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Third landing on the 16th of Jan. from an English cutter, captain Thomas Right.

1. Jean Marie, the same as in the preceding debarkations; constantly returning to England to bring the other brigands.

2. Pichegru, Charles, ex-general, arrested at Paris the 27th of February.

3. Lajolais, ex-general, under the name of Frederick, and Deville, sent to London in November last by Moreau to Pichegru: upon his return to Paris he was the gobetween between Moreau and Pichegru. Arrested at Paris 14th Feb.

4. Ruzilion, known among the brigands by the name of Grosmajor; arrested at Paris the 5th March.

5. Jules Polignac, second son of the duke of that name, arrested on the 3d of March.

6. Rochelle, called Rochette Brun, and Richemont, arrested on the 5th of March.

7. Armand Gaillard, of Rouen.

Accomplices who did not land at Belville; some have been in France for several years; others landed in Brittany, and were to recruit brigands there, to send them to Paris :

1. Gaillard Rioul, of Rouen, known by the names of St. Vincent, Houvel, and Duval.

2. Desol de Grosolles, concealed at Paris, where he waited for Georges: he went in a coach on the 1st of September to St. Leu, and brought him to Paris: arrested on the 18th of November on the bouvelard Italien.

3. Bouvèt de Lozier, one of the principal confidants of Georges, charged to procure him lodgings at Paris, and the environs.

4. Abraham Augustus Charles d'Hosier.

5. Ruben Lagmondière, whe came from Rennes to join the assassins arrested on the 7th of Feb. in one of the houses of the band, rue du Bagy.

6. Barbon Milabry, called Barco. 7. Roger, called Loiseau, came from England by way of Brittany, went to Paris with a forged passport from Rennes: arrested rue Xaintonge, on the 8th of February. 8. Hervé, shoemaker at Rennes. 9. Merelle, of St. Paers, a subaltern assassin arrested on the 7th of February.

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10. Noel Ducorps, commissary of the brigands: arrested at Aumale on the 28th of January.

11. Louis Ducorps, his son, an ex-chouan, and robber of dili

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12. The ex-marquis of Rivière, the confidant of the count d'Artois. The portrait of that prince was found upon him, with this inscription" Given by the count d'Artois to his faithful aide-ducamp de Rivière, for the perilous journeys taken in his service." Ar rested on the 3d of March.

[The names of 17 others are given, but they are of no note.]

30. Moreau, general, had an understanding with the enemies of the state; communicated with Pichegru; sent to London, even since the war, to confer with the enemies, through the medium of Pichegru; held communications with Georges, through Fresnières and Villeneuve: since Pichegru's arrival at Paris, he saw him several times. Once Pichegru was in communicated with Pichegru through pany with Georges. Moreau comRolland, Lajolais, and Fresnières. Arrested on the 14th of February. 31. Fresnières, private secretary

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to Moreau, communicated with Georges, through Villeneuve, principal confidant of Pichegru, and brought Pichegrü several times to Moreau. He is fled.

32. Laborie, general instigator and adviser of Moreau. He is fled. 33. Badouville, former aide-du-camp to Pichegru, spy upon our armies, correspondent of Wickham, agent of Pichegru, arrived at Paris as soon as he knew Pichegru was there. Arrested on the 3d March. 34. The abbé David, charged with tying the first knot of all this plot, arrested on the 6th Dec. last year, as he was going to London to Pichegru. Brought to the Temple on the 13th Dec.

35, 36, 37 38. Victor Couchery, Roland, arrested on the 14th February; Froche, sen. arrested on the 3d February; and Monnier, arrested on the 5th February.

The grand Judge.
(Signed) REGNIER.

The arrestation of general Moreau was announced to the troops of the capital, and adjoining departments, by the following proclamation of general Murat, the go vernor of Paris, in general orders:

GENERAL STAFF.

Head-quarters, at Paris, 26th Pluviose, Feb. 15. Soldiers,

Fifty brigands, the impure remnants of the civil war, that the English government kept in reserve during the peace, because it meditated to repeat that crime which had failed on the 3d Nivose, had arrived by night, and in small bodies, at Belville; they have penetrated even to the capital.-Georges and the exgeneral Pichegru were at the head

of them. Their approach had been invited by a man of consideration in our rank, by general Moreau, who was yesterday placed in the hands of the justice of the na tion.

Their project, after having assas sinated the first consul, was to give France to the horrors of a civil war, and to the terrible convulsions of a counter revolution.

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The camps of Boulogne, Montreuil, Bruges, Saintes, Toulon, and Brest, the armies of Italy, Hanover, and Holland, were no longer to have commanded peace; our glory was to have perished with our li berty. But all those plots have failed. Ten of those brigands are arrested-the ex-general Lajolais, the procurer of this infernal conspiracy, is in prison-the police is upon the point of taking Georges and Pichegru.

A new debarkation of twenty of those brigands has now taken place; but they are surrounded with ambuscades, and will soon be taken.

In these circumstances, so afflicting to the heart of the first consul, we, soldiers of the nation, will be the first to make a shield for him with our bodies; and we will conquer his enemies, and those of France.

The general in chief, commander of Paris, MURAT. The general of brigade, chief of the staff, CESAR BERTHIER.

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will be impossible for them to escape, the barriers and the roads being guarded with the greatest vigilance.

Let every person make known to the police such individuals as may be liable to suspicion, who reside with them or in their neighbour hood.

Let those who have concealed them, or who may conceal them, profit of the time which the law grants them for the purpose of averting its axe, and concur in immediately purging the capital, of the monsters paid by our eternal enemies for renewing the horrors which they had before attempted to consummate, by means of the infernal machine, on the 3d Nivose.

Under these circumstances, the denunciations will be truly acts of public justice.

Masters of furnished houses are ordered to examine every individual they have lodging with them, and to see they have complied with the regulations of police, and that there is nothing suspicious about them. The drivers of hackney coaches are informed, these persons make use of their carriages.

I have promised a reward to those who shall assist the police in seizing them; but the sweetest reward to a Frenchman is the satisfaction of having done a good action to his country.

The counsellor of state and prefect of police,

(Signed) DUBOIS.

THE DUKE D'ENGHIEN. Note from Talleyrand to baron Edelsheim, minister of state to the elector of Baden,

Mons. le baron, March 12. I had transmitted to you a note, purporting to demand the arrest of

the eommittee of French emigrants sitting at Offenburg, when the first consul, by the successive arrest of the banditti whom the English government has sent into France, as well as by the progress and result of the prosecutions instituted here, obtained information of the share which the English agents at Offerburg had in the terrible plot hatching against his person and the safety of France. He has also been informed that the duc d'Enghien and general Dumourier are at Ettenheim. It being impossible that they should be in that town without his electoral highness's leave, the first consul could not see, without the deepest regret, that a prince, to whom he has vouchsafed to show the most conspicuous effects of his friendship, could grant an asylum to his most cruel enemies, and quietly let them hatch such unheard-of conspiracies.

On this extraordinary occasion, the first consul has thought proper to order two small detachments to repair to Offenburg and Ettenheim, there to seize upon the plotters of a crime, which, from its nature, puts all those who have been convicted of the same out of the law of nations. General Caulincourt has been charged with the first consul's orders for this purpose, You cannot doubt but he will, when executing the same, show every regard which his highness may desire. He will have the honour to hand to your excellency this letter, which I am charged to write to you. Re. ceive, monsieur le baron, the as surance of my highest respect.

CH. M. TALLEYRAND.

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fects and to the commissary-general of marine, at Antwerp.

Paris, 4th Floreal, 12th year. There are no means, citizen prefect, which our enemies leave unemployed, in order to obtain intelligence from the ports of the republic, and to procure information of the state of our maritime force, as well as of its movements.

I have just received information of a new manoeuvre which they practise, the effects of which it is necessary to guard against.

There are few neutral vessels bound for the ports of France, which, on the eve of entering, are not met and visited by English Cruizers. The object of these visits is, not only to learn the destination and cargo of the ships, but it appears that these visiting vessels almost always take one or more of the crew out of each neutral, which they replace by an equal number of spies, whose continuance in the port lasts as long as that of the ship.

However great the precautions may have been, which you have hitherto prescribed relative to neutrals admitted into the ports, it is possible they may not be sufficient to frustrate this manoeuvre, and therefore for this purpose you must use the following means:→

You will recommend that a very rigorous examination shall be made of the crews of all neutrals which may come into the ports of your district; and if from this visit it should result that any Englishman or other suspicious person is found on board, he must be immediately arrested, as well as the rest of the crew; they must be separately interrogated, and with every precaution necessary to the discovery of the truth.

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The taking the oath, and the coronation.

Art. 1. The taking of the oath and the coronation of the emperor shall take place on the 18th Bru, maire next (November 9).

2. A proclamation shall announce this solemnity to the whole empire, and shall summon those who are to assist at it, as specified in the senatus consultum of the 28th of last Floreal, to appear at Paris before the 10th Brumaire.

3. Particular letters shall also be addressed to them on the part of his majesty.

4. The public functionaries who are summoned, shall make known their arrival to the principal master

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of the ceremonies, who will indicate the place appointed for them at the ceremony.

5. The solemnity of taking the oath, and the coronation, will take place in the presence of the empress, the princes, princesses, high dignitaries, and all the public functionaries, described by the senatus consultum of the 28th Floreal, in the chapel of the invalids.

SECOND SECTION.

Of the ceremony which will take place

in the Champ de Mars. 6. After the solemnity of taking the oath, and the coronation, his majesty the emperor will proceed to the Champ de Mars.

7. The national guards of every department of the empire will send to Paris a detachment of sixteen men, with colours for each detachment, one half of which shall be fusileers or grenadiers, one-fourth officers, and one-fourth non-commissioned officers.

8. The maritime departments, squadrons, flotillas, and armed vessels of the empire, shall send fifty detachments of ten men, with a flag to each detachment.

9. Every corps of horse, of all the different descriptions throughout the army, shall send a deputation of sixteen men, the half of which shall be grenadiers, fusileers, soldiers, dragoons, light-horse, onefourth officers, and one fourth noncommissioned officers, with the colours, standard, or guidon.'

10. The preceding article is applicable to the regiments of marine artillery.

11. The engineers shall send three deputations of sixteen men each.

12. The twenty-six legions of the gens-d'armes shall each send a deputation of four men and a gui

don.

13. The invalids of the hotel at Paris, and those of Louvain and Avignon, shall send three deputations, whose composition shall be regulated according to the instruction of the war minister.

14. All these deputations shall successively take the oath of fidelity and obedience to his majesty the emperor.

15. The deputations of the national guards, those of the maritime circles, and such of the corps who have colours, guidons, or standards, shall afterwards receive from his majesty, for their departments or regiments, a pair of colours for each department, a flag for each detachment of marine, and a guidon or standard for each battalion or squadron.

16. The colours of the departments shall remain in the most conspicuous place of the hotel of the prefectory under the guard already settled for the prefects. They shall never be taken from thence but by an officer named by the emperor; and shall be unfurled and shown to the people on all solemn occasions.

17. The flags shall be distributed among the maritime circles, and deposited at the marine hotel, under a guard of honour, in the principal place of the seven circles in which Antwerp is comprised, in order to be given to the squadrons, naval armies, flotillas, or other armaments and expeditions, according to the orders of the emperor.

On their return, these flags shall be carried to the marine hotel, where they shall be kept in the council-chamber, for some succeeding expedition.

18. The colours, standards, and guidons of the corps shall be returned to each battalion or squadron. Those who, by the events

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