The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12

the conspiracy from London to Munich, where he found the British embassy center of plotting. Other French spies gained the confidence of the British envoys at Vienna and Stuttgart, who were found to be involved in the wide spread intrigue.
 La Touche, however, scored the great est success. He received from Francis Drake the ambassador of Great Britain at Munich, a sum of money, the secret code of the conspirators, a recipe for invisible ink and a commi iSSion to go to Paris and spy on the First Consul, whence he sent back some remarkable reports which he pretended were based on information obtained from one of the ushers in the Tuileries.
 But it was Napoleon himself who die tated La Touches report to the credu- lous British ambassador in Munich, and he delighted in describing his own per sonal habits and his military plans which later fooled the enemy. The real ly important object to be gained, he in- formed Drake through La Touche, was a certain large black portfolio lying on his table, but that could not be cap tured without paying bribe of at least $250,0o0 to the person in charge of it.
 The Great Plot
 The plot began to unfold itself late in 
 naval officer landed little party of French royalists at the foot of steep cliff on the coast of Normandy The French ports were all closed to British shipping by the war, but some snug glers had hung cable down the side of the cliff and by that cable the members of the party climbed hand over hand tc the top. They then made their way to Paris by what is known In America as an underground railroad" lodging along the way in farmhouses and castles belong ing to trusted royalists.
 The leader of this band was remark able character, a Breton named Georges Cadoudal who had bravely fought in the royalist rebellions of Lavendee in the time of the revolution. When Napoleon was pacifying the country in the open- ing weeks of his consulate, he summoned Georges to Paris and in the course of a long interview, offered him liberal re- wards for himself and his friends. But all blandishments and temptations were spurned by the dauntless rebel and ii- reconcilable royalst, whose firmness however, so won Napoleon's respect that he was permitted freely to leave Paris instead of being arrested and shot. Georges, on the other hand never forgave himself for not ''stranging him then and there in these strong arms"
 After three years this fanatic was in Paris again to repair that omission. He was joined by General Pichegru, a teacher of Napoleons in the military school of Brienne and later general in the revolution. Pichegru had sold out to the Bourbons and been deported to Cayenne for his treachery to the republic, but had escaped to England.
 The Plan UnfOlded
 His Rart now in the great plot was to induce General Moreau, the foremost mili- tary commander under the First Consul, to enter into the conspiracy, and win over the support of the army. Once Moreau's corporation was assured. two of the Bourbon princes the Count d'Artois and the Duke de Berry, were to come from England, personally join "a waylaying Napoleon on the road to Nal maison, and having abducted or killed him, seize the government in the name of Louis XVIII.
 Moreaus jealousy of Napoleon was oit- ter, outspoken and notorious The victor in the great battle of Hohenlinden dared 10 look upon the victor in the battle oi Marengo as a rival, and what is mere his wife and her mother, who were from Martinique, hotly refused, in the ante rooms Of the Tuileries, to dance attend ance upon Josephine. creole like them selves. The entire family held aloof from the new court of the consulate, and wher