Star.
London, England, 1811-12-20 00:00:00

RIOTS IN NCIFTINGIUM at m VICIbIITT.

NOTTINOIOO4, Dec. 19... The troubles in this town
and neighbourhood are not of so alarming a nature
as they have been for several weeks past, yet the
spirit which governet them seems neither allayed nor
subdued, though there has been no want of activity on
the part of the civil power, particularly in this town.
On Saturday evening three frames were dean-led
within the liberties of Nottingham ; and on Sunday
evening, b....fore seven o'clock, three more, all of great
value, having cost, when new, £6O ach On in average.
At one place the poor woman of the hour-, who had
no person with, her except some half-famished children,
one of the frame-breakers, though he declared hims.
to be very much distressed, gave her a shilling to bur
some bread, there being nom of that article it the Usu.:
The Magistrates have.now come to a determination
of seizing every man at whose house a frame is
broken, under a suspicion, that they are either acces-
guy to, or connive at, the violence ; tw of them have
been for the greater part of this week confined, though
it is well understood that they were from home at
the time that the frame-breakers performed the mis-
chief. They likewise seize every man who they can
learn has been collecting money, under pretence of
supporting poi r men and tlyir t tmilies who are out
of emplo y meta, from a strong persuasion that such
money is appropriated to support the frame-treakerc

in their depredations. About ten of tbete men were
brought in prisoners from several villages a little
north of this town, yesterday, by an c,cnrt of the
Berkshire Militia, who are stationed in the villages
around. And, it is not a little singular, that a crowd
of stocking-makers assembled at Basfnrd, two miles
hence, for the determined purpose of rescuing the pri-
soners; and that the latter positively refused to be
liberated, declaring a prison preferable to the situ-
tint: from which they had been taken. Wlie:er they
will be in tire same mind next Wednesday, is a matter
of some doubt.
Several meetings have been held by the hos7ors to
discuss the complaints of the wbrkmen ; but such has
been the issue of those meetings, that the complaints
of the workmen are increased : a circumstance that
excites considerable aLim in the public mind.
A most august assembly was last Friday held in
our Shire-Hall, consisting of the greater part of the
Nobility, the Gentry, and the Magistracy cf the
County, to take into`tonsideration the troubled state
of the public mind. Many persons were examined,
who were supposed to be well conversant with the
nature of the framework-knitting trade; but the reso.
lutions .come to on that occasion have not been offi-
cially-made public.
It is rumoured, and we can state it only as a ru.
motir, that the meeting came to a determination not
to interfere in the dispute between the workmen an 4
their employers, any farther than, as the diterent
gentlemen of-that meeting might lel themselves
bland to inter:* r in their official capacities to mair:
tain the public tranquillity.
The person hinted ;t in my last, as being
possessed of acknowledged talents, who had been ar-
rested on suspicion of being a director of the frame..
breakers' operations, has been committed for trial at
the nest assizes.

Wednesday morning, the 27th .ult. the parsonam
house of the Rev. W. Cox, of Laagton Herring,
Mint,, was discovcred to be on fire ; and though tse
wind blew only a.gentle breeze, it being thatched and,
very dry, the fire made rapid progress. The roof
soon fell in, and communicated the flames to the
chambers, which were burnt.
On Tuesday last the Sunderland Hounds threw
off on the north side of Hylton Ferry. They imme-
diately started a hare, which took to the west, and
saved herself by passing a deer that the cry of the
hounds had roused. The dogs immediately pursued
him, and atter a smart run he was Idled in great
style. Cu beating for another hare, two fresh deer
were roused ; the hounds dividing, one cf the deer
was soon taken alive—the other made to the north,
but being hard pressed by the dogs, turned east to-
wards the Park Of Hylton Castle, near which he was
killed, notwithstanding every effort was made by the
gentlemen prasent to save him. These deer, we
understand, had escaped from Hylton Castle Park.

On Tuesday, the Sd instant, Sir B. GRAHAM turn-
ed down a stag near Bea&le, and, after a severe
course of one hour, the hounds ran up to ntm In grand
style, and took him near Mr. Munn:slues, at Thorpe,
about seven miles S.W. of Beadale, after making va-
rious angles on the river the. Captains Hz*t.z and
Fowtts were the only gentlemen up ; the former rode
a snare of Sir B. CAA:HAM% and the latter his own
Gym, ite horse Beicireas. - .

TROTTING IN Sccertatsn.The long-pending match
between Lord Montgomery and Colonel Blair with
seven' Noblemen and Mr. Stephenson, on which
many thousands were depending, was decided .ms
Monday the 9th instant, having three minutes and 17
seconds to spare of the given tune. The match was,
that Lord M. find Colonel B. did not produce a hone,
Matt, or geditig; to trot from Eglinton Castle to
Auchencrienve House, :1 diAance of fourteen miles
and seventy yards, in fifty minutes ; supposed by the
amateurs of trotting not the most trifling undertaking
on good roads, but in the instance of b4ving to pass
.through the paved street of Iryin, of arleast a mile
long, the many sharp turns and roughness of the
road. it was considered the greatest performance in
the'annals of trotting. - It was done by a mare, the
prepercy of Mr. Kirby, r f Yerk ; she was rode by J.
§impson, of Manchester. The match was conducted
to the general satisfacti n of many hundreds of spec-
tators, and particularly to the Noblemen and Gentle.
men Coheerlitd. The Mare, the tint time of trying,
slipt bn hrr i,de in turning out of Irvin-street to the
bridge, 'cad lodto return to che Castle and begin
over again.