The Sun.
London, England, 1819-08-05 00:00:00

BURNLEY.

A public Meeting was held at the Commercial
Room here, on Saturday, of the Magistrates and
Inhabitants of the Higher of the Hun-
dred of Blackburn, for the purpose of adoptiag
effectual measures for Ott. maintenance of the pub-
lic peace at tills important crisis. It +v a, very (M-
-ulct-0os! v attended, and a Declaration we.s twat&
inoosly agreed to and signed, the substance of
which was exactly to the same l'ffect as that pre-
viously adopted by the Alagistrates and Inhabi-
tants of Bolton.

RIOT at LIVERPOOL DOCK BRIDEWELL.

At the Borough Sessions, Peter Riley, aged 22,
Wm. '1 19, Win. Frazer, 44, James \lthelan,
35, Bernard Lenon, 25. Fr,-Al,6:k 011anlOns 21,
James Grimes, '22; and Owen M-D maid, 33.
were indicted for a riot at Liv..-rpool. These 'were
the men who, as oar readers may ree9ll, were
apprehended for haring been active in the set ious
Ho: and tumult at the Dock Btidewell, on the
evcniog of the 22d of June last, when the Bride-
well was forcibly broke.. open by the mob, who
released several prisoners that Were it confinement
there, and Violently beat two men connected with
the Dock Ponce, and afterwards attempted to
throw them into the Old Dock.

Mr. LAMB stated the case to the Jury, and gave
a succinct narrative of the otigin and progress of
the riot, as well as of the tumultuous and dis-
graceful transactions of the mob On the evi fling
in question. He then proceeded to call evidence
to substantiate the charge against the defendants.
A great number of witnesses were examined on
the part of the prosecution, most of 'them con-
nected with the 'Dock Police. Their evidence
proved that all the defendants were widi the ,mob
(hiring the Hat, and that some took ainore ac-
tive. part than others in the riotous proceedings
of the evening.

Several of the defendants called evidence to
establish an alibi at the time of. the disturbance,
but the testimony of their witnesses seemed not
fo be entitled t'o touch rredit.
T:re ItccottoLn summed op the evidence with
great precision and correctness, and then 'laid
down the law with respect to persons engaged in
.R tint, namely, that every individual who does
not separate himself from a riotous assemblage, is
responsible, in the eye of the law, for all the yin-
letrces and excesses which that assemblage may
perpetrate..
• The Jnry„after some consultation, returned a
verdict of Guilty aA-ainst all rite defendants, ex-
cept Win. Frazer, who was of course, acquitted.
The RECORDER, after seriously admonishing the
prisoners, passed sentence upon .them, that they
ire-mprisoned 18 months in Preston House of
Correct

Some isf the prisoners, when removing from the
bar, behaved in a very indecent and outrageous
manner, and directed the most disgusting language
against the Bench.
Chialo Burns, 23, was aftencords indicted for
having assaulted and struck Mr. Broadley, supor-
intent:rut of the Dock Police. The assault Arose
out of the above riot. I being suspected that
some of the Bleu belonuiny to General D'Eve-

renx's Legion, had been active in the disturbances
at Bridewell, Captain Boyd, their commanding
officer-, requested Mr. Broadley, to come to the
ground where they were exercised on the South
Shore, for the purpose of seeing whether he could
recognize any of them as baying taken part in the
riot. Accordingly, about eleven o'clock on the
tollowing morning; Mr. Broadley, with several of
his assistants, proceeded to the ground. When
he came near Jackson's Dam, • he saw between 2
and 300 men of the legion, anti the • tiefendgut,
Burns, among. them ; many of them had stones
or lumps of copper dross in their lianas. On per-
ceiving this, he addressed them, saying, " My
good fellows, I am not come to molest you, but
to meet Captain Boyd." They replied, " Von
villains, go hack, or we'll have your lives !"
instantly the police were covered with a shower
of stones, which knocked down some of them,
and dispersed the rest. Mr. &motley tea, seri-
ously cut on the mouth tvith a stone. One of the
rulice escaped into a field adjoining: and sate
Burns throwing stones after Mr. Broadley and the
other officers of the police when they were re-
treating from the mob.

'1 he prisoner, in his defence, endeavoured to
prove an alibi on the morning the assault was
said to have been committed ; he did not, how-
ever, call any witnesses.
The Jury returned a verdict of—Guilly ; and
the Court sentenced him to seven clays' impri-
sonment.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.