The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-07-19 00:00:00

IRISH RIOT.

WORSHIP-9TR t ET.llestertliidlorning this office was com-
pletely bract by several hundreds of persons of all denominations,
in consequence of the expectation of seeing some Irishmen, who
were to be brought to the Office under the following circum-
stances :

It appeared that the origin of the riot, or, as it is politely termed,
shindy, commenced about time o'clock on Sunday morning, in
Pa/rack-court, Holden-lane, between some Irishmen, who had
been drinking the whole of Saturday night, and continued at inter-
vals during the whole of the day ; but the most serious part of the
disturbance did not begin till six or seven o'clock in the evening,
when, front the mob's momentarily increasing, it was deemed re-
quisite by the inhabitants of the neighbourhood to send for the
officers. This was the signal for the general shindy ; and upon
the appearance of the constables the war-cry was made, and the
forces of the Emeralders called to their ranks through a broken
tin horn, such as is used by the guard of a stage-coach. In less
than five minutes about 4 or 500 were collected, armed with
spades, staves of all sorts, composed of broom-handles, shovel-
handles, small scaffolding-poles, choppers, hatchets, -hemmers,
brick pickers and chippers, mortar scrapers, and, in fact, every de-
scription of missile they could get, not even forgetting an old po-
ker, fire shovel, or pair of tongs. Here the riot commenced in ear-
nest, for the more the officers exerted themselves to put a stop to it,
the morestrenuous were their opponents in their endeavours to in-
crease it by every means that Jay in their power, either by force of
arms or tongue. Soon after this period a slight murmur was heard
of " Down with the Protestants," and such other party expres-
sions, which were immediately laid hold of by the Insurgents as
fresh nausea for their conduct. Such was the dreadful pitch to
which it arrived, that, we see told, from a large reinforcement hav-
ing conic down from St. Oiles's the constables were compelled to
! cad upon every individual in the vicinity of the riot to render their
assistance in taking some of the parties into custody ; and at four
o'clock yesterday morning there were, as we understood, about 140
; taken and lodged in various watchbouses. In fact.auch was the state of '
; fermentation in which the whole neighbourhood was, that scarcely
any one dare go to bed during the night. At half-past eleven the
prisoners were brought before Mr. Osborne, when there appeared
sonic 30 or 40 persons who had assisted to quell the affray, many
with dreadful bruises on various parts of the body. One poor lad bad
his upper lip cut in two with a chopper, and escaped very narrowly
luring his nose and chin shorn oft at the same instant; this was'
immediate'', followed by his receiving a brickbat upon his shoul-;
der : another person was so very seriously cut upon the head, as
for it to be necessary, when taken to the Hospital, to shave offnearls
the whole of the hair—another person had his arm broken ; and,
indeed, so much havoc we never heard of as having been commit-
ted at one time in an affray of Mil description.

The greater part of the prisoners were recognized by those who
had been witnesses of the riot, and nearly the whole were ordered to
find bail, come for assaults, and others for timing, and to give
twenty-four hours notice of such bail, and in default to be -im-
prisoned.