ed to a cross fire
from the soldiers on the walls, and which the prisoners had to
pass in gaining the prisons.

It appears to us that the foregoing reasons sufficiently warrant
the conclusion we have drawn therefrom.

We likewise believe, from the depositions of men who were eye
witnesses of a part of Shortland's conduct, on the evening of the
6th of April, that he was intoxicated with liquor at the time;
from his brutality in beating a prisoner then supporting another
severely wounded, from the blackguard and abusive language he made
use of, and from his frequently having been seen in the same
state. His being drunk was, of course, the means of inflaming his
bitter enmity against the prisoners, and no doubt was the cause of
the indiscriminate butchery, and of no quarter being given.

We here solemnly aver, that there was no pre-concerted plan to
attempt a breaking out. There cannot be produced the least shadow
of a reason or inducement for that intention, because the
prisoners were daily expecting to be released, and to embark on
board cartels for their native country. And we likewise solemnly
assert, that there was no intention of resisting, in any manner,
the authority of this depot.

N. B. Seven were killed, thirty dangerously wounded, and thirty
slightly do. Total, sixty-seven killed and wounded.

_Wm. B. Orne_, }
_James Boggs_, }
_J. F. Trowbridge_, } SIGNED,
_John Rust_, }
_Walter Colton_, }

_Wm. Hobart_, }
_James Adams_, }
_Francis Joseph_, } _Committee_.
_Henry Allen_, }
_Thomas B. Mott_, }

No. XVIII.

Letter from Mr. Beasly, agent for American prisoners of war at
London, to the Committee of American prisoners of war in Dartmoor
prison.

_Agency for American prisoners of war_, }
_London, April 12, 1815_. }

GENTLEMEN--It having been stated in some of the newspapers
published here, that the American government intended to