all of whom 

 arc chief officers: Guiton, Bazan- 

 court, Ravier, Barrois, Rabbe,d'Au- 

 tancourt, captain reporter; Molin, 

 captaiiL register ; aad Hulen, presi- 

 dent. 



