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passage, where it soon found itself 

 on a shingle bank, with the tide 

 ebbing ; and, consequently, not- 

 withstanding the most violent exer- 

 tions to get off, remained an easy 

 prize to several fishermen. The 

 supposed value is 500/. A similar 

 occurrence never happened before, 

 within the isle of Wight. 



16. The Lord Mayor having 

 issued several hundred summonses 

 for bakers, &c. to attend at the 

 Mansion-house yesterday, his lord- 

 ship took the chair at an early hour. 

 He stated, that, finding the returns 

 of flour had of late been attended 

 with great irregularities, and that 

 more than 300 of the returns were 

 this week made wholly at 905. per 

 sack, whilst many other most re- 

 spectable bakers had made their 

 respective returns at 80s. and 85s. 

 per sack, his lordsliip, whose duty it 

 was to set the assize of bread from 

 the average price of flour, felt him- 

 self called upon to summon the 

 parties before him, in order to give 

 them an opportunity to correct 

 such returns, or to enter into such 

 explanation as they themselves 

 must know was required by act 

 of parhament. His lordship ob- 

 served, that the liberal way of 

 estimating the average value of 

 flour, was to take it at 15s. per 

 sack below what was the average 

 of wheat ; and as wheat at present 

 was not only generally very good, 

 but averaged at 895. per sack, 

 he should certainly feel it his pro- 

 vince to institute, weekly, every 

 legal inquiry, until the price of 

 flour had got down to its proper 

 levtl. Several bakers were fined 

 405. eacV., with a suitable admoni- 

 tion. 



Perth, Se^t. 16 — On Saturday, 

 about one o'clock, a mine was dis- 



covered in the floor of the officers' 

 prison (or No. 6.) at the depot. 

 The iron hoops had been cut, and 

 an excavation, of sufficient diame- 

 ter to admit a man, had been car- 

 ried 19 feet perpendicularly down- 

 wards, and 30 feet horizontally out- 

 wards. A detachment of the guard 

 having marched into the prison 

 after this discovery, the men were 

 stoned by the prisoners, among 

 whom the sentries fired three mus- 

 kets, but without doing any injury. 

 At eleven, on Sunday evening, 

 about forty prisoners were observed 

 by a sentry out of their prison, 

 and strolling about in the airing 

 ground of No. 3. An alarm was 

 immediately given to the guard, 

 who, apprehending a general at- 

 tempt to escape, rushed towards 

 the place where the prisoners were 

 assembled, and having seized 24:, 

 drove the rest back into the prison. 

 Three of the prisoners were wound- 

 ed in the tumult, and immediately 

 conveyed to the hospital. The 24 

 who had been seized were lodged 

 in the cachot, where they at pre- 

 sent remain, together with eleven 

 retaken fugitives. Next morning, 

 on counting over the prisoners of 

 No. 3, 23 were missing ; and as a 

 light had been observed in the ne- 

 cessary, about eight on the preced- 

 ing evening, that place was ex- 

 amined, and a mine discovered, 

 which communicated with the great 

 sewer of the depot. Through this 

 outlet the absentees had escaped. 

 Two of them, we understand, were 

 taken on Monday night, at the'; 

 bridge of Earn, and three more 

 were brought in this morning. The 

 eight hundred prisoners, who were 

 lately transferred from Penicuik,* 

 are, it is said, of a much more tur^ 

 bulent and ungovernable charactcf 



