CHAPTER III

Departure from Amiens--Arrival at Albert--Our French Officer’s Delicacy and Liberality--A Civic Feast at Bapaume--Effects of Champagne on French Aldermen--A Separation from our kind Conductor--A New Escort--A forced March to Cambray--Pitiable State and severe Sufferings of the Seamen--Entrance into Cambray--Imprisonment--Landrecies, Avesnes, Hirson--A Billet upon the Inhabitants--Rocroy--A brutal Landlord--The Robbery and Abuse of Prisoners--Givet--Charlemont--A Description of the Fortifications--An Escape of Prisoners--A fruitless Pursuit--Generosity of the French Commandant--Private Lodgings--A Jacobin Landlady--Exhausted Funds--The 4th of June--Honours done to King George the Third’s Birthday--Roast Beef and Plum Pudding--French Terrors of Insurrection--The Difference between taking off and only touching Hats in saluting Men in Authority--Good News--A joyful Departure in a cart for Verdun Page 26