The Sun.
London, England, 1809-07-05 00:00:00

:ii"OT:3 AT LIVERPOOi.

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We 'hive-reCeiVed the following particulars of ti,:
riots at Liverpool, aft Tuesday and WedneSda::
se'nfright.: - .
A party of the 19th Light Dragoons, which Wer6
in that town, and a press-gang quarrelled ; the press-
!
gang having in several instances behaved very ill;
particularly one of them called bttle Jack, the sol
diers were joined by some Americans, Portuguese,
Irishmen, apci all the town's-people, who collected
in a very. It.t.fe body, and repaired to the rendezvous;=
houSe's,, in Strand-street and- Bird-s'reet, in search.
of the gang ; but not finding them, they began to
..ill-treat the people they found in the house, and
then proceeded
.to arts' of violence. They broke i
the furniture' and the Windows. By this nine a
very 'alarming mob had colleCted; which compg to
the knowledge of Mr.Aspinall, a Magistrate, he re-
paired to the spot, aceoinpanied-by Mr. Miller, the
Superintendant of the-Police, attended by a number
.of Constables, and after . Much persuasion, and
threatening. to call.ourthe military, &c. (hey dis-
persed about eleven o'clock at night, not, however,
until several of the ringleaders were taken into cos= -
tody. On the Wednesday evening the rioters as=
sembled again, and conducted. themselves with in-
creased violence, and entirely destroyed the inside of
five rendezvous-houses, and ripped open the beds,
and threw the feathers into the streets. On Mr.
Miller, the Superintendent of the Police; receiving
information of what was -doing, -he repaired to the
spot, attended ' by si's. or seven constables, and suc,-
•ceeded in: taking.four of the ringleaders into custody
but as they were on their way to .13ridewell; two of
them were rescued from the officers by-• the mob.
In thiS, scuffle with .1 he officers, a foreign sailor par-
ticularly aimed at the life of Mr. Miller'; he was
armed with a large knife, and attempted to stab
him, but was prevented front etiating this purpose,
Mr, Miller being knocked down by another of the
rioters, at the moment the stab svas made ; his coat
was cut in two places with the knife. Whilst this
outrageous assault was going on against the officers,
a party of the Manchester Local Militia, who were
on duty there, came to the officers' assistance,
headed by the Mayor, and Mr. Aspinall, the • Ma--
gistrate. The mob, at this time,• were carrying
their, violence ,to -such a pitch, that it was found
necessary, to read the Riot act ; every person was .
then desired to depart, bu,t it was with great diiii-
Tufty .they .could be prevailed upon to do so ; ten
of the most riotous-were at length secured, and five'
or' them bake been comoiitted to Lancaster Castle,
to take
,their trials at the ensuing Assizes. The
soldiers patrolled the streets for several nights after-
wards.
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COLONEI. WARDLE, TO THE PEOPLE OE_ THE

UNITgD KINGDOM.

" Honoured as my Parliamentary conduct has
been by,the approbation of so many of my country-
men; I feel myself called upon, in consequence of
an *event, that yesterday took place, immediately to
address you, and that in vindication of my chaFaCter,
rendered open to attack from the verdict of the
Jury upon the evidence of Mrs. Clarke and Mr.
\Vright, the brother of her Upholsterer, in a cans*
in which I was Defendant, in the Couri of
.King's
Bench.. The detail of the. vidence the public prints
will afford. ft is with me to state, that my Counsel,
sa.tisOd in their minds that the Jury would not,
upon such testimony as hail ben given by the
Plaintiff's brother and Mrs. Clarke; alone, find a
verdid against.me,,.did not comply with my earnest
entreaty (repeated to them in writing, during the
trial, in the strongest terms), that Major Dodd,
Mr. Glenie, and oilier respectable witnesses„sub-
pcenaed by: the Plaintiff and myself, might be -t.tx
amined, as I knew their testimony voniti be found--
&I in truth, and be in direct contradiCtion to what
had been sworn against tne: Under such circum-
stances yhe verdit was ,obtained. There only re-
mains for me, now, before'iny God and mytountry,,
to declare, that it was obtained by perjury alone
and I do pledge myself to prove that fad the earliest
moment the forms of the law will allow me to do so.
Anxiously, therefore, do I look. forward to that
period; 'and 1 trust that till then the public will
•
suspend their judgment upon the case. With senti-
ments of the deepest gratitude and respea, I reMaia
your ever faithfully:devoted Servarti,
" Mies-street, July 4, 1209."

" G. L.'WARDLE."

THE THEATRE.7—The Comedy of The Soldier's •
Daughter was :represented for the first time ' last
night at the Haymarket Theatre. The part of Frank
Heartall was performed by JONES, with all 'his, usual
bustle and spirit., 'The Widow Cheerly 'had a very
animated and pleasing representative in Mrs. GLOVER,
and Mrs. EYRE displayed good sense and 'feeling
in the part of Mis..lllalfort. The part of the
Governor is not
,quite adapted to the . talents of ,
MATFIEW)3, and was an arduous undertaking' after
so excellent a representation of it by DOW TON,, b'ut
he sustained it
.with considerable ability and .effed.
LisTos, in Timothq Quaint was, zs the phrase is,
uire.at /.come, and displayed all that ludicrous sim-
plicity which, has rendered him so popular. He ti:(1
MAT.u.Ev;'s again afibrded the audience high enter-
.tainment in the afterpiece of Killing no iflurder:
It was reported this morning that Cupt.'llAtioLAY ,
was so exhausted last night, by his exertions, that he
had fallen twice, from excessive fatigue, and that
he had 'relinquished his engagement ; but we do
not find that this report is well founded.
A vety material saving has been discovered for
the preparat ion 'of hammock-cloth for tlir Navy. Not
only is'the.paint,.by verw simple attu'cheap pro-
cess, recovered from the old. cloths, but it is found
that this paint mixes better vitla train-oil than with'
any other oil. - It unites not only the advantage of
,cheapness, but keeps, the clpihs constantly moist and
pliable. A wanu a tory.fot; lamp-black IS also e;e::.1- •
ing in the Naval Y.cd, at, Portsmouth, for the cal-
citation of tliebolies brUught•up in immense quan--.-
tiiies by the oyster trawlers at Spithead. The saving
in this article alone will be important,

, .
- CoRN EXCHANGE, JULY s.—The supplies of Wheat
to-day are considerable, with styetal- arrivals fiern.
Holland, fine is in detnand, and fully at last t ur-
reucy ; second and inferior are heavy sale,
cheaper ; in Bailey and Malt little variation ; White
Pea,eat less ; Beans of the two kinds co.itinue at
late plias ; the supplies of 0,-its are considerable,
with some foreign arrivali, the few fine saw Iles sup-
port tlitir prices, other sorts rather lower ; 1.47.
I.ur last quotation fine American 46i. to 50;.

LAW REPORT.

COURT OF KING's BENCH, lutY 4.

His Lordship finished the Middlesex Paper, the
few causes' in ikliich were of little import : in that
of the King-v. the Infahitants of Buckingharn, a
verdial by consent was given for the CroWn, subje&
to the itrure opinion of the Court.
A Special Jury cause went off for want of a suf-
ficieut Alendance of Jurors..

T}k o Conunon Jury .cases were referred to arbi-
tration.

. His Lord,hip thus finished the Sitting , the casa
of the KAtg awl),lke of ,Gordan being postponed
to the next term. He proceeded to

UVILDHALL..

CRIMPS.-DICKINS9N V. PARIS.
This was an action brought by the Plaintiff, to re-
c..ver 20;. being money laid out, and worit'and la,
.bour done for the Defendant, in procuring the libe-
ration of his son. tram a King's Ship, in which he
was entemd as a cotnmon seaman).
It appeared that the dung man was a little wild,
and, in a moment of thoughtlessness, entered the
vice. His friends discoveting his situation, ap-
plied to the Board of Admiralty for his discharge,
'which W S obtained, on the.usual condition.of pro-
viding two substitutes. For this the Plaintiff; who
is a crimp, was e4loyed under 4 special agreement.
He did provide the substitutes, and got 'the money
agreed upon, and the young man' was discharged.
ratter be- was. discharged, the Plaintiff sent in
an additional charge to the amount, above stated,
which the Defendant resisting, this action was
brought.
The.evidence, however, which the Plaintiff pro-
doced-,,ti id not prove enough to shew that the ctarges
Which composed: the items of this new claim were
fairly founded. .

_ . .
Lord ELLE\NBOROUGH, in his charge to the Jury,
- remarked, that it did not appear to him that any of
those charges were justly incurred ; for surely., Mier
the substitutes _were once provided, there ended all
the conir,itt,- and all the inteiference•of the person
employed in procuring them.
• Under the impression of these observations, as
well as that. which the whole of the evidence made
on the minds of the Jury; they .found a verdict for
' the Defendant.

WRIGHT V. DAUNA.
. 'Mr. GAR OW stated this to be an anion brought
Ito recut er th'e value of four sacks ot- clover, sold, by
the Plaintiff tO•the Defendant, which, together with
the char6e, wtending the,sale and carriage, paid by
the 11,:ntar, amounted to 711. 46. sd. The goods
were neat from the place of sa,le to the Defendant's
place of residence, In Derbyshire, and the charges
of the Plaintiff- ,Aere entered in his own hand at the
rate of til. I as. per sack ; the Defendant saw that en-
try, and said it was wrong, that it ought to be only
6:. 15,. per sack, ,and desired the Plaintiff to alter
it'to that sum ; the Plaintiff had done so according-
ly ; 'Upon w Inds the bargain was concluded,' and.
the goods were forwarded by. Pickford's dying boat
to the Defending, and to. which ,the Defendant made
no objection at the time. Mr; Garrow therefore
contended, that .as this ageration was made, not
only in the presence, but at the request of the De-
frndalit iii this cause, the Defendant could not con-
test the charge ; • because, he contended, that this
dire&ion anio.nited to an admission of the amount
of the Plaintiff's demand. The taa of this en-
try being made by the Defendant's order being
proved,

•11,1 r. PARK said, that this was a written contraet,
jilt was any thing; and void for want. of the signa-
ture .of the' party who was now sought to be.bound
by it. And of thiroprnion was
ELLUNBOROUGH, who held that this entry
could never be binding on the Defendant unless
made by himself, or by some person who was his
agent. By himself it was not made; it was made
by the Plaintiff, at his request. But then the Plain-
tiff in making that entry, as the Defendant's agent,
could never change that character afterwards; and;
by his or. n ad, convert himself into a Plaintiff
It a Mild person had made this entry, by the De-
fent'atit's direction,' it.would have becn, well; but
the person who made it by -direCtioa of the Defend-
ant, could not be agent for him, in doing the aol,
and afterwards a suitor against him to enforce the
performance of it. In a word; no man can be the
agent of, another to perform a contraEt; and then a
suitor against him for the non-performance. Upon
which the Plaintiff was nonsuited.