In a note he gives the instance of the reply of Commander Mansell, who commanded the prison-ship police at Chatham in 1813, when the fact that not one quarter of the clothing due to the prisoners had been delivered to them, was proved clearly: ‘I am afraid it is too true, but I have nothing to do with it. I cannot help it.’ From the _Carnet d’Étapes du Sergt.-Maj. Beaudouin, 31^e demi-brigade de ligne_, I take the following account of life on the hulks. ‘On October 31st, 1809, Beaudouin left Valleyfield where he had been confined since June 10th, 1804, and came on board the _Bristol_ hulk at Chatham. At this time the hulks were the _Glory_, three decker, _Bristol_, _Crown Prince_, _Buckingham_, _Sampson_ (_mauvais sujets_), _Rochester_, _Southwick_, _Irresistible_, _Bahama_ (Danes), and _Trusty_, hospital ship, holding in all 6,550 prisoners.’ Beaudouin says: ‘The difference between the land prisons and the hulks is very marked. There is no space for exercise, prisoners are crowded together, no visitors come to see them, and we are like forsaken people. There is no work but the _corvées_ to get our water, and to scrape in winter and wash in summer our sleeping place. In a word, only to see them is to be horrified. The anchorage at Chatham is bounded by low and ill-cultured shores; the town is two miles away—a royal dockyard where there is much ship-building. At the side of it is a fine, new, well-armed fort, and adjoining it a little town named Rochester, where there are two windmills, and two more in Chatham. By the London road, three miles off, there are four windmills. The people of this country are not so pleasant and kind as in Scotland, in fact I believe “the sex” is not so beautiful.’ Very soon the _Bristol_ was condemned and its prisoners transferred to the _Fyen_, and at the same time the _Rochester_ and _Southwick_ were replaced by the _Canada_ and _Nassau_. On the _Fyen_ were 850 prisoners, but during 1810 and 1811 a great many Chatham prisoners were sent to Norman Cross and Scotland. Beaudouin comments thus bitterly: