The Sun.
London, England, 1816-12-05 00:00:00

bccti reccrai.r'i It bad It Cut.
name of Mr. Beckwith.

The prisoner now acknowledged being inSkin-
tier-street, but said he had picked up the musket
Abraham Samuel, a person who had vaunt 4-
rily enrolled himself as a constable on Mtinda#,
stated, that he had seen the prisoner pass the
Mansion-House with the party who carried the
flag. At the Exchange witness Made an attempt
to seize the musket which the prisoner held, but
was prevented by about six of his companions ;
he, however, disarmed one, and lodged the piece
in an adjoining Cuffee-honse. The prisoner aiSd
his companions tied. He was positive as to his

person. . .
The prisoner being called upon to account for
his conduct said, that he was in Skinner-street on
the day in question, when he saw three•or four.
pieces of musketry lie upon the grotmd—one •of
these he picked up,
_upon seeing which one of the
mob exclaimed " You ought to be shot !" lire;
eeisoner also acknowledged that he paned the
Exchange.
The Loan MAvott observed, he wtjuld not.
swear to his person, but he had little doubt of
having seen him among those who had tired upon
him and the officers in Sweet inn's alley on Monday
last.
The prisoner now denied having been there,
and said he had gone home over Blackfriers
Bridge. " I went, it is true, my Lord," conti-
nued the prisoner, " to Spa-fields in the morn-
ing, to hear a speech, and I was not long there
until a tall young man, dressed in a light great
coat, got into a cart, and addressed the people.
Soon after the speaker jumped down, colours
were hoisted, and I followed the crowd."
" Young man," said his . Lordship, " con
stand in a very perilous situation—you state that
you picked up the musket found in your posses-
sion---and, though it is evidently new and luirinot
been used, it was found loaded in your possession,
while the pan also bears evident marks of recent
use. The We of an individual, it is (eared, will be
sacrificed to the abominable outrage which de-
curred in the quarter where you confess you had
been, and it is for you to account satisfactorily for
your possession of the mischievous piece found in
your possession."
The pi isoner, who stated himself to be a dine-
maker, was then remanded for a father eAarui-

natiou.
Numerous weapons of nll descriptions are hourly
brought into the Mansion-house, found lying in
remote corners, or seized by spirited individuals
from the rioters on Monday. F. KinnerAley, the
officer of Aldgate, has lodged about forty stand of
arms, taken from the mob in the Minories, 104 re
so much depredation was unfortunately conimitted.
Yesterday morning a number of guns, pistols,,
swords, and other weapons, were found in a dung-
hill in the neighbourhood of Houndsditch 'and tire
Lord Mayor has received private itiformation of
the conveyance of a large quantity in the direction
of Whitechapel, Mile-end, &c. Many at those
found and taken hear the mark of Mr. Beckwith,
and some are of the most costly description.

Three of the misguided men who joined in
„the
riots in the City on Monday last, were brought
to the London Hospital, each tiesperately wound-
ed in the hand. The first that arrived was brought
in a hackney-coach, and was immediately taken
into the surgery, where, on examination, his baud
was found dreadfully lacerated, and it was thought
it would be necessary he should undergo ampu-
tation. The wound being dressed be was tines-
tioned respecting the manner he received it,.
when be answered, that on Monday morning he
provided himself with a pistol, which he loaded,
conceiving it proper for every person to bt armed
in.his own defence, from the peculiar .cia-com-
stances of the times ; that he joined the mar' iq,
Spa-fields, and afterwards proceeded with a wt.-
tion of them through the city, where be found It
necessary to discharge his pistol. which burst,
and injured his hand to that degree. Before fur-
ther inquiry could be made, he contrived' to
escape, and has nor since been heard of.
The next brought in gave his moue John Roberts:
on being questioned as to how he received his
wound, he replied that he was in the mob, not
thinking any harm could possibly result to bite,
but when they came to Tower-hill, a fellow de-
sired him to push forward and he should be pro-
vided with a musket ; he did so, being influenced
by the impulse of the moment, hut reflecting on
the impropriety of taking arms in such a martyr,
he flinched backwards ; at this moment itea.ecti rat
a cut of ilAnbre across the paint of his.band,ihe
could not say whether from a so(lier froth4ne
of the rabble. This man was icutuediatelyipat, to
bed, and is ecutsidered in a dangerous state.
The third prrson brought in gave his -.name,
John Reify. The account he gave was, that .'lre
having joined the nosh, not dreaming of any tian-
ger, but merely .out of curiosity, proceeded with
them as far as the East India l-lonse, where some
of them fired many shots, and one fellow's mus-
ket, which was close to him burst, and i'splinter
struck him in the wrist ; that he was not at nil
• implicated in any tumult, but merely a specta-
tor. The conjecture, however, is, that it was his
gum which horst. -Several of the, Police Ofil-
eers 'mended to see the two last persons, who are
intended to be examined before the Maeistrate
when their Iteelth will permit, and stricolvacti
making after the man who escaped.
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In the accounts hitherto published the ofeur-,
rences in the Minories were too hastily pasiod
over, About half-past five on Monday, the mob
proceeded along Leadenhall-street, into Airteate,
where a party of the Ist Life Guards, limier Lieu-
tenant Terry, came op, upon which the mob,
many of whom were armed, itoppeti, tool the titst
line of them presenting their pieces, fired at the
troops. Noise, however, were wounded—a hail
struck one horse. Lieut. Terry then charged the
mob, one of xvitom had hie head cot by a. chop
front the sword of a Guardsman. The mob re-
tired into the cattle-pens in Whitechapel, and
were preparing to fire musketry, &c. on the sol-
diers, when Lieut. Terry immediately dismounted
several of his men, and porsmed them into the
pens. The soldiers had their carbines, which they
loaded, am! o►r the word " present.' being given,
the mots iled, leaving about one hundred muskets
behind. Twenty of the mob were stcured by the