The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-04-15 00:00:00

PRISONERS OF 17:12.

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CORN Excitant's, APRIL lb.—To-day we have several fresh
arrivals of Wheat, partly from ticutki.tud, and saleirt hereof nearly
at Monday's quotation; the same may be noticed in Barley.—
Rye Somewhat higher • fine Malt likewise. White and Grey
Pease asid BOW of;aclitiort nearly at last prices. Although
3: 111991/ra Sre rather cnusiderablit, yet, from a continuance of
demand, this article is spin minted smkewitat dearer; aPd
Flail. at late quoted prima. . . .
Wheat. .:. ..... up. Ms 166 s ; Tick do. (new) .. SR - 64
,tiise4tq9 .. •..• • • 138 li • -14. (Pole WO .. 65 66
'3'a . 74 I Oats .. . 4j. 47 49
seley . 64 7 Poland to.
96 104 *c Polittilitt''- ,
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r ad! ., 60 nos • .., 105 s. 141.1,914110111: ;'rioted end l'oblithrd
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THE TRANSPORT COAI:o NOT GUII.Ty op Ti
LION (li. m
FOUL CHARGES BROUGHT AGAINSt' IT Hy
E:VT
[The following Letter was received he the EDITOR is due
eionnie. but by slime aceiaeni it nas mislaid. or would hire
been inserted at the proper cow.]

TO TII1?. EDITOR. OF THE STATESMAN.
Stn,--I am fully permuted that you never knew.
ingly admit a fnlsehoo&to ho circu!ated through your
Journal, and are at all times ready to coUttidiet it
when it has taken place. Now, An your ,Sr,rzs.
MAN, dated Marsh it, floNrsrus, blindly led on hi
his zeal for an Exchange of PriSoners of War, a,.
eusea the Transport Board of being the ruse of its
not taking place, and in round terms as.erts, an.
they are influenced by gain, arising from rt.: Wit par-
ticulars, which he names, but which I know to L
false, and as a lover of truth cannot suit to ...er ren;;;io
uncontradicted; although I assure . you, I hold tu,
plaue,and receive no pension, from this or any other
branch of Ms Majesty's Governnpnt, and have not the
most distant prospect of obtaining either in future, or
the smallest intention of applying, by any means, For
either.

lioncarns begins with prisonera on parole, and,
taking it fer granted that their remittances from
France passed through the handiof the gentlemen
conatitating the Transport Board, :he positively as.
*efts, that they keep the amount, five or six months,
sidea4lor it in itoat-jobbing. Sow, sir, 1 can
positively assert, from evidence that cannot deceive
me, that the chief part of these remittances do not
pass through the hands of the Commissioners at t
Transport Office, but are sent to some banker, or
merchant, in London, who, for the most part, bid
before sent a Bill, drawn by the person to whom the
sum is remitted, on their friend in. France ; ohicti
bill they. had
.first received from some banker, er
merchant, residing in the town where the drawer is
on parole; and, according to regular and general or.
der, the return is remitted by,tbe farmer to the lat.
ter, indePesdent of any middle agent; a *cum.

stance known to the Commissioners, and never, I
believe, disallowed by them, With respect to the
I small part which does pass through the hands of the
Transport Board, Ican also dechate, that the dates
oftbe letters from France (which I have seen) ad.
riaiug of these remittances, compared
,with thetille
they have been received by the prisoners, have son-
' plet9it ..proTed the falsity of their having been em,
played live or six months in Stockojobbing.
neat, accused the Commissionewof being base.
Brett what their, agents think proper to tend
. tnem of the property 9f those whadie, or runaway,

With "respecitothr runaways, or •-parole-breakers,
they. are sufficiently wise,' to sell tp-thek comrades
that part Of Jheir property which they cannot tel:e
with them ; and as to those who dins what they Imes
behind them Te employed on their Amoral, and pay-
ing their debts (if they have a:iy), and.the remainder
(if 'any thing remains) is carefully preserved for
thnTi kends. The prisoners in close confinement, he
[goes on to say, are still more productive in profit to
the Commissioners ; and then he tells us, that the
'1 suits of clothes allowed them by Government, every

eighteen months, is never received, and the moony
that should have bought them is pocketed by those
Gentlemen.
.This also is a gross falsehood, as erru
one must see, who visits the prisons, as the Go-
vernment livery, is the chief dress which presents
itself to their view and as to the nakedness of some,
it.is occasioned by their loosing their clothes by
gaming, or selling them to buy tebaceo, or spirit-
: ous liquors ; and I have been told by some of the
prisoners themselves, that if these men were clothed
ever so often, they would soon, by these means, re-
duce themselves to the same wretched and shameful
state. With respect to the quantity of bread and
meat, I have been informed that the Government
' allowance of the latter is not sufficient for men of to.
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lerable appetites, and that the quality of both is
metimes very bad ; but neither the one nor the other
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; of those circumstances, .if true, can possibly affPol
4 any proAt to the Transport Board. •
l' The cause of 'in Exchange of Prisoners net tal,in
' place, when a negociation was so far advanced f"
that purpose, that the British Government agreed to
receive Spaniards and Portuguese for Frenchmen,
, Froleng)tediip.,was jestiessey on- hotly Ales. For in-
. stanoefthe French Government supposed (or affected
. to stipposel that if they admitted the proposal of the
English Govecument, for first sending home all the
English Prisoners in France, and in return receiving
an equal number of French Prisoners from England,
that then the balance of 'French Prisosers re-
maining in England would never be exchanged for all
equal numberof Spanish and Portuguese Priscnteriia
France. On the, other band, the English Government
supposed, that if they agreed to the French pro'
posal, -of beginning and centinuing the exchange: l!'y
receiving only one-third of English
of Spanish and Port4tiese, for au mild number o;
Frenchmen, that ern; when all the Pretichml•
prisoners in England,. were thus exchanged, thc
English still remaining in France would be retaiori,
iii spite of any agreement to the contrary iii. For
awn part, I think the English Government went too
far, in agreeing to receive Spani---'
for French, en any terms ;-as
no doubt, be as much French su),
re
tu day, as.the latter ; and then
conducted, would have placed alt! two-third:
French Goiernment a large addi
which might-base boon employ(
A F'
Osidnumplon. Devon. blarcb vs, HI

aiards and Portuvec,
the two former
subjects, at no Tory 10-
hen the Exclynnte to
in the hand, of
tddition to their artn,,
•ed against Engl.nui.
FRU:ND TO gßt.ill.
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