The Sun.
London, England, 1828-07-15 00:00:00

DEATH OF CAPTAIN WRIGHT.

A multitude of depositions had re-echoed the
name of the English Captain, Wright, and the
newspapers had talked of him in all sorts of
ways. This Captain, who had landed George
and his people at the eh& of Biville, had after-
wards gone to cruiso off the coast of Quiberon•
Having had the misfortune to be wrecked on
the coast of Morbihan, he was conducted with
all his crew to Vannes, where nothing was just•
then talked of but what was passing at Paris.—
The administration of that department, reported
the shipwreck, and was ordered to send Captain
Wright and all his crew to Paris. They entered
the court of the Temple when George and his
people were walking there : the English and
French Officers did not seem to recognise one
another ; but the English seamen, not supposing
there could be any harm in it, frankly accosted
some of their acquaintance among George's
subalterns.

Captain Wright was separated from them ;
and the Court proceeded to confront the rest
with George's subordinate, which confirmed the
rigid truth of the information previously ob-
tained. Wright persisted in declining to answer
the question put to him, and said, " Gentle-
men, I am an Officer in the British Navy ;
care not what treatment you reserve for me; I shall
give no account of the orders which I have re-
ceived : I know none of these gentlemen."
From whom, then, could Wright, an Officer
in the Royal Navy of England, and moreover,
commanding a ship of war of that navy, have re-
ceived orders to take on board George and his
people, and to laud them on our coast ? Is
there in England any other authority which
issues orders to the navy, than the Government
offices ?

Captain Wright had been thrown upon the
coast by shipwreck ; instead of making him a
prisoner of war, a criminal prosecution might
have been instituted against him by the Procu-
reur-General, on the ground of his being an ac-
complice in the conspiracy. Regard was, never-
theless, had to his devotedness and his character;
he and his mew were brought forward as wit-
nesses, but no proceedings against him personally
were commenced.

This unfortunate man remained in the Temple
till 1805, when he died. So many stories have
been told concerning his death, that I too was
curious to learn the cause of it, when, as minister
of police, the sources of information were open
to me ; and I ascertained that Wright cut his
throat in despair, after reading the account of
the capitulation of the Austrian general, Mack,
at Ulm, that is, while the Emperor was engaged
in the campaign of Austerlitz. Can one, in
fact, without alike insulting common sense and
glory, admit that this sovereign had attached so
much importance to the destruction of a scurvy
lieutenant of the English navy, as to send from
one of his most glorious fields of battle the order
for his destruction ? It has been added that it
was I who received from hint this commission :
now, I never quitted him for a single day during
the whole campaign,
from his departure from
Paris till his return. For the rest, the civil ad-
ministration of France is in possession of all the
papers of the ministry of the police, which must
furnish all the information that can be desired
respecting the event.—Savarys Memoirs.

Dungarvan was brilliantly illuminated on Mon-
day night, in honour of 'the grand result of the Claw
Election.— Waterford chronicle.
A melancholy and fatal casualty occurred en
the Shannon, near Kilrush, last Saturday night, when
eleven persons returning in a sail boat from the fair of
Gtrrigaholt perished in the waves, the bark having swamped
when attempting to gain the creek on a tack. The bodies
of eleven victims were found next morning at the slob at
low water.—Saunders's News .Letter.

BIRTHS.
On the II th inst., at York-gate, Regent's Park, the
Hon. Mrs. Westby, of a son.
On the Ist inst. at Geneva, the lady of Charles Earle,
Esq. of a son.