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London, England, 1820-11-14 00:00:00

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in the street on Saturday 'night, were brought before
the LORD MAYOR, charged by some of the Officers
with having attempted to pluoder several persons on
Ludgate-hill. The thieves had on that occasiorits-
sembled together opposite the house of Mr. Hone,
and the houses of other persons who had lighted up
in a superior manner. When any respectable person.
was passing, they seized him by the arms and openly
robbed him of his watch and anything else of value
"he might have about him. This was their plan of
operations, and their numbers were so great, that
they cared not whether the Police saw them or not.
The vigour, however, with which they were attacked
by several of the Officers, amongst whom were Har-
rison, the Marshalman, and Brown and Forrester,
soon checked-their impetuosity in some places. Those
Officers darted in amongst the most active, and die
shew of resistance soon vanished. One of those fel-
lows who were taken into custody had a great num-
ber of handkerchiefs of all descriptions upon his per-
son, and other articles, which evidently were not his.
The LORD MAYOR, in sending back the prisoners
to the Compter, said, these were certain ill-disposed
persons who took advantage of the tumults which
necessarily arose from the determination of the Po-
lice to put down such characters as those just brougl t
before him, by ascribing to the warmth of the pol
tical hostility against certain measuies all the cor..
sequences of those scandalous'proceedings. He re-
gretted that a very gross misrepresentation had been
made of what had occurred in the City on Saturday
night. It was stated in a very respectable Morning
Paper, of popular character, that the Officers had
been attacked with iuccess by vast numbers of the
crowd, and that they were driven within the gates
of the Mansion House. This and other .assertions in
the paragraph alluded to were directly:the reverse of
the truth. The fact was, that the Officers, upon
seizing some offensive persons in the crowd, placed
them within the r,ates of the Madsion-House for
greater security, and then traversed the streets, to
prevent any further disorder. There never, perhaps,
was a stronger proof than Saturday night presented,
of the disposition of an extraordinary population, col•
lected to celebrate a triumph, to acts of peace and
good nature. His Lordship lamented that the ap-
plicatiost of the Editor of a Morning Paper, whose
house-had suffered much from the indignation of a
wild multitude, had not been made at an early period
of the evening, for he was convinced that very few
of the Police could have prevented an event which
every one in society must more or less deplore. He
had himself gone to the house in question, and as.
certaiiied that no injury had been done, except what
everybody could see from the street ; and he led
away three or four hundred persons from the spot;l
but he could not help declaring, that he saw not the
slightest inclination in any of them to commit riot or 1,
disturbance of any on. He knew that the Editor
of the Paper in question was dissatisfied at his con-'
duct, and seemed to think that lie should be in three
or four places at a time, a power which none even of
his predecessors enjoyed ; but he had only to declare,
that he had remained at his station, and that he had
shewn as much readiness to serve that individual as
he could shew to any person under similar circum-
stances. The attack upon the house had been begun
and ended within fifteen minutes. There were pre-
parations made to prevent any recurrence of such
improper proceedings; but, indeed, he apprehended
nothing dangerous or mischievous from the approach-
ing celebration.
It appeared that the LORD MAYOR had arrived a
few minutes after the house alluded to was but st
open ; Mr. Alderman WAITIIMAN arrived at the same
time. The latter addressed the crowd, and declared
that the enemies, and not thefriends of the Queen,
had committed the outrage complained of. When
the LORD MAvoit reached the Mansion-House, he
addressed the crowd that followed him, and advised
them to go home to their wives and sweethearts.
Bow- srazar.--Yesterday, DTr. BIRNIR was sitting
from an early hour till midnight, with very little in-
termission. Several persons connected with the mobs
were charged with outrages in breaking windows,
&c. for which they were ordered to find bail or be
committed. The worthy Magistrate was busily en-
gaged during the day in distributing the officers,
constables, and conductors of the patrol ; and also
the numerous bodies of horse and foot patrol in dif-
ferent parts of the Metropolis to preserve the peace.
Soon after four o'clock two men were brought to
the Office from Coient-garden Market, armed with
six muskets, six swords, and four pistols, calling out
" the Queen," &c. They afterwards underwent an
examination, when Lack, the constable, said, he met
the prisoners in Henrietta-street, with the above wea-
pons, and behaving in a very disorderly way, and
hearing one of them say, they would go into Covent-
garden Market and load them, he took them into cus-
tody.—The prisoners, in.giving an account of them-
selves, said their names were William Hervey, a
coach-maker, working for Mr. Turner, of Long-acre,
and William Ryles, a brass-founder and sword-
cutler, residing in Wild-street. He and Hervey
had been to Hungerford to fetch the weapons,
they having arrived there from Richmond, where
they had been lent to Mr. Klanert, the Manager of
that Theatre, for theatrical purposes. They belonged
to Mr. Benjamin Bond, who supplied the small
Theatres with the loan of such articles. The weapons
were examined to ascertain if they were made foe
theatrical purposes, when five out of the six swords
were found to be so, the other was sharp ; one of the:
pistols had belonged to a dragoon; the guns had
flints in them, which the prisoners accounted for by
saying it was necessary, *hen they were to be fired"
on the Stage. The Magistrate believing the defence,
discharged the prisoners, but detained the weapons
till this day, to prevent their • being used for nus.
chievous purposes last night.
A boy, only about fifteen years of age, the son of
Mr. Doyle, earthenware-man, of Covent-garden-
market, who had been improperly entrusted with a
horse-pistol, was convictaerdmgeedinitedfwfienterithfridpeangantalosi:n:tyiaidloarrefinio2os.ohrni.
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