“During the next week we were visited by the Commissary of War, who told us that the Minister of War had given orders for our being removed to Verdun, and advised us to prepare as much as possible for our march to that place; he also had the goodness to send us a banker who gave money for bills on the Government, a thing that was very acceptable, as by the length of time we had been at sea all our Lieuts. had some pay due, and they supplied the Midshipmen with small sums, which, added to the allowance of the French, 1_s._ 3_d._ _per diem_, might enable us to travel very comfortably. “On the 17th we were told to hold ourselves in readiness to march the next morning at daylight. We consequently were drawn up in the hospital yard the next morning to the number of 264—21 of whom were officers, the rest seamen. ‘_Unus absit._’ We left Brest at 7 a.m. escorted by a strong guard of infantry and about twenty horsemen. The morning was fine and pleasant. After marching about two hours we came to the summit of a hill, whence we had a fine view of Brest harbour and roads, with the adjacent coast, bounded by the Atlantic, on which, at about the distance of 15 miles, we could plainly see our whole Channel Fleet standing in, under easy sail—this sight, mortifying as it was, became still more so, by the jeerings of the French Soldiery, which, to his credit be it spoken, were repressed as much as possible by the Officer who conducted us. About 1 p.m. reached Landernau, a small town, distant from Brest about 5 leagues. We went on in this way till the 24th, when our escort was relieved by another of a similar kind at St. Brieux, a small seaport town. The officer on leaving us, requested us to give him a paper testifying his good treatment of us, to which we readily assented, his behaviour to us having been uniformly kind. “To repeat every day’s march would be useless, suffice it to say, that after passing thro’ Rennes, Alençon, Versailles, St. Cloud, St. Denis, within a mile of Paris, and divers other places of less note, we arrived at Verdun on Sunday, March 25th, having marched a distance of 204 leagues.” Mr. Hopkinson, when liberated; did not continue in the service, but went to Clare College, was ordained, became Precentor of Peterborough Cathedral, and later Rector of Alwalton (about three miles from Norman Cross), where he died in 1853. The following note was added to the prisoner’s own account by his widow: