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refted and brought to trial. The three principals, named 
Pleignier, Carbonneau, and Tolleron, were declared 
guilty of high-treafon, and condemned to fuffer death ac¬ 
cordingly ; feven were fentenced to tranfportation, and 
(even to folitary confinement for different periods, from 
five to ten years. This plot was connedted with that dif- 
covered at Lyons, and even reached BrulTels, which city 
was full of French refugees. Another revolt took place 
at Toulon, but was fuppreffed, though attended with the 
effufion of blood. Difturbances were continually break¬ 
ing out in fome parts of France, which, at one time, af- 
fumed fuch an alarming character, that the duke of Wel¬ 
lington was on the point of marching with his army to 
put it down. 
This fpirit of difcontent was augmented, in a great 
meafure, by the impolitic proceedings of the chamber of 
deputies ; and the king was at length advifed to clofe 
their fittings till the latter part of the year. So long, 
however, as thefe men continued to have any influence, 
profecutions, trials, and executions, were the order of 
the day in France. General Mouton Duvernet, who 
furrendered himfelf, was tried and condemned to death 
on the igth July, and fhoton the 27th. Five perfons w’ere 
executed at Montpelier, on the 22tl, for political offences, 
and great numbers were executed in other places. The 
prevotal court at Grenoble, which few would fufpeft of 
too much indulgence, recommended to the royal clemency 
eight individuals. This was not only withheld, but fome 
difapprobation manifefted to the members. For their 
own j unification, they gave publicity to the motives which 
guided them. It appears, the greater part of the delin¬ 
quents, for whom they invoked the king’s mercy, were 
youths under eighteen, and that none of them were taken 
in arms; but it did appearthat fome of them were pofleffors 
of national property, and they had declared their refolu- 
tion of defending it to the laft drop of their blood. A 
youth of eighteen, w ho had inherited, a.few months before, 
an eftate of 500,000 francs, being captured in the ranks 
of the infurgents, was tried and fhot. This refufal by 
Louis of an unanimous recommendation to mercy, will 
fliow the fpirit of the court at this time, or rather of the 
ultras by whom the unfortunate monarch was influenced. 
We now 7 proceed to the trials of the generals. 
General Debelle was tried and found guilty upon two 
charges; namely, for affuming, without authority, the 
command of the department of the Drome, and for car¬ 
rying arms againfl the king. Sentence of death, and de¬ 
gradation from the legion of honour, was pafli-d upon 
him by the court; who, however, recommended him to 
mercy. Lieutenant-general Travot was alfo condemned 
to death, at Rennes, for rebellion, and exciting fne citi¬ 
zens, to arm againfl the legitimate authority. The fentence 
of death on Debelle was commuted for ten years’ impri- 
l'onment; and he af terwards, at the interceliion of the duke 
d’Angouleme, received a free pardon from the king. The 
l'enterice on General Travot was annulled by the tribunal 
of revilion. The fentence of death pronounced againfl 
Col. Boyer, for his treafonable conduit at Guadeloupe 
was commuted to imprifonment for twenty years:—Ad¬ 
miral Linois was acquitted, and afterw’ards made a peer. 
General Bertrand, who is with Bonaparte at St. Helena, 
was tried by a council of war at Paris, and condemned to 
death. General Lefebvre-Defnouettes, another of the 
principal agents in the ufurpation of Bonaparte, was 
tried in his abfence as contumacious; and, being found 
guilty, fentenced to death. He is the fame perfon that was 
taken prifoner in the peninfula, and broke his parole in 
England. 
General Rigault and Captain Thomaffin were tried by 
the fecond council of war of the firft military divifion ; 
the former was abfent and contumacious, the latter ap¬ 
peared. They were charged with ufing the public funds 
at Epernay, for the purpofe of corrupting the troops and 
the inhabitants in favour of the return of Bonaparte. 
The total fum fo applied by them was ftated at 27,400 
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rancs. General Rigault was found guilty, and fentenced 
to death; Thomaflin was acquitted. 
Marfhal Gruyer w^s condemned to death by the council 
of war fitting at Strafburg; but his fentence has been com¬ 
muted to imprifonment for twenty years. 
General Chartrand was fhot at Lille, in purfuance of 
his fentence, for having joined Bonaparte. Among other 
charges, he was accufed of flopping the progrefs of the 
levies which were making in the fouth of France for the 
royal caufe; and of rallying the general officers and troops 
in favour of Bonaparte, to oppofethe duke of Angouleme, 
and to cut off his retreat. He was brought before the 
council of war on the 24th of December 181 5 ; condemned 
to death on the gth of May 1816, and fhot on the 22d. 
The trial of General Bonnaire, and Lieutenant Mieton, 
his aide-de-camp, for the murder of Colonel Gordon at 
Conde, terminated at half-paff eight o’clock on the 8th 
of May. The council of war then withdrew to deliberate 
upon the fentence, and continued flint up until nine 
o’clock the next morning, when they pronounced their 
judgment : Mieton was condemned to death, and Bon¬ 
naire to tranfportation. Soon after the battle of Water¬ 
loo, Gordon, who was in the fervice of the king of France, 
was fent to the garrifon of Conde, then in a flate of revolt, 
to fummon it to furrender. Bonnaire, the commander 
of the place, not only refilled to recognize the orders of 
his fovereign, but caufed Colonel Gordon to be put to 
death. 
But the moff interefting of all the trials for high treafon 
was that of General Drouet, who accompanied Bonaparte 
to Elba after the treaty of Fontainebleau, and afterwards 
returned with him to France. The trial took place on 
the 6th of April. Drouet’s cafe had many features of in- 
tereft attached to if. After the treaty of Fontainebleau, 
by which Bonaparte was made independent fovereign of 
Elba, Drouet, who had ferved him long in the capacity of 
aide-de-camp, accompanied him to that ifland, and re¬ 
nounced his rights of Frenchman. He was, confequently, 
in the full fenfe of the word, the fubjedt of Napoleon ; 
and, as fuch, was bound to obey his orders. Actuated 
by “ fidelity to his oaths and attachment to his fovereign,” 
he refufed many fplendid offers of advancement in France, 
to accompany the fallen fortunes of his mailer, though he 
afterwards difapproved of his condudl. He dated, that 
Napoleon appeared to have no intention of ever returning 
to France till his penfion was flopped, and he heard of 
the propofitions made at the Congrefs of Vienna regard¬ 
ing himfelf; that France was unhappy, and loudly called 
for the refloration of her former government. This de¬ 
cided Napoleon, and he informed Drouet of his intention 
to give himfelf again to the wilhes of the French people 
D rouet was thunder-ftruck at his refolution, and oppofed 
it with all his power, but in vain ; and he had only to 
perform the duty of his functions by attending his fove- 
reign. The march to Paris, and the triumph of the re¬ 
turning emperor, were defcribed in glowing colours by 
Drouet. He partook in all the dangers of the fucceeding 
events, and contributed with the army to the prefervation 
of Paris. He withdrew with the troops to the Loire; 
where, on the re-eflabliihment of the king’s government, he 
gave the flrfl example of fubmiffion to the king, and in¬ 
duced the corps he commanded, confuting of 16,000 men, 
to follow his example. Marfhal Macdonald (duke of 
Tarentum) gave on the trial the high elf teftimony of his 
exemplary conduit on that occafion. He was, notwith- 
ftanding, included in the ordonnance of profcription. 
On hearing this, he immediately repaired to Paris, where 
he furrendered himfelf, and demanded a trial. When 
the proceedings were concluded, the members of the 
council of war were divided in opinion, four for finding 
him guilty, and three for acquitting him ; but, the law 
requiring that no condemnation fliall take place except 
by a majority of at leaft five to two, he was acquitted. 
General Cambronne was likewife brought to trial, and 
acquitted on the fame principle as Drouet was. He 
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