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opposed to liim, he had nothing left but to submit to 

 this humiliating condition. When he was introduced to 

 (leneral Sebastiani he told him that a French officer 

 who had made a reconnaissance early that morning 

 reported to him the unprotected situation in which he 

 liad been placed by the general officer the night before, 

 without any support to fall back upon, and that Sebas- 

 tiani immediately gave orders for a French regiment of 

 cavalry to cut off his retreat ; so that the whole blame 

 in this unfortunate affair was to be attributed to the 

 general officer of the day. Early the next morning, 

 my friend, with a considerable detachment of English 

 and Spanish prisoners, was marched on foot on the road 

 to Madrid, and they were all placed in a large apartment 

 of a deserted monastery. After a day or two, an order 

 came that all the prisoners should be sent to France 

 under a strong escort, to secure them from the attack of 

 the Spanish guerillas. 



When he arrived in France as a prisoner, he obtained, 

 through the interest of Lafitte, the French banker, 

 permission to reside in any part of France, excepting on 

 the high roads to Spain or Grermany; and having sent 

 for his wife to join him, he chose his residence near 

 Amboise, where he remained imtil the peace of 1814, 

 and soon after this he retired from the army, and 

 returned once more to his former residence in that 

 beautiful province of France. 



During the mnter of 1812 two Swiss officers and myself 

 were most uncomfortably quartered in a large room of a 

 deserted convent, with a large window without glass and 

 no fireplace, and as the season advanced the weather 

 became very cold and we were glad to go to bed early to 

 keep ourselves warm. The late Sir Robert Travers and 



