The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-10 00:00:00

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when I could not stand for my sore feet. I was so weak from
.hunger my bones were nt,arly hrough my skin ; myself and the
other boys often ate the cabbage-leaves, hems, and other
refuse left by the cows—in fact I cannot state all the ha, dships,
ill-treatment, and hunger, we have undergone, all of which
will be corroborated by the other boys ; and had not 1k Ir. For-
rester and Mrs. Earp witnessed our sufferings, and taken us to
our friends, we must have starved. We have all endeavoured to
write secretly to our friends, but could not get an opportunity,
as we had no servant, and were not allowed to speak to any
person visiting the house. At the time I write this lam still
confined to my bed, although I have had the greatest care and
nourishing food from my dear mother for the last ten day's, and
the kind attention of Dr. Symes, her medical adviser, who has
visited me every day; his certificate will testify the state
in- which he found me. The pocket-money I had
given me by any parents, amounting to 14s. 6d., was,
on my return to school, taken from me by M. de Bree,
and he has scarcely allowed me any part of it to spe,d, be-
sides charging 3s. per quarter for spending money. We dare
not ask fur it for fear of being beater.. We were all very much
afraid of Madame de Bree, as when we showed discontent, she
would beat and starve us, so we were obliged to submit to her
cruel treatment. I hope Mons. and Madame de Bree's cruel
treatment to me may be made public, so that it may prevent
other boys from experiencing the hunger and hardships I have
endured. HENRY PHILIP GRIGGS.

15, Queen's-row, Pentonville:
I omitted to say that the day I came away, a straw bed eas
prepared for me in a loft.

(B•)

I hereby certify that Master Grig,g's hea'th when he re-
turned from M. de Beee's school was most deplorable ; aris-
ing, in my opinion, from want of nourishment and cleanliness,
and had he remained much longer, I have no doubt his life
would have been sacrificed.
WILLIAM SYMES, Surgeon, &c.
Tavistoek-square, May 21, 1841.
(C.)
I have been to school at M. de Bree's Chateau de la Capelle,
Boulogne-sur-Mer, and during my stay there have suffered
all sorts of ill-treatment. 1 have been there a quarter of a
year, and have only had meat to my dinner, and butter on my
bread for three weeks out of that time. I have suffered se-
verely from hunger, as she used to give me a thin slice of dry
bread for breakfast, and a quarter of a pint of bran tea; at
dinner she gave me four little potatoes, and ro meat,
nor anything to drink. At tea I had another thin
slice of bead and the same quantity of bran tea, being a space
of eleven or twelve hours without anything to drink, and they
would not allow us to drink water; the water was locked
up. He has not heard me one lesson since I have been there,
but he used to make me work in the fields, stable, or garden.
Thirty pounds of flour u-ed to last sixteen of us a week, be-
sides the master and mistress. We had to go and wash our-
selves in a cave (we were naked all but our trousers)
in the depth of winter, and. the water froze on us, and
consequently we had dreadful chilblains. We then had
less to eat, and she told us we were rotten. We had
to work on a Sunday the same as any other day. He
took all our pocket-money from us, and would not. allow us to
keep it. The bedlooms have not been cleaned since I have
been there, and the sheets on my bed have nut been changed,
and they were not clean when I went there. We were not al-
lowed to speak to one another. My band is very bad with chil-
blains, and I cannot write like I used to. He would
not let us write home what we liked, he made us say we were
well treated. We had a calf which was d3ing from cold and
starvation, and we were obliged to kill it and skin it ourselvi s
with our penknives ; and we had a pie of the entrails, the
inside of the head, and the ayes, which lasted for nine days.
She has hardly any furniture in the house, which was very large
and always dirty ; there being no servimt,either male or femme.
There were only us, Monsieur de l3ree, and an old woman
whom he called his mother, and who took pleasure in ill-
treating us, and sometimes she beat me with her thick walk-
ing-stick on my chilled hands till the skin came off, for not
going to work soon enough. The house was five mites from
Boulogne, and there was no means of communicating with any
person. WILLIAM HENRY STYLE.
(D.)

Dear Sir,—Words will not convey my gratitude and thank-
fulness to you for the rescue of my dear child from worse than
the jaws of death--the pangs of hunger.
The spontaneous act does honour to your feelings and heart,
and may the blessing of that God which is promised he upon
you and yours for the assistance which you nave given to the
desolate and the orphan in the hour of need. Be assured it is
a debt which will ever remain on my memory, and I trust my
child's also ; and I hope to know your dear boys will soon be
restored to e mvaleseence under the judicious and careful treat-
ment of Mrs. Earp, as it wi,l require the greatest care, after
such cruel abstinence, ere their digestion can be brought to its
proper tone.
With respectful compliments and thanks, both to Mrs. Earp
and yourself, beliere me to remain
Your grateful and obliged humble servant,
Sharpe Terrace, May 5 Al STYLE.
vou be good enough to let me know the pecu-
niary expense I am indebted to you.

(E.)
I have been at Mons. de Bree's nine months, and have ex-
perienced all kinds of bad treatment. The house was very
large. and nearly without furniture ; it was also very dirty, as
there was no servant, either male or female, and nobody in the
house but us, de B ee, and a deerepid old woman be called
his moiler, and who seemed to like to ill treat us. I had no-
thin g for breakfast or supper but about two ounces o bread,
and sometimes I had a little butter on it, wiih a cup of ban
tea, and could not have any drink, not even water, between
breakfast and supper, a space of 12 hours ; the water was
even locked up. For dinner we had a few potatoes,
and sometimes about an ounce and a ha f of meat,
and nothing to drink. When we were going to write home,
they made us a tart, which we had to mention in our letter.
There were no regular school-hours, we used to work in the
grounds like common labourers on Sun'aya as will as any other
day. In winter we used to play at cards every eveniree even
Sunday When we were in the house, de Bree never heard
us our lessons. but we used to repeat them one to another.
There were about thirty pounds of flour mads iiito bread
every week for about sixteen of us, besides Monsieur and
Mai:am, de Bret', and when there was not bread
enough they gave us medieine, end kept us without.
We were kept without fire (with the exceptien of two days)
up to Chr:stmas Day, and the day after we weie kept in a cold
damp, underground, paved kitchen, without tire or a place to
sit upon, and were without food during ten hours.
Every morning, in winter as wed as summer, we were
ohiged to go nearly naked into an underground kitchen, to
wit- h. We all washed in asot of trough, mate of stone, in
the same water, which was often frozen, and which, when we
had broken the ire, smelled very bad ; it was so cold that it
froze to our hands, as we were nut allowed to dry them. We
had to mike oot roan beds, and the sheets were changed but once
write I was there ; the bedrooms also were never cleened ; and
though there were twelve empty rooms, we occupied but two
small ones; and Moss. and Ma-dame de Bree shpt together in
another. We were only allowed to wadi our feet but once,
and then it was in the dirty water the others had soaked their
broken chilblains in. When they had a half-starved
which was dying of cold and disease, de line stuck it, and
• we had to help to skin it with our penknives, and to eat part of
it next day ; she made a pie of the entrails and head, which
lasted us nine days, during which time we had no other
meat, and were so hungry we chewed even the bones.
When we had chilblain( we had physic nearly every lemming ;
one thin slice of dry bread. and half a cup of bran tea fur
breakfast ; three or four small potatoes for dinner, and no sup-
per. I was not allewed to steak to my youeger brother. who
told me when he used to give the cows their fond, he use i to
eat the beans they left at the bottom of the pail. and
when he came home his bones were nearly throiel his
skin, and he eouid not sit without a pillow. When we
used to go out for walks, Monsieur and Madame de Bree role
and we used to follow on foot fus great distances. Aladame
sometimes bought a small pi. cut it up among all of us, re-
serving of eourie nearly half for herself and Al. de Bree, cna
made us pay about a penny each for about a mouthful, after
which we had no other dinner. The haute was detached about
five miles from any town, and when I contemplated my escape
I found it impossible, as, if I had got out of the house, the
gendarmes would have brought me back before I could have
reached Boulogne, and as 'nobody ever came to the house, I
had no means of letting anybody know how we were treated.
May, 1841. THOMAS EA HP, 156, Fleet-street.
(F.)
I entered M. de Bree's silted, Chateau de la Capelle, Bou-
logne, July 14, 1840. From the beginning we had not suffi-
cient to eat, and were badly treated, kicked, and struck for
the slightest offences. I was fund with a letter I had written
home, saying how we were treated. M. de Bree followed me
about, flogging me eith a whip of twelve thongs of leather,
and shut. me up. During the winter we have only had fires
on two or three ocea,ions, although it wan excessively
cold : and were often sent siown into a cave ti:i dark, to
keep us warm. I was confined in bed with bad feet for
nearly four months. During that time I was never
washed, nor had any change of linen. Every other d.-,y
or so, I was obliged to go down to show my feet.
when I was flogged and called names, till I confersed that it
was my own fault that nay feet remained bad, having scratched
them, or else they would have healed ; and that it was net for
want of nourishment. But that was untrue; the confession
was forced the iugh fear of punishment. Durieg the t rue I •
ssas in bed I was neatly star veil. bri akfast iton-isted rut a
thin slit of bread, and mil and water, and my (Onner twit
or three dry potatoes, and sometimes a very small piece of
meat, but very seldom I was fetched home by my mama,
and still remain in a most emaciated state, and under medical
treatment. My friends are all shocked at my miserable ap-
pearance. Indeed, lam not able to express halt the cruelties
I have experienced. CII F.S WILSON,
3, Vauxl,ail-pla te, South Lambeth.
The Loan MAvoit having requested the ateendsnee of Mr.
Earp at the Mansion-house, that gentleman, and the parents
of other children who had he n at the school, waited *Too hi;
Lordship, and c (Armed the statement ; and his Lordship said
that he eins.dereit :t to he his duty to make the atrocious cir-
cumstances as public as possible.

FORGED FRENCEI TREASURY
LS.

A letter from Algiers, of the 26th ultimo, gives the fol'evr-
log details of the recent fraud committed by means of forged
Treasury bills :

" On the 22d, a Spanish schooner, viewed La Vierge de
Regis, Captain Jose Maria de Otero, came into port from Al-
met ia, with a cargo of 2,0-0 qeintals of lead, consi2nei. to the
Storekeeper-General of the Army. As no sticli officer exists
the ship was immediately put under survenince, and a re-
port got abrea-t that her freight was the produce of fraud,
through the means of forged bills. We have ic.irtit irsim good
' inhumation that the author of the fraud prevented kimself,
severhl weeks ago, to the French Consuls of Spain, assum-
ing the 'Arne of tidy de Beaumont, and pretending to
be a brother of M. Gustave tie Beaumont, the Deputy
now at Algiers with M. de Tocqueville and M. de Corceiles,
on.their return from Mostaganem, having apparently guess up
their intention of accompanying the expedition against Ma6eara
and Tekedempt. Ilely de Beaumont gave himself out to our
consular agent in Spain as an officer of the military adminis-
tration in Algeria, and produced a pretended letter from the
Governor-General, charging him to make large purchases of
lead for the army. All the Consuls of France at Valencia,
Ma'aga, Gibraltar, and Cadiz, appear to have entertained no
doubt of the authenticity of the later, or the reality of his
mission, for they gave him successively letters of recom-
mendation. Cadiz and Gibraltar were the principal theatres
of his frauds, and it. is !aid he issued his false bills at Gibral-
tar to th! amount of 200.000 f. At Cadiz the Vice-Consul in-
troduced him to sevm-al of the fi. st merchants, and through
their mediation he obtained one-third of the lead now on board
the detained ship. In one tr mutition, to the amount of
40,000 fr., he gave a bill for 50,000 fr., receiving the difference
in money. Not the least striking part of the affair is, that there
is every reason to believe that the lead thus a, quired was des-
tined for Abd-el-Kaler ; and thus the Frei.ch Consuls—un-
known to themselves, it is true—have been ma le accomplices
in a fraud and an attempt to supply an enemy of their coantry
with ammunition. It is confidently believed that the sh-p was
on her way to Morocco, but was driven by stress of weather
into Algiers."

HUMOROUS TRANSLATION OF A MOTTO..--
The motto of Admiral Sir George Cockburn i 3 " Ita," which
remimis us of an aneciote suitable for thc next edition of Joe
I♦liFer. The latest scene of the gal.ent Advdt al's expl, its
was the coast of America, in 1613 ; aid on a naval otli, er,
mnre intimately acquainted with the <etvices ()V Sir Gecrge
Cockburn than with Latin, being asked what " Ita" meant re-
plied, "Don't you know? It means I tank America,' "