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sinated. ~No enemy of Napoleon, whose appearance 

 might produce popular sympathy, was ever indulged 

 with a trial. All were assassinated ; Villeneuve, 

 Wright, Toussaint, Pichegru, all perished by poison 

 or the dagger, in prison. The time was to come 

 when their murderer was to feel the miseries of a 

 prison, and to perish by a more painful death, em- 

 bittered by the consciousness that by his own guilt 

 he was undone ! 



