From the sugar house prison Dr. Cornelius was removed to the Provost Marshal's prison on the site of the present Hall of Records, in which still stands portions of the old prison wall. The doctor, because he had refused the clemency of Lord Howe, was clapped into a basement dungeon where he encountered a fellow prisoner--a ship captain of Philadelphia named Chatham, who had as captive refused to pilot a Britsh troop ship up the Delaware. Provost Marshal Cunningham--probably the most cruel and inhuman jailer known to history, and because of his devilish proclivities kept in office to enforce the early repressive measures that the British adopted towards conquering the spirit of rebels--inflicted new indignities upon Cornelius and the others, and not only refused the latter the offices of the provost physician, but punished Dr. Cornelius for attempting to medically succor them. "But they will die," remonstrated the doctor. "They are sent here for that purpose," rejoined Cunningham; "and His Gracious Majesty will forgivingly bury them in Potters Field." That pauper cemetery was then the area now Washington Square. Here Dr. Cornelius was kept from Aug. 25 to Sep. 12 without change of linen or clothing or water for ablutions. Among the prisoners Dr. Cornelius found brave Ethan Allen, who three years previously had become the hero of Ticonderoga, but had been taken prisoner in the General Montgomery expedition against Montreal. Ethan Allen narrated to the doctor, who copied the narrative into his diary, how he had been put on board a man-of-war in the St. Lawrence, chained flat on his back during six months in a corner of the hold, and twice carried on shore in England to be hanged, once also on the coast of Ireland, and a third time at Halifax. Allen's bravery was not then fully known to the doctor, who quaintly writes in his diary, "there seemed to have been much antipathy to Allen." He was not aware either that all those cruelties and these of Cunningham were brought up in Parliament by friends therein of the colonists and expressly by vote approved by Lord North's bloodthirsty administration. And yet the London _Times_ continues to wonder why so many Americans dislike the country of Queen Victoria's grandfather, who countenanced the cruelties and oppressions of McKinley's ancestral people. Adds the Cornelius journal: "I frequently saw beaten with canes and ramrods women who came to the prison windows to speak to their husbands, sons or brothers; some of whom would be put on bread and water diet in dungeons merely for asking that cold water be passed to them through the bars." When General Clinton and a British force captured Fort Montgomery its officers were brought to Cunningham's care, some of them wounded, whom Dr. Cornelius begged to attend surgically only to receive refusals with curses. The London _Times_ criticizes Weyler for his treatment of prisoners, and yet he is only in Havana adopting the English