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equally certain that neither government nor anyone acting under government would wish them to be short of. The very excellent provision made for them when sick is a proof of this if proof was necessary. The experiment of deviating from the established rule of feeding them is however a hazardous one. It requires to be narrowly watched, and as life is at issue to be stopped on the appearance of danger. In the great waste of human life which is now going on the existence of a few miserable Frenchmen is indeed of comparatively little consequence in the scale. But it is of high importance that when in our power they should have the means of existence, lest the moral character of our nation should suffer a stain on a part where it has hitherto been perfectly pure, thus giving our enemies a greater advantage than they have ever yet obtained over us.