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OTTO. • no, • Tranfport-Offieeikkor. 2, :tom " We have received your letter of the apth of 101 l month, relative to the prcfent (tate of the French Prifoncrs of War in this country, and have, agreeably to deftre, tranfmitted it to the Lords Commif=rs of the Admiralty for their confidcration ; but, at the fame time, we cannot help obierving. that the diftreffed fituation which you reprefent the prifoners to be in, is entirely owing either to their being total l y de ft itute of cloathing, or to their own imprudence, in di ipofing of their provifions by gaming, and not, as you at fert, to an infulficiency of the ration of provifions to them, wlsich is fully enough to keep men, living without labour, in a general Rate of good health, and certainly affords more fubfiftence than a great part of the labouring people of this comity y i, able to procure, being, as you well know, a full pound of bread, eight ounce% of ire& beef, and above a quart of Soup, compounded of vegetables or peace, to each man per def.. " We reiterated to you, in our feveral letter% of the 2ln of March, 24th of May, 29th of Angulk, z Ith of Scrember, and t7th of lag month, Jie microbic fitnation of the prifoners at all the depots, trerm the want of clothing, and the melancholy confequences that were to he expetted to enfoe if the Frcnds gov ernment did not collie them to be nullified wit/a that seeceiry article, preekus tuthe cornmencenwnt of the co:,1 weather. In riving you Incl. isriel! . premonition, v -truly did all that 11.1 i ivau. a r lit on nc or that humanity dictated ; and WC have ne hi:Ci tation in flying, that if the French Government had expended a few thoulandtpOunds in providing clothing for their people in this country, in proper time, the greater part of the evils of. which you now complain would not have exifled. " As it is certainly the duty of every (late to provide for the fnppoit of its people while in cap tivity, 113, whatever may have been its arrange ments with refpet to victualling, it I as beet the cuitom in all former wars between Great Britain and France, for each country to provide doodling for its own tilbjcas ; and agreeable to this cotton), all the Binifli pritinters in France, as well as the Ruffian plifoners taken in Holland, are now ac tually fupplied with clothing, by our Agent, Cap tain Cotes, at the expellee of this country, although you Rate as a leafon for the French Government not clothing their people here, that the Britilh pri foners in France are clothed at the expence of your Government. " Whatever may latterly have been the effeds of the prifoners wanting clothing, it cannot be de nied that until very lately the prifoners at all the . Depots, were generally in as good a Rate of health as at any former period, even when vidu:dled by' their own country. Some, indeed, had fallemvic tims to an invincible fpirit of gaming, by (porting away their allowance of provitions, as well as their clothing, and the bedding with which they had been amply fiipplied by us ; but we believe that the number that has thus futfered has hitherto not been very contiderable. In our letters of the aid of April and roth of May laft, we reprefented to you fully the effeds of this pernicious praftice, which had become fo prevalent in the prifonsa and ; we propofed to you a measure which, if adopted, we doubt not, would have greatlyi tended to put a flop to it ; hut, for • what reafon we know net, you have not hitherto taken any notice to us of our communications on that fubje& ; and from want of your concurrence, the turnoff exertion of our Agents, in purfuance of our orders for prohibiting gaming, hive as yet proved ineffelual. While this praCtice continues, it is evident that if the ra tion of the prifoners were ten-fold what it is, they would Rill frrt it away ; and the circumilance of their now chfpofing of the rations Wiled to them, is a proof that it is not on account of the WOE., ciency of there rations, but merely from the gamb ling fpirit abovementioned, that they alfo difpofe of their bedding and clothiitg. Indeed, fo far, from their being obliged to part with ther cloth, ing to purchafe provifions, it appears, even fro m your own itatement relpeeting the (prifoners at Li. verpool, that they adually difpofc of a part of their fubftftence to procure clothes. " With refped to your obfervation of the pri foners not being permitted to incrcafe the means of fubfillence by labour, which you I:iy . , the moff revere adminiftration would not retitle to the greaten criminals,' we think it proper to ac quaint you, that the prifoners at all the depots in this country are at full liberty to esercife their in. dairy within the prifons, in manulafturing felling any articles they may think proper, except , ing hats, which would affed the Revenue in oppo. (scion to the laws, obfcene toys and drawings, and articles made either from their clothing or the prifon fibres ; and by means of this privilege, force of them have been known to earn, and to carry of upon their releafe, more than one hundred guineas each. " Upon this occafion it has become highly ex pedient tbr us, once more, fiilemnly to imprefs upon your mind thc neceffity of a fpeedy relief being al. forded to your people, with refped to the article ofclothing ; a fupply of which would materially, if not entirely, remove the princlpal canfes of their prefent diltrefs. " If you., or rather your Government, delay to cumin' this fupply, whatever evils may enfue, and thefe may be juilly apprehended, cannot, af ter fuel' repeated notices as we have for a long time given you, be imputed to this Country, but to the State which, in this inftance, has fo entirely neglected its own People. We are, &c. (Signed) " RUPERT GEORGIA. •1411 ROSE RULE. " JOHN SCHARR. " K.OTTO." EXTRACT OF A REPORT MAD, BY COMMISSIONER SWALE TO THE TRANSPORT 101110, DATED 25711 JULY, 1800. " The prifoners complained of the fmallticfs of the ration, but not of the quality fupplied. They wifhed for more bread, and for beer inftead of water. I found, however, that the ration, by their mode of cookery, which is left to themlelves, is not quite fo infufficient and deflitute as fome of them chofe to reprefent it. The French are gene rally great devourers of bread, and therefore what would be a very competent allowance to an Engliftman, appears a contrafted one to them ; while the meat, which an Englifhman would think fcarcely enough, is to them a reafonable•allov ance. The ration of a pound of bread with half a pound of meat, vegetables, &c. digefkd into a broth or Coup, yielding (even quaets per dine to every fix men, affoids a fupport which our labour. ing poor rarely have at any time; but certainly not during the present fcarcity, and which, to men living without labour, therm enough to maintain them in a general hate of good health. And I have been informed by fome who arc moll qua fied to know, that the French panne have never had In few tick as at the prefent time. Some, in deed, who had (ported away their allowance in gambling, to prevent which the Agentshave taken every precaution in their power, are in fa& defli tute enough, and fo they might have been, if their rations had been tea times as great ; but this is their own fault entirely; and it cannot be expelled, that if a prifoner be pleafed to throw away his food by vice, that Government mutt be at the expenee of (applying lam agair. However, wherever this has been ditcnycted, particularly as it may be in the article.nf bread, the whole has been feized by the Agent or Chimer of the Pi icon from the win nets or purchafers, and diltributed amongft the prifimers at large. " Their clothing in general, for which the French Government has ceafed to ptovide (as ' a.ll as for ihz vi.lnalling), is getting very bad; and to meet the winter fairly, muff by tome means or other be fupplied. " Six prifoncrs, thofen by the body at large , have accefs to the cook-rooms every morning, when the provifions are brought in, that they'may witncfs their full weight, .and °kit& to any deficiency." LIFTER FROM CAPTAIN WOLMWOOD TO THE COM - MISSIONLIS OF TRANSPORT'S. GENTLZMIIN. POlldiffter•Caftle, 4th Nov. iBOO. " I beg leave to inform you, I have difcovered a French prifoner who has bought the ration of meat - of another prifoner, for one month, for the fun; of eight pence. " I fubmit to yOur confederation, what kind of puniiliment_iboula be inflidted on him for fo great a crime. I have done every thing in my power to protent it ; but it will be impothble, unlefs Tome fro titer puniihment he infli&A, more than by put ting them in the Black Hole, which they deem no thing, as frequently prifoners petition to be fent there. " I alfo heg to veprefent, that I cannot poflibly prevent the pi-Wooers from cutting up their bedding, on account of their Rate of nakednefs • that they convert it into clothing to keep theta:lves from perifhing by the cold." THE LORDS OF THE ADMIRALTY TO THE RIGHT HON. H. DVNDAS. ctit, Admiralty-Office, zit Die. !goo. 'l'he CommitFi'ners for condu&ing his Ma. jetty's Tranfport Service, and taking charge of Prifoners of War, having, in their letter of the nth ult. tranfnutted to us one they had received from Capt. COTES at Paris, relative to the clothii for the French prifoners in this country, we feed you inclofed copies of the faid letters, with tranfcripts of the papers therein referred to, for his Majefty's information and commands." - - "Paris, t7tlls Nov. 1800. " THE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO CAPT. JAMES COTES, THE BRITISH COMMISSARY, CHARGED WITH THE EXCHANGE OF ENGLISH PRISONERS OF WAIL. " The Miniller of the Marine having laid before the Firll Conful your letter of the sth of this month, wherein you invite him, in the name of your Government, to give orders for furnifhing our prifoners in England with eloathing, the Frit Conful has dilated me to remind you, that by the arrete of the tR Frimaire comn unicated to your Governments the ufages which had prevailed in former wars, and even at the commencement of the prefent, have been re-ellablifhed, for the treatment of the prifoners of our rcfpe&ive countries. Cullom has eftabliflud that each Belli gerent Power fhould bear the charge of whatever became requifite for the perfons of the Prifoners in custody, referving to be fettled at a general Peace the advances made for doodling ; and the French Government, in conformity to this prakllice, had reafon to eve& a reciprocal attention on the part of the Britith Government, as a matter of right, ' and which could not fail to he obferved between generous enemies. Receive, Sir, the atfurances of my perfe& confideraion. (Signed) " CH. M. TALLAY/LAND." LFTTIR FROM MR. SICRITARY DVIRDAS TO THI LORDS OF TOR ADMIRALTY. " KY LORDS, Downing-ftreet, Dee. 4, doo. " I have received and laid before the King goer letter of the la Intl. inclofing a correfpon. dente between Captain Cotes and the Minifter for Foreign Affairs at Paris, relating to the clothing of the French prifoners of war in this country, and I have received his Majefty's commands, to 'clefire that the following anfwer fhould he made, both through Capt. Cotes and M. Otto, to the French Government.' ' " The Englillt,Governrnent has feen with the greateft furprife, that the French Minifter for ' Foreign Affairs, in his letter to Captain Cotes of the i7th of November, fhould remind the latter of the lurid Fi of the rd Conful of the sift of No., vember, t 799, and that in anfwer to a reprefenta tion refpeaing the want of clothing for the French prifoners in England, he fhould think it fufficient to obferve, that by that arriii the •Firtt Conful had determined (among other things), "that the Lid prifoners fhould be clothed by the Britifh Go vernment." It can fcarccly ba neceffary to ob ferve.to the Minifter of Foreign Affairs, that an arrite of the French Government, pretending to prcfcribe and lay down a rule of conduct to the Government of Great Britain, k not binding upon the latter, and that fuch a mode of cummunicat ing the wishes of the Firft Conful, was not the moll likely to procure his Majefty's acquiefcence to an arrangement, which, however, he would have equally been obliged to withhold, had it come under his confederation in a form more ufu ally obfeived between independent States. But this part of the fubjea is the lcfs material, as this Government did not leave to that of France to collect, either from its own experience or our filence, the determination of his Majefty rcfpefting the clothing of the French ranters. Immedi ately on that at r;te being received in this country, fo far back as the i 4th of December, 1799, a communication, of which the inclofed is a copy, was made to the French Government, both through Captain Cotes and M. Niou ; and from that period up to the prefept moment, the Corn mariners charged with the care of the French prifoners of war in this country have repeated,' urged M. Otto, in the ftrongeft terms, to provide them with clothing, and have forewarned him of the confequenees of not attending to their repre remotions. There confequenecs, with deep regret it is Rated, arc now too manifeft in the milery, the ficknefs, and the mortality, which prevail in all the &)a: of French Prifoners in this country; whilft thofe of the Dutch, under the fame ma nagement, and with the fame allowance in every refpc as the French, but clothed by their own Government, continue to enjoy their ufual health. " Contidering, nn the one hand, that the com fort, the•health, and even the exiftence of more than 20,000 French (tibial' are at flake, and on the other, the peculiar claims (independent of ale general feelings of humanity) their relative fitua non to their country gives them fo its rotation, his Istaiety's Government can fearecly conceive that, upon a queflion which compaffion on our part has fo often alma obtruded upon the atten tionof the French Government, arld with the know_ ledge that Government polfelred"bf his Majefly' l determination, they should at this ftafon calmly re fer to an ardti which they knew twelve months ago mull be unavailing to every purpofe of relief, and in this hour of urgent diftrefs, affign as the ground of their perfevering in that arrile a reafon, which, had the fubjea ever appeared to them of fufficietit interefl to merit a moment's attention on their part, M. Talleyrand would have known to b e without foundation ; namely, "Fhat in former • wars the clothing of prifoners of war was fur , 'tithed at the expence of the Government 11 • which they were detained.' Without 10,11,i i , 4 further hack than the Tall war, M. l'alleyrand %111 find that to the humanity and proteaing care of the Government then exilling in France, and n ot to this country, were the French prifoners in. debted, not only for clothing, but alto for a Irma daily allowance (one penny) in money, for the pur. pofe of procuring tobacco-or otheT trifling corn. forts, which habit has rendered to many as meet'. fary as food ; and this obfervation is made hat, not with any view to a comparifon (which may more properly be drawn by thofe Who now cid: charge the correfponding duties , of humanity and proteCtiou, and thole who feel the effefts of them), but to imprefs upon the prefent Government the neeeflity of reviving this latter pradice, as many pOroners fold their clothing when they, had any, and at prefent barter their ration (from which ne. thing can be spared) for tobacco. The want of this article is indeed the more severely felt by the French prifoners, as in the courfe even of this war it was fupplied to them by the French agent in this country, as well as clothing, until they were deprived of the one and the other by the arriti of the Firit Conful above-mentioned. " The French Government muff therefore un derhand, that owing folely to that arriti, and notwithltanding the frequent and timely reprefen. cations from this country, the wretchednefs of the French prifoners is now become extreme; that ficknefs and mortality have already made an alarming progrefs among them, and muh conti nue rapidly to increafe with the increafing severity of the feafon, and that his Majefty, firmly deter. mined not to depart from the refolutions fiy;nified to the French Government on the aoth of Decem ber 1799, once more takes the oniy remaining, but hitherto ineffiltuar method, of folemnly can 'Lug upon the French Goiernment to commiserate the fufferings of its own prifoners, and melt fpeedi ly to provide for their relieL if this laft appeal should be attended with no better fuccefs than thbk which have hitherto reached that Govern ment, both on the part of his Majefty, and he .has reason to believe on the part of the unhappy prifoners themfelves ; if the humanity of t his country mull continue to be mocked" by the pie. fence and inerealeul fo much mifery, where protec tion is to much duty and relief aught Co eafily be grmted, his Majelty will have the confutation to &ink cbas he hat'done every thing inhis y power as well to prevent, by timely precaution, as at pre. fent to cheek, by pointing out the immediate but bal.- remedy, a calamity he molt fincerely deplores; and which, deeply anxious as he feels on the me lancholy occafion, he can only confider, as he does all the other calamities of war, with relazocc to what ii due to the dignity and honour of his Crown, and to the interefts of his people, and as far as there confiderations will admit, with a molt anxious with to fee them all terminated by the re floration of the bleffings of Peace. Until that molt defirable objea Can be attained, he feels it his next duty to urge every thing that can tend to alleviate exiiting and unavoidable calamities ; and under that imprelion his Majefty cannot omit this opportunity of renewing his molt fulemn proteft, as declared in the Duke of Portland's letter of the 15th 'of DeceMber 1799, agalnit the whole of the arrete above mentioned, by which the French Go vernment, in violation of : the agreement then exift• ing between the two countries, refuted to provide any longer for the fubfiftenee of its" prifoners in this country, and thereby put an end to a meafure, which had been found by experience to be in the higheit degree conducive to the health and coin fort of the prifoners on each fide, eminently ci. mimed to obviate all mifreprefentation, corn• plai,nts, and recriminations, hnd thereby to 'in vent any increase of animosity between two natio; s whole minds are fufficiently enflamed againft each other. It remains to be added, that his Majety's Go vernment will only wait the asfwer to this repre• fentation, to render public on this, as it has done On a former occafion, during the prefeat war, the ivholeuf its proceedings upon a tub) eft in which his Majesty feels it Important that the true hate ci this cafe, as afTeßing the charafter and humanity pf the repeeiive Governments, %maid be properly underflood by his own fubjelts, his enemies, and the cell of the world. I am, &c. (Signed) . " HENRY DURPAS. (To k costiawd.)• TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR• Obfervingin'your Parer of the 22d infiant, a Les ter figncd D, addreircd " to the DireCtors of the Bank of United States of America," intimatig that the Dividends on American Stock are not rol gularly paid in London, fince the Writer had col received his of July 11798-1 requell you to Oaf the public . ; that they are paid the fist day of cowl quarter, with extreme eszehasfs, in America ; after allowing a moderate tithe for the remitt to reach Europe, arc paid to the Proprietor tv i equal punituality here; viz. The Dividends Bank Stock in fix months, without any deduakis theft on the Public Funds frequently within time. The Dividends of t 798 and 1 799 hs not only been paid long ago, but alfo of Jot Igloo ; and that of Oaober, boo s will Yellow' be in eourfe of payment. visas Jimmy ss,