The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-06-06

right hand cut off before he loses his
Life, his corpse is to be buried on the
spot where he committed the crime,
and over his grave is to be fixed a
gibbet, with his name and the ma
ture Of his guilt. In certain cases,
even the tortures which during the
reign of Louis XVI were laid aside
and prescribed, are again to be in
Toduced; and for conspirators,
when the death of the Chief Maeis-
trate is plotted, the criminal is to be
broken upon the wheel.
The London Star of the 18th of
April, says, The murder of the
Duke d'Enghien by the French ty-
rant must excite the general indig-
nation of Europe. A private letter
received by the mail of yesterday
from Hamburg says, the news OF
this atrocious deed excited there, "a
meng people Of every opinion in po-
lsstss q sensation of indignation and
fhossSs which no language can de
scribe. &C The indecent haste (says
the writer) with which the sentence
was executed, is of itself, in the
minds of all reasonable people, a
sufficient proof that it was unjust.
Not to mention the violation of the
rights Of a neutral territory, it is su{-
ficiently clear, that the French Go
vernment having Hong ago deprived
the whole family of their Sovereign
of the rights of Citizens, no indivi-
dual of that family can be conden-
ned by law, which is posterior to
this deprivation, and made against
French citizehs alone. BY the same
rule they could and ought to shoot e.
very Englishman or person of any O.
ther nation whatever, whom they
took in arms against France, or who
even, at any time in his life, had G.
yer been concerned in the formation
or execution of any plan whatever,
of the nature of those mentioned in
the act OF accusation against the
Duke: they might as Justly require
all foreign powers to deliver up to
them all Englishmen, now residing
in their territory, who are or ever
have been agents of the English Co.
vernment, or have borne arms against
France, or might even send troops,
as many as they should think neces-
sary to arrest all such persons, and
conduct them to Paris 70 be muir
ldered, after mock trial Of few
hours. The proceeding, with re-
|gard to the Prince, as impolitic as it
lis unjust, is TO be regarded as an G.
bullition of the savage rage ofslaves,
who have taken the places Of their
Masters of men, disappointed in
the effect oftheir gasconading threats,
and Selling the first opportunity of
satiating with security the transports
of their impotent fury. Not any
part the prince may or may not have
had in the conspiracy (if ever it ex-
isted), but the rage of Bonaparte at
seeing all his threats against England
despised, his Wanted preparations
useless, and himself in the disagree
able alternative of suffering the coli
tempt of Europe, or undertaking the
exPedition which he now sees must
fall, has brought the Prince to this
untimely death"
| Another letter, received by a Com
mercial house in the city, desires
them not to ship some coffee that
had been ordered for Danish port,
asst wasvcry generally believed, that
In a few days French force would
OCCUPY Tonningen, and all the other
Danish ports in that neighbourhood!
A London paper remarks, that the
French papers are filed with address
es from all quarters, from even the
Clergy, on the escape of the First
Consul. We shall rot be surprised