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Mr. l'eamon said no; but he had notice, because he had
instructed a professional person to act for him.
THE also v. RICHARD to..wow, CLERK.
Mr. Brougham ',Jovial the judgo,ot of the Court on the
defendant, .tound guilty on a gros. Idwl ua. her late Majesty ;
but in consequence of trn absent* of the Lord Chief Justice, who
sat at Nisi Prius. Guildhall, and the necessity ha the attendance
of Mr. Justice Holroyd ut Chambers, judgment was postponed.
znunsnaz. Nov.
RIOT AT CH ELI l'N lAM.
THE ICING V. THOM•S GREGORY •51) BIGOT OTHERS.
The defendants appeared to receive judgment. found
guilty of a riot and os.ault upon two officers of Excise, at
Cheltenham, on the 31.4 of January NA.
It appeared from the notes of the Lord Chief Justice, that
two officers of the Excise, named Gladwin and Dogood,
made a seizure of several painted window blinds in the shop
of Francis Rawlins, an upholsterer. The seizure was made
on the ground that the articles were liable to a duty that
had not been paid Other seizures of the same description
were made at the shop of Thomas Boucher. This eircum-
srance occasioned considerable opposition, which increased
to a riot. The officers were pelted with stones, and compelled
to seek refuge in the house of Mr. Lucie, of Cheltnnbain, and
that of a German in the same town. The snob followed them
and commenced an attack on the houses libel e the officers had
retreaded, throwing stoma., tiring pistols, and threatening to
murder the officers if they could get theta out. The defen•
dams, who took an active part In the rlut, were much in-
eensed against informers, and they appeared to act tinder a
belief that the articles seized were not liable to duty. The
Jury found T. Gregory, E. Call, Thomas Boucher, D. Boa-
cher, F. ILtwlius, Wta. Rawlins, D. Alder, J. Alder, Wm.
Peachy, and George Turk, guilty. E. Call did not appear
on this irecia on.
The said...sits of Gregory, Thos. Boucher, and Daniel
Boucher, and the other defendants were read. They de.
clared their total ignorance of the liability of painted blinds
to be seized.
Several respectable persons gave the defendants the chit.
meter of fair mid busiest tradesmen, peaceable and loyal

subjects.
Mr. Pullen addressed the Court as counsel for the tw
brothers named Alder. Those two individuals had bitbert
home the most excellent character. They did not appear
to have taken an active part in Glis disturbance. They were
not aware of what they were doing, and he trusted their
former good conduct would plead in mitigation of punish.
merit.
Mr. Twins expressed a hope that the Court would make a
lenient distinction with respect to this riot. It was not
one of an 'l,4,Kr:iv:tied character. John Alder and Thomas
Gregory, were perhaps persons who had peculiar claims to
the mercy of the Court. Their general character was good;
he therefore entreated for them uU the mitigation the Court
could deal out.
Mi. Ludlow appeared for George Turk and Win. Peachy;
those Mend:sots, he said ,were not implicated in the origin
of this t int.

Mr. Campbell, ns Counsel for the Rawlins, said although
the otlirers seized the window blinds, the son, William
RUN hos offered no resistance, but sulfured the officers to take
them away,
The Lord Chief Justicesaid, Wm. Rawlins was heard to
say, them—pull them out—murder W ilk regard
th.it his properly had breu seized, under circumstances of
lo;i4 lb hip. These blinds bud been exposed three months
without the least suspicion that they were subject to duty.
Alt.. Cross, in behalf of the (touchers. represented his cli-
ents to be young ;trudesineu who had suffered much by the
loss of the articles st ized.

The Soli, our General in aggravation, stated that the ex-
cise officers on this occasion acted with the usmost propriety.
Tory were doing no inure than their duty. With respect to
the situation in lite of the defendants, their respectability
might have led them to more correct conduct.
Mr. Justice Bailey sentenced Thomas Gregory to he im-
pi isoned one year in the house of correction, at North Leach;
Iliumas Boucher, Daniel Boucher, William Rawlins. und
Fiamis Raisin's, to be imprisoned one year iu the same
house of correction, and to find sureties, themselves in 2001.
and two others in 1001. each. Francis Rawlins was atsu
sentenced to pay a fine of 501. Daniel Alder and 1% illiam
Peaehey were sentenced to be imprisoned four m oaths in the
same house. Join' Alder was ordered to pay a fine of 251.
and he imprisoned %ill' George Turk, iu the Willie 6uuse, six
mouths, and at the expiration of that time find sureties.
FRIDAY, NOY. Y.S.