The National Register.
London, England, 1822-03-10 00:00:00

AGRICULTUILIL DESTURILIACES.

(From time Nouwien Comma.)
We regret to state, that several places in this
county continue in a very disturbed state. On Nit'.
day morning about 300 persons,prineipally labourers,
assembled, and commenced breaking threshing ma-
chines in the parishes of Wicklemma], Morley, &c.
and about two o'clock in the afternoon they arrived
at Attleboro', where, as in other places, they com-
pelled ninny to join their company ; they then pro-
ceeded in search of machines, but found only one in
that place, which was instantly destroyed BY this
time their numbers were greatly increased. From
Attleboro' they marched to Shrophatu and Snetter-
ton, where they broke tour or five machines, and, in
consequence of the opposition they experienced at
the former place, a drill also. Oa their return, in-
formation was given that a threshing machine was
secreted on the premises of NI r. W. Parson, of At-
tleboro', they theredime proceeded thither, and tinted
the object of their search under a straw stack, which
they took, dragged to the market-place, and imme-
diately demolished. The magistrates, wishing to
adopt some efficient measures to put a stop to such
proceedings, requested many inhabitants of the
neighbouring parishes to meet at flailing on Tues-
day morning, where they were joined by time Eye
troop of horse, and after having passed through
Backenham, Burnham, Sac, halted at Ault:LA.o';
after being there about an hour, information arrived
that the machine. breakers were assembled at New
Buckenham—the troop, with a vast number of
horsemen, proceeded thither, and succeeded in tak-
ing twenty, seven of whom were committed to Wy-
snontilutin Britlewell the same evening.—lt seems
there arc several parties of these misguided linen
a'amt, and their whole object appears to be the en-
tire destruction of threshing machines.
The following is the copy of a Proclamation issued
by the county magistrates assembled at Norwich :
•• The Magistrates assembled at the adjourned sessions on
Wednesday, March 6, I have, with considerable pain, re •
etived evidence of a riotous disposition exhibited in some in-
SZULCCS by actual outrage in various parts of the county. The
eitcamstanets, matte known to many of them precious to this
day, have induced measures of precaution, which will assuredly
be thund eflinittud flu the suppression of tumult. But, anxious
as the magistrates fael in the discharge of their duty to avoid the
axe-city of resorting to the force with which they are armed fur
file preservation of the pence against a misguided populace. they
desire to offer, in the folly) of timely remonstrance, a few re-
n;arlic deserving of attention:—
•• If grievances exist; do time persons concerned in the riotous
proceedings before alluded to suppose that they can be remedied
by violence ? Tu what possible beneficial result can their pro-
(ceilings tend ? To what hare they tended in other parts of the
country, but to the lo,s on many valuable lives, and a curtail-
ment of British liberty
•• Let the pcaple beware of ball adviscts—those who may
pretend to sympathize in their alledged grievances, for the par-
pose of exciting them to acts of mischief, in the punishment for
which the instigatois generally take care to have no participation.
Let them be assuied that it is equally wicked and unwise to re •
stst the law ; wicked in principle, and unwise in practice,, be-
e—use int:actual to any good purpose. By order of the t' curt, •
COPE MAN, Lie k of the Peace.
The spirit of insubordination still shows itself in
the neighbourhood of Diss, by assemblies to the
number of some hundreds of labourers, or we should
rather say, we fear, of such as arc in want of labour,
fur the purpose of stopping the use of machines.
The deluded persons wino set fire to the hay stacks
in Diss 3 few nights since, wh'eh caused so much
slam, have surrendered themselves, and arc now in
Nnwich Castle; and on Mo:nday last three men
were committed to the same prison, on suspicion of
assisting to destroy two or three threshing machines,
in the parish of IVymoudham, on Saturday night.

A gasometer is now prepar:ng at the general post-
office, to furnish gis tbr the use of that establish-
ment. It is said that the charge for oil annually,
for tl:e &Dee, is between and 0,0001. of which sum
Government expects to save nearly ;2,0001. by the
sabstitution of gas. The estimate tbr the whole
anaratus was stated originally at about 130 Ml. but
t i 3 supposed that it will at • slit to nearly 20001.
A gentleman has recently found, and proved by
a series of successful experiments, that the dark peat
moss of Scotland produces gas nut infmiur in quan-
tity and quality to that extracted from coal, possess-
ing the additional and valuable advantage of being
in a great measure free from that noxious eflluviam
emitted by gas produced from the latter material.
The tar obtained by the process may be applied to
several us.ful purposes, while the coke is adapted to
the furnaces of brewers, distillers, and smelters of
ores, &c. The same gentleman, b; a cheap and
simple preparation of the muss, gives it a consistency
and durabdity not inferior to that of coal, and by
this means renders it not only valuable us a fuel, but
improves its aptitude and capability of producing
gas.
A beautiful statue of his late Majesty, George
the Third, is now under the chisel of Air. Chantry,
sho, we believe, sculptured the admirable statue in
the Council-room, Guildhall. This celebrated artist
I.a.s received instructions from the highest authority
tt, spare no expellee in the execution of this work,
mhich is expected to be a worthy tribute to the
memory of our late Sovereign, and the best modern
sl teitnen of British taste.

albralw.e. -

THE NATION.

,T., REGISTER
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292•1 g 211tgittatlite.
HER rionn.

MARCH Theo. Lent Assit-s for this county corn.
mowed h. re to-day before the lion. Mr. Baron Graham,
on the Civil Side, and the lion. Mr. Baron Wood, oar
the Crown Side. Li both Courts the business is very
The number of civil ...loses entered is but five,
of which but one is to be tried by a.Sotcwil Jury. The
gaol ellethlar ennt:iiits but 28 commitments, few of
winch arc fur offences of any enormity.

CIVIL SIDE.
RUSbEEL V. FOWpElt.

This was an at1(1 'or a Intel, the nature or which
wr, not t,t,netl. When the cane was called on,

Mr. C. Phillips, for the defendant, moved to postpone
the trial moil toe next assizes, Oil an affidavit, stating
the abietice of a matelial svititess, a triAul of the de-
fendant, residing item Kendal, in Westmoielaitd, to
whom, after notice of trial haul been given, the defend-
ant's attorney remitted a staln crta, enclosed iu a letter,
requiring his attendance at Hertford to give evidence in
thus cause, hot as the witness had not arrived, and no
intelligence had beets received of him, the defendant
could not safely proceed to trial in his absence.
Mr. Adolphus, (with Whom was Mr. Proderick) re-
sisted the application, nil LIIC gm:Lid of the looseness in
wiuich the allidavit was swot it.

Ms. 'lips, to SileW the sincerity or the appliration,
ofla,:(I to pay all the cx;) ncee to which the plaintiff had
been put, as between attorney and client, and tertho,tt
. .

......
1.1.,r0n G:altant thought this question unanswer-
able,

Mr. Adolphus said, ender such circumstances he
could could killer nu farther resistance, and accordingly
the trial «•as postponed until the tivx,

CROWN SIDE.

Joseph Morgan autl.l.llllC6 Wilkes were indicted for
a bin elaiy 111 the d%velliog.liouse of James Cliatiman, a
farmer, in the parisit of :s.andon, on tile 5111 January,
and stealing a saucepan and other at ticles, his property.
—lt appeared from tile statement of Mr. Jessupp, and
int.,' tile evidence rOf the prosecution, that on tile night
in question that the prosecutor Willi disturbed front his
sleep at a late boor, and on looking out of the window
he sate two men picking a hole in the wall of the house
with some instillment. lle get tip, loadal his gun, then
tv,:lit down stairs, by which time the men had got the
articles in questloil nth of the house through the hole.—
lie tired his gun, rite men ran off, one of them beina
apparently wounded, his blood being tracked for a con-
siderab:e distance. The prisoners were afterwards ap
prehended in 11'..-sest. When lVilkes was taken his
head was wounded severely, and he admitted that he
was one of the men at the prosecutor's house.
There was no direct evidence a6..tiast tae other pri.
sorer. . .

Tile CZ/SC Weill to the Jury, wilt) acquitted Morgan,
and found Wilkes gutity-,-Dertn.