The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-01 00:00:00

smith, when assistance being at hand, and finding that he
should be taken into custody, he took to his heels and escaped,
declaring he wou'd return again. On the following day
handbills against Mr. Jeremy were distributed.
Monday last Lanier appeared in front of Stanfield Hall
with a very large party of men, collected from the different
parishes of the neighbourhood. About eleven o'clock in
the morning they demanded admittance of Mrs. Sims,
declaring they would break open the house if it were
refused to them. She did refuse them, upon which
Lanier took a crow bar from out of a paper in which it
had been wrapped, and hroke in the door, when the party
rushed into the place. Soon after entering, the mob fol-
lowed Larner up stairs to a bedchamber, in which Mrs. Sims
had taken refuge. Larner entered first, and desired her to
leave the house, which she refused to do. Miss Bloomfiel:,
of iWymondham House, at this time came up stairs into the
room, and joined Mrs. Sims in her refusal to leave the house.
After ca,raing Mrs Sims out of the house, Lamer went up
stairs again, seized Miss Woomfield in his arms, and forcibly
carried her out. The mob then carried the furniture, bedding,
&c., out of the house, and placed it on the lawn, after which,
they broke open all the cupboards, throwing their contents
out of the windows. They afterwards barricaded the windows
and doors, letting no person in or out of the house except their
own party, and placed a heap of paving-stones, brickbats, and
other missiles before each of the upper windows, in prepara-
tion for a siege. During{ the time this outrage was carrying
into effect, Mr. Jeremy, who is a county magistrate, hastened
to the scene with two constables, where he found the fur-
niture of the mansion lying on the ground, exposed to a
heavy rain. Between :three and four o'clock the Reverend
Robert Wilson and W. R. Cann, Esq., came up with a civil
force, and succeeded in taking some of the bludgeon-men
into custody, but the rioters made a sortie from the house and
instantly rescued them. Finding the civil farce inadequate,
the military were sent for from Norwich, and about a quarter
before six a detachment of the 4th Dragoon Guards, under
the command of Major Makepeace, came upon the ground.
Before their arrival, however, the fellows in the mansion se-
veral times rushed out, and very severely beat the magis-
trates, particularly Mr. Jeremy. The military having been
desired to load their pieces with ball cartridges, the magic-.
trates read the Riot Act, and caned on the misguided men to
surrender rather than there should be a shedding of blood.
The military took up a position so as to surround the house,
and cut off all attempts at escape ; the men inside then, having
had five niinntes' grace given to them to make up their minds,
declared, before the expiration of the time, their intention to
surrender, and opening- one of the doors, came out one by one,
and were tied togetherly ropes, to prevent their escape, to the
number of sirty-three. They were put into waggons and con-
ducted to Norwich Castle, under an escort of the military.
On Tuesday morning the body of prisone:s were brought
from the Castle, and evidence was heard against them before
the Hon. and Rev. R. Wilson, Mr. Cann, and other Magis-
trates. On Wednesday the prisoners in custody were brought
down again, and fresh evidence being brought forward, the
prisoner Daniel Wingfield asked for and obtained an adjourn-
ment of a few days before the case was finally heard, that the
prisoner might have proper advice. The persons engaged in
this most extraordinary outrage came from different parishes
of the county of Norfolk ; only 25 of them are labourers, the
others being little trade:onen, to whom ignorance cannot be
pleaded as an excuse for their conduct, 34 of them being able
to read and write, seven can read alone, and 39 can neither
read nor write. Three of the men were liberated on bail ;
the others remain in custody until the next examination.—
Abridged from the Norfolk Chronicle.