The National Register.
London, England, 1808-09-11 00:00:00

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suasive language,
They behaved ver
but refused to dir
to the house wl
swore in the wi
stables. Two-tl
night, maimed
other violencee:.
peaceable weavers
ties. The special
from the rioters,
and they took fiv(
However, as the;
rescued. The wi
sitting, were brol
manufacturers of
sorted to the room
not intended to
mained in the to
prisoners and others puL
and behaved very respectfully, but soon after the Magistranee
were gone, they behaved in a very outrageous manner. net
attacked the prison, in consequence of a number of shuttles be-
ing deposited in it for safety ; the doors of which bud been seps''
posed to be impenetrable, and set it on fire, which was under.,
stood to be impossible, so much of it teeing stone. They, how.:
ever, contrived to demolish it so much, that it is now. merely
ruinous walls. After they had set that on fire, they said they
would go to the New Hall, the residence of Mr. James Royds,
one of the principal manufactures, if he did not give them some
money.
Turner, who was admitted an evidence, said, he was stand.
in; with Shepherd, opposite the prison, when it was on fire,
where he observed, if any man attempted to put the fire onto
he would endanger his life. Shepherd told him he got W. 4041
Mr. Royds ; they went to Mr. Deardon's for money, where a
guinea was thrown out to them; at one time, Shepherd asked if
any man would go with him, to set Charles Trot's manufactory
on fire.
There being considerable doubts as to Rhodes and Sutcliffe,
Mr. Park, in the most candid and liberal manner, acknowledge 4
it, and said, from the discretionary power vested in him, ail
the part of the Crown, he should give up the prosecutioan
against them. The Jury found Shepherd Guilty.
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Much alarm has been excited in Hull by a report, that an
attempt was made on Thursday night to set fire to one or the
powder magazines in the garrison, containing Powder sufficient
to have blown up the town. About half past 11 on Thursday
night, one of the (Twine's near the store-keeper's magazine (that
• building which some years ago was appropriated to the reception
of French prisoners), observed a man making towardsthe maga.
zine across the ramparts. Having repeatedly challenged him,
without receiving an answer, the eentinel fired ut him, but min-
ced him, and the fellow ran away. In about an hour after, the
centinel again observed him, and at that time he was upon the
roof of that part of the magazine which is on a level with the
ramparts. He then challenged him again, without effect, and
again ineffectually fired at him. Upon this he pursued I,lin with
his bayonet, and had come within a short distance of him, when
he unluckily stumbled over a heap of bricks, and falling down,
the man got clear off. The other centinels on duty heard the
reports of the musket, but saw no one; one of them .aid he
heard a noise as if of some one climbing on the roof of the maga-
zine ; and one man said, that a short time previous to this
occurrence, he saw a light in an adjoining field, which seemed
to be sparks proceeding from a flint and steel. An nditionel
guard of seven centinels was placed round the magazine the
remainder of the evening.
A serjeant in the Royal Mammy Artillery Volunteers, boa
discovered a method by .which an object may be hit whir*
cannon-ball In the night time, with equal ease as in . open day.
light, and was lately ordered by the Hoard of Ordinance to
proceed to Plymouth-drick to try the experiment, which he did
in the presence of Gen. Stephens and several other Officers; and
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has since received the
discovery. This ingenl
which a gun may he
pole a thousand yards
An inquest was last
at Slimbridge, in the
of Sublimate mercury,
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e, endeavouring to prevail on theta to dbperie.
very civilly and respectfully to the Magistratm,
isperse. The Magistrates in consequence west
there they usnally transact their business, and
fitness and about two hundred others special con.
thirds of them were, in the course elite day and
or bruised by stones being thrown at them, anti
.xercised towards them. The rioters entered titer
rers houses, and forcibly took away their shut*
ial constables succeeded in securing some skittle*
and deposited them in the prison for safety ;
lye or six of the rioters before the Magistrates.
ley were conveying them to the prison, tbey wet 4
windows of the room where the Magistrates were
roken with large stones, being intended for Out
)f the town and neighbourhood, who had all re—
room where the Magistrates were for safety, ant
injure the Magistrates. The Magistrates Te 4.•
town till seven o'clock. At their departure Ow
others of the mob pulled of their hats to them,

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thanks of the Board and a reward fur the
;enious man has invented a qoadrant, by
laid with suck accuracy, that he has hit *
sdisiance and broke 14 by a..#41.1114(4!
t week held on the bodziei
county of Gleneester..lPli♦ 2 ,
y, to procure abtultiatrvillir
vas buried Dear a
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