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London, England, 1816-12-04 00:00:00

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rwititiltirtiki ie 'kedged* tad he had no persin to
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Therisoneet his dif en ' ce. said he went Into the
with the mit, and the loaves werii.giien to him
as Well as to the rioteri. This was denied •by the
foreman of 'the shop, whit Asia his master was from
home when the mob attacked the shop, and ao per-
son war in it; when the rioters entered br force, hitt
Nana. when they asked him fortified ; to which he
replied, it did not belongs :to hint, aed" he could' not
give it away : they then -helped themselves. -
The aothec:4o the prisoner attended, and went
down on her knees, entreating the Magistrate to send
him to the Marine Society, or some other receptacle.
for boys s sheaaid.he had till lately gone t&St. Pa-
trick's School..in St. Giles's—she had endeavoured
to get hiM employed in Covent Garden.• He was
committed' for- trial, and the parties bound over to
,prosecute.
A revettably.drested man, who appeared to be in
a state of intoxication, epplied to Mr. BMWS for a
pair of pistols, which he stated hid* been taken from
him by. Officers belonging to the Offieer. with which,
he stated, be was not going to do any harm, as they
were not loaded. It is supposed some Police Oflizera
had very properly deprived him of them on M'onday,
on his presenting them in 2 dangerous way ; but he
could not tell where it took place, only that it was at
,a public-house mar the Pens, and there being no
doubt brit be meant Smithfield, and that being in the
City of London, he was referred to the Loan MAYOR.
WESam Anal was charged by Clarke. a constable,
belonging to the parish of St. Clement's, with excit-
ing a mob to tumult and riot.
Clarke stated, that on Monday evening, between
six and seven o'clock, he was out on duty, as directed
by the High Constable, in permit of riotous and dis-
orderly persons, wlen he met with a mob in Holly.
well-street, near the Strand ; the prisoner and another
man appeared the foremost among them. He heard
the prisoner. exclaim—" Bread or-blood I" He re-
proved him f,r making use of such an expression ;
asked him it be was not ashamed of himself, partial.
larly at that time this had no effect upon the pri-
soner, as he reputed it again several times, and ad.
addressing himself to the mob, said—" You sons of
b—, follow me!" which induced him. with the
assistance of another Constable, to secure him, and
they lodged him in the watch-house.
Clarke 's statement was confirmed by the other
Constable.
The 'Prisoner, in his defence, solicited forgiveness.
He is about SO years of age, a single mm, strong,
and apparently hearty. He said he had worked in
the Docks, but was new in the employ of a Mrs.
Shillito. He denied having been at the execution in
the morning, in the Old Bailey, or that he had been
to Spa-fields.
He was committed for trial, and the Constables
bound over to prosecute.
FOOTPADS.
Monday night, about eleven o'clock, as Miles, the
horse pactole, was on duty at Highgate, he pasted
three men who appeared.to avoid b,•ieg seen by him,
and recollecting to haveheard of three footpath com-
mitting robberies in Essex lately, he looked after
them. They appeared as if they were proeveding
inlw she lase leading to the Eitel of Mansfield's house,
but. they 'returned towards the town of Highgate.
The patrole then communicated his suspicions to a
watchman, and took him with him to stop them.
They came up with them mar the Red Lion public:
house, when the patrole having no doubt but that he
saw a pistol concealed in the breast of one of them,
under a large loose rough Goat. he plunged his hand
in, and found his conjectaire right. Immediately
alter the other two presented a pistol.eaclF; one of
them went off, but providentially missed the patrole
and watchman; the other pistol missed fire. The
watchman was so much alarmed, that he ran off and
sprang his rattle. - 'riie two who had presented their
pistolst ok the opportunity and ran away. An alarm
was created by the discharge of the pistols, and a
number of persons came out of the Red Lion public-
house, and from ocher places.
The patrole gave the man he had seised with the
pistol, and on whom also he found a dagger in a
stick, into the care of some men, while he and others
went in pursuit of the two men who bad ran away,
bet they could not find them. The patrol. brought
the man to the Office yesterday, when he proved to
be Watson, the person who advocated the cause of
the people at the first meeting in Spafields, and who
his been many years a respectable surgeon and apo-
thecary, residing in Newcastle.street, in the Strand,
and he was in consequence hand cuffed and broitght
to the "Grapes public house, in 80-.v.street. The cit..
cumstance having been communicated to Mr. Puma;
the Sitting Magistrate, Mr. Sisflorkthe Chief Clerk.,
waited upon Lord St/saloons; the `Secretary of State.
for his Lordship's directions, under allrthe
cirenm-
seanceilof thirextraordinary,case....-- -* •• : -
The first message received from !thalSeeretary of
State was, that the pstrole was to keep Watson in.,
safe custody until further orders shed be 'officially.
received. The circumstance of Watsohlaiing-in•cos-
toil, under a charge of felony, was soon,made knowb,
and curiosity led several people to the
.house do-sere
him. Some who had known him, wondered that
man who had held so respectable a situation in life!
should be manacled there as a priso nee; and in an-
swer to their inquiries, he said he was there tinder's
charge of being a footpad robber ; but begged them
to understand, that sued an ignoble idea never entered
his head. He was particularly anxious to knew the
tate of bis son, and on being Informed by a person
'present, that he-understood him to be in custody id
the City, he observed that hives a noble youth, and
deserved a better fate—that there had base too great
a degree of precipitaticY in his proceedings—and that
had he condtitted the cause well, his stiff:eking couns
laymen would have been relieved Without bloodshed !
:—He then with much calmness spoke orthe distresses
brhad been an eye-witness to,.and more particularly
.of those that had befallen his own family a and de-
clared, that one of bls.own children,. a lovely daugh-
ter.. had die* from want—that is to say, she died
hem the wanrof wide; and tech other nourishment:
es it was not in his power, from the distressful state
in whirl he was, to give her. 4,11 this, he contended,
arose from the Oligarchy. Hi was asked, it be was.
in Spaftelds on Monday I with* said bewas, but not
with dm oraterlealpert of the eitenablage. At half.
pact three O'cbek hi was ordered before Mr. Erma,
and eaderwent a abort private eurnination ; the re-