letters which I received on their hearing the news of this conspiracy, discovered how great was the consternation among all classes of the citizens, and subsequent ones testify the general felicity on hearing that this plot has been completely crushed.

(Signed) Abel.

Answer of the Minister of the Lan

grave of Hesse Darmstadt.

Citizen Minister,

I have hastened to transmit to my court the letter with which your excellency has honoured me, and a copy of the report of the grand judge with the printed letters, authentic papers of the minister of his Britannic majesty at Munich.Every honest man must be deeply afflicted on discovering that Mr. Drake has so far forgotten what he owes to the dignity of his public character and to himself, as to become the author of the vile conspiracy against the French republic and its august chief.—I am persuaded that the opinion of the first consul relative to the diplomatic corps will be fully justified by each of its members, and I hope in regard to myself that, after a residence of many years, the respectful attachment which I have always entertained for the person of the first consul is so well known to your excellency, that you need no assurances to be convinced of the sentiments of indignation and horror with which the dishonourable conduct of Mr. Drake has inspired me. (Signed) Augustus de Pappenheim. Paris, March 26, 1804,

Answer of the Batavian Minister. Citizen Minister,

The ambassador, who while at 1

London, saw the vessels of his nation, brought into English ports, during the time of peace, had reason to expect that a war preceded by such a flagrant violation of the common principles of justice, and of the rights of nations, would be carried on with little delicacy as to the choice of means. It is with governments, as with individuals, when once the barriers of justice have been broken down, power is the only guide, and neither know where to stop their career. ALthough the history of every nation attested this melancholy truth it was still difficult to conceive the possibility of an event, such as is detailed in the reports you have transmitted to me, and it has been reserved for the present age to furnish so fatal and daring an attempt.

If the facts developed in this correspondence inspire the deepest affliction in the breast of every individual capable of calculating the fatal consequences arising from the abuse of one of the most sacred and respectable of characters, how poignant must be the sensations of one who is invested with this character, and who has endeavoured, by an adherence to his own duties, to acquire a right to that respect, protection, and inviolability, which the laws of nations assure him.-The Batavian ambassador, the minister of a nation renowned in all ages for its justice and incorruptibility, to whom loyalty has become habitual, and which observes a religious respect for the laws of nations, must, in the present case, feel a double portion of the general indigna

I hasten to inform your excellency, that I have received your letter of the 31st Germinal, with a copy of the report of the grand judge, relative to the conspiracy designed by Mr. Drake, his Britannic majesty's minister at the court of MuI shall immediately transmit the communication to his highness the grand master of the order of St. John of Jerusalem: his attachment, his profound devotion, as well as that of the order over which he presides, to the interests of France, and the august person of the first consul, are such, that he will feel the greatest horror and indignation when he hears of this odious plot. (Signed) The Bailiff of Ferrete. Paris, March 26, 1804.

Official Account of the Death of Pichegru, extracted from the Moniteur, or French Official Journal, of the 8th of April, 1804.

The following is the substance of the juridical reports connected with the suicide of Pichegru: citizens Soupe, Didier, Bousquet, Brunet, Lesvigues, and Fleury, surgeons appointed by the criminal tribunal to inspect the body of the ex-general Pichegru, and to state what was the cause which gave rise to his death, unanimously declared-That (on the 6th of April) from the temple, they were conducted into the chamber where Charles Pichegru, the ex-general, was confined. On arriving in the chamber they found a male corpse. After de scribing his person, and what appeared to them his age, they go on 3

to say that he died of strangulation. They state, they found a black silk handkerchief about his neck, through which was passed a small stick forty-five centimeters long, and from four to five centimeters in circumference; which stick, forming a tourquinet of the cravat, was stopped by the left jaw, on which he lay, with one end of the stick under, and this produced a degree of strangulation sufficient to occasion his death. They then remarked, that the stick had rested by one of its ends on the left cheek, and that by moving round irregularly, it had produced a transversal scratch of about six centimeters.-The face was discoloured, the jaw was locked, and the tongue was pressed betwixt the teeth. The discolouration (e remossé), extended over the whole body. The extremities were cold. The muscles and fingers of the hand were strongly contracted. Their opinion, therefore, was, from all they saw in the position of the body, and the idea they had formed respecting it, that the body was the corpse of the ex-general Pichegru, and that he was guilty of suicide.— Citizen Sirot, one of the gens d'armes d'élite, was stationed near the chamber of general Pichegru, in the temple. He had heard a considerable degree of struggling and noise, but imagined that the prisoner laboured under a great degree of difficulty of breathing. He did not, however, think that there was any thing which required his particular assistance. Citizen Lapointe was near the same spot. He awaked about 4 o'clock in the morning, but heard no parti. cular noise. Citizen Fauconnier, keeper of the tower of the Temple, deposed, that at half-past seven in the morning, (of the 6th of April)

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citizen Popon, Pichegru's keeper, went to light his fire in the usual manner. He was astonished at not hearing him either speak or stir.He went immediately to colonel Ponsard, the commander of the gens d'armerie, and informed him of what had taken place. Thuriot, the accuser-general, was then informed of the circumstance. A medical person was instantly sent for, and all necessary instructions were given at the request of the accuser-general. Citizen Popon, principal doorkeeper of the hall of justice in the Temple, stated that at half-past seven o'clock on the morning of the 6th of April, he went into general Pichegru's chamber for the purpose of lighting the fire. Not hearing him either speaking or stirring, and dreading that some accident had taken place, he hastened to apprise citizen Fauconnier. He adds that the key of Pichegru's chamber was taken away by him, immediately after supper the preceding evening, and that it had remained in his pocket till the time he went to light the fire in the morning.

Copy of the Prince of Conde's Letter, conveying his Thanks to the Emigrants for their public Expression of their Concern at the Murder of the Duke D'Enghuien. Wanstead. House, April 27, 1804.

The excess of our grief, sir, has not prevented my son and me from feeling, as we ought, the generous interest which all the faithful emigrants have taken in the great loss we have recently sustained. We

feel it as much our duty, as it is our anxious wish, to make known to them our entire gratitude. The number of those worthy persons to whom our thanks are due, being too great to permit us to address ourselves to each in particular, we have requested the minister of the king, who is the head of the Bourbons, to express, as perfectly as it is possible, to those emigrants, so worthy of the cause they support, how sensible we are of the generous and distinguished manner in which they have mingled their regret with ours, in the august and mournful cere. mony of yesterday*. We there ore beseech you. sir, in concert with

to be the interpreter of our just and lively gratitude, which will never be extinguished in our hearts but with our breath, which will terminate at once our sufferings. and our unfortunate race. We owe to you, sir, our particular thanks for your care of the ceremony of yes terday; and we beg you to rest assured of our gratitude, and of the sentiments of perfect esteem and sincere friendship for you with which we have long been penetrated. (Signed)

Louis Joseph De Bourbon. &c. &c. &c.

Note from Francis Drake, Esq. English Minister at Munich, to Baron de Montgelas, the Bavarian Minister of State, dated Munich, 30th of March, 1804.

The undersigned envoy extraordinary from his Britannic majesty, has been informed, that his elec

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toral highness has been pleased, at the requisition of the French government, to give a hint to all noblemen, who quitted France during the revolution, and may now be found in his dominions, to leave the same within ten days, without excepting those who are dependent on the British government. Although this account appear to be tolerably authentic, the undersigned cannot give, any credit to it, without receiving a confirmation thereof from his excellency Baron Montgelas, as he is too well convinced of the just and generous sentiments of his electoral highness, to believe that his highness could have consented to such a demand from a power, which has formally declared, by the 4th article of its own constitution, that there are not any relations left existing between it and the persons against whom that measure is supposed to be taken: this deprives it of the right to assume any authority with respect to them; a principle which your excellency owned yourself, at a time when it was in agitation to prohibit in this country the decorations of the French monarchy. The undersigned is the more justified in his supposition, that he must have been misinformed on this subject, as knowing how sorely the feeling heart of his electoral high ness must be afflicted, if obliged to exercise any rigour towards persons, against whom no cause of reproach can be alledged; unless it be a reproach, that they have shewn themselves so firmly devoted to their duties, and to that sovereign house with which his electoral highness formerly stood connected, in so many respects. The undersigned is more over convinced, that it could not escape the enlightened wisdom of his electorial highness, that a simi

lar exercise of rigour, against those respectable, and already so very unfortunate persons, would form a rueful example of the fate awaiting those who, in a moment of danger, are inclined to remain true to their lawful sovereign; and which example may induce them to swerve from their duty at the very moment when a sovereign stands most in need of the efforts and actual proofs of their attachment. The undersigned has, therefore, the honour to request baron Von Montgelas to clear up his doubts on this subject, and to inform him, whether the measure in question will extend to the officers of the late Condean army, who are attached to the British government, that he may be enabled to acquaint his court thereof, and to await the commands of his sovereign accordingly. The undersigned avails himself of this opportunity to request baron Von Montgelas to accept the assurances of his most particular regard, &c.

Note from the same to the same. Dated Munich, 31st of March, 1804.

I have just received a notice of so very extraordinary a nature, but which is so important of itself, and for the consequences which may result from it, that though I am very far from crediting it, I think it a duty I owe to my sovereign, to whom my person and services belong, as well as to his highness the elector himself, immediately to inform your excellency thereof. The said notice is in substance to the following purport: that a seisure of the British ministry at Munich is in agitation, in the manner of that which took place with respect to his

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highness the duke of Enghuien, at Ettenheim, in the territory of the elector of Baden, but with this difference, that the second seizure will not be effected by a body of troops, but by men secretly sent to Munich, and its neighbourhood, by different roads. With respect to the moment and particulars of the execution, I have no detailed accounts; and I own to your excellency, that the difficulties of the enterprise appeared to me from the first too great, the project itself too extravagant, and at the same time too dreadful, to be fully convinced of its exist. ence on the other hand, it cannot be concealed, that the example of events which have very recently occurred, as it were, under our eyes, are little calculated to inspire confidence. However this may be, and little as this notice has affected me personally, yet it appears to me, that I should be transgressing the duties which my post, as a public minister, requires, if I neglected informing your excellency thereof forthwith, that you may be enabled to take in time such measures as the case may require, and to avert, by proper acts of precaution, the unpleasant result which might arise, even from the attempt to execute a design of this nature. I beg your excellency to accept the assurance, &c.

Note from the Baron de Montgelas, Minister of the Elector of Bavaria, to Mr. Drake, the English Minister to Bavaria. Dated Munich, March 31, 1804.

The undersigned, &c. has the express command of his electoral high ness, to communicate to Mr. Drake VOL. XLVI.

the annexed printed papers, and to state to him that the originals, in Mr. Drake's own hand-writing, are now before him! His electoral highness, penetrated with grief at the discovery that his capital has been the central point of a correspondence, which is so inconsistent with the mission which his excellency Mr. Drake was invested at this court; and he owes it to his dignity and to the welfare of his subjects, to declare, that from this moment it is impossible for him to have any communication with Mr. Drake, or to receive him at his court. Already two of his electoral highness's subjects, who are compromised in Mr.. Drake's correspondence, are arrested at Munich, because they have acted in a manner inconsistent with the law of nations. The undersigned is likewise charged to declare, that his electoral highness knows too well the noble and magnanimous sentiments of his Britannic majesty and the English nation, to suppose that their conduct on this occasion can be liable to the smallest reproach. They will hasten to declare themselves directly to his majesty, and to deposit in his bosom the profound grief they feel, while they withdraw their confidence from the minister, who was appointed to represent his majesty at this court. The elector is perfectly convinced that his Britannic majesty will, on this occasion, necessarily so painful to him, sec a new proof of the high esteem he entertains for his majesty, and of that good will of which he has given so many proofs to the electoral house.

Note presented to the French Minis ter of Foreign Affairs, by the Tt Russian