The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-06-01

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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 in 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. Nicaiso was only the beginning
Of plots and plotting. 1t is III evidence
that the agents OF the British govern
ment lent a willing hand to the secret
crimes that were to compass the de-
struction 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 a distance, sCowled at his rising
star.
Among the plots of the day that of
Georges Cadoudal, leader of the Chouans
Of Brittany, was conspicuous. From be-
ing an insurgont in the Royalist revolt
of 1899, he had fled 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 c%onspired with the disgraced
General Pichegru, Napoleon's old mas
ter in mathematics at Brienne, to de-
strOy the life of the First Consul. The
plot was discovered, Piohegru was seiz-
ed, imprisoned, and on the 9TH of April,
1904, was s%trangled i'll 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 a 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 Moreau chose the United
States as his refuge. After eight years,
he entered the service of Russia, and in
1918 was mortally wounded at the bat
tie of Dresden.
The result of these attempts was far
reaching. AT this time the living repre-
sentatives of the demolished monarchy
We're the count of Provence, afterwards
Louis AVIlI., who was at Warsaw. the
count of Artols, in London; the young
Orleans Philippe, afterwards the Citi-
zen King, in Switzerland; and the duke
Of Enghien, descendant of the great
Condo, at Ettenheim, in Baden. All of
these were more or less implicated in
the plots against Napoleon. The duke
OF Enghlen Ill particular was believed to
be a fellow-conspirator of Pichegru and
Cadoudal. The latter had been secretly
visited in Paris by a 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, a body of French soldiers
was sent secretly to Ettenheiln; the cha
teau was surrounded, and on the night
of the 18th OF March, 1904, the due
d'Enghien was seized i'll bed and hur-
rled away to the fortress of Nincennes.
A court-martial under General HUI
lin was Immediately ordered, and with
out witnesses or other legal proof, the
Duke was condemned 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 theb bloody garments, into a pit that
had been alleged the dag before, The
Consulate, as we'll as the Revolution
which it succeeded, had a sword OF
sharpness for all its enemies.
The killing of Enghien created a tire.
mendous sensation throughout Europe.
Europe had not yet learned that the
blood of kings and princes is even as
the blood of other men.
Certain it is that the death of Enghien
fastened the Transformation of the Con.
sulate into the Empire. The seat of the
First Consul was already in everything
but the name a throne. Why not make
it a throne in fact? The facility of the
French for change rendered easy the
project which the temper Of a heavier
and more serious rae would have re-
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