The Sun.
London, England, 1831-11-08 00:00:00

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COVENTRY, Nov. 7.

Extract of a letter from Coventry, received this morn-
ing :—" As doubtless very exaggerated reports may be in
London to-morrow respecting the riots in this city to-day,
I have the pleasure to state that at this time (eight
o'clock) every thing is quiet ; but the military and special
constables are parading the streets. One factory has been
burnt down and the machinery destroyed. The Mayor
and Magistrates acted with the greatest promptitude, and
to this may be attributed the speedy termination of an out-
rage, which for a short time assumed an alarming appear-
ance."

DISTURBANCES AT WARWICK.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sta,—To morrow our grand county meeting is to be
held, and I enclose you a hand-bill which is being circu-
lated in the borough. When will Corporations confine
themselves to their proper fun:•tions ? If imbecility is to he
imputed to the Magistrates of Bristol, what term can be
applied to those of this town ? What ! to swear in special
constables with the example of Bristol before them? and
with the example of Birmingham too, where 150,000
persons could meet without a constable ! ! But alas! poor
Warwick is still worse off. Already two troops of the
7th Hussars have taken up positions, so as to be almost
immediately at hand—one at Leamington, only two miles
off, another at Kenilworth, between four and five. The
Warwickshire yeomanry are called out, and are to hover
in the horizon to prevent, we suppose, the expression of
the people's avi•bes. But we can tell their Colonel (Lord
Aylesford, Lord Warwick's brother-in-law) that all their
attempts to prevent the cry of the people from reaching
the throne will be fruitless ; and while we call upon all
friends to Reform for peace, quietness, and forbearance, the
welkin shall yet ring with our united voices in heartfelt
tones as we shout " God save the King."
Your's most obediently,
AN OLD CORRESPONDENT.
Warwick, Nov. 7, 1831.

" TO THE INHABITANTS OF WARWICK.

" The High Sheriff of the county has called a nieet;ag
for Tuesday next, at the request of one hundred and fifty
respectable, anti many of them the most influential and
opulent gentry and freeholders of this county, including
nearly thirty Magistrates, with the late and present Chair-
man of the Quarter Sessions, for the legal and constitu-
tional purpose of addressing the King upon the all-engross-
ing subject of Reform.
" Upon a similar occasion the largest county meeting
ever known here was held, and since then one at Birming-
ham, attended by one hundred and fifty thousand people,
in the most peaceable and orderly manner, and yet the
Magistrates of this borough have attempted to cast a slur
upon the intentions of the present requisitionists, who
they would have you believe are about to meet to break
the peace, and they call upon you to be sworn in as spe-
cial constables, to protect yourselves from the fatal effects
of some visionary dream that has entered into their wild
and timid imaginations.
" The Yeomanry are to be called out to protect
you from the machinations of these County Magistrates
and freeholders. Have these borough Magistrates then
raised a shadow and bighted themselves ? or are they try-
ing to create that disorder which they pretend to fear ?
1 tell you, and I tell them, that they have no grounds for
what they are doing, and they know they have not, and
if one grain of sense is left in the whole body they will
recall their insulting request awl leave you to enjoy your
meeting in that peace and good order, which nothing but
the foolish interference of an imbecile, weak, and ineffi-
cient body can destroy.
" Fellow-townsmen,—Be peaceable, suffer not your-
selves to be threwn off your guard by the impertinent in-
terference of those who, truckling to slaves in office, will try
to distract your attention, and by eve' v means they can de-
vise endeavour to promote disorder ; 'for nothing on earth
can now prevent that Reform which we are all anxious to
obtain, while peace and good order is your motto, and
unioß is your strength ; by peace you will defeat the ma-
chinations of your enemies—by peace you will show your
loyalty to your King—and by peace you will preserve the
honour and reputation or your county.
4g Con SAVE THE KING
" Nov. '7, 1831."