Sir,
You will receive from Lieutenant Neale the person of Philip
Nolan, late a lieutenant in the United States army.
This person on his trial by court-martial expressed, with an
oath, the wish that he might never hear of the United States
again.
The Court sentenced him to have his wish fulfilled.
For the present, the execution of the order is intrusted by
the President to this Department.
You will take the prisoner on board your ship, and keep him
there with such precautions as shall prevent his escape.
You will provide him with such quarters, rations, and
clothing as would be proper for an officer of his late rank,
if he were a passenger on your vessel on the business of his
Government.
The gentlemen on board will make any arrangements agreeable
to themselves regarding his society. He is to be exposed to
no indignity of any kind, nor is he ever unnecessarily to be
reminded that he is a prisoner.
But under no circumstances is he ever to hear of his country
or to see any information regarding it; and you will
especially caution all the officers under your command to
take care, that, in the various indulgences which may be
granted, this rule, in which his punishment is involved,
shall not be broken.
It is the intention of the Government that he shall never
again see the country which he has disowned.
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