The life of Napoleon Buonaparte, emperor of the French. By Sir Walter Scott.

816 LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
marks upon the exactitude with which they had been which were irrelevant, and upon a third which wss
taken down; but nothing of this kind was proposed incompetent.
to thle Dulke d'Enghien. The mock trial, wllen brought on, was a mere re2. The French law enjoins, that after closing the petition of the interrogatory which the duke lad
interrogatory, the reporter should require of the ac- been previously subjected to. We are now to give
cased person to make choice of a friend for the iur- an abstract of both interrogatories, only prernisillg
pose of' conducting his defence. The accused, it that within their limits must be found thle whole
further declares, shall have the selection amongst all head and front of the ofiences charged. The guilt
the persons priesent, and failing his making such a of the accused miust either be proved fron thence,
choice, the reporter shall select a defender to act on or his innocence must be acknowledged; the sole
his behalf. No such choice was allowed to the Duke evidence produced or attempted to be brought ford'Enghien; and, indeed, it would have been to ward on the trial being the answers of the duke.
little purpose; nor was any legal assistant assigned Upon the first examination, the following admisto him in terms of the law. The law presumes an sions were made by tile accused. The duke avowopen court at a legal hour, and held in broad day- ed his name, birth, and quality; his exile irom
light. It would have been but an additional insult France,'and the campaigns which he had niade with
to have required the duke to select a friend or a de- the emigrant army under his grandfather, the Prince
fender among the gendarmes, who alone were by- of Conde. He stated tile various countries which lihe
standers in the Castle of Vincennes, or at the hour of had inhabited since the armny of Cond was disbandmidnight. Contrary, therefore, to the privilege of ed, and that he had resided at Ettenheimni for two
accused persons by the existing law of France, the years and a half, by permission of the elector. Inaccused had no benefit either of legal defence or terrogated if he had ever been in England, or if that
friendly assistance. government made him any allowance; he answered
he had never been in that country, but that England. Defects of the sentence.
did allow him an aniuity, which was his only means
The trial itself, though it deserves not the name, of support. Interrogated, what were his reasons for
took place on tile day after the interrogatory, or residing at Ettenheim; he answered that he had
more properly on the night of that day, beinlg what thoughts of settling at Fribourg in fhe Brisgau, as a
was then called the 30th Ventose;-like the pre- pleasanter place of residence, and had only remainvious interrogation, at the hour of midnight. The ed at Ettenheim on account of the elector's indulging
whole Castle ofVincennes was filled with gendarmes, him with full liberty of hunting, to which amusement
and Savary was in the actual command. He has he was very partial. Interrogated, if he kept up
publish-ed that he was led there by curiosity, though any correspondence withi the French princes of his
the hour was midnight, and the place so strictly family who were at London, and if hlie had seen them
guarded against ev ury person, saving those who were lately, he replied, that he naturally kept tip a corto be officially concerned, that even one of the offi- respondence with his granditlltler ever since he had
cers, who had been summoned, had considerable left him at Vienna, after the disbanding of his arny;
difficulty iil procuring admission. We shall presently but hadl not seen him since that period; —that he also
see if his presence and coiiduct indicated the part of corresponded with his fathller (Duke of Bourbon),
a mere by-stander; for the vindication which lie but had not seen him since 1794 or 1795. Interwas plleased to publish, drew forth that of General rogated, what rank lie occupilied in thile arnly of
Hulin, president of the military commission, who Condd; lie answered, commandant of tle van-guard,
has informed us of several important circumstances and that when the arliiy wsas received into Plrussia,
which had escaped the memory of the Duke of Ro- and divided into two corps, he was Ilnde colonel Aof
vigo, but which bear, nevertheless, very muchion one of thenl. These adriissions might bhae been
the point at issue. deduced or presumed froni tile simpnle tfict, thllt thle
The court being conistituted duly, the warrant was individual before themn was til e Lke'Euglliell
read, -vwhich contained the charge against tile pri- whose history and Mlilitary seN ices were sutiiciently
soner, It accused him, 1. Of having fought against known.
France; 2. Of being in the pay of Enlgland; 3. Of The subsequent part of the examination consisted
plottin.g vith tile latter power against the internal in an atterlmpt to implicate the acculsed in the co,nand external safety of the Republic. Of the two spiracy of Georges, Pichegru, and Moreai Tll. e
first counmts, as they milay be termled, of the indict- reader %will see how far his answers imake the chuar e
ment, we have already shown that they could not good.
be rendered cogunzable under anly law theu existing Interrogated, if he knew General Pichegru, and if
in France, unless qualified by tile additional circum- lie had aily connexion or intercourse with hiil-
stance, that the emigrant accused had been found Replied, " I do not know him; I have never, I
either within France, or int a country hostile to, or believe, seen him; I have had no counersation with
which had been subdued by France, which could him; I am glad I have not been acquainted withl,
not be stated to be the case of the Duke d'Enghien. him, if the story told be true, respecting the 1vile
Respecting file third count, the military commission means which he plroposed making use of:"
were not legally conmpetent to try it; tile courts or- Interrogated, if he knew General Dumourier,
dinary of France alone had the alleged crime within or had any connexion with him;-Answered, " that
their julrisdiction. Nevertheless, in mockery of the he knew him no more than the other-he had never.
form, as well as t(ie essence of law, the court pro- seen him."
ceeded upon the trial upon two points ofaccusation, Interrogated, if, after the peace, he had not kept
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