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LONDON, MONDAY, SEPT. 11, 1865.

The trial of Captain WIRTZ, we learn by the
China, continues to occupy attention in New York.
So great are the difficulties put in the way of the
defence by the authorities that the counsel for the
prisoner has more than once thrown up the case in
despair, resuming it, however, after a time, as if
feeling that it was unjust to let the accusations pass
without a denial and a protest. At this juncture,
therefore, the publication of a letter from Mr. BEN-
JAMIN, ex-Confederate Secretary of State, and the
friend and principal adviser of President DAVIS, on
the treatment of Federal prisoners, is very oppor-
tune. Mr. BENJAMIN writes with a moderation
and self-restraint which contrast very forcibly with
the reckless accusations of his adversaries, but the
arguments which he brings forward in defence of
his associates gain rather than lose in weight by
such a course. "As a member of the Cabinet of
Mr. DAVIS, from the date of his first inauguration
under the Provisional Constitution to the final over-
throw of the Confederate Government by force of
arms, as a personal friend whose relations with
JEFFERSON DAVIS have been of the most intimate
and confidential nature," Mr. BENJAMIN feels im-
pelled to vindicate the character and humanity of
those who, less fortunate than himself, are now in
the hands of their enemies, and unable to speak for
themselves.

The task which be has set before him he
has discharged temperately and faithfully, and
his version of the story comes very appropriately to
remind the English public that a great part of the
charges made against the Confederates for the treat-
ment of prisoners rebound on the Federals them-
selves. When the Southerners were so completely
hemmed in, and could only obtain the very neces-
saries of war by stealth and blockade running, the
superior force that declared medical stores contra-
band of war must certainly bear a good deal of the
blame of defective treatment of the sick. When in
besieging an enemy's city, the assaulter fires on
hospital and arsenal alike, it is somewhat strange to
find him vaunting his humanity. Mr. BENJAMIN,
however, does not meet charge by counter charge in
vituperative fashion. He simply endeavours to ex-
plain the difficulties under which the Confederates
laboured, and the ingenious manner in which the
Federals have sought to turn the effects of their own
severity and cruelty to account. A material fact,
says Mr. BENJAMIN, has been omitted from recent
statements on the question, and that is, that the
Federal authorities empowered their Commissioner
of Exchange to consent to a mutual delivery of such
sick and disabled persons as were incapable of per-
forming military service. To this class, says Mr.
BENJAMIN, speaking from his personal and official
knowledge, the exchange of prisoners was
rigorously restricted. Rigid care was taken
by the Federal authorities to exclude all
cases of slight or temporary illness from an ex-
change, the reason being that they were fearful of
the returned prisoners becoming again available in
the service of the Confederacy. To their own side
the service of returned prisoners was of compara-
tively little consequence, since, thanks to the leni-
ence of European Goveruments, and the high
bounties which they were able to offer, they could
obtain fresh recruits in plenty. The Confederates,
on the other hand, had no means of recrutitiengretthuerinr
diminishing forces from abroad, so that h
of their prisoners would have been an advantage
of great moment. Of course, this distinction may
be excused on the ground of military necessity, but
since it was made and insisted upon by the Federal
authorities themselves, it is certainly most unfair
for them to hold up the disabled and hopeless cases,
which alone they would receive, and which must
occur in every severe and protracted warfare, as
samples of the effects of the Southern treatment of

healthy men. Again, Mr. BENJAMIN asserts that

among the more desperate cases, there were many
-whom the doctors certified were quite unfit for re-

moval on both sides, who pleaded so piteously for
leave to see their families once more, to die at

home, that it was impossible to refuse them. The

consequence was that many of these sufferers suc-
cumbed to the fatigue and exposure of the journey.

" The lifeless bodies of numbers of Confederates

shipped from the North under these circumstances

were delivered to us at City Point, and the like
result attended the delivery from our side. From

the class just mentioned the most emaciated speci-

miens were chose by our enemies, and exhibited as
conclusive evidence that we exercised habitual
cruelty towards prisoners of war." With regard to
the Interruption .ot the exchange of prisoners, Mr.