rs in the yard, when an order was received to
have all the wounded removed from the prisons to the hospital; and
while this deponent was carrying the said Thomas Smith to the door
of the prison, to deliver him to the guards selected to receive
him, some of the soldiers observed to this deponent, "this is in
turn for the affair at New Orleans, where you killed our men, and
now we have our revenge"--and further this deponent saith not.

ARCHIBALD TAYLOR.

Sworn before me, this 28th June, 1815.

AARON H. PALMER, _Notary Public_.

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KING AND LARPENT'S REPORT.

_Plymouth, 18th April, 1815._

We the undersigned commissioners, appointed on behalf of our
respective governments, to inquire into and report upon, the
unfortunate occurrence of the 6th April inst. at Dartmoor Prison;
having carefully perused the proceedings of the several courts of
inquiry, instituted immediately after that event, by the orders of
Admiral Sir John T. Duckworth and Major-General Brown,
respectively, as well as the depositions taken at the coroner's
inquest upon the bodies of the prisoners, who lost their lives
upon that melancholy occasion; upon which inquest the jury found a
verdict of justifiable homicide; proceeded immediately to the
examination upon oath in the presence of one or more of the
magistrates of the vicinity, of all the witnesses, both American
and English, who offered themselves for that purpose; or who could
be discovered as likely to afford any material information on the
subject, as well as those who had been previously examined before
the coroner, as otherwise, to the number in the whole of about
eighty. We further proceeded to a minute examination of the
prisons, for the purpose of clearing up some points which, upon
the evidence alone, were scarcely intelligible; obtaining from the
prisoners, and from the officers of the depot, all the necessary
assistance and explanation; and premising, that we have been from
necessity compelled to draw many of our conclusions from
statements and evidence highly contradictory, we do now make upon
the whole proceedings the following report:--

During the period which has elapsed since t