The Sun. — London, England, 1816-12-03 00:00:00

ta.srased towards the.city, 1/It - LtOal , :ir loons diately left the Mansion-house.andavent to Guild • ball, where he was joined by several Magistrates and a large party of police. The fit:st direction he . , took was towards Snowhill, at which place he was iaformed the rioters were assembled ; but they had passed farther into the city before his Lordship ar tiveti there. This party was first collected in the following manner :—At the • Meeting at Spa f elds a person started up in one quarter befOre the pretended business of the day had commenced ;' and addressed those immediately round him, ex horting theM to make a stand in favour of their' anon cause. He concluded with these words : There are 5,000 men in this place able and willing - to follow me into the city, where we can teach them to relieve us." This harangue was de s livered from the top of a cart ; and the moment it .was concluded the Orator descended, whereupon three flags were displayed, and a great number of 'people' rushing to the standards., directed their course into the city, in the direction of Maori. , 1 On 'reaching Skinner-street, Snowhill, one of the body advancing before the rest entered the shop of . Mr. Beckwith the gnn-smith, calling out •`. Arms, arms V' A gentleman who happened to be in the shop, named Pratt, affably attempting to remonstrate, said, " My friend, you are mis taken ; this is not the place for arms." The ruffian fasmantly drew forth a pistol, and lodged th e con tents of it in the hip or groin of Mr. Pratt. The varmit, we are happy to hear, is by souse not con sidered- mortal. Three other fellows who were by this time entering the shop, suspecting by the report that their leader was shot, turned roamd end fled in haste The shop-door was iostantly closed upon the assassin, whom Mr. Bet this shoptaan with great spirit seized, and harried in to the hack-shop, Where he was in charge tra a Constable, who negligently permitted the prisoner to. go 'up stdirs. 'I he latter instantly *prangs° the window, threw up the s Ish, waved his handkerchief, and addressing tie mob, assured them that they had nothing to fear, as there were but few persons in the house, and' he Might easily be ' rescoed. Hereupon the mob attacked the house, and, besides committing various ravages, carried :off the prisoner excited theM. On their sieparture, they alsO plundered the shop-of aiciann tity of guns, pistols, &c. Fortunately a number ~f fire-arms were deposited ant of sight, which they did not find. These afterwards were safely lodged in Newgate. . The naafis, tuns armed, pursued their course into the City, with the view, ft warappreltentled, of attacking the Bank. As theyProceetled along Cheapside, they loaded and arisehargecl their pieces, and displayed various me nacing gestures, as if to intimidate the spectators. arrived at the Royal Exchange, they en tered that builti;ug in marching order. Here they mt . retnet by the Lord Mayor; Alderman Sir James Shaw . , and a strong partyof the Police under his Lordship's orders. As soon as the greatest part , of the rhvers had pasied through the north side, directions were given to close all the gates lead ing out of the Exchange, by which means three inert with arms, having on 'them the name of Beckwith, were taken into custody. Sir James Shaw, we leans, seized the man with the colours, and nue of the gaps. Tire remainder of the insurgents became ex ceedingly furious on learuing the capture of their comrades and their banners:: and not being ahle to force the Ekchange gates, they raised each other upon their shontdcr, and fired over the top ofthe gates at the Magistrates and their party, 'whilst others fired under the gates. A fresh force however, arriving to his Lordship's aid, the ruf -64.1" &Tart etl, taking. the direction of the Minories, where they entered the shops Of Brander and Mr. Ray, From the former they took a quantity of arms, ttnl from tile latter they seized • not only-guns and-pistols, but wv understand also plateto a considerable atnOunt. Theyalso took from the premiees of Mr. Ray 2 smallbrass field-pieces on tvbeels,one of which was afterwards seizedand lotlga ed in the Mansion-house. They entirely destroyed all the windows and window-frames in the houses of both these tradesmen. The freebooters then, it isSii id, went to join a strong,party which were as sembling in, the vicinity of Lhnehouse. Happily the plunderers did not look into a store-house belonging to Mt% Brander, which contained at least 3,006 stand of ant's. A party of horse was afterwards stationed in the Minories• to protect the arms and valuable shops its that quarter. All the prisons in and round the Metropolis were put into a state of defence, and had some of, the mili tary stationed within for protection.. As far as we can learn, none of the persons under previous "nlinemerst evinced the least disposition to re fractory condtict. The city was well furnished with soldiers, both borte antl.foot : the horse paraded all parts-of the tletroordis during,t he evening and the night, and prv , ;erved order everywhere. The Beink. and Last India-House were provided . . .• •witti - a suttaknt wee to repd any attack, an4the City. Militia kept watch in the Royal Exchange. 'The Inns'ot Court had their gates closed, and the shops in almost all the principal streets of the city were shut up. In cnnsequence of the recommendation of the Lord Mayor, the respectable 'inhabitants of the several Watch pressed forward to be sworn in as special constables ; and in Candlewick Ward alone more than one half of the householders were enrolled in less than mu hour. It is. supposed.that several thousands were upon the whole sworn in, and anion; others, the Members of Lloyd's and the Stock Exchange. Two of the ruffians who were-seized yesterday,. and taken up to the ComMittee-room at Lloyd's, are named Cooper and Cashman : the, first a shoemaker; the second a sailor. They were both taken with arms in their po3session ; one of them had his pistol loaded. The sailor said, on being questioned by the City .111arshal, that be had b.t one life to lose, and he did not ca..c; he had no work, could get hone, and could not starve. Being asked where his parish was, he said he was born at sea, and Lied no parish. Cooper would not answer any onestion put to hint he would only say his 'mine was John Cooper. A portion of the mob from Spa-fields, after in dulging- themselves for an hour or two, proceeded by the way of St. Giles's, and down Catharine street into the Strand, making pretty free where ever it suited their purpose. Holywelkstreet, St. Clement's, seemed particularly to invite them. Their Chief object of attack there, about seven o'clock,- was the Dog Tavern They broke al most all the front windows, and carried'off ail the whole of the exposed larder. Next they assailed the'premises of an elderly man, a Mr. Gilbert, who sells a variety of clothing articles. Frosh his shop, atter smashing &few pa s, they took different. articles of wearing-apparel. Thence, in thelame. narrow itreet, they proceeded to a piece -broker's, of the name of Levi, where they helped, themselves. to whatever. his • second-hand b assortment afforded them of great co its and undercoats, waistcoats, and other convenient articles of dt cis. On their march, they did not . forget altogether their patriotic friends at the gin-shops, but•took care to have a fcw drops of reform cordial-gratis,. There were strong quip toms of the htwositiou Of -the misled mob about Lambeth and the adjacent roads at four o'clock, ii u t. these mantlestations of a spirit, of rioting way happily checked the march of a body of the miiitatyover ‘Vestinioster-bridge iota St, Georges• fields, which consisted of a detachment of toot, guards and of dragoons, followed up by more ftioet guards and artilloyinen, all with bayonets fixed or: slords drawn. The effect of this was. to cause tlfe would-be depredators to skulk into lanes and corners, am! mutter the discontent which they were afraid openly to avow. Numerous straggliug parties ran .bout the west-end of the town, which attracted numbers of gazers, who, without any criminal inteotioo, - were 'grouped together, ex pecting evesrts that did not occur. We m u st 'not forget to said, that the prime Leader and. cause of all these Ilisturbancet rode from Spa-fields to his tavern _in Bouverie-street, with on air of insolent triumph, instead of that depression 'which would have beatime the man who bad indirectly, at least, given rise to out rage, and perhaps to molder, lie rode on horse back, in the midst of an immense cavalcade, and occasionally stopped to enjoy the•applause which his, misguided victims. showered .upon him. • tie doffed his hat,” and bowed on all s ides to those - %Omni he. must in, his heart have despised for being the tools of so stupid and profligate a demagogue as himself., . The Lord Mayor was ably seconded in. his ef forts by Sir James Shaw, Alderman Atkins, Sir W. Curtis, &c. &c... A Committee of ,Aiderrneu. the Reeorner,Loed Mayor, Ste. continued to. sit at tt4e Mansion House din ing,the whole of yester day evening, and we are- happy to state that in that cinarter all VMS then quiet ANL he Mansion , House, 4t.teu Welock, the Ward Constables, the Patroles, autlithe 'Marshals made their reports—AU Quiet. A party of infantry were stationed. in Newgate the whole of the afternoon and the night, and a party of Life Guards did duty in the Old Bailey all night. Qne of the LifeGi.rrds was very mach : hurt about six o'clock Snow-bill by the mob, which be was endeavouring to separate. Regular gangs of thieves were observable with the mob yesterday. Mr. Thwaitvs, of IVooti. street, was hustled by a gang of villains at the end of ..Fleet-market, at the time Mr. Hunt was apprOnebing. He was thrown down anti rubbed or a silver watch and some silver, together Auith his pocket-bout, which was fortunately empty, He sustained much injury in being trampled upon: A country farmer bad one side of bis. cunt cut away by some thieves in Newgate-street, in which was his pocket Containing his book with SOS. in Notes. This happened at the time the mob, who ransacked the gunsmith's, shop, were passing.— Two fellows of bad character were seized with the vestiges,of the coat by two City Officers, but they were instantly rescued. They, howeser, are known. . The mob entered an eating-honsein Tottenham Court-road, took away all the meat that was cooked, and went off to Broad-street, Blooms. bnry,anti intoHolborn 5, they took some bread from a baker's shop in Holborn,_ and then went along Chancery-lane ; the numbers decreased, and were very few when they got into Vlect-street ; they wept tisrough Temple Bar, and some of the Life Guards rode up, and the cunt) diverted part, went up Drury 7 4pe,, and part t.o Clare-warket. cOI3BIZT AND Alit. HUNT. We have been, called ,upon.by several of our readersi since these two Gentlemen hare cut so distinguished a figure on the arena of Polities', to disclaim the appellation so generally Lestowed upon the latter by the London Press, in designat ing hint as Mr. Hunt of Bristol, That in his political character Mr. Hunt first gained notoriety in this city is certainly true. But that he is, 4 native of the place, or otherwise connected with it, than by the annual visit he pays us, to celebrate the day when he was enabled to protract the poll of out election to an unnecessary length, by indneing 456 nut of 10,000 of the , freemen of the city to give ,him their suffrages, we, are proud to deny. lie is a nut4ve of Wiltshire ; and if the London prints are anxious to obtain an authentic ac count of his birth, parentage, education, and .exploits, we refer them to an ample source of information in the town of Marlborough, where they may glean some anecdotes, per haps worthy of their . notice. But the chief object for which tt;e have introduced the names of these Gentlemen, at this particular, joncture, is to inform the public that it 'redounds most highly to the credit of our citizens at large, that even in these times of alarm and peril, when in many parts of the Kingdom principles of dis satisfaction and discontent at the measures of the culvtituted Authorities of the country are most insidiously promulgated, the City of Bristol appears to stand aloof front the infection ; and where the parthans of Mr. Ilittit might naturally be sup posed to abotmil the most, we are unusually tem perate and quiet. We have every reason to be lieve, front information obtained from sbme of our most vigilant Magisttates, that Ilampden Clubs are names nnknown amongst us. The amount also of Mr. Cobbett's two-penny pub lic htions, that are vended on our Eichange, does tot exceed 50, in a population of 43,000 tants ; and highly to the credit of one of our incipal new; %enders, be haS actually decliued the Sala of them.—(Bristol Journal) SPORT!WG AT VIENNA.—OO the 13th November ihk. meadow of Siannering, near Vienna, display ed hor,e racing upon a grand scale. Our Any. fiassador, Lord STE wART, on the four first pi izes, three of which wet e againit Count Szeelteny, and one against Count Wenceslas Lichtenstein. Co mnt S;erheny won the :fifth. against Lord Stewart. Each race was for two hundred ducats. On the 21st the races were repeated. Their Hopi Highnesses the Grand Dukes were on rho -ro oot!. A mare, tit r e property of Lord Stkv:trr first priie :against Prince Prince Esterhazy left Viem..t the same day, to proceed to Naples. The Prove Will pass through his estates in Magary ; !as invited all the faS!lionable world to Loef,:t him there, to form a grand - btmiing party The Parisian Carr. , ,r<':uulent of a Morning Paper iski/S- , -" It WA's :•i; ,, r+il - d, that strict: TALLEYRAND received an not to appear at Court, he exhibits hitiuelt roach more than usual in public. His equipage too is ranch More splendid and con spicuous; and, as if he disdained no means, how. vet-t` insientficant, of at resting the puldic eye, he has 'had the words " Hotel Talleyriind" written in large letters of gold over the door of his hotel, lie was extremely desirous of cultivating an in .temaey With Mr. CANNING, and since the depar titre of the latter"speaks of him in terms of the highest praise. ° 11ir. CANNING, be says, unites talent and instruction in a higher degree Otto) al most any person with whom he had become ae qnainted during his plink life. Au the revenue ernizers on the. Cork station have been placed under the controut of the Port Admi rf d it Cd;ve, in addition to which two tenders have arrived there horn Plymouth, which are to he attached to the Tonnant, and commanded by two Lieutenants of that vessel. .The Artificers of Plymouth Dock-yard have contracted With , Mr. IIYNE, of Stonehouse, to be for six months with good beef at aid. per lip alijlmation at 4itl. per lb. by the quarters. Tue Officer of the 64th regiMent, who under took, to ride to Exet er from Plymouth in a given time, has been prevented from attempting; the arduous wit by a saperior Officer, who very justly conceived it to be irreconeileable with the dic tates of humanity. Mr. PLATT is a young men of respectability, and resides in Cateaton-street: We tejoice to be assured, Olathe' is likely to recover. In the case of the Km; versus the Chief Earon of the Court at Exchequer, recently :tried in the Court of King's Bench, Dublin, and in which the verdict was in favour of the c.;rown, Judges DAY and DALLY delivered their 'opinions to the Jury in favour of the Crown, and Mr. Justice o.,:nottbs in ,tavour . 61 the Chid Baron,. - 'Wire of Clerk' of the Pleas, the appointment to which formed the subject' of the issue, now esti mated at 20,000/. a year, had an annual salary of five Marks attache(' to it,'3/. 16s. Bd. and was ae tilallystdil in 'reveriion, in the year 1596, hy'the then occupant; sillAcnAßD Rowa, to a cientlentan of !the name of -CAIiROLL ) a citizen of Dublin, kir 801. The following is from the Pulilic-,OffiCe, Bow trreet :---At two o'clock' a coach drove to the door with twOLadies ; one of them got out and asked for Mr'. flutNIE, the Magistrate, to whom she was introduced ; she 'proved to be Mrs. MARY ANNE CLAEXR, Mid, on stating her business, the Ma giStratereferred her to Anvoss,' the Officer, the particulars of which it will not be prodent to no tice at present. She appeared its very good health, very lively, and a deal of vivacity in her conduct. She was dressed in a cloth pelisse, a clerk blue silk bonnet, with a profusion c,f the most beautiful tir tifichtl /lowers, and a white lace veil over, _ A quantity of prime beef has been brought into Portsmouth and Ports, a, and retailed at-111 per pound ; the best pieces at 4d. per. pound. On Saturday week, about midday, a hare was seen running through Castle street, E4inburgh ; a pursuit was immediately led by several chair men, but puss made off to the fields 'forth of Queen-streer, and eluded their parsoit. Au Inquest was held at the London Hospital, on the body of William Coles, a niuffiu-vender, vtho, on going up the stairs of his lodgings, fell down anti fractured his thigh, which caused his t . Verdict-,-.lecidostai Death. SPA -F1 ELPS..,M F',ETI Nu. Yesterday, in const.quence of tic h;3n~l-T}ill3 stuck up in all parts Of the town, and distributed with mischievous diligence during seye,rul days previously, a great crowd assembled in Spa-fields to receive the Answer of the Prince . Regent' to the Petition of the diStr.ssed Manufacturers and Mechanics of London and its vicinity, voted at a former Meeting. After the proceedings we reported yesterday, A few minutes before one o'clock - M'•. HUNT appeared, and a general movement of curiosity anti interest was flirected towards him. He drove up to the Merlin's Cave in a handsOme tandem, muffled in a great coat, apparently copying the applause that lie excited, and disposed to show that he was both a man of substance and a sled. ful jockey. Alluding to his former appearance inn stage-conch, he descanted a little on the emn. trust---told his audience that this WWI his own carriage —that these were his own horses, and that his serrant was ready to take the useity Hs goon its he alighted; As-itemcant to ride home on Lor=e. back. Resisting an affempt thlt was made by the mob to carry liittret their shoultiars, he entered the front room of the ale.house, already filled with tobacco-smoking and gin.drinking tas.- triots. Mr. W. Clark, the Chairtaan of the last Meeting, was . immediately called to the same on this occasion, and extorted 'the Nletting to commit tio riots, as spies and iaformers were among them. • - Mr. flusre then came forWatal amid the 'Most tumultuous applause, nod ;td,reising, the crowd by • the usual title of " friends and fellow-centivry. , men," exhorted them in the usual 'joke to keep silence, by holdiog their tonsneft,noti not by calla ing out silence. The' assembly before him was such as bad never been seen in this happy laud, Since last be had the honour of addressiug them he'had endeavoured, to ihe teit of his ability, to fulfil thecammands which, they imposedayou Mtn, and to execute punctually their ,initructions in presenting their petition. ll.tviog learmal that Sir Francis !larded, Who was at Brighton, couhl not come to town, he resolved to consider of the best mode of executing their commands without him. Ile proceeded, as he told them he would do, first to Carlton-house; and having obtained ad.. mittance to. Colonel M'Malion, he inquired if he could have an atttlience'of his rtnyal highness time Prince 11,-gent, for the purpose of delivering into , his bands the .{, ,, won voted at Spa-fields. The tottWer'retun:cd to him' wat,'that there were tatty two modes of co n veying to the Prince such a Pe tition; the one by giving it into his hand at levee, and the other by transmitting it through' the office of the Seem etary of State for the Home Department. lie therm asked Col. M'Maliiin if there wOulti be a levee soon, and when it would occur ; and being told that it might not be soon, and there was no certainty when, lie used his die. metion and determined to apply tri LordSidmouth. Being uncertain whether he might hod his Lord. ship at home, and wishing to advertise him of the object of his visit before he waited upon him is second time, if he should happen to he out at his brit call, he wrote a letter, enclosing the petition, and stating the instructions he bad received relaa tine tri the obtaining of an answer. He however found Lord'Sithu - outh at home, and was receiVed by him,tvith th a t attention and politeness which was due to the agent of such an assembly by * great Minister of the Crown, IFIe told his Lord• ship the importion business he had undertaken, 'and his Lordship assured him be - Would attend to it. The conduct of toe HoMe Secretary (4 1 6 1 4 the whole of the Intercourse which the Orator had with him *as marked by that urbanity, politeness, and attention which a Minister of State owed to, the application of so great and respectable a body of • his countrymen. The Noble Secretary re. quested hint to represent every thing fairly, and he engaged to do So, 4,1114 hint at the Same time, that he was resolved to attend the next Spa-fields meeting, to account for his management of their meeting, if he was alive. The aneeting would judge, after bearing the letters read and the Matta *write bad cOnducted himself, whether he had dis. graced himselfor them. The letter Which accom panied.the 'petition was the folloWing: " Landon, l a;:ar. 19, "MY Loan,—At a very nomerous Meeting, held in Spe fielda an the tbth instant, a Petition to the Prince Regent was agreed on, and it by the same Meeting, , resolved that should have the honour of presenting the said Petition, consequence of this resolution, I have this day waited on Co lonel MtMehen, at Marlton-house, in order to aieertain a Isnowledge of the 'pleasure of his Royal Highness, es to Ohs time and Place when he would he graciously pleased to re., Ceive the Petition committed lb may charge. The answer which I received from the Colonel *as, that there sv,!re list two ways of presenting. it Petition to limo Princ e I one at a levee, which woul.i nut tape place itist yet ; the other through the Secretary of State fur the !limit, Dep e itme a t, " My Lord, when I read in that aill whivh is so much nousted of, and !Akio, contains the grounds on which tLe family of Stuart were exejuded from the Ozone t when 1 rt se,l in that greet Canstittitional that one of f'4c- ti Vas .• di-Jimmied and hoisted roe' by time pe o pl e of E lt4 ) au d, was the right to paition ate laig, or either House of Pat ' I understood, a* a Mahn' of course, that right to iaiii;ea iu eluded the eigAt to present petitions; beetto:w it could net appear to me to ,be etmmmun sense to declare that the people had a right to pray without having it right to cause their prayers t o he heard. And, therefore to tell a distress e d, a • mm it tni,cr;thit, for s},cvdy relict, turn urricitl of a taeliit:et:ot their ' t p(r i Pa e l ; : : :I r e 'A a ;:h s l t ut i s r tt o rle i v ) a f ii)tatumialy Inn e e P t l ,ll 2 ? el : l , g f . ' • • State, is a hat I shall not be able to do without great pain'and. mortificat ion ". Nevertheless, that T may discharge my duty tai the utmost of toy power; 1 the atiove , ineutionvil Petition, re quest yorir Lordship to present it to his aosal Highness the Prince Regent, fee whose answer, throegh yi;ur I slal %snit with the greatest anxiety. " I have the lamina to be, my Lord, your Lordship's mutt: obedient, and moat bumble servant, , IL HUNT, " 1\ the Right Hon. Laid Viscount Sidatooth, " Leg your Lordship , to have tho goodness to coma the answer of his Royal liighriesh to be 44(1R:sok:a to at Middleton-cottage, near Andover." , His Cordship promised hint that not a night shimid pass over till he hod delivered the Petition to his ; and he kept bis word, the answer of the Noble Secret ay arrived, cis veered, in the emintry, at the Orinor's boost: :fs T gr Soon as the Orator himself. ht. tidlow . a copy of toe letter hi tpiervion " Noe. 9u, Ista _ .Sta,—l 'twee laid before time Prinev Rifgent the Pe - talon a+,l tit at ;be meeting lietti rn sp , i-deltas utt the 16 . th mi t t. you delivered 1., me yerterd4y at thi," iii. on by a 3 Lettire itt tot- from youtell, by which Letter yon appeared to have imeen correctly !wormed by Culonel - .N.l 4 Mrt. homi, that, according to an ittrariablu rote, 'the Petitivn itt question coaht uotbv raceired by bls itoyal Ilia:burls, except