hey would be glad to have an interview for a few moments,
for the purpose of explaining the nature of their evidence, and
the necessity of a full hearing on both sides of the question. NO
ANSWER BEING RETURNED TO THIS REQUEST, and still waiting with the
anxious hope that they would soon send for some of us, when we
were told by one of the turnkeys, that the commissioners were
prepared to depart, having finished the examination. Astonished to
think they meant to leave the depot without clearly investigating
the circumstances that were the cause of their meeting, and
feeling indignant that a cause of so much importance should be
passed over so partially, the committee addressed a note to Mr.
King, begging him not to shut the door of communication against
the prisoners, by closing the inquiry without giving them the
privilege of a hearing, as the greatest part of our witnesses were
yet unexamined, and their evidence they conceived to be of the
utmost importance to the investigation. _No reply was made to this
note_; but, in a few moments, we were told, that the commissioners
had left the depot. How far they are justifiable in saying they
examined ALL the evidences that offered themselves, we think is
sufficiently shewn.

The commissioners next go on to mention the insurrection of the
prisoners about the bread, on the 4th, two days previous to the
events, the subject of that inquiry. Although the report correctly
states, the prisoners quietly returned to their own yards, after
their demands having been complied with, Mr. King forgot to
mention, that it was clearly represented to him, had the
prisoners been so disposed, on that night, they could have easily
made their escape. Although that transaction had nothing to do, as
relates to the prisoners, with the events of the 6th, we merely
represent this circumstance to show, that there was no intention
whatever on their part to break out of the prison, as Shortland
and his adherents have attempted to prove.

The report now goes on to mention, that on the evening of the 6th
of April, about six o'clock in the evening, a hole was made in one
of the walls of the prison sufficient for a full-sized man to
pass, and others had been commenced, but never completed, and that
a number of the prisoners were over the railing erected to prevent