Norfolk Gazette And Publick Ledger

New York, June 6.

By the cartel ship Maria Christiana, from Plymouth, the Editors of the Mercantile Advertiser have received the following intelligence:

On board the Maria Christiana, Burke, June 3d, 1815.

To the Editors of the Mercantile Advertiser.

GENTLEMEN,

With a request that you will publish it in your next paper, I enclose you an account of the distressing affair at Dartmoor Prison, on the 6th of April.

When we quitted that prison on the 19th April, we left there 500 American prisoners, and 57 officers and one woman on parole, all in daily expectation of cartels from London, being informed by Mr. Beasley on the 13th that he had taken up a sufficient number of shipping to transport the whole of them home as soon as they could be got ready; that 3 ships had sailed from the Thames: and that eight others dropped down to Gravesend to receive them from Dartmoor. I am, Gentlemen, with respect, &c.

JOHN MIEGGS.

The agent of Dartmoor Prison, J. G. Shortland, on the 4th April, absented himself from the depot for nearly two days, contrary to the instructions of the Transport Board. During his absence, the contractor attempted to enforce on each prisoner one pound of refuse sea-bread, instead of the usual allowance of bread. However, they waited until about 6 P. M. that day, when 150 or 200 of the prisoners forced their way into the market-square. The deputy agent immediately complied and ordered the usual allowance to be served, and we thought the affair ended: but on the 6th, about the same hour, some thinking boys, for want of better employment, were picking the wall of the inner prison yard; when, to the astonishment of nearly the whole of the prisoners, the above agent, Shortland, had by his orders, alarmed the garrison. The prisoners then collected with astonishment, not knowing what was the matter at such unexpected alarm; and while thousands stood gazing and enquiring the reason of so sudden a change, the above Shortland had taken the troops under his charge, had them drawn up, to commence a fire on the prisoners. Unluckily the market-square gates were forced, not with an intention to oppose the military, or Shortland's designs. On seeing that he commenced a fire on those that stood nearest to them, however, the prisoners made the best of their way to their prisons without making the least resistance, to escape the continual and flanking fire that was kept up from the troops on the surrounding walls and square of the prisons.

There were one killed and several wounded when within the prison doors.

The result is as follows: 7 men killed, 39 dangerously wounded, 8 of whom had their limbs amputated; and 20 slightly wounded.

On the 8th a coroner's inquest was held on the bodies of the deceased, and on the 9th they gave in their verdict justifiable homicide.

The following list was carefully collected and revised by H. Kenny and myself from amongst the prisoners and the acquaintance of those who fell on that day: and I have made it my duty since my imprisonment to collect the names of the dead, and of those that entered the British service during the late war, with all their places of abode, and the vessels they originally belonged to. Of the former I have the date of their deaths: they are at your service, for the perusal of the public.

I am, gentlemen, with respect, your most obedient servant,

JOHN MIEGGS.

Names of those killed and wounded on the 6th of April, with their abodes, agreeable to their protections, and the vessels they belonged to, &c.

John Washington, Copstown, Md. Rolla, of Baltimore, shot through the brain; Joseph Johnson, Hartford, Connecticut, Paul Jones, N. York, shot through the heart: James Mann, Boston, Siro. of N. York, do.; James Campbell, N. York, dismissed from the Volunteer man of war, in the brain; John Haywood, Centerville, Md. do.; Scipio, do. right side; Thos. Jackson, boy, aged 13, New York, ship Orbit, New York, in the belly; William Littlepage, New York, S. ratoga, do. in the heart.

Those dangerously wounded, with those amputated, &c.

Peter Wilson, New York, Virginia Planter, in the hand, &c; Caleb Cotton, Taunton, Swift sure man war, in the leg: James Trumbull, Portland, Eldbridge Gerry, left arm amputated, James Bell, Philadelphia, Jno. Barlow, in the wrist and thigh; Philip Ford, do Sultan man of war, five stabs in the body; Thos. Smith, New York, Paul Jones, l. ft leg amputated: Wm. Blake, Brunswick Me. Repulse man of war, three stabs in the back; Edw. W. Banks, Portsmouth, N. H. Royal William, do. do.: Frederick Howard, Rochester, Mass. Plah. N. Bedford, in the leg: Jas. Wells, Salem, Thorn, Marblehead, let thigh amputated; Ephraim Lincoln, Boston, Argus, Boston. in the thigh; Henry Montclair, Roxbury, Gov. Tompkins, in the knee; Robert Will, of Portland, Anaconda man of war, in the knee; James Newman, Baltimore, impressed. dangerously; Alex. Peterson, N Yor. Erin, Boston: Joseph Musick, Charleston, Furious man of war: Peter Vincent, New York; Robert Field, Bath, Me. Grand Turk; John Willett, Philadelphia Rosario man of war, fractured jaw: William Penn, Virginia, do; John Guire, Boston, Rambler, 1! h amputated: Thos. Finley, Marblehead, Enterprise, in the thigh and back; John Peach, do. in the thigh; Paul Perry, N. Yarmouth, Me. Tyger man of war, right shoulder: Wm. Appleby, N. York, Magdalen, right hand and arm; C.

Garrison, Baltimore, Invincible, head and thigh; John Ogilvie, Philadelphia, Good Friends, hip and thigh; John Gray, Norfolk, Paul Jones, left arm amputated.

John Wilson, Virginia, thigh: Steven Tippins, Old Concord, Zebra thigh and belly: Wm. Lamb, through the eye, since dead, Edwin Gardner Marblehead, wrist; Jacob Davis, in the thigh: James Laurel, do; John Roberts, dangerously; George Campbell, do.; Michael Frances, in the arm, Michael Conner, do; we Liverpool, N. York, Magdalen, N. Y. left thumb amputated.

Slightly wounded, John Berry, Nathaniel Wakefield, Samuel E. Tyler, Stephen Vincent, B. Greenlow, Thos. George, Joseph Hendrick, Perry Richardson, John Cowan, Alexander Wilson, Wm. Smith, James Barker, James Wedgewood, James Matthews, John Murray, Wm. Marshall, Thomas Johnson, Joseph Reeves, James Christie, Joseph Bassell.