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ATTEMPT To ESCAPE PROM PRISON.

The Devizes Piper asys—" Au attempt was made yester-
day afternoon by eta felons confined iu the Old Brides'.
In this town, to erect their escape. Staunton, a uotorioas
hbrsevdealer, and who, with his gang, ilea ibis summer
',toles not less than 103 hordes, was the ringleader of the party.
With an old knife, which was concealed about his Immo
when committed, lie removed both his fetters. The plot de-
termined on was, however, discovered about two o'clock
by one of the debtors, above suspicion nos excited by
observing some of the party come from the wiry with their
shoes soiled with lime. The why was immediately search-
ed, and it was found that a bole large mouth fur a man
to piss through had been made by tau working within
with the iron hare with which they make their fires, while
the other four watched without. They hail previously
planned to escape by smutting Mr. Burt, and confining
him in one of the cells, but afterwards thought it must pre •
dent to defer the attempt till his absence at Mailltorough
Sessions. They at first swore that they would resist say at-
tempt to confine them; but on the aeries! of oue of the con-
stables they altered their minds, and weir quietly ironed
and put into separate cells. In al t a yusrtur of an home
longer, bad they not been discovered, it is likely they would
all have remand throe fellers."

Os Smulay sight as alarming fire broke nut in the roes_
rive manufactory of Mr. Hubbard, japaoner, to tterheuwell.
close. From the quantity of varnish, oil, inrpenime, sal
other combustible matter on ilia premises, the fire raged
with incredible fay, mud threatened drsti uction to the
prernitee, when W. U. Ifidwastis, one of She pohre officers of
' !lotion-garden, together with some able arautanrr, broke
open the door, and at the risk of their lives entrred in the
midst of lamer, tote up the puu►s which were then on fire,
and removed the iultanvalory matter, and together with A
good supply of Waist', aided by the timely arrival of the
Hype engine, succeeded in subduing the devouring ele-
inept, and restoring tranquillity to the sarined inhabitants
wfthat auwded neighbourhood.
The i►roitosed obolitioo of the 'retibblishtnetit at
eDertfefd'dock-snit, it it uuw tntJ, .will not take
ee bbt that it will remain. so todepoi for orrol

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i;kkEttit 1114tGREbou.

To TUE EDITOk OP THE EbiiilltlkG44 COVRAiif

Pilt—Areording to my peoklifie of the ibth tittles°, t pen.
teed to give you a sketch of she afTfiir of Rio tie la Haiti*:
After the capture of Aft islaer en the bth October, 11111 o;
I called • meeting, or Juni; df she isslushtironi, • groat
Many of wliont asiseattle4 late in the airtime at the I onaei
of she Catoldn, Whither 1 pAve;eded, ssocostleamed only
General de Lima and au Ahle.i e•Comp. the troops wet
stationed in a fort upwards of a mite 'WO to
them that it was My *IA that they stimuli sleet It anger.
ttorr, end the usher persona net y for the Mlietainiatritgiou
of the province, as alto <Acres to oreeitise a carp of ins.:
linnet troops; edifier, that I mew deposiicd the ritil autho-
rity its their bonds, au.l "'WOW So .111• c roymlf meek lo the
command, novel end military. TIM electoto Ipk litiolee, •r.
csidinely: a merchant of the placi%, wpm.
rime Gore' nor ; and the cornmeiti Ills watioaal trams
itarllet'll In a native of the toms; Colle4.ROdfilillel. On
oh ..... , in virlite.f my auttiorilp. I cusferraii the rank ..f
(-von. I. . •
Thy new Goer, nor invited me nod Ws whole
,of the f""l•
Wild, to his ; and, norm Oaf liViVO6 we ...re disown
into hie vole. V Overtly 1, ft us to glee she rect,oisita sirder•
to h.. dome-tiro. for not knowing the; be west to he. Oeinted
Governor, he 114,1 made on arrangement for emr reception,.
It was nizht, the rllOlll iu which sfa wer• •kirge, and
ennlapied at She moon us about three Iturtated premiss of
ev. ry lour and description. Ju,t three dap before, some of
Them had fought ;taboo my irco,ps, sad out a few of their
ruins ions and (tirade lay uoutid.cl at that very Moment in
the town.
We had been hut a few minutes samialsied, whets by some
accident she light wan put tint, mid we were left in perfect&rho's.. My situation way critical ! I iamordiatcly se.
dreseed them NO follows :—" Citizen; I am Wicbregor ; tiny
obj.eta and my name are familiar to you MI,
.bus Uiryertas
ago stoat of you (might sigaisat me; ir y0u..., mum Mllt+•
rd to she Spaniah Government thee to the ittsdrpepdeuee of
your conntry, you have now a safe opporinetto of r•yeage
it is dark, my troops are far .e, the brad I,b4s striftra °a
tins be known, and this* with intpuaity will you he freed itorn
me for rser.' I was answered by a shout or d Long lire
our General' Lime live our country' You mese safe heir as
amidst your on a troops, there are uone herellust Noises."
The ilium Invilzhl the Governor and his seesaws with car.
(lira, and shy evening was &peat with the greatest harmony
and eolith...inane, mud afterwards all prcseut accompanied
to this fort.

I have been the more particular in relating this occur.
Isom, ilist it will the more clearly chew the disposition of
the iobvbiLnts, stud how easy it would have been for my IJ
keep posseabion of this province ; but, if treachery entite
Oval ice and the lower passions Wu mutiny, what Coffin& is
safe ? what eitterpriey can succeed
The inhabitants of mime of the Dearest villages prevented
thetnaelics, and voluntarily sent us supplies of cattle. (hest
numbers of the Indians also Caine in, as yell as many of
their ehiek some of whom had nut been in the city of La
Hoehn fur the last thirty years.
I had now organised and armed • body of national troors,
same principal duty consisted in patroller the town, in or
to prevent the depredstions of the European troupe, usu.."
from the first moment were intent upon planate?.
The evening before the catastrophe of Rio de la fiche, I
rSd made arrangements with a partisan leader of the sweaty.
o 'bad his Troupe already encamped within • mile of
town. Hr was to mulls in the next morning, and take tie
oath of allegisnee to the Patriot overonarel, I likewise
was to have b rd that s ume morning the accession of a eget-
ulroo of y, with abundance of cattle, a voluntary gift
from the inhabitants of the town of Camarones. Thiel rein.
furred and supplied, I designed to march Into the interior cr
the province to the Valle de Onpar, whither the Spanish
Cruvernor bad retired and was concentrating his forces.
Waiting this increase of means, contrary to my cuslorn, I
slept that Wight in town. The rifles under Colonel Rater
(hruther to the officer of the Caine name at Porto Belli))
were ordered to paler,' during the night the ontsktrts 9f the
town.
I retired to rest at an early hoar, in the hope that the for-
lowing 'day I should find myself at the head of e. Dative finer
sufficient t 3 enable Ole to tedfted to auhordiumion t;ue
European troops, who, with the exception of their native
' bravery, were the most unfit class of men that could oos-
sibly have been selected for such a service.

About two o'clock in the morning I was awoke by Captain•
r;i4int and gmith, who had corn" on shore to report teat they
had beets hoarded by an armed force under. Col•imle Mu-
" rote and Rafter, who, afire taking I articles from them,
bail repaired with their parte on boa►d sofa Spanish 'choosier,
and stood out to era with ber. This vessel was a rich prier
ocelot), taken, stud tomustitsd to the rha►ge of Colonel
.Pfarrote, the commander of me own guards ! Upon lordlier
Inquiry, is appeased that the rid,s had that sight plundered '

Itry!!ral boner; and stores, sad conveyed the property nn
board the prize, nor bad they evert spared the effects et
their own companions ; aod, finally, that almnat the whole
of the salons. as well as the mate of one of the trampotts,
bad gone off wi,h them.
Being informed of tie desertion of three troop., smarm-
' lag, to nearly a third of my European force, mud Mitring as-
c•rtaiueJ the estent of the pillage they had made, .I dis-
patched the Chief •f my Staff, tieneral de Lime, to the th,-
armor mid Colonel Rudrigniz, to let then km's/ what toe
taken ',lace, end that it was my intention, in order to -
Treat in thing of the kind happeeiog in future, immediately
to re-embark the 'reminder of the &mimeo,. and se' it
them to garrison the islaud of San Andres. I directed Eton
farther, to request them to communicate this detemninatmg
to the iiihshitrota and national troops, that it might be Ti
means of appeasing their resentment I thee proceeded
the quarters of General Eyre, the Commarder of it.v
trope.se troops, and requested his immediate atteudaece . t
the fort.
Upon my arrival there, I ordered the troops to be
up un the parade, and told them brirlia of the dreertionef
their comrsdis, sod added, that the Creole troops. emu
much enraged at the enormities that bad Leon commistml;
that they were, well aware of the repented a utopia:las md..
araiest them by the ttibabitania; aid that 01CW Werner
bring new much diminished, the eitiri I:4 weirthl no 1.4:
he intimidated; mad, is • word., the Dolt means that I cowl.,
sow adOpt for their safety ism to embark them ue board Ibis
transpixts. I Airtime admonished them that the once%ma.
noun consequences were to be appreliewdef‘ if soy ism,'
should leave the fort and to int,. t,wn. Greyest Este mud
hie Leo pledged thentselwis that they wubld strictly obey
my nrdrrs.

I was now joined by the Governor and Colour! froditgoes,
who assured me that my promise to send off the runniest/is
bad in a great measure restored tranquillity to the torte, and
satisfied the national troops.
During the tinbaikstion I was rtilleitnes shoot matt,'
things, but particularly that the skit sod wounded should be
will taken rare of. I visited the eestitied for tbe -
la! ; ',onside ether I saw several 'canoes full 4,f large :fiisis
Nish Nimes, and boats receiving i still great. r eistqter pired
up
on shore. I immediately *WM Ensign Gibbons, ef the
guards, a most steady end coefideistial ntßei., witiveretes
not to allow any more of the par:sages to be phi:Auld,
boats, and to Inns who had Feld them.
A few minutra after, my attention was galled by the "need
of musketry, and. t.liaig my glass, I ran *ewers, of the Het.
rapine soldiers dying towards the fort from all Airs
wand by the nations, troop..
• The men an the feel iurneddantne of the eines opo• the
lawn, arid a bait Bre, fur a short .eisne. we. I. ps op On
41.0 k sides; silen, hntribk to relate! the foil hl.w up. void
only a few prison' were mimed by adinetning to the shfrerxbi
ve:aata.
The troops, most of them • itbentameine, teed ntliiedisedlif
the •ferel en music, 414 elariog that hefottir they vim's std.
would plunder she towel, but Criustet'lltedslget+, with tar
national troop", Assisted he the I stdlelll, eansidisti shire to
.411, bask to. the fort, whith they bad etiiireely-Asoeised, -401.
, a ankliek in • stare atutcreitianen,dirditaritstst bis musk% fife
tbr nitagssiste; bootie the tremendoes • va
lie .maw •iollaw the deserter,: They murk th•APill
of. Otitis loop' toq the tstinse of ilaisstr Atotittn4a, ark 1.".•
an 'I c t6lt.us tmdtDeg. TA44o4,4ootilrari.tra'ela9tlii.' I 1
Asia Cayes, Where they umited,,,,nlygpAig. Go•rrotur; a•:,;
thy were tent by me, and prese.o4ll4olloo.4.lallre

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me, requesilsel ►iltt to deliver np to the said officers such
'whims as, lreisetteM to the expedition, hail rentaiced bo-
lded. They at.'ll4Wfa• time pnrehaaed a large quantity of
proaittions. Dario, the absence of these officers, Dr.Nuchtst,
n Freochmenia Who had heels carried •way against his inch-
tuition, gut arthore, and hammed the Governor how matters
really were. *dies welt- immediately lamed to arrest them,
and demi* the venal, but they gut intelligence of it in time
to wall vu ►oard the schooner, leaving their provisions
'behind.
The nhjtet of these marauders, it is staled, wa• la man
and provision the I, and proceed en a crisis. up the
Mediterrauean. This plan was frustrated, for, being short of
water and provisions, they bad on alternative but to pot the
'cartel before the wind, and make for the island of Jamaica,
where they accordingly arrived. Hem they al fleet elide.-
soured to represent themselves as beimhoig to a mitinnal
vessel of New Grenada—bat frame accretion, they resorted
10 the artifice of piibitAing a declaration against me, by
which means they iihtsi..c.l the prot.-cturo of the merehapis
hostile to the raise of Smith American independence, and
were thus srierned from iuqui.y, and ultimately assisted in
lenving the. island.
Dwarried by one part of my force, obliged to send away
the remainder, every one will perceive the predicament in
which I was. I het obtained no status among the isiliabi-
tants, and %hen the Spanish influence anti Spanish troops
r.surneil their errieity, how could I calculate by my single
efforts to retain the command or the place, or cern to repress
the bloody commotion which was to be dreaded between
those who had lost and Ibose who hail recently obtained the
11<eeatlaticy, between the partisan of the old aged the parti-
zans of the new order of things?
1 had rroolvell, however, at any batard, to avert such ca-
lamity ; toy design nag to place myself at the head of the
Creole troop., and 1114 if I could gradually establish my
authority, I would steal the Europeans from Sau Andrea;
or, if I should find my situation untrosble, 1 would endea-
vour to effirt ricuncilintion among the pieties, and depart;
hut the same evil genius that had situated the deserters, in-
cited to madness their comrades who remained. The irrup-
tion made by them upiu the town bad itithiced the Creole
leader to call to his aaais•anee the Spanish force; thus at the
same instant the fort blew up and the Spaniards hail posses-
sings, and instead of returning to, 1 ',dig under the necessity
of using the I in which 1 was, to carry use with all
possible speed from Rio de la Hacks.
so, Sir, your humble Servant, '
GREGOR 31ACGREGOR.

Edinburgh, 17th October, 1941.

MR. (WILLS'S SECOND ASCENSION.

The inhabitants of Roston (North America) and ♦icinity
were on Thutsday, 2011. September, again gratified by a
second *seem 1111 l of Mr. Guille with hi. balloon.
A Gar urinous before 4, paw. the signal balloon was let off,
"thing took a westerly il.r<etion, and induced the spectators
to believe that Mr. D.'s tour would he over Charles River, or
across the Mill Dam, lowartla Brighton.
About four ticluck Ilse grand hallow', to which was at.
inched Mr. Cottle, calmly seated its his eiv, weaving the
American r9pc majestically flout the Gardens: and
with gisudrur aaernded to a great height in the air, making
lint little bide lung progress, and that in a nortb.weateru di-
rection.

After gaining a still greater height in the air, the balloon
oremetl to have met with a new current of wind, w hich car-
ved it very gradually iu an easterly direction towards the
tattoo?.
Soule anxiety now began to be evident among the vast col.
IN-tenns of people, in soul about the Common, lest Mr. G's
adventurons spirit shossld have exposed him to tie chance of
&ousting, or at least to a sea hash.
After remaining suspended in the air several minutes,
nev•ly stationary. Mr. G. comineured his amngements for
-Trturs.inz to his friends, and rrlieviag them, as well as the
numerous spretatnes, of their great anxiety.
As before, his desreot, as he approached the earth, coati.
oiled to become more rapid, outsl hid entirely from she view
of the people upon the Curnmon and in the Gardens. Con-
jecture. were afloat as to the precise spot its which he
wvulti south the surface of the earth.
rortativitly for our adventurous hero, the balloon came
d 0.,, within a few yards of the end of Central Wharf, u here
a boat receivrd Mr. G•ille, almost as awn as he touched the
surface of the water.
Mr. Goille estimates the greatest bright to which he
arcs uded, from nine to twrlve thousan 1 feet. From the
time be tett the Gardena till be descended, eras about fifteen
vaioutes.•—(Puteint-)