Rock Island Argus., 1895-06-01

NAPOLEON EY GERARD.
right bank of the Rhine We're infested
by them. The descendants of the Houses
of Bourbon, of Orleans, of Conde, 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. OS secret intrigue5 ard
plots and crimes there was how no end.
Tho conspiracy which exploded in tho
Rue St. Nicaise was only the beginning
Of plots and plotting. 1t is in evidence
that the agents of tho British govern
ment lent willing band to the secret
crimes that We're to compass tho de-
struction of Bonaparte. On his sido
there was corresponding vigilance. It
was equivalent to death for any to lift
the hand against him. His immediate
subordinatos were without exception
loyal. But all the disappointed, hover
ing ut a distance, scowled at his rising
star.
Among the plots of the day that CT
Georges Cadoudal, leader of the Chouans
Of Brittany, was conspicuous. From be-
ing an insurgent in the Royalist revolt
of 1893, he had fled to England, where
the count of Artois, afterwards Charles
", received him with open arms. In
1903 no made his way secretly to Paris.
There no conspired with the disgraced
General Pichegru, Napoleon's old mas
ter in mathematics at Brienne, to de-
stroy the lifo of tho First Consul. Tho
plot was discovered, Pichegru was seiz-
ed, imprisoned, and OH the 9th of April,
1904, was strangled i'll his cell. Cadou-
dal, trying to escape, killed two police
men, but was ovormastered, condemned,
and on tho Goth of June, 1904, was gull
lotined. General Moreau. the hero of
| Hohenlinden. who had become Royal
| ist, 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 commuted the sentence
into exile, and Moreau chose the United
States rs 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
were the count of Provence, afterward:
Louis XVIII, who was at Warsaw; the
count of Artois, in London; the young
Orleans Philippe, afterwards the Cit
zen King, in Switzerland; and the duke
of Enghien, descendant Of the grea
Condo, at Ettenheim, in Baden. All oi
these were more or less implicated il
the plots against Napoleon. The duk,
of Enghien in particular was believed t.
be a fellow conspirator of Pichegru ant
Cadoudal. The latter had been secretl,
visited in Paris by mysterious person
age whom the passion Of the hour de
clared to be the Conde prince. Notwith
standing the fact that Baden was neu
trail territory. body Of French soldier
was sent secretly to Ettenheim; the cha
teau was surrounded, and on the nigh
of the 18th Of March, 1904, the du'
d'Enghien was seized i'll bed and hur
ried away to the fortress of Vincennes
A court martial under General Hui
lin was Immediately ordered, and with
out witnesses or other legal proof, tn,
Duke was condemned to be shot. On
tho morning of the 2lst Of March, jus
before the day, he was led into the ditc!
outside the wall, and there, by th
cllastly light Of torches, was shot dead
His body was thrown, without remova
of the bloody garments, into pit tha
had been di1gcd the day before. Tn
Consulate, as well as the Revolution