After the arrest of Georges there were still some individuals marked out as accomplices in the conspiracy who had found means to elude the search of the police.  The persons last arrested were, I think, Villeneuve, one-of the principal confidants of Georges, Burban Malabre, who went by the name of Barco, and Charles d’Hozier.  They were not taken till five days after the arrest of the Duc d’Enghien.  The famous Commissioner Comminges, accompanied by an inspector and a detachment of gendarmes d’Elite, found Villeneuve and Burban Malabre in the house of a man named Dubuisson, in the Rue Jean Robert.

This Dubuisson and his wife had sheltered some of the principal persons proscribed by the police.  The Messieurs de Polignac and M. de Riviere had lodged with them.  When the police came to arrest Villeneuve and Burban Malabre the people with whom they lodged declared that they had gone away in the morning.  The officers, however, searched the house, and discovered a secret door within a closet.  They called, and receiving no answer, the gendarmerie had recourse to one of those expedients which were, unfortunately, too familiar to them.  They fired a pistol through the door.  Villeneuve, who went by the name of Joyau, was wounded in the arm, which obliged him and his companion to come from the place of their concealment, and they were then made prisoners.

Moreau was not treated with the degree of rigour observed towards the other prisoners.  Indeed, it would not have been safe so to treat him, for even in his prison he received the homage and respect of all the military, not excepting even those who were his guards.  Many of these soldiers had served under him, and it could not be forgotten how much he was beloved by the troops he had commanded.  He did not possess that irresistible charm which in Bonaparte excited attachment, but his mildness of temper and excellent character inspired love and respect.  It was the general opinion in Paris that a single word from Moreau to the soldiers in whose custody he was placed would in a moment have converted the gaoler-guard into a guard of honour, ready to execute all that might be required for the safety of the conqueror of Hohenlinden.  Perhaps the respect with which he was treated and the indulgence of daily seeing his wife and child were but artful calculations for keeping him within the limits of his usual character.  Besides, Moreau was so confident of the injustice of the charge brought against him that he was calm and resigned, and showed no disposition to rouse the anger of an enemy who would have been happy to have some real accusation against him.  To these causes combined I always attributed the resignation; and I may say the indifference, of Moreau while he was in prison and on his trial.