The National Register.
London, England, 1821-08-27 00:00:00

FUNERALS OF HONEY AND FRANCIS.

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Yesterday the funerals of these unfortunate men took
place a ith west decency rind derorubis Their remains were
conveyed to I iansinersmith, where they were ante, tad. The
society of Providilit Brothers, and others, •headed in the
procession, astir mourning homier. and a band of music tn.
casimottly " The Dead march in &Jul." The hearses
a ere revert d by three horsemen, abort at each bide were
the must attendants, hi bides those lie•ring plumes of black
feathers. Nest followed four mourning coaches, &es with
ilre friends nod eel..t.v.s of the dr. eased. Those aho went
iu procession walked four abreast, and had a very orderly
appeurant e, and the multitude that assembled through cart-
tottly was immense.
The processtuir pnss••d from Smithfield through Holborn,
Osfriosl street, mid do% it South Audleybstreet, where it pas-
sed the late Queen's-lionse, and then pursued its course to
Isammersmith. Pres Musty to its reaching the barracks at
Knighishridsr, a hich were slint, Sbrriff Wititliman, who
was on 111111411 • ck, accompanied by the Divot), Sheriff and
the High Constable triune Division, assisted by two or three
hundred constables in the neighbourhood, rode 1108111Ig the
crowd and ret ***** mended to them to observe silence •rid yet
with proper sod necessary decorum. As the funerol passed
the barracks, two or three soldiers app. aced at the iv iodoas,
and some tiortril iii.apprebothin a., heard amongst the
crowd. The fairest then passed on to Hntninersinith, where
it ant. joined try crowds, arid the deceased were interred
amidst the sears of the multitude.

The procession reunited, but the crowd spewed symptoms
of Irritation, us they passed through lkoightbbeidge when res
turning home. A brick-bat N as 'Moon from the barracks
among the crowd, which severely %sounded a child. Alder-
man IVailliman on. pu-sing. we understand, at the time,
and bus the missile in his possessimi. Atrangemeuts were
made by the 'lonic Department to prevent the funerals from
pasting throu.da Hyde-puck, but no such uttempt was
made nor contemplated. Alter the procession bad pas-
sed the Sherdl. rode towards Kensington, but on his
return round the gates of the barracks thioan open, and n
nometons group of soldiers panted themselves in a moat
ontispicimus position before the front gates of their bar-
rack, and appeared by their behaviour to be challenging
the atteut ion of the passengers to their bold and undaunted
deem-armor. Mr. Sheriff Weidman, observing the manlier
in which they had avranged themselves on the footpath
along which a great part of the crowd were certain to
walk in their return trom Hammersmith, rode up to them
and requested them to withdraw from the conspicuous
position is' which they hail placed theinselses. The sol-
diers disked that the y had a right to stand in the position
which they then occupied, and declared their resolution
of tiot movilag from it. Mr. Sheriff Waillllll4lll then said
to ths to, that he did not mean to insist, as he was justified
in doing, upon their complying with his desire to remove
from the footpath; that his isle anxiety was to preserve
the public peace ; and to effect that object lie would ask
it Of them as • favour to retire to their quarters. lie fur-
ther added, that if they would oblige hint in that point,
Willll.l order his °dicers to arrest the first in.ssi who
ntreted them an insult. Notwithstanding this conciliatory
address, ohne!), had it been complied with an the that
is'-
stance, would have indivpistably presented all the commo-
tion %glitch alternarits ensued, the soldiers persisted in
mctaifling their station. The worthy Shedd then asked
them to give him the name of their commanding °nicer,
that he might co 111111 l 'locate %lilt him upon the subject.
To that proposition the soldiers, at whose head was r tiller
a corporal or a serjeant, gave a must polities' refusal.
Mr. Waitlimati matte, however, another attempt to effect
his object. He seal too or three of his odiceis into the
barracks to find out the gentleman in emuniatitl of the se-
gluten!, and um del ed "Item to deliver his respectful coin-
pt .tuts 10 him, and to state how expedient it would be
to withdraw the military from the view of the populace.
If the ri port of the v (beers is to be believed, the answer
ol,selt they gut Hum the officer to whom they delivered
the !slier:H*lf urcsoagc 5505, " Ms. Waithmati, your
attend, he may go and be d—J; my melt shall stay where
thus ate; 1 hill flat consent to have them matte pi kunuts
ut." he impost of that answer got spread among the
people, and Jl.l not tend to a spis it of conciliation between
them and the solders s. Different groups kept adiving
trout Hammersmith with treliogs t.ttutigl) excited by the
nichinenoly fate ot Francis and Honey. The news oh this
mower Nits Hot calculated to ropiest that minuet irrita-
tion limier st hick they laboured. 'the worthy Sshet id' saw
this; red in Cll.llllegait-iive %tent up to the gate of the hat-
racks, and said to the men," As your commanding officer
will Out give you the orilet a which appear to time to be
necessary to preserve the politic peace, 1, as Sheriff of
the county, to whom o.e King's peace in that comity Is
intrusted, sake upon myself to act as your cuuntianding
officer, and older you to retire this moment Nadeau the
tiarracks. If out, I shall look upon you as responsible fur
all the fatal COlibevellee> %Web may ensue 1.10111 your
obstinacy mid perverseness. 'this was said in the pre-
sent,. of ,eseral uodlvtduala, butts civil and military. The
salsiters murmured, hut at lasi iCitlelittllly, and after con-
siderastle delay, u ithilrew ail Inn the gates. The people
1111 l ately gate Alderman 11aitionan three elieess.—
Shot t,y utter this point had been cattier!, the mourning
coaches arrived HUM Ilauuuetannlb, followed by a coml.
ilea able untidier el people. The soldiers, Wlle had col-
lected themselves in the wiudowa of their respective
apartments, laughed at thew, in many cares must loudly,
and ia revel al, shook Uteri fists at the poetics surrounding
therm The populace retuned the insult by calling than
" Pie;adilly butchers, cowardly cat-throats," arc. and nu
looser t °Mined (hems( Ives to istssitog and hording. Mr.
Sites llf W./Mifflin, Will! this scene wart transacting, was
riding tip awl (tuba n still' hull mdse slieritl, erideavum log
to timidly the anger of the peupse. 13y tiderdening the
enure violent spuds that for would ostler his ollicets to
:seize them in case Ile 541 V thou insult the soldiery, and by
maim milder arguments to the more peaceably incliaed, he
NetTerdee to a cartels' degree in accomplishing ItisObjeel.
'the needs ut %haus baistu bad, linwever, beast warn &boons

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the people, and though his presence prevented them from
striking deep root, they sprung up with greater Signor as
soon as he retired. Stones were thrown by both parties,
and so situultaneonsly that it would be difficult to decide
which were the aggressors. In less than two or three mi-
nutes atter the commencenieut of this distant warfare, se-
veral of the soldiers climber over the wall into the street,
and made an attack on the people, as we were informed
by a respectable witness, though we certainly did
not see the fact ourselves, were maltreating a drunken Life
Guardsman, who was staggering through the street to hi*
quarters. A general engagement ensued between this man's
comrades (some of whom were ruined with bludgeons, but
at this time had swords) and the multitude. The sac-
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cess was various; but during the time that it was carried on,
repeated vollies of stones were hurled from the upper st iudows
of the barracks. At last the people succeeded in dining hack
the soldiers who made the sally. Their comrades in the bat-
racks perceived that their friends Mere defended, and home.
diately issued f the barracks, some with swords, and
others with carbines, to assist theta. It was at that exact
moment that we ourselves became eye-witnesses of the scene,
and we conceived, and are still inclined In coucene, that it
was at this moment that the affray really commenced. It
was a frightful spectacle. Soldiers, same dressed, some in
their undress, were seen bursting out of the gates of their
ban acks, clambering over its walls, and rusliiiig, will drawls
swords and inforiated looks, into the midst of the unarmed
multitude. Others were t tiro% logloolllll and brick-bats into
the streets from their private
lies than were thrown from the streets.
We saw several people around us struck by them. Some of
the people now began to Sy from the unequal contest which they
were waging, but others stood up to the Guards, in spite of their
superiority of WC:naive weapons, with the most undaunted for-
titude. Blood was flowing m both sides pretty freely, when Mr.
Sheriff Waitliman, in whose absence this tumult had occurria:.
rode up to the scene of action, and in the very throng of the
contention. He endeavoured to part the combatants, which were
then fighting at that end of the barracks which is nearest to Hyde
Park. Not succeeding immediately in his efforts, he unreal
back his horse, aid was riding on the foot path towards the front
gate of the barracks, out of which the men armed and unarmed
kept continually issuing. As lie was going along, he tbund
another party scuffling with the military. He immediately order-
ed them to desist, and contrived to separate the corporal or wr-
jeant, with whom lie had been before conversing at the gate, and
who, from the conversation which he had held with him, mud
have known him as the Sheriff—a point that it is material to
keep in mind—from the conflict in which he was engaging. The
worthy sheriff immediately desired him to return to his quarters
and to induce his companions to return; the answer which the
man made him was to slip aside and knock down an individual
who was stanuing near hun. Still the sheriff attempted to per-
suade him to retire, and whilst be was doing so, a young officer.
in plain clothes came up, and if se saw rightly, attempted to
shoulder the Sheriff off the footpath. The corporal, to whom we
have alluded, took courage upon seeing this outrage, and ham,
distely seised the Sheriff"s horse by the bridle, saying to him.
.. Damn you, I'll soon show you the way off the footpath." Mr.
Waithman, around whom there were not more than five or six
of his officers, all of whom were struck and wounded by the mi-
litary, seeing himself thus assaulted, hit the individual thus
wilfully impeding him in the discharge of his ministerial duties,
a heavy blow on the top of the cap with a riding stick which he
had in his hand. The blow stunned the man, but others of his
comrades forced the Shcritf and his horse into the middle of the
street. Immediately afterwards every person who witnessed the
transaction, either from the sueeLs ur the neighbouring houses,
must have expected to have seen Mr. Within's:in murdered. Two
or three ruffians—for they deserve not the naive of soldiers—ran
at him with their pointed swords; his officers turned them aside
—another was seen at the same moment, after having first deli•
berately taken a cartridge out of his pouch, and primed and
loaded his carbine, to place it against his shoulder and to take a
deliberate aim at the worthy Alderman. Whilst the carbine was
in that situation a sheriff's officer of the name of Levi, ran up
and knocked the ruffian down. The struggle continued a few mi-
nute.' afterwards, and then suddenly closed, the men retiring, as
we understood, by the command of their officers to the barracks.
The Sheriff was then fully occupied in canning the spirits of
the enraged multitude, many of whom, even whilst the struggle
was at the hottest, applied to him to know whether they had a
right to repel the brutal force which was brought against them,
: adding, that, if they had, and lie would lead them on.
they were ready to die by his side. Of course. the Sheriff's
answer to these applications was an injunction w those who made
them to keep themselves quiet and disperse. That. however.
was advice not always very palatable; tor the irritation which
these events had excited in the minds of the people was nut likely
to cease immediately. This circumstance rendeied it necessary
fur the Sheriff to remain riding up arid down all nearly eight
o'clock, to prevent the accumulation of crowds before the bar.
sacks. This he was at last enabled to accumplish, partly by
Wrests and partly by the influence which his conduct in the
affray with the Life Guards had given him with the multitude
By eight o'clock the streets about Knightsbridge were compare-
' tively cleared, and we have not basil of any interruption tit the
itablic tranquillity occurring during the evening, save that which
we have just recorded.
We did not hear that any person had been mortally wounded
in the affray ; several of the people had received heavy contusions,
and sonic severe cuts. Several of the Guardia were bleeding co-
piously from the nose and mouth when they were called into their
quarter*