[1]. Vol. iii. (1790 ed.), pp. 66–7.
[2]. Quarterly Review, vol. xxvi, No. 51, Art. I (December 1821).
[3]. ‘Prepare to tack!’
[4]. See Lavengro, chap. iv.
[5]. Historical Sketch of the old Dépôt or Prison for French Prisoners of War at Perth. By William Sievwright. Perth: 1894.
[6]. This is not the only instance of a church being used as a dormitory for prisoners on the march. When the officers at Wincanton were marched to Gosport en route for Scotland in 1812 they slept in the church at Mere, Wiltshire, and the prisoners taken at Fishguard in 1797 were lodged in the church at Haverfordwest.
[7]. In addition to other sources of information, the foregoing notes on the war-prisoners in Liverpool are taken from Picton’s Memorials of Liverpool; the Histories of Muir and Barnes; Stonehouse’s Recollections of Old Liverpool; Gomer Williams’s Liverpool Privateers; and Richard Brooke’s Liverpool from 1775 to 1800.
[8]. I quote this between inverted commas, as I cannot help questioning its accuracy.
[9]. In Glencorse churchyard is a cross upon which is engraved: ‘Ici repose Charles Cotier de Dunquerque, mort 8 Janv., 1807.’
[10]. Other authorities give the height of the outer wall as eight feet, which was raised in 1812 to twelve feet, and of the inner wall as twelve feet.