The Sun.
London, England, 1804-11-02 00:00:00

JL4LL, CLERKENWELL, Nov. 1.

CONSPIRACY or JOURNEYMEN BOOT-MAKERS,
William WeMorn was indided for conspiring
with several nthers with intention to injure the busi.
ness of John Wimbrey, and to prevent others of the
trade wotking for him. The Public are already in
pobsegsion of the faa, that a Conspiracy has existed
among the Boot-makers to prevent•the Masters of
the trade employing such men as root.closers who
are obnoxious to their club.
Mr. GURNEY, for the Prosecution, stated the
nature and object of the conspiracy, which was to.
tally to controul the masters, and render them sub.
jet to the will of the club of the journeymen.
John Comely stated, that he was a master shoe.
maker, in Cross.street, Carnaby.market. In the
month of KT last he was a journeyman, and
worked for Mr. Wimbrey. He was a member of
the dub at that time, and recolleded a meeting in
May last at the Coach and Horses, in Eden-court.
There they resolved that they would strike unless
Mr. Wimbrey discharged all his closers. M.Tyer
and Bowyer were charged to communicate. this
message to Mr. Wimbrey. He refused to discharge
his closers, and they then resolved to deliver up all
his work unfinished, and do no more for him until
he conformed to the resolution of the club,--The
'Defendant Wellborn was at this meeting, and the
resolitti:m was passed unanimously.
'The resolutions of the society were proved and
read, by which it appeared that the journeymen of
every shop held what they call shop meetings--each
shop also sent a delegate to a general meeting,
which regulated the affairs of the whole trade, and
fined such as did not obey their mandates. The duty
of the delegates was to report all Scabs, by which
name they described those who worked for inter,
dieted masters.

Several other witnesses proved that the Defen.
dant Wellborn had been ?dive in the club, and
acted among the conspirators ; among others a man
of the name of Thomas Plummer was called, who
evaded with great adroitness the questions put to
him.—He said he was a cobler or mender to Mr.
Wimbrey, and when pressed by the Counsel to
answer more explicitly, he observed, that an oath
was a very serious thing, and. therefore could' not
answer positively to any question. Being reminded
that he had already been sentenced to two months
imprisonment for a like offence ; lie answered it was
vet)" true, and that 'the imprisonment .bad very
much Linicsed his memory, which made him
.afraid to
trust it'.---The Jury, found the Prisoner Guilty.
1 other men were. tried for a like offence,
being the workmen of. Mr. Ryacer, in the flaymar.
ket ; but the .evidence not being conclusive, they
were acquitted.

On Saturday night, as two of Lord DELAVACS
pitmen, with their wives, were proceeding from
North Shields to their homes, they fell over a sea.
hank, near Whitley, anti all, except a man of the
name of Paterson, were found dead on the sands the
following morning.
•On Wednesday last as James Vass, a farmer at
Eslington, Northumberland, was returning from
Dibdon Colliery with a loaded cart, and while
walking by the side of his horses opposite to Ronly
wood, they took fright, and in catching the rein of
the first horse, it suddenly ,gave way, and he fell.
Before he had time to escape from before the cart,
he was struck on the head so violently, that he died
instantly. A person working in a field at some
distance,' seeing the horses galloping without a
driver, and sitspeEting'some accident, went in search,
and found him in the above melancholy sitaation.
The inhabitants of Alresford were extremely
alarmed on Sunday last, during divine service, by a
stupid fellow, who, heedless of the consequences
which a h widen declaration might cause, came into
the church, and exclaimed, " Fite !", The scene
which ensued is more easy to conceive than to tie-

scribe ; shrieking, squalling, fainting, fits, and in.
deed all the usual appendages of female 'terror, ren.
tiered the whole such a scene of conftision as has
been there ,but rarely witnessed. The church was
,emptied instantaneously, and the pressure to get nut
was infinitely distressing. The real cause of this
alarm proved to be at the distance of six miles ; a
fire having broke out at a place called Brown Can.
dover ; it raged with great violence, and the dwell.
ling. house, haftlB, 'ou t.houses, and ricks of corn, ex.
cept one, were entirely destroyed.

A Farmer near Whitby having by death been di.
privtd CA his spouse; by way of consolation had a
temb..stone ereOed to her memory with an appro.
;mate inscription. His grief being ameliorated by
time, care for the main.dunce resumed its place in
bi' breast, and being in want of a helrth.stone, he
ordered the mason who had sculptured the memorial
of the deceased's merits and his own loss, to remove
it from the church.yard, and to place it, with the
inscription reversed, before the social fire.
On Tuesday morning an Excise .Officer, named
I,ittlejohn, was found dead in a. vat of strong beer,
in ;t state of fermentation, in the brew-house of Mt.
Thornton,' at Horsham. It came out in evidence
before the Coroner's Jury, on a view of the body,
that the deceased went to the brew-house on Monday
night, to make his accustomed survey, and that in
leaning over the vessel, the azotie gas arising from
beer in such a state, might suffocate him, and cati'se-
him to fall to the liquor, they therefore returned
a VerdiEt tit—Ace/Wet:ln/ Death. The vessel can.
tamed about 16 barrels of beer, which, by Mr.
Ttiorritott's diredions, was thrown into the common
iewer.