The Sun.
London, England, 1801-01-19 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE

WITH THE
MEN& GOVERNMENT RELATIVE TO t
PRISONERS OF WAR.

Contltssita!fr,ts our Pa.tcr 4f Satiirdyy.i

VII.I‘IBER XXXII.
T riiq 4. sri -01ite, 7174 v. 5, 1100.

Stlts

We havereceived 'your Letter, of Yesterday's
ate, • on the subjed of that part of:our Letter of
the ist instant, in which we observed, that you
had taken no notice to us of our Communications
to you of the aul of April and 24th of May., re-
lative to the pernicious pradiCe that had become
So prevalent among the Prisoners, of gambling
away their, Rations of Provisions ; and, in re-.
turn, we, readily acknowledge that, when we
made that observation, your letter to us of. the
24 of May, to which Yau now refer, had escaped
our recothaion; but notwithstanding your having
then expressed your approval of the manner in
which we proposed to punish the PriSoners who
should lie dete&ed in trafficking or gambling for
the-Prison Rations, we had every reason to be-
lieve, that. you bad not taken anyefficacious mea-
sures in consequence.; because, so late as the
zOth of last month, Captain Woodruff' writes to
us, that he daily threatened the purchasers. and
wlnuers of Rations with being put at the end of
the List of Exchange ; a punishment which he
conceives the most severe that can be inflided,
and which he believes would have the intended
tired,' if .it 'were. canfirmert by. you. We shall
cause the names of all-such• Prisoners as our Offi.
elm have, deteetedi or may hereafter' deteif in
auckpradices, to be communicated' to-you; but;
at the same rime, we think iv highly necessary
that you should communicate to the Prisoners, not
only through your Secretaries-, at: the 'several De-
pats, but also throUgh our respedive Agelits,
your determination. to deprive all Oilenders of
the description above-mentioned, of their turn of
Exchange.

We have no doubt; however, that you will
have the candour to allow, that the inadvertency
which has occurred on this subjel, as stated in
our Letter of the Ist inst. does not in the least
degree alter the general state of the case, relative
to the cause of the present distressed situation of
the French Prisoners in 'this-Country ; and, as a
further proof that their distress is not owing to
the scantiness of their Ration, but to their own
imprudence in disposing of it, and to the- neglect
of their Government, in-not supplying them.with
the necessary ~Cloathing, we herewith transmit
to you a Copy of,# Letter which we.,have this
day received from, Mr. Holmwood, our Agent
for Prisoners Of War at Portehester, informing
us, that he halidiscovered at that place a Prison.
er who has purchased the Ration of Meat of an.
other Prisoner for a month, for the sum of eight:
pence, and that h Ends it impratticable to pre.
Vt:llt ti}g: Prisonersirom cutting up their bedding,
Aua cooverting.it into Cloathing, to keep them-
,wives frogs perishing by the cold.
We are, &a.
(Signed) RurErr Geducr.
AMBROSE SEItt,E.
11. A. OtwAi.
M. Arts.

NUMIVER 7 X-X1T!;
Eip tebeiter Carrie, 4tk ;36d
CIEVIL 114

th'eg leave to infbrm you, I have discoverCd
4 frti(wh:Prisoner who has bought 'the Ration of
Mos of .another' Prisoner for one, month for the
durn of eight-twee.

nubrnit to your consideration, what kind of
punishment should be inflitted on him for lo great
a crime. I have done every thing in ray power
tO prevent it, .but it will be impossible, poles.,
woo further punishment be intlitted, more than
by rtting them in the Black-bole , which they
diem nothing; a 4 frequently Prisoaers petition to
be sent there.

I also he;; to rtpresent, that I cannot possibly
prevent the Prisoners from cutting up their bed-
ding, on account of their state of nakedness; that
they convert it into Cloathing to keep themselve,
from perishing by tho-oold.
1 have'the honour, Sec.
(Signed) JOHN flowsdwooD.
citastgittiors jo:r T ts,

No: XXXIW, From the Lotds of ,tho Admiw
ralty io Mr. Maui*, trpsmittiog .Not 35, anti
Nu. 3(i,.

NUNI,REFt. XgXVI.

EXTPAcT ny A LFTTEit FROM ci)o'TAiN cOTES
AT k!Apt 15, TOT E coNIMI6s.IONXIts FOR TtAN-

.
SPOILTS, D 411311) NOV. 241 Isoo.

The.enelosed Letter fronthe Minister of the
Exterior proposes, , that, the French Prisoners
should be cloathed at, the Expend of the British
Government. As I. always understood it was
your' intention to reserve to yourselves the sight
of cloathing your Prisoners in France, in I al-
ways thogght that it wa3 left to the French Go_
venni-milt to cloathe theirs iti England ; in con_
sequence of this opinion, 1 wrote him the Latter
of which I enelpse a Copy,.:wd, am very much
"plgit4Ca that.my answer entirely corresponds with
the sentiments expresuit in your Letter. to M.
Otto. So far back as the TT tit Nivpse, (mt
Ja-
nuary 180 o), I wrote to the Minister of Marine,
acquainting him with your intentions on this sub:.
jeet, and as a proof that tt hali not been dis*.
rived, I have, uninterruptedly furnished our
risaners with such Articles us they stood in need
of, and continue to do so. Shonld any thing
further occur on this Subjed, I shall refer them
to your Letter to M. Otto, unless you should
think proper to give me other instruftion,:,.

• NUMBIIII`XXXVIIi

Parft, 26 i um.dre, cft Year,
I 71b Nog,. iEwa,
THUG 111Ni5T,Eit FOR, ,POREIGN AFFAIRS, TO
CAPTAIN JAMEB COTIIS; T.HE,BRITI4II,COM4
ca'ARGEO WITH THE EXCIIANGE
OFEXOLISIi PRISONERS O,F WAR.

stit,
The Miniiter of the Marine haring laid before
the First Consul -your Letter of the. sth of this
Month, wherein you invite him, in the naive of
your. Government, to give orders for furnish-
ing our Prisoners in England with.. cloathing,
the First Consui. has direaedane to remind you,
that by dr.:- Arra6 of the Ist Frimaire last, com-
municated to your Government, the usages which
had prevailed in former wars, an,l even at the
commencement. of the present, have been re-
established; for the treatment of the Prisoners of
our restieaive Countries. Custom has establish-
ed that- each Belligerent Power should bear the
charge of whatever became requisite for. the per-
sobs of- the, Prisoners in custody, reserving to
be settled.at a General Peace; the, advances made
for cloathing ; -and the'French Government, •in
conformity to this prataice, had reason to ex-
pea a reciprocal attention on the part of the Bri.
tish Government, as a matter of right, and which
could not fail to he observed between generous
enemies.
Receive, Sir, the Assurances of my perfeft
Consideration..

(Signcil) - Cu. M.'TALLEYRAND•

NUNIDEIt XXXVIII.

CITIZEN MINISTER,

Navevber ISoo,

I hasten to reply to the. Letter you did me the
honour of writing on the z 6 Brumaire, by ob..
serving, that the Arret6 of the Consuls, dated
z Frimaire, to which you refer, with respe6 to
the Cloathing of Pristiners, makes no mention
whatever, in any of its Articles, of this part of
the subjea, which is entirely ditaina from that
of their Subsistence. I made the &ame observa-
tion, on the s Ith Nivose last, to the Minister
of the Marine, anti. Lapprized him that the Bri-
tish. Government had reserved to itself, and
would continue, to 'cloathe its ,Prisonera France.
have strialy adhered to the intentions of my.
G,overntrient in this respetl, as my Jut)/ Prescrib-
ed, by. (Inching,- our Prisoners to be.yrovitlal
with such articles of Cloathiug as they might have
occasion for.

Accept, &c.
(Signed) IA NIES CoTts.
To Me Alinister
.for ..:FP:rs ut P..ri;•
cr, lie c,1114:a.1.)

OLD BAILEY.

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FOURTH DAY*SATUR3.3AYI JAN. 17.

, .
Andron Brawling, a lad of i 3 years of age,
was inc-tided for a capital offence, that of bur-
glariottsly breaking and entering the dwelling
house:of Sarah' Dane, on the 24th of Deeettiber
last, hetween,tile houri of six and` seven in the
night, and stealing therein a silver desert 5 plAii 1
the property of the said Sarah Dane:,--.Gail y,

Joseph Bohm and Edituaret Maim were in..
dittcd far stealing a quantity of Brown Holland,
of the value of 355. the property of Susannah
Gillham, privately in her shop.
It was perfectly clear that both the Prison Ors
were concerned in this, theft ,
.but because the
Servant Girl .of the Piosecutor saw one of„ them
move the goods in the Shop, which was the-first
step taken towards taldiT, sway' the, goods.; the
Learned Judge thoug,ht that this put an ena to
the capitAl part of the Charge, namely privegely
stealiog ; they were, therefore, found guilty of
stealin,, but not privately, from- the blaT,
tclah the Prisoners' lives are 11,,tred.

ohn-. N.yitt, a soldier in the Guar(l7,, was
charged with a capital Offence in burglariously
breaking, and, entering: the dwelling-hotise of
Thomas Rayner, with intent to steal.
The Prosecutor keeps a. public-house ; 'op the
night of the 7th of last month, `the Prisoner hitti
been drinking at his- houie ; about eleven o'clock'
he.retiredi not long after an alarm was given
by some Of the family, that robbers had got into
the house : a search wai conimenred, and the pri.
saner was found. under the maid'S bed,
Shoei ofr. He affeled .40. be verrintich iritOxi2
cated. The servant' maid of the Prose:CutOkdis-
claimed all 'acquairitanee %yid; the ?rho= what..
ever.

Mr. Baron ThomrsoN deliveied a very sen-
sible-charge to the jury—L,He observed that the
leading featase of the Indictment Was the charge
of an intention to steal. With respell to a.
burglary, there was very little doubt of it having
been committed in the House • but whether that
had been done by the Prisoner and i.vith'the intent
charged in the indidment; was for the Jury, from
the Evidence and all the circumstances of the
case to decide; the affair ofentering the windows,
he must observe was a very, arduous, if not
dangerous exploit, and one' impracticable to a
man tn.a state of intoxication; there -were cer.
tainly no instruments for theiperpotration of inch
an offence found about the Prisoner, nor any thing
else of a stispicious nature ; they Would have to
consider also, whether the Prisoner might not
have beet) so concealed for a purpose of a very
different nature.

The jury pronounced the Prisoner Not Ou' ;10.

DtA M 011 D LO'TTER'Y,.

This Lbtrery confiists'of only'rit+zB Tickets,
the first drawn thereof in the ensuing' Etrat.,ts'il
LoT-rakyi which begins drawing the td of
March, will he entitled to the DtAmpsmi which
iy deposited in the tank cif England; and valued
at 30,0001. The Tickets at present are only
TwirCluineas,each, hut from the great cienvind

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A RENIARK.UtE CASE.

•
'TN cqnseq,.• . • •
uenem of great Beuefit which I
Jl. have experienced' by taking your LOTAXICAL
SYRUP and N 17. R VOUS -CORDIAL, I think it but
just to request you to pnblis linty case,, for the benefit of
those who may labour under a similar cbuiplaint. I was
afflicted ter a length of time with a dreadful Nervous Dis-
orger, that -atti:Ctod'me in an alarming degree ;-my body was
alsO Swelled in 'a Manner that made toy existence very mi-
serable was aki4d bY the Faculty to trythe country
Air, at a time when they could no longer prescribe to re-
lieve me ; this .1 alit) did, . Out tumid no benefit ;. but by
applying to you, Sir, and taking your ',Medicines, I ant
4,lite r..tored to lwJth and spirits. fain, Sir,
Your ever grateful, humble Servant.
'MARY' CASI.A.K.E., 'fallow Chandler,
• No,
.0, Great Alie-street, Goodman's-Isla:is.
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•
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Mrs, Taylor, Looking-glass Manufadlory, No. 44, liox-
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itheumati.itni. and. an ObStrudlon tho Womb, which
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In this situation,' she had recourse to Dr. Produm's Bota-
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of NoVet-nber,',l364;:i

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