The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-07-16 00:00:00

DISCoVERT or A /MILL.

3. MINN Ststed, that is een•
spume: of information, ho west in company with
somber person, en the 6th of N. last, to else Meese
Nn. 10. Jokill-ii.sireo. King retward.oreet, Moshe
end, where they footed, rapper still, of 150 salines,
chirped with wash, which they sotked of Net a
\setae bassi was to he found on the premises, lied
It was supposed that the inmates had twee letelligeoce
of
the ewer's appremb, tied end. their escape.
The lamilady of the beam was tawasetsed to prove
the new of Ile werspier, hot she declared that she
was ignorant of it Her Anew% were let by SO
agent, aid she aliareely knew the same of one of her
tomato,.

T-e Court, In Mne►gaenee, were not enabled to
is the p►nalty. bet ordered the still, apparatus, he.
to be coudemood;

ESCAPE FROM PRISON.

Thor..lay morning, shoat throe o'clock, Joan
Scott, John AI• Pherson William Dote, sad David
ennfined in Telhoistk. Donato, accused of
capital crimp., elected their escape• Those for,
storm with a prism., of the name of Rooney. wets
camfined in one coll. sod hod for some days moodiest.
ad their escape. On Tuesday last, Scott's sire
brought to the prisms, cosieroled ender bar clothes,
the bead of a pick.ase. to enable them to carry on
their operation. With letcradiblo labour they eat a
passage rhroogh a wall four feet in thkkaess, built of
large stones firmly rivetted together with strong bars
of iron. By this mesas o communication was open.
ed wit► the East.ball of the Town.hosiae; bat as the
hole was at the height of shoot fifteen feet from oho
finer, thaw were ender the 'enmity of fastening
their blankets and coverlets together, to enable them
to descend. M•Pberson, 11.1 g, and Gall, had al-
ready retched lb* Boor, and Scott was hi the act of
following them, when the rope pee way, sod tie
fell frees a considerable height, bat aldose, sustain.
fog any material injary. The remaining Prisooir,
makings 'lris, of necessity, now asserts that he did
not intend to sake his escape. Ti. principal actor
in this affair was Scott, who,* doings we bass more
than ones bad occasion to notice; and be was folly li
prepared to resist in case of detection, being armed
with a brace of disable-barrelled pistols, with which
ha ell:amid himself determined to blow oat the
brains of the jail•►, or say ether person who might
offer to laterropt him. After getting into the 11.11,
oho relatives found it a comparatively easy task to
fore. open the lower door of the Tose-hooso.—
seep, before leaving town, very deliberately went to
his own house to conceal the pirk.ase. Three per-
sons, answering the descriptions of the others, were
seen some time afterwards near :.legginch. The other
Prisoners in the* endearoored to give the •Istai,
by ceiling from the windows; bet there being aort-
a.. in the street at the time escapt a single
who ►•fseed in carry the inhumation to the j=ilex,
the f.gitises got clear of. We ande►stsad that the
contumacies, scavenger was immediately dismissed
from olice.—( Rootlet Courier.)

BRTTttro OM OLITIII ASO DOS s ELLIKS.•-••Theff.
Tot) Ce.nsitierebiS b•lling io 1110 11)..ftillig elides yes-
.e•tlo, hotneen Oliver end Winnelly. ono fight nu,
%%eiltsrodey pest, at sit to foot o. Donnelly. There
aro 'gringos rep..fte ae to the vote of the enodition of
-he men for the pompon of hetting, bet they an wig
tip, to use a spofteinto't phrsio!