Star.
London, England, 1806-05-30 00:00:00

ADMIRAL TILLENICIPE.

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The letter, which we inferted on Monday lag, from
the Morning PO, faid to be written by Admiral
V 1 LLLLL nye before his death, and to have been in-
fated in the Nouvelle, a la Main, is a manifell forgery.,
We have no hefitation to declare our convnsboa,
that no paper in France would dare to publifb fo
ltrong a letter againft the Emperor of the French.
Certain deftruftion to the paper, and banithment
from France, if not from the world, to the Editor
and Printer, would be the confequence of the publi.
cation. If it was really printed in a French paper, it
melt confequently have been at the delve of the Go.
vernment, in order to furnifh a proof of what nobody
believes, that the Admiral died by his own hand.
We are (efficiently acquainted with Vit.t., mauve"
flyle of fpeaking and of writing, to alert that he did
not write the letter in queltion. He was a man bf
the molt gentle, mild, and inoffenfive manners, of
the moil plain and innelelt phrafindogy in his con-
verfation and in his writing. He was attached, from
a principle of gratitude, to the Revolutionary Go.
vernment, though of a noble family. His four bro-
thers had emigrated ; he had been conilantly ern.
ployed in the fervice of the Powers that be. It is not
true, as the letter affects, that he had demanded his
difeharge. He was attached to the starry. and he had
made heavy facrifices to gratify his inclination. He
bad a noble elate in the South of France, a anvil-
Scent chateau, and enjoyed every domelic comfort in
the molt luxurious perfedion.

It was his declared intention, as foon as he had
joined his wife, who was at Paris, and who was
coming to meet him at Rennes, to retire to his
ellate, and live in private tranquillity, till he was
exchanged, and recalled to the exercife of his profef•
fional talents.

He was a prudent and judicious man. With
thole qualities, is it reafonable to fuppofe that he
would have formed the wild projea of affaffinating
Buo AAAAA rs, who is conftantly on his guard againtt
the open attacks of hodility, or the inficlious confpi.
racies of private hatred or revenge ? Whohad agreed
to take advantage of the refult, if fuccefsful, and to
sew model the Government ? We know that the
Admiral, while he was in this country, had no con-
nexion with the profcribed family. Even with the
venerable and loyal Comte d'Hscroa, one of the
fird Officers in the Royal Navy of France, who lives
near Reading, he never had the flighted communica-
tion. He wits as fincere in bis approbation, as the
Comte is in his detedation, of the French Govern.
meat. He has condantly palliated, if not defended.
ufurpations, the devallations, the ataffiaations of
Buo AAAAA re. Indead of brooding in filence over a
plot; which had taken poireffion of a difordered
or frantic Mind, he was pleafed with every opportu-
nity of fnpporting the recent 'changes, by his avowed
approbition. We did not certainly admire his argu-
ments, or revere his principles, but we believe both
to have been fmcere.

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The letter rays, that be had communicated fevrre
truths, cobird proved that the inrapatily and ambition of
Boortoroart bad carried the 10 oflisArts at Alfroakir oad
it Trafalgar. This is one of the reafons which we
urged a few days ago, in, proving that the Admiral
bad been murdered by the order of the Emperor. We
Paid that he /mew the reafons of the engagement, and
be mull have little infight into human nature, and
poffefs little common fenfe, who could believe that
Vs LLLLL ()vs, after having written thefe fryers troths,
would trua himfelf willingly into the power of him
whom he had thus intuited, and who never forgave a
Teal or pretended injury.
We have other arguments in lore, to prove the
abfurdity of attributing futh a letter to the unfortu•
nate Admiral. To thefe we may recur, if the French
Government (hall continue to intuit mankind with
their unaccountable falfehoods.

A plan of the grounds belonging to his lviraitrrt
at Tynemouth Cattle, Spanilb battery, &c. and of
the works railed for the defence of the cattle againd
the Parliament's army, in the reign of King Charles
the Firtt, has been taken by order of Government.

Extra& of a letter from an Officer on board his
Majefly's fhip Superb, on her paffage from Jamaica:
" Having given you thefe additional particulars of
the adlion off St. Domingo, I mull aow beg leave to
'relate an anecdote of its Englifh game cock. You
mull know, then, that on the Supe►b's poop deck
Was a large wooden fabric, forming an oblong hol•
low fquare, and fo conlirufted that the upper apart-
ments ferved for marine arms, aad the lower for
poultry ; now it happened, in the very hotteft of the
battle, whilfl we were clofely engaged with the three
decker (l'lmperiale) that a 42-pounder double head-
ed that broke through this ufeful compound flruc.
lure, deftroying no lets than 27 (land of arms, as
it 'ince appeared, and making terrible havoc among
the feathered race ; fplinters, bayonets, broken inuf-
kw, &c. &e. prevailed in all dirations. When, In !
from the min of this "confufinn worfc confounded,"
•up fprung this gallant cock, till then " unknown to
Fame," and perched on the fpanker boom, crowing
exultingly.—Another flint cutting the boom in two
chafe at his feet, now drove him from his pall. In-
dignantly retreating a few paces aft on the broken
poop, again he fixed his (land ; and thence, ever and
anon, was heard his clarion voice to found amid
the " din of war." This appears &range, you will
fay, and yet it is not altogether fingular.—A cir-
euniflance nearly fimilar, I have heard, took place
fn the Marlborough on the memorable firfi of June,
1794: I fay nearly fimilar, becaufe in that in-
fiance the bold bird was found, though not fafe—
wh aaaaa , our little hero was found on examination to
have received many fever• contufions, and to have
loft an eye erc he extricated himfelf from the mein-
choly ruins of his fallen houfe, and the fad wreck of
his mangled meifmates. Hardly had the battle ceafed
when tome of the brave men whore dangers he had
thus il.sared, introduced him to our notice, with so
earned requed to.fav: him from the dire hand of our
poulterer. Soon we law him carefed by all, and
decorated with rings and ribbons. Never is he to
die the death fo common to his kind—and this he
feems to know ; for fo perfally tame is he become
that he will perch and crow on one's arm, feed from
the hand, and even admit, without fear, of being
fondled like the gentled lap•dos. So much for our
favoutite bald Chauticiccr."