Letters Written On Board His Majesty's Ship the Northumberland, And At Saint Helena: in Which ...
Letters Written On Board His Majesty's Ship the Northumberland, And At Saint Helena: in Which ...
William Warden
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Talleyrand never deviated from this principle: it was a fixed, unchange able article in his political creed. But I did not become a ready or a willing con- vert. I examined the opinion wiih care and with caution: and the result was a per- fect conviction of its necessity. The jduke D'Enghein was accessary to.die oonfedera- cy; and although the renidcnt of % qf uuM 173 territory, the urgency of the case, in Which my safety and the public tranquilli- ty, to use no stronger expression, were in- vo...lved, justified the proceeding. I accor- dingly ordered him to be seized and tried: He was found guilty, dnd sentenced to be shot. The sentence was immediately executed; and the same fate would have followed had it been Louis the Eighteenth. For I again declare that I found it neces- sary to roll the thunder back on the metro- polis of England, as from thence, with \ the count d'Artois at their head, did the assassins assail me. "Your country also accuses me of the death of Pichegruy I replied, ** It is most certainly and universally believed' throughout the whole British empire, that he was strangled in prison by your orders.'* He rapidly answered, " What idle, disin- genuous foUyl a fine proof, how prejudice can destroy the boasted reasoning faculties of Englishmen!
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