Both the French and British Governments, to their credit, were ever ready to deal generously and even magnanimously in the way of exchange or release as a reward for some uncalled-for act of bravery or kindness on the part of prisoners in connection with their captors. The following are a few out of many such instances: In December 1811, twenty-one English prisoners were released for assisting to extinguish a fire at Auxonne; among these was the mate of an English merchant vessel, and for him the mate of the French vessel _Achille_ was released from Lichfield, he having assisted to put out a fire there. The colonel of the (French) 36th Regiment was allowed to go to France on parole to try to effect the exchange of Colonel Cox, and failing this to return in three months. In December 1810, Captain Bourde, of the French ship _Neptune_, was released in consequence of his humanity to the officers and crew of the _Comet_, a ship in the East India Company’s service. A French surgeon detained on the prison ship _Assistance_, at Portsmouth, was exchanged “in consequence of his attention to the British sick soldiers on board the _Spence_ transport as represented by Lieut. J. W. Lloyd of the 8th King’s Regiment.” A French captain of the land forces being taken prisoner, was allowed to return to France “for his meritorious conduct in saving the life of a British officer in the last war.” Five French officers were released from Andover “for their exertions in extinguishing a fire at that town.” A naval lieutenant was released by Admiralty order “for saving a child’s life from a lion at Oswestry.” In April 1812, Pierre Marie Tong was released from Portsmouth “in consideration of services offered by his father to assist the _Conquisador_ when on shore on the coast of France.” About the same date the second captain and clerk of a privateer obtained their liberty “for saving the lives of seventy-nine British seamen wrecked on the coast.” Nor were these courtesies confined to officers. A seaman, prisoner at Plymouth, was to be exchanged “for having leaped overboard and saved the life of Alexander Muir on board the _Brave_, as per letter 3rd June (1810) from Captain Hawkins.” A number of Lascars, prisoners at Dunkirk, were exchanged for seamen at Norman Cross, the second captain for two, and the captain at Chatham was considered worth three Lascars. We have, in Appendix B, alluded to the release of Captain Woodriff. These bright examples serve to illuminate what is otherwise a gloomy episode.