Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-05-25

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 NAPOLEON BY GERARD.
 right bank of the Rhine wero infested by them. Tho descendants of the Houses of Bourbon, of Orleans, of Condo, fit ted dimly in tho horizon. They had their following. Their secret friends Squatted in tho very shadow of the Tuil- cries. As for open war, they had had enough of that. Of secret intrigues and plots and crimes thoro was now no end.
 Tho conspiracy which exploded in tho Rue St Nicaise was only tho beginning If plots and plotting. It is in evidence that the agents of the British govern ment lont willing hand to the secret crimes that wpro to compass the de- struction of Bonaparte. On his side ! thCro was corresponding vigilance. It was equivalent tp death for any to lift tho hand against him. His immediate subordinatos were without exception loyal. But all tho disappointed, hover ing at n distance, sCowlCd at his rising l star.
 Among tIn plots of tho day that uf Gyur.rs Caduud3l, leader of the ChOuans of Brittany, was conspicuous. From be- ing an insur:,nt ill the Royalist revolt of i199, he had fed to England, where tho count of Artois. afterwards Charles | K. received him with open arms. In I 1903 ho made his way secretly to Paris. I There he cOnspirod with tho diEgracsd General Pichegru. NapoleOu's old mas ter in mathematics at Brienne, to de- 1 stroy tho life of the First Consul. The 1 plot Was discovered, Pichogru was seiz- | ed, imprisoned, and on tho 5th of April, | lS04, was stranSled in his cell Cadou- dal, trying to escape, killed two police men, but was ovormastered, condemned, and on the 2Jth of June, 1904, was gull lotined. General Moreau. the hero of Hohonlinden, who had become Royal ist, was accused of complicity in these schemes. Convicted of having knowl- edgo of the plot of Cadoudal, he was condemned to two years imprisonment; but Napoleon commuted the sentence into exile, and Moreau chose the United States as his refuge. After eight years, he entered tho service of Russia, and in 1913 was mortally wounded at the bat tic of Dresden.
 Tho result of these attempts was far | AL llllS llIll6 lLC llN ESpIO- l sCntatives of the demolished monarchy were tho count of Provence, afterwards Louis XVIII, who was at Warsaw; the count of ArtoiS, i'll London; tho young Orleans Philippe. afterwards the CiUi- zen King. in Switzerland; and the duke of Enghicn. descendant of the great Condo, at Ettenheim, in Baden. All of theso wero more or less implicated in tho plots against Napoleon. The duSt of Enghion ill particular Was believed tC be n fellow Conspirator of PicheSru and Cadoudal. Tho latter had been secretly visited in Paris by a mysterious person 1 age whom the passion of the hour de- slared to ba the Condo prince Notwith standing the fact that Baden was nsu' tral territory. body of Franoh soldiers was sent secretly to EttsnhsiIn; the cha teau was surrounded, and on the night of tho 18th of March, 1894, tho duo d'Enghien was seized in bed and hur' ried away to the fortress of Vincenncs. A court-martial under General Hull lin was immediately ordered, and with out witnesses or other legal proof. tho Duke was condemned to be shot. Or the morning of the 2lst of March. iuSi } before the day. he was Tod into the ditcl outside the wall, and thsra by th' ghaStly light of torches. vas shot dead | His body Was thrown, without removal of the bloody garments, into a pit thu , had been Gltggcd the dug befoyel Int , Consulate, as well as the Revolution which it succeeded. had 8 sword O sharpness for all it's enemies.
 The killing of Enghien created trs : mendous sensation throughout Europe Q Europe had not yet learned that tn blood of kings and princes is oven Q ' the blood of othor men.
 Certain it is that the death of Eng ghie,
 hastened the transformation of the Con 4 sulate into the Empire. The seat of tn e First Consul was already in everythin c but the name throne. Why not mak p it a throne in fact? The facility of tn
 French for change rendered easy tn
 project which the temper of heavit and moro serious race would have II 1. jected. Like the Athenian fancy, tn !. Parisian mind flies quickly to tho new - It hovers about the brilliant. the e1
 traordinary. It satisfies itself with glor
 and enthusiasm. All theso qualities i
 tho soul of the people worked tO the ai
 vantage and purpose of Bonaparto; el
 there was not wanting a measure Of oI
 position. Ths Napoleonio desire soc
 found expression. Petitions began to
 sent up from all parts If Franca The
 were couched in suggestive hints to tt
 First Consul that he should c0nsoIida
 his poGneT.
 On tho 18th of April. 1894. ths fir
 formal proposition for the conversion
 the Consular Republic into an Empi
 was made by Curee in the Tribunat
 The measure included the title of Er