Chapter XXXVII: Section 6: French Prisoners at Cabrera

_Captain Codrington to E. Locker, Esq._

“_September 18, 1811._

“I cannot at all events think it a wise measure to receive into colonel Whittingham’s corps the prisoners at Cabrera, who have long ago withstood the offers of general Roche, _when naked as they were born, and fighting for each other’s miserable rations to prolong an existence inconceivably wretched_, in hopes of rejoining the French.”

_Sir H. Wellesley to captain Codrington._

“_October 10, 1811._

“With regard to the French prisoners at Cabrera, I procured from the Spanish government long since an order to the governor of the Balearic Islands to suspend all negotiations with the French on that subject, and not on any account to consent to exchange them.”

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No. II.