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discovery made by him of a plot to set fire to the Gaol.
The conspirators were long-sentence prisoners who were in correspondence with friends outside the walls. Information was obtained in the first instance by an English prisoner, who observed a prohibited article being passed to another prisoner, whose time would expire in a few days. This latter, out of fear that his sentence would be prolonged, gave some information privately which corroborated by the subsequent discovery of a slow match and other articles in the place indicated by him. He said that the conspirators and their friends outside the walls were members of the Triad Society and that he would be assassinated after leaving the Gaol if it transpired that he had given information. Care has been taken not to disclose...