nged before the
light of another day! Dead and wounded men, blood and horror, made up
the scenery of this fatal evening!

The best account that could possibly be given, is that of a
respectable committee, selected from among the best characters in this
large assemblage of American prisoners. The greater part of this
committee, were men of no mean talents. They were not young men, but
had arrived at that period of life, when judgment is the soundest, and
when passion does not betray reason. The anxiety of all to know the
truth, and the solemn manner in which the evidence was collected and
given, stamped the transaction with the characters of truth. I did not
see the beginning of this affray. I was, with most of the other
prisoners, eating my evening's meal in the building, when I heard the
alarm bell, and soon after a volley of musketry. There were, I
believe, before the alarm bell rung, a few hundred prisoners,
scattered here and there about the yards, as usual; but I had no idea
of any particular collection of them, nor had I any suspicion of any
commotion existing, or meditated. But I forbear; and will here insert
the report of the committee, in the correctness of which I place an
entire confidence.

DARTMOOR MASSACRE.

Having seen in print several different statements of the massacre
of the American prisoners of war at Dartmoor, and, on perusal,
finding, that, though they corroborate each other, as to the
leading facts, yet it seems the public are not in possession of
all the particulars necessary to form a proper judgement of the
same.

While in prison, we having been members of the committee through
whom was transacted all their public business, and through whose
hands passed all their correspondence with their agent in London,
and having in our possession several documents relating to the
before mentioned brutal butchery, we deem it a duty we owe to our
murdered countrymen and fellow-citizens in general to have them
published.

Respecting the conduct of T. G. SHORTLAND, (commander-of the depot
of Dartmoor) prior to the bloody and ever memorable sixth of
April, it was a series of continued insult, injury and vexation to
the prisoners generally. Incapable of appreciating the beneficial
effects of the liberal policy of a gentleman, his sole study
appeared to be devising means to render the situation of the
prisoners as disag