The Sun.
London, England, 1817-07-29 00:00:00

61110 NEWS.

DEAL, rut 1.3.....An.ived, and sailed for tb*
River, the Princess 1;4 Wales, Sims; liek,:f sn'„
BELL; and Crown, Ross, from Jamaica,; Kati°,
-,MITU, from St. paining° for Antwerp; Wit.,
lerloo, MUNRO, iO 16 days from Oporto; anti Sot
saa, CoATes, from Gretiati. Came down frOtb
the River the Nereid, for Maleila ; 130 wen, for
Naples; Lord Normandy, for Madeira; sunk
Vansittart, fiir the South Seas.
I'ORT MOUTH, JULY 25.—Pot back, after be-
ing at sea five days., the American ship Milian,
rnomAi, bound to Batavia.

FALMOUTH, JULY ')6.— Arrived the Betsy
transport lion) Calais, and Enterprize transport
rout Dover—both bound to Cork.
PENZANCE, JULY 2G.—Part of the wreck of a
vessel La. come On shore near the Land's End
this morning ; it appears to have been scene time
ill the water. It is a copper bottom vessel, fir
built, titnner 12 inches stittare. Part of a mast
has been taken up by one of the Bay boats, which
appears to have belonged to the same wreck, be-
ing very much vvorm,eaten.

HALZWICH, JULY 23.—Arrived the Castlereagh
packet with a mail from Holland.

(iRASESEND, JULY 2S.—Arrived the Princess
Amelia from China ; Astell, from Calcutta;
Daphne, from the Isle of France ; IVindsor Cos.
Ile, from Bengal ; Margaret, Kelly, trout Balti-
more ; Planet, Weynton, and Volissia, Cooper,
from Jamaica. Suited the Favourite, Emery, for'
Philadelphia ; Bradfield, for 13altia; arid •
Keddiugton, Bacon, for Jamaica.

CUSTOI-EIOUSI?,
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We yesterday mentioned the explosion of Gas
which happened at this place. A part, it seems,_
of the pipes being laid down, and the several pre.
imitations being'otherwise iucotnplete, the reser-
voirs containing the siphons fur preventing coin-_
munication were not filled with water, as intend-
ed, and in this situation some gas had escapee!
which had been turned on in the :hails pipes. Ant
accumulation %vas thus formed in the cavities un-
der the landing of the stairs, miscet; with such a
portion of atmospheric air as to render it explo-
sive ; a person (ini it,ut bring directed) officious-
ly opened a reservoir to exit:nine it, with a light-
ed candle, trod ignited the vapour, which esplod-
ed with much toter. several large stoats, forming
the lauding place, and slime -drys, weir rent and
forced out, but wit molt doing any material da-
mage ; Antl the. person uho occasioned the acci-
dent, together %snit several whets who happened
to be near, recvivcil no injury It is much to be
regretted that tacionstiess.anti ignorance .should
have been Thus instrumental in producing an effect
that may operate, 111 A y, to the- prej,idice of
this tisetni and heantittil inve:.tion, and been the
ca,,se of an accitknt to which, in the ordinary
of cantiull, it is by no ,te,gt re liable.

EucaLisu OrvbtA t,•-, ktelu-creme of
The /lizard; or, Th.: Brown Mao of the Moor, ...as

rt-prvsented aglin ►•9•t night, id'ith colOi+•inect
success. it, however, still retioircs curtloiintrot.,

and, perh3ps, would o crate with more etf,ctive
interest it it were divided into three, lustr-ati of
two Acts, as the continued course of two long :acts
is apt to p3ll :in the minds, :Ind we,o y the ;oleo-
tion of the spertatOrs. The piece, however, is
interesting, and is well sustained by the chief per-.
formers.—The House was till!.

NEW CANAL.--The Meeting which we mention.,
ed last week, as about to take place for
,11113 liar-
pose, is fixed, we find, for the 9'h of next sumitb,
at Newcastle-upon-Tv-le, to eou.itler of the meaos
of setting forward that great Commo rr,al D..side•
ratum, a CANAL from the EAST To THE WEsT SEA.:
The late high prices of the Funds have caused vast
numbers of Pt opt ictors to sell out ; anit, for ,v,tnt
ot better employment for the Capital thus with-
drawn, much of it is deposited wilt thv Comttry
Bankers at a small rate ot Interest. The Canal
offers a most tntheficial prospect to the (Yeriera of
such Capital and the cheapness of labour at tho
present time, combined with the relief it would
afford to the .nnemployed population, strongly
pleads for "aninonediate exertion to execute what
ultimately must be carried into effect—besides, it
will render much more productive the Gar.Friwicn
HOSPITAL EbIaTCS 111 NOMEllllllberhhii, and there-
fore. heCome, iu some degree, an object ot great
public interest.
Ma. SADLER'S DESCENT.—Mr. SADLER'S de-
scent was in a corn-field, within a mile and a loaf
of HOlvhead, at a place called Porillydaftsch.,
where °he found several people, who readily af..•
forded their assistance to secure the b4llOOll,
•while lie;.diseragageci bia,bclf (coual. it, and %%6,
after,. Httli Tentage(' it to .1-lolyhead. It aims,
that in a very short time after his departure,
the breeze, which at first took him forward ra-
pidly, lost a weal deal of its vigour, anti the ye_
loch y of its motion was consequentl-
y considerably
diminished. A tavola:eh:: celoxiinwg(tiyi,iilitiouvseieyv.er,gtia::
the balloon a fresh impulse, and made the latter
puttthte vNo'illidlilleleb;°lsl,')get.'"°"tablY, as tin his first as -
cending, Mr. Sather would have reached his de.,-
tioation in less than halt the time that his trip
actually occupied. During his voyage he felt
and cold at 'the same
goit'oens:eitetits.si:Tileies ~(:!:iihe:itis 'at . one time incon-
veniently- hot, nod effected every part of Mr.
smiler bi.t teet, Which were excessively cold,
and required some additional covering to restore
circulation. During his voyage, he enconnteterl
a ,notv shower, which was transformed to rails
wore it, reached the earth He passed lberllt','-
diculatly over, amid sa very distnictly, the pacicA
bich siled from Holyhead on Tuesday after
110011.
A sliding rudder for a ship has recently been
Invented by an in;.enions ship-Imildcr at South
~hitlds. In weasels bar hat ho is it will be
tritiol to be Part ic.tl,rlq useful, as by hauling upon
tackle, the lower part of the r.dder slides up•
wards two or three teem ft ~on the hue ~f the after",
ketl, and cau be let down again at pleaStaree

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YORK ASAZiLS.

TRIALS OF THE HUDDERsFIELD RIOTERS.

CROWN SIDE, SATURDAY, JULY 26.
e'lljantin Lockwood, of Salford, in Lockwood,
is the West inding of this county, cloth-dresser;
George Woffenden, of the same place, cloth-dresser;
,john Wilson, of the same place and profession ;
,1 Joseph Jysop, of the same place and profei-

ii") were indicted for a capital offence, in aiding

abetting, with many others, composing

4 timinlinous assembly, a person unknown, who

dt Davicl Alexaocier ou the night of the

B'h of Julie last, at a place called Folly-hall-
!fear Huddersfield, Vk`iill the intent of mur-

4erinv. the said David Alexander.

There were

:'YO other couptts in the indictment, one cl►arg-

:"g the prisoners with aiding and abetting the un-
14('wn individual in attempting to disable the said

4lexander, and another in aiding the same person
IL' do the prosecutor some great bodily harm.

Air.TOPPI NG, WllO, together with Mr. SCARLETT
arid Mr. RICHARDSON, was retained for the pro-
lecittion, addressed the Jury, explaining the na-
ture of the charge, and detailing the circumstances
01 the offence. The prisoners were not themselves
ilu.ticl'ett for fit jug at the prosecutor, nor was it
necessary -to constitute the crime that the hand of
tiny one of them should have held the gun, or
that any one of them should have given the. order
to fire : if it could be established in evidence that
they were present when the guilty transaction
took place, and that they were aiding and abetting
.the individual who was the agent, their conduct
Would bring them within the penalties of the law
Its much as if they had been principals. He would
satisfy the minds of the Jury that, whatever deci-
sion they should ultimately come to on the testi-
mony that should be submitted to their considera-
tion, such offences as those with which the pri-
toilet s were charged ought not to pass without an
endeavour to bring them to justice. It would be
deeply disgraceful to the laws, and highly detri-
tnenol to the peace of the country, to let such
Crimes pass without judicial examination awl public
discussion. Some of those Gentlemen who now sat
gio the present Jury might have composed a part of
the jury of yesterday,when some prisoners were tried
tor committing a burglary to obtain arms. With
the verdict of that jury he was disposed to find no
fault, as be was convinced they conscientiously
decided according to the evidence laid before them.
The ptisoners of yesterday were accused of felo-
iniowdy taking away arms ; and the evidence that
Would be given against those now at the bar
Would prove in what •unlawful uses of violence
sod public diSorder those arms were to have been
employed. Great numbers of persons had tumul-
tuously assembled at Huddersfield on the same
night when the outrages which came under the
view of the jury yesterday had happened, although
it was difficult to guess the object of the as-
semblage. One or them had fired a pistol at
David Alexander, one of the cavalry yeomanry,
who went to disperse them, and the prisoners
be proved to have been aiding and abet-
ting the felony. The Learned Counsel then
stated the nature of the evidence he meant to bring
forward- One Taylor had been called out of bed
by the rioters, and compelled to go to a field with
them, where he saw 30 or 40 persons assembled

for the purpose of outrage, some alined with gulls, I
aoine with scythes, some with hay-folks, and
other weapons. Another witness, At mit age, who
vas likewise compelled to join this unlawful
assembly, would describe what he saw of its pro-
ceedings, and would tell the Jury that lie saw
Lail-cartridges dealt out to rimu in arms ; that ho
saw them at-mange(' under a leader ; that he heard
them desired to fall into ranks, and to march in
rgJor order to the engine-bridge near Hudders-
telt' ; that he heard those who had guns desired to
and those who had pistols, scythes, or other
,teeapons, to fall into the tear. Why this great
preparation, this regular discipline, or this mili-
tary array, the Learned Counsel would not take
toon him to say ; but he left an account of the
reasons of them to be given, if any could at all'he
riven, by his learned friends who were to conduct
the defence of the prisoners. Such an outrage,
however, was not to he committed on the peace of
the neighboarhood without any exertion by time civil
mm ver to prevent it ; and accordingly a constable,
\\'liiteheati,of Huddersfield, having heard of the un-
latvfftt took means to disperse it. Dere
the Learned Counsel detailed the transactions,which
wilt be found in the testimony of the three first
witnesses. Lockwood, and the three other pri-
soners, would be proved to have borne arms on
the occasion ; anti though, when a number of
persor.s were assembled for an unlawful object,
and one individual committed the act of outrage
indicted, it might be impossible to point out that
individual, yet it was not necessary for the pur.
poses of law, as the deed of one person, in a
multitude, acti„g in concert, was considered in
law and justice as the act of all. It would be quite
impossible to punish crimes, or to protect the.
public peace, upon any other principle ; and the
]ust ice of the country might be made a laughing-
stock, if none could be prosecuted who joined in
the perpetratiou of the most atrocious acts except
the very individual could be nointed out who
might be the agent of the rest, and who, as
tultilling their purposes, would generally be pro-
tected by the concealment of his crimes against
the consequences of his conduct. If the prison-
ers, therefore, could be proved to be present, aid-
:lig and abetting the hand that fired the pistol at
Alexander, they were equally guilty as if they had
any, or all rtf thein, drawn the trigger. The
learned Counsel said, lie should have to prove
tootne of the material facts by means of a Witness
who, in some respects, bore the character of an
accomplice, as he was present on the occasion,
but in other respects, was perfectly unex-
ceptionable, as his apparent concert w as not a
matter of choice, but of compulsion. In sonic
cases accomp!ices gave the oitly testimony that
could be obtained; and though he allowed it
ought always to be received with suspicion, and
canvassed with care, yet lie did not think that
when coutirwed by other evidence it oulit to be

rejected or disregarded. Here the wit ne,s was not
au accompl►ce in icality, as his joining tl►e mon
did not depend (on his owu choice. The learned
Counsel' proceeded to call evidence.
Captain Armitage was the first witness examin-
ed. He deposed, that lie commanded the yeo-
manry cavalry of the district of Huddersfield, and
►hat he was called up on the night of Sunday, the
Silt of Julie. ul►on information that a tutnultuary
assemblage of persons had collected at Folly-hall,
or Engine-bridge, near Iludderfield. Ile pro-
ceeded to the bridge with . six patrole, and the
constable Whitehead, about 10 o'clock. The
prosecutor, David Alexander, was one of the pa-
trole. He went'in advance before d►e rest about
50 yards, till he came near the Engine-bridge,
which was about a quarter of a_ mile from Hud-
dersfield. The horse of Alexander was grey.
Shires, another of the patrole, Alexander, and the
constable Whitel►ead, proceeded as an advanced
guard to know what the assemblage wanted, and
to command them to disperse. Witness had
almost lost sight of Alexander when he arrived
near the bridge, as he and the remaining tour of
the patrole were a little in the rear. He heard
then somebody say, that they were halting. He
rode up to Alexander and Shires, who had actual-
ly halted -within a few yards of the bridge. Wit-
ness asked why they had done so, and Alexander
said here they are. IVitness then looked, and saw
an assemblage of men on the bridge, but front
the darkness of the night could not perceive whe-
ther they had armsar not. He then called out to
the constable to conic up and speak to them. Time
constable obeyed time summons, and as soon as be
had come up witness observed fire flash in the
pan of one of the guns or pistols borne by the
rioters. The constable, Alexander, and Shires,
were before witness. The constable said some-
thing, but witness could not tell what. He was
certain that the flash proceeded from the party
on the bridge. Almost instantaneously a gun was
fired from the same party ; and soon after-
wards several others, not in time manner of a
volley, but irregularly. All time shot fired might
be about 20. Witness remained till about 10
shots were fired, and looked forward to examine
the force of the party. by the light of their fire.
They were assembled on the centre, and on the
slope of the bridge farthest from witness ; and he,
judging that some on the slope were concealed
from his view, while he saw a moving body be-
yond the centre of the bridge, at about 40 or 50
yards distance, concluded that all the intervening
space was occupied by the party, and that con-
sequently their numbers were consid,
Having formed this opinion, and considering that
his party only consisted of six to oppose them, he
thought it prudent to retreat to Huddersfield for
an increase of force. He accordingly did so ; and
returning afterwards, when he had gained an loc-
i cession of numbers, found that the. rioters were
dispersed.
George Whitehead, a constable at Huddersfield,
who accompanied the patrole, confirmed the tes-
timony of the preceding witness, in so far as he
spoke to facts that came under their Mutual ob-
servation. When the patrole arrived at the
bridge, the last witness desired hint to go into the
front, and demand of the mob what they wanted.
He accordingly went within a few yards of them.
He saw a number of men armed—one of tl►em
pointed his piece at him, and fired, but the fire
flashed in the pan. One of time mob called out,
IVlio comes bete ? Witness answered the ques-
tion by demanding who they were, and what they
were doing ? Nothing else was said, when the
firing commenced. The firing came from the mob,
but how it was directed witness, from the dark-
ness of the night, could not say. Witness be-
lieved five shots were fired before he turned round
his horse's head from the bridge, and retreated.—
After he began his retreat other shots were fired.
Witness could not judge of the number of the mob
accurately, but believed they might amount to
about 400. There is a house some yards from the
bridge on time road side, and witness saw on the
wall of that house on the following day the marks
Of a ball. Alexander was nearer the wall than

'ml.

Cross-examined for the prisoners by Mr. Wm-
I lAms, the witness said, that 30 or 40 had ab-
sconded from fear of prosecution since the riot,
from his active search of those who were concerned
in it. Witness's horse was of a bay colour, and
Alexander's grey. The grey he allowed, atter
some discussion, could be more easily seen in the
dark than a black or a bay, and Alexander's horse
was the most likely object in the party to be ob-
served by the people on the bridge. Being asked,
if he thought it a -bad military practice to fire at
the horse, and bring dowo both the horse and the
rider at the same time, he thought that that was
just as it happened. Being asked, if in his part
of the country people generally shot at what they
saw or what they did nut see, he replied, at what
they saw. If it was so dark that he could not
observe whether the fire was pointed in one three-
tion or another, could the party on the bridge see
' Alexander ? Witness did not know. Being asked
1 if he was prosecutor of the prisoners in a bill of
indictment that the Grand Jury threw out fur
firing at himself, he confessed that he was.
David Alexander was one of the yeomanry ca-
valry of Huddersfield, and was on duty on the Bth
of one last. He were a nniform of blue turned
up with buff. He went to the Engine-bridge to
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disperse the rioters : he was a little imm advance of
the rest of the patrole : he halted at the end of
the bridge, where he saw men, hut could not tell
bow many they were : they appeared to amount
to 61) or 70. Before the coustable spoke time mob
called out " who comes there ?" Immediately a
gun flashed in the pan, another piece was fired,
anti soot) after several more ; at the third shot his
horse reeled and staggered backwards : the party
retreated after several other shots Were fired.
About an hour and a half afterwards he examined
his horse's head, and took out of it a pistol ball,
which he produced imm Court. lie saw the mark
of a shot in the wall of the house near time bridge,
but there was no appearance of lead on the stone.
This witness was cross-examined by Mr. STAR-
KEY, the other Counsel of the prisoners, for the
purpose of throwing a doubt on the accuracy
of his conjecture, with regard to the mark on the
wall being made by a bullet, anti for proving that
the shot in the forehead of his horse, as it was
not observed till so long after Wards, might have

het-! gq! in some otl,er way than front the party
on the bridge, tl not occasioned by the filing of
his own pistol at that pirty. lie showed that
neither of these latter suppositions could be a&
united.

Nathati Taylor deposed, that he lives a mile
and H half from Huddersfield ; that on the Bth of

June last he went to bed about 10 o'clock ; that
he was called up about midnight by persons
knocking at his door, and threatening that if not

opened is would be burst open. Upon going to

le door 'be found two men there, Who desired