Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the secretary of state, prepared in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 4th inst. in relation to the transactions at Dartmoor Prison, in the month of April last, so far as the American prisoners of war, there confined, were affected by such transaction January 31, 1816. Read and ordered to lie upon the table (Printed by William A. Davis, 1816)
"Dartmoor Prison. A return of American prisoners of war who were killed and wounded in an attempt to force the military guard on the evening of the 6th April, 1815."--folded leaf. signed: Tho. Geo. Shortland, agent. Geo. Magrath, surgeon. - At head of title, in square brackets: 36. - Diplomatic correspondence between the United States and Great Britain, testimony given before the coroner and justices of the peace in Devon, and further correspondence concerning the prisoners. - Folded leaf numbered: 174. - Letter of transmittal addressed to the House of Representatives. - Report signed on p. 5: Jas. Monroe. - Shaw & Shoemaker, 39554