The Sun.
London, England, 1815-10-18 00:00:00

tAPT.-UN siTa6uT

Lien Gazette contains the folk) Let-
ter„. .
of M. d'HENOUL, addition to that front the
Same Gentleman already publkited (vide 'IFIE SUN
(if Thursday last).
Ce Lteor, °cr. s.—Captain Wright was closely imprisoned
in one of those-dungeons which in the language of tyranny is
caned aSecrit, and whiz!' ineltules the itlea.of every thing most
terrible to the imagination. tie saw 110 hatuan briny, but one
a turnkey,' who visited him thrice a day. Ilis Se-
e),!l was situated in a small detached square, within which
i.v-s alto eunfloed an Old Jesuit, about 90 years of ale, a man
of quality and learning, who honoured me with his esteem atal
confidemaa " The Captain, as has been already stated, had
his throat cut with a 'razor between twelve and half,past.
twelve at night.* About seven in the morning toe turnkey--
of this unfottunlte Officer awoke all the Temple, with his
cries, repeating over and over—The English Captain has
killed lanaelf ! Tile pater came to the spot, and allowed the
prisoners to go into the apartment of the deceased. I enter-
ed in my torn as did also 128 of my coil:onions in misfor-
tune.: The Captain was ,extended on his bed covered with
blood, and the fatal razor was lying on the floor. A Muni-
leer of the preceding day was lying as it were. very appropri-
ately on the night table. It contained the details of a signal
victory gained hy.the French. " You see (said the turnkeys,
Who were doubtless Well taught by .~ovary) our victory has
driven the English Captain to despair." Nobody said a word,
and no one, not even the turnkeys themselves believed the
story. On this point the public will particularly remember
that the reading of the newspapers was s rictly forbidden to
Captain Wright, and that he had no razor, as the barber of
the Temple shaved him twice a week,accoinpanied and super-
intended by one of the gaolers. These facts were 'notorious
in the prison.
" Full of horror at the shocking spectacle I had seen, I went
into the Jesuit's apartment, which was on the opposite side,
at some paces distapee from the English Captain's.. " What
mimes are committed in this prson!" said' he, raising his
hands and eyes towards heaven. •‘-Yea, father,". I feplied,
" they are enormuu.a and exceed all measure. being so near
the spot you have probably heard all that passed. For my
part, I have heard a g •,d part of -it, or rattler, I hare seen
the precursors of the catastrophe." .‘ Who were they ?" " I
shall tell yoa—Being awake about midnight (for there is little
sound strop in state prisons), I very distinctly heard the door
of the wicket open and then shut t. I also heard. some men
walking it: the court, as well as the opening and shutting of
the door which leads to the tower. I confess I was seized
with alarm, for it was inn:ally about this Lour that the gaolers
came to extritire (that so*. their term when they removed a
prisoner), some unfortunate being, in order to early him,be-
• fore a secret military 'commission, and thence to a fusillade.
" My fear was not unreasonable, for many had in this
manner perished during the night : it ceased, however, when
I found that the men I had heard were not coming my way.
Curiosity.now influenced me, •and I put .my head nut .at the
grated window of my apartment. The assassins returned
slowly at about half-past twelve, but the-night was very dark,
and it was impossible for me to count them. The wicket was
opened and shut again."
" The Jesuit, in his turn, s7id to me, that about the sante
hour he heard the gate of his square opened. Three or four
men tame groping on their hands and fret (as he thought),
and opened
,and shut the door of the. Capt,iin's chamber,—
Some minutes after he heard it open and shut again, and fi-
nally heard-the_ gate of the square shut .
" As for the mutilation of this brave Officer, which the
Ghent imirnal stated, and which the General Gazette nj l'te
Netherlands has repeated on that authority, it is entirely a
fiction, which every judicious historian reject. I, as well
as all the.prisoners in the Temple,,saw the dead body naked;
and there was no mutilation. except in-the neck, where there
was a very deep cut about.fattr inches in extent. A report of
the pretended sniehle Was drawn tip, and sent to London, with
a Monitcmr, as false as the inanoseript document.
" I shall soon send you inforwatiun relative to General
Pichegru.
" D'IIIiNOUL, Advocate."

-4' This will be proved by the circumstance I-shall state.
t apartment, _which fronted the first wicket, was about.
‘25 feet distant from it,-and its.elevation was abort 80 iect.
Whatevrr precautions nosy he taken, the drawing of dou—
ble bars, and the turning of itevs in donble Sulu tret4oloe!,,,
seldom fail to awaken the soundest sleepers.