276 French Prisoners. 



Jas. Valat, Captain, 1st Battalion, 20th September, 1810. 



Louis Contini, Captain, 2nd Regiment Infantry, 18th October, 1810. 



D. M. Maintiard, Captain to Regiment C of the Rhine, 14th Sep- 

 tember, 1810. 



Fran. Scala, Captain, Cavaliers, 6th September, 1810. 



Raff Caporale, Captain, 2nd Regiment of Line, Nap., 17th Septem- 

 ber, 1810. 



Jos. Violente, Captain, 2nd Regiment of Line, Nap., 17th Septem- 

 ber, 1810. 



Carlo Corlier, Captain, 2nd Regiment of Line, Nap., 17th Septem- 

 ber, 1810. 



Lockerbie. 



The French Prisoners were lodged either at inns or 

 private houses, and were allowed the liberty of the town and 

 a mile outside the boundary : to go further they were obliged 

 to have a written order from a Mr Alexander Martin, writer, 

 in Lockerbie, through whom their pay was remitted to them. 

 Early in the forenoon they might be seen marching up the 

 High Street, dressed in their uniforms, to a room they had 

 hired, which served as a club. Here they had newspapers 

 and discussed the news of the day. Their gay uniforms had 

 often to be covered by the big military cloaks, for, as they 

 remarked, we had two or three climates in a day. 



To amuse themselves some used to draw or paint, others 

 tried gardening — anything, in fact, to while away the time. 

 Some of them made beautiful objects of carved bone, from 

 which the jocular remark arose that a Frenchman could make 

 some use of a bone, but a frugal Scotsman could not. During 

 their stay they were well liked by the inhabitants ; they made 

 themselves agreeable to all. Perhaps the most popular 

 among them were the doctors. One was especially noted for 

 his skill, and on one occasion was visited by a countryman 

 who requested that he would give him " a new heid," but 

 even a French doctor had to declare his inability to perform 

 such a feat. Three doctors are mentioned as prisoners at 

 Lockerbie — Mr Gotta, a surgeon ; G. Pflaum, Director of 

 Hospitals from Spain; and Ld. Marinier, a surgeon, who 

 had been taken at Martinique in 1809. One prisoner, Captain 

 Lenoir, because of his wounds and infirmities was allowed 

 to retain his servant, John Condemnie. Another, Panielle, 



