ALTHOUGH we term what we have now to lay before our readers, Addenda, a term which, in most instances of its adoption, implies matter of minor interest, it is in fact an augmentation of our former Memoir, of essential relative importance; inasmuch as the whole is original, and the information therein contained is that of persons whose situation and connection with Captain Wright, must have enabled them to deliver the truth, if, unbiassed by any existing personal interest of shame or fear (which is all we can presume), they have not been induced to falsify facts in their relation.

The catastrophe of our former narrative was sufficiently final, but not equally demonstrative. It is owing to the recent exertions of Sir Sidney Smith, that additional evidence has been procured, which although it does not yet leave the fact of his murder positively incontrovertible by those whom nothing but direct evidence, or the personal confession of the assassins, can satisfy, it does not leave a doubt on our minds. The evidence is in some particulars contradictory, but the contradiction is on one side so evidently absurd, that in our opinion it rather tends to confirm than to confute the opposing testimony.