The National Register.
London, England, 1815-10-22 00:00:00

TUC NATIONAL REGISTER.

OCT. 22.

the details of a bignal victory gained by the French.
" You see (said the turnkeys, who were doubtless well
taught by Savary) our victory has driven the English
Captain to despair." No body,said a worddand rso one,
not even the turnkeys themselves, believed the story.
On this point the public-will particularly remember, that
the reading of newstapers was strictly forbidden to Capt.
Wri;!,lit; and that he had no razes., as the barber of the
Temple shaved him twice a week. accompanied and su.-
perintended by one of the gaolers. These facts were
notorious iu the prison.
• Full of horror at the shocking sp-ctaele I had seen, I
went into the Jesuit's apartment which was on the oppo-
site side, at some paces distance from the English Cap-
- tain's. " What crimes are committed i., this prison!'
said lie, raising ins hands and eves towards Heaven.
" Yes, father," I replied, " they are enormous and ex-
: coed all measure. Being so near the spot, s:ou h rye pro-
bably heard all that ipssed. For my part, I have heard
a good part of it, or rather, I have seen the precursors of
the catastrophe." " Who were they ?" " I Sh:111 tell you
• —Being awake about midnight ( for there is little sound
sleep iu'State-prisons), I very distinctly heard the door of
the wicket open and then shut (2). I also heard some
men walking in the court, as well as the Opening
and shutting of the doer which leads to the tower. I
confess I was seized with alarm, fur it was usually about
this hoer that the gaolers came to extraire (that was their
term when they removed a prisoaer) some unfortunate
being iii order to carry him bel'ore a secret military coal-
m:ssian, and thence to a fusillade.
" M fear was not unreasonable, (or many had in this
mantic:. peri4ted during the night.; it ceased, however,
•••vlien I found that the men I had heard were not coming
my way. Curiosity now iollueneed me, and 1 put my
head out at tive, grated window of my apartment. The
assassins returned slowly at about half past twelve; but
the night was very dark, acrd it was imposalble for ese
to count them. The wicket was opened and shut
again."
Tin: Jesuit, in his turn, said to me, that about the
same, hour he heard the gate of his square opened.—
Three or four men came groping on their hands and
vet (as he thoug'it), and opened and shut the door of
•• the Captain's chamber. Some minutes alter, he heard
it open and shut again, and finally heard the gate of the
square shut (j).
As for the mutilation of this brave officer, which the
Ghent Jourerz.! stated, and which the General (hzzate
of the Naherlandy has repeated on that authority, it is
entirely a fiction which every judicious historian will re-
ject. las well as all the prisoners in the Temple saw the,
dead body uaked ; and there was no mutilation except in
the nech, where there was a very deep cut, about four
inches in extent. A report of the pretended suicide was
drawn up, and scut to London, with a Monacar as fake
as the document.
I shall soon send you information relative to General
Pichegru. D'lkNoue. Advocate.

(I) This will be proved by the ci:ettia3t.ance I shall state.
• (-2) My apartment, which fronted the first wirket, was about CS feet
di,tant 'tom it, and its elevation was about 80 fret.
(:3) Whatever p-ecautions may be taken, the A:awing of donhle
b:lrs, and the wining of keys in double and treble lock 4, seldom fail to
awaken thy SOUlldeSt sleel.•ers.