‘that redress which we have a right to expect from Mr. Bannick’s [the Agent] exertions on our behalf; but, unfortunately for us, after making repeated applications to him whenever chance threw him in our way, as he seldom visited the prison, we have the mortification of finding that our reasonable and just remonstrances have been treated with the most forbidding frowns and the distant arrogance of the most arbitrary Despot when he has been presented with a sample of bread delivered to us, or rather, rye, flour, and water cemented together, and at different times, and as black as our shoes. (Signed) ‘THE GENERAL BODY OF FRENCH OFFICERS CONFINED IN ROSCROW PRISON.’ A further remonstrance was set forth that the Agent and his son, who was associated with him, were bullies; that the surgeon neglected his duties; and that the living and sleeping quarters were bad and damp. The only result I can find of these petitions, is a further exasperation of the prisoners by the stopping of all exchange privileges of those who had signed them. The following complaints about the hospital at Falmouth in the year 1757 I have placed at the end of this notice, as I cannot be sure that they were formulated by, or had anything to do with, foreign prisoners of war. From the fact that they are included among a batch of documents at the Record Office dealing with prisoners of war, I think it is quite possible that they may be associated with them, inasmuch as Falmouth, like Dover, Deal, and other coast ports, was a sort of receiving office for prisoners captured on privateers, previous to their disposal elsewhere. It was complained that: 1. No bouillon was served if no basin was brought: the allowance being one small basin in 24 hours. 2. Half the beds had no sheets, and what sheets there were had not been changed for six months. 3. Beds were so scarce that new arrivals were kept waiting in the open yards. 4. The attendants were underpaid, and therefore useless. 5. No bandages were supplied, so that the patients’ own shirts had to be torn up to make them. 6. Stimulants and meat were insufficient, and the best of what there was the attendants secured beforehand. 7. Half-cured patients were often discharged to make room for others.