Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Chris Logan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) A JOURNAL, OF A YOUNG MAN OF MASSACHUSETTS, LATE A SURGEON ON BOARD AN AMERICAN PRIVATEER, WHO WAS CAPTURED AT SEA BY THE BRITISH, IN MAY, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN, AND WAS CONFINED FIRST, AT MELVILLE ISLAND, HALIFAX, THEN AT CHATHAM, IN ENGLAND ... AND LAST, AT DARTMOOR PRISON. INTERSPERSED WITH OBSERVATIONS, ANECDOTES AND REMARKS, TENDING TO ILLUSTRATE THE MORAL AND POLITICAL CHARACTERS OF THREE NATIONS. TO WHICH IS ADDED, A CORRECT ENGRAVING OF DARTMOOR PRISON, REPRESENTING THE MASSACRE OF AMERICAN PRISONERS, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. "Nothing extenuate, or set down aught in malice."... SHAKESPEARE. THE SECOND EDITION, With considerable Additions and Improvements. BOSTON: PRINTED BY ROWE & HOOPER ... 78 STATE-STREET, 1816. _District of Massachusetts, to wit:_ _District Clerk's Office._ (L. S.) Be it remembered, that on the sixth day of March, A. D. 1816, and in the fortieth year of the Independence of the United States of America, ROWE & HOOPER, of the said District have deposited in this Office, the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as Proprietors, in the words following, to wit: "A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, late a Surgeon on board an American privateer, who was captured at sea by the British, in May, eighteen hundred and thirteen, and was confined first, at Melville Island, Halifax, then at Chatham, in England, and last at Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed with Observations, Anecdotes and Remarks, tending to illustrate the moral and political characters of three nations. To which is added, a correct Engraving of Dartmoor Prison, representing the Massacre of American prisoners. Written by himself." "Nothing extenuate, or set down aught in malice."... Shakespeare. In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the times therein mentioned;" and also to an Act entitled, "An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled an Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching, historical, and other prints." WM. S. SHAW, _Clerk of the District of Massachusetts._ TO THE COMMON SENSE, AND HUMANE FEELINGS _OF THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA_, THIS JOURNAL IS INSCRIBED, BY A LATE _PRISONER OF WAR_ _WITH THE BRITISH_. _Massachusetts, County of_ } _Hampshire, 1815._ }