The Sun.
London, England, 1805-07-25 00:00:00

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Ou k Reacless,.wedi,uht not, will be glad to see
anctther Extrii
.ft;om this I.Vc`irk, alter the:account
*4ich bUbinittVl 'to them of the dreadful condi-
tion of the Pc(Th.. 9f France, under the present ty-
rannoui seveiity of the Police of that. Country.—
The following Particular.; r'eTeCting the tinfurtuj.
nate GEoto,o; Picuicity, and .I.I.IouEALT, are in,

iltiAL OF CEOIIGES.

, . .
Georges and the individuals, tried with bins, were
pronounced Conspirators, and condemned before-
nand fiy the publication of the Grand. jUdge,
:Reg,-
nier, which was pasted up on every street-corner in
Paris, sold by the bill-deliverers of the Police, and
read with eagerness by ,the People. This Judge
seems to have been in close correspondence, during
the whole of the affair', with the infamons and Well-
known Malh'...e ; who, .under the mask of an accom-
pliee, aged as a spy on them.
This Mariec, Who 110 W rolls about Paris in a hand-
some carriage, no doubt inveigled .„..,ionse of these un-
fertunate men into the snare laid for them. The
real obje&, however, was to bring about the de-
struCtion of Moreau ; for without disgracing him,
Bonaparte could not attain the Imperial Dignity.
The sm;dl moving prisons, or cleSe vehicles for
moving suspe&ed and accused persons from place to
place, or carrying the guilty W the scaffold, called
Les Charettes Nutionaux, or NatiOnal Carts (which
' should now receive the-Imperial tide, as every thing
else has)—these impletuents of despotism,' which
roll generally during the night only; were, at the
time of the denouncement .of this pretended Con-
spiracy, seen in motion during the day also, in every
quarter of Paris. . .
The number of unfortunate and. of innocent per-
.
sous Who were,dragged from their beds at day-break
each Morning. (for .it is at that time the Agents of
the. Police make their visits) was very great. Every
prison and ProvisTen:d place of confinement was.
fillt.i,d with those. who were thus arrested ; whose
friends could not get access to. them, fora time at
le*, without. incurring the danger of being them-,
selves shut up in secret confinement on suspicion of
being accomplices with the suspected. In the same
manner are the People of Paris treated at the present
day,„ both natives and, foreigners ; but the number,
of sufferers is not se considerable.
' l'helarge reward, offered for the discovery of. Pi-.
. chegru induced a friend with whom he had taken
refnge, and inwhom he confided, to betray him. •
" Hunted like a wild beast, and concealing hitn.
self in ruins of battings, Georges still.- eluded dis,-
covery, during sortie days passed,, in eircunistanees.
very dreadful for a huthan being in the midst of a
crowded ..city of
,his countrymen. The friends or
connexions of the accused or suspected were confined
in secret, some of them till after the trial and execu-
tion. ,But the people were.only interested about the
probable 'fate of Moreau, pronounced a conspirator
in the official publications o the Grand Judge.
Nobody ever suspected that Pichegru , strangled
himself. The account of his death, given by the
' Police or the Government, was ridiculed ; - nor did
what was called the exposure of the body, in an
,apartMent of the Palace of Justice, remove the ge-
neral opinion as to the manner of his fate. in a re-
' tired room, surrounded by sentinels, something like
the form of a human corpse, decapitated and sewed
up in a sack, was deposited, and in tins state was
accessible to the public view during several hours.
No part of what the sack contained was to be seen,
but there was the appearance of blood through it.
Yet, " the exposure to public inspedion," said the
Government, " of the self-strangled body' of Piche-
gru, took place in an apartment of the Palace of.
Justice:" and the people found nothing incorreCl in
the wording of this account of the proceedings of
the Judges, Police Surgeons, and Gaolors.
A common engraving was published for the
amusement or instruaion of the people, represent-
ing the. deceased General in the. nEt of tightening
the handkerchief about his neck, by twisting round
.at loop of it With a stick. If this print was order-
ed by the Police or the Government (and without
such order or p;,rr fission. no person would . have
dared to produce one on the subject), their artist
was badly chosen, or betrayed them. For Pichegru
is drawn standing upright in an attitude of apparent
case, while sufibeating and deliberately killinghim.!
self hy appearing to Work With great composure the
lever tbrmed by the stick to stop his own breath.
One reason for strangling Piebegru in ' prison.
(which Bonaparte effeaed by his marodokes) was
not immediately known. That his account of the
atliiir would halve served to thwart the Consul's de-
sign upon Moreau; who
was to have been the prin-
cipal vielim, as he was the man ,esteemed and WOlt-
ed to by the people, was easily percei.k
k.A. }ant that
the unfortuhate Pichegru had been tortured during
his examinations, to extOrt eonfeision, or force bins
to accuse and implicate Moreau,. Was not linovs-n till
,ficp,vards ; this explained why the body said to be
exposed to public view was caret-idly covered, and
sewed up in cloth . . ''' •
Every possible nuns were employed, during the
preparations for. the trial„ to intl.-deuce the public
' ' mind against the prisoners : beside, the printed eon-
, denmation of them,, under die authority of, and
signed by the Mieister of Justice.
The Const!rvative Senate,' the Legislative Body,
and the Tribunate, were never in want of emplo—
ment in this brisy interval of addresses and congra-
tulations ; and Bonaparte's intentions of 'slaking
himself Emperor became more cvident and declarl
ed. Rut his impatience rose when one of thew l:',o.
dies only expressed in a vague manner their desire
and opinion for a more distils& and stable form of
tenure for the person posscs;:ing the chief executive
power iti Franco. tie sent them back to re-eonsider
their Address, which was not cootie-suable to the
private instruCtions 'which the leaders had received ;
and &sired them to declare and insert all their
thoughts, till he brought theirs to his post'
Detained in secret till Bottaparte had been formal-
ly declared Emperor, the Couosel employed on be.
balf of nnny el the accused could ;ICA get acceSs .to
their clients ; and even .t,cene days after .the pro.
c,'Ltdino''s on tilLt' final were commenced, several of
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