The Sun.
London, England, 1808-09-09 00:00:00

RIOTERS.

The trials of the persons chafed with being con=
cerned iti fille riots which tookplace in the neighbour-
hood of Manchester, commenced this day.
:John Barlow, Th'..anas Lathe, James Crabtree,
James Jukes, James SchOeld, and William Smith,
were indicted for having, on the Ist day of June,
riotously assembled, together with a great number
of others persQns," aboat the dwelling-honse of
Thomas Ashton, of Heap, near Manchester, and
with having insisted upon him signing a paper of
.prfees-for the advance of wags to the weavers, and
with having dragged and abused him, so as to en-
danger his. life. They were likewise charged with
having stolen his pocket-book, containing from 61. to
101: in bank notes.

. Serieant COCKELL, as Attortiey-General for this
County, addressed the Jury at considerable length.
His Majesty's servants had taken the case into their
most serious consideration ; and, on account of the'
particular circumstances, and the men's families,
they had determined that the prosecution should be
as-lenient as possible; the cases of the prisoners were
brought forward to prevent a recurrence of similar
alarming offences.
Thomas Ashton deposed, that he was a manufat-s
Curer at Heap ; that he paid his men wages similar,
to other manufacturers ; about eleVen o'clock on
Wednesday night,the Ist of June, he wss alarmed
when he was in bed, by a neighbour, who told him
that a mob Was, approaching his house from an ad-
joining village s inconsequence of whiCh he got up
with all. possible speed, went down stairs, and met
them at his gate; they asked him to sign a papers
the objed of which was to agree to a considerable
advance in their wages. He told them he thought
that a very improper time to come about that or
any other business ; he silo* not sign it, and de-
siredthem to go about their business.; they refused
tq disperse, and were extremely noisy and trouble-
some ; he then told them, if they had any thing
more to say, to send half a dozen into his house and
be would talk with them. Accordingly the prisoner
Barlow, with five others, came into his house. Bar-
low produced a list of advanced prices ; for ,some
works it proposed all advance, of 70 to nu per cent.
and it was urged as aninducernent„ for bins to sign
it, that he being a principal marnafaCturer in that
neighbourhood, the others had said they would
sign it if he did. He replied, that the,sanation of
the trade was such that it would not admit of it ;
he and several other manufacturers had agreed that
morning to advance 20 per cent. and he would
make it 25, or would give as much as any other ma
nuladurer ; with this the delegates appeared satis-
fied, and left his house, and returned to those on.
the outside ; ,however, those on ti, outside appear-
ed dissatisfied, and said he must sign it ; he then
went out to remonstrate .with them on ll:wimps°,
Kiev .of their condud ; several voices exclaimed
" drag him out. Mr. Kay (who is a cousiderable
manufaCturer at an adjoining village) will sign it if
you With-and you shall go to him ;" they then dragged
him by the collar into the street, where he was
knocked down and dragged a short distance on his
back. When he got up, he was pelted with stones
and bricks for about three quarters of a mile : from
their violent conduct, he was tearful that his life was
in danger, and he signed their paper upon his knees
in the public road. After this they were not.sa'as-
fied ; several voices called to the mob to abuse him,
when he lost the flap of his coat and his pocket-
book, which contained several Bank Notes..
William Collinge, who resides near the prosecutor,
said he got up and observed the conduct of the mob;
they amounted to between two and three hundred.
When the prosecutor asked six of them to come into
his house, he observing Barlow, and knowing him
to be a very quiet and peaceable man, requested him
to make one to go in. While they is ere in the
house, those on the outside became impatient for
their return, and some of them endeavoured to break
open the. g,ates and window-shutters. Some voices
called ott to kill the prosecutor if he did not sign
their list. When the prosecutor was knocked down,
several of them got upon him: All the prisoners
were among the crowd : he knew them well, but.
gave them a most excellent charades for itscistry,
sobriety, and peaceable condud.
Mr. Wzihtasts made • a most able and ingenious
.defence for the prisoners, and on his cross-examina-
aion of the prosecutOr," he acknowledged the wages.
were not above, half as much as they used to be.
ThelJury acquitted the whole of the prisoners.
--John Shepherd, John Rhodes, Joseph Sutcliffe, and •
John Turner, were indided for having, with divers
persons unknown, riotously assembled at Rochdale,
arhi burnt the prison, ou the Ist day of June.
Mr. PARKE observed, that there was no merit in
the prisoners in escaping a capital offence ;. noper-,
son residing ih the prison so as to make it a dwelling
house. Circumstances had lately come to Isis know-
ledge and those entrusted with, he management-of
those trials for the Crown, respecting John Turner,
they having it from undoubted authority, that he had
not gone among the tnob with any improper motive,
and had remained in company with some of them,
from mere idle curiosity, and,. as he was not a wea.-.
ver, they had agreed to admit him an. evidence.
John Kershaw;, an inhabitant of Rochdale, de-
posed, that at noon, on the ist day of June, the
town was extremely agitated by the entrance of a
most alarming mob, to the number of about two
hundred, which increased in the course of the day
to about one thousand. Soon after they entered the
town, One of them mounted on, a large stone, and
harangued the mob : he could not hear what he
said, but it appeared to please the mob in general,
as they shouted and, huzzaed several times. Dr.
I)rake and Mr. Entwistle, the Drlagistrates who in
general conduded the business of that part. of the
country, and who reside near there, came into. the
town; and addressed the mob in the niwt mild and
persuasive language, to endeavour to ptevail'on theist.
to disperse. They-behaved very civilly and
fully to the Magistrates, but refused to disperse.:
The Magistrates, in consequence, went to the house
where they usually ttansad their business, and-swore
in the witness and about :No others, Special Con-
stables. Two-thirds of them were, in the.i.:ourse-
ot the day mid night, maimed or bruised by siersei
being thrown at them, aid other violence exer-
cised towards them. •The- rioters entered the

peaceable weavers' !reuse% and forcibly toil( away
their shuttles. The Special Constables succceded
in securing some shuttles. from the rioters, -and: de-
posited there, in the prison for safety, and they
took five or six of , the rioters befOre the: Ma-
gistrates. HOwever, as they were conveying to:
the plison; they were rescued. 'The windows oi the
room where the Magistrates were sitting were broken
with large stones, being intended for the manivac-
turers of the town and neighbourhood, who had
al resorted to the rooms where the Magistrates were,
for safety, and not intended to injure the Magistrates..
The Magistrates remained in, the town till seven
o'clock. At their departure the prisoners and others
of the mob pulled off their hats to them, and be-
haved very respectfully. Soon _after tile Magistrates:
were gone, they b:haved in a very outrageous 'non-:
ner. They-attacked the prison, in consequence Of a
number of shintles being deposited in it for safety ;
the doors of which had been supposed to be impe-
netrable; and set it on fire, which was understood
to be impOisible, so, much of it being slone. They,
however, contrived to demolish it so much, that it is
now merely ruinous walls. After th 4 hod set that
on fire, they said they would-do so to the New Hall,
the residence of Mr. Jaynes Lloyds, one of the prin-
cipal manufa6turers, if lie did not give the some
money.

John Shaw, a hat-manufaaurer, one of the Special
Constables,„confirmed. the above; as did T. Wood,
another of the Special Constables. He saw the
prisoner, -Shepherd, about eleven o'clock,with about
fifty others, going towards Mr. Royds's warehouses,
Shepherd had, he thought, a candle in his hand, but
would not be.positive. He remonstrated with them
on ,the impropriety of their conduti, and advised 't hem
to separate; they said they would not, except Mt.
Royds would give -theist some money, or they
would,go and burn his -house, as they had done
the prison. He said he would go to Mr. Lloyds,
and get .some money ; :,,,vhich he accordingly Li.d,
and Mr. Royds gave him for them a guinea anti a
half, being all the gold he had; they were not
satisfied with this, it not being a shilting a-piece ;
they, however, had got a If. note from some
ether person, and he appeased them as well as he-
could: A difficulty arose as to dividing, it : he
agreed to go with them, and get change; they had
nut gone far before he was knocked down into a,
ditch ; on his getting up, a Man promised to protest
hiM ; they proceeded on to endeavour to get change
but the whole neighbourhood hearing them, fasten-
ed up the houses ; he went by himseif, and got
charm, they told him it he did nut return, they
would' burn hi. hoUse down; he got change; and
distributed it, and gave the prisoner Shepherd, a
shilling ; the prisoners Rhodes and Sutcliffe, were
there ; but he refused giving them shillings, not
having seen them in the' mob. On his being asked.
if he had seen them do 'any thing, he replies kn the
negative; nor did he believe they were in the mob.
- John Whitehead, who resides not two miles off
Rochdale,' said, the" prisoners called at his house at ,
four o'clock the tollowing morning, much intoxi-
cated ; said they got money at Rochdale, and wanted
him to help them to spend it ; told him how things
were giiing on there ; said the prison was on fire.— .
The witness told them they would all
.be hanged ;
Shepherd said his hands had set it on tire, and spew-
ed a piece of lead, v, hick he said was part of it.
Mary. Scitcliffe, the landlady of Tub Smithey,
'said, the prisoners called at her house early on tue
following morning. Shepherd said he had assisted
to burn the prison, and if Mr. Royds did not give him
what he
swanted, lie would serve his house in the
same manner that night.
Turner, who'was admitted an evidence, confirmed
the above; and 'said, he was standit'g with Shep-
herd opposite the prison when it was on tire, when
he observed it/any man. put the fire out, .he would
endanger their lite. Shepherd told him lie gel's],
from 'Mr. Royds; they well' to Mr. Dearson's for
money, wherea guinea was thrown out
t to theln'.' A
one time, Shepherd asked it any man wciuld
with him, to set Charles Trot's manUtactory on fire.
There being considerable 'doubts as to Rhodes
and Sutcliffe, Mr. PARKE, in the Most candid and
liberal manner, acknowledged ''t; and said; from
the discretionary power vested in him'on the pat t of
the Grown, he should give up the prosecutions
against there.—The Jury found Shepherd—Guilty.
The Counsel for the prosecution were, the Attor-
ney-General,, and Messrs. Parke, Scarlett, Yates,
Holroyd, CFoss, and Richardson ; COunsel. for. the
Prisoners, Mr. -

,Y`'

THE SPANISH JUNTA,---The,prvrioticbodie bear-
ing this appellation haye recently attraaed so much
notice. and excited so., much admiration, I.llat.
thinggating.to their hiStory must be peculiarly in
terestmg at the present moment. The origin of"
Avhilis'conim-0113, called- -.the :Jonta= in Spain;r4
anothiT, in addition to numberless proofs,, of the ac-
tive jealou,y with which' the people of that country
io former tittles- guarded ag .inst the possible iJ)ra".
sion of their liberties. Tice Junta was no other than,
the power and constitutional privilege asserted by the'
penis L of confederating against their Sovereign 09
often as they conceived that he had viol ved any of
their rights and immunities, JAMES the /,'irst, in
12,64, uas compelled by a Junta not to nominate
any; person to be Just iZi (the 11,;.;11- sr office in Spain
exercised by a subjea) without the consent of the
" lien's Hombus,.! or Nobles. In the year 1287, 4
Junta 'was formed against ALFONZO the Bd, wl)4
after a sh9rt and ineffectual resistance was obliged to
comply with their demands; and solemnly ratify a
privilege so fatal to the power of the crown.--
In the year 1347, PETER the. Fourth disputed this
fortnidable privilege, and made an effort to abo-e
lish it. , But a Junta was 'immediately- tormedl.
and a new ratification of the disputed right was ex.i.
torted. The Junta did not tesernble theconfederacie4
in other feudal kingdoms; it was a constitutional 'asso-
ciation, in which legal privileges wete vested, which-.
issued its mandates under a common seal, arid pro-
ceeded in all its operations by regular and ascertained'
forms.—The Junta was gener,illy made. up of
.04)
Ricos Hombus, or Nobles ; the Hida/gas, or dross;
of the Equestrian Order, and the Magisirates of the
different cities; on assembling, they bound them-,
selves by•mutual oaths and the exchange of ho4'
tapes, to be faithful to each other then, in the
name-and by the authority of this body corporate,,:
they uquired of the King to grant. (nein rearess,-‘•
oh his refusal' or op !Ili taking arms to o,ipose
they might, in Airtue of the privilege of the Union,.or".
Junta, instatitly withdraw their alit-giant:eft-0m tha
King, refuse to acknowledge him as their Soverei4t4:
and proceed to elect another Monarch ; nor did they •
incur. any guilt, or become liabie to any prosecution
;On -that account..-,4hisstretch of the Junta be moat
than sufficient to slew, that it was the most singtiliir
privilege which could take !;lace in any- regular
Government. It was, certainly, rather of too 4.114"
multuary a nature, and frequently in the course of
- Spanish history has been produ.-aive of Vialent con-
vnisions—the term occurs constant ty in the Spanish
papers, Since the commencement of the Revolution-
The attachment of the Arragonese to their Coosa-
! tution was extreme, and their respect thr it ap-
proached to superstitious veneration. In the preain
to one,of their laws, they declare, that such tea, (11°
barrenness of their country, and the poverty of 06.-
inhabitants, that, if it were not Oh account of the
liberties by which they were distinguished front O'er
nations, the people would abandon it and go in (It-10i'
of a settlement to some more fruitful region.
No country in the world has undergone more Re-
volution than Spain, and yet no country in the world,-
has appeared with such tenacious fidelity to its an.i
dent laws, customs, and establishments.

Recipe for the Rhgumatisrn.---Dissolve some mi
neral alkali in the proportion of about one (junco, 41'
Little more, in a quart of water, and take a Willa
glass full of the solution three or four times
hours, or as often as the stomach Will bear it. 17149:
will Ci.llo in three or lour cloys. _

SHIP NEIVS,

CRAY ESEND, SEPTEMBER 7.

Passed by—the Lord Cathcart, Moore, from lantaid:i.-;
,
and the Algeciras, Roall, from New Providence.
Sailed—the Ann and Marv, Norris, for Gibraltar; and 110.:
Thoiws, Heathy, for Cadiz,

ow BIRTH. •
Yesterday, in Lower Grosvenor•street,„ tire 'Lady ot'Col°••
nel Anson, M. P. of a Soil. _ ..

MARRI," D. •
, Lately,,,the Rev. Joseph Barrett, to Miss Sane Sheldon'
of Woontord.
Yesterday, Mr. John Whittle Harvey, of Ludgate-street.,
son of Mr. M., B. Harvey, of .Witham, to Miss Wade, 49;l1)
',daughter of William
,Wade, Esq. of Great Stambridge, r's'. -
sex.
The same day, Mr. Edward Stephens, of Park-street'
tkirisvehor-square, to Harriet, seventh daughter of the •
Francis Viret, of Wheatfield, in the County of Oxi9ru
WI Tuesday 'the ajd ult. Henry N•liller, Esq. of the -1°`tt
Regithent, to Miss lane Morpliett,,daughter of Richard Aft?‘'
Pbetr,' Esq. of the Cottage, Mallow.
On Saturday se'linight, at Douglas Church, Cork, f'l4°r
M‘Mahon; Assistant-Adjutant-General of that Distr t, to '
Miss West:opp,' daughter of M. R. West:opp, Esq• of """
• City. ,
On the 30th ult. at Campbeltown, Scotland, Dunexa
Mi‘•cf.vil, Esq. Merchant,. of Greenock; t Miss l'ackl4
Campbell, youngest daughter of the late Lachlan Canytaelit
Esq. Surgeon, in Campbeltown.
Lately, Doctor Dillon, of Kildare.streer, Dublin,' to
Eliza second daughterof the I,te Rev. lienedict Arthure, of
Sea...ld, in the County of Dublin . _

_ .
A few days ago, A. Moffett, Esq. son of the Rev. Robert
Matfett, of Park place, in the County of Longturd, to Miss
Susanna Smith, daughter of the Rev. lohii Smith, of Lts-#-
rnacrury,.in the County of Tipperary.