In spite of all these aids, want of food has been known to make him furious and often melancholy.
There is reason to believe that he had long meditated his escape, which he effected in the night of the 3rd instant.

About two o'clock in the morning, he pretended illness, and awaking the servant who lay in the room with him, begged to go down stairs.

The other attended him without suspicion of his design; and Baneelon no sooner found himself in a backyard, than he nimbly leaped over a slight paling, and bade us adieu.
The following public order was issued within the date of this chapter, and is too pleasing a proof that universal depravity did not prevail among the convicts, to be omitted.
The governor, in consequence of the unremitted good behaviour and meritorious conduct of John Irving, is pleased to remit the remainder of the term for which he was sentenced to transportation.

He is therefore to be considered as restored to all those rights and privileges, which had been suspended in consequence of the sentence of the law.

And as such, he is hereby appointed to act as an assistant to the surgeon at Norfolk Island..