Star.
London, England, 1812-08-08 00:00:00

PARIS, AUGUST 1.

His Excellency, General Count Baragnay d'Hil-
liers, Commandant of the 9th military division at
Lyons, Colonel-General of Dragoons, has just re-
ceived orders to repair to the head-quarters of his
Majesty the Emperor. His Excellency has set out
for his destination.

On the 4th of this month the Captains of Ameri-
can vessels at Civita Vecchia celebrated at that port
the Anniversary of the Independence of the United
States. At the dinner which took place, and to
which all the Authorities had been invited, they gave,
amongst other toasts, the following r.-44 The union
of the two nations, France and America ; may their.
arms beat down the tyrant of the sea I"--Vournal
de Paris, Avsnut 1). a
NOTE FROM THE MONITEDR, ON THE SPEECH OH LORD
CASTLEREAGIIb RELATIVE TO THE TREATMENT OF
PRISONERS OF WAR—ON THE MOTION OF MR. N. CAL-
vintr, IN TILE HOUSE OF COMMONS, ON, FItIDAI,
JUNE 26.

" The English were the first to violate their pa-
role. Complaints were made to the Transport
Office, but the Officers who had broken their parole
were, nevertheless, well received by their Govew.
meat.

gg The number of persons then placed under the
circumstances alluded to, amounted to 779, end se-
veral of these were Generals.
44 The Transport Office had complained, in a letter
of the 12th of August, 1811, of the escape of some
French Prisoners. In the answer to this, given the
14► h of Sept. following, under the authority of the
Minister of the Marine, it was asserted, that the Eng-
lish had set the example, and that the number of
English prisoners who had escaped from France, ex-
ceeded.by many hundreds that of the French who
had escaped from England.
“ Jr was also proposed that measures should be
adopted to prevent the recurrence of such stands
loos conduct.

" The Commissaries of the Transport-Office ac.
knowledged the receipt of this answer, but remained
perfectly silent as to the propositions which it con-
tained.
" Several French Generals who have made their
escape from England were justified in doing so, in-
asmuch as one of the terms of capitulation at Bay.
ten was, that they should retain their arms, and be
sent to France; and England had no right to retain
six thousand men, who, having thus capitulated,
were not prisoners. No parole could properly be ci-
acted from them, as the capitulation conferred no
right to debar them of, their liberty ; and there is no
example on record of such a convention not having
been observed.

" A considerable number of Spanish prisoners,
among whom were Colonels and Generals, having
broken their parole, and escaped, some French offi-
cers, taken in the Spanish war, conceived they had a
right to do that which had been done by the Spa-
niards, who were the principals in a war in which
england was only an auxiliary.
l• In former wars, cartels were established as soon
as hostilities cBrnmenced ; and it was not till the pre-
sent war that' false masoning, narrow-mindedness,
and bad faith, were found to anull every cartel which
had been/proposed.

" The hash of those that were proposed were
simple, just, and conformable to the customs of
Europe.
64 The exchange Was to be made man , for man,
rank for rank, and simultaneous:y, between the belli-
greats. But the English sought to establish a prin-
ciple of distinction between themselves and their al-
lies, the Spaniards and Portuguese. They appeared,
indeed, to adopt the principles of a general and si-
multaneous exchange; but they endeavoured to
swerve from its practice.
44 Thus there was at one time 15.000 English pri-
soners in France. For these England offered in ex
change 15,000 French prisoners; so that if she after.
wards chose to swerve from the cartel, when all the
English were liberated, she might leave her allies in
France, and retain the French priwners who remain-
ed to be exchanged.
'sThc trick was too obvious, and it was proposed
to carry the exchange into effect, by making each
transfer consist of aliquot parts of the different de-
scriptions of prisoners of the two belligerent—aggre-'
gates, so that all the English and all the French
should be liberated at the same time ; for supposing
the number of French prisoners to be triple that of
the English, and making each transfer consist of
three thousand French on the one side, and 1000
English and '2OOO Portuguese and Spaniards on the
other, the last Frenchman would have returned to
his country at the same time with the last English-
man. The exchange would then have gone on be,
tween the respective allies, and France, having in her
power a greater number of prisoners than England,
',mild have even consmted to give up unransomed
such as remained after the exchange was concluded.
This system was conformable to the principles upon
which all cartels have been framed for more than a
century.
44 So just a proposal was rejected ° with a degree
of bad faith, which even in England excited the dis-
gust of all those who read and think. It wal evi-
dent that the British Government sought to have
the whole of the English prisoners for a part only
of the French, and did not hesitate to abandon their
Allies, and retain the greatest part of the French
prisoners, without any species of guarantee what-
soever.
In short, several prisoners had violated their
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parole and escaped from Francei
when the Goirn.