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COR ESPONDENCE

tTIL TO
PRISONERS OF rv.411.

(Conclude,: from our P.lper of Ye.terday )

TRANSLAIIOA VRO4I TNt 71tCtICH.
Portland•place, 19th July, 1404.
MY Losio,—l have received the note your Lord-
ship ha' done me the honour of addressing to me ;
in whirls I am desired to forward its contents to his
Catholic Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, to the end
that His Britannic Majesty's sentiments on the treat-
ment which has been exercised towards Captain
Wright, may be made known to the French Go-
wernmelit.
At our last interview, I had the honour of express-
ing to your Lnretsliip, how mod' I should be fiat-
terra at being able to render myselt at all useful to
His Britannic Majesty's Government, in facilitat-
ing its means of communication with that of France
on this head. I consequently hasten to assure your
Lordship, that I %sill seize the first occasien which
may offer for making sucn communication.
Meanwhile, I have the satisfa&ion of expressing to
you my very sincere wishes to set this step crowned
with such a measure of success, a; may prove satin.
faslory to His Britannic Majesty.
I beg your Lordship to accept my assurances of
the high consideration with which
I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) Titz Csizvszias VA.soasna.
Lossi iternneay.
TRAtts4•lloPt /110`1 Tin Ylliatt011•
ro:!l4sd Seot.mtlier 24, 11417"4
Losio—At length I ha.e the i f 4.lt_l_l4_, Oil of
announcing to your Lordship, the success which has
attended the steps taken in favour of C:apt. Wright.
'By a letter from M. Talleyrand, addressed to his
Catholic Majesty's Ambassador (a copy of which I
have the honour of transmitting to you). your Lord-
ship will perceive, that the French Government is
disposed to order Mr. Wright to be placed at the
disposal of His Britannic Majesty; and, for his de-
tiverance, only waits to learn the place where this pri-
soner is to be consigned.
Atter the lively interest which is evident to have
been felt by His Britannic Majesty, in the-fate of this
individual. I cannot but be infinitely flattered at the
rasolution thus taken by the French Government, And
I shall be no less so, as being instrumental towai Ss
the pellet conclusion of this affair.
In expressing thew sentiments, I do but fulfil the
wishes, and even the very orders, of the King, my
master; for, no sooner was His Majesty in' ntm,d of
the desires of the British Government, with regard
to Captain Wright, than he charged his Ambassa-
dor at Paris, most particularly, to omit nothirg
which could aid their obtaining a favourable result.
I avail myself of this opportunity for renewing to
Tour Lordship, the assurance of the high considera-
tion with which I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) Till CIILVALIIR D'ANDUAGA.
Lord Harwell.

L ATION ?ROM THE TRENCH—ENCLOSCRE
1111011 lt. D'ANIWROR TO LORD HARR•N7Y.
( 10th Fru‘titlnr, XII ), :HO Aligtt.t.
Stn—l have laid before his Majesty the Emperor,
the letter which you have done me the honour of
woraunieating to me. By his order, I must reca-
'titillate to your Excellency some fats. which relate
to the object of that letter. Mr. Wright was taken
by our cruisers, at the very moment he was landing
Jews Marie and two of his accomplices, on the coast
of Britarry. Prior to this, he had already landed
at three times consecutively, banditti of a similar de- •
scription. who have since been brought to judgment,
conviaed, and punished, for having conspired against
the state, and attempted the life of the First Consul.
These species of aCts, under whatever point of vie .v
they may otherwise be contemplated, certainly do
not appertain to war. There is no age, nor any :la-
tion, in which they would not be regarded as crimes,
and one may, with truth, aver, that it was
~rtagranti
debates, Mr. Wright WAS captured by irench mari-
ners, tken officiating as an armed force.
According to Accounts, to which full credit mast
be given. this officer had been demanded from the
English Admiralty. The Lords direfling this de-
partment were, of course, not ignorant of the kind of
service to which he was destined. The shame at-
tached to the premeditation and execution of a pro-
jea, •s atrocious and wile, as it was cowardly, re-
mains entirely with,the men who devised the plot,
and, with him, who undertook to accomplish their
♦iews.
I am ordered, Sir, to declare to your Excellency,
that his Majesty the Emperor will never suffer Mr.
Wright to be exchanged. No Frenchman belong-
big, with whatever rank he may. to the Imperial
Navy, can ever consent to be placed in the balance
with that person, in a cartel of exchange. But, Sir,
the Emperor. having at bean to do every thing which
depends tipan his Imperial Majesty, to mitigate the
scourges of war, and willing to pose, that in his
breast such a disposition preponderates over even
usiativet of useful and just severity, has authorised me
to declare, that his Imperial Majesty will give orders,
that Mr. Wriibt be placed at the disposal of the

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