Star.
London, England, 1814-07-30 00:00:00

nityr AT THE RACE-COURSE. DOWNPATRICK.

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It is our duty, this day, to communicate to the 1
public the distressing fact, that a dreadful riot,
attended with very melancholy consequences, took
place on Friday last, at the Race Course of Downpa-
trick. When the account of the affair first reached
this town, it was accompanied, as is usual, with many
exaggerated rumours, no way warranted by the
facts of the case, which, however, were sufficiently
alarming to produce the greatest anxiety; and the ar-
rival of various dispatches—the departure of General
Burnet in great haste, immediately on his arrival from
Newry, and marching of several detachments for
Downpatrick, all combined to excite no ordinary de- i
gree of uneasiness in the public mind.
We have endeavonred to obtain a correct statement ,
of this unfortunate affair, by inquiries of several re-'
spectable persons who were resent.
It appears that a very great and unusual assem.
bling of couatry people, all armed with sticks, and'
some with pistols, was observed on the race-course on
Friday, and it was understood that a pre-concerted
disturbance was to be the consequence, as for several
days before, it was said, without hesitation, that " the
Orangemen had their day on the l'lth of July, and
they ( the Threshers, or whatever name they go by)
should have theirs on the Friday of the R aces."—
About four o'clock on that day, a dispute or qtu,,rel
(many present sty a sham fight) took place between
two men, tehich in an instant attracted a great crowd,
apparently on' the watch, and a disturbance and riot
ensued, aid continued for a considerable time, till it

became engst alarming ; so much so that the Magis-
trAes found it necessary to send into Down for a tit:-
Lich:new of the Middlesex Militia quartered there.
When the Military were drawn up, the rage of the
assembled crowd was directed almost wholly against
them, and they were assailed with vollies of stones
from behind the tents, mil many opprobrious names. ,
The Militia all this time kept their ground with the
greatest coolness ; the great mass, (some thousands,
it is said,) emboldened by the quiet manner in which
the soldiers acted, advanced so near as to bid them de.
fiance, pelting them with stones, by which some of
them were injured and knocked down. The soldiers
were then ordered to fire with blank cartridge; but
' this only made the mob more riotous. They were
Olen ordered to fire with ball ; two men instantly fell,
and a great many were wounded ; four or five are in
the Infirmary. Many of the wounded may have been
carried of, but the above mentioned were all that were
chiefly mentioned. In cases of this kind the innocent,
unfortueately, often suffer with the guilty. We are
sorry to learn that Mr. John MsMullan, the postmas-
ter of Clough, while sitting in one of the tents, got a
ball through the fleshypartof his thigh; but the wound
is not dangerous.
A number of the rioters were taken prisoners and
lodged in jail ; one of them, we have heard, had four
pistols in his possession ; another had two.
On Saturday the crowds of people that flocked into
Downpatrick were immense; and some apprehensioas,
it is said, were entertained that an attempt would have
been made to rescue the prisoners Itann the gaol ; but
We are happy to say all was tranquil, and not the sligh-
test appearance of disturbance.
At the time our messenger left Downpatrick yes:
terday, the Coroner's Inquest had not sat on any
of the bodies; but it was to take place in the course,
of the day.
Melancholy as are the consequences of this affray,
had it not been for the timely interference of the Ma-
gistrates, it is generally supposW that much more
bliacid_woniti have teen shed, as a great part of the De-
luded multitude was colh,cted avowedly for the pti: -
pose of exciting disturbance. The military, it is aJ•
mitred, acted in a cool arid temperate niamit r.
This unfortunate business having milieu from ono
of those ebollitions of party wl.szh are so injurious to
the country, we have found it extremely difficult to
obtain any account divested of the colouring of
party. The circumstances altogether, in our 4:17:-
nion, afferds a strong recommendation for abandon-
ing the processions, at least, of Orangemen on the
12th of July, which seem unnecessarily to have so
great an effect in irritating the lower ordi.r of the
Catholic body, and stimulating to such disgraceful
acts as we have been noticing.— (Bryart Commercial
Herald;.

Bo W. ST nerr— Ye sterd a y Ma% &loam" was charged
with stealing a quantity of plate from a Gentleman's
house at Fulham. The plate was pawned by another
sr, man, with Mr. Charoneau, who, on being referred
to, said, she had it of the prisoner, who owed her WI I
for lodging, and paid her AV of it from the produce
of the plate. The prisoner, on being taken into cus-
tody, said, she had it from a young man, but that no
inducement should prevail on het to disclose his name.
She &fathom-di:aid that it was her own property, and
that she bad bad it *metal years. She was commit-,
maw posnaination.

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