The Sun.
London, England, 1802-09-28 00:00:00

DUBLIN, SEPT, 2i.

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A desperate riot took place,--On ,rriday evening,'
last, in Fiaucis-stieet ; sonfe'Soldiers who were
'billetted irr that /neighbourhood, were 'so furiously
attacked by a mob; •who pelted them With,stones,
that the men fired in their vwn defence, but happily,
person was either killed or wounded: The
consequences were •likely" to have beerc'dreadlui;
but fortunately Mr. Wilson, the Chief Peace Officer,
timely arrived op the spot, with a militiiry gtiarel,
diSpersed the mob, and took several. who ,Seerned to.
be leadersinto epsrody.
the-sathe night, the above :alve Chief Peace
Officer, apprehended in a-Lane neat Thomascourt,
t,,v,.rnoted.offendefs, Michael il3yrne, and Andrew
Graham, and a female delinquent, Elinor Burke.
The first mentioned ruffiin is .said to' belong io a
desperate gang of .znail.robbers ;' and on, the other
(Graham) were found several articles which lead to
strong suspicion that. he haS been concerned in re-
cent robberies. They. were. brought. beftrt. the
Superintendant Magistrate Text day, who, after an
attentive examination, committed them to prison.

Application is to b- made to Parliament in the
next. Session, for an Aa to make a navigable.cabal-
the river Thames at• Shad 'ell, =to 'Waltham-
Abbey, and from thence, at same future peribd, to
open a communication .with Lynn, in 1\1.4-folk, by
a cut from Bishops':St?ttford, into fl e navigitble
part of the river Cam. This canal is to commence

iiefween Bell Wh!rf. and the Saltpetre warehouse,
Shadwell, and with a collateral branch to Spa Fields.
It proceeds through tilt parishes .of Sr. Paul's and
St. George's in the, Rtst, through ►he: ToWer

I lamlets, Patcl i Mil-end ad :to Liniebouse,
"VVhiteehapel, Bet hra...Grecn,Slitireditcli,-St. Lake's,
St. Mary Jslingt(in, Sr. John and James Clerken.
we:l, Panc,raq, Hackney, Hornsey, Tottenham,' Ed.
immton,..Enfield, Clieshunt, Walthain_Cross, an,l
re Walthakt-Abbev.

The appliCation to Parliament by, the, Subscri-
bers to the intended Lyndon,, Ports Mouth, and
Southampton Canal, is in the first instance •to extend
the Cut no farther than Guildford, branching from
the Croydon Canal, near Mitcham, -and continuing
thence through the •Parishes of Meiton,JCingstou,
Malden, L-ong Dittou,l!.well, Epsom; Astek Lea-
t herhead, Mecklehatp, Dorking, Stoke, Dabernon,
Fetcham, • Bookham, Cobham, Eisngliam, Horsley,
Clarendon,, St,Ace, and tv Guildford.—The Navi-
gation is intended hereafter to be contintrd to
Portsmouth and Southampton water. .

some essential improvements 'are about to .be
made in the'Harbour of Bristol by means of wears,
a. canal and-chambers to be so formed, as to pen up
the water in the present course 61 the rivers Avon
arid Froome to a sufficient height to keep vessels,
using the. Port of Bristol, afloat al the Quayle, and
by means of a•cat or new coarse for he Avon, for
.the Purpose of letting off its, freshesi -and admit.
ring the tides from near the Redcliffs. There are
to be two bridges- over
.the canal beryeen the pre-
sent and.-inizerkii:3 course of the river. The' plan
appears.admirably adapted to accomplish the obje.6l.s
it etn:,races.

.;eo,t• in the evening
of Manday7se'anight, afire 'suddenly :broke out in
the MUstard_warehouse bclonging Mr.-Bowden,:
sitpate in -Breadtey,street, [full, • Which proceeded:
with such rapidity, that in a.few tninures he whole
roof was in a blaze, and the warehoUse, with i large
'stock of mustard, entirely (lest rdyed. refe4ion
of the light 'might be seen in almost every part cf
`the town. :One side of this building adjoined
on Messrs. South's Burtoolale . and porter, and,
Mr. C. Shipman's flax and- sailcloth warehouses,
nearly full cf Soldiers" clothes and baggage, and
the other On the' warehouse .4- Mr. J. Parlinson,
part of whicir.was occupied as-a military storehouse,
in which a quantity of gunpowder was deposited,
and by Messrs. Holden and Robarts's warehouse,
in which we're a large stock of brandy, rum,
gin, hops, &c:. The alarcn of the inhAtants
at the: devouring progress of the flames, in the
neighbotirhood of such abundance of combustible
matter may be easily conceived;•for upwirds of
an hOur the whole range of warehouses, ,and- all
.the neighbourhood, was threatened with destruc-
tion. , To this may ,be added the vicinity' of the
dock-shades .and warehouses, and even the shipping
in the dock, which were all exposed to Onsider-
able danger frOm the abundance• of burning sparks
with.which the air was filled. Every circurrsiance
seemed to threaten one .of the most diiastrous
events which Hull had ever witnessed, but which
providentially was prevented by the united exer-
tions of a large concourse of inhabitants, who ex-
erted themselves strenuously to obtain, and to
keep the engines supplied with, water. • A Troop of
cite. t?th Light Dragoons, and the Hull Volunteer
Cavalry also gave Their ready assistance, not only
to get the goods from the warehouses, blit to pre-
serve them fe..,rnJhe-plunder of a set of abandoned
wren hes,c who were ready to steal and destroy.
..vhateer they found unprpteaekL No certain ac-
count can be obtained of the cause of this calamity.
it great consolation, that notwithstanding the
imminent danger attendant on this alarming fire, no
life was lost, and but very few people Lurt,, and
those not materially. '

POLICE-PFFIC F., UNION•HALL..-- 'Yesterday
William .Ca►penter. was put to the bar, `to answer a
charge. of felony.—lt appeared that Collingbourn,
one of the Officers, being out e-arly that morning,
met the Prisoner with a washing-tub on his head,
containing_a gown,. a set of.bed_furniture,and other
articles. He stopped him and the, proitrtY, and
put him into safe custody. it w..as,,soon after dis-
covered that the articles had been stoler from the
hack premises of two
.poor personS in St. George's
Fields, of the names of Brown and Whitebtad, who
having positively sworn to the property, the Pri-
soner was fully committed for'trial at thenext Ses_
sions. .

George.Wilbraham was also brought up 'or re-ex-
amination, on a charge of horsestealing. A-shop.
keeper of Dunstable appeared, and pro'ed that a
black gelding and a black mare, such as Vere now
produced, -had been stolen from his stable, about a

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