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The prisoners' memoirs, or, Dartmoor prison : $b containing a complete and impartial history of the entire captivity of the Americans in England, from the commencement of the last war between the United States and Great Britain, until all prisoners were released by the treaty of Ghent. Also a particular detail of all occurrences relative to the horrid massacre at Dartmoor, on the fatal evening of the 6th of April, 1815.Andrews, C. (Charles)

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The prisoners' memoirs, or, Dartmoor prison : $b containing a complete and impartial history of the entire captivity of the Americans in England, from the commencement of the last war between the United States and Great Britain, until all prisoners were released by the treaty of Ghent. Also a particular detail of all occurrences relative to the horrid massacre at Dartmoor, on the fatal evening of the 6th of April, 1815.

Name: The prisoners' memoirs, or, Dartmoor prison : $b containing a complete and impartial history of the entire captivity of the Americans in England, from the commencement of the last war between the United States and Great Britain, until all prisoners were released by the treaty of Ghent. Also a particular detail of all occurrences relative to the horrid massacre at Dartmoor, on the fatal evening of the 6th of April, 1815.
Author: Andrews, C. (Charles)

Andrews, C. (Charles)

Dartmoor Prison; United States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Prisoners and prisons

BENJ. MERCER,         }
                          PIERRE G. DE PEYSTER, }
                          HENRY PROCTOR,        }
                          JOHN COTTLE,          }
                          THOS. CARBERRY,       }  Hospital
                          JAMES LESTER,         } Committee.
                          HENRY BULL,           }
                          THOS. B. MOTT,        }
                          SETH WALKER,          }
                          WILLIAM WEST,         } For and in behalf of
                          CHARLES DEXTER,       }   the Amer. prisoners
                          WILLIAM MOLLEY,       }   at this depot.
                          JOHN S. TROUBRIDGE,   }
                          HENRY SHERBURNE,      }
                          THOS. B. FROST.       }


 ANSWER.

  _Officers and brave Americans collectively_:

  Permit me to request you will accept the warmest and most sincere
  thanks of my heart, for the flattering testimonials of your
  approbation of my conduct, with which you have honored me, and allow
  me to assure you, that nothing can be more exquisitely gratifying
  to my very best feeling, than the language in which you have been
  pleased to convey this mark of your esteem. I feel convinced that
  you will indulgently excuse me, if I find it impossible to command
  words sufficiently emphatic, adequately to express the sentiments of
  gratitude, with which I am penetrated, for this unexpected proof of
  your regard; I must therefore allow my heart, rather than my pen, to
  thank you. But it would not be doing justice to my feelings were I
  to abstain from assuring you, that I have endeavored to perform my
  duty towards you, with that self-devotedness which looks only for its
  reward in its own consciousness of right, and its own secret sense
  of virtue; and whatever difficulties I have had to encounter in the
  discharge of my important trust, by struggling with a succession of
  the most violent and exasperated epidemic diseases, perhaps ever
  recorded in medical history, during the whole of my service among
  you, the distinguished proof of your confidence, and approbation of
  my professional labors, with which you this day have been pleased to
  honor me, amply compensates me, and must rank amongst the proudest
  and happiest events of my life. It now only remains for me, in this
  plain, but unfeigned language, again to beg you will receive my most
  sincere thanks; and to assure you, collectively, that a due and
  lively sense of the high honor which you have conferred upon me,
  shall, to the last moments of my existence, remain ingrafted in my
  breast. And here allow me most sincerely to congratulate you on the
  happy event which terminates your captivity, and which is soon to
  restore you to the bosoms of your families and friends; and that you
  may all enjoy peace and happiness, is the sincere wish of your most

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