The Sun.
London, England, 1801-01-15 00:00:00

AS. Otto.

GENTLEMEN,
I MD wider the necessity of laying before you
the miserable situation of a great number of Pri:
soners at this Depiit for want of cloathing. Many,
of theni are entirely naked,, and others have.cur
up their hammocks to cover themselves. Their
situation is such, that, if not provided with those
articles before the cold weather commences, they
must inevitably perish. I beg to observe, it is
near eighteen months since they were furnished
with any articles of ,wearing apparel by the
French Government, and'then only a single shirt
to each suit, which must naturally have been
worn out long since.
I have the honour to be,' &c. &c.
(Signed) Jonas HOLMWOOD.'
Commissioners for the Trot-
siort Service, &c.

islo. XVI. from the Commissioners of the
Transport Board to M. Otto, transmitting

NUMBER .XVIL

Norman Cress, Sept. 9, 12.0.

GIiNTIAMEN,
Inclosed, I transmit a Packet, for M. Otto ;
which, you will observe, that, notwithstanding
all I have-done, or can do, to prevent the Prison-
ers from selling their ration of provisions for
days to come, and their bedding, it has not had,
nor is likely to have, the desired efreft. Since
the commencement of the wet weather, many of
them have been taken to the hospital in a very
weak state, in consequence of having sold their
provisions and bedding ; and one or R two have
died.
Several of the French Prisoners are without
doodling, and, having sold their' bedding, they
are destitute of either ; and the present wet wea-
cher, and the. approaching Winter, will, if they
be not clisathed, till the Hospitals.
I have, Gentlemen, thought it prudent to men-
tion these circumstances to you; as I am firmly
ot opinion, that, unless some doodling is issued
to the Prisoners, who are now destitute, many of
them will die, should the Winter be severe,
-I have the Honour to be, &c. &c.

• (Signed). 13. WOODRIVP.
Camminicorers for gee Transpla &mkt-, &c.

SIR;

lit/WIER XVIII.
TriPtitart Office, Sept. it, 1800

•
We inclose, for your. tnformation, a,Copy of a
Letter which we have this day received from Mr.
Ilolmwood, the Agent for Prisoners of War at
Portchester, and also a Copy of
,the one tht-rein
referred to from several French Prisoners confined
at that place, stating that they are in very mi-
z.erable condition from the want of cloathing.
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Zno

apt reopmmtnaiiig to your; roost serious aiten_
tint ; the absolute ,necessity that there is of
einsl, sortie oldathing , to, be distribut,!d among
the tench- Ptiioners without delay. We are, e.:e.
(Signed) RyPERT GEORGE.
- ' AMIIROSE SERLE•
JGSEPII HUNT.'

k. Otto.
4.;),C IX. from Mr. Holmwood to the coin_
inissfoners of the Transport
Board,

NUMBER NX.

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Poi-taw:ter, Sept: to, 184 i,

THE FRENCH PRISONERS OF WAR. TO MR. ROLM-
WCOD, CQMMISSARY, AT POiTetiESTER CASTLE.

SIRy , •
You have so Ofteo, and so generously, given us
proofs of your feelings for our tinfortunat
tion, Altai we believe we may implore, through
you: a relief the more urgent as it becomesiri-
It cannot be necessary to lay before you a mi-
nute pi Lure of the state of nakedness to which we
are reduced--a state the more deplorable, as our
debilitated bodies. are more susceptible of the se-
verity of the Aeason, arid the want of repose.
The many sufferinas we' endure from the total
want of cloithing, and other necessaries of this
kird, are already so 'well known to you, that
there can be no difficUlty in your interceding in
our favour,
We Cannot doubt of your cOnvlying with 'our
expedatiori in-this respeet,.or, at least, flil-yOu
will contribute every means in your' power to al-
leviate the misfortunes, of persons sinking under
the weight .of calmnity -; and you will, by these
means, add ;to the 'respeaful sentiments with
which we are, c.
(Signed by p considerable number of Prisoners.)

NUMBER-3XI.
Tra.;port Office, OR. 17,

Not having yet heard from you that any pry.
vision, has been made by the.Frencli*Govethinent
for supplying theii People, Prisoners in this'
Country,•with cloatiling ; • and the reports daily
made to us from the several Depots, reipeaing
the miserable state of the .Prisoners from the
want of thaf necesSary article becoming :more and
more serious, we- cannot, from motives of hu-
manity, avoid again representing to you the ab-
solute necessity, there is of your taking immediate ,
steps for supplying the Prisoners, so as to prevent ,
the fatal consequences that must otherwise ine-
vitably ensue, upon the, comMencement of the
approaching ,cold season.
We.-most earnestly request your.earlrattention
to this subjea ; and that, if you be,not already
,provided with the means of affording the neces-
sary relief to your unfortunate Countrymen, you
will lose no time in strongly. recommending the
measure Ai your Government. We are, &c.
Sigi)ed) RUPPAT GEORGE
Mitt ROSE SERIE.
W. A. OrwAY.
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11. Om.

No. XXII. from the Lortis of the Admiralty
to Mr. Durldas, transmitting Copies of No. 23
and ,2 4*

NUMBER XXIII.

Tran.cpart.o,ffice, Of?. to, Aco.

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We inclose, for .the information of the Right
Honourable the. Lords. Commissioners of the Ad-
miralty, a Copy of a Letter, and.of its Inclosure,
which we have received this day from. M. Otto
in answer to-one which we wrote to him in,con--
sequenceoof their Lordships' direaions, signified
to us in your Letter of the 14th instant, relative
to the distressed state of the French Prisoners of
War in this Country for want of cloathing.
We think it proper to observe, that all the
British. Prisoners France, as well as the Rus..
sian Prisoners taken in klolland, are clothed by
Captain Cotes at the expellee of this Country.
We are, S:c.

(Signed)

Eyxi Nttan, c.

NUMBER ,X36V.

)L GEOR.Gt.
j, SERLE.
J. SCHANK.

17 9th Year qf tke French
icyta Oaoher, tEoo.
THE COMMISSARY OF THE FRENCH REPUULIC
IN INGE.ANO3 1,0 'II3E COMMISSIONERS OF T 333:
TRANSPORT

I have received the Letter, which you did Inc
the honour of Writing yesterday, in ord4r. to in.
form ,mer that the Reports from.your Agents at
the Depbts continue to.represent, in the most nr..
gent manner, the necessity of providing Cloathing
for the French Prisoners of War, befole the com.
tnencement of the severe weather, which may be
immediately expetted,.-
I can only deeply -lament. the deplorable site.:-
Alan to which these unfortunate men are reduced,
and' my own inability, Jo 'provide Cloathing
them, without having; received the.,niecessary
(lets and instrudions. from. my Governimi.[, to
enable .me to defray this expellee. I shall not
fail, however,- again to• represent to the French
:GovernMent; the urgent wants of our Prisoners,
atid-Jo recommend to it to adopt, in.its svisdoln,
such measures.. as .the circumstances may appear. to
require.'
must, nevertheless.„ obs•erve to youohat the
French Government, bayinil ttudertalen to
,cloathe all the Prisoners whom the, chance of War
has thrown into their hanthip had reasoft to exP.ea
a reciprocal attention on the part of Great Bri.
tain;, and although the Prisoners now detained in
France are notexadly English, nes ertheles they,
belong to Powers in Alliance with His IVlajcsty.
You will perceive. from The 6.)py of the inclosed
Arreti, that these Prisoners are provided With
Cloathiiig at the .Expense of the 'French Govern.
I have the Honour to ,be, &c.

(Signed) OTTo,

47.
biTM

aPirrl.:~ ~.

EXTRACTS FROM THE REGISTER OF THE DELI-

BERATIONS OP THE CONSULS OF THE, REP LI 1;
LIC.

Ault, 2,3 Vextzles Bth Yerr, l4tb 111arcP 1800.

The Consuls of the Republic= cc ioiklering that
Prisoners of War are entrusted to the. Care and
humanity,of the Nations in the Power of
,which.
they are placed by the chance of War; decree,
Art. I. ,The Minist,ers, of War and of the NI:-
rine shaWensuro, by every possible mean,i, Sub-
sistence and Cloathirg,g to the Russian, AuArian,
and English Prisoners of War. They shall take
care that they are treated with all the attention
and indulgence consistent with -public safety.
• Art. II: They -shall moreover take. every ne-
cessary for the, vuzpose of :tcteleiating
thi Exchange of.Priiontrs...,-
he. Pirst Con4ul
(Signed) . ..I)oNAPARTy.
HU GU BS 8.M.A.k.E141 SeC. Gen.

The Minister,,o.r WAr. and, for .the' Colonies,
A true Copy. (Signed)
The Cornmissaiy of the,i rc Bch Government
England,

. v.

(Signed)

OTTO.

No. XXVI. From Mr. Nepearl to Mr. Mrs..'
kisson for the inforination of Mr. Dundas,
pies of Nos: 27 artd z 8; 'end, the Papers thereizil
referred to.

SIR,

NUMIIIIR XXVII
tranztcrt-Offiir, lr. Nclarmbrr, Igoa.

We beg you will lay before the Right 1-lon:
the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty,. the
inclosed Copy Of a Letter which we have received
from M. Otto, relative to the present State of
the French Prisoners of War in this Country,
whom he represents as reducvd' to the greatest
misery by the scantiness of their allowance of
Provisions. We also transmit for their Lord..
ship infortnation, a Copy of a Letter chick, we
haye,this day written toM. Otto on the subjed,
And an Extraet of a Report' made to us by ,Cont,
missioner Serie on •the'bta're of the. Prisoners at
StaPleton and Portchester,• visited by him in the
month of •junt lait, by which .their Lord4llips
will:observe, than the distressed situation of the
French Prisoners in. this Country, is not to be
i mob ted td in sti ftic it ney of t het rlta t ions, but
chiefly t& the neillea of tlfeir own Government;
.in not supplying them with ,Cloathing,, the necesr
sity,of'whicli wa Irato,o.r.epeatedly represented to
he. Freud: esoyernl Tfont,, t boib• through him, and
,trough Capthin -Cotes# our Agent .at
• Wo are, tic..
; (Signed) • am swr GEORGE.
jotIN SCHAN.K.

Ia E 47: 4yelegn, • . .., • ,
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Sittivgi appointed in Middli..sex and London,
before the Rightlionouihk LLO D Lott KF N-
YONi Lord Chief Justice, arc. in arid after Hilary
Term) 801

IN TET:m.

LONDUN,

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,14tuiday

Fab. (4. Monday

Feb. .16.

Accounts from Dublin State the commercial
business of Ireland, to' have experience 3 a percep-
tible increase, ever since the date of thi-
-1 here have been more 'lmports thole' of Rum,
Sugars, Vines Sec. than they bad kno%k n the
same time. during any former period.
' Two of His Majesty's Messengers were yes_
terday robbed by two highwaymen, in going to
Windsor. •

It, is hardly difficult to conceive in what man
ncr the. French Rulers arc likely to treat the
FoE,,lish Prisoners in their custody, since we find
they are so unfeeling in their cundua towards
their own countrymen in captivity here. Such
conduft will even add to the dilgrare of lie,
publican Fran:e.
A 'Morning Paper, with 'its usual, accuracy,
states That the Speaker, and all the other Ojicers
of the House, will be ele&ed in the same manner
as at the commencement of a new Parliament.
We shoula be glad to know what other Officers, ,
except the Speaker, are elated.
Some dispute seems .to arise whether the State
Bed for ,the Marquis of-Y.,x ETF be 3 or be nor
actually tirade. 'lhis point we will not presume
to decide ; but we are sati,;fied that his Lordship
must internally-, enj4 that .swcet, repose which
ever sprint, ftom a consciotuines of Virtue.

Mr. CRAUER, the Son of thi! late celebrated
Performer on the violin, and who is himNelf an
extellent Perfotiner on the same in‘trimieLt, late.
lv cut his. left hand, so as to di,able him at pre.
sent from all professional parsaits, thunah it is
hoped that the incur>, will not eventually be of
much consequence,

The jourmeymea Taylors, neearding to the vul.
gar Adage,. for want of better ,tol,k, se.ent to be
" ciethig their own throats."‘ t. pt
ligenty Eh:plod of those inconl,idetatc..men are,
out oferryloymene, and many of them perhapa who
have been most a6kive in ntising the insurrellion,
will never 'be .employed in .the: 6lne business
agaln.• Several of the. MASters hee made some
4dV311C.1 MOW Insurgents, but molt allot= have
determined-to go no farther, and the mitiority of
the Miters, we :hear, are determined. that any
"ad.klition they .may make shall be 4;:dwitar:), 'here-
after, and not.ionquisory at present. •
• •.The mai:once of our .Bucks- of Fashion, or of
try Fashiax, thrusting themselves forward upon
.the, Opera Stage, IStiliCOritillueS, to the great an..
r,oyatace both of ,the Audienct. and Performers.
We seriously wish that some means could be
adopted to prevent this tili,bred intra3ion, parti.
eularly during the pertbrtnaner of the Billets, as
it materially .injore4 their cfrett,
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