Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1835-08-27
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PARrs, Monday Afternoon, July 49,
Tie Grown lawyers have been occupied
all the morning with m Investigation into
the manner in which that section OF the
April insurgents confined in tho prison OF
Saint Peiagie. have effected their escape.
II appears that the whole Of the prisoners,
without distinction, had been admitted for
the purpose Of exercise, into some large
empty cellars, within the precincts OF tho
prison. This suggested the idea of the
possibility Of cutting subterraneap pas
sage, from these cellars, into neishbor.
ing garden, which 10 bounded on one side
by the Hue Cepeau. with tho house 10
which it forms an sppendsge.
II IS not very clear how they succeeded
in eluding the vigilance Of the seniinels
stationed both within the walls and with
out. Several tools bad been found with
which the laborious part Of the ope ration
had been effected, and even pIanks, which
must have been handed over the wall by
the confederates from without. The pris
oners confined in the St. Pelagie, belong
ed to what is called the category Of Pals.
Three OF their number. kersanic and two
others, refused to accompany their fellows,
although they religiously kept their secret
during the many weeks that the business
OF sapping and mining must have been 20
ing on.
Five or six Of the fugitives have already
been recaptured by the police, who will
oil course, exert themselves 10 the utmost
to recover those stiIl missing, il for nc
other reason, to avoid the charge of aiding
and abetting them in their escape, a charge
which 10 always brought against them, al
though. | have every reason TO believe,
without the slightest foundation. The fun
mel 10 forty feet in length The three pris-
oners who refused to accept the freedom
thus provided, on the necessary condition
oficaving the country or remaining in con.
cealment, are the editor and two Of the
writer's in The new Republican journal
the Reformateur.
Lagrange and the other Lyons prisoners,
who from the state OF their health have
been suffered TO reside in a n,dison de san
t., were transferred during the night, after
the discovery at st. Pelagie, to their old
quarters at the Luxembourg and the Con
ciergerie IL Is evident, that the late re-
solution Of the Court Of Peers, to di.join
tho cases Of the Paris prisoners from those
oil Lyons, has fastened this attempt, the
success Of which has excited much sur
PRISE every where and Of course, most OF
all. IN the mind Of the proprietor Of the
garden, through whose house the prison.
ers afterwards forced their way, with very
little ceremony. at an hour. (haIf past nine
P. No. when he happened to be entertain.
ing company; little expecting that such
an incident was 10 arise, 10 furnish his
guests with materials for conversation.
In the Memorial Bordalais, Of the 9th,
II Is stated on the authority Of letters from
Bilooa, OF the 4,h, that the Carlists had
entirely disappeared, and that a party of
The Queens troops had left the town to
push their reconnoisances 10 the course
oil the siege, twenty or twenty.t two of the
garrison had been killed, and from seven
" to eighty wounded. Erase was dan.
gerously i'll, and incapable Of assuming the
command Of the Carllst forces. and the in.
sursents of Navarro, had refused to fight
under any chief who was not a native of
the province.