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ANNUAL REGISTER, 18G4. 



Copy of the Requisition transmitted 

 by the French Minister for Fo- 

 reign Affairs to liar u a Edclsheim, 

 Minister of the Eleflor of Baden, 

 for the Purpose of arresting the 

 Duke JyEnghuien. — Signed, C. 

 M. Talleyrand, and dated at Pa- 

 ris , March 10, 1804. 



Sir, 

 I had formerly sent you a note, 

 the purport of which was to request 

 the arrest of the F'rench emigrants 

 •which met at Oficnbourg, as the first 

 consul, from the successive arrests 

 of the banditti which the English 

 goveinment has sent to France, and 

 from the result of the trials which 

 have been here instituted, has ob- 

 tained a complete knowledge of the 

 .extensive part which the English 

 agents at Oifenbourg have had in 

 those horrible plots which have been 

 devised against his own person and 

 against the safety of France. He 

 has at the same time learned that 

 the dntc d'Enghuien and general 

 Dumouriez were at Ettcnhcim. As 

 it is impossible that they should be 

 in that 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 

 give an asylum to the most deter- 

 mined enemies of France, and per- 

 mitthemso tranquilly to project such 

 \inpreccdented conspiracies. From 

 these extraordinary occurrences the 

 first consul has found it necessary 

 io order two small detachments 

 of troops to repair to Oifenbourg 

 and P'ttenhcim, to seize there the 

 authors of a crime, the nature of 

 which was such as to place those 

 who are proved to have had a share 

 in it oat of tHe protection of the 



law of nations. It is general Cau- 

 lincourt who is charged with th« 

 execution of those orders of the 

 first consid, and who there is no 

 doubt will employ every care and 

 attention in fulfilling the same, 

 which his electoral highness can 

 wish. He will have the honour to 

 deliver your excellency the letter I 

 have been directed to write you. 

 Accept, sir, the assurance of my 

 high consideration. 



Circular Letter of the French Mi- 

 nister of Foreign Affairs to tht 

 Foreign Ministeis resident at Pa- 

 ris. — Signed C. M. Talleyrand, and 

 dated at Paris, March 21, 1804. 



The first consul has ordered m« 

 to address to your excellency, a 

 copy of the report presented to him 

 by the grand judge on the incidental 

 conspiracy planned in France, by 

 Mr. Drake, minister of his Britan- 

 nic majesty at the court of Munich, 

 and which, as to its object and date, 

 was connected with the inf;iraous 

 plot that is now before the tribunals, 

 'i'hc printed copy of the letters and 

 authentic papers of Mr. Drake, is 

 annexed to the report. The origi, 

 nals will be immediately sent, by 

 order of the first consul, to his se- 

 rene highnetis the elector of Bava- 

 ria. — Such a prostitution of the 

 most honourable trust which could 

 be confided in man, .was unexam- 

 pled iu (he history of civilized na- 

 tions. It will astonish and aftli6t 

 Europe as an unheard of crime, 

 and which, until the present mo- 

 ment, the most perverse govern- 

 ment had not dared to attempt. 

 The first consul is too well acquaint- 

 ed with the sentiments aiul good 

 qvuilitics which distinguish the meni- 



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