Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1814-01-29
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Extract OF letter from a respectable gentleman
who recently ysite Halifax, TO his friend in this
city, dated Providence, II. l. Jan. 10. 1871.
During my stay at Halifax had no reason to
complsin OF any severity extended to myself |; on
the contrary,l had the range Of that place and
Dartmouth passed my time among office
and many of the Inhabitants of the village as
wished. You may suppose my time was spent n
greeaby, and that | had no care. l say nay : it
was every day source oil pain to me To see ma
NY OF my countvymcn in bondage and misery. 1
visited that det,stabc charne house, MeIyillc pri-
sou, which has been the grave of 81 many OF them
There are nov 500 confined in it, in y space in
witch 900 could not live IN any tolcrabc degree oil
comfort. The sad consequences at their crowded
situation is filth, vcriiu, disease, de. III Previous
TO my ARRIVAL, there had prevailed malignant fe-
YER, which swept oil great number OF those much
TO he pitied men. who died far from their native
home and Kindred dear; il has ceased ia a great
degree. But there now SIXTY who are in What
is termed Hospital, but which, with more propri-
ETY. may be termed the (" trarGs of deafh' IL is
Immediately above the prison, and whatever pas
ses from the lungs tainted with bad food and long
confinement, received and breat!ied by the sis K
He who enters those drehiy confines must ID epaie
Tor death, r any who return from It are supposed
To- have particular dispensaton from God. / shall
never forget my impressions on visiting this Goig
tha OF death, and the melancholy reflections it will
leave on my mind will only cease whenI hear OF
that prison being destroyed or abandoned.
Mr.. G. BuGi is in close confinement on board
the SIaiabar transport, ih forty fifty more off
cers- His situation on board that vessel is an en-.
yahle one. when compared with Il, t of his bro
ther Ulcers; he mess with the captain, who Is
an honor to human mai ure, and exerts his infiu
ence and personal eXertiols to relieve their waits
MIR. BuGd was severely wounded IA the action, and
from loss oil blood, has not, aud perhaps never
will again, enjoy good state OF health. He is an
interesting and an a. reabe young gentleman he
bears his confinement with iorttde aid resignati
on, Tor he suffer and be sill.
Is And come il late, conc II fast, a
"'1is death that comes at last"
His detention, believe to arise from his intimate
knowledge OF the trade which been carried on,
by men whe have forsworn their country their
conscience and their God. IL. knows the princi-
pal traitors engaged in this injurious business,
gainst whom he can biilg proof that would bring
them TO cordign punishment. of the trade which
has been carried oD 10 Halifax from the Eastern
states, hardly know the extent, but when state
10 you that 10000 barrels OF -four received at
Halifax in one day some time SINCE il will give you
SINE idea of the necessity OF putting stop it
by an embargo. Nova Scotia is desolatc riorn
waste, md barr tile deserts OF Arabia; at
least whatever part saw oil il, it cannot support
one OF its population, consequently icy would suffer
severely Tor the want OF our produce. 81
1t. Budd, above alluded to, it will be rccoleet-
ed, has just returned from Halifax in cartel ar.i.
we'd ut Boston.