The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-10-15 00:00:00

FRENCH PRISONERS.

The Stamford Paper, which reached town on Sa-
rday, furnished us with the foilowing a:count of
the recent disturbences at Yeeley prisc.n ts--
e On Wednesdaythe French prisoners at Norman-
Cries, about 300 in number, eeinc,el an alarmitz
"irk of insuboralmation. They kept up an inces-
sant riot all the morning, and at noon it %vas obsien;
that they iatended to attempt the destrueborr of the
barriers t end the Officer at the barracks, having
caly the Shropshire Mi;itia ;led one battalion of
the Ar•ay of Reserve under his comman I, dis-
patched a Messeneer to Peterborough for the assii-
twice of the Volunteer Force. Fortunately the
Yeomanry had had a Field-day, an t one the
troops, not having been dismissed when the Ines-
mem arrived, immediately galloped to the bar-
racks. In the evening the tumult still continued,
and some of the prisoners having attempt-a to es-
cape, it was found necessary to require a farther re-
.eircense..t a the Infarery Cerps, and the two
l•er troops of Cavalry from Peterborongli, who
es.-el, and continued on duty the whole nt the
t. The prisoners having cur dawn a part of the
' • d enclosure riering the night, nose of them ef-
t artl their *serve throegh the apertiii e. 13 r
part of ne prison it was discovered, ac day-br..ak,
that they had undermined a distaece of thirty-foer
'eet towards the great South mad, rustier the fosse
which suraounds the prison. althou-h it is four feet
=rep; yet it was rot perceived that they had had
•ey taiii:s. 1 hey had not, hewever, c a:Tied the mine
all extent sufficient to anssser rtrpse. On
:liersday tranquillity was in some de..ree resulted,
','• a part of the Yeomarry had returned home.
:ire of the prisotre.e who escaped have been retaken,
41,t the others ere yet at I..rge. It is not yet known
what gave rise to the distureatie

A Coroner's Jury has sat on the body of --•
SAU v tits, the Captain's Clerk of the .04-scihie, who
von killed in a duel last 7•londaf ar Dial, and pm.
nounced a verdict of IlLossidiag4ter agniast some per-
son or person, unknown.
Ilse little haat, the fate of wilic creted uh
lively intesest at Brighton last sseek.h hasa
not been
loss, as was reported, bet ran on shore at Worthing,
%ileac her crew landed in safety, and hare since re-
turned to the Isle of Night.
A meeting of publicans is t' hi, held this day for
the purpose of considering the most efie;tual means
carrying into erTea a plan for tin. establishment
of breweries upon their own nc;ount, with a view to
improve the eloiary of parte'. i
Lau week. while :he rhislehurst Volunteers
vare exercising, a private 1.. •iw Footscray
command. d by Vi.c.-..unt S . i•N tv. had toe misfor-
tune, in rnabceov:ing his sword, to cut eut cons-
the eye of his horse.

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M WAVE TOUSS4INT.

PRIVATE LETTER.

NIGW.YOIII4 SLR'S% 6. 1304.

The widow of the unfortunate TOCSSA!NT has
kin landed upon our Continent. Her accounts of
her own and her husband's sufferings, from BONA.
r thTeS tyranny and executioners, would be incre-
d:ble, were they not already equalled by the Corsi-
can's former atrocities, and those of his accom-
plices. Her mutilated limbs and numerous wounds
are, besides, visible proofs of the racks and other
instruments of torture, from which she has suffered
in the dungeons of fear, enlightened, and civilised
France, and, under which, little doubt remains, that
General TOUSSAINT expired. From the moment
La Cl.Esc, by perfidy and breach of treaties, got
her husband an 4, herself into his possession, they
were loaded with chains, and, during their whole
passage to France, they continued in irons, with
hardly food v/ :gh to support life. At their land-
ing at Boil, they were separated, though shut
up in the sa me prison. What happened since to her
husband,sha Acies not know,nor is she yet certain whe-
ther he has perished, as the French papers have pub•
fishetlyin a dungeon at Besancon ; or whether, with a
mutilated body. he continues to breath the pestilen-
tial air of French gaols, exposed to the cruelties,
and enduring that refuses:Gent in torments, which
French ingenuity so ably invents, and of which
Corsican barbarity so willingly makes use. Her
first examination was before Luct em BON AP A RSA
brother in-law, the police commissary at Bourdeaux,
Plaltat Pizazz, who told her, "that her grave was
already dap and that her last day was ranee, if she did
not immediately discover the place where her hos-
hates SCOW correspondence with the English was
concealed, and where his and her own treasures
were buried or deposited." Having never heard of
any secret tranuEtions with the English, and being
convinced that when La Ct.eac so perfidiously sur-
prised her husband, he got possession, not only of all
his papers, but of all his money, amounting to
about WO,OOO Lyres (12,3001.), she declared her-
self unable to snake any discoveries. She was then
carried back to her prison, where PILIISI Please
arrived in the midst of the night, with four gesso
d'arnees delete, who dragge I her to a subterraneous
ball. Here the police commissary, in 'hewing her
the instruments of torture, repeated his former
questions and threats. Her assurances, her prayers,
her tears, and her declaration, Mat she was in a date
of pregnancy, studied nothing. On the seise d'arases
laying hold of her, she fainted away. They car-
ried her, notwithstanding, to the rack, where
the most excruciating pain soon deprived her of
sense, which she only recovered to feel that the
premature delivery of a child, by miscarriage, was
at hand. One of the gene jarwes wives was then
sent for, and she was (I:livered of a dead child.
Her situation became at last so desperate, that the
surgeon of the prison was ordered to visit her, and
to prolong a life, still necessary to the policy, ava-
rice, and ferocity of Bon AAAAA e, and his ferocious
gaolers. After an illness, which continues( for six
months, during which time she had repeated pro-
mises of her liberty to see her husband, she ga-
thered s:ren;th enonrh to support a journey; and
one cycling. after dark, Pietism PUNS' arrived
with a jnyfnl countenance, infotming her, that
BONAP A 41' IC id" permitted her to join her
husband a: Paris. Sae was at,sompanied, during the
journey, by two police agents And one of the negro
girls, who came with her to Europe as an attend-
ant. The former forbade her to mention on the
road who she was, under p.sin t.f imprisonment ; and
the latter informed her, by her signs only, that she
also had felt the effea of BONAPA WTI'S tortures,
because they were never kit by themselves, nor
permitted to speak low, one of the police agents be-
ing always with them. She entered Paris at eleven
o'clock at night, and was immediately carried to
the prefeCture of police, from which the police pre-
fed, Deno's, ordered her to the Temple. '1 he
next evening she was brought before the grand
judge BCONICII, and the police direCtor, Rear.
Their secretary, Dese Ana's, read to her the for-
mer interrogatories before Panne PIERRE at Dour.
deans, together with her pretended confessions,
when upon the rack; the prams verbs! of which
WAS not only signed by Pieatte Pities., but
by the foot gras erarliff treble. She was new
told to be more explicit, her husband Laving con-
fessed more than herself, as the only means not only
to obtain her liberty, but to avoid new tortures.
Having nothing to discover, sae persisted in her
former denial, and was, therefore, up in a signal
from H ems t ea, seized by the gen, arms in the room,
and carried to a dungeon, to which she deicendcd
sixty-six steps. There she WAS strpped naked, and
put again on the rack, when Dens a. ais questioned
her about the names of the secret agents from the
English Governor at Jamaica, of their transaaions,
of the houses in England and America to whom
money had been remitted ; where, in St. Domingo,

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they had buried treasure, In geld, to the amount r.f
ten millions, &c. What she had pilfered at Dour-
deaux was merely a trifle to the terrible pains inflided
on her at Paris, which, in a few minutes, deprived
her both of the faculty to think and to speak. What
happened to her afterwards in the Temple she does
not remember, having been entirely deprived of her
reason. When she began to. recover it last April,
she tound herself shut up, and chained in the mad-
house for women, called La Sd/ pet 'wee, near the
,hrdia des Mules, at Paris. When ALLEM/6ND, the
Surgeon-General of this Hospital, had made his re-
port of her convalescent state, her second son was
permitted to see her, and the consolation she re-
ceived from his visits soon restored her as much as
she could expel to be on this side of the grave. This
frady of BON AP A Rai was caused by the promise
and engagement of the young man to form a party
at St. Domingo against DZSSA L I NES and, it was,
by agreeing to co-operate with her son, that they
both were permitted to embark for the American
Continent, after previously signing an acknowledg-
ment of the hind treatment she had experienced in
France. Both she and her son remained is a house
of detention at Paris until an American vessel had
been hired to carry them away from Europe. In
this house they were treated, not only with huma-
nity, but with reaped ; and, before her departure,
she received from Bon AAAAA a one thousand louis
d'ors as an indemnity for her detentions in France,
and Madame Bon sent her a diamond ring
worth five hundred lonia d'ors, with a message, that
she felt much for her situation, and desired her to
forget the pasts but remember that she was born a
French su►jet.
These particulars of her sufferiap Madame
Tonna IN r has related to the widow of a rich planter
of St. Domingo, Madame BUM/MN who has sent
them, in the above loner, to a relative in this coun-
try, with the addition that TOUSSAINT'S widow has
last, from the tortures, the use of her left arm ; and
has no less than forty-four wounds on different
parts of her body. Pieces of flesh have been torn
from het breast, as with hot irons together with
six nails of her toes ! a &big witness of the iwma-
ssiey and lancer of the tender Emperor of the French,
the august Chief of the French Legion of Hoaxer.
As the climate of America does not agree with
Madame Tottesentr's decayed cohstitutios, she in-
tends, as soon as she has collated the wreck of her
fortune, so settle at Jamaica, if the British Govern-
ment shall permit her.

OUdDALOUPE.