The Sun.
London, England, 1805-09-19 00:00:00

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The world at large is well acquainted With the
atrocious fait of the detentisith of British Subjeas in
France, contrary to the rights.of Humanity, and the
usage of all 'civilized States ; but the detail of their
sufferings - after-they-were first -seized, has never
been communicated to the Public: It will be seen
in the following interesting and melancholy particu-
lars.; that the French GovernMent resolved. that the
Manner should correspond with the principle of
their conduet in this unprecedented outrage, and
that,, consequently, the one should be as destitiate of
humanity as the .her of national justice. Our
Readers may rely-On the accuracy of the following
account, which we derive from the best authority :
The British Subjefts in France, on the War break-
ing out, were arrested on the 23d of May, i 803, at
an early hour, some at four in the morning. This
was the case of Mr: Sams, nephew of the late
General SsEENg,, who, being of a weak constitution,
was so affeaed; that he never recovered it, and
d,ed at Verdun tlv. Septemixr following.
The arrested persons were concluded by Gears
d'Armes to the 'residence of the .Stet-Major of the
Paris Army, on the Quay des Augustins, their pass•
ports taken from them, and tickets given them, num-
bered in the order in which they made their appear-
ance before the Etat-Major. From thence they went to.
the hotel ofJo NOT, the, Con; nandant of Paris, where
they were compelled to sign a paper, acknowledging
thernseh:es prisoners of war. A Mr. OIFF/s.111), Wilb
cuniplained of such compulsion, *Was instantly hur-
ried to prison, after he had been loaded by JUNOT
with every ten of reproach which French b:utality
could utter.

At tirst, four places were assigned as depots for
English prisoners, Fontainbleau, 'Valenciennes,
Nisrnes, and Nice. l'Ar.r.r:yeA:,.;io wrote to Mar.
chioness TIC EEDA LE, desiring her to name The place
where she wished to reside. She named Tours,
whither she went. Towards the end of December,
1803, an Order ,was published, that all British Sub-
jeas should be sent to Verdun. The execution of
'this order was entrusted to the Gens d 'Armes, whose
coinsnon office is -to apprelirmid felons and all disor-
derly.persons ; they are in general a brutal set of
people. :these Civis d '.(friner were vaid by the per-
sons whom they attended, at the rate of six francs per
day, ,znicl sometimes claimed the right of sleeping in
the same room with their prisoners. Lady TWEEDALE
prevailed on her guard, to take her to Parir, in the
Way to Verdun that she might solicit for leave 'to
,
remain in Paris or the environs. sh* was a. fort.
night so employed. When admitted to TALLET-
RAND'i presence she made her request first in French,
then in English. lie laughed et , her, saying he
neither understood her t:..nglish Ler her French. She
was one day made to wait fer hours in the guard-room
of Ju NOT, among all the rabble of hismilitary attend-
ants, and after all never got adinittauce, in the
severest season of the year she \vaa forced to setout
forVerdun, though she bauevery appearance of a dy.
person, She accordingly died at Verdun a short
time after her arrival. Lord TWEEDALE, worn out
by sorrow and vexation, soon followed her to the
grave.

Mr. and Mrs. rotas* were at Tours when the
order to go to Verdun was, published. Mrs. Forums
wab within a few days of her lying-in. Her bus-
band intreated that he might be allow,:d to, remain
at Tours until, his wife WAS delivered, and suffi-
ciently recovered to undertake the journey to Ver-
dun, The answer was, Not a minute.' He was
Obliged to set ow, and to leave his wife, who could
not speak a, word of Frenelt, fitriong entire strangers,
and without a single person to whom she could
tnake her wants known. As spit as she was able
to move she was ordered to follow her husband.—
Her child died on the way to Verdun.
Lord Er.otti, on pretence that General limn
was imprisoned in England, was sent to the Cha-
teau de Lourdes, a ruinous old house in the Pyretmean
Mountains. There was hardly, a single whole parua
of-glass in the windOws of the place where he was
confined. When it was proved that BOYER was not
in prison Lord ELoty was sent to Pau. Some time
after his Physician and Chaplain were ordered to
the Chateau de Bide. The order was to condnet
the Chaplain from one Brigade of Gens 4' Arvies to
the next, and to lodge him every night as a ft:lonia'
the common gaol. The Conunattclant of Orleans,
where the Chaplain was arrested, took upon himself to
alter this part of the order. Lady noun went one day
to wait on TALLEYRAND, in consequence of leave
given by him in writing. The Porter refused her
admittance she said she came'in consequence of

a leave in writing. He asked to see it : as she hail
it not in hey pocket she drove back to her ho-
tel, returned to TALLVIRaNn's, -shewed the per,
rnUsion to the Porter—who said it was a forgery,
'kind shut the door.

Mr. CitUR4IIILL went to Prance to bring home a
14ether, Who, by too copious use of A quack. tnedi.

This Centleman and his family, we are infortntd.' by 4
ejny,ttiiir inlMtence, have ikince ts.cr.perniiSte4 ttltUni

rifle, vAtr, tr. a. siiieut imbecility. Beier..: ii, itfl
London, as a.public discussion, was going on be•
twixt the two countries, he waited cn A.I4DItEOS“)
the French Arnbaisador, to know whether be
wield
sruhonuan:dy tisk in the event of war, and whether, if he
run any, he might count upon ids protee.
Lion end ASSiStfelee. The Ambassador answered,
that even in case of war be would be subjc6ted to
no inconvenience ; and that teeny rate be inigle de-
pond on his assistance, if necessary,
With this assurance, Mr. Cnoecatet. set oat for
Paris, where he found his bre-tiler. He left pans
some days before War was declared, but was stopped
the day he set out, and brought back, witheotscy
reason assigned. When ordered to Fontsinhlesn, •
he applied to Asnazcsst, but no notice W 35 t21,-.01
of the application. Ile tried every means he cotdd
think of to obtain passports for hitibelland bl 4 bra'
titer, but all in vain. . A pal=sport Wai uit* ~
bother. Through
ingly offered his unfortunate
Mr. LtvlsosTobr, the American Resident, a Ps'
port was at last obtained for both the Me"i'''
Councutto.'s, It is to be remarked, that (Me Of
the French ,i‘linisters, whom we Jan: tier tome,
declared that the usage the ..11ev, Ctnicili.. 5 Met ,'
with was inhuman. • ,- I
Mr. OLIMANT, who, with his wife and
Of
bad gone to I.l'iontpeilier in 1802, on account (ibis
health,' was at Paris, au his return to Britae,*hcil
the arrest took place. At tirit be writ rkrea t°
Fontairibleati, then to Verdun. lit vaidid Ph)
.
sicians of character attest that ,it woul3 61'1°4
ger his life to set out for Verdun' Other Physicians,
sent tv the
_French Government to examine his cOot
reportvd that, :though a bad one, yet it wog otE)
had as.to hinder him from re aching V'erdull, Sr'
lartrinsToN Was again prevailed upon to interfen:, .:
and obtained leare for Mr. Otornetrr to ternala in
• Par:s. Through the means of Mr. Jolts Poll,b.
passport to
tamed. When he bad embarked and was 1%134 i° 'al-
have to return to Britain by Alorlaix, Was:iii•
an °raPt by the Telegraph came to stop the I'es''
1,, might be
Mr. OLIPHANT, net knowing hoW long "- --, .- 1 to
disembarl:Laitnread 7ejtutrbiaattebetillenlitinit :te .N`PeQrrnri::: • thf
aret
reiuest was jefused. e. is that he ,
tv,
fused.:
Some
days niter
litithnei,6tlhiiisp :4011,1:1"1":4 to
tail.
These are a few out a the many i4o,tiln.6e- /,'!„,gil
the systematic creeltf •P'":100s
with which our Countrymen, detained ill r.cap,
are treated. ; assert, without dance 9f'bejtli °off
tradiaed, that thfro is sotticittly art in`tirldu4',l,olO
them that has not complained of crueitY nil"
and frequently of both.. te br°llll/.
nig4ls9oPlleudadmdeiel:lvtith and oleo/150010 4.
•
When the- French. Crovernment was in it'444_,..,j
Geottars, it was Imagined he Might be con'A
.11. Q 41°4
hrt a howe occupied by gog,usl,l Nung,.* .'
hfta (010'4 ,
robbed of what Property they '--- A ottl !,
livelihood by eductting young' pergogs 9' --
cita
Fratices chose still to remain ln rarif,
_,.'o,''' • firil
hour,sex. Ait
n, pai,arty of that armed hctodit4 Ca47.tOs
414rine; was dispatched to Inakel a 5C:11.14„6,014/
content by five in the. morning. At sucl' 'Ai Ole
Y be supposed that the inhabitli,io"o,;„,,,a.
Cunvent were fast astee in, thou' WO - poi-
eve the
tent to search every parr of the houses ietts4
ol cl•c it;
rooms„ the infamous monsters PO9m '--e t';
Lira tofr
aside, without any regard to the cries of
14$
0.011,
distraCted females, under pretence that
might be there concealed.
•,,,.--..................--........... Le me,
gx,traCt of a Letter from on boata '1,10004
dated Gibraltar, loth August, received t.'"
a few days. ago :. • jet aken `3F'
" We hear that there are three Spaniat'
.., with era
who Shad come over from the Spiel isli 141,0",-stle godci
intention to blowup the Grand Masai iaea'44foetel th"j
They were discovered by a bdy, when itw Aocx, 0,,i
they had undermined some puts 4't ',b°tite 1)3_,1'''1.1.,
had trains laid along most of clic y 0 the
gagio'..
Lines. It is also said that there were ro.t,l'„ 119/1'
Men with them, who are to be shot toe4o.o.4ieve 3
i:; some talk of ,our going up to 1e.,,,20(145pw,,"
. Ship that is there tvaiting upon the 17)1,., coy of
in case of an Invasion from the 10.1101 i"
Royal Family away." lice ff.°
The Gazette of Taesdity COMahls 3 IlGt. apple.ga
the -City of I,,ondon,' of their intention o
_, ceeti _
to Parliament to provide for the inakioti
uv.:;er Lott!
cuts from parts of tli,.i River "Iliarnes to ,Lt_'!. jot!!
thereof, for the purpose of avoidleg, IT'ticiloas,t
where the navigation is most onstruate,vrhich cig:,
capable of being otherwise
tar,aeleptLiolpno,seelLitttioetoblptustidileeilpeinr:thrlPe:64;4•7l:ik'lh'sle.rt:7l6bte,uyr,yespolvorli
the Cooly of Middlesex ; atio_ll's viiso, orf of
Thorpe, in the County of Sorrey i o' _.,.,,,latiei„,
Mt for the enlargement and better !:1017- ~,„4
Smithfield Nlarket, u the City of 1,;03 ~ ~,,7,,1. tra
opening and inliking A DeNv str.eet,tPier
__.,:ci 76Tit 4.,
Nortit-eltd of Fleet-xnarket, In .I, of
tel.
Clerkenweil Green, and trom tile:awe
of 141 . y
North Roan, nt, or near the outh, 3 .
A at 04
in the County a :%liddiesex.
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.wonrgt OP MOOdity and TCllefisC4l4:i:ciluPileta:::o:7:-.7o,l;;;Pll:l(trliftootiltilti.
Pat - 1
' 173rtts, 1/35 lia sift 1
Mr. Harrieon tit' Stitch :,, owooo i t
Lonestack. of bees this Ye'tr' /'''/ of hyncy,
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