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be supplied, or the war and its mighty pro-
mise be abandoned; when it was seen that
the people must soon reflect upon those
mischiefs, and looking to the cause OF them,
would see only the Corsican; something,
Of course, was found necessary to be done
to agitate the minds of the nation, and give
new though it should be only temporary,
employment to their thoughts. The trial
and condemnation of the Duke D'Enghein,
Chat most barborous and bloody murler)
were there no other evidence, would OF IT.
self prove that they do not think there was
a conspiracy against his Corsican Maiesty's
life For if there were any substantial
grounds Of accusation, would they not have
brought them forward; instead of which,
his trial was such an insult to justice, such
farce upon law, that it would have been
more decent, and not less Becoming Of the
Corsican, to have acted like some Of the
Eastern despots, and without any trial at
all, had his head taken off with sword, iii
his presence. Another proof Of it is, that
just when the time OF trying the accused
coasplrators came on, he, all at once, of
his own will, like true democratic king
as he is, extinguished the trial by Jury
knowing, unquestionably, that he could
not substantiate his charges to the satlsfac-
ton offs many men as jury is composed
of. The domiliclary visits, the system of
terror, the system Of espionagt, the guards,
the watches, and the vigilance, with which
the jealous apprehensions of the despot and
his minions crush Paris, and indeed all
France, is proof that he fears not this or
that man, or set of men only, but the whole
people of France, who he is assured, pri-
vately, wish to bring him to the tribunal Of
public Justice. While he intrenches him.
self behind hosts of soldiers and hosts of
spies, he finds it expedient to amuse the
people with some new project of conquest,
some new gasconade, or some rev false.
hood. He therefore, with his well below
ed cousin and counsellor, Talleyrand, en-
ter into conspiracy against himself, and
makes England, and Moreau and Pichegru
parties to 1T.
These conjectures are not only strength.
ened, but in our minds proved BY circu-
larletter written by Talleyrand and address
ed to the members of the diplomatic corps
at Paris, accusing MIR. Drake, the British
Ambassador at Munich, of being implica-
ted in the pretended conspiracy. Perhaps
the vilainny, the cunning, the injustice and
the wickedness of that letter cannot be par
allelled by any thing on earth, but the mean
ness and dishonor Of the answers Of those
Ambassadors. In that letter. and those an
swers the Consul has contrived to record
the impotence and baseness of all the con.
tinental powers of Europe who had Am
bassadors at Paris. There g the pleniopo-
tentlaries of royal impotence stand once
moer black and smutt butts for the finger
of scorn to point at. For .welwould desire
no better assurance of salvation than that
those Ambassadors were, one and all assn
red that the charge contained in Talley-
rand's letter was untrue. We are tempted
upon this occasion to offer our readers a
glowing description of the prophetic Burke
in which lord Malmesbury, then British
ambassador begging peace at Paris, and the
other European Diplomatic Ministers at
the Metropolis of France, are pourtrayed
with more than the usual fervor and high
Pencilling of that extraordinary man. It APP
plies most completely to the crop of persons
now in that charcter at Paris.
g To those who do not love to contem-
plate the fall of human greatness, do not
know more Notifying spectacle, than to
see the assembled majesty of the crowned
heads OF Europe waiting as patient suitors
IN the anti-chamber of Regicidc. They
wait, it seems, until the sanguinary tyrant
Garnet shall have snorted away the fumes
of the indigested blood of his sovereign.