The Sun. — 1824-05-18 (London, England)

DESPERATE PLAN FOR BREAKING OUT OF  NEIVGATE.  On Sunday week a very desperate plan for effecting an escape from the prison of Newgate was discovered. Indeed so great is the vigilance of the Superintendenta of the Prison, that there is not the slightest probability of the accomplishment of any object of the kind. The apparent impossibility in all likelihood induced the adventurers to determine upon committing murder, if opposition presented itself—an intention which, it is manifest, they entertained from the following facts, which rumour-has set afloat with considerable accuracy :—A rope, 44 feet in length, was found in the coal-hole of the middle yard, which is allotted to prisoners who are to take their trial. It was found to be made from the mats about the prison ; and the gradual diminution of the mats was, we believe, the first thing that caused the suspicion. It was while the prisouers were at Chapel the yard was searched, and the discovery of the rope, to one end -of which was attached a piece of iron, forming a right angle, one part of w.hich was intended to catch the- top of the wall, led to a further examination. It was then ascertained that the bars of one of the rooms were pertly severed through, and that it was intended by two of the prisoners to get into the yard, in the dark, to throw the rope to the top of the prison, .to ascend, and if the watchmen on the top should attempt to op. pose their escape, to hurl them headlong upon the pavement. But at the same time that these preparations were going forward within, those who laid the plan of escape took care that there should be a powerful co-operation on the other side amongst their friends, who are candidates for the gallows. A great number of thieves were to be stationed (according to the directions of some of the most experienced) iu Newgatestreet, for the purpose of preventing the interference of the passengers in the event of alarm in the prison. Those coadjutors were to he armed with pistols and cutlasses, and were, in' fact, to cut down all opposition. The prisoners were to receive a brace of loaded pistols in moist sugar, calculating that no examination of that article would take place ; and those pistols they intended to use against the watchmen on the roof, if there was too much difficulty in dashing them into the street, upon au outcry raised by them, or by others, for the purpose of alarming them to their duty. There were other prisoners concerned in the plan for escape, but they were rather silent spectators of the preparations than active partners in the enterprise. They disavowed being parties to the breaking, but they have admitted that if the ringleaders escaped they should make the experiment, as they could not bear to let so inviting a thing as a rope-way out prison to lie. idle. The prisoners who set this scheme on foot were only waiting for the dark nights to commence vigorously ; and us their hope of escape must be, considering the stupendous difficulties which, to the knowledge of every one in Newgate present themselves, but very slight, their desperation would, if not checkedin the outset, have undoubtedly caused a horrible scene of bloodshed. The watchmen at the top of the Prison are constantly supplied with blunderbusses, pistols, and cutlasses, and to calculate upon their not hearing the dashing of the iron of the rape against the wall(for the prisoners did not suppose that in one throw they could fasten the rope to the wall), could be little less than madness. The necessary steps, it is needless to say, have been taken ro prevent those des. perate adventurers from engaging in any other phi" of escape. Perhaps there never was a racee completely digested and arranged scheme laid. In Mr. Newman time five men broke out at the top of the house, and actually escaped ; four 's of them ••were afterwards hanged. Siuce that time the top of the prison has been.as well guarded as any part of the interior of the prison.  The Rev. Mr. VANSITTART, nephew of Lord Bexley, late Chancellor of the Exchequer, is appointed to the Prebend's Stall in our Cathedral, vacant by the translation of Dr. Law to the Bishopric of Bath and Wells. This appointment is worth about 8001. per ann.—(Carlisle Journal.)