The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-10 00:00:00

CARLISLE RIOT.

The following is a printed statement in general cir-
culation in the town :

«A TRUE :STATEMENT

Of the lamentable occurrences which took place this day, (Tues-
day) June Bth, in Shaddongate.
It is our painful duty to put on record a melancholy affray
that took place this afternoon in Shaddongate, Carlisle, between
certain inhabitants of that district and the soldiery.
"Sir P. Musgrave, one of the candidates for this city, being
in the course of hie canvass, with a party of his friends, was
induced to go to the remotest part of Shaddougate, called, ' Mil-
turn't Buildings,' and having entered a yard for the purpose of
soliciting sr freeman for hie vote, he wee surrounded by a large
hotly of weavers, who represented to hint their bard and miserable
situation: The passage of the yard being choked up with people,
anxious to hear what was passing, Sir, Philip and his friends were
compelled to remain, and endeavour to reason those who sur-
rounded them into the belief that his parliamentary conduct bad
been proper and independent, and that his intentions were pure.
They complained of Sir Philip's vote on the question of the corn
end on Mr. Abercromlne'l motion respecting a reform of
the representation of Edinburgh, and wished him to pledge him.
self to vote in favoir of a radical reform in Parliament whenever
the subject came before the House of Commons.
" After a considerable time spent in conversation of this nature,•
• Sir Philip and hie friends made their way out of the yard, and were
soon after'asseiled with stone', brickbats, and other missiles of an
offensiVe nature. The Hon. Baronet was repeatedly struck with
stones, &c., his clothes were Cut, and he was evidently lamed.
All the gentlemen who accompanied him were more or less
abused, and Major Wilde was felled to the ground by a large atone,
which hit hint on the head. Philip, with one or two gentle-
men, took shelter in a house near Messrs. Cockburn'' pipe-ma-
nufactory, and there remained with the door fastened inside two
or thr6 hours. _ .

In this state things remained for a long while; men, women,
and children' being congregated in groups, discussing what had
taken place. Amongst the intuit violent of the men, the prevail-
ing opinion seemed to be, that Sir Philip hail endured enough at
the bands of the populace ; but the younger part of those 11.911tM.•
bled, and perhaps
sou, few females, appeared to think their tri-
and from other sources,
tfirmonpiholtreabis i4ncooifntpilleethe. Teyy.Zhnznicif cetorrectialnagy gathered heaps of atones
and laid them on the road to be in readiness when needed.
heavy, vollies of large stones,
" At length a large body of gentlemen, with the Mayor at their
head,u eatt e prtioavelinielidm thei a house
eteidn bywhich
Sir; Philip
was
confined
that they found it impossible to get nearer than about 60 yurdw.
Barnes, the constable,
out accomplishing
with a cocked pistol in his hand, and one
The Mayor and other gentlemen
bricks and atones in every
gentleman, prisever4 and made their way through immense
showers of stones, but were again obliged to e
remained until the
effect a retreat with-
wee pursued and pelted out u 1 Shutt'
a mob, at last retired, and
Part of .their bodies, and perceiving the folly of facing so enraged
ythue,ierreobsjtercut.ck
with
dimwit°.

With this defeat of the gentlemen and timetable*, the popidace
were qnite delighted. .They felt aaanred some other more decisive
otteroPt.woPlil be made to mew, Sir Philip, and they awaited to
repel it. In about half an hour, a numerous party of the hbth
Regin2,4 of Foot, now stationed here, proceeded by a few artinerY-

men, and accompanied by the Mayor and othera, marched towards
the Shaddongate.

As soon as they reached the New Brewery, they were saluted
by tremendous showers of stones, whieb put them into some con-
fusion, and, no doubt, greatly exasperated them. The) formed
against a wall, and loaded with ball. They were then ordered
to march forward, after, it is to be presumed, the Riot Act hail
been read. The mob, however, continued to assail them with
terrible wines of stones; and what they came to the end of the
new street, called Queen-street, they. .received the order to fire,
which they obeyed with deadly fidelity. Unfortunately for hu-
manity, the soldier. engaged in this unhappy business are young
in arms, and exhibited little of the coolness which is generally
displayed by veterans. They were, in some measure, too, com-
manded by heartless understrapping peace-officers, and instructed
to level their muskets at peaceable individuals, when, for every
purpose of justice, they might have been elevated above the roofs
of the houses, and so saved the flowing of human blood.
" In this ever-to-be-lamented affray, one woman, standing'at
her own door, at the head of Queen-street, with a key in her
hand, was shot through the head, and died after heaving a single
groan. Her name was Mary Birrell ; she was net married, and
was about 22 years of age.
" An orphan lad, about 15, named Skinner, had a ball shot
through his ancle, and it is probable, his leg will have to he am-
putated.
" A man, of the name of Robert Noble, was shot, whilst lie-a-
ing his children in the crowd. He is not yet dead, but there arc
ten chances to one against his recovery. The ball entered his left
breast. He is about 25 years of age, and has a wife and two
children.
" Last in this melancholy catalogue, it is our very painful duty
to publish what has befallen an uncommonly tine little girl, of tin;
name of Pattinson. She was sitting in the school Of a Mrs. Ste-
phens, who had taken the precaution to close her shutters, when
a ball was shot thiough the' window, which struck the little Mno-
cent on the bead, and she fells we are afraid, never to look up
again in this world. Her age is about 14. We are sorry to hear
that she is now dead. . _

" Such is a hasty sketch of this, melancholy. affray. Nearly 40
'shots were discharged. • Several bullets were fired at doors
and wiintowe. Bow this? But we must refrain from
comment.,

.....
"We had almost forgot to state, that, in the midst of the
Uproar, Sir Philip Musgrave was conveyed away safely by his
friends." , „

STATEMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS
CONCERNING THE HULKS.
By GEORGE HoLuon,n, Esq. M.P. Oyu. pp. 124. London, lti26

( From Me Literary Chronicle.

There are some persons who, by their talents or exploits), ao
identify themselves with particular objects and events, that there
is an involuntary association between theM ; thus Wellington and
Waterloo chime as naturally as bread and butter. The late Lord
Erskine was as much identified with trial by jury, as if be had
invented it, and no one disputes the claim of Major Cartwright to
the title of father of Parliamentary Reform, though he is the only
parent of our acquaintance that never had a child ; and last, though
not least, of these combinations, is that of Mr. Holfbrd, with the
Milbank Penitentiary, of which he is the,alpha and omega. So
much, indeed, is the name of this gentleman associated with that
establishment, that when we read the title of his work, forgetting
his legislative capacity, we unconsciously interpreted the M.P.
which attaches to his name, as the initials of Milbank Peniten-
tiary, an error which would certainly be less pardonable a week
hence, when the collectivewisdom of the country will, fora short
time, lose the honour of those expressive capitals.
After the' very active part Mr. Holford took in settling every
thing at the Milbank Penitentiary, according to his own notion
of justice and propriety, we did think he might have rested sa-
tisfied with the honours he there reaped, but man is naturally am-
bitions, and we doubt not but that, if Mr. Holford had all the
gaols in England, Scotland, and Wales, and the town of Ber-
wick upon Tweed, regulated on his own plans, he would weep to
think there were no more prisons to regenerate, as Alexander did,
when, ,having conquered the world, be found his occupation gone,
like that of Othello. •

The new sphere of usefulness chalked out by Mr. Holford, is
the hulks, where, on board some nine vessels, three thousand con-
victed criminals are confined. An investigation into the situation
of these children of crime, is certainly Nery legitimate object for
a member of Parliament, it would, however, have been se well, if,
before Mr. Holford so severely, arraigned the system, he had made
himself better acquainted with' it.
In the preface, Mr. liolford says, " I look upon the bulks as
regions unexplored, as forming a terra inroq,,ita, in which
few. hasidu those who inhabit it, have sat foot." Were this really
the ....Ise, or had Mr. liolford been shut out of them by a secre-
tary of State's order, as Sir Francis' Burdett . was front Cold
Bath Fields Prison, we need not be surprised at the blunders he
commits; but the fact is that the hulks are more easy of access
than almost any prison in England, and that the convict ship,
which he describes as a terra incognita, have been so amply eX•
plored, as to no new discovery to be made respecting them.
It is known to our readers, that great improvement has within
the last few years, been made in prison discipline ; and the hulks
having come in for their share of it, it is, therefore, not fair to
rake up charges against them, made in reports twenty years
ago, which, however true then, have long since been remedied.
Mr. Holford, in commencing his work, seems to have deter-
mined to find fault with every thing, and affects a wonderful deal of
feeling and humanity for the convicts, which, 'certainly does to us
appear a good deal like cant. It seems that the. convicts
are occasionally permitted to receive game little money from their
friende,,which enables them to get a little tea or coffee ohis Mr.
Holford deprecates as a luXury-•,•because the poorer convicts
cannot afford it ; besides it is not the only luxury in which the
patrician convicts'indulge, lor,Mr. Holford, in the Justitia hulk
at Woolwich, saw, actually saw, " two of the convict employed in
the preparation of peppermint-drops for sale in the ship ;" nay,
more, the officer who went round with hint, stated, " that these
drops were very much liked by the prisoners, being very cons-
fortable in a raw damp morning, when they were going to, work."
What, convicts indulge in the luxury of unadulterated peppermint!
Think of that, Mr. Secretary. Peel. Why, the offenders ought
to be hung, with a string of peppermint round their necks, as
Jack Cade hung the clerk of Chatham with his bile horn, when
he had set copies for boys instead of having a mark for him-
self, " like an honest plain-dealing man."
That a crime of such magnitude did not escape a person with
the Argus eyes of Mr. Belford is very natural, and he thus ex-
presses his honest indignation against such an outrage. "It is,"
says he, " repugnant to 'every feeling of propriety, that a convict
who boa opulent friends or connections, or has himself a command
of money, however acquired, should drink tea and coffee in prison,
and should comfort or fortify his stomach with peppermint before
he goes to work, while his fellowlrisoner, who is friendless and
in indigence, is to have his draught of cold water rendered lees pa-
latable than it would be otherwise,-by the sight of these lUxuries,
of which it is not his power to partake."

•
This tine burst of declamation at the inequality of ranK and
fortune, is only equalled in our language by Mathews's election
harangue in his invitations, in which a mob orator deprecates the
rich man drinking "Mocha coffee out of chancy cups, from foreign
parts abroad, as if our own Worcester manufacture was not good
enough for biro;" while the poor man, "which never can have
any can only console himself with walking forth, and pointing out
to his children the eintsternation of the stars, shining forth in their
emulgence in the ereolian heavens."
But to be serious-7411 e picture is somewhat overcharged, for if
the more fortunate do occasionally indulge in coffee and pepper-
mint, the poorest of them, however friendless and indigent,: have
good oatmeal or barley for breakfast. Other inaccuracies, into
which we suspect Mr. Holford has fallen,' might he pointed out,
and had his complaints been made in Parliament, we doubt not,
would have been so : and, although the hulks' system may not he
eerfect, and %e'en, he correct in every thing be has stated, (which
is by no meant the' case,) he has failed in making out any very
strong or serious charge against it. What may be the object
of Mr. Milord in denouncing the hulks, and extolling the merits
of the Penitentiary, we know not, unless, as the latter is
princi-
pally under his own direction, his personal vanity is ' flattered by
it; in one point, however,. the hulks are preferable—,we allude to
the cheapness .of them, as compared with the Penitentiary, for
which Mr. Holford has so strong an attachment, and which,
should his.serviees ever 'nee with a due reward, will, we bop.,
be perpetuated by his Majesty creating him a pear, with the title
of Lord Milbank. That tome of his suggestions in his pamphlet
are
good,
we belie", and we object leas to the subject matter of it
that to the spirit in which to us it, appears to bo Written.

TAKING MLO
TIME BY TICE FORECK..—.Catherine
y Sir Richard Clough,
aid frrm church by Morris
Tudor at the funeral of her first husband
ulbu
(John Sal-
ynn, of Gwedir, whoi
whisporea to her his wish of being her second. She
Y 2 was led to church b
W
refused film civilly, and informed him that she accept-
ed the proposals of Sir Richard Clough, in her way
to church, but assured hint that if she buried Sir
Richard he might depend on being her third ; which
really was the case.---The Mirror.