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orderly and obedient ; not a man 
quitted the ship or relaxed from 
duty to the last moment. 
«The number of sufferers was 
unhappily great,—I fear upwards 
of, 20, principally occasioned by 
the sinking .of boats alongside, 
although some perished in conse- 
quence of the dreadful. rapidity 
with which the fire swept through 
the ship. Captain Newell, of the 
Alexandria, I grieve to say, is 
amongst the sufferers ; as also Mr. 
Barker, second mate of the Sur- 
rey; and Mr. Miller, midship- 
man of the Bengal ; the master, 
and a lieutenant of the Malacca; 
were drowned. It is, after this 
melancholy detail, some consola- 
tion to reflect, that all the females 
and helpless children were saved. 
‘“‘I escaped at the last moment, 
and did not preserve a single ar- 
ticle, except the clothes in which 
I stood—not even a paper was 
saved from the general ruin.”’ 
8.—An inquest was held before 
Joseph Whiteford, esq. Coroner, 
on the bodies of seven American 
prisoners of war, at the Dépot at 
Dartmoor, who came to their 
death in conséquence of the mili- 
tary firing on them, on Thursday 
the 6th inst, toprevent their escape 
fromthe prison. The Jury, after 
two days’ investigation, returned 
a verdict of Justifiable Homicide. 
This affray appears to have been 
of a very serious nature: the pri- 
soners, in consequence of the con- 
clusion of peace, conceived them- 
selves entitled totheirimmediate li- 
berty; andnot finding this tobe the 
case, they became impatient, and 
determined to effect their escape 
by force. They armed themselves 
with knives and every other wea- 
pon they could procure, and pro- 
ceeded to attack the guard, who, 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1815, 
in their own defence, were under 
the necessity of firing on them, by 
which the above seven prisoners 
were killed, and 35 others wound- 
ed, some of them very severely.— 
Exeter Flying Post. 
11.—An inquest was held at 
Woolwich, before Mr. Carttar, 
one of the Coroners for Kent, 
and a very respectable jury, on 
the body of a man found in the 
Thames on the Sunday preced- 
ing. It appeared in evidence, that 
the deceased had been wantonly 
thrown into the river, by a man 
of the name of Rose, so long back 
as the Ist of March, and although 
the corpse was greatly altered and 
decayed by the effects of time and 
the elements, yet the form of the 
deceased, he beingcrooked backed, 
and the clothes. he wore, were 
sufficiently remarkable to identify 
his person beyond all doubt. The 
deceased and Rose were passen- 
gers together in a Gravesend boat, 
on the morning of the ‘Ist of 
March last : and although there 
was no positive quarrel between 
them on the voyage, yet they ex- 
ercised their wit against each 
other great part of the time, to 
the amusement of the company. 
Rose was abusive and ill-humour- 
ed to the deceased, frequently 
interrupted him in singing, &c. 
pulled him about, knocked his 
hat off, threatened to put him on 
the fire, and told him repeated- 
ly he should go overboard before 
they got to Woolwich. The com- 
pany, nevertheless, did not ima- 
gine he meant it, and the deceas- 
ed took it all in good part, and 
only replied in a jocular way.’ At 
length, in Galleon’s Reach, the 
deceased and Rose both went on 
deck ; Rose took the deceased 
by the hand, and without speak- 
