The Sun.
London, England, 1804-01-02 00:00:00

ENGLISH PRISONERS IN FRANCE.

A Letter dated Fort Bitsch, Metz, Dec. 9, states
as follows :

" arrived here. -yesterday, with forty„four of
our countrymen, The cause of our removal from,.
Valenciennes was' the desertion of several of our
fellow, prisoners, who 'threw Op their parole, as:.
,looking upon themselves d.7tained contrary to the
Law of Nations. The neighb,6rhood..of
where the
,people detest the the French, procured, as
many as-had the will and means to escape,
.alt::Jsr
daily opportunities to 'break Their fetters.--Our Si.
'tuation is shocking; and in our march from Valen,
ciennes we were treated as'crirninals, and Walked
' the whole way between geris-d'armes. 1 offered to
• pay for a horse, but was refuied, if .I , would t,->t
consent to hire horses for the whole.party. 1' or
the two first nights we were lodged in cold and,
damp churehes; and the third in a common jail.
At last we. were forced 'to agree with our escort,
and to pay each gens.d'arMes-six livres in die 'day,
for perinitting us' to'sleep 'in inns, where they
cheated us besides in a most scandak.us manner.'
The people in the country we marched through be.
hayed well enough: but the Preleds, Commissaries,
and the Military, abused our country and insulted,
us personally every where.'

" In this filthy hole where we now are shut up,
Austrian deserters were,, during the last war ;. and
the treatment in'any prison in London, i'scertainly
comfortable, in comparison to 'the rules read to us
at our arrival„ and to which we are forced to sob-
mit. Within 'the narrow limits of this small fort,
we are permitted to take air onlyloi two hours each
day; for the remainder we'are shutup in gloomy,
damp, and dirty dungeons, where few have been
able yet_ to procure for money:a matrass; and the
straw given us is, as well as the. dungeon, full of
vermin,"

EXTRACT'OF A LETTER FROM DUNDEE.
. A. Lady's Subscription is begun here, to provide
great coats and flannel jackets for our Volunteers :
it is filling up very- fast. Our Volunteers consist
of two battalions, of +co each,. making 800 men,
now far advanced in, discipline. Captain F. WAR-
REN, of the navy, is, indefatigable in. training 220.
Sea Fencibles, in this town, consisting Chiefly of,
ship-carpenters. We have here the Berwickshire
Militia, under the command of the Earl of HomE.
and Lord SINCLAIR. A part of the 'Army of Re-
serve, under the command of Sir WILLIAta Ea-
sK/NE, is, in possession' of the barracks. The brave
General M'DoNALD is also residing in this towb,:
so that we are not deficient in noble and military
commanders. Same days ago, an officer in the
Army of Reserve, at our barracks, put an• end to
his existence. The cause of this rash aftion is not
known. He was once a considerable merchant, and
having failed, was threatened with imprisonment,
which is supposed to have been one of the reasons,—
A ptitrid fever has been raging, for some time past,
in various parts of Angus;shire, which has been fatal
to, many families ; but it is !now in some degree
abated.

Wednesday se'nnisht about noon, an alarming
fire took place at Great Driffield, Y orkshire; in the
centre of a row of old thatched buildings in the main
street there (in which was a large quantity of flax),
which burst forth in so sudden and violent a manner
as to threaten aestruClion-to a great part of the town,
and to bid defiance to all human efforts to put a stop
to it. The instantaneous assemblage of a number of
the inhabitant!, and by their great and well directed
exertions, in a little time the roofs of the adjoining
houses to that which the fire began were stripy, and
in about twenty minutes the whole was deluged
with water brought in buckets, and the fire com-
pletely got under.

It has ever been found that a Lottery commencing
about Christmas was al ways quickly disposed of. The
present Lottery, which begins Drawing the 9th of
January; and consists of only 26,000 Tickets, meets
with the most astonishing success. The demand for
Tickets and 'Shares at Holt riss Y se Co's, No. 26,
Cornhill, is very great ; as such, they recommend
Clubs, 'Societies, and particularly those who honour

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