Note G — LETTER IX.

This commissary was ordered by the representatives then at Brest, to take a blanket from each prisoner who possessed two, and to pay him for it. He executed this commission by turning out of bed, into the court of the prison, all the prisoners, in the middle of the night, when he took away not half, but all their blankets, without making any recompence whatever for them. Their complaints of this robbery produced no notice or redress.