Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-06-28

right bank Of the Rhine were infested
by them. The descendants Of the Houses
of Bourbon, Of Orleans, of Condo, fit
ted dimly in the horizon. They had
their following. ;. Their secret friends
squatted III the very shadow of the Tuil-
cries. AS for open war, they had had
enough of that. OF secret intrigues and
plots and crimes there was now no end.
The conspiracy which exploded in the
Rue st. Nicaise was only the beginning
Of plots and plotting. 1t is in evidence
that the agents of the British govern
ment lent a5willing hand to the secret
crimes that were to compass the de-
struotion Of Bonaparte. On his side
there was corresponding vigilance. 1t
was equivalent to death for any to lift
the hand against him. His immediate
subordinates were without exception
loyal. But all the disappointed, hover
ing at distance, scowled at his rising
star. y
Among the plots of the day that Of
Georges Cadoudal, leader of the Chouans
of Brittany, was conspicuous. From be-
ing an insurgent in the Royalist revolt
Of 1899, The had fed to England. where
the count of Artois, afterwards Charles
X, received him with open arms. In
1903 he made his way secretly to Paris.
There he conspired with the disgraced
General Pichegru, Napoleon's old mas
ter in mathematics at Brienne, to de-
stroy thelife Of the First Consul. The
plot was discovered, Piohegru was seiz-
ed, imprisoned, and on the 9Th of April,
1904, was strangled in his cell. .Cadou-
dial, trying to escape, killed two police
men, but was overmastered, condemned,
and on the 25th Of June, 1904, was gull
lotined. General Moreau, the hero Of
Hohenlinden. who had become Royal
list, was accused of completely in these
schemes Convicted of having knowl-
edge of the plot Of Cadoudal, he was
condemned to two years imprisonment;
but Napoleon committed the sentence
into exile, and MORGAN chose the United
States as his refuge. After eight years,
he entered the service of Russia, and in
1918 was slnortally wounded at the bat
tie of Dresden.
The result Of these attempts was far
reaching At this time the living repre-
sentatiyes Of the demolished monarchy
were the count Of Provence, afterwards
Louis XVIII, who was at Warsaw; the
count of Artois, in London; the young
Orleans Philippe, afterwards the Citi-
zen King, in Switzerland; and the duke
of Enghien, descendant of the great
!, Condo, at ,Ettenhein,, in Baden. All Of
these were more or less implicated in
the plots against Napoleon. The duke
of Enghien in particular was believed to
be fellow. conspirator of Pichegru and
Cadoudal. The latter had been secretly
I visited in Paris by q mysterious person.
age whom the passion Of the hour de-
clared to be the Condo prince. Notwith-
standing the fact that Baden was neu-
trail territory, d body Of French soldiers
was sent secretly to Ettenheim; the cha
TEAM was surrounded, and on the night
81 the 18th OF \ March, 1904, the duo
d'Enghien was seized in bed and hur-
ried away to the fortress Of Vincennes.
"A oourt-martial under General Hull
4 lin was Immediately ordered, and with
out witnesses or other legal proof, the
Duke was cond emned to be shot. On
the morning Of the 2lst Of March, just
before the day, he was led into the ditch
outside the wall, and. there, by the
CHASTITY light Of torches, was shot dead.
His body was thrown, without removal
OF the bloody garments, into pit that
Had been dtgged the day before! The
Consulate; as well as the Revolution