. History of France and Normandy, from the earliest times to the revolution of 1848. On the other hand, the British navy blockaded theports, and attacked with success the colonies of the enemy,while a threatened invasion raised such a spirit of patrioticresistance through the island, that the people readily grantedto the ministry all the supplies of men and money that theydemanded. 36. The attention of Europe was fixed upon thelSfM projected invasion of England, when two strange eventsoccurred in Paris, that excited universal astonishmentand indignation. A conspiracy was said to have been dis-
. History of France and Normandy, from the earliest times to the revolution of 1848. On the other hand, the British navy blockaded theports, and attacked with success the colonies of the enemy,while a threatened invasion raised such a spirit of patrioticresistance through the island, that the people readily grantedto the ministry all the supplies of men and money that theydemanded. 36. The attention of Europe was fixed upon thelSfM projected invasion of England, when two strange eventsoccurred in Paris, that excited universal astonishmentand indignation. A conspiracy was said to have been dis-covered against Buonaparte, at the head of which werePichegru, the conqueror of Holland, George Cadoudal, a Ven-dean chief, and Moreau, whose military fame rivalled that ofNapoleon. The conspirators were arrested, and the gallantPichegru secretly assassinated in prison. A few days beforethis, the Parisians heard in one breath, that the heir of thehouse of Conde, the duke dEnghien, had been arrested atEuenheim, a town in the principality of Baden, and tried and THE REPUBLIC. 371. Death of the Duke dEnghien. executed within sight of their own houses at Vincennes. Thishorrid murder was aggravated by a mock trial, in which everyform of law and every principle of justice were violated. Theunhappy prince was arrested in a neutral state, tried for acivil offence before a military tribunal, at the hour of midnight,when it was against the laws of France to hold any trial; nocounsel was allowed for his defence; the execution took placeimmediately after the sentence, without any time being al-lowed for the prince to lodge an appeal, and finally, had evenall the legal forms been observed, the duke owed no allegianceto the government of France. He died with a firmness andconstancy worthy of his noble birth, and was buried in theditch of the castle of Vincennes. This fatal event is thegreatest blot on Napoleons character; its imprudence was tothe full as great as its wickedness, for such an
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