ng.

_W. Colton_, _Joseph Swain_, _Arch'd Taylor_, _David Ingalls_,
_Reuben Sherman_, _Arch'd I. Mackay_, _Philip Black_, _Homer
Hall_, _James B. Mansfield_, _Abr'm M'Intire_, _Wm. Cochran_,
_Henry Dolliver_, _John Jones_, _B. Weeks_, _Wm. Demerell_,
_Thomas Ward_, _William K. White_.

REMARKS.

In presenting to the world the record of a transaction, probably
the most barbarous which the history of modern warfare can
furnish, we cannot refrain from remarks.--Whatever our feelings
may be, upon a subject so amply calculated to excite the
indignation and abhorrence of every friend to humanity, and every
one who has respect for the laws of civilized and mitigated
warfare, we will, nevertheless, refrain, so far as the
circumstances of outraged humanity will permit, from the violence
of invective, and wholly from unwarranted crimination. Those, into
whose hands these documents may fall, will, however, preserve them
as a monument erected to the memory of their slaughtered
countrymen, and a memento of the unfeeling cruelty of our late
enemy.

Though we are far from believing that there are not persons of
noble and humane minds in the English nation, yet, a uniformity of
conduct, on the part of the Government and its agents, has taught
us to believe that they, at least, are blood thirsty and cruel.

The incarceration of Americans in the Jersey Prison Ship at
New-York, and Mill Prison, in England, in the Revolutionary war,
raised in the minds of the sainted heroes of those times, the most
exalted feelings of indignation and abhorrence. The history of
those prisoners, where hundreds were compelled to wear out an
existence, rendered miserable by the cruelty of an enemy,
professing a reverence for the sublime principles of Christianity,
is already familiarized to the minds of the American people. If
the feelings of Americans were then indignant, what should they
be, on beholding those cruelties renewed with more than ten fold
severity? The conduct of Thomas George Shortland, the agent at
Dartmoor Prison, is such as should "damn him to everlasting fame."

Upon what principles the conduct of this man, precedent to the
ever memorable 6th of April, 1815, can be justified, we cannot
determine. The indiscriminate confinement of both officers and men
in the same prisons, and t