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ANNUAL UEGISTER, 1804. 



was also arrested here about mid- 

 day, general Desnoyes, Avho had pre- 

 sided three years ago in the council 

 of war, which acquitted the accom- 

 plices of Pichegru. Madame La- 

 johiis, the brother of the ex-general 

 Lajolais, Domonges and his wife, 

 have been conducted to Paris under 

 the escort of the gendarmerie. The 

 most conspicuous person arrested on 

 this occasion is the duke d'Enghuien, 

 son of the duke of Bourbon, and 

 grandson of the prince of Condc. 



OJfidal Report of the Trial of the 

 Duke d'Enghuien^ at Vincennes, 

 Paris, March 24, 1805. 



Special military commission con- 

 stituted in the first military division, 

 in virtue of a decree of the govern- 

 ment, dated the 29th Ventose (20th 

 of" March) in the year twelve of 

 the republic, one and indivisible. 



Judgment. — In the name of the 

 French republic, this 30th Ventose 

 (March 21) in the 12th year of the 

 roi)ublic. — The military and special 

 commission formed in the first mili- 

 tary division, in virtue of a decree of 

 the government, dated the 29th 

 20), composed, 

 law of the r9th 

 6), in the 



Ventose (March 

 agreeably to the 

 Fructidor, (Sept, 



year 



five, of seven members, consisting of 

 citizens Hulen, gen. of brigade, 

 Guiton, col. com., Bazancourt, col. 

 «om., Ravier, col. com., Barrois, 

 col. com., Rabbe, col. com., d'Au- 

 tancourt, capt. Major, Molin, capt. 

 — Tbe whole of these were named 

 by Murat, the general in chief, go- 

 vernor of Paris, and commander of 

 the first military division. The said 

 president, members reporting, capt. 

 and register, neither being relations 

 nor persons connected within the 

 degrees of aflinity prohibited by the 



law, met according to appointment. 

 By the orders of the general in 

 chief, governor of Paris, the com- 

 mission was opened at the castle of 

 Vincenncs, in the house of the com- 

 mander of the place, for the purpose 

 of proceeding in the trial of Louis 

 Antoine Henry de Bourbon, duke 

 d'Enghuien, born at Chantilly the 

 2d day of August, 1772; of light 

 hair and eye-brows, black eyes, 

 small mouth, acjueline nose, and of 

 a handsome figure. The accusa- 

 tions against him included six 

 charges ; which six charges were as 

 follows: — He was accused, First: 

 of having carried arms against the 

 French republic. Second: of hav- 

 ing offered his services to the Eng- 

 lish government, the enemy of the 

 French people. Third: of receiv- 

 ing and having, with accredited 

 agents of that government, pro- 

 cured means of obtaining intelli- 

 gence in France, and conspiring 

 against the internal and external se- 

 curity of thj state. Fourth; that he 

 was at the head of a body of French 

 and other emigrants, paid by Eng- 

 land, formed on the frontiers of 

 France, in the districts of Fribourg 

 and Baden. Fifth : of having at- 

 tempted to foment intrigues at Stras- 

 burgh, with a view of producing a 

 rising in the adjacent departments, 

 for the purpose of operating a di- 

 version favourable to England. 

 Sixth : that he was one of those 

 concerned in the conspiracy planned 

 by the English for the assassination 

 of the first consul, and intending, in 

 case of the success of that plot, to 

 return to France. The commission 

 being opened, the president ordered 

 the officer appointed to conduct the 



accusation, to read all the papers 

 which went either to the crimina- 

 tion or the acquittal of the prisoner. 

 After the reading of these papers 



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