tutgard, and at Munich;

2dly, by the Duke d'Enghien and General Dumourier:

The central point of the former was at Offenbourg;
where were some emigrants, some English agents, and
the Baroness de Reich, so noted for her political
intrigues:

The central point of the latter was given out to be
at the castle of Ettenheim, where the Duke
d'Enghien, Dumourier, an English colonel, and
several agents of the Bourbons, resided.

The hundred and twenty thousand francs given by the
minister Drake to the Sieur Rosey, chef de
bataillon, to excite an insurrection,

The declarations of Mehee;

And the reports of M. Sh***, prefect of Strasbourg,
and brother-in-law of the Duke de Fel....; leave no
doubt of the existence of the intrigues at
Offenbourg and Ettenheim, to which M. Sh***
ascribes in particular the agitation, and symptoms
of discontent, that prevail at Weissembourg, and in
several parts of Alsace.

On the other hand, the conspiracy of the 3d of
Nivose had just broken out. The discoveries made by
the servant of Georges, and by other individuals,
led to the belief, that the Duke d'Enghien had been
sent by England to the borders of the Rhine, in
order to place himself at the head of the
insurrection, as soon as Napoleon was made away
with.

The necessity of putting an end to these plots, and
strike terror into their instigators by a grand act
of reprisal, squared in an incredible degree with
the political considerations, that led Napoleon to
attempt a bold stroke, in order to give the
revolution, and the revolutionists, those
guaranties, which circumstances demanded:

Napoleon, named consul for life (I borrow here the
language of the Manuscript from St. Helena), felt
the weakness of his situation, the ridiculo