The lawyer and biographer James Boswell interceded with the government on their behalf, and on 2 May 1793 Mary Bryant was given an unconditional pardon, and the four men were discharged from Newgate by proclamation on 3 November 1793.
Martin was portrayed by John Ewart in the 1963 Australian Broadcasting Commission serial, The Hungry Ones.
As well as being the only extant first-hand account of this famous escape, Memorandoms by James Martin is the earliest Australian convict narrative.
The Memorandoms was first discovered by the Bentham scholar Charles Blount in the 1930s, who published a short edition, limited to 150 copies.
This new edition makes available, for the first time and for free, facsimiles of the original manuscript alongside an annotated transcript, and features a scholarly introduction which puts the escape in context, and challenges many of the myths and legends which have grown around the Bryant party's escape.