The Sun.
London, England, 1813-09-24 00:00:00

FRENCII PII ISONER S.

PEZITit, SEPT. 16.—on Saturday, about •or
o'clock, a mine was Iliscoycred in the floor of the
otlicers.prison (or No. 6.) at the depot. The iron
hoops had-been cut, and an excavation, of suffi-
cient diameter to. admit a man, • had been carried
.19 feet perpendicularly' downwards:, and thirty
feet horizontally outwards. A detachment of
the guard having itrarCheti Mto the prison after
this • discovery, 'the men were stoned by We pri-
s(iners, among whom the: sentries fired three mus-
kets, but without doing any injury. At eleven,
on Sunday evening, about forty prisoners were
observed by a sentry out of their prison, and
strolling about in the airing ground Of No. 3. An
alarm was immediately given to the guard, who,
apprehending a general attempt at escape, rushed
towards the place where the .prisoners were as-
sembled, and. having seized 24, drove the rest
back into the prison. Three ,of the prisoners
were wounded in the tumult, and immediately
conveyed to the .hospital. The 24 who had been
seized, . were lodged in the eacitot, where they at
present remain, ,together with eleven retaken fit-
gitives, Next morning, on eounting.over the pri-
soners. of No. 3, 28 were missing, and as a light
had bee.» observed in the necessary, about eight
of the preceding evening, that.. plitee was . exa-
mined, and a mined;scovered which communicated
with the great •sewer of the depot. •Through this
outlet the absentees had escaped. Two of them,
we understand, were taken on:Monday night,: at
the hridgepf Earn, and three more were brought
in ibis morning. 'The 800 ptisoners, who were
lately-transferred from Penienik, are, it is said,
of a much more turbulent and ungovernable. cba--
racter than any of the rest ; and, we fear, that
through their influence, the peace and snbmission
of the whole will be so incessantly interrupted as
to require some example of intimidating harshness),
a stop to all conpriumeation between the prisoners
and the public, and a general increase of ,vigi-
lance and severity in the management of the de-
pOt. The_ panishments inflicted in, the present
case have been very lenient, and the market was
shut only one day. To the' particulars 'stated
above, we have to add, that yesterday, the weight
of water is the canal being increased by the rain,
a part of the, bottom fell into an excavatkin which
,been directed.' beneath it, and which was
traced tr, the necessary of N0..1.----The'four pri-
soners taken at Arbroath were brought back ut
lie depot on Tuesday.
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..!,xectmoNt.r.--I>anio .1114 Crory, who was sell-
tenced to be executed at Carlkle on Saturday
for the burghrry connnit tett tipon
fered the sentence of the. law Qn that day, "ironic-
diately after the arrival of the south mail in that
.
city, iconlessmg the Justice of his punisinnent for
the various crimes he had committed, He was
kw?, on the ont3ide of the gaol in English-street
butt on :the drop falling,., either front the wei,,ht of
the body, or an imperfection in the cord, the rope
bioke, and he fell into the street, and broke his
leg,- About half an lioite elapsed bifure ttivother
cord could be got ready, vyben he Was'ig.,.in
pended ; one at the 'strati& of the .ke'vond riTc,
breaking, it wrts apprehended that he ‘flitild have
fallen a a:cc:ad time, but no Amilar accident oc-
curred ; arid alter hanging the usual time, he was
cut dotimand.the body .„ , •