174 ANNUAL REGISTER, I8I6. 



tions of the Court. In the even- 

 ing, tlie city was illuminated. 



On Sunday evening, '27th, about 

 six o'clock, six felons, who had 

 been cast for deatli, but reprieved, 

 and were, in tlie course of the 

 night, to \vdxe been removed from 

 Newgate for transportation to 

 Botany Bay, found means to 

 break ))rison, by cutting through 

 the roof of their cells, situate at 

 the top of the gaol, and, tying 

 their blankets together, so formed 

 a rope as to let themselves down 

 in safety, in the space between 

 the walls of Newgate and the 

 Physicians' college. From thence 

 they made their way over the 

 yardij of two houses to the back 

 of the County Chronicle printing- 

 office ; here the breaking of a 

 sky-light, over wliich they Avere 

 clambering, caused tliem to be 

 discovered by a man on the pre- 

 mises, who ran down stairs to 

 give the alarm, but before his re- 

 turn hve of them had jum]jcd into 

 the adjoining yard of Mr. Letter- 

 man, and rattling at the door, the 

 female servant opened it, when 

 they rushed by her, pas.sed out at 

 the front of the house, and got 

 clear off. The sixth, not being 

 sufficiently alert, was taken in the 

 printing-office, and conveyed to 

 Gilts pur-street Comptei-. The 

 Lord Mayor, who was taking his 

 rounds, was there almost <is soon 

 as the recaptured irisoner ; he 

 inmicdiately sent information of 

 tlie escape to tlic different police 

 offices, 'survej'cd every part of 

 Newgale, cxteinally and inter- 

 nally, and gave \ arious diiections 

 to pievent a repetition of the cir- 

 cumstance. Th( fellow re-taken 

 was sent off to the hulks yester- 

 day morning, w ith a number of 

 other transports. 



30. From a Staffordshire Paper. 

 — In the e\ ening a mob assembled 

 in the town of Walsidl, which, 

 after breaking the windows of se- 

 veral bakejs, &c. proceeded to the 

 new mills, abo\it a mile distant 

 from the town, ^vhere they com- 

 menced the work of demolition 

 with great fury. Mr. Jones (the 

 occupier of the mills) had just 

 time to escape before their ar- 

 rival, with a part of his cash and 

 writings. The rioters either car- 

 lied away or destroyed evejy thing 

 that remained in the house, which 

 they completely gutted. In the 

 mean time the magistrates of 

 ^Valsall assembled and dispatched 

 messengeis in all directions for 

 military assistance, and in a short 

 time a detachment of the 15th 

 Hussars, under the command of 

 Lieut. O'Donnell, arrived from 

 \A olverhampton ; also the Hands- 

 worth caxalry, commanded by 

 Capt. Clarke, and a troop of the 

 "VA'arwickshire yeomany, from Bir- 

 mingham. Jiy this time, how- 

 ever, the rioters liad nearly dis- 

 persed, most of them being oc- 

 cupied ivith the stowage of their 

 plunder ; and previously to the 

 arii\ id of the military, several lia<l 

 been taken into custody by the 

 ci\il power. We are happy to 

 add, that since Tuesday there 

 have been no symptoms of dis- 

 turbance. We caiinot dismiss the 

 subject without noticing, that on 

 the morning of the day on which 

 the riot took place, a hawker was 

 bnsily em])loyed in circulating 

 throughout Walsall, copies of the 

 Nottingham petition (as it is call- 

 ed) to the Prince Regent. 



A Lausanne jiapcr states as fol- 

 lows : — " ^A'ehave been informed 

 tliat some Swiss sla\ es at Algiers 

 have obtained their liberty, and 



returned 



