PICTURE OF VERDUN,

OR THE

English detained in Fance;

THEIR ARRESTATION---DETENTION AT FONTAINBLEAU AND
VALENCIENNES---CONFINEMENT AT VERDUN---INCARCE-
RATION AT BITSCHE AMUSEMENTS---SUFFERINGS---IN-
DULGENCES GRANTED TO SOME, ACTS OF EXTORTION
AND CRUELTY PRACTISED ON OTHERS---CHARACTERS OF
GENERAL AND MADAME WIRION---LIST OF THOSE WHO
HAVE BEEN PERMITTED TO LEAVE OR WHO HAVE ESCAP-
ED OUT OF FRANCE---OCCASIONAL POETRY...AND ANEC-
DOTES OF THE PRINCIPAL DETENUS.

FROM THE PORTFOLIO OF A DETENU.

Omnibus idem animus sceleratá excedere terrâ,
Linquere fœdatum hospitium.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

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DETENU.

In order to distinguish him from the lawful prisoner of war, the traveller detained in France is throughout this work constantly stiled a Detenu. The word indeed has not as yet been naturalised; but the French, when they by their persecutions and other enormities obliged the most respectable part of their nation to emigrate, introduced the word Emigré into all foreign languages; and it is honorable to us, that we have no word of English growth to express a guest, arrested against the laws of hospitality, and the customs of civilised nations.

PICTURE OF VERDUN,

&c. &c.

THE French used to value themselves on their hospitality as well as on their politeness. The stranger was at home at Paris, and the Palais Royal was the coffee-house of Europe. Every nation, whatever might be the state of politics, passed before one there as in a magic lantern; and not only in the accounts which they gave of themselves, but in those given by foreigners, their loyalty toward their guests was deservedly praised. A work published at Paris since the detention of the English contains the following anecdote.

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