Excerpt from Barbarities of the Enemy: Exposed in a Report of the Committee of the House of Representatives of the United States, Appointed to Enquire Into the Spirit and Manner in Which the War Has Been Waged by the Enemy, and the Documents, Accompanying Said Report
A committee having been raised on this subject in the House of Representatives of the United States early in the session of May, 1813, Mr. Macon, the chairman, at the close of the session made the following Report:
The committee to whom was referred that part of the President"s Message "which relates to the spirit and manner in which the war has been waged by the enemy,"
Report:
That they have collected and arranged all the testimony on this subject which could at this time be procured. This testimony is submitted to the consideration of the House, arranged under the following heads:
First. Rad treatment of American prisoners:
Second. Detention of American prisoners as British subjects, on the plea of nativity in the dominions of Britain, or of naturalization: Third. Detention of mariners as prisoners of war, who were in England when the war was declared:
Fourth. Compulsory service of impressed American seamen on board British ships of war: -
Fifth. Violation of flags of truce:
Sixth. Ransom of American prisoners from.
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