tunity
for rising against the tyranny of France.

A conspiracy suppressed never fails to strengthen the power it was meant
to destroy: and Buonaparte, after the tragedies of D'Enghien and
Pichegru, beheld the French royalists reduced everywhere to the silence
and the inaction of terror. Well understanding the national temper, he
gave orders that henceforth the name of the exiled family should be as
much as possible kept out of view; and accordingly after this time it
was hardly ever alluded to in the productions of the enslaved press of
Paris. The adherents of the Bourbons were compelled to content
themselves with muttering their resentment in private saloons, where,
however, the Chief Consul commonly had spies--who reported to him, or to
his Savarys and Fouches, the jests and the caricatures in which the
depressed and hopeless party endeavoured to find some consolation.

In order to check the hostile feeling excited among the sovereigns of
the continent by the murder of the Bourbon Prince, the French government
were now indefatigable in their efforts to connect the conspiracy of
Georges Cadoudal with the cabinet of England. The agents of the police
transformed themselves into numberless disguises, with the view of
drawing the British ministers resident at various courts of Germany into
some correspondence capable of being misrepresented, so as to suit the
purpose of their master. Mr. Drake, envoy at Munich, and Mr. Spencer
Smith, at Stuttgard, were deceived in this fashion; and some letters of
theirs, egregiously misinterpreted, furnished Buonaparte with a pretext
for complaining, to the sovereigns to whom they were accredited, that
they had stained the honour of the diplomatic body by leaguing
themselves with the schemes of the Chouan conspirators. The subservient
princes were forced to dismiss these gentlemen from their residences;
but the English ministry made such explanations in open Parliament as
effectually vindicated the name of their country. Lord Elgin, British
ambassador at Constantinople, had been one of those travellers detained
at the out-breaking of the war, and was now resident on his parole in
the south of France. He was, on some frivolous pretext, confined in a
solitary castle among the Pyrenees; and there every device was practised
to induce him to, at least, receive letters calculated, if discovered in
his possession, to compromise him. But this nobleman, sagaciously
penetrating the design, baffled