The Sun.
London, England, 1811-02-12 00:00:00

sons, some in disguise', afteffieg attitedes'of ado. '
ration,. othercbeating &eine end a large gong, r
and - blowing trutnpeta, and all making an up- '
; Abe. obtrious purpose of which was the pre-
vention of every thing that thigh! be said in the meet-
ing-house from: being heard. Ti eee outrages were
afterwards repeated on the WI is ill September, and
on various subsequent Sundays, the crowd of rioters
amounting. in number to sometimes 2 or
On one occasion was brought before the door of the
Meeting-house 'a waggon, which - was placed a
man dressed out in a toll suit of. black, a wig, and
cocked leo , olio distribineil bread to the mob, cer-
tainly for no other purpose than to disturb the dis-
senting congregation ; for the orator eeve out, sepa-
rately, the names of the peteons who were to melee
this bread, upon which there was a general shout ;
and .the whole concluded with a Fcramble for the
loaves which remained, Upon some occasions the
Minister was met by, a, emu:muse of tilrBC persons,
and was jostled by
.one of those against v. hom the
motion was made, and who waa on horseback.—
Fireworks and stones were also thrOwn into the,
nieetieg- house, and at the horse and chaise in which/
the Minister departed. 'At one time a procession
was formed by the mob, who, carried a gallows in
their front. At another time rotten eggs were
thrown into the meeting ; and two of the
rioters, who were professed Masks, stationed them-
selves among the. congregation, saying that they
came there to hear the word of 4eGod, and, by
G—d, they would hear it. One of them then
asked _the preacher, " Can a man live by bread
alone ?" To which the Minister, thinking it
aposite, replied in the conclusion of that text. •At
length, the rioters proceeded so tar as to bring night-
soil into the meeting-house, with which they smear-
ed the walls of the place, and-at last broke- all es
windows. .One man kept open house dineng the
time Willis riot, andgeee wine to all those weo pp-
posed the Pogroms, as the' dissenters' were, 'oick-
named. It was openly stated, tees; at the v; sire
bf
the parish, that there was a gentleman ready with
tool. to support the Anti.pograws. 'the (eerier of
the cottage where the dissenters assembled was for-
cibly wiled out of his Amuse,. and his wife was
threatened, that he and his brother, who had inter-
fered in the business, ahoole be pressed and sett to
sea, if they del not turn the Pagranis out of 'their
house, . Of this house the rioters had gotten posCes-
siori, and were tearing it to pieces in the night, when
the brother of its owner endeacouted to prevent
them ; upon which one of the rioters called out of
the window, " A d----d Pogrom, seize him !" and
filed a gun. It was also threatened,' that if the coa-
gregation should attempt to wet again, an engine
" would be prep ired to play upon them—lsot water,
but such a mixture as would compel them to relinquish
their meeting. The affidavit, which'stated all these
circumstances, concluded with saying, that there
was no other place in the parish ffir the congregation
to meet in ; and that if they were to attempt to build
:One, what they should erect in the day, would be
inevitably pulled de:e.vn in the night. Against every
one of the persons who were the subject. of Mr.
Garrow's motion, 'the affidavit swore overt eras of
this conspiracy to prevent the congregation from
exercising their religion. The first was a farmer,
. of the name o Jam s Churchyard, of whom it was
sworn, that he entered the Meeting-house on .the
teth of,Nose whep he talked aloud, and.afterwards
joined Mr. Thompson, the officiating •minister,
home, telling him that if he were to come (or seven'
yeerseto preach there,. that would be the way in
which he would be served. Mr. GA nuow had
!omitted to mention that these rioters wore cot-trades
, of their order, and in short presented an happy edi-
tion of an U. e. riot at a dissenting meeting-horse.
The next person against whom- the Learned coon-
sea moved was Benjamin , Gifford, t i.e disti ibutor
of the bread, and the person who rode at the. head
of the cavalcide,- who threw stones and tirewo#ks.
The third was William Hewitt, a collar-maker,
who wore a cockade, and was tee mask who had
bean before described to have mocked the attitude'
:of adoration. It was he who proctired the drum
and drummer. The next was Philip .Dykes, not-
:one of the most vulgar Of the rioters, but a•man
more criminal than perhaps they.; for he was in 'a
superior station in life to them, and supported and
encouraged them. He was described yeoman, and
was the churchwarden of the parish. On the 2d of
December, which was the last day of preaching at
the tneeting-house, the minister went with Bather,
the tenant of the house, to the churchwarden, in
order to endeavour to eepossess thenetelvea :of the
house; whets the churchwarden told them there
should be 'no preaching. there, and that murder
would be committed' if it were ever attenipted again.
OA this happened after the deatruaion of the hobse,
the Court did not see,whyMr. Dykes might not have
given, the ministur this adeice• without identif)ing
.withhimself the rioters, end.his name was, therefore,
struck out of the list of defendants,] The next was
William. Moore, a, farmer in the neighbaurheod,
who encouraged the mob by cries of " Burs them ;"
and was the person who threatened Turner and his
brother with the press-gang. The next was John
Culpeck., a liihocinakcr, livitig next .ditor to the
meeting-house, who wore a cockade, Who was the
performer upon the gong, and the person who cried
from the window ,of the meeting-house, " A
d—d Pogrom," ,&c. The next two were JarCes.
Sheldnike and William Gurling, who entered the
tneeting-house, and being afterwards-taken by the
constables in the ad of rioting, effected their escape
with the assistance of William Benton and, Charles
Bann, who were the next two moved against :
but as ' a bill of indiameot had been found against:
theee first two for the disturbance, though not
for the conspiracy, their names were likewise., at
the recommendation of the Court, struck out. Ben-
ten was a wheelwright,. who disguised' himself as
a butcher; he struck at the meeting-bourse, door
and offered to fight the constables. Bann (yeo-
man) followed. one of the Ministers' on. the road,
,and fosaulted him, shouting, " No Pogratn."- -.Ed.
tnund Hewitt, who was the next, aetieted:inethe
rescue and disturbance. The next two were' Tole
-field and Clow, who came into the Meeting.house
'with the insignia of the riot, bearing with' them' a