A son of Commodore Lynch made an attempt to get out, but after being kept twelve hours at the Prussian outposts, and fired on by the French, he has returned to share our imprisonment.

This morning I read in one of the papers a wonderful account of what Mr.Lynch had seen when with the Prussians.

Meeting him this evening, I asked him whether it was true.

He told me that he had already been to the newspaper to protest against its appearance, as every statement in it was destitute of foundation.

He could, however, get no redress; the editor or his _locum tenens_ told him that one of their reporters had given it him, and that he knew nothing more about it.