Jenks' Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1803-1805, 1804-06-04
FOREIGN AFF4IRS.
(cy al arrival at Ncwyork, fron, Liverpool)
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The execution of the Duke of Enghien was a:
prisate, and as tutiious concealed, as his con
demnaron was publiihed with eclat. For TWEEN.
ty-four hours fer his murder, petitions for hin,
were prefentcd by the Duke De Liancourt, and
fevcial other of his friends, though the means Of
Madame Bobaparte as the Firlt Contul rcfdes
at Malnaiton, where he is vifiible to none but
his Minfter, favourites and relatives. Even i'll
the Senate, on the 22d, it was propoied by Lar
jaunais to adviie the Fir!t Conful to pardon the
Duke 1t is lait at Paris, that this tenator point
cd out in arong language the dangr of accoftom-
ing Bonapartc to blood in civil canies; and laid
among other things, " that Nero wepr at one
time when he was forced to fign his name to q
death warrant; but, at another time, accuitom-
ed to the fight Of blood, by the advice of depra-
we'd confelors, he murdered his own mother and
brother, tutor, his fenators, maifters, gene ais
and all claiies of Roman citizens, with the fame
indifference as he faw Rome burning"
Bonaparte deiires general Mortier to be the
preGdent of the military commilion which con
demned the Duke but the declined it, General
Hulin was then appointed, notorious ince July
,Ath, 78o, in all the dreadful cataitrophes o.
the Revolution. After fcntence was pailed
the Duke aiked, if he could fee Bonaparte
Yes fad Hulin, +" if you have any difcover-
les to make" /" Difcoveries aniwered the Dake
with indignation s" carry me to the place of ex-
ecution,"" That cannot be done," iaid Hulin
s before we have reported our lentence to the
frif conful" /" knew the fentence," anfwered
the Duke, before, againit the laws Of nations
he carried me away from Ettenheim."
From the time Of the. Dukes arrelf, he had
never once been permitted to lay down on bed
to undrels, to have, or to change his linen, and
his feet were 70 fwollen from fatigue that he
could hardly ftand. In the dungeon at Vincen-
mes, where he was fhut up, with four gen'd ar
mes, for the fourteen hours he lived after his
condemnation, there was neither bed nor chair.
There was fome Rraw, where he fat down, but
he was prevented from moments reit, by the
Doifc and quefiions of theis facilities, who had
orders to prevent his lumber. A clergyman
was with him, for an hour, but was not permit.
ted to fpeak with him, except 70 loud as to be
heard by the guards
In the morning, before day light, on the 22d
General Murat arrived at Vicennes, sfcorted BY
by fifty mamelukes, and accompanied with -four
did-de-camps, and generals Mortier, Hulin, &
Louis Bonaparte, who had come on purpo1t
from the coat. Each mameluke held fam
beaux, and 2oc gems d'armes and 900 of the
Italian troops furrounded the cattle, prevented
the. approach of every one, and guarded all the
avenues to that part of the wood about hundreo
yards diftant from the cattle, fixed for the place
Of execution. The duke being told that his fen
tence was to be executed, faid, calmly, " / an
ready and reGgned." When he heard, upon en-
qui.y that the grcnadiers who lhould ihoot him
were Italians Of Bonaparte's guard, he faid
vi hoo re I m
condcmnedby foreigner, and, God be praiied
that my cxecutioners are foreigners too. 1t will
be Rain lefs upon my countrymen." Upon the
place of execution, he hzed his hands towards
Heaven, and faid, May God prelerve my King,
aud deliver my Country from its foreign yoke"
Two geps d'armes then wanted to tie an
handkerchief over his eyes but he faid -" A
loyal folder, who has 70 often been expoled to
Ere and fword, can fee the approach of death
with naked eyes and without fear" Hishat was
then taken Of. But in looking at the grenadiers,
who had already pointed their fuGs at him, he
laid, in Italian. +" Grenadiers, lower your arms,
otherwiie you will mifs me, or only wound me"
Of the nine grenadiers who fired at him, feven
bit him fcycn bullets pierced his body. Imme-
diately after his murder General Murat fent his
aid-de-camp to Malmaifon. A fmall coffin, FL
led with lime, was ready to receive his body, &
grave had been dug in the garden Of the cattle.
where he was buried.
The crimes Of the merchants at Lcghorn, &C.
noa, Cvita, Vccchia, Ancone, & other fea-port.
on the Mediterranean or Ariatic fea, who have
lately been tried by French military commiflions
and ihct as fpies, were, that they had bought
up and furniihed the Engliih cruizers with pro.
viEons.
new comet has been dfcovered by Jean
Louis Pons, at the observatory at Marfe;lles. I,
is viGbls to the hacked eye
APRIL IS.
Circular letter adarl9Ed 10 all THE msmtsrs q
the dip5matic body
SIR, PARIS MARCH "a.
The frn Conful has ordered me to tranf-