The Sun.
London, England, 1818-06-30 00:00:00

the middle of the crows, where with, we 'most
say, more courage: than prudence, he seized hold
of his Pritficipal assmi•laaat and-kept him firmly until
he was assisted by seVeral cOnstables,who succeeded
in taking him off to It he Magistrates, The yosour,
man then returned th the ifustiivgs, and was lutully
cheered by those who sat in the sort nundne.
booths.—After the populace had dispersed from
before the hustings, they began to gather again in
large group, in front of Richardson's Hotel,
where their acts of violence were so great as to
induce the Magistrates to call in the aid of the
military. Accordingly a detachment of the [horse
Guards was sent for, which soon after arrived in
Covent-garden. Their arrival was "received with
loud hootings by the populace, and they were al-
most immediately pelted with ea eVy species of
filthy missile which the garden allorded. The
Magistrates finding their .efforts hitherto useless
for the preservation of Che peace, the Riot Act
was read by Mr. Birnie, and a strict coanmand
was given to the crowd to disperse. They still
kept their ground, and many of them having taken'
possession of large carts of vegetables which had
arrived for this morning's market, poured an occa-
casional volley upon Constables and Guards indis-
criminately. During this time the Polio• Officers
were not tnemployed, and they succeeded in taking
into custody about 40 or 50 of the most active
rioters. These were taken before Sir N. Conant,
and some other Magistrates, who sat in a room
in Richardson's Hotel. Some of them had their
arms in slings, and others their beads tied up with
handkerchiefs--some covered with blood, and
others with their clothes torn off their backs.—
Mier hearing the several charges, the Magistrates
committed the followhig persons to the prison in
Cohlhath -fields. They were sent in hackney-
coaches, guarded by the military, and were to be
brought up to Bow-street for Itittber examination
to-day

John Benhrook, William Jeffervs, S,nith, John
Coleman, John kVhatly, William iVag-er, William Williams,
John Nl‘Cormaeli, Robert Pigeon, James Evans, Aaron Pond,
Richard Williams, John Coleman, William Halley, Jantes
Moul , James Barnes, David Fitzgerald, Sainurl Fagg,
Michael Casey, William Oredi, William Smith, John Wick-
ham, Joseph Rochett, Robert Jenkinson, William Richard-
son, William Harris, Pat. Magann, alias Burnt?, Thomas
Farrant. Wickham and Itockett were afterwards admitted
to bail.

'Die Military and the Peace Officers continued
to parade the Garden all night, and their presence
psevented any further outrage being attempted.
***, A report prevailed towards the evening that
two men had been killed, but this, we believe, is
not the fact.

[ANOTHER ACCOUNT.]
Some Friends.of Sir Mt; RRAY NlaxwELL having pracured a
boat and placed it on a car, as is usual when there is a Naval
Candidate. had made an orderly procession with this, and
were slopping in Poland-street, to take a little refreshment,
• -when a gang of felloWs, mostly wearing blue cockades, at-
tacked them, and a violent contest ensued. The assailants
trebled the others in numbers, and were the conquerors.
They immediately posses,ed themselves of the boat and its
colours. The formcr they broke to pieces. Placing the car
in the midst of. them, they began their march to Covent-
garden; their number amounted to 500 at least, when they
arrived there. They entered the Garden, about 4 o'clock in the
afternoon, when the crowd is greatest, proceeded to the front
of the Piazza Coffee-house, where Sir Francis Burdett's Com-
mittee sit, and there broke the car to pieces, under tremen-
dous shouts of " Bordett fur ever—Burdett for ever," which
had heels their cry on their march. This was done about 20
minutes past four, just before the poll was announced.—
Every man, it seems, was to have a piece of this car as a
trophy, and the distribution of It occupied the patriots till
near six, when a party of several hundreds, each distinguished,
awl, in some Measure, armed by a fragment of the car, pa-
raded before the hustings. After this exhibition of them-
selves as Victors, they proceeded, as if by command, to
the door of Richardson's Hotel, and began to pull down
a fence, which had been raised before it, shouting, " Bur-
dett for ever." . Constables and' police-officers had been
very properly stationed there, and the courageous resistance
made by these men was admirable. They had to fight for
their hres against a crowd, which was continually increasing.
Every minute some of the mob were seen retiring with marks
of defeat, but others reished on. It is astonishing that the
constables, fighting only with their staves against such a
body, nearly all of whom had sonic part of the car as a Wea-
pon, could maintain their ground as they did. The mob,
baring been reinforced from the hustings, would at last have
got into the house, if, at the same moment, parties of
constables had not arrived front that quarter also, and
from Bow-street. The fight then became so extensive, that
bye-st:triders could see little of what passed in the centre; at
The out-skirts, bloody faces were continually appearing. As
one malt, who seemed to he much hurt, was borne along; by
his companions, a person wiped his lace with a white band-
kereliiel; and this 1,1,00 ensign was immediately hoisted
upon a pole, and paraded before the hustings. Two were
tarried away apparently dead; certainly motionless. As the
mob were Mill receiving re-intorcements, it is impossible to
say that the brave resistance of the. Police-officers would not
have been tiver•powered, if at this moment Sir Nathaniel
Conant and Nlr.Birnie, accompanied by a strum; party, had not
arrived and read the Riot Act. Troops haring been sent for,
the 'popitlace began to disperse. and the assailants to become
spectators. Some few remained to insult the Magistrates; the
welter part followed Mr, Hunt', who. about that time, left the
hustings, fur his lodgings in Norfolk-stns et, before the dour
of which the mob wet e regaled' by a violent speech of great
kogtts, 'delivered bv ont• of his adherents from the top of
the hackney-coach that had carried him. In the nican time,
a knowledge of tirese proceedings oft he UnircrsalSvdfragists
had spread; The shops, and even the colfee-houses, in the ad-
joining streets were shut up. About ten, people began to
collect again in Covent-garden, and it became necessary to
employ the Horse Guards, as well as Constables, in prevent-
ing them from forming themselves into mobs. Violent shouts
were frequently raised, near Richardson's hotel. At a guar
ter before eleven, two parties of Foot Guards were posted in
that part of the Piazza.