Title continues: "A Narrative of the Hardships and Sufferings of Several British Subjects who Effected their Escape from Verdun. With an Appendix, Containing Observations on the Policy and Conduct of Buonaparte Towards British Subjects." Two escape narratives from men employed by the East India Company, one in the naval service, the other in the medical department. While journeying from India back to Britain both men's ships were boarded by the French and the men were taken prisoner. Their adventures make exciting reading: "With extreme caution we set forward, yet on turning the corner of a small building, we came full upon a centinel, who hailed us - we shrunk back, hastily entered the governor's garden, and running across it, came to a wall which on the side towards us was only three feet high. I was the first who approached it, and imagining that the height of boh sides were equal, I vaulted over it, and to my astonishment, fell about twenty-five feet" (p. 8). After many tribulations, the men arrived in Austria and Holland, respectively, where they procured passports as Americans to continue their journey back to Britain. The editor has written an appendix with this thoughts on Napoleon, the French character, the ongoing war, and the chances of peace.
