4th [August] 3 More Prisoners retd from the Hospt, On the 18th of Last month begun to Mine a Passage under ground from the Long Prison in Order for An Elopement but As I'm so low by the Small pox I Don't Ex­pect to Elope — This Night favour'd their Design &at 11 P.M. began to Open the Hole thro which 32 passed before Day without being Dis­cover'd, they was not Miss'd till about 10 A.M. We were Counted Out, then there was a Most Shocking herangue Some running One way some Another But the hole was the smallest that Many was Unable to get thro — 17 of the Number Belonged to the Doltin [Dalton], 5 to the Free­dom, 4 to the Lexington, 5 to the [Charming] Salley, 1 to the St. Begger ² —