rasbourg; to cause General Lev** to
place under his orders fifteen boatmen, three
hundred dragoons from the garrison of Schelstadt,
and thirty gendarmes; to pass the Rhine at Rheinan,
to proceed to Ettenheim, to surround the town, and
_to carry off the Duke d'Enghien, Dumourier, an
English colonel, and all the persons in their
suite_.

The Duke d'Enghien,
General Thumery,
Colonel de Grunstein,
Lieutenant Schmidt,
Abbe Weinburn, and five other inferior persons,
were arrested by a chef d'escadron of the
gendarmerie, named Ch**, who was charged with this
part of the expedition.

Then, and then only, it became certain, that
Dumourier was not at Ettenheim. General Thumery had
been mistaken for him. This mistake, occasioned by
the similarity of their rank, and some likeness of
sound between their names, which the Germans
pronounced nearly alike, had heightened the
importance and criminality of the pretended plots
at Ettenheim in the mind of Napoleon, and had the
most fatal influence on his determination.

The Duke d'Enghien was brought from Strasbourg to
Paris, and carried before a military commission.

The Empress Josephine, the Princess Hortense, fell
at Napoleon's feet in tears, and conjured him to
spare the life of the Duke d'Enghien. Prince
Cambaceres and the Prince of Neufchatel strongly
remonstrated to him on the horrible inutility of
the blow he was about to strike. He appeared to
hesitate, when the information was brought him,
that the prince was no more.

Napoleon had not expected so speedy a catastrophe.
He had even given orders to M. Real, to repair to
Vincennes, to interrogate the Duke d'Enghien: but
his trial and execution had been hastened by Murat;
who, urged by some regicides