the judgment of the Admiral or Governor to make the necessary regulations concerning them. It must be signified to the General that if he makes any attempt to fly, he will then be put under close confinement; and it must be notified to his attendants, that if it should be found that they are are plotting to prepare the General's flight, they shall be separated from him and put under close confinement. All letters addressed to the General, or to persons in his suite, must be delivered to the Admiral or Governor, who will read them before he suffers them to be delivered to those to whom they are addressed. Letters written by the General or his suite, are subject to the same rule, No letter that does not come to St. Helena through the Secretary of State, must be communicated to the General, or his attendants, if it is written by a person not living in the island. All their letters, addressed to persons not living in the island, must go under the cover of the Secretary of State. It will be clearly expressed to the General, that the Governor and Admiral have precise orders to inform his Majesty's government of all the wishes and representations which this General may desire to address to it; in this respect they need not use any precaution. But the paper, on which such request or representation is written, must be communicated to them open, that they may both read it, and when they send it, accompany it with such observations as they may judge necessary. Till the arrival of the new Governor, the Admiral must be considered as entirely responsible for the person of General Bonaparte, and his Majesty has no doubt of the inclination of the present Governor to concur with the Admiral for this purpose. The Admiral bas full power to retain the General on board his ship, or to convey him on board again, when, in his opinion, the secure detention of his person cannot be otherwise effected. When the Admiral arrives at St. Helena, the Governor will, upon his representation, adopt measures for sending immediately to England, the Cape of Good Hope, or the East Indies, such officers or persons in the military corps of St. Helena, as the Admiral, either because they are foreigners, or on account of their character or their dispositions, shall think it adviseable to dismiss from the military service in St. Helena. If there are strangers in the island whose residence in the country skall seem to be with a view of becoming instrumental in the flight of Ge neral Bonaparte, he must take measures to remove them. The whole coast of the island, and all ships and boats that visit it, are placed under the surveillance of the Admiral. He fixes the places which the boats may visit, and the Governor will send a sufficient guard to the points where the Admiral shall consider this precaution as necessary. The Admiral will adopt the most vigorous measures to watch over the arrival and departure of every ship, and to prevent all communication with the coast, except such as he shall allow. Orders will be issued to prevent, after a certain necessary interval, any foreign or mercantile vessel from going in future to St. Helena. If the General should be seized with a serious illness, the Admiral and the Governor will each name a physician who enjoys their confidence, in order to attend the General in common with his own physician; they will give them strict orders to give in every day a report on the state of his health. In case of his death, the Admiral will give orders to convey his body to England. Given at the War Office, July 30, 1815. PROTEST OF NAPOLEON. against the violation of my sacred rights, in I solemnly protest, before God and man, disposing by force of my person and my liberty: I came voluntarily on board the Bellerophon; I am not a prisoner, I am a guest of England. As soon as I was seated hearth of the British people. If the Goon board the Bellerophon, I was upon the vernment, in giving orders to the Captain of the Bellerophon to receive me and my suite on board, meant no more than to hold out an ambush, it has forfeited its honour and tarnished its flag. If this act be consumboast to Europe of their honour, of their mated, in vain will the people of England laws, and their liberty. British faith will be buried in the hospitality of the Bellerophon. I appeal to history, it will say that an eneland, came freely in his adversity and my who, for 20 years, made war upon Engclaimed the protection of its laws. Could he give a more flattering proof of his esteem and of his confidence? But, how did the They pretend to hold out a hospitable hand English reply to so much magnanimity? to this enemy; and when he gave himself up to their faith, they sacrificed him. NAPOLEON. Dated on board the Bellerophon, at sea, Aug. 4. STATE PAPER. faithful Americans had been made prison The Emperor of Austria grants an assy-ers of war after having served on board lum to King Joachim within the limits of of English ships of war. This is the dehis dominions, under the following CONDITIONS: Art. 1. The King is to assume the title of a private individual, the Queen having adopted that of the Countess of Lipona, it is suggested that his Majesty should adopt the corresponding title. Art. 2. The King is at liberty to chuse any town in Bohemia, Moravia, or Upper Austria, as the place of his residence. If his Majesty should think proper to live in the country instead of in towns of the said province, no objection will be made on the part of the Emperor. Art. 3. The King is to engage on his ho. nour (parole) in the presence of his Imperial Majesty, that he will not quit the Austrian dominions, without the express consent of his said Majesty, and that his mode of life will be suitable only to that of a private person of rank, and that he will submit to the laws in force within the Austrian States. In the faith of which arrangement, and according to the established usage, the undersigned has, by the command of the Emperor, subscribed the present Declaration. Given at Paris, 1st Sept. 1815. L. S. (Signed) scription of men, spoken of with such emphasis in the EXPOSITION," lately published by Mr. CLEMENT, in the Strand, London. -The SECOND is a paper, published in the NEW-YORK NATIONAL ADVOCATE of the 25th of July last, by some of the American Prisoners, who were at Dartmoor when the killing and wounding took place. This paper is a commentary on the REPORT of Messrs. KING and LARPENT, which appeared in the Political Register of the week before last. That report did, indeed, surprize me ; but I should not have been able to comment on it in the manner here performed. It is very right, that the public should know what the Americans ground their complaints on. They think it shows no goodwill towards them, that Captain SHORTLAND should not have been called to account. They are a queer, prying sort of people, who draw conclusions from very slight premises. They observed that Admiral Berkely was highly honoured. They will see, that ADMIRAL COCKBURN has been highly ho "Le Prince de METTERNICH." noured; and, though GENERAL Ross was DARTMOOR PRISON, And the Killed and Wounded Americans. deprived of his earthly rewards by a malicious Yankee rifle-man, yet they will read, in the London COURIER of the 13th inst. the following paragraph :—“ In consider"ation of the SERVICES of the LATE MAThis being a subject of great import-"JOR-GENERAL ROSS, who was unfortuance, as it is now the principal cause of "nately killed in the action near Baltiill-blood in America towards England, I"more, the Prince Regent has been gra. shall lay before my readers two docu-"ciously pleased to grant honourable arments relating to it. The FIRST is a re- "morial distinctions to be placed on his turn, from authority. Indeed, a copy of "monument, and to be borne by his the return, made to the American Go-" widow and descendants." They will vernment by our Government, through the American Agent for Prisoners here, of the persons killed and wounded upon this occasion. And, from this return, it will be seen, that some of these brave and hear in due time what is to be done in honour of "BooTY and BEAUTY.”——— Without more ceremony I insert the two documents, and leave the business of remark for another occasion. A Return of American Prisoners of War who were Killed and Wounded in an Attempt to force the Military Guard on the Evening of the 6th of April, 1815. On the Dartmoor Massacre, in Reply to Messrs. King and Larpent's Report. TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. Having perused, with attention, the report of ir. Chas. King, and Fras. Seymour Larpent, on their examination of the unfortunate occurrence at Dartmoor, on the 6th of April last We, the undersigned, being there at the time this unfortunate occurrence took place, deem it a duty we owe to the surviving sufferers of that bloody transaction, to our fellow citizens, and onrselves, to make some remarks upon such a singular report. Although we presume the door is | for ever closed against any further investigation of that ever to be remembered transaction, we cannot help, however contrary it may be to our wishes, to irritate the public feeling, already so much excited, of entering into a detailed investigation of that report. | dence that was likely to cast any light on the subject of the inquiry. They, accordingly, returned into the prison, and drew up a list of the names of some of those who were eye witnesses of that day's oc. currence. Although they could have brought hundreds to the examination, and the sum of whose evidence would have amounted to the same thing, yet the committee, not wishing to impede the progress of the investigation, by a rotundity of evidence, they were careful to select such men as were most likely to give a clear and distinct account of all the circumstances, as they occurred, under their knowledge, taking care, at the same time, to procure those whose different situations afforded them an opportunity of witnessing that transaction, from the commencement to the close. Such was the evidence the committee had selected, to the number of about fifty, very few of whom were ever examined, although they were kept in waiting at the turnkey's lodge, (where they were ordered to stay until called for) doring the hours of investigation. In the course of the inquiry, it seems, the Commissioners found it necessary to survey the particular situation of the prisons, and the points from which the different attacks were made; they accordingly came into the yard for that purpose, and after having been shown all the places from whence the firing was continued, where the crowd of prisoners had assembled on the first alarm, and where the hole, so much made a handle of, had been made-after a slight survey of these different places, they retired into their session room, leaving orders, once more with the committee to hold their evidence in readiness, as they would soon be called upon for examination. On the arrival of the Commissioners at The committee replied that they had been the depot, the committee of the prison was in readiness since the commencement of the sent for; after waiting some time at the inquiry, and were then only waiting their door of the room, where the inquiry was orders to appear before them, feeling held, they were called in, separately, and happy in the idea of having it in their questioned as to their knowledge of the power to show to the court, and to the transactions of the 6th. The depositions of | world, by the evidence they had to prothose who were eye witnesses of that dis- duce, that the attack of Shortland on the graceful scene were taken; some were ques-defenceless prisoners, was premeditated ioned as to the general conduct of Short- and unjustifiable, in any point of view. land, previous to that affair; it was represented by them as it would have been by all, as being universally cruel, overbearing, and oppressive. After having finished the examination of the committee, they requested them to bring forward all the evi In the Committee's address to the public on the 27th of last June, preceding the publication of the affidavits of some of the prisoners, taken on that melancholy | affair, they have justly anticipated what would be the report of the Commissioners, after their investigation: they drew their conclusions from the singular manner in which the investigation was conducted. The report commences by stating, that, after having carefully perused the proceedings of the several courts of inquiry, instituted immediately after that event, they proceeded immediately to the examination, upon oath, of all the witnesses, both American and English, who offered themselves for that purpose. How far this part of the report is correct, we shall leave the public to judge. After attending in the turnkey's lodge during the sitting of the commissioners, until the middle of the third day, without having but very few of the evidences sent for, and being fearful that they might be waiting for them, the committee scut them mination. word that the witnesses were still in attendance. No answer being returned to this message for some time, the committee became uneasy on account of the long examination of the officers, soldiers, clerks, and turnkeys, attached to the depot, without admitting the prisoners to an equal privilege; and, understanding the commissioners were about closing their inquiry, they again sent word they would be glad to have an interview for a few moments, for the purpose of explaining the nature of their evidence, and the necessity of a full hearing on both sides of the question. No answer being returned to this request, and still waiting with the anxious hope that they would soon send for some of us, when we were told, by one of the turnkeys, that the commissioners were preparing to depart, having finished the exaAstonished to think that they meant to leave the depot without clearly investigating the circumstances that were the cause of their meeting, and feeling indignant that a cause of so much importance should be passed over so partially, the committee addressed a note to Mr. King, begging him not to shut the door of communication against the prisoners by closing the inquiry without giving them the privilege of a hearing, as the greatest part of our witnesses were yet unexamined, and their evidence they conceived to be of the utmost importance to the investigation. No reply was made to this note; but, in a few moments, we were told, that the commissioners had left the depot. How far they are justifiable in saying they examined all the evidences that offered themselves, we think is sufficiently shown. The commissioners next go on to mention the insurrection of the prisoners about the bread on the 4th, two days previous to the events, the subject of that inquiry. Although the report correctly states the prisoners quietly returned to their own yards after their demands hav-. ing been complied with, yet Mr. King, forgot to mention, that it was clearly represented to him, had the prisoners been so disposed on that night, they could have easily made their escape. Although that transaction had nothing to do, as relates to the prisoners, with the events of the 6th, we merely represent this circumstance to show, that there was no intention whatever on their part to break out of the prison, as Shortland and his adherents have attempted to prove. The report now goes on to mention, that on the evening of the 6th of April, about six o'clock in the evening, a hole was made in one of the walls of the prison sufficient for a full-sized man to pass, and others had been commenced but never completed, and that a number of prisoners were over the railing erected to prevent them from communicating with the cen tinels on the walls, and that they were tearing up pieces of turf, and wantonly pelting each other in a noisy manner. As to the hole made in the wall we believe the causes and reasons have been already sufficiently explained by the affidavits laid before the public. With respect to the prisoners being between the iron pailing and the wall, could have been, if it was not, easily explained to Mr. King, had he given an opportunity. It seems, that on the afternoon of the 6th, some of the prisoners having obtained leave of the sentinels on the walls to go over and ay upon the grass; others seeing then lying so much at their ease, went over to lenjoy the same privilege; and as the sentinels made no objection to this proceeding, the number was soon increased to such a degree, that it became no longer an enjoyment to those who first obtained the privilege; some scuffling then ensued among themselves, and they began to pelt each other with turf and old shoes, principally in play, and among so many, no doubt, there must have been considerable noise; but how they can possibly connect this circumstance with the hole made in the wall, is intirely out of our power to conceive, as the iron railing separated them from the pretended breach in the wall, and distant from it more than half the length of the yard; of course, had the hole been intended as a breach, the iron pailing would have become a barrier instead of facilitating the means of an escape. As to that part of the report which mentions the guard barracks being the repository for the arms of the guard off duty, and of its standing in the yard to which the hole in the wall would serve as a communication, and of its being a further cause of suspicion and alarm to Capt. Shortland; to one acquainted with the situation of the prison, such an idea would be ridiculous, but to those who are not acquainted with it, it will be only neces |