Star.
London, England, 1808-09-09 00:00:00

NORWICH, SEPTEMBER 7.

The Church at bracon-Ash, which has been shut
up.a considerable time, undergoing extensive reptirs
and improvements, was, on Sunday se'nnight, opened
for the performance of divine service. The Lotd
BISHOP of Norw:cit, with that .sedulons care which
[ever distinguished him in the discharge of all the
sacred dunes of I.:is exalted station, attended at Church,
before whom the Rev JAM= STUART MACICSN'AIf,
the Rector, preached an excellent and appropriate
sermon, well suited to the solemn occasion, from the
84th Psalm, v. Ist and
21:—
Oh! how Amiable are thf &ratline, thouLostie GOD of Hosts !
My Soul bath a desire aad > si to suer lane Ibe Courts of the
1.!
' After the sermon, the liint Bishop most impres-
sively pronounced the blessfiig en the cerreption
assembled, which was, very tinint.rons. 114 Lord-
ship, accompanied in hie carritie TRENCH
BERNEY, Esq. the Pattone *it proceeded to Btacon-
ball, where he dined; INOlnfilere. ail the neighbour-
ing Clergymen, wheel-4461y duties *ere !perform('
in time to permit theairmenally to testify their re-
spect, waited on hie Larolitip. The inhabitants of
the-adjoining parishes, in the evening, nng e;tcli a
chearful peal to prove their respect to 'the, Bishop ;
the hearts of all around appearing on Atm holy day
to be united by the same sentiments of devotion and
attention.

rRALEA AUGUST 80.

iIMINIMIlm•••••••••
We are sorry in say that the tranquillity of this
county still condones to be disturbed by nightly
meetings and associations of liihite Buys. A most
flagrant anti audacious instance of .ha truth of
this statement occurred on Friday night last, at the
house of Mr. T. HALtortmc, at Palace, which was
attacked by a number of those rufSans(wlao losocked
at his door and demanded his arms, which Mr.
HALLORAN refused m dellier, and told them that
unless they immediately withdrew, he and his sons,
whb were well prepared for defence, would instantly
fire upon them. On hearing-this, the fellows went
for a reinforcement (not thinking themselves strong
enough to force the house), threatening Mr. H. with
the most dreadful punishment on their return. In
about tuin hours after, they again made their ap-
pearance, greatly increased in. number, the whole
amounting, is well as could be ascertained, to nearly
three hundod ; but Mr. H. foreseeing their. intent,
during their absence, Prudently. retired with his sons,
Well armed, into an orchard near the house, *hem
he waited their arrival: The villains, on coming vo
the house a second tiirle, fired several shots through
the i•-indows, wkich they pelted with stones, de-
ritoluhing tht glass, sashes, &c. After which they
placed fire in the thatch, is orcier to consume the
house. In the mean time Mr. H. and his inns who
were waiting for an opportunity, soddenly discharged
the contents of their pieces, and immediately a second
discharge, when the villains *lulled by the firing,
and not expetsing so warm a reception, ran off in
the greatest confusion, leaving behind them five
horses, two of whim were killed, which belonged to
people in that neighbourhood ; they also left behind
them a number of muskets, pistols, swords, great-
coats, hats, shoes, &c. Three of the rufEans, it is
said, were shot.

A Kerry Paper states, that the tranquillity of that
county still continues to he disturbed by associations
and nightly meetings of those infatuated people styling
themselves White Boys.
RuNxitto Mkrcu.—On Tuisday a match took
,place between ISt gentlemen of Feversh.-m and the
like number from C.anterbtiry, on the Barhatn course.
It was won by the latter, 7 to 1.
On the 2Gth ult. Wat. JAmmON, in Crighead of
Auchinleck, in his 86th year, went to the of
Aird's Moss, Scotland, to take a day's shooting, and
although the day was unfavourable, and the game
sby, he returned with two brace Raid a balf of birds.

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afS itZEA 3Sfar.S.
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• :71The trials of. the persons charged with being cien-
timed in he riles which lately took plate in theneigh-
boorhood of- Manchester, .to the great terror of the
whole iounty, *rid dso alarm bf the country in gene-,
ral, commenced this day. • -
After the Prisoners .were arraigned, Seijeant
CoettaLL, as Attorney-General for this -county, ad-
dressed the Jury at .coneiderable•leagth. He, said,
the misguided elm who had offended die laws of the
country, had eatacked • the property arid men oh:,
bad borne extreme hardships from the pressure in the
times, and it was by the manufacturers that the: pro
sneers and their companions got their liviwe His
Majesty's ser..a»ts had taken the case into their
most seriour considemeon; and, on account. of the
particular circumstances, and the men's termites,
they had determined thattlie prosecution should be
as lenient as poesible, or their lives would have been
affected. It was not the wish of his plajeery to have
any pmsecutions, if possible, bat those a ! use duty
it was to advise him had brought fotward the caser
of the Prisoners, to proven a recurrence of shriller
alarming offences.
Joh* Barlow, 1 ham= Lowe Jame: Crabtra., Jame:
Jab:, James St,',9dietti, Lowe,
Smith, were in-
dicted for having, on the Ist day of June, riotously
assembled, together with a great number of other
persons, bete', en the hours of eleven and twelve
, o'clock at night, about the dwelling-hoese of Thomas
Aihtcn of Heap, near Manchester, and with having
teen and there violently insisted upon his signing
paper of prices, for the advance of wages to the
weavers, nod with having.dragged and abused himen
as to endanger his life. They were likewise charged
with having stolen his pocket-book, containing from
tel. to 101. its Bank notes.
Thomas Ashton deposed, that he was a manufse-
otter, at Heap; that he paid his men wages similar
to other manufacturers; about eleven o'clock on
Wedr.e-day night, the Ist of June, he was alarmed
when lie was in bed, by a neighbour, who told him •
that a mob way- approaching his house from an ad.
joining viilege ; in consegnence of which he got up
with all possible speed, Went down stairs, and met
di ni at his gate; they asked him to sign a paper, the
object of which was to agree to a considerable. ad-
vence in their wages. He told them he thought that
.t very improper totem come about thater any other
eusioess ; he shoold not sign it; and desired them to
go about their business ; they refused to disperse, and
were extremely noisy and troublesome; be then told
them, if they had any thing more to say, to send
half a dosen into his house and he would talk with
them. Accordingly the prisoner Barlow, with five
others, came into his house ; Barlow produced a list
of advanced prices ; for some works it proposed an ,
advance from 70 to 90 per cent. and it was urged as
an inducement for him to sign it, that he being a
principal manufacturer in that neighbourhood, the
others had said they would sign it if he dd. He re-
plied, that the situation of trade was such that it
would not admit of it"; he and several other menu•
fatturers had agreed that morning to advance 20 per
cent. and he would make it 25, or would give as
much as any other manufacturer ; with this the de-
legates appeared satisfied, and left his house, and re-
tuined to those on the ouseide ; however, those on
the 'outside appeared dissatisfied, and said he must
sign it ; he then went out to remonstrate with them
on the impropriety of their conduct : several voices
exclaimed, " Drag him out ; Mr. Kay (who is a
considerable menufacturer at an adjoining village)
will sign it if you will, and you shall go to him."—
They then dragged him by the collar into the street,
where he was cnocked down and dragged a short dis-
tance ea his back. When he got up be was pelted
with stones and bricks for about three quarters of
mile ; from their v:olent conduct, he was fearful tha:
his life was in danger, and he signed their paper upon
his knee in the public road. After this they were not
satisfied—sei;eral voices cared to the nob to abuse
him, When he lost the flap of his coat and his pocket-
book, which contkined several Bank notes.
Thomas Holroyd confirmed the ateive, and said,
that several women in the mots called, out to kill his
master, and he. was thrown into a quick-set hedge,
because he was known tie be the servant of the Prose-
cutor..
• William Collinge, who resides near the prosecutor,
said he get ep and observed the conduce ofthe mob ;
they amounted to between 2 and 500. When the
prosecutor asked six of them to come into his house,
he, observing Barlow, and knowing him to be a very
quiet and peaceable than, requested him to make one
to go ih. While they were in the house, these on the
outside became impatient for their return, and some
of them endeavoured to break open the gates and
window-shutters. Some voices called out to kill the
Prosecutor if he did not sign their list. When the
Prosecutor was knocked down, several of them got
open him. Alhehe Prisoners were among the crowd,
be knew-them well, but gave them a most excellent
character for industry, sobriety, and peaceable conduct.
Mr. Wuetems made a most able and ingenious
defence for the prisoners, and on his cross-examina-
don of the prosecutor, he acknowledged the wages
were not above half as much as they used to be.
The Junco, in summ!ng up, the defence, observed,
with respect to Barlow, it appeared that jhe prosecu-
tor had invited sonic delegates into his house, and
that Berlin" had been requested to make one, and
conducted himself very peaceably, and had not been
seen among the mob after ; and appeared to advise
an acquittal. The Jury, however, acqtitted the
*hole of the prisoners, supposed from the.impret-
sioo the defence had upon them, and none of the pri-
soners having been proved to have done any partieulei
act. . •e 4
Mr. Pearce who conducted the next led, madeett
most eloquent speech to the Jury upon Alb law ant
the eh cuinstances respecting, the case; he impressed
stronely upon their minds, that all persons found in
a riotous assembly, although they did pot the least
act, wpre liable for all the consequences ; if murder
ensued, they must answer for it with their lives. If
riotous assemblies were to be tolerated, there was an
end of all order ; if men were to be suffered to take
the law into their own hands, the country was last.
He said no man could lament more than he did the
cause of the prcseet prosecutions, or the hardship of
the case of the weavers ; yet subordination must be
kept up, and they must not seek for a redress of
grievances by riot and outrage ; he again asserted that
it was not the object of his Majesty's Government to

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for vindictive panarteits, but toprewebt

Joktt Sktitkr:l, Jolia Nay, Areph gateV, and
John Turner, were holieted for. hiving, lei* diver.
persons unknown,,eotously os.a.wsibled at Rochdale,
and burnt the pri!ou, on the lit day of .like.;
M r. resift, i n opersiegahis case obteev-d, that there,
wai no merit in the pososiers in esrapieg a c hatted
off.niee ; no. person residing in the prisoit, so erro
niake it a dwelling-hone. .Circianstanct s had la.ely•
come to his knowledge, and those entrusted with
the managerneat i'd these trials fie the Crown, resoco.
ting John Turner; they !Lariat h from undoubted
aulority, that he had uoogone among the mcb with
any improper motive, and had remained-in company
with 10171.2 of them from mere idle curiosity, Sod, a , -
he was not a weaver, they Lid a•ne-el to admit higik-
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nwevidoice. • •
John Kershaw, an inhabltxneorßoch3ale,deposeit'
that at noon, on the ,Ist day of Jane, the town west*
tremcly agitated by theemouice of a most alaming
mob, to the number iif about two hundred, which
increased in the course of the day to about one thou-
sand. Soon after they entered the town. one of them
mounted on a large stone, and harangued the mob;
'he could not hear what he said, but it appeareda
please the mob in general,as dicy shnined andhuA
several times. Dr. Dr-ke and Mr. EntWilill she ..
Magistrates, who in general conducted the Isicalbee
of that part bf the country, and who reside new
'There, came into the town, and addreised the mob ia
she most mild and persuasive language, to endeavotic
to prevail on them to disperse. They behaved viler
-.civilly and respectfully to etie Magistrates, but refused
,;to disperse. The Magierates, in ems-events, tome
to the home where they uoially transact their bogie '
ness, and stove in the witn os and about 400 others,
special constiblas. Two-thirds of them were, in the
course of the day-and night, maimed er bruised by
stones being thrown at them, and other violence exei.
cised towards them. The rioters entered the pteice-
able weavers houses, and forcibly took array their
• shuttles. The oiecial constabLis succeeded in securihg
some shuttles from th° rioters, and deposited them iis
the prison for safety, and they took five or sit of tliel
rioters before the Magistrates. However, as. they
were coeveying to tl.e priso:i, they were reaced.—
The viadews of the room where the Magistrates
were sitting, were broken with hale stones, with in-
tent to wound the manufacturers of the town and,
neighbourhood, who had all resorted to the room .
where the Magistrates were, for ,-- fety, gild not
intending to injure the Magistrates. '1 he Magistrates
remained in the town till seven o'clock. At their
departure the prisoners and others of the mob pulled
off their hats to them, and behaved very respectfully.
Soon after the Magistrates were gone, they behaved
in a very outrageous manner. They attached the
prison, in consequence of a number of shuttles being
deposited in it for safety ; the doors of *bleb had
been supposed to be impenetrable, and set it on fire,
which was understood to be i tipossible, so tee Ce. of it •
being stone. They, however, contrived tb demolish
it so much, that it is now merely ruinous walls...—.
After they had set that on fire, they laid they would
go to the new Hall, the residence of b4rolatfies Rbyds,
one of the principal manufacturers, if he did not ilivea
them some money.
John Shaw, a hat-assavActiver, eke erthe
Constables, confirmed the above, eesidThtig.rded„
another of the special Caneenbley.' -He taw the pry,
toner Shepherd, ;bout dente o'clock, with about 60
ors, going towartls Mr. Royd's warehoctsest Shep-
herd h id, he thought; a candle in Ws haul, but he
would not tie positive; he remonstrated with them
on the impropriety of their condukt, and advised then
to separate ; they said they would not except Mr.
'Roy ds would give theta some reoney, or they would
•go and burn his house, as they had done the prison.
Cie said he would go to Mr. Rnyds and get some
rummy, which he accordingly did ; and Mr. Royds
give him, for them, a guinea and a half, being all
the gold he had ; they were not satisfied with this, t
not being a shilling a piece ; they. however, had g t
a 11. re to from some Other person, and be appeased
them as well as lie could ; a diffisuity arose as to di-
viding it ; he agreed togo with them and get chine;
they had not gone fns before he was knocked down
into a ditch , on his getting up, a man promised to
protect him ; they pr seeded on to endeavour to get
change, but the whole neighbourhood hearing them,
fastened up the houses ; he went by himself, and got
change ; - they told him, if he did am return, they
would burn his house down ; he got change, and dis-
tributed it, and gave the prisoneeShepher.la shilling;
the prisoners Rhodes and Sutcliffe were there, but ho
refused to give them shillings, not having seen them
in the mob. On his being asked if he had seen them .
do anything ? he replied in the negative ; nor did he
believe they were in the mob.
• John 'Whitehead, aelio resides about two miles from
Rochdale, said the prisoners culled at his house about
four o'clock the'following morning, much intoxica-
ted ; said they get money at Rochdale, and wanted
him to help there to spend it ; told him how things
were going on there ; said the prison was cm fire;
the witness tad them they would all be hanged ;
Shepherd Said his hands had set iton are, add shewed
a piece of lead, which he said was part of it.
Mary Sutcliffe, the landlady of Trab Smithey,
saki the prisoners called at her house, early on the
following morning.; Shepherd said -he had assisted
to burn the prison, and .if Mr. Royds did not give
him what be wanted, he would serve his house in the
same manner that night.
Turner, who was admitted On, evidence, confirmed
the above, and said, he was standing with Shepherd,
opposite the prison, when it was Go fire, when he ob-
served ifany man put the die out, he would endan.
ger jiis life.. Shepherd told him be .had got 5L from
Mr. Royds ; they went to Mr. Deardon's for money.
where a guinea was thrown out po them ; at one time
Shepherd asked if any Idark would go with him to set
CharleeTret's manufactory on Ave?
There being considerable doubts as to Rhodes and
Sutcliffe, Mr. PMin the most candid tied liberal
' manner, acknow id it, and said, from the discre-
tionary. power vetted is Mitt, eh the 'Part of the.
Ciovin, he should give up the ution against
them. The Jurrfrosof Ctiogrk
The Counsel for themeheadem Ike, the' &pont
General, and Mena. Park Scarlet, Yates, 'took ),
Cross, and Richardson. Counsel for the prim iers,
Mr. Williams. •
On Saturday morning, at five o'clock, Me. Apo,
was liberated horn the Gatti&
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