Star.
London, England, 1806-06-06 00:00:00

- CAPTAIN WRIGHT.

The seeotmt which we gave of the fate of this pl-
iant Officer has excited doubts, if not in the mind,
at leatt in the pages of Come of our brother journey
lifts. Some of them, however, have infifted only on
the quotation, which we gave from a late wri -rt
the keret hiftory of the French Government, boa
have takei.so notice of the proofs which our Readers
will recollesa we pee from err own hareokdge.
Indifferent as we are to the applisofe or cenfitre of
our venal adverfaries, we think it ur duty to main-
tain our affertions when they are contralided. By
tine paper it has been roundly afferted that the ac-
count of Captain WRIGHT is written by the Author
of the letter attributed to Admiral VI PLIINt five. On
this we (hall only obferre, that the writer of the pa-
ragraph knew that he was guilty of the molt flagi-
tious falfehood. It will be recollelled that we laid
confiderable ftrefs on the proof derived from nor own
fou• ce of information. On the accure-y of the fiEt
we pledge our reputation ; but we do not mean 'n
gratify the idle coriolity 0+ indifferent fcapticif ; we
(hall be ready, fhroild the Inbjea come befirre Ad-
ration or Parliament, to produce our authority.
We cannot but notice one very kind, patricfic, and
(millet:fiord with, exoreffcd by one of there cavillers.
tint the PI els may in future he debarred the privilege
of publifltina tinitlar accounts ! V magntu impac
! Surely we were wrong in oppofing, in
1803. Buo 's attempt to abridge the Lberty
of the Preis! Surely Lord SIDMOUTH was injudi-
cious in his prefervation of that great Palladium of
the Conflitution in 1798 ! This daring attempt at
political fuicide, will found melodious in the ears of
!he great enemy of the liberties of mankind. Hea
:harm veGi, hx nragei mere:ow. Atride
TIL: fame writer °Netts to the introdsitaion of the
names of Sir SIDNIY SMITH and of Me. WINDHAM, be.
code it may imply a connexion with Capt. WRIGHT I
We difdain w fay more in anfwer to this charge, than
that, if thole two great political and military charac-
ters are afhamed of inch a connexion," we have mil-
took our men." But we fhrewdly fufpcit that this
I doughty champion is not a very violent opto tent of
the great Corlican hero. He offers a palliative for
the murder of Captain WRIGHT (we Ica; cely think
I he means to deny the murder), by the charge that he
landed Come emigrants, who were to alfalli nate Boo-
rt. Can devotion to the cattle of an enemy
go farther than to cenfure the conduiff of a brave
officer, who without fecret deign or interefted mo-
tives, in the difcharge of his profeffional duty, openly
landed paffengers on the coati of France ? If fuch
fentinaents were common to our brother journalifts,
we fliould be afhamed of our profeffion ; " We'd not
march with the rogues through Coventry, that's flat !"
The letter inferted in our Paper of Friday from
Capt tin WRIGHT hints at the treatment. u hicli he
was ref !ved to bear, however great or multiplied,'
but mh;ch he could not yet have experienced. One
exprsffion in it our Readers will have noticed, as a
ftrong corroboration of what we obferved in the
French account of his death. He fays that he has
fubfcribed to the Mesiterr, but without paying alters•
tion to its fatales or its im4se4ess. Yet he is Paid to haws
deftroyed liimfelf on reading, a+ in the Mosireur," the
account of the defeat .of the Auftrians at Ulm l
Abfutdity upon abfurdity flafhes on the eyes of the
. Readers of the French tirades, but will dazzle none in
this country except the partizans of BooaaraaTs.

Wednefday, being the lit tro's birth-day, the mili-
tary and various volunteer corps of Chatham and Ro-
chaer were drawn out in order to do honour to the
day, by going thro' the ufual demontirations of mili-
tary parade. A very lerinus arid nearly fatal accident
happened to two artillerymen stationed at one of the
guns, who having, in loasling, placed the wrong
end of the cartridge first in the muzzle, were en-
deavouring to draw it our with the wad-hook, while
they were exerting themfelees for that purpofe the
powder exploded from Come unknown caufe, by which
accident one of the men was blown into the ditch, and
h.id his hands In leveret y lacerated by the powder and
the wad-hook, that it is fuppoled he will never fully
rce ,ver the ufe of them ; he was otherwise much
uifeti and burnt: the other man was fr much ex.
poled to the attion of the powder, that his clothes
were fcorched and torn to pieces, and he was fo
completely ingrained with the powder which had
forced its way into his AA, from his ancle to his
(boulder, that his whole fide appeared one conti-
nued wound, and the pungent quality of the faltpetre
continually :idling on the nerves, caufes the fituatioo
of this untortur.ate man, to be one of unceafmg and
moll excruciating torment : both the men, however,
we hear are likely to recover. There being no fire
near the gun at the time which could in any poffible
way communicate with the cartridge, the accident is
fuppofid to have b:en occafioned by means of loofe
gravel, or grains of land having been accidentally in-
troduced into the gun, againd which the iron worm
of the wad hook coining in contaft, the collition pro-
duced a (park which communicated to the powder.
A fcw days tinge a Serjeant of 'lnvalid., in the
Tower, was tried for defection and acquitted, form
after which he mangled his left arm co fhockingly
with a razor that it was compelled to be amputated.
Yefterday the R !CORDER made a Report to his
&lairs-fa of the following capital Convias, under
lenience of death in Newgate, viz.
William Bowen and William Tools, for a burglary in the dwd -
ling-hook of George Wilcox, and Reeling a qUiatitt of boot legs,
value 91. his property.
Laucey, for a burglary in the dwelling.houfe of Rue
Tapper. and Reeling a quantity of women's(boo, his property.
George Bevan and Charles Hemmings, for atTaulting the Rev.
Henry Craven Ord, clerk. on the highway, and taking from him
a red leather merfe,and feren sod a But of Exchange
Cro I'4l. hi. property.
George Richard Walker and Chriftepher Dodd., for uttering
and publithing as true, a certain paper writing purporting to be
the Lalt Will and Tenement of Richard Hocking., knowing is to
be forged, with intent to defraud Thomas Hocking..
John M'Gee, for robbing Ginfried Heinrich Penierheiter on
the highway of a metal watch, chain, sod gold (cal, his property.
Stranger, for Reeling two heifers, value 131. the property
, of Wilt am Clarke_ _ .

Oecni e Calder, for perforating and alfumhtg the name and cha-
met. r of Arcisstioll fi,Patinirgaii, a frAman .n, board the Carolina
frigate, In ordi r to rcrrire certain privz-rnotny thin due and pay.
anie in the i:tht Akaand, htt3onlau, for his Icryiete done ua
!marl the f.lhrp

t. smith: Ala. Mulct I:ltch, for *tenet a mate. the pre.
pert', j ti•ei
. . . _

I..finu.; 1 Johnfou: for returning rmm traaPartati°"•
When Geo. RiehArd W.oker. Chritiopher
Game Bevan, Charles Hemmings. and Geo. Caldet
wu'e ordered for execution en Wedneiday next.
The :tants were replied dutipg pleafure.