The Sun.
London, England, 1810-08-16 00:00:00

BRIGHTON, AUG. 14.

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In thy 'letter of yesterday I gave you an gce°,
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of the Review, in honour of the anniversary 0' 1
yal Highness' the Prince of WALES'S 13irth;u, 3iii;
Ile Prince was, superbly habited as Colonel or
10t h Dragoons, and his beautiful grey charger
parisonedin a suitable style of splendour. The
Dukes were ail in military costume, the Dokeo,
CL-3IBEALAND 'excepted, who was in plain cloth
General NUGENT wore an uniform of white and P,
with broad gold lace round his hat, which wasorns
Men ted with a feat her of'green",Of no ordinary 1113g.1:0
tulle. The Prince's barouche and six was driven to
ground by the Earl ofßAttavmOßE : in' it we'qc,
Marchioness of•TAvisTocx, Lord ERSKINE, 84C.::cli
In the evening there was a concert, at Wh
many Ladies were present.

The folloWing paragraph appeared in'an'OPr-
lion Paper of this morning:—
".The Dey of Algiers having declare! war against Frarlc;
will be the Magnanimous Dey with mu Ministerial ioun'bes
ists.-till it suits his purposes to declare against us, and I"
he will be !he most abnidoned of Pirates."
Admittiog for a moment that this. statement be
true, we do not see.any thing so very culpable iu ,
man's:being a little too partial to his own ceuntr).',.
but what are We' tti say of
ithose Whose parliafill
run in -a contrary dleCliOn, am! who.never
well of a Sovereign,. except When he
.happens t°
engaged ih 1105tiiitieS agains' their country ?
The 'Opera. 'Of this Love.• has -become g°
gr'e'at a favourite at the Lyceum,. that almost e'e:ti,
song was last' night 'encored by -a ounterous
ence: Jack the Giant hiller is every night rising
into favour,: and the little hero protnisc; to rival his
great predecessnr, Torn Thumb:
Mrs. DICKOitiS is at present performing in lihlbltio
where she-is an otsjc!et of much attraction among 1,01
musical ciicles._ lict.l:.poti_ and .13ELLAmy ate, did
in that city, and v; probably remain there
°knit% of Covent Gard -tlTheatie.
A rivalry, it .aeons, is a6tively carrying on
ALirgite, and Mr. LE BAS, who has'
so. long ' e
sided over the einpire of taste in ti-at place, 14,
opposed by- a Mr.- BARNARD: The latter hula} '

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state at liaidelion. ' AO
The whimsical old man who left a fund for
t#
dozen of penny loaves, to be thrown every (:;"i sii
teas from the Church at Rotherham, was ceibt'''•
• desirous that the inhabitants; whatever iii o relyf
gious opinions might be, should have citillzus
comfort.
It will. hardly be imagined that a cerv'd pubic,
Orator, notwithstanding his critical sitneon r,
speeling the Law, continues to speak at every l''eed,
ing of his Society for open discussion, as is proles.
ot
though nobody would be heard on the Goveronlete
side, and, from what we have heard, with uo aba
• mem. of his usual freedom.
1, 11i5
IVILTRAT has rendered himself so tidicu:oui g
naval exploits, andcontemptibleso h
ati
by i,js vatijoe
falsehoods on the subj,-I,that it would not Ue v".cgli
derful if ByONAPARTE were to disiniss him Jr

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the situation of jduineynian King.
Mr. VAUGHAN, a Gentleman formerly well itn°ie
in fiShionable and dramatic circles, died, accorc;
•to report, a few days ago. He has, however,
,a(3a,/
tradicted this report, and plovecip that he 19 atit:
merry; and that his Mpse is in good humour.
- It is not true, as has been slated iii some of l'e,
1A 1
pers, that addresses have been prepared or Pr 4,,,-
by Officers high in the aimy, praying that 10
JESTY would be graciously pleased to reVlacrehiel
Duke of YORK in the office of Comthander in of
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of his MAJESTY'S army. Although t rervo'acil
that Illustrious Person from that Office was att'iii re,
with -the .general regret Of .the army, which 11i4
' ceived so much benefit in all its br:friches fr'~ni alt
regulations and his superinrendance ; and alt
regret for his Royal Highness's' removal no(ler3
implies a wish for his restoration, 'still the Ow",:ost
of every regiment in his MAJESTY'S serviee
their duty as British soldiers too well, to oPt''l,.' ad'
themselves into a 'deliberative body, and to offer
N'
r vice to his MAJESTY upon the choice of, their —that
[Wanders. The hficers of the army also kit°'`' tion
Highness., under -Whose adninlistrori
they have imbibed' t just principles o 4• It:eh
would of himself be the first to dicoUntenaboe 9
a proceeding. • • nijor
On Friday last as some workmen in the erTitog
of Mrs. Frost,. of Harfnest, near Bury, were ra'4Bnef
amp at that place,-one of the screws gore waY'oi
the whole mill fell with a tremendous Crashn
a ;030
who was. in the second floor of the mill at th°:,,losi
of the aceident,wa4'discoveredafterwards si ting aloe
the mill post, in the midst of the ruins, twilit'''•
ther man, who ,was, assist ing at the screwsundr,riotO
mill, had the presence of mind to throw himse"ettl,
a hole which had been dug for. tte purpose of v 1,41
ing some brick wok, and thus providentially e'eairies(
with,only a few slight-bruises, although the gre"
part of the ruins fell over him. --A porn tositt
ria fits
Bridbroke, who was ,standing-by looking on, b,'1110‘,17
leg and thgb 4ruken by -some of the timber 'a
against him. . .
The opinion that the late fire, by which
fir' •
lett s printmg-oice4,a4 destroy,d, was Wilfli"itlig
occasioned an adi:ertiSement for the di.:covelY
incendiaries. 'A reward of 6001. is -afeled ir) net`
Gazette for the aivrei,ension Of the perE,oll t).r
sons who set, the house on fire, and his M'e
pardon is promised to any one of Ow Fersoo.lto
cerned (except the 'person who .attuady Set bye 4°,
• the pre ises), 'upon .disCoVernw his
that they may be cenvicled. • n'oge,
On Wednesday seinnight the Bell publiffldgel
at Steeple Mothten, in the County of Cal".;,..auty
was broke open by tour men, who eriteredtlie,c'e
• ber where the landlord and his wile were.io !-!,ec-1;08
They. vent to tie bed-Side and dertianded the - op°
box belonging a society Which is held
of the villains aopea'red to have 'a knowledge gpf,
'box,. he observed it used to be kept in 010 I);
fhe roabeis went, t I.ere in the (fork, having l'e'
(';10,
in the house, and found the box, which they brei/
open, aid took out alt they th,,ught COUPinC
but fortunately they tniseu a' drawer wi'icll)
tamed near 501. in bank-ooteS and gold. rr
terwar,:s demanded the blidiord.„ watch- a,. d
which he gave,thein,

710 THE E:DITOR OF T7IE

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a‘titne when the GoVernment it daily adopting.
"dies of greater leniency towards the Freneh.pri-
to?eers in England, if may not be altogether improper:.
euecelope the-Systettl acted upon in Fraec•-. With-
wi'hiPg to aggravate the fate of those tinter-
-4te stitierers, it ;lay teach them to endure with
t'o'' and
baid-hOes insepa-able from their condis
w°' 3na nu/ Lei as 'a practical- ,answer to those
amidst the tujoyieeeta of cis iii zed life, and in
of independence, indulge themselves in
:"He'rut declartratians cn the magnanimity of the
,Graede Nation", and' its liberal conduct towards
Pite'hers of war.
The Castle of Bitche, a strong and ancient for-
tress, built upon a rock; in the centre of a sterile
co
uzurY, is intended tor the receptacle of such as
eave atlempted to 'desert, who are suspicious in the
s.eof tiovernment, or who have incurred the dis-
r, e,atire Waite superior officer of the depot •to which
t aeY belong, - -.-
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ei C)° a prisoner's arrival-at Bitche he is plunged.
r teen hours out of the twenty-four, into Subter-
,;lts vaults, twenty-five_ teet beneath the surfate
the earth, where the sun never shines, and where
the light penetrates butefeebly through excava-•
ev,"s hewn out of the rock:- The extreme humidity
e; see/ay-rains was the first evil he has to combat
itilontl though I o the narrow allowance of the sailor
rods
added whatever the officer.-could spare (for two
it three- hundred of either description were con,
"i'ded promiscuously together), it was not before
n ii'llbers were carried off by putrid and inflamina-
- t "rY fevers, or had totally lost the use of their limbs
eui.!Ye-sight, that by continued fires a& repeatedly
acid white-washing the pores of the rock,
e-r°ugh which the saltpetre oozed in every direc-
-2°ll, that these extensive cavities at length Were
vatinditreiently- aired. • .
The subsistence from the French Government was
'r.) ihadeeilate, and :Nir. ***, who then had the dis-
tribution of the succours sent from England, so in-
ci'Werent to this class of men, whose gallant endea-
vours t; to regain their liberty were their oily Offeece,
iac many • pe riShe.o frOrn bad noorishment, and some
'°lll inanition.
eci? is true that Mr. Clement, Lieutenant-Colonel
the Gend'arrnetie, thefirsi Commandant at Bitche,
isa men of tried and exienive huminity,alikeresPear
t'Y the seamen and officers, far,above all national
treAlices, too independent,-too liberal, to be biassed
Pecianiaty consieerations, and too pretend to grant
a~1:•Ic servility of a prisoner what he was linable to
cord to his merits. He procured from -
.Paris per-
Tission to open ,several chambers of the garrison,
lie lo:lged. certain ite;ividuals, for whom he
responsible.. General Stack, Mr. Forsyth,
Elba, Colonel Whaley, the Hon. Mr- \Vallap,
latter 'days, Coloael Stopford, Mr. Snarl,
44merly NI. P. for Bridport, Sir John Merahead,
4"d Knox, Whose name was proverbial for many
(".)ti qualities, were of this nu.eber. But the great
,„mis of men were confined in the disinallest G.
InCr Was it in Ilie power of the CATI-,
414:1dallt to ameliorate 111E4 situation : he left Bache
rSPain. about eighteen months since, and some
to previous to his departure proctired •from his
ee'vernment theintportatit permission, that the pri-
'tiers who had been three, four, and five
/Jars buried in these vaults, and whose copctuct liacl
irreproachable, should be supposed to have ex-
aPt'''ted th•:•ir otiences, and should be once again re-
iu at least the•air and light of heaven, by i:ie-
e% re-conducted to the depots to Which they ori-
beloneed. The last act of Mr. Clement was
`'ti an of benevolence ; the author of this let-
II was witness to the perseverenee, to the zeal with
a",th, when repulsede lie returned to the charge,
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he left a name that became vet dearer to the
Csoners, by the contrast they were obliged to form
tlhwetni him and his successor.
re;''rhap.s the English priso.ner of war does not sus-
."'t voter hardship, a more . cruel humiliation
aall that of being conduced; immediately alter his
e 1) re liehsion oftentimes a distance of two or three
. `!littred leagues to the depot he is destined for; en-
".eclualtrted With the language and etistutil of the
491trY, lie la led along' - chained and handcutfed,
illicit,l" a s:rong escort of toe Hurst Gzeid'armerie, tie-
('ee"ily bound to the young conscripts ..(deserters),
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4 whom France swarms, and at other t. Ines vtiitii
malefactors.
N„Zieuteriant Cockburn, after the loss of his cutter,
ge" chained body to body -with an assassin, under
- arnte'!ce of death, from Toulon to Lyons, a• 'distance
"e hundred leagues, and though Cept. lJevison
and. hiS .officers w ere -not ironed, they were
1f11.34- throw!) into pesons aiel dungeons every night.
su`'l
be the• treatment of officers of his cmisidera—
,ll'w.ithoutany imputed offence, what most not the
teltte rings be of those who are taken, fiogrante
i
.te ICI4, in the very att of 'desertion. I shal not at-
fae'nPt to describe them, but as my objee is' to state
'ss) I cannot help concisely noticing the severities
axe _ _
who, towards &nen ener‘hantinen Capteihs,
°. driven to despair by the horrairs of seven
yearsvi detention, and the prospeet Of' indefinite. cepti-
aaeltY, had fled from. Verdun to rej•.in their families
rative land, and to devote therbseves.'to the
ireir''er of honourable iudustty, stripped of all their
axe tlf, plunged into every cachot on the Toad,
ae,eti to the worst of usage, horn the most few-
),a4s of men,- on their arrival et Metz, hear thitey
g"es from Bitche thuirib-sereeved and lewd-
ins
• . f they were each boanicl• with an. additional
riv of uncommon weight And thidnes. ,- strongly
arliZttd round their necks-: thus for severe! nights
ee; clays they were unable to move, but, tegether
tion".tild they perform any of the necessary
of life, without the most galling and shameful
ferr°TlVellierle..e. They were Con% eyed through the dd.-
ant villages and towns; sometimes the objects of
14kerY, but oftener of pity to a sympathising po-
h,4 ce,--6nd yet they were Britona• born ! Tiley
' violated no laws, committed ito crime to expose
ee"' 10 indignities commonly reserved for the most'
micreants of society.. On their ,arrival at.
icite, the blacksmith, not without dtficulty,,
tie Their cle,ins asunder, winch weighed, not less
• .41 ae 11:),..,.e
°Pitt he diffiaelt to convey an adequate idea
igitne of a Freheh depot to those who ate

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unicquairitA with it; Mr. ****.4, the succes-
sor cat Mr.-Clement, has brought the system to a
point unheard of before.. His obje6t has not been-.
si4nply to enforce the moist passive obedience, bait to
banish every trace of liberty even from the recollec-
tion of the prisoner o perhaps h'e has exerted a ri-
gour beyond the law, but certainly he has precluded'
all possibility of future improvement. Courage is
jiersonal, and to be found among all people ; spirit is
national, and can be .reserved only among the free.
The state of his depot resolves 'a political problem
Undocided before in civilized Europe—what degreb of '
sufferings. an Englishman in a foreign country can
endure, before bowing implicitly the neck to the.
yoke of wanton tyranny and cipricious insult? Ti ey
who, discontented,with Mr: Clement, wereimplor-
mg a change, resemble ,the frogs discontented with
their pacific King, to whoa) Jupiter sent a stork.
I ,shall confine myself to a. few tags, .ex uno ; disce
omnes.

The former CoMmandarit sent regularly twice a
weak forty or fifty individuals under an escort to
town on market days, in order to purchase for them-
selves and. messmates what vegetables they might
require. His successor annulled tits salutary regu-
lation,
• and by permitting a few privileged persons
only to attend at the barrier of the Castle, expoied„
the prisoners to the extortion of half .a doien indi- '
viduals who had interest or address enough to obtain •
the exclusive right of selling the worst of commodi-
ties, at the Most extravagant of prices. Strange to
relate, be obliged the officers to deal with one
butcher, and one baker, nor would he-suffer:any
meat or bread to enter in the Fort; save what was
sold by them. How many times has the narrator
of these tads witnessed the fruitless entreaties of
the unfortunate prisoners of war, And seen the bravest, ,
the.worthiest, the most distinguished of his fellow-
countrymen consgoed to. the loathsoinest of carhois,
and the mo,t
.degradiog treatment.. I oil on • Lieu-
tenant Campbell to declare, whether for, a similar
offence he has not been plunged for twenty days and
.nights,: in a dark stone cell ••thirty flet beneath the
.earth, with the water higher than his alleles, without
any other sub,teotince than brown .bread and water.
I call on him to reveal on his reit:it-Li to his, na.ke
county, the unheard . of persecutions be was ahe ,
victim of for his interference in favour of Mrs. Moore, ;
Who was 'treated I.with more than savage .barbarity
after the ,escape of her husband from Bitche.—
Should any one suppoie the , French GOVeIMIFti t
Would not countenance these atrocities . he would
suppose the truth, but 'how cournutiicate. to the
Minister what it is so much the interest of the (.';oin-
mandant to suppress ? for every scrap of paper, every
letter is examinitid, as the post-office sobmits every
thing to his inspection. Je sais les ordres ,demon '
'Government is the talisman wiih which he silences
eVery scruple—was it otherwise, the. Government
would allow weights and scales to the famished Cap-a
. live, and he would not be pillaged of .a part of his
scanty provisions,' he would receive the annual
cloathing intended for -him, he would not be de-
prived of four soli every ten days, while he received
the full atldwanee during the whirle time of Mr. Cle-
Mem, and especially, he would not have the mor-
tification of seeing thOse .Euglishineli worthless
enough to embrice a hostile service; cloat bed by the
very subscription w.hich his patriotic *low-country-
men had contributed and destined to his cloathing,
maintenance, and succour, and an his Natural, bat re-
spectful 1 ernou st r‘i nces on this head, he would not have
been thrown in th .i infectious dungeons of the fort—'
gloomy and execrable dungeons, whose walls are
darkened w ith fetters, links,' and neck-chains, and
all the accompailiments of torture ! ' Dungeons that
recal to our. tuelnorieS the horrors so often the re-
pro ich of a Caligula and Tiberius ! where man
buries ma,n; without reflecting that the vilest of
culprits Ought to die but once, and that he is entitled
to the vital air of Heaven until the sword of justice
deprive him once for all of his existence !
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M.! the French Government woOld'not sanEtion
these abuses; independently of the innate humanity
man leek for suffering maa, they are aware that they
who are now . the viainis will, i erhaps, in some

more propitious day, be _distributed through every
avenging ship of the British nat'y ; it Might then be
apprehended, that when the tide of battle turned in
their favour, and the resisties3 intrepidity of their
flag swept every thing before it, that, forgetful that
humanity is the noblest attribute of eborage,-/ and
boiling with the Memory of the past, thty might in
their turn be tempted, in defiance; of the supplica-
tions or the defenceless, to exercise 'dreadful and
memorable reprisals ?

AN ENGLISH PRISONER.

The names' of the individuals in question are—Thomas
Baker, 13risiul ; Modand, Dublin ; l'azerson, Scarborough ;
Doug4l • Ca wen C; rcenock ; D.Uncart Dougal,r Dublin; Jo-
seph Si kock. liristol ; Starkey, Ireland; Adam Renton,
!lull ; Maclaurin, Greenock I iodgentan, ksrusgatei Ro-
bert. (.; iegson, Sunderland.

The English paper published at Paris, entitled
The Argus; 'which is no longer to be continued,
Was instituted upon jacobin principles, but gradu-
ally i.eered round into the most- slavish.athilation of
the,usurpt;r: Jut though it was constantly season-
ed with abuse of this country and its government,
BuoNApAitTt has not thought proper. to encourage
its existence. Perhaps his antipathy to every thing
belonging.tb; this; country induced him to despise
the. paper iii ,quevidrr, notwithstanding ali it obse-
quious homage, b9CaUe.lt was written in the Eng-
ish. language.
Colonel Most-mist succeeds'Gen. TOWARD in the
eoinmand of the Foreign Depot, at LymingiOn.
114,iror-General JOUNT MURRAY is placed on the
Staff of the Kent district.

General ENGLAND'S fine regiment, the sth, igloo
the march to Portsmouth, to embark for Ireland, to
-relieve a regiment proceeding to Portugal.
Report says, the Scotch Grey s' will be sent to
Lord WELLINGTON'S army.
The 52d Regiment of Foot- has -marched from
Ashford to Shorucliffe Barracks.

Justice HEATH, it IS said; 'retires from the
Bench atter the present Summer Circuit, on. the
usual pension. . •

An Edinburgh Paper states, that on. Wednesday
se'nnnight, Mr. Garden, of Troup, fishing with great.
lines, about two miles atfilfroup 1-17*- kilted It staff kH
of rive feet length, and a halibut of the astonishing,
weight of ninq -six pounds 1,, .;