From the Derby Mercury, 14th November 1811:
On Wednesday the 6th inst. Dominique Ducasse, Captain and Aid-de-Camp to Gen. Dufour, Tugdual Antoine Kerenor, Lieutenant, and Julien Deslories, Ensign, three French prisoners of war at Chesterfield, were conducted from the house of correction there, by a military escort, on their way to Norman Cross Prison, for having broken their parole of honor. The two former were apprehended at the Peacock Inn, (along with George Lawton, of Sheffield, cutler,) about 10 o’clock on Saturday night, the 26th ult. by the vigilance of Mr. Hopkinson, the landlord, who much to his credit, refused to furnish a post-chaise to carry them to Derby, and dispatched a messenger to the Commissary at Chesterfield, detaining them until the return of the messenger; the next day they were conveyed back to Chesterfield, and Lawton is now in our county gaol to take his trial for assisting in the escape.
D5459/1/5 French Prisoners, George M. Woodward, 1783
The same escort took another prisoner (Monsieur Bernier, an Ensign) from Newark, where he was recaptured, on the information of the Waiter, at the Saracen’s Head Inn, having also escaped from Chesterfield; and the Transport Board have ordered 15 guineas to be paid for the recapture of these three prisoners.
In short, that Board have since, in consequence of the great number of escapes of French prisoners of war on parole in this kingdom, ordered that in future, the following rewards shall be paid, for recaptures, viz., 10 guineas for every commissioned officer, 5 guineas for every non-commissioned officer, and 20 guineas for every British subject convicted of assisting such prisoners to escape.
And we are sorry to find, that this Government have lately been under the necessity of ordering the French aspirants and midshipmen on parole in this country, into close confinement in consequence of the French Government having sent the English midshipmen on parole in France, to prison, and their not releasing them though remonstrated with, by our Government; this conduct of the French Ruler, in the present situation of affairs, is too obvious to need comment.
There will be more about Napoleonic prisoners of war on the blog next Thursday.
Derbyshire Record Office 
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many congratulations on a marvelous website on so many subjects, could you tell me where I can buy the book on Derbyshire & the Civil War ?
Hello Ida. So glad you like the blog. Brian Stone’s book, “Derbyshire in the Civil War” was published by Scarthin Books in 1992. If you are local or likely to be passing through the area, I bet you could get a copy from Scarthin Books itself – any visit there is a worthwhile cultural experience, you won’t want to leave! But other booksellers are available – for instance, you can find it on Amazon. And naturally we have a reference copy which you can use here – and there are over 20 copies in Derbyshire Libraries stock.