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NAUTICdL norELLIGRIMIL ' FALMOUTH, AUGUST at. Arrived the Humber armed ship from the Dessiskil also the American ship Sally, Capt. Ntetoun, from Oporto, in ten days: Capt. Nicnot.Ls reports that S:r ARTHUR Witu.Estev had landed with about IMO° men at Figueira. Sailed the Endeavour armed brig with a convoy for Wales ; and the American packet St. Michael, with dispatches for L'Orient and New York. Wind S. W. TRURO, AtiGUST Is. A convoy of about 44) vessels were off Falmouth last evening, beating to. the Westward, supposed to be bound for Cork. A convoy of about 20 sail, under charge of a large frigate, passed Fahunuth yesterday evening to the Eastward. The American messenger,. Mr. Notntsz, sailed yesterday from Falmouth, its the St. Michael's brig, with dispatches for America, but first for L'Orient.—We are hourly in expectation of news of the utmost importance from Lisbon. There bas been a rumour, but Ave could trace it to no cer tain source, that the Russian ships had come out and joined the British. There is now no reason to fear that JtyNor can be reinforced on the side of Spain. If he has not already surrendered to Sir Amnon WRLLESLEY, nothing but a miracle can save him when Sir HARRY BURRARD shall have arrived. TORBAY, AUGUST is. Arrived the Channel Fleet, from their station off 3rest..Wind S. W. PLYMOUTH, AUGUST 13. Last evening passed up Channel the NAnctsses, of * guns, from Oporto, with about 60 sail of vessels under convoy, for the diferent ports in the Channel, Came in the Nancy, Captain Isogon, from Oporto in ballast ; Ann, Capt. &meows, from ditto, with wino, for orders : both sailed with the NARCISTus from Oporto ; VALIAVT, of 74 guns, from the Channel fleet ; Excouwriut gun-brig, from the coact of Spain ; and the Polly, Val,a.occ, from Gibraltar. Sailed the FAVOURITE hired cutter for the fleet off Brest ; end GLzAnze hired armed ketch on a cruize. POR" ,- SMOUTH, AUGUST t s. Arrived the Flora transport from the West Indies, and the Abundance store-ship, Josr FRTZR toaster. from the Cape of Good Hope. The Satellite, Capt.-1 Rustiwortru, arrived , yesterday morning frcm Barba. does, having seen the homeward-bound ships from the Leeward Islands into St. George's Channel.—She separated from the CAMILLA and Roe Auto, with the ships bound for the River under convoy. In the course of the day they passed this port for the Downs, under convoy of the CAMILLA, with a strong westerly wind. The LrnRE frigate, Captain ScuomßEeo, is to take on board money for Cadiz, and sail immediately. General Lzzv and suite go to Spain in her. DOVER, AUGUST 13. Arrived off here this morning about six o'clock, a fleet from the West Indies.—The Hamburgh ship Gambridgium, Captain DANNENBERGER, went past here this afternoon, from Oporto, in twelve days.— About thirty sail of vessels, under the Hamburgh and Bremen flags, sailed at the same time, bound tc, London, eight or nine of which likewise past here during the afternoon. The following are the names of some of the West India ships : Nelson, Herbert ; Baltic Merchant, Smith ; and King George, Cotter, from St. Vincent's; Fortitude, Holman; Grenada, Ri chardson; and Fanny, Graham, from Demerara; Vertumnus, Al'Arthur ; and Union, Brown, from Grenada; Mercy, Wat son; and George ; Knight, from Barbadoes; Harriet, Bradshaw, from Surinam ; Trusty, White, from Dominica; Harvey, Har ♦ey; and Alligator, from Tobago. AI., AUGUST is. • !MUTES. • YOUULSkiIitE. 11111 g =VG v. LITTLA ASD MUM This was an indictment against the prisoners, Joshua alias Jots ys Little, aged 2'l ; Mows: Davison, nged 17 ; John Driver, 26 ; Wirsam Driver, 36 ; Ri chard rye, 18 ; Samuel Smalley, 15 ; Richard Latham, • 21 ; Peggy Robinson Wildman 19 ; Ellen Usherwood, 90 ; Sarah Wikknan,' 13 ; in which indictment they were charged with having riotously assembled, with divers others ! in the township of Bradford, in the pa rish of Mitton, in the Wesi !tiding, and by force and violence broke and entered the dwelling house and corn Mill of Thomas Taylor, and putting him into bodily fear. • The case was opened by Serjeant COCKELL and Mr. Iticintanson, on the part of the Crown. Thomas Taylor, on his examination by Mr. Scestamr, said, that he lived at Eve's House, in the parish of Mitten, and had a corn-mill about half a mile Irons his house. Between one and two o'clock on the 6th of June, a number of both men and wo men assembled near his house. There might be about two hundred, but it was impossible to state exactly how many there were. They were first seen by his servant, who said the mob were coming, and en witness going to the door, he saw them making in ciost order towards his house, some armed with clubs, and some with bludgeons, and such like in struments. When they got near his house, some of the women came forward, and were.for pushing in at the gate of the small yard or garden at the front of the house; but the mob cried out, they must not do so, but s o round to the back door. They did not . make a noise at this time, but were very quiet, and the scene was very solemn. Witness went through the house, and opened the back door, and stood in the door way with the door in his hand. When the mob came within about two yards of him, he desired them to halt for a few minutes, mull he should talk to them ; and proposed that they should chuse a committee of ten or twenty persoas to go in and search the house. They immediately came with a :achy upoq him, so that he was obliged to give way, and stand in a kind ( f lobby in the paasage. When about thirty or for y of them had entered the house, he desired diem to reg ulate themselves, and form a party to elamine his h.'use, and make their report. He did not know any of them at that time, but had seen some of them sinc.2, and pointed out Pye as one ot the party. The ) did not !pe ak to witness, but several of those wiio h..d rusl ed into the house set their shoulders to so p -Iv rest from coming in. He had desired them to sh a the &air and regulate them selves, and to begin at theit.zaning. They proceeded to search the house, and• asked him, 6 , What have you in this, awl woat h •ve you in that cupboard ?" aness did not know box many of them were in the house, for he was ala n ei and durst not look aaout. There was a gr.?..t noise about the door.— Witness neat thr. ugh II the house with the party that had entered. Cn of Clem, who appeared to be the foreman, spoke t witne s ..bout some meal which the wim,:ss had in h s m at Bradford, and asked .him what he would t k= a is ad for it ? Witness an swered, he would take a market price. The man inquired what he meant by a market price ? and if the miller had not given him a market price ?—The doors were then thrust open, and the Mob rut/led into the hoes: in every direction. They *called 'out for beer in an austere manner, and made a great noise.— Witness replied, that his stock of beer was very small, and would be useless among so many. They then cried out for bread and the se ; and on going into the kitchen he found them pilling down the oat. cakes which were hung up to dry. Witness stepped up, and desired them to regulate themselves, and he would hand the bread down to them ; which he ac. cordingly did. They stopped in his house from a . ; uarter to half an hour. Mrs. Taylor wa.s poorly in bed when the mob came to the door; she got up and came down stairs, but witness did not see her.— When he •des'red them to regulate themselves, one of them gave a fling-away, and said they would regu late Government. He could not tell what man this was, but the prisoner Little was along with him and witness in the garret. Witness thought, from the above expression, that the mob took him to be con nected with Government • and therefore replied, that he had no connection wit h Government, but was as much under Government as themselves. One of them stopped, and, turning round, said, did not witness think it time for somebody to step forward and regulate Government ?—Witness replied he had only considered to be industrious to pay Government the taxes. Two of the women prisoners, from their appearance, and the account given of them, he be lieved were among the rioters, but he could not swear to them. Witness was a large farmer, and had many servants ; he had only a load of meal at the time in his house, and that had come to be made into bread. They examined his house, he supposed for meal. On going away, he asked them if they had seen any thing amiss in his house ? They said, No. Had they seen his corn-bin ?—Yes. On his cross-examination by Mr. Hawn, he said, in answer to a question put to him, that the Counsel would have thought the mob a terrible set, had he been there; they marched in regular order, like a regiment going to charge with the bayonet. The front gate of the yard before the house was not locked, and they might have rot into the house that way.— Witness invited them in to shew them the house ' • but could not say whether they went, as they would have done into a play-house or a meeting-house ; for he had never been at a play, and was no methodist. He knew none of the people on the outside of the door; except his own waggoner. There were only the wit ness, his wife, and servant in the house, and the mob might have injured them, had they been so disposed. They got no beer, although one or two of them had asked for it in an austere voice; nor did they desire him to hand the bread, but he did it in order that one might not have more than another. He was not much afraid of them when he went about the house with them to shew them his rooms, pictures, mil furniture. In answer to a question from Me. Semmes., he said, he was afraid of them when they first came up, bet as he found he was under the necessity of exerting himself to get them away, his fear went off in con sequence of his exertions. . Jane Cockerill; the next witness estamined, was fourteen years of age, and lived with Mt.' Taylor. — She saw the mob corning up the fields from towards Arrived the RICHMOND gun brig, frcm a cruize off Ostend. Put back the FURIOUS gun brig, Tortoise store ship, with the conioy which sailed yesterday. Sailed the ZemostA sloop, on a cruize in the North Sea; BLOODHOUND gun brig, on a cruize off Boulogne. AUGUST 14.—Arrived the FEARLRSS gun brig, from Portsmouth ; Rowena hired brig, from Ply mouth, with the loss of her fore top mast ; DESPE RATE gun brig, from a cruize off Dieppe; PANDORA sloop, from a cruize off Havre; CHALLENGER sloop, INDIGNANT, MARINER, and BLAZER gun brigs, from a cruize off Boulogne ; Burt - Jun gun brig, from a cruize off the Flemish Banks; BLOODHOUND gun brig, from a crtiize off Boulogne ; CAMILLA, of 20 guns, and Rocanto sloop, with about seventy sail of mer chant vessels, under convoy from Tortola and Barba does, which have sailed for the River. YARMOUTH, AUGUST Is. This morning arrived from Sweden, a fleet of abaft forty - sail, consisting of English, American, Swedes, and Papenburgh, under convoy of a sloop of war. Arrived from a cruize, the HAVOC and ExasnoN gun brigs. This morning a fleet of merchantmen, under convoy of the STARLING sloop of war, got under way, and sailed for the Baltic. In the Roads, the ROEICCK and two brigs.—Wind W. by S. Captain DONALD MACKAY has commissioned His Majesty's ship INFLIXIDLE of 64 guns. The Paris papers announce the following arrivals : " The Superb cutter, fitted out by the houses'of CUR TOSS and BA2NBIUZGE, of Guadaloupe, has arrived at Aursy, in Morbihan, after a voyage of 45 days, with rcargo, consisting of more thanloo,oooll3s. of coffee, 19,0001 b. of sugar. This is the sixth vessel dispatched from Peint.a.Petre which has arrived safe. " The French galliots Hirondelle, Captain Ct4aay., and Mature, Captain SULVY, arrived in the Garonne on the 21st ult. with a valuable 'cargo of sugar and cotton, taken in at Guadaloupe and Porto Rico," - . . '•• : * • -11. .... ,Vp '4,4,,,e ilsittlford, on Easter Monday (by nil sFaTitor Whit- Wise giro sting. a load ; lrit th In - 1, Monday.) 'They came into her master's house, and that a quandtY ((meal was in the mill, (i she saw Pye anti Smalley take some bread out of her sworn they had issue through it) yet which master's hand; they took it; her master did not give had attempttor to touch a morsel of it) F k them. The prisoner, Little, she saw go up stairs son ;round him was aware that during , with her master •' Ellen Usherwood and Peggy Wild- there had been great distress in the man' man were also there ;- and the latter stamped and countries for want of bre td ; and it was cursed, and went on at a great rite. She said she wondered at, that when a gre it number c. would have a good living, choose where it came suffering under severe priv nuns, got together from. Sarah Wildman was also there; she bad a should have dispersed without proceeding piece of cheese in her hand, and wished for a little ties. Nor could he for a netutimt harbour bread, but Mrs. Taylor would not give her any, and eilde as opinion of any of the manufac so she went quietly away. The mob then 'left She suppetee that they did not know with whom house, and went into the fi ids, and began to throw fortunes-they laboured under originated. something into the air like a ball ; while in her mas- ment, -they might be well assured, were p ter's house she saw some of the mob take bread down 'm must know that their sufferings from the lines, but did not know who they were. in g to that tyrannical little Gentleman On her cross-examination by Mr. CLIFTON, she side of the water, who capers over Europe, said this was on Whit-monday, which was a great down one king, and moans up another holiday in Lancashire and that part of the country. pleasure, and who, finding that he cots Witness was not afraid of the mob. She saw her at cur fleets and our harbours, attempts master giving several of them bread, which he had dissension among us, by carrying on - taken down himself. our trade and manufactures. He i William Place, servant with Mr. Taylor, swore ever, that his career was about to be. that he saw a crowd of persons assembled b e fore ' his that the Spaniards would teach him , master's mill door at one o'cleck. There might be . what it was to contend with a people about 200 of thein ;he saw them do nothing 'ands' to be free. Mr. Hardy then adverted there, and after stopping near ten minutes, they pro- and appearance of the prisoners, an' ceeded to Mr. Taylor's house. Witness himself was Jury if such persons were likely to hea, On the outside of the door. The prisoners, J. Little, They were much fitter for playing at 1- Thomas Robinson, and J. Driver, were in the yard, ' had 3oined the rest, for a little recreation, both came and went away with the mob. He saw ' haps tc mint their lovers, as young peepl' Driver in the barn, where he clapped his own staff , ohs on such occasions. As to what had down, and took up another, with which he went away. ', the dearness of bread, it was natural On his cross-examination by Mr. HARDY, he said i at such times there should have been . he could not say he saw any others with staffs, Witit, P i tion on a subject so interesting to us all; , Monday was agreat holiday in thatpartofthe country. I been proved that any of them had attenn Benjamin Hitchen had been servant with Mr. ian improper act. They had dispersed Ta ; bar 18 years, but also keeps a public house at I that no person knew when they brokt West 'Bradford, and was at Mr. Taylor's mill be- something had been mentioned about the Craven I tween twelve and one o'clock on the 6th of Juoe, Legion, he should say, that he had seen one of the when the mob came thither. Witness had seen no Officers at Clitheroe, on his return with a detachment hand bills or advertisements calling upon them to which had been sent for to disperse the rioters ; and assemble, but understood there were such in circu- the officer said, that the only difficulty he found was, lation, at Clitheroe. He swore to T. Itobinson, S. ,to find a mob. Mr. Hardy concluded a very animated Wildman, Ellen Usherwood, both the Drivers, and , address, with hoping, that as the case had not been J. Little, being among the rioters, who drew up at. proved against the prisoners, the Jury would act ac. die mill, and cried out—" now we are coming !"—. cording to the mild method f the English law, and Witness asked them what they wanted ?—and they bring in a verdict of Not Guilty replied, they wanted meal under 40s. a load. Wit- Mr: SCARLET, on behalf of the prosecution, said, ness said he could not do this for them—his master that sa far from agreeing With his Learned Friend, had only a very small quantity in the mill, but what that the most serious part of the case was die gra there was they should have for ready money. He vitt , of himself and friends, the most serious part told them, however, that they did not look as if lin his ( Mr. Scarlet's) opinion, was, the levity they had much ready mcney ; but they swore they ! with which h's Learned Friend, Mr. Hardy, had would have the meal. The women in particular l'rrated i.. swore they would have their aprons full, and in- I The Junon proceeded to charge the Jury; and slated that he , had a good stock. They then first, he observed, that when a multitude of pe op le rushed in and went all through -the mill. Witness assembled together to disturb the King's peace, this told th ern there was nothing like giving an angrydog constituted a not ; and that, if, in an assembly of a little bread to quiet him; and it they would leave persons, met for one common purpose, any illegal the place he would give them some bear. TI .Cy hc- act was committed, they were all equallyguilty. • So cordingly went away, and' he gave them eight slag- that in the present instance, if it appeared that all guns of beer at his own house. The rioters krpral. the prisoners were in the crowd that assembled at together, and made use of sad, language. When he Mr. Tayloi's, thbse who did not enter the house would till them no more beer, they gave three cheers, would be deemed equally guilty with those that did. and said they would go to Mr. 'Taylor's ; exclaiming,. In order to constitute a riot, it was necessary, he also that if things were' not righted soon; and both the observed, that it should be to the disturbance of the price of meal lowered, and wes advanced, it *mild' peace, and to the terror of the King's subjects. He be seen what would happen. This was said by a very:4 then proceeded to recapitulate the evidence, which he great number of men. He could not say that the thotight fully established the prisoners to have been prisoners made use of these words, for there was a guilty of a riot. For, although the snob did no par great noise on all sides. The prisoners, Little 'and- ocular mischief to dr. Taylor, yet they put him in ltobinson, came into the mill first • and[ he two Doi- feae; and had certainly gone for an unlawful puss. yens and Cie two girls staid at the dom., and tolled pose. The prisoner Latham was not affected by very..hard, and in a blackguard manner. Witness any evidence save Windle's, and it was probable belisyed they went away at last, in consequence of that he might not have been concerned in the affair; hearing that the Craven Legion was coming in. at least„the evidence against him vial very slight.. On his cross-examination by Mr. CLIFTON, he said The Jury immediately found Latham Not Guilty, that the mob might be about three hundred in nu m -. all the othir prisoners guilty of a riot; and they were bar. There wcre about seven loads of meal in the ordered to be severally Imprisoned six calendar mill at the time. months. • . William Windle, examined by Mr. YATE., swore Mr. Justice CHAMERIE did not quit York till Tues to seeiag the mob come up to Mr. Taylor's house ; i , day afternoon, and was under the necessity of leaving and that among them were Ellen Usherwood, Robinson, Wildman, Little, and Pye. The prisoner Peggy I several Speci al Jury and other causes untried. J--itham was also there. Mr. Baron WOOD opened the Assizes at Durham The case for the prosecution being closed, on Tuesday. • Mr. HARDY addressed the Jury on behalf of the Defendants.. It did not appear, he insisted, fr om the evidence produced, that there was any thing like a riot • at least, until Mr. Taylor and his own man invite d the people into the house and mill. The latter gave them an invitation to his own house and very liberally offered them a quantity of ale ; but when he refused to give them any more, did they re sent it, and insist, as they might have . done, had they been riotously disposed, on emptying his barrels ? No ; they were content with the eight tankards he had treated them with. On the other hand, Mr. 'Taylor invited them into his houss, 'hewed them all his elegant rooms, his state bed, his furniture, his choice paintings, &c. &c. Mr. Taylor had sworn that when they came first to his house, they asked him- for a little beer. This was likely menet to occur at such a time, and among such persons. But when Mr. Taylor told them that , his stock of beer was very small, did they offer to take it by, force ? No, they changed their request, and only wished for a little bread. A more peaceable, quiet, orderly, well dis pbsiecl set of rioters was surely never heard of. In deed it was evident that there had been no riot at all: I The plain fact appeared to be,_that Mr. Taylor lied heard a great deal about a riot at Manchester ;aria this ran so much in his mind, that when he 'Ms! . ..„ these poor people assembled for the pluri.e of . pixy': in g at ball, as usual' on a Whitmonday,heco - uld not help crying out—" 0 Lord, bless me I hero is- the snob acoming !" and he immeiliately , rasii out and is. vited them into his house, and gave them his treks' and cheese. Mr. Taylor's servant, howevit," had said, that the rioters went 'away because there was a report that the Craven Legion were coming ; but this turned out to be der they went and Played - at ball. *—As to someof theprisoners talking about politics, and resulatiog 'Government, they perhaps might, like most other pretended reformers, regutate• some 'ngs better for themselves, but worse for the people at large. The fact. was, that is this free country, .. thi When a number of people got together, they began to talk of politics as naturally as of the weather; and what wiseacre was there among us who had not Lat times set himself up for a reformer and regulator of Goye,rnment, though we should consider it hard Ad 'be branded' with disaffection in consequence ? Some of the prisoners, it was alledged, had talked of 410 THE BRAZIGS.—There were several arr'vals List week from the Brazils. By one of them we received a letter from an Officer of his Majesty's ship Ben. FORD, dated June 19, which says:.. Newsfrom Eng land comes slowly here ; it is now four months since we had any ; the Hyacinth, Captain DAvia, is the last arrived. On the 4th June Sir SIDNZY SMITH entertained the Prince Regent and Royal Family o! PORTGOAL with a most sumptuous dinneron board the LONDON ; to which ship his flag was shifted for the occasion. Upwards of one hundred persons sat dawn to dinner. The ship was most elegantly deco rated ; over the table at which the PRINCE sat, were the ax ms of England and Portugal ; is; the centre . was: a picture of the death of Lord Nai.aou, Banked by portraits of the Officers who served on the 14th of .February and 11th of October; and over the front parr of the poop, the arms of England. The evening concluded by a royal salute being fired. The Coin' pany afterwards retired to the °pea, which was given to the Admiralthat night by the Officers of the aluadron. The AdMiral has taken a house on shore ) and every thing indicates a 'long stay. • Captains GRAHAM MOORE, Let, WESIVIDLN, and WALKER, have a gold Medal given them by the PRINCE Re- GENT. It is undetstood, that the same honottr is intended to be conferred on all the Captains present . at the emigration, and that stars are to be added,' and • other honours. The LONDON fa ' ship) Captain WRSTERN ; MONARCH, 74 gtms, C. taro LEE Bzoroan, 74, Captain WALKER ; and AGAMEMNON, 64, Captain ROSE, are at this anchor. • age. The FounaorAtrr, 80, and MAKLL:Motren, 74, Capt. G. MOORS, sailed this morning on a cruize. The SURVEILLANtZ, CONFIANCE, and HYACINTH, are crui sing on the coast " The moor - guile Otbdtrig commenced on Fr• day. The reports from the-plorth premise much amuse ment, as the dry season has been very favourable to the breeding. • NINTH DAY Or DRAWINO...+NO. 10,294, drawn this Day a Prize of Twenty Thous kid Pounds, w.ts sold in the folloWini Shares by*Hostirirt and Co.—Two Q uarters , One Eighth, and Six Sixteenths.-26, Cm kill, 52, Charing-Cross, and St. Margaret's Borough. • • 1111 . e•. 4 kft.w I, (for ;r v ras thich of them • t Every per- g the 4.111.112er manufacturing us only to be, her of peo - together, t ing to ex J. hour so despi- actureri, as to whom the mis- tted. Govern- 1 re not toblame. s were all ow- n on the other :urope, putting another at his ould not come npts to create t. n war against trusted, how- e stopped, and n to remember pile determined -ted to the age ii sad asked the head a in .b?— . ball. The girls aim, and per- mople generally 4cl passed about to expect that some conversa- -11; yet it had not ttempted to do reed so quietly, broke up. As ate. ' - '. =