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he was governor of Paris ;—but he was, in fact, ill in bed,and to General Savary devolved the duty of sending thetroops and the officers destined to form the court martialfor the trial of the unfortunate and lamented Prince. Afterhearing the opinion of Murat on the case of Cadoudal , whoreally was an assassin and the avowed contriver of the“ Infernal Machine,” it may easily be believed how adversehe would have been to the execution of the young Prince,who had every right, save assassination, to attempt the re-covery of his supposed patrimony. But it is too true,that d’Engliien was involved in the affair of de Riviere andCadoudal , to its full extent, participating, therefore, in theplans for the assassination of the First Consul of the Re-public . In a few words the following facts were clearlyproved :—It cannot be known whether the British Cabinetat large, took part in a measure so disgraceful. Duringthe peace of Amiens, Buonaparte , in a conversation with Mr.Fox at the Tuilleries, signified his belief that Mr. Pitt wasconcerned in the affair of the “ Infernal Machine,” whichMr. Fox, very generously repelled with indignation. I holdin opinion with Buonaparte —for the circumstances of theconspiracy of Cadoudal , de Riviere, and others, leave nodoubt that it was directed by the governing party in Eng-land, and we all know that Mr. Pitt was not a man to allowof any thing being done against France , without his own per-sonal superintendence. So much was this the case, thatwhen the Congreve Rockets, Fulton’s Catamarans , or anyother projects of attack against the French were proposed tothe government, Mr. Pitt, nothing of a military man, insteadof referring the inventions to the supposed more competentauthorities, himself caused every experiment to be madein his own presence at Walmer Castle. But leavingthe individual Pitt out of the question, the conspiracy toassassinate the First Consul of the French Republic was