dauntless man, into
an open court, where he might have said many things well calculated to
injure the Consul in public opinion.[49]

The other prisoners were now brought to trial. There was not a shadow of
evidence against General Moreau, except the fact, admitted by himself,
that he had been twice in company with Pichegru since his return to
Paris. He in vain protested that he had rejected the proposals of
Pichegru, to take part in a royalist insurrection; and, as for the
murderous designs of Georges Cadoudal, that he had never even heard of
them. He was sentenced to two years' confinement: but, on the
intercession of his wife with Josephine, or rather on finding that a
great part of the soldiery considered so eminent a commander as hardly
used, the Chief Consul ere long, commuted this punishment for two years
of exile.

Moreau was innocent; by his side, on the day of trial, appeared men who
would have scorned to be so. Georges Cadoudal appeared in court with the
miniature of Louis XVI. suspended round his neck, and gloried in the
avowal of his resolution to make war personally on the usurper of the
throne. The presiding judge, Thuriot, had been one of those who
condemned the king to death. Georges punned on his name, and addressed
him as "Monsieur Tue-Roi."[50] When called up for sentence, the judge
missed the miniature, and asked him what he had done with it? "And you,"
answered the prisoner, "what have you done with the original?"--a retort
which nothing could prevent the audience from applauding. Georges and
eighteen more were condemned to death; and he, and eleven besides,
suffered the penalty with heroic firmness. Of the rest, among whom were
two sons of the noble house of Polignac, some were permitted to escape
on condition of perpetual banishment: others had their punishment
commuted to imprisonment.

With what indignation the death of the Duke d'Enghien had been heard of
throughout Europe, now began to appear. The Emperor of Russia and the
Kings of Sweden and Denmark put their courts into mourning, and made
severe remonstrances through their diplomatic agents; and the
correspondence which ensued laid the train for another general burst of
war. Austria was humbled for the time, and durst not speak out: Prussia
could hardly be expected to break her long neutrality on such an
occasion: but wherever the story went, it prepared the minds of princes
as of subjects, to take advantage of the first favourable oppor