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necessity of giving up his cash, and by this time discovered this divine inspired gamester to be neither more nor less than a thief. His lordship had in the course of his journey related the first part of this adventure; but the latter part he took great pains to conceal.

AN OLD PORTUGUESE ANECDOTE.

PEDRO the First, the eighth king of Portugal, distinguished his reign by a steady and impartial administration of justice, by which he rendered his people no less happy than himself. The following instance of his equity and inflexibility is very remarkable.

An ecclesiastic, in a high fit of passion, killed a mason whom he had employed, for not executing something agreeable to his mind. The king dissembled his knowledge of the crime, and left it to the cognizance of the proper courts, where the issue of the business was, that the priest was suspended from saying mass for a year. At this slight punishment the family of the deceased was highly offended. The king caused it to be hinted to the mason's son, that he should kill the priest: he did so, and falling into the hands of justice, was condemned to suffer death; but as no capital sentence could be executed without the king's consent, this was laid before him among the rest upon which he asked, "What was the young man's trade?" It was answered, "That he followed his father's." Then, said the king, "I shall commute this punishment, by restraining him from med. dling with stone and mortar for a twelvemonth." After this affair he punished capital crimes in the clergy with death; and when they desired that his majesty would be pleased to refer their causes to a superior tribunal, he answered very calmly, "This is what I mean to do, for I send them to the highest of all tribunals, to that of THEIR Maker and MINE.

GENERAL SAVARY, and MURDER of

CAPTAIN WRIGHT.

EXTRACTED FROM THE PAMPHLETEER.

In this day of eventful discoveries and disclosures, we do not know that any writing, containing matter of this kind, has inspired us with a more painful interest than a "Vindication of General Savary from the murder of Captain Wright and others," drawn up by the General himself, and published, with his name, in the last number of the PAMPHLETEER. We wish all the admirers of Buonaparte's government to read this document, that they may gain an idea of the hidden and dark atrocities which were committed by the Corsican and his satellites,, during the season of their elevation. Savary is anxious for his own fame, and for that of his master the Emperor, as he is pleased to call him. His evidence cannot, therefore, be objected to by the friends of the latter. Upon his own shewing, the murder of Captain Wright stands thus before the world :-It is not denied that he was destroyed by violence. Savary insinuates Fouché's privity to the crime; himself having been publicly charged with the commission or direction of it by one D'Henout, an Advocate, who was a prisoner in the Temple at the time. How insufficient Savary's defence is, will appear from the following considerations : From what I have "heard (says he) of the death of this British officer, "(Captain Wright,) it must have taken place in the "month of November or December, 1805,'-that is when Fouché was Minister of Police, and had the care of the Temple; and he then shews that he (Savary) was in Germany during those months: but we appeal to common sense, whether any thing can be easier, if this is to be taken as evidence, than for the most guilty person to prove his innocence of a criminal act, if he may himself affix the occurrence of that act to any time he pleases. Unquestionably the rumour was, that Captain Wright had destroyed himself after the battle of Austerlitz, and

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in consequence of that event: but from whom did that rumour spring, but from those who had an interest to dis guise both the time and circumstances of the death? And if it were certain that Captain Wright died when Savary was at Vienna, the defence would have been complete ; it became unnecessary to prove more. Why should so much pains, then be taken to shew that, even had Savary been in Paris when Captain Wright was murdered, he could not have gained admission to his prison without the leave of the watchful Fouché? The circumstance relating to the administration of the Temple, during the time of Captain Wright's confinement, are so curious that we shall insert them.

"D'Henout pretends that I searched the Temple without the concurrence of Fouche. He may have meant to compliment him by this, but he is not less incorrect in this point than on others, which I shall proceed to demonstrate."

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"No person whatsoever had the power of opening the gates of the Temple without an express order from the Minister of Police, and I defy M. Fouche to give me a single instance to the contrary. Any other regulation would have compromised the responsibility of the Minister every day.

"When I was myself invested with this office, I found this kind of severity so rigorously established, that I was obliged, whenever circumstances required it, to give express leave to those employed by different ministers, to execute the commissions with which they were charged from the Minister of War, Secretary of State, &c.

"I perfectly recollect all the circumstances under which I have ever been obliged to go to the Temple."

"The first time of my going there was to see this very Captain Wright; he had just been brought in there, and had claimed me as an acquaintance, having known me on board the TIGER, where he was lieutenant under the command of Sir Sydney Smith; I was at that time aide-de-camp to General Desaix, who negociated with that officer the treaty for the return of the army of Egypt.

"As I was not permitted to enter the prison of the Temple, I prevailed on the keeper to let Wright come to the gate, where I

saw him, and conversed with him where I was, being desirous to hear what he had to say to me."

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"If the report of the death of Wright is to be found, it must be made out with all the usual formalities: if it is not made out, we may believe whatever we please respecting those who ought to have seen it done: but it has been removed from the records, whatever may have been the motive, and has been likewise effaced from the register of the prison, which we may suppose would follow; there is yet another way of arriving at the truth, by the list of the cashier, who would be very careful how he destroyed any of his vouchers. In ascertaining, then, the precise day on which payment had ceased to be issued for Captain Wright, an investigation might be set on foot by examining those persons who were in the Temple at that period; the keeper is yet living, and he could undoubtedly declare the name of the regular attending surgeon, who could likewise make known the name of the medical officer who examined the body with him. Thus the truth must infallibly be brought to light: so great a crime always leaves sufficient traces for investigation; it is only necessary to pursue them. The whole business would be discovered by producing the list of expenditure in the prison for the months of November and December, 1805; and by turning over the records of the Minister of Police, and the register of that period.

"Wright had been confined in the Temple since the month of April or May, 1804; and his death occurred in November or December, 1805; that is to say, twenty months after his admittance. Can any reasonable person suppose, that if such a crime had been resolved upon, the execution of it would have been delayed twenty months? And is there not equal absurdity in imagining that the Emperor would have sent one of his aides-de-camp from the field of Austerlitz to perpetrate it? It is unpardonable in M. Fouche to have neglected to make a disclosure of all the circumstances of this event, which occurred during his ministry; and this negligence, or folly, can be explained to me in no other way than by the personal interest he had in establishing an opinion in the public mind, that as for himself he had done nothing but good in the office he held; whereas the Emperor had a CONTRE POLICE Conducted by me, and that it was from that source all the evil originated, of which he himself, the Minister, was only in. formed when the remedy was too late.

The cause of Captain Wright's death, there fore, remaius as much unknown as ever.

Mr. SOUTHEY'S WAT TYLER,

Has been the subject of much conversation, as well as legal enquiry:

SIR SAMUEL ROMILLY thus describes it.-I have no doubt that Mr. Southey when he wrote this work, and when he parted with it, was actuated by the more laudable motive. The present application is of an extraordinary kind. Undoubtedly, if the plaintiff had never relinquished his right to the work, and made it common property, by telling other persons they might publish it, he would be entitled to say, "I do not choose to have such doctrines go forth into the world." It is not, my Lord, for me to describe the work in any legal or technical terms; but if your Lordship will look at it, you will see it is a work, to the author of which it is impossible for the Court to extend its protection. I am afraid the Court has no power to prevent the circulation of this most pernicious libel. Fully to understand it, your Lordship should know the nature of the work. It is a dramatic poem, the argument of which is founded on a memorable event in the history of King Richard the Second's reign. The principal heroes of it are Wat Tyler, Jack Straw, and Doctor John Ball. It commemorates the insurrection in which the King was besieged in the Tower of London, and some of his highest officers murdered. It ends with the death of the hero, Wat Tyler, and the condemnation of his associates, who are led out for execution. The only tendency of it is, to set all legitimate government in the most odious point of view;-to represent the regular administration of justice as the most painful evil to be endured-to recommend the doctrines of equality of rights, and distribution of property among all. These doctrines, too, are put in the most seductive and fascinating language. It is, I think, altogether, a production the most dangerous of its kind that ever issued from the press. I cannot read the whole of it, but I will read some passages, and then I will ask, whether there is any thing in the work that qualifies those passages, or takes away the poison. There is a scene beginning with a song, the two first lines of which were, at the time, in the mouths of all the common people. The passage is as follows:

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