Star. — London, England, 1815-09-06 00:00:00

L 0 , • • TIIE LAIE CAPTAIN Every thing that can tend to throw light on the mysterious. death of this brave officer fa interesting. Vie therefore copy the subjoined letter from the Greenoetiltiwrtistr, the writer of which is known to the Editor of that paper as . a person of veracity. This account differs from all we have had, in making him to have been shot ; but this may have taken place after stthinting him to the torture. " SIR—Now that the downfall of Bonaparte has again excited much interest in the fate of the amiable and gallant Captain Wright, I cannot refrain send int; you the lc:lowing anecdotes, Which were toted me by a friend of mine, wt.() was an Officer in the Vineego, tender that Commander. When Ciptain Wright was Lieutenant of the Tigre, ceder Sir Sidney Smith, he rescued a French Officer of rank, a General. Julien, who had bean wounded-and taken prisoner by*the Mamelukes—he carried him on boierd the Tien.. gave him np his eab:ri, and he remained on board of that ship for sev2.ral monthq. It is well known . that the Vincego was taken en the coast of Biscay; at the, beginning of the war, after a very spirited res'itance ar ;else a very superior force. The Of6ceis were tri prisoners into the interior : they had to'pass through a town, the name of which I show. forget. where Captain Wright discovered that General J.elien re sided as Sub-Prefect of • the Department. He im mediately proposed waiting on hts old friend ; his o.llcun endeavoured to dissuade him. but in vain. Wait on hien he did, accompanied by one of his of. fictrs. On their return. the latter gentleman, ob set v!al— • The General was very dry. I thought.'-- Yes,' said Captain Weight, g but it is his way t I know him well; he is an excelient 'clew." Next moreintz, a brigadier of gendarmerie called on them, and told them, that by the orders of General Julien, he was to convey them to Paris, and put them at the disposal et the Mipister of .Police..—To Paris then they were sew; and were confined in the Temple— Captain W. in the apartment called the Owen's; and the other officers in separate dungeons. They ender went many examinations, chiefly at midnight. After six or seven weeks, they were all ordered to Verdun, with the exec:talon of Captain Wright. By the as. tistance of a little bribery. my friend had): few mi. nnte% cnaversation with Captain W. through a small orning which was permitted by a chain across the. fohiing daors ref hi: roam: The Captain, after re-, eornmen,ting two midshipmen (Mr. Smith, nephew of Sir Sidncy Smith, and Mr. Wright. sari of Cap tain Wrigle), to my friend's particular care, said, **l shall never get out of this alive; and they shall probably tar I Have committed taticide—but never believe if tarrer shall be gutty of that crime.' " Some time after this gallant Officer's death, a . French co-pi on its march through Verchnt en rli • evening. at the 'Anon of the theatre, one of flee Olicers, stricit with the resemblance of young Writ;ht to Ha tither. asked him it he watt ;tat a son Yd . Captain W.'s I Lie was answered in the Alma. Live. He then turned to another, and said, iti the hewing of my fris•nd, I He is eery file Ks falter, Cat. tar , : iv. gap war Aar seem time are at Paris. law lire , Nat at:kora:dike' " I glee you the anecdotes as I ! end them, and I believe.you may rely on their authenticity. X.Y.Z." SCRAPS GULLED? ED in a VISITta BELGIUM. LETTER 1. OSTINTI, Auaurr l 1815 ___ • I emblrlced at Margate in the Princess of WAles P.stket. Captain Fox, and had a good passage of 'twelve hours to OstenJ. • It being high water when we arrived, we t up at once into the harbour, and landed upon the (lay without any tumble. Previ nos, however, to our supping upon the wharf, an English soldier, and another man, a native, came on troard, and produced a book for us to write in it our flames and description, &c. Tile greater part of the passengers, I oh:erred, denominated themselves Eng- Dais merchants. _ This place is garrisoned partly by British, and partly by ilanoverians, 1 believe in British p iy, who .are dressed in British scarlet uniform, turned up with blue. - This costume puzzled me very much at first, for in asking questions, as I went along the streets, directed, as I thought, to English soldiers, I found two men out of three of them that I met, instead of answriink my queries, stared at me open-mouthed. 6 1 he British part of the garrison here is composed of the 4th Royal Veterans, commanded by Colonel Burton, together-4/W' a party of Marine Artary 1r was necessary, and actor Ding to etiquette, that I should wait upon the Cownaackat It la Platt, who re. seived me with much 41 , 44. Ostend is tolerably clean, and a larger and stronger place_tlian I had any idea of, particularly s on the sea lace of the town. It has stout walls and wet ditches and towards the sea the 'a:lvan is of mason work, • End 4 tend"d fr•,m the betting of the surge, at high Water, by a bro,d sloping pavement of stone, extend . leg alert; the whole lute of defence towards the sea. I,esch, which is a fine sand. If well garrisoned, Ostend would make a tormidable resistance ; but the orks are so extensive, that it would require a large tace to grin them sufficiently. It contains above 10. 1 1 X) inhabitants. Phis fawn has been the theatre of' several remark siqe al..d fatal few s. respectively carried on, at vati c sis times, by flit, S k ianiatOs, Ansuians, French, and Ditch. On ere of these lios:ile occasions, it is said, t .at the place b ing • bes'eged by Isabella Eugenia, Ceniernante of tbp Netherlands, in the 1/th century, that •lairy made a, solemn vow not ‘o change her stock un6l the garrison should surrender. The , hoereter, held out Much Linger than was X - II cted, so that. In the mean time, it would appear r Eze..llolcy's linen had gieetly lest its pristme c. , l”iir and freshness : and the ladies of her court, in order to please and compliment their mistress, had ot their owe under-garment; dyed, to appear like those of their lady t the Governante. * Ostend ii *4l situated for trade, but the outor harbour is reckoned unsafe to make, WI open, as It does, 01 southern and westerly winds of the channel, bed friinf ike neighbourhood abounding in annals and binks.'" On the south - side of the harbour rands a fight-house.- -urhith the flatness of the coun t, y aid sone/uniting ebast renders very necessary for the guidance Of the Mariner at night, when he ap• . Twitches the land. Pt - 04400441mm* yery cheap afOstend., tad wise • ~4- trentarkably dear. There are several taverns: ' if them has been established by an Englilliman, a civil man, at the si g n of the Duke of Wellington... , rhe other principal oae is the Hutel d'ingleterre t at both which places, I suppose, you meet with pretty good :accommodation. From Ostend to Brtrges, a distance of twelve miles, there is a fine deep canal, inc hundred feet in-breadth, with a regular communication, by means of a barge, which passes between the two places twia a day, viz. at five o'clock, morning and evening. The tare is one franc a-head; and, in the Morning, one franc for breakfast each person. This is a very safe, easy, and economical mode of travelling, at the rate of three and a half or four ,miles an hour. There is no land Conveyance, unless you hire horses on purpose for the journey. It kso contrived that the passage ' boar, coming from Ostend,. arrives in good time at Bruges for the passengers to proceed by another , barge waiting to take them frnst tKence to Gilgit. In like manner the travells acconYmridalid ping hack by 'water from •Gheit to Ostend, by find ing a barge ready to convey him from Binges to that place. 'pm great inconvenience is in the traveller being obliged to shift from one boat to another, and in having to tracers.. the whole town of Bruges with his b iggage, a distance of a foil mile and a half, Hsntil I~ leaches the bark Al the other side of the town : this he can do with the aid of a fiacre t or by employing porters, whom you will find as imports ' nate and cheating . as those who attack you on the wharfs at the ports in Kent. The harbour of Ostend is full of English transports; and packets are daily'arriving from, or departing for England, so that the place bas all the appearance of un English sea-port.* • • SUFFERINGS OF FR4NCII. The Continental Journalists jodge of the sufferings of the French from the presence of .foreign armies, by a different standard than those wh6 had not been cursed by their presence •in their own. countries can possibly do. It is scarcely nine weeks since the Allies enteted France; what are those nine weeks to tlfe 25 years, during which the greatest part of Europe, and particularly Germany, was compelled to pay and. to support the French armies. The citizen was forced to sacrifice his property; the farmer to neglect his aviculture, and with his then and cattle to serve them. All the contents of the public chests, to the very last penny, were paid to their Commissioners, without reserving the smal lest tsiße for their owe use—nay, not only all out standing sums, but even the future resources, were calculated with the greatest exactness, that nothing might remain. Their contributions were unexampled and injudicious, and imp.ssible to be complied with. Nd remonstrances, no supplication, was of any avail ; they persisted till all the States, great and small, were so immersed in debt, that they could no longer ass:st each other. Hamburgh alone may serve as an example.— Twelve yews ago they carried off from that country 300 rice: s of cannon, 4.00,000 pounds of gunpowder, 4000!) muskets, 40(X) horses, and every thing that codld be consulted to belong to the military stores. To this, was added. a requisition of 15,000 shirts, 15,00.1 pairs of shoes, &c. &e. Hanover had like- I wise to clnihe; pay, and maintain sq,ooo French ' troops. when • the country was at length no Imager ahle to satisfy the demands of a M brtier, Bernadotte, DesolLts, &c. Ilaalburgh, Bremen, and Lubeck, :vele compelled to make a loan. In tli I , ilowng year, Austria was equally imfnr wage. The arsenal of Vienna was, in consequence of the treaties of Schoenbrunn and Kolitsth, entirely emptied, so that the convoys along the Danube and by lan ilasted many weeks; and besides this, 100 millions were paid by the Austrian States alone after the h4ttle of Ansterlitz. What extortions were cottmitted in the winter of 18G6, by Monier, idalraison, and Datui in Hesse, Brunsirick, and several Prussian provinces ! Above 150 millions were extorted. Saxony,' amidst every expression ot friendship, was Ipad,d with military burthens; and innumerable waggons, with Prussian and Savas gold and silver, were sent to the Rhine in 18 . 4. " 1 his," says the Editor of the ilnuteralon . Courant, " is bot' a faint sketch. What have the French to complain of, vampared with such exactions and oppressions I" A totter from Hamburgh, dated August 20, says " A Commissioner is come fiom our Contingent; now in the enemy's country, to ask from our city an in crease of pay, without which the soldiers must suffer hunger and want. This not very agreeable message hits Ceri.ainly astonished us, as we but too well re. member how we were compelled, for years together, not only to maint tin the French, but to enable them to revel in superciaity, while our people now suffer want in the rkh and fertile country of France. Instead of taking hack the money, of which we have been violently robbed, we are to send more. This is really not very pleasant, • and yet so it is! The Hanseatic troops are until. the 'erlaltreaftd of the Duke of welt lington, who has forbidden, under pain of death, to ask any'thing of the inhabitants of France except lodging and candle, because the soldiers get their ra. Lions from the magazines. 'Writtene who know how meagre these rations are, and in what condition they are generally, will not wonder that the soldier, after long midi - Aligning matches, does not find them sof &kin ; net to mention how disagreeable it must be to him, when he comes hoine to his quarters after a hard dly's lahottr, to be obliged to cook his victuals instead of resting himself. It must be allowed that the French understood this better. The English sold dier,: who, besides his rations, receives a shilling a.day for his pay, can buy what he wants; but our soldiers haveonly tour.pence a-day, for which they cannot purchase lunch provisions. If the French had been as enemies in England, orly 24 hours, the English. would likewise. know from. experience, their mode of acting, and would not now treat them with so much tenderness. The PitUsians , are much better off—the soldier has as much sti l e can wish, and that is neces sary, lie is to fight brlvelyi. Travellers who conic from Paris affirm that in all• the houses where Prus sians are quartered die people supply them with every thing in abundance, whertas they'kill nut give the English, because they dare not demand .any thing, even a glasrof. waterovithoutt being paid for it. That is like the French, who are very backward in giving when not. compelled to it. ,, .. , . • CERMAN PAPER& COPENHAGEN, AUGUST 22. The accounts which we receive from the Thrhary coast are in the highest degree unpleasant. No Go vernment can defend itself any longer against the shameless perfidy-of the piratical States, which employ every stratagem to gratify their cupidity. We hid the less reason to expect the detention of our ships, as' ,the ne* Consul, Hartman, was sent but very lately to Tripoli, to take the place of the Conant Melduke, and had been recognised by the Government there, in consideration of a considerable sum Of money. The sum to be paid annually, has beet) always regularly delivered, and negotiations for a new armistice had commenced. The Dey, in the most artful manner, delayed this, and secretly sent out his cruizers, the return of which be waited for in order suddenly to advance the most absurd and exaggerated pretensions. ' The English and the American Consuls have made very lively remonstrances, and it is to be hoped that an amicable arrangement will be brought about. Neither the Austrtani the Spanish, nor the French flags, are respected by the Dey. Notwithstanding the interference of the Grand Seig. nor, the Dey has just confiscated a rich cargo under the first of these flags. Perhaps it has been suggested to the Dey, out of envy at the good reception the Danish flag meets with in the Mediterranean EVA, that the loss of our fleet leaves him fall scope to act to wards us at his distreti, n. Means will, however, be found to pOnisk bins for his insolence. The formal accession nt Denmark to tte Grand Alliance of the 25th of Much (which has been de layed by several circumstances, particularly by the non-ft ailment of same points in the Treaty ut Kiel) has now taken - place at Paris. The ratification of our subsidy treaty with Eng land is arrived here, and bills fur a considerable sum given. DRESDEN, AUGUST LT. The Committee Appointed in consequence of the Treaty of Peace between Prusbiaand &army, has now entered upon its functions, and hiad, today its first meeting, to rrgtilate the arrangements to be nude. . r• AIX LA•CHAPELLE, AUGUST 41 Another convoy 01 covered waggons Arrived to•day from Paris. They ate said not to contain any pic tures or statues, but things taken from the French depot, of military plans and models of all the French fortresses, in wood. In - the middle of September the oath of allegiance to Prussia will be taken at Ehrenbretstein for Nassau and the countries on the Moselle. _ A letter from Paris says, that France is to cede some fortresses entirely, and others till the military contributions are paid. Among Inc latter, Lille and Metz are mentioned. BERLIN. ATTGII3T 24. His Highness Prince Blucher has commissioned me to thank the generous donors for the sums collected for the wounded in the churches of this city, en the celebration of the victory. I believe that I cionot better execute this weeable commission, thin by publishing the following Note from our beloved Com mander : 44 I cannot concral from your Excellency that it is for me the highest 'sappiness to belong to a People who never era-e to act ao.lly. I hereby discharge, with an overflowing heatt, the duty of. returning thanks in the hams of the brave warriors who are wounded; and I humbly request your Excelkney to he pleased to testify this lively sense of gratitude to the generous eitiaens of I Merlin, who have colhosted such a considerable (iigned) " V. atuchre." . 44 Head-quarters, Rembottiller, Augivit t. " VON SCatTULNIANN, Di:mister ofthelnterior." " Bran, August et." PRIVitTE LATTERS. i• YAMS, SEPTEMBER 2. " The disturbances in the South of France engross at the present moment, the attention of all reflecting men. Astonishment is expressed here, that in the greater part of the English Papers the atrocities cow mitsed at Nismes, Montpelier% and Avignon, are at+ tributed to the French army stationed in the West, and along the course of the Loire—an army which has not a single soldier either in Avignon or its envi . rons. Bat, because it is thought ',toper to set up a proposition that this army ought to be destroyed ( witliont explaining whether by the word destroy, is meant to put to the sword, all the soldiers who com• rse it. or to send them, on being disbanded, tocarry teteir opinions into the bosom of their families), is it conceived either just or useful to impute to that army . the crimes which are committed by brigands, seri rsted from them by a distance of more than two hun dred Miles ? The fact is, that these brigands am directed by pretended Royalists, exalted in their opi. Mons. and who with, by means of terror, to re-estab ; fish the arbitrary authority exercised in the seven. teenth century by the Kines of France, and what was called in the time of Louis XIV. the drepaada against the Protestants. " The following has been quoted to us fram the Second Report made by the Duke of Qtranto, Ms; nister of Police, to the King, on the situation of ' France:— • An ei'roneous remark has often been made on the subject of the ancient regime, that those Frenchrtien who supported the tyranny of Bonaparte, were the more easily induced to support. in its full extent, .an arbitrary royal power. This is erroneous, for stations. reasons. His tyranny was not our work: it was the Sovereigns who consolidated it by their treaties, their 'alliances, and even by their friendships; and when we resisted him, other nations ranged themselves.tm-' der his eaglo, or htimiliazed themselves before him. Always more alarmed at home than abroad, Bona parte- knew well, th a t if h e had arm i es to mare against Kings, he had no power to encounter public cipinicni: it was by *foreign .obedience that he endear Voured• to keep us under his yoke: he marched to chore than one victory, in order to possess in a greater degree the means of re-acting upon France. A con.' qt,efor abroad, disquieted at home, every public As s sernbly made him tremble: he at List found in the midst of his Court 'and in his Councils, men of cou rage, who, without disrespect to the Monarch, at least braved the Despot. Supposing even they had. suf. feted More patiently his tyranny, can the same sub. mission be now expected I. If he had exchanged berty. for military glory, still there was nothing to fear' under• his reign, either. from the Clergy, the Nobles; or the Emigrants.. Ir * is now intended to snake a compromise, and sires; from us some of oar rights. All the resources of public tpinin are ready to defend them. The Revolution is a torrent wile, muse now either remount or &mend, according i s 'the direction given to it." Canner Or ANOTHER Geneve PROM Ptftle. • We are in appearance tranquil here, but infect. our opinions and sentiments, extremely at %%Mans e mid agitated. France may be said to be divided inoa two parties—tare Constitutionalists, who wish to main. tain the Constitution as now established; an 1 AntiJconstitnii-inalists, who WA to overthrow it. a-:.1 restore the ancient order of tl . ;ieg:. The first ply : . corists of the King, his islinisterc, the Kitt ions, (b which; we suppose, is term the ancient ltepolicans . ) those who were formerly. Bonapartist:, and an ea oittieans Of rarional • liberty.. At Ole liana 'or ihe ther party are the Duke and Dechese of Argee leme, to whom are tamed most of the Eni:rrants, the pure Royalisaa and the greater part of the nn cient Nobility. It was this pet? which had ore ntzed in the South a Govertinicat, which it ma; said was indeperalent of the King. It raised leger.. of Marie Therese (so named attor the Dtchesa a: Angouleme), which have committed the react es . cesses in the Saath and %Vest of France. " Thit party vows the - most implacable Terser, • against all the adherents to Bonaparte. an.l all tta early partizans of the Revolution. The Kin; has happily revoked the powers be gave to the Caleanta shiners sent by him into the provinces on bus atrieJ in Paris, ckbancled the legion% of Royalists, ar , jest tot isita 4 en e.o,c ch:tirei with the r.e.re t • a wspaiers, to trim any article tending to rv*, • • erhotlrar,e whit is caned re-nc!i4n. W!13! • tient by the King, being atteibuted to lasocho . a ea Tilleyransf, has drawn on flier). the 4)1511:mall:a a tenement of all the aftstbamartirriionaliris. l'h..se ti . persous, they know, oppose every idea of ri-arson a•I vengeance, and• wish to rally round - a Throne ma tottering, a perf-Tt union of all parties; convinced that it can only be suiTatted end upheld by extreme ' prudence and moderation. and by for ever stifling the spirit of peraLtutien ; in fact, by burying the past in vie most absolute oblivion. The Allies have given up, to .those authorised by the King, the charge et Most of the different Departments ; but in these cc cnpiad by the Prussians and Bavarians, they sf,ii continue to levy contributions, and t'i examine era, contruul the measures of the Prevents and Sub-Paa feet*, though those acts are to the titinost degree ta bitrary, and directly contr-sy to the Resoluzieas o: the Congress. " Several Prefects, for having refused to obey da orders of the Prussian Military Commandant, hey: been sent prisoners to Aix-la-Chapeile a or put unda. wrest till they complied with •what was demat.dai, and paid fi r being set at liberty. It is s.tid that a Prussian Officer in attempting to violate a Tour): woman was killed by her; the Prussians, in caeca quenee of this, ordered tNle girl to be shot. Tli ir• habitants rose to rescue her, and number of persoas on both sides were killed and wounded:. The greaten anxiety and distrust prevails in every part of Frano because the Allies have as yet constantly reused to. explain their intentions, nor can nny one divine lat:c or when th;s state of things will be terminated. W* look to the meeting of the Representative Bodies With awe and apprehension. If they act with prudence, firmness, and adhere to the Constitution, we may yet be saved ; but if . they do otherwise, if they adopt a ,pirit of re-active, if they attempt to attack what Fit been established, s e shall be thrown back Into thoie scenes of anarchy and .discord that marked the ealV periods of the Revolution. 44 AVe look to their meeting. as I have said, fear, because almost all the Nobles, those who ra mained, and those who emigrated, and are - cotr. , back, have united their influence to procure the elec tion of those who are termed /sure Royalirtr, that is tat men who are animated with a wish to see the mo narchy restored such as it was thirty years agn, and seem to be ignorant of what h is happeaed since, er: of the present state of things. The Rialists are divided into two parties, that of the King and that of the Duke d'Angouleme, bat what cannot he sta . - ficiently regretted is, the idea that prevails, that some of the Allied Powers are more dispued to sur port the latter party than that of the King. At tl.e aeginning every thing was in the power of the Allies, had they at once declared the resolution of straw:- ing the Constitutional Monarchy, and disavcwal am intention of dismembering Fiance, the King woald 'have been firmly established on his throne, and France in tranquillity. The myiterious silence they eta-e preserved on these two importanepoints, and the (a cmes committed by some of the troops, have excited a spirit that will not . easily be quelled; to these el:- chmatances maybe ascribed the duration of the re sistance of some of the militaiy, and the obstinate defence of the fortress( a • We dd hot, I iowever, m'e'n entirely to exculpate those commanders;their conduct was alike culpable and impolitic ; they. ought at mice ;to have• acknowledged theii lawful Soverfign„aad : tehaie displayed his ensigns; had they been attacked .afierwards; it must have been by declaring war against him, and the nation , then to a man wotil4 have rallied to.defend him. As thing, now are, and unlese ,they scant ebangt a Film,. and peril ups Fala rope, may have to regret, the, interference of the Ala lies, and wish they-had left us to .ourselves. Theo. teone of your countrymen, however, to whom in common with every man of sense and honour avi; l 'ever be most wady to do justice, I mean the Duke of 4.ehisiguin. • Vain as we acre of our past militart story we universally admire him as a warrior, wiii;o we honour and respect him as a man." « PARts, AUGUST ss. . ' l ie Nothing can be ridre absurd than I Lie represed , tations in the London prints of apprehensions being entertained here. Paris never could possibly hln .greater state of tranquility—and in all dilections. .1, then:l 4 oes exist any dift:rence from I. , rmer eel ‘( 1 ) , it is, that it is more lively from the number of • tall. Never did as army conduct itseht with a lnor" liable and marked propriety than the British murmur uttered against them. but their whole el"• duct highly extolled by all the .I)arisi ins ; and it is ,gratifying to behold the interchange of good offici 'which is exercised between them.—May it ever co tinuel The King rides about the streets in his cow, mended by Mx out.rideis, , and twelve (lc:irons 0 !the rear. Yesterday lie went along the rue M ma- Blanc, end appeared in excellent health. ""' Emperor boas been sorely caricatured in the evPsl and in a thousand ludicrous ways. The linpri's arnib are taking down from all the pnblit buildings. Tbefinest pictures bate beets removed trona the pd.' 1