Star.
London, England, 1802-08-23 00:00:00

RIOTS.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

HIGH COURT OF CHANCLRY, AUGUST at.

The hearing of Lathrop Nliirriv's petition to
fuperfede the CommilTion of Bankruptcy atied
aFamit him, was, fr,r want of forne neceifary affida-
vits, deferred till Monday.

SHERIFFS COURT, AUGUST n.
GUIIIIRS 9. I.EARLF.
This was an aaion of afTatilt, in which the de-
fendant fuffered judgment to go by default. The
defendant was a publican; the plaintiff was a
journeyman carpenter, and frequented his houfe.
On the 3J of May lull. he had been drinking a
pint of porter at the defendant's, while the latter
• was occupied in the yard faking fume very large
pieces of beef in a tub. The plaintiff went towards
the defendant, fnrveycd him while he was fo em-
ployed, and obferved, " Why, Maftcr Pearce, you
Teem to have got !bine tare pieces of beef faking
there."—" Aye, Mailer Gubbinc, I have fo ; but
I than have a larger piece prefently ;" and thus
Paying, he feized upon Meier Gubh;ns, pitched
him into the tub, and began rubbing the fait into
his head, till the unfortunate piaintiff was in a
mofl woeful pickle. He cried out, and fume per-
lons from within came to his Alliance, and refcued
him from the hands of the defendant. The conic,
quence of this treatment was, that the plaintiff's
hair, and a confiderable part of the &in of his
face, came off. The Juty having heard the
whole of the cafe, gave the plaintiff a verdict.
Damages 101.

POLICE, he.
On Saturday Thomas Cooper, late Mate of the
brig Adventure, funk off Brighton, underwent a
private examination before the LORD MAYOR at the
Manfionboule, being charged as the perfon who
had funk and dcflroyed that veffel, on the 7th in-
fiant. Handbills had been lately fent from the I
Manfionboule to the coalts of Suffolk, the place'
of this man's nativity, and where he was ftippoled
to be concealed, offering :t reward of tool. for his
*l3pr:bullion ; and thefe bills being fcen by the
prifoner's friends, they informed the Magiffrates
in the county that they would deliver him tip, on
condition of his being admitted as a King's evi.
dence •tgaintl the Captain and others belonging to
the veffel. He was accordingly brought to town
that day, by officers from Saxmundhatn, in Suf-
folk. When brought betiwe the LORD MAYOR he
made a full confdlion of this nefarious kranfaaion.
He laid he was the perfon who had bored holei in
the brig with an augur. This, he laid, he did by
the diredion of peifons whole names we (hall not
mention. He alfo fwore that the flip had been
plundered previous to this tranfaaion ; and that
every thing had been done with a deign to siefraud
the Undeiwi kers. Two other perfons were then
examined. One of them was a waterman and
lighterman, who had been employed to carry
goods to the veit..l when taking in her lading in
1.-,ndon. He fwore that, by particular &fire of
perfons wlinm we (hall not name, he depofited in
a certain wharf ten tons of hale goods, which
Should have been, and were underflood to be put
an board the brig as a part of her cargo. The
other witnefs had been on board the brig for the
purpofe of being a Supercargo ; but lefi her in the
Downs in confegitence of not having a proper frt.
dement with the Owners. He fwore the brig was,
when he left her, in very good condition, fit to
weather the Bay of Bifcay, and perform her in-
tended voyage. The whole of the crew of this
together with the Owners, are now in cuf-
totfy, and will Shortly be all brought together for
a final examination.

COMBINATION OF SHIPWRIGHTS AND CAULICIRS.
During the war there were not Shipwrights
enough to execute the works wanted to be cine,
not only in his Majelly's Dock Yards, but in the
Merchant's Yards, and every inducement was
held ',ln to the men to caufe them to work over-
hours, &c. They were paid 3s. 6d. per day for
ordinary hours, but during the war they always
worked over time enough to entitle them to near
ss. a •!ay, and frequently when they had piece.
work they could earn 7s. or Bs. a day. On the
r rurnnf peace the work in the Merchant's Yards
began to flacken, and 14a May the bufinefs was
confidered to much reduced, that the matters gave
notice to the men, that, in confequence of the I
number of their men having increafed, they timid
have no occalion for them to work over hours ;
but the men Witted upon having ss. a day regu.
larly, betides extra hours, which the mailers re-
bided to comply with, and the bufinets remains;
unfettled.
A regular combination has been forming, and i
meetings of all the men belonging to the different I
merchant's yards have been held ; they have re-1
gularly correfponded, and have had delegates
: from one yard to the other, and in, the mean
time they were accumulating a large fund, by
I each man fubicribing 3s. 6d. out of every pound
Ihe earned. They have thus collefted feverar
.
tnottiand pounds.
About three weeks fince every shipwright and!
' caulker belonging to all the merchant's yard(
(truck on one day. The labourers and others em-
ployed in the yards did not itrike, but continued
at their work as ufual, and the men alto (truck
did not interfere with them. It being the deter-,
mination of the niflJrs to refill the thmand, and'
Meths. Randalk• and Brent,.. of Greenland dock-
! yard, being under large' penalties to fulfil detrain
contraCts in a Ilion time, made an application to
the Lords of the Admiralty for pernaiffion for a
I number of men front feline of the. Government
yards to enable them to complete the contrafts;
and.to avoid any difpute between the refraCtory
mat, and thofe under th-e.emPloy of Government
when they went to work, the Lords of the Admi-
ralty gave direCtions that a number of men thould
be lent for from Chatham. On Friday evening,
Intween 7o and So men, belonging to the King's
Yard, at Chatham, arrived in the neighbourhood
of Greenland Dock. OnSaturday morning they ail
went to work in Meffrs. Randall aftd Brent's yard.
The diiratisfied men hearing of this, made a throng
mutter of• between 300 and +co, and went and
bioke open the gates, and told the men Who were
atwork from Chatham, if they did not leave off
'inmediately, they would drive them into the
dock ; and, on account of inch fuperior numbers,
the Chatham men were obliged to comply. The
refraftory men provided conveyances, and infifted
on the men from Chatham taking to them, to go
home in ; but they firth paid them for their day's
work, out of their fund, which amounts, at this
time, to about 40001. After the men from Chat•
sham were gone, the refraCtory men continued to
afremble about the yard, fo as to give Meth's.
Randall and Brent reafon to be apprehenfive for
the fafety of their yard. An expreli was fent off
to the Thames Police Office ; and Mr. Wells, the
proprietor of an adjoining yard, let off exprefs'
for London.. On his arrival at the Admiralty,
he had an interview with Sir E. Nepean, who fent
information to Lord Pelham's office. His Lord-
(hip, without delay, gave orders for a party of
the Coldltream Guards to march to the fpot, and
a part of the t ith regiment of Light Dragoons to
go with all podible (peed.
Mr. BRAGG, the Magiftrate belonging to the
Thames Police Office, arrived with a party of of.

GUILDHALL.—Saturday a man underwent an fleet.: between eleven and twelve o'clock, when he
examination before Sir WATKIN Lswßs, Kra. ordered the men and other perfons affembled
charged upon fulpicion of healing a boric, which , round the yard to difperle ; but they paid no at-
he offered for fide in Smithfield market on Friday tention. He then gave direftions to the officers
daft, and which was hated to be the property of a to take into cuftody feveral of them who behaved
Gentleman a few miles from the metropolis.— ;in a riotous manner. They hill minting to dif.
The prifoncr was committed for a further exa- : perk, he read the Riot Aft, and when the hour
rn;nation. :had expired, as directed by the Aft of Parliament,
HAT rON•GARDEN.—Saturday three lads, who he ordered two to be taken into cuftody, who hill
were charged with horfe-Pealing, were finally exa- remained, and committed them.
mired, and for want of fufficient evidence they 1 Between twelve and one o'clock the foldiers ar.
were difcharged. i rived, and they cleared away every perfon from
Several ecnilal•les of the parifh of St. Andrew, the neighbourhood of the yard.
Holborn, appealed to the Magiarates for 'MUM., I On Sir E. Nepean receiving the account of the
ration for their attendance at Brentford during the ; riot, he fent to the Public Office, Bow-hreet, fay-
deflion, which the overfeers of the parifh refilled, ing he wifhed to fee the fitting Magiftrate. Mr.
on the ground that it was their duty to give their Graham being on the Bench, he waited on Sir
attendance without any confideration, but the Ma. E. Nepcan, wh.in after a confultation, it was
giltrates thought otherwife ; the head Conflahle, agreed that Mr. G. and as large a party of officers
adhog under the order of the Sheriff, hated that .as could be got together, Ihould go to the fpot
the Candidates had agreed to allow every con- I with all poffible (peed, and every exertion was
Vole half-a.crown each day, provided Mr. MAIN- made to tolled all the Officers and Police patrole
WAR I‘G fhould fet the example, which has not together. They proceeded by water, headed by
yet taken place. The cafe was put off for re-con- Mr. Graham, and arrived on the fpot between
fideration. ; two and three o'clock, when feveral of the men
. .

Several perfons, examined A fufpicinn of rob-
bing Alderman Iv E '.'MAv of a great variety of ar-
ticles of goods, from his howl on Snow-hill, were
committed for re-examination.
Laft week a Lady who refides near Pentonville,
and who fleeps with another female in a Nall
apartment, at the back part of the honk, which
ovcrt.ooks a garden, happening to lie awake about
midnight, on a fitdden the heard an unufual jar
of the window, which at firfi the imagined was oc-
cafioned by the wind. Soon after the heard the
top of the window thutter grate againft the wall,
and alto heard a fmall noife *like people whifpering.
She being now very much alarmed, awoke her
companion, who both lay trembling and looking
towards the window. In a little time, it being
rather moon light, they faw the upper part of a
man afcend, and appeared behind the glafs. This
o:ifctire and unzxpeeed figure (who was a thief)
bzgan gently to raife the fafh, which filled the
ladies with the greatelt confternation imaginable.
They immediately, in the utmeft confufion, leaped
from the bed,and fcreamed violently for antance:
The thieves, being alto terrified for their own
Way, fled acrois the fields and cfcaped. The
kitchen was fnurtto have been broken into, and

were taken into cuflody, on account of their dif-
orderly behaviour, but it appearing to rife from
intoxication, after fome time, they were difcharged.
One man was marked as a ringleader in break-
ing open the yard by a gentleman : his informa-
tion of the fame was regularly taken before Mr.
Graham, who iffued a warrant for the apprehen-
lion of the offender. He was taken into cuftudy,
and admitted to bail.
On Saturday evening every thing was perfeElly
quiet, but the Magillrates and foldiers remained,
in the neighl)ourhood all night.
An exprefs was lent off from the Admiralty to
the Chatham-yard, on Saturday night, ordering
I about one hundred of the men to he fent by water
on Sunday evening to be ready to go to work on
Monday morning.
One of the principal ringleaders has earned as
much as tss. a day, by overtime, and on an ave.
i rage tad. a year.

Friday a poor emaciated failor, feemingly in
the kit momcats of life, through ficknefs and
want, fat on the Reps of a Gentleman's door, in
Rathbone-place. The Gentleman very humanely
fent for the parilh officers, and had him taken to
the vmrlthoufe, where he fcarcely arrived, when

lime articles packed up, but nothing Coluicd from