_Copy of an Affidavit made by Mr. James Perrot_, _Agent for Prisoners of War at Norman Cross_. _Dated Peterboro’_, 15_th December_ 1797. These are to certify, that James Perrot, Agent for Prisoners of War at Norman Cross, voluntarily maketh Oath, that to the best of his knowledge and belief, the Certificate and Affidavits given by Dr. Higgins, Physician, Mr. James Magennis, Surgeon, and Messiours Chatelin and Savary, the French Assistant Surgeons to the Hospital at Norman Cross Prisons, are strictly true, and corresponding with the accounts, daily brought to him; and that the number of Patients in the said Hospital on the 19th day of November last, were one hundred and ninety-four, including twenty-four nurses, and the whole number of Prisoners, including the Sick, were on that day confined in the said Prisons, 5028, and from the first the establishment never exceeded 5178, and that to the present date only 59 have died in the said Hospital; and further to the best of his knowledge, neither contagious or epidemic disorders have ever prevailed in the said Hospital or Prisons. (Signed) J. PERROT, _Agent_. Given under my hand at Peterboro’ this 15th day of December 1797. (Signed) H. FREEMAN. Copy of an Affidavit made by Dr. Higgins, Physician, and Dr. Magennis, Surgeon. We the undersigned do voluntarily certify upon Oath that the number of Sick in the Hospital under our care at Norman Cross, on the 19th November last, was 194, including 24 nurses; that the daily number from the 7th August was always less; and that at no one period since the commencement of the establishment did the actual number exceed 260. That the prisons are systematically visited and searched every morning by the surgeon or his assistants, and that every prisoner having feverish symptoms, however slight, is immediately removed to the hospital. No epidemic or contagious Fever. (Signed) JAMES HIGGINS, M.D., _Physician_, JAMES MAGENNIS, _Surgeon_. _Translation of a certificate by the French Surgeons_, _M. Savary of the_ Hardy, _and M. Chatelaine_, _Surgeon-Major of the_ Ville de l’Orient. The 24 men were employed as nurses. Whenever the prisoners are sent to the Hospital, they are admitted, whether their disorders are slight or violent, and while there, they are treated with humanity and attention, and provided with everything necessary for the re-establishment of their health. No epidemic or contagious distemper. (_Ref. Parly. Paper_, 1797–8, vol. 50. pp. 131–3.) {81} These extracts are from the lost supplement of date 1801 to the _Parliamentary Report_, 1798. {82} Alison’s _History of Europe_, from the commencement of the French Revolution in 1789 to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815.