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Benjamin Waterhouse. A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed
A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed
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A JOURNAL OF A YOUNG MAN OF MASSACHUSETTS
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
ODE, &c
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
PART SECOND
CHAPTER I
AN ORATION,[J]
The Impressment of an American Sailor Boy
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
DARTMOOR MASSACRE
DEPOSITION No. I
No. II
No. III
No. IV
No. V
No. VI
No. VII
No. VIII
No. IX
No. X
No. XI
No. XII
No. XIII
No. XIV
No. XV
No. XVI
No. XVII
No. XIX
No. XX
No. XXI
KING AND LARPENT'S REPORT
DARTMOOR PRISON
Reply to King and Larpent's Report
We here subjoin a letter from the Right Honorable Lord Castlereagh to our Commissioners at Ghent, with their answer, together with the reply of our Secretary of State to the British charge des affairs at Washington:
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Benjamin Waterhouse
Published by Good Press, 2019
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We found that there were about two hundred French prisoners in Nova Scotia. Some had been there ever since 1803. Few of them were confined in prison. The chief of them lived in or near the town of Halifax, working for the inhabitants, or teaching dancing, or fencing, or their own language. Some were employed as butchers and cooks; others as nurses in the hospital; and they were every where favoured for their complaisance, obedience, and good humour. They had the character of behaving better towards the British officers and inhabitants than the Americans, and I believe with reason; for our men seem to take a delight in plaguing, embarrassing, and alarming those who were set over them. A Frenchman always tried to please, while many Americans seemed to take an equal delight in letting the Nova Scotians know that they longed to be at liberty to fight them again. I confess I do not wonder that the submissive, smiling Frenchmen made more friends at Halifax than the ordinary run of American seamen, who seemed too often to look and speak as if they longed to try again the tug of war with John Bull.
Sunday being a leisure day among the men of business in Halifax and its vicinity, the old refugees from the United States used to come round the prison to gratify their evil eyes, instead of going to a place of worship, with the sight of what they called "rebels." These are generally Scotchmen, or sons of Scotchmen, and are very bitter against the Americans. Some of this class were clergymen, who came occasionally to pray and preach with us in prison. We paid every mark of respect to every modest and prudent minister who came among us to perform divine service; but we never could restrain our feelings, when one of these refugee gentlemen came among us, praying for king George and the royal family of England. The men considered it as an insult, and resented it accordingly. Some of these imprudent men would fulminate the vengeance of Heaven, for what they conceived political, instead of moral errors. The prisoners respected some of these reverend gentlemen highly, while they despised some others. The priesthood, however, have less hold on the minds of the people of the United States, than of any other people on earth.
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