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ing Quebec.md2Dat%British Prisoners—-The friends of many Englishmen, whc have been prisoners in France* haVe been much alarmed that they have not returnedhome. It may, however, be consolatory to- know, that there is every i eason to believe that all the British prisoners -have been set at liberty, but their liberation was attended with much difficulty. ManywetheseaiIooiMrpnslediVkeeforamihave been roarcned to the fVJeuiterntnean oea, an? their embarkation to this country has been attended |)Ut with considerable delay, and a great number still re-jvng main in the hospitals, having fallen si.ck through the severe orders of Bonaparte, in forcing them from pri- j son to prison, during very inclement weather, on the approach of the British. Many of the prisoners died J “3®' on the road, the names of whom have,not vet reached ®xa:wer an ; soldIthis country, as the French Government has not fur J innished any returns respecting British prisoners sincethe end of September; but they are expected speedily at the proper Office in this country.Arrived at Ayr on Monday se’nnight, the Sister J * Ann, Captain Guthrie, in two days from Cork. On J Sunday alternoon, Robert Dallaway, a passenger, t nt | who had carried'on business there for some time as a a- clock dial painter and japanner, and was on his re-1 P**’ dj turn to Edinburgh, his native place, by a sudden *re' / motion of the ship, fell overboard, and though the eei ;h ) boat was immediately lowered, before it could reach him, he sank to rise no more. His wife was on board, and, to add to her affliction, fifteen guineas of Jp gtld and some bank notes, part of their industrious f. savings, being in the pockets of her husband, wereje also lost.andSuntherdanGih*id Wednesday last, a woman fell from a window ic in die fourth storey of a house in Dickson’s-close,I/3 V miw j ttfoc I'll idfiin partbluewar
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London Star
London, Middlesex, GB
Wed, Aug 17, 1814
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