The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-03 00:00:00

AIiVOCATE.

This, the organ of the assistant drep-ri, who are
engaged in the short-time agitation, still continues its
career of usefulness. We congratulate the young men
on the ability displayed by their advocate. The present
is an excellent number.

REVOLT OF THE CONVICTS AT

ADEN.
The following particulars of this occurrence, with
which we have been furnished by our, correspondent at

Aden, may be relied upon as Perfectly correct :—" On
June 21st, whilst the convicts were at work about two
miles outsi:le the main or northern pass, they surprised
and disarmed their military guard, consisting of a liavildar
and twelve Sepoys of the 47th Regiment M. N. I.
It appears that at twelve o'clock noon the prisoners
had, as was usual, left off work till one o'clock, at which
time, it seems, the guard and the convicts were com-
pletely mixed together in a very unmilitary manner :
at a preconcerted signal three or four prisoners seized
each Sepoy and wrenched the musket from his
band, with which they ran seawards, and took posses-
sion of an Arab boat, which they tried to launch,
evidently supposing that once afloat they could
easily manage to gain the Arabian side of the bay,
distant about a mile and a half. As many of the con-
victs had been fishermen in the Cencien, this plan was
perfectly feasible, and only failed from the tide being
too low to float the boat. Being. bold, resolute, despe-
rate villains, they instantly dashed in 'o the sea,
fettered as they were, with the intention of
swimming to the opposite side of the bay.
By this time the Sepoys had recovered from their
confusion, and having also recovered their arms,
opened a fire on them, by which two were shot dead, and
five badly wounded. Many of the prisoners not being
able to swim, and finding the water deepeithan they had
evidently calculated on, came back and surrendered. A
great many persevered. and thirteen eff cted their
escape—twelve were drowned, and one was subse-
quently found elead. on. the Aralaien _side ; thus making
the total loss of life on this melancholy occasion fifteen.
Of those who' escaped, four were recaptured, and one
was brought back by the Arabs. Seven are still at
large, and have found shelter in Fouthli country, the
chief of which has written to the political agent to say
that he will send them in prisorers. This he will net do.
As the prisoners are Ilindoos, they will doubtless prefer
the Mahomedan religion to irons and hard work on the
roads for life. After they have embraced the tenets of the
Koran, no true Mu-sulman can, according to the creed,
give I.p the proselyte. One of the prisoners, whose arm
was much shattered by a ball, has undergone amputation
by the civil surgeon. It has appeared on evidence that
not one of the guard, thirteen in number, in charge of
sixty-four desperate convicts, all of whom are condemned
to hard labour on.the roads, either for murder or gang
robbery with violence, had loaded muskets. That they
(the guard) allowed themselves to be surprised and
completely disarmed without having been able to inflict
the slightest injury on a single convict, will appear some-
what singular to our a ni-military readers. There is
not a shadow of doubt but that the guard mixed in a
very familiar manner with the prisoners, contrary to all
military ye inciples. It has been fully ascertained that
the rising was previously planned and arranged,
avid that the unusual remissness of the guards en-
couraged them in their well-organised plan to re-
volt. The prisoners were also aware that they had
no danger to apprehend from unloaded muskets.
They iay that they had no intention to endeavour to
escape previous to their being worked outside in a man-
, ner which they were physically incapable of per-
forming in a climate so unusual to their former places
of imprisonment ; that the work was greater than
their debilitated frames could endure ; and that
they rushed on certain death rather than bear their
present life of endless toil and unsupportable misery.
A military court of inquiry has been assembled to
inquire into the circumstances of the escape of the pri-
soners, and strange to say, it acquits the guard
of all blame. Government should not rest satisfied
with this very singular decision, which the cir-
cumstances of the case do not at all support. The
opinion of the court is eminently calculated to act in
a very injurious manner and to interfere in a very
dangerous way with military discipline. The non-com-
missioned officer in command of the guard ought to
have been brought before a general court-martial. There
still remain two points not disposed of in a satisfactory
manner—a hy were the guard with unloaded arms ?
and why did they permit themselves to be surprised
and disarmed ?"—Bombey Times, July 13.

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