[[[Major Andre's Description of the Mischianza.]]] {305}appeared, and the streets and lanes of the expanding city cover the site. [Illustration: 9315] Let us turn from the spot and its associations, and make our way back to the city proper. [[[Major Andre's Description of the Mischianza.]]] {306}On Walnut Street, near Sixth, was the prison used as the British Provost in 1778. [Illustration: 9316] It was under the charge of that infamously cruel scoundrel, Captain Cunningham, a burly, [[[Major Andrè's Description of the Mischianza.--Philadelphia Provost Prison.--Cunningham.]]] {307}ill-natured Irishman of sixty years, whose conduct as provost marshal here and in New York has connected his name with all that is detestable. There were confined the American prisoners taken at Brandywine and Germantown, many of whom died of starvation after feeling the lash of Cunningham's whip, or the force of his heavy boot, and were buried in the Potter's Field near by, now the beautiful _Washington Square_. It makes the blood curdle to read of the sufferings of those who fell under the sway of that monster, so devilish in all his ways. The miseries of others seemed to give him great delight; and often, in the sight of the starving prisoners, would he kick over a pail of soup, or scatter a basket of fruit or cold placed upon the door-stone with the hope that it shall meet him hereafter as provost marshal in victuals which some benevolent hand had might nourish the famished soldiers! We New York. Tradition says he was hung