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 and that during our travels in France, we had never, until now, experienced treatment which would have been tolerated only in the days of Robespierre. He was somewhat nettled at the remark, and told us, he was desired by the commandant, to say, that he was himself once a prisoner in England, and that, from having been confined in Dorchester castle, he had sworn to retaliate; that, exclusive of his oath, he had the most unlimited confidence in the British officers, but that he judged it prudent to have a little security also. This fellow, like his commissary, another of those "parvenus" sprung from the very dregs of the people, and actuated by pitiful motives of revenge, kept us immured in this most unhealthy hole, during the following day. On the morning of the 15th, we departed, with a different guard, and in the evening were comfortably billetted in a village. The next day, proceeding on our journey, we arrived, at a late hour, at Cahors. Thence we marched northwardly: nothing occurred worth notice, but the loss of the guards, who had