Your kindness to me has reached its highest point, and my gratitude is commensurate, I cannot say enough to convince you how deep it is. To the many things you have done for me, my lord, you still deign to add by busying yourself about the servant I want, and if the affair is successful it will be to you that I owe him, and it will be a fresh kindness for which I shall be indebted to you. It will be a happy day for me when I shall be able personally to renew to you at Milton the assurance of the respect with which I have the honour to be Your very humble and obedient servant, THE BISHOP OF MOULINS. STILTON, 7_th April_ 1808. X _Passport of Jean Baptiste David referred to in the Bishop’s Letters_ By the Commissioners for conducting His Majesty’s Transport Service, for the care of sick and wounded seamen, and for the care and custody of Prisoners of War. These are to certify, that Jean Baptiste David, as described on the back hereof, a French boy taken in the capacity of Domestic on board _L’Aigle_, French ship of War, has been released from Norman Cross Prison, for the purpose of his entering into the service of the French Bishop of Moulins, upon his having engaged that he will not enter into any Naval, Military, or Civil Service, which may directly or indirectly tend to hostility against Great Britain or her Allies during the present War, unless he be regularly exchanged for a British Prisoner of the same description and rank with himself. Given under our hands and Seal of Office at London, the 2nd of June 1807. RUPERT GEORGE. AMBROSE SERLE. J. BOMAN. _Gratis_. Name Jean Baptiste David. Rank Servant. Age Sixteen years. Stature Five feet one inch and ½. Person Inclined to be stout. Visage Oval. Complexion Rather fair. Hair Dark brown. Eyes Dark brown. Marks or wounds Has a few marks of small-pox, and a scar just below the left ear, cut on the right thigh—another scar under his chin. APPENDIX H PRIVATE REGISTER OF HIS FELLOW PRISONERS AT VERDUN, KEPT, DURING HIS CONFINEMENT THERE, 1804–1814, BY NAVAL CADET JOHN HOPKINSON, WHO WAS LATER RECTOR OF ALWALTON, NEAR PETERBOROUGH, WITH, IN THE LAST COLUMN, NOTES ADDED LATER IN HIS LIFE {312}