STATE PAPERS. 



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under the shadow of a man who 

 ■was still protected by the remem- 

 brance of his service. I must add, 

 that tlie citizens need be under no 

 uneasiness. The greater part of 

 the briijands have been arrested ; the 

 rest have Ih^d, and are closely pin- 

 sued by the police. No suspicion 

 attaches to any class of citizens, or 

 to any branch of administration. I 

 shall not give any further details in 

 this report ; you have seen all the 

 papers ; you will, therefore, give 

 orders for their being laid before the 

 eyes of justice. — Signed by the grand 

 judge, minister of justice, 



Regnier. 

 Certified in due form, the secre- 

 tary of state, 



H. B. Maret. 



Fir<!f Report of the Grand Judge 

 Regnier to the First Consul, on 

 the alledged Conspiracies against 

 him, fomented bij the EnglLJi Am- 

 bassador at Munich. 



Citizen First Consul, 



I think it my duty to separate 

 from the information respcctiag the 

 rile conspiracy, which public justice 

 will shortly bring to public view and 

 punish, those pieces of additional 

 correspondence, which, in this great 

 afi'air, and, as far as concerns the 

 police, is but trifling ; but, in its 

 political point of view, seems to me 

 of a nature that cannot fail to open 

 the eyes of Europe to the despicable 

 character of the English niinistrj , 

 the meanness of its agents, and the 

 miserable expedients it has recourse 

 to for accomplishing its views, — An 

 English minister is accredited at a 

 court bordering on France : the 

 manners of the people attach dis. 

 tinctions and privilegesf to this place, 



* Those pieces which follow iu the original, it is impossible from their length 

 to jiiscrt here. 



plot, 



and not without reason. The resi- 

 dence of a forcigvi minister is every 

 M'hcre designed for the ascertaining 

 and maintaining those bonds of 

 friendship, confidence, and honour, 

 that unite states, and whose preser- 

 vation coiisEitutes the glory of a 

 government, and the happiness of 

 the people. — But these are not the 

 views of the diplomatic agent of the 

 British government. I shall lay be- 

 fore you, citizen consul, the direct 

 correspondence which Mr. Drake, 

 the English ambassador to the elec- 

 tor of Bavaria, has held for these 

 four months with agents sent, paid, 

 and employed by him in the heart 

 of the republic. This corresjM)n- 

 dencc consists often original letters, 

 written in his own hand.* — I shall 

 also lay before you the instructions 

 which that gentleman is charged to 

 distribute to his agents, and an 

 authentic account of the sums al- 

 ready paid, and of those promised, 

 as an encouragement and reward of 

 crimes, which the mildest laws every 

 where punish with death. It was 

 not as the representative of his So- 

 vereign that Mr. Drake came to 

 JNlunich, with the title of jilenipo- 

 tenfiary. This is merely his osten- 

 sible charnctcr, a pretence for send- 

 ing him: the genuine object of his 

 mission is to recruit for agents of 

 intrigue, revolt, and assassination : 

 to stir up a war of plunder and mur- 

 der against the French government, 

 and to wouuij the neutrality and the 

 dignity of the government where he 

 resides. — It is premised, though Mr. 

 Drake appears ostensibly as a ptib- 

 lic character, he is in reality (as his 

 private instructions prove) the secret 

 director of English machinations oa 

 the continent ; the sinews of which 

 are gold, corrOption, the foolish 

 hopes of those concerned in the 



