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the audience keused itutiour to have the proceed.
tugs closed, mod the Doctor retired.
Votes of thanks were proposed to the Chairman
and Mr. Woole►, who briefly returned thanks.
A map at the nanie of LA4190111 proposed several
violent Revolution«, which commenced with declAr-
log the Parliament to be the greatest evil under
which the Country groaned, and concluded by re-
commending the people, when they met together
to petition or Reform, to arm themselves. and to
resit any attempt of the Magistrates to dimpenw
them. . .

........
The Chairman► Major Cartwright, M►. Mader,
and Mr. G. Jones, protested again►t ►uch ite.toln-
tions, end the Chairman declared, that, in virtue ►.f
the authority with which he was vested, when called
to preside over the Meeting, he would not put then►
to the vote. They, of course, fell to the ground.
The Meeting dispersed must peaceably.

RIOT AT MACCLESFIELD.

RITRACT FROM ♦ PRIVATE LETTER.

it mccuttrist.D, Four et luck, AUGUST 17.

Sono alter eight o'clock, last evening, Mr. Wil-
so►►'s house was attacked, and the whole of his win-
dows destroyed. together with the printing-office
windows. After this followed a dreadful slight, and
very few respectable homey have escaped the fairy
of the mob. We have been the whole of the day
without military, which being known in the town,
the mob took advantage of it, and for three hours
after had their own way. At length • few spirited
youths, with is vast concourse of special constables,
touted the mob, ■ud after parading the streets for
the whole night, peace was restored. We were
expecting our house to go the neat, and were pre-
paring ourselves for it, when the attention of the
snob was directed to Cooper's from Joseph Row-
botham's, and fortunately immediately after they
were routed. IVe have the Town Hall full of pri-
-0011erti• Mr. D. Brown is much hurt by a stone.
It is now day-light, and the devastation is touch
worse than I could I►ave supposed. Mr. Wilson's
house and office windows entirely destroyed ; Grime-
ditch's ditto ; Hotel nearly so; Sw■nwick's ditto;
Mr. Daviee's entirely so, ■nd the Doctor much
hurt ; Cooper's house windows., and whole frnut,
neatly destroyed ; T. Jone►'s ditto ; Joseph Row-
botbim's entirely ; H. Critchley's ditto ; Thomas
Critchtey's ditto ; N. Iligginbothate's ditto ; S.
Pearson's ditto ; J. Clulow's ditto; Rowland
Gosid'e ditto ; the Mayor's ditto. All the lamps
is the town are destroyed.

Chester Chronicle ()fee, Thursday Evening.
The following letter from a Gentlemen in Mac-
clesfield to a friend in this city, was received about
noon to-day :

4.Slacclesilelfl, August 18, hnltpast 11, a.m.

_ .
" Yesterday evening, about eight o'clock, p. m.
some boys and men began to break Mr. Wilson
the stationer's shop windows, then the Hotel win-
dows, and those of many other respectable inha-
bitants, and every lamp is the lowo; the windows
were sma►hed in all directions—nobody opposed
them till all the damage was done. Last night,
when they laid sworn in special constables, they se-
cured about 50 of the offenders; and this morning
the military arrived, awl are now in the act of
searching the ale-houses in the town. 1 saw them
about half ma hour ago take up five men, and put
them in gaol ; they stopt every suspicious-lookiiig
person, and made them give an account of them-
selves, and where they were going. Every thing
is quiet this morning as to riot."