The Sun.
London, England, 1811-06-15 00:00:00

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• Since writing the above welLarn,.that Lord W. 63.-
I..INGToteI Dispatches tire dated the.3otli of May, at
tluitilu de eiranit.ha, and contain the— particulars of
it gillaiii„alflir.:of the. cav,drir it Wagre. The
41(.. My had I'3 regiments'acav,dry in_the 'field, cbn-
sit,i Mg of between twoend three hundredmeneach— •
titev were repul,ed with the .loss of 29 killed, 78
prlse, ners, and a•considerable number wi,unded. Tile;
ailiLti eaialry and arttllery, whiCh Was comManded
Getierai suitainad very little loss;

A'Very interesting conversation tool, placeln- tla,;
House of'iConimens last ;night, respeEting the LOU
ditien of tl‘o Elet7clk Plisoneis of War in thii cowl-
try, andl wet.. are. happy 19 state, ,that the accounts, '.
given from tl,e 'very best authopty,were such as not
only to refute the assertiOns that had'heen made,.
that cause Kir:oilers V. exposud to dl treatment,
but to place the I, innatiity of this Country in the;
aittst honourable point at view. it :appear;, that
out, of '4D,b3i 'French 'prisoners in this country,,
there are at present only atIA sick, that iS to say, not
quite one man to one hundred and ,fifty-four. We
belietr,: if al equal number of persons viPretaken
indiscriminately out of any description of persons
this Country, 11)1. proportion of the sick tq those.
in health 'would' b.! as greitt, IF not 'giv.eater,:
than it is among the French prisoners. 1.,0rd Ckicn-
RANC, tip n a tanner occasion c.)mplained• of
sttuatiot? of the prisoners as Dartinoor,,tind.said,q(tn
they v, ere d)ing very fast ; but it apeeared that tt
the period to 'which Lord,,iiip alluded, some pri-%.,
soners bad' arrived (rem the West Indies, in' a most
filthy state, who bad bionght the feier with them ;,.
it was, however, soon'Stihdoed. Lord CUCllRANB-
admittecliast night that the tirctimstances had been,
/altered since the period to which he had
We are wiltinA to, give the Noble Lord credit let,
the best inolives for examining into the stare.of that
prison, but we cannot but lament that he did OW
investigate the subjeta more thoroughly befOre he
made a public -upon it, because such •
statements, though easily' refutes at
home, are yet ealcUlaled to cause serious rgischici
abroad. Mr. Witiaiiis„,ip said, the 'situation; of
the prisoners in Dartmoor was 'as colutottable,
as, the . situation of Vrisoin.43 could .be and.
he bore testimony to the readiness with which the
Transport-Board communicated- every informaiion,
even of the most Minute kind, raver:ling the pri•,
soners when he had applied to them. cannot
but feel a'national pride in Contrasting this account
of,our treatment Of the union mote uen, wholtt t NC'
insatiabtes antbitiou- of ifie French 1 rtit.Y have:
. thrown into our hands; with his condoet to the
, .
British prisoners in' Fiance. 'We knacv that 'in
point of strict justice the British Otivegninent would,
be warranted in adopting a system of retaliation,
and if we thought it would have the effed of tmik-
ttyb OVA British prisoners with more
.
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humanity, we shoutd be itad to make the experi-
ment; but he has feeliegs Of compassion towards
the unfortunate .vietims of his ambition if they
,Were perishing for want in'our prisons he would not
snake an efro- tt tci ratieeve' them, and therefore we
should be 'see tiny 'Tine:peas:try severity prac-
tised. towards them.