Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1812-04-27
B1naburte's treqt0'eat to .fn'eTA-

The following is plain unvarnished
narrative Of the cruelties and suffer
ings, experienced by one of our fell
low citizens, during his captivity With
our " dear friends" and shout to be
allies, the French-When Il shall be
shewh that the Americans meet with
similar Yeatme9t from the British,
we will allow them to6e as much 81
devils incarnate as the democratic pa
rers represent them to 6e.
The Subscriber native of Gorhani,
in the County Of Cumberland, sope-
time in the, month of December 1910,
sailed from Hampton Roads in the Ship
Eliza, Of philadelphia, Philip Crandall,
Of Portland, master, with cargo of
Flour and wheat, bound for Cadiz. On
the 9Th ofJa4 1871, abOrt four leagu
from St."Lucra, was taken BY a French
privateer Of two guns and % or 40 men,
and carried into St. hucar and the Off
GERS and crew thrown into prison, where
we remained Is days uader pretance of
being on quarantine-from thence we
were marched TO St. Marias labout z
leagues distanCe) where W. wers again
immured in a solitary prison and con-
tinued in II IL days, when capt. Gran
dali and his mates had the liberty of the
town, or as they call it 4 hatrO1 gfhon0r )
and the sailors were marched back to
ST. Lucar, and imprisoned iii the town
gaol, solitary wet prison, with nothing
but stones 10 sleep upon. Aller re-
maiaing in our NATURALIZATION ; days
we were conducted, on board a sloOp,
up the liver to Seville. and deposited in
prison with aboutslO0.Spanish prison
ers-where we remaincd faling the
same as prisoners Of war, untilthe first
of April-when we were Joined by
bout 1900 Americans Engltsl, Portu-
guese and Spanish prisoners and b.
Ched under the direction Of qua {
about 1000 French troops Cor b.
Previous to our Cornmencing IL,
march we were robbed Of our Shoes.-I
had PAIR which had reserved tcr II,
journey, and on the soldiers Cd u.
me TO pull them of and my rcpiS
&c stopped down with 4 view or dbl
II himself, aud on my glvisg him allow
another OF the guard came up and g.
a thurst with his bayOnet that won.
have pierced my body had not Tended
= Of but as it was, gave me q mark
mat VIII long induce me to RENEE ber
them. We commenced our Journey
under tins escort, barefoot, on the lst of
April, aad suffered bur little inconven-
ience on The FIRST day but on the Sec
ond our feet began 10 blister and the
skin tare Of from them-so that every
step we took left the imprint with the
blood from our ieet-our food was Jack
ass flesh and bread made Of brand, and
barely enough OF that to sustain life.
The fatigue, and soreness of ogr fees
was so distressing, that numbers failed
dally-as soon. as any one BeCamc una.
Die the pursue the march, he was shot.
have knowa persons in this eniee-
6led situation 10 be shot dead III enc day.
Between 4 and 500 were Shot on the
march. We continued ourmarch from
the Isl OF April to tile 9Th Of June, "a
term Of 10 days.) AS we advanced our
numbers were augmented TO about 5000
who had joined Us inthe different towns
we passed through and the guard in
cleasad to about 1000. Owing to our
being frequently intercepted by the
Spanish Patriots, we were obliged TO
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