The true northerner., 1896-04-15

the right bank OF the Rhine were in
tested by them The descendants of the
Houses of Bourbon, Of Orleans, of Conde,
fitted dmly 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 desperation Of the Royalists became
oil the more profound when the Consulate
was seen 10 give peace, and to justify itself
in the estimation of mankind. In such
situation the life of the First Consul APP
peared 10 the disappointed and desparing
progeny of the past as hateful and all
prevailing fact that must be destroyed.
The conspiracy which exploded in the
I,uo st. Nicaisc was only the beginning of
plots and plotting. 1t is in evidence that
the agents of thc British government lent
a willing hand to the secret crimes that
were TO compass The destruction of Bona
parte. On his side there was correspond
ing vigilance. IL was equivalent TO death
for any to lift the hand against him. His
immediate suborlinates were without ex-
ccption loyal But all the disappointed,
lowering at II distance scowled at his ris-
ing star. The years 1904 were pregnant
with conspiracics. In the midst of the
most untiring ndustry-consuming each
day and "a large part of the night in unpar-
alleled applicat ION to the tasks of Office
NAPOLEON was ever and anon distracted
and cnraged by the discovery of some plot
against his lie His agents everywhere
struck back in light or darkness and the
bloody chalicc was held to the lips of every
intending assassin.
Among tie plots of the day that of
GEORGES Cadoudal, leader of the Chouaps
Of Brittany, was conspicuous. From being
an insurgcnt in the Royalist revolt of 1899,
q he had fed to England, where the count of
Artois afterwards Charles X, received
him with open arms. In 1903 he made
his way secretly 20 Paris There he con-
spired with the disgraced Gelsral Piche-
CRU, Napoleon : old master in mathemat-
les at Bricnnc 10 destroy the life of the
First Consul The plot was discovered,
Pichecru was seized imprisoned, and on
the 9TH Of April, 1904, was strangled in
his cell Cadoudal, trying To escape, killed
two policemen, but was overmastered, con-
demned, and on the 25th of June, 1904
was guillotncd General Moreau, the
hero of Hohcnlinden, who had become a
Royalist was accused of completely in
these schemes Convicted of having knowl-
edge of the plot of Cadoudal, he was con-
dcmned to two years imprisonment; but
Napoleon commuted the sentence into ex-
lie, and Morcau chose the United States as
his refuge After eight years, he entered
the service of Russia, and in 1913 was NOR
tally wounded at the battle 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, afterwards
Louis XVIII, who was at Warsaw; the
count of Arteis, in London; the young Or
leans Philippe, afterwards the Citizen
King. i'm Switzerland; and the duke OF
Enghien, descendant of the great Condo
at Ettenheim i'm Baden. All of these were
more or less implicated in the plots against
Napoleon The duke of Enghien in par
ticular was believed to be fellow -conspir
ator Of Pchegru and Cadoudal The lat
ter had been secretly visited in Paris by
mysterious parsonage whom the passion o.
the hour declared to be the Conde prince
Notwithstanding the fact that Baden wa
neutral territory, a body of French soldier
was sent secretly to Ettenheim; the cha
tcau was surrounded and on the night OF
the 10th of March, 1904, the due d Eng
hien was seized I'm bed and hurried away
to the fortress Of Vincennes. A court-mar
tial under General Hullin was immediate
ly ordered and without witnesses or othel
legal proof, the Duke was condemned t
be shot. On the morning of the 21st o
March, just before day, he was led into tn
ditch outside the wall, and there, by tn
ghastly light of torches was shot dead
His body was thrown, without removal o
the bloody garments into a pit that ha'
been diggcd the day beforei The Consu
late as well as the Revolution which J
succeeded, had a sword of sharpness for al
its enemies.
The killing OF Enghien created tire