wooden stockade fence was soon replaced with a brick wall. One prisoner, Charles Francois Marie Bourchier, stabbed a civilian Alexander Halliday while attempting to escape on 9 September 1808. He was convicted at the Huntingdon Assizes and sentenced to death by hanging. He was taken from Huntingdon Gaol on Friday 16th and executed at Norman Cross in front of the prisoners and the whole garrison. This was the only civil execution at Norman Cross. After the stabbing, the guards having seen two or three other knives, the entire prison was searched and 700 daggers were found. On the 24th September, 1808 arrived at Calais an English sloop of 44 - tons, called the Margaret Anne, William Tempel, master, of Barton, laden with 18 tons of coals. She was seized in the night of the 20th, in the Humber, by three French prisoners, who had escaped from Norman Cross. In November 1809 two French Navy officers, escaped by secreting themselves in the soil carts of the prison, in which they were drawn out of the confines of the depot. In December 1809 an inquest took place on Jean Barthelemy Toohe, a French prisoner of war; who, as he was endeavouring to make his escape over the pailing of the prison, was fired at by the sentinel on duty, and the ball entering his back, he died shortly afterwards. Duelling continued amongst prisoners. On 15 May 1811 at Norman Cross two fought with scissors attached to sticks. One duellist wounded the survivor twice, before the latter made the thrust that proved fatal. "On Saturday the 19th an inquisition was taken at Norman Cross Barracks, on view of the body of Julien Cheral, a French prisoner of war, who met his death by a fellow prisoner of the name of Jean Francois Pons stabbing. Verdict — Self Defence.” In January 1812, a French prisoner was shot whilst escaping after he had overpowered a guard and stolen a bayonet. The guard was committed to Huntingdon Gaol for the next assizes on a charge of manslaughter. In August 1812 Prosper Louis, 7th Duke of Arenberg, was sent to Norman Cross after refusing to conform to the new reporting rules of his parole at Bridgnorth, where he was staying with his wife, Stéphanie Tascher de La Pagerie (a niece of Empress Joséphine). After a period he agreed to follow the reporting requirement and was paroled again.