428 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1805. 



his enterprise and confidence, which 

 ever g;re\v with tiic occasion for their 

 exercise — his enthusiasm and arden- 

 cy of spirit, which raised him far 

 above <lespair ; his reliance on the 

 protection ofliis country ; his know- 

 ledge and contempt of the vapour- 

 ing, gasconading character of the 

 French press ; and, above ail, his 

 obt'dience to the dispensations of his 

 God, would guard him fron\ the 

 commission, of such an act. He was 

 apprised of measures adopted for his 

 release ; and, at the period of the 

 last accounts from him, he loolied 

 Avith patience and confidence to that 

 consummation. A private letter 

 from Paris, of the 9th November, 

 states, that the second surgeon of the 

 Temple lately blew out his brains ; 

 but previously gent to three foreign 

 ambassadors at Paris, for an ac 

 count of the sufferings and death of 

 captain Wright, for whom he had 

 the greatjst attachment. According 

 to his statement, captain Wright had 

 twice suffered tortures, after refus- 

 ing Buonaparte's offer of being ap- 

 pointed an admiral in France, if he 

 betrajed the confidence of his ow«u 

 government ; and when Talleyrand 

 promised to send him back to Eng- 

 land, he was already mutilated, and 

 under the care of this surgeon. His 

 death, is said to have been the same 

 as that of general Pichegru, by tiie 

 btriug of a i\lameluke, after having 

 endured with heroism all the tor- 

 tures that French cruelty could per- 

 petrate. The murder of the worthy 

 and gallant captain Wright was not 

 wanting to blacken the character of 

 the assassin of D'Enghein. or the 

 murderer of Jaffa : but it illustrates 

 the sanguinary nature of the ruffian 

 who has Jisurped the throne of 

 France ; and shews us, that, even in 



the moment of viQory, his heart 

 pants for the luxury of new crimes, 

 unrestrained by the laws of God or 

 man. — The following are now given 

 as the real particulars of the death 

 of the Due D'Enghein. As soon as 

 the prince v.as secured in the French 

 territories, Bonaparte was informed 

 that he was taken : upon which he 

 immediately said, with earnestness, 

 " Est il mortr (Is he dead r) He 

 was informed that the prince was in 

 prison ; and Buonaparte again said, 

 with increased emotion, " £rf il 

 morl?''^ He was then told some 

 particulars respecting the seizure of 

 the prince ; to which he gave no re- 

 ply, but a more emphatic repetition 

 of his question, '•'- E^i il morl?''' — - 

 At length the persons to whom this 

 significant interrogatory was ad- 

 dressed, began to perccircits mean- 

 ing ; the prince was then hurried 

 through the mockery of a trial, and 

 siiot in the court-yard of the place 

 in which it was held, as he was 

 passing down the steps. As the 

 prince was not immediately killed 

 by the fire, the bayonet was em- 

 ployed to put an end to his life. 



The tolls of the iron bridge at 

 Sunderland were let at 20801. being 

 4001. advance on last year. 



Baron Jacobi, the Prussian am- 

 bassador at our court, has instructed 

 Mr. Frcylag, the Prussian consul, 

 to warn all masters of ships belong- 

 ing to Prussia against entering any 

 of the ports of France, Spain, or 

 Holland, lest they should thereby be 

 brought into danger. 



4th. Ilicliard Patch, who stood; 

 committed to the gaol of Newgate, 

 by Aaron Graham, esq. on suspi- 

 cion of the wilful murder of Mr. 

 Blight, was brought to the bar of 

 the Old Bailey, and informed by the 



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