A hundred picked men, commanded by Georges, are to attack the Consular guard and the Consul hand to hand." "Well then, denounce them." "For the last two months the Consul, his minister of police, the prefect and Fouche, hold some of the clues of this vast conspiracy; but they don't know its full extent, and at this particular moment they are leaving nearly all the conspirators free, so as to discover more about it." "As to rights," said the notary, "the Bourbons have much more right to conceive, plan, and execute a scheme against Bonaparte, than Bonaparte had on the 18th Brumaire against the Republic, whose product he was.

He murdered his mother on that occasion, but these royalists only seek to recover what was theirs.

I can understand that the princes and their adherents, seeing the lists of the _emigres_ closed, mortgages suppressed, the Catholic faith restored, anti-revolutionary decrees accumulating, should begin to see that their return is becoming difficult, not to say impossible.

Bonaparte being the sole obstacle now in their way, they want to get rid of him--nothing simpler.

Conspirators if defeated are brigands, if successful, heroes; and your perplexity seems to me very natural." "The matter now is," said Malin, "to make Bonaparte fling the head of the Duc d'Enghien at the Bourbons, just as the Convention flung the head of Louis XVI.