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London, England, 1816-10-22 00:00:00

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We. {argent ID state conspir a . lead, MAaLigitoucH•sTßErr...•-irnterdit Mirk: Bea:
crearekspec, arid which tbe capital convictiondfl Mader and lAA Kelly, two boys, were grought
six individuals in the • course.of the last' o.d flint"' from Mary.l.l writhe Watch-house, and examined on
Sessions, have not yet
scenes to the public the the following Devonshire-plat some time back the
whole,ns,
of these extensive: scenes of inieuit; , which11 ighboui hood of , New-road, Mary-
have been but too Ir;stg and success:ully practised. ;fa honne, beeome the scene of daring robberies,
The LORD MAYOR, since the discevery of the Plot in the greatest part of which have been committed
.by
which Mice unfortunate Irishmen had been made the children. Within the last week no less than six houses
victims of "the blood system," decl ired his cowrie- .1 have been successively. robbed of property to a great
tion that theirs was not aem,
solitary case. Viewing, ann•tint. About two o'clock on Sunday morning
As he did, the other atrocious scenes which were the family. of,Mr. Walcop, of that place, were alarm-
brought to light, he considered that the plans of the ed by hearing a noise in the kitchen, in consequence
conspirators were too well organiseJ, and too easily of which Mr. Walcooropopj,
ened,w.aed every thingun. ent down stairs,
in an
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effected, to be confined to that offence ; and he de found the larder d
terrnined upon probing the matter if possible to the paeked up in a bundle, ready to be conveyed away ;
quick. This by his indefatigable industry, coolness, he looked about for the thief, and at length found
;yid judgment, he has in part effected. the prisoner Buckmaster most artfully concealed be.
In consequence of certain information, received by hind the cistern ; Mr. Water)? seized him by the col-
itis Lordship 'some time since, he set on foot an in- lar, and
inquired Sealyhe any accoraph; ies he iname-
quiry, which having brought to a sort of maturity, diately confessed had been with him, but had
he proceeded to kewgate, immediately after Divine !nude his escape. Mr. Walcop then gave him in
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on Sunday last, and remiieed there between charge to the watchman, who happened to come
fbur and five hours. His Lordship, who was assisted up at the time.
by Mr. HORLLO, the Chief Clerk, entered into a The Constable of the Night said, when the prisoner
:e cases of nearly mosey
Kell
'was brought in, be went in pursuit of
minute investigation. of th
persons who had been convicted at the last October Kelly, and apprehended him at his mother's, in
and April Old Bailey Sessions, on a charge of utter- Cato-srreet, Edgware-road.
ing counterfeit money, principally Bank of England Kelly, at rhe request of. his parents, was given is
tokens. Some of these poor creatures were of the their charge, on their promising to bring him for-
lower order of illiterate Irish and English, but the ward when called upon, at she robbery was not
chief part of them wete foreign seamen, such as 'roved upon him, beyond the other prisoner's state-
Russians, Germans, Ake. and therefore the more likely meta, and Buck vaster was remanded.
to become the ready victims of designing men. The
conspirators' plans were chiefly executed in the
neighbourhood of Tower hill, where the deluded per-
sons we have alluded to, were met in great distress,
by certain persons whose names for the present we
decin.c mentioning, and*" who, under the mask
of pity furnished them with base shillings and
Bank tokens ler 3s. and L. GI. The unfortunate
creatures, nearly tarnishing, hastily rushed into a
baker's or chandler's 'shop, but being previously
placed under the eye tf a lurking villain, who as-
sumed the character of an officer, they were seized
and searched, and the money which had just been
heaped upon them as bounty, or for part of which
they had perhaps entered into a treaty, Being found
upon them, this was of course considered prima facie
evidence of their guilt.
NJ less than Niece cases of this description have
already, through the praise worthy exertions of the
Loin) MAYOR, been completely discovered ; and as
it is his Lordship's intention still further to press the
investigauen in all its ramifications and extent, we
purposely avoid enlarging upon this most abominable
subject at present.
The following are the names of the unfortunate
individuals, to whom we have alluded, and who have
suffered, or are now suffering, the punishment
affixed to their several convictions. It is lamentable
to add, that one unfortunate being some short period
since, is now thought to have suffered the dreadful
punishment of an ignominious death, through these
unspeakably infamous devices.
Names of persons convicted of pasaing.and having
in their possession, Bank of England tokens, (that
establishment paying £lO to the officers for each
conviction), shillings, sixpenci.si &c.
Thomas t. suith, John Hawkins, --Is Hickson, John !MCP,
Joseph Thom" Philip Yuseph, Catherine Connor, Edward
Eakeney, Wiliiarn Carson, Charles Green, Thomas Peir.t,Tho-
mas Wilson, WM= Williism.ort, John Covet, John F. Brown.

IJISTURI3.4NCE IN CLAM ORGANSLURE.

The folloiving are the particulars of the origin and
progress of the disturbances :—On Wednesday and
Thursday last a considerable number of workmen,
chiefly miners, assembled, in consequence of having
received notice of a reduction in their wages. They
proceeded to Merthyr Tydwil and the Other iron
works, stopped the furnaces, overpowered the Special
Constables who had been sworn in on the emergency
to resist them, and collecting strength as they ad.
vanced, formed into a body of six or seven thousand,
armed, according to report, not only with the usual
weapons of hostility, but with muskets and other in-
struments. The Magistrates took every measure
I which the occasion demanded, and sent off an express
Ito Lord SIDMOUTH, who was called on Sunday out
lof the church of Richmond, and came immediately
to town, when the most active and decided steps
were taken. Every military assistance was directed
that circumstances would permit. Three companies
of the .55th Regiment wire ordered from Bi istol, and
we are h.tppy to find they reached Merthyr on Sa-
turday night, where tine Cardiff and Swansea Yco.
marry Cavalry had also artived. The Magistrates
and Sheriff had assembled, and had unanimously de-
termined not to consent to any compromise. There
was every prospect of this disturbance.being speedily
quelled by the powerful and judicious measures which
had been taken for that purpose.
Extract of a Letter from Merthyr, received in
'fawn yesterday I Lave been die-Whiny broken
down by fatigue for two days, having been out an
the hills alone from six yesterday morning ts.ll ten at
night, endeavouring to check the progress of the un-
fortunate colliers and miners, who are in open revolt
Aping their employers, to the number of above
fifteen dioUsanti. They have at this hour (9 o'clrck,
SAtuftlay) stopped all the furnaces on the hills from
hence to Merthyr -above 60 furnaces in all. But the
military have arrived at Merthyr, and are expected
here to-night ; and in a few hours there will be sad
work within 'lO miles of us."

BtrW-STREET.— Saturday night a privy search war.
rant was issued to apprehend disorderly persons. Oi
Lack and others, entrusted with the execution of the
warrant, passing through Charles-meet, Covent-
garden, about three o'clock ors Sund.ty morning,
they heard a great noise, proceeding from the voices
of a number of persons in a Louse on the opposite
side of the way, which proved to be a coffee-shop.
Thel entered ir, and found '27 men and women as-
sembled, making a great noise ; they took them all
into custody, except a man wino Was a hackey•coach-
MAR, who had his coacfs and horses at the door, on
his promising to appear at the Office yesterday:—
. The) were all brought from Covent-garden watch-
'
hence yesterday, and examined before M. Binme
and Sir WILLIAM PARSONS. Seventeen of tl.e men
proved to be journeymen tailors, and the account
they gave at their being found in the house at that
unseasonable hour,, arose out of the lamentable prac-
tice 4 masters paying their journeymen at what ,re
called pay-tables, at public-houses, where the men
arc detained spending their money in liquor. They
were all discharged with suitable admonitions.
Saturday a hackney-coachman was convicted on
the charge of Mr. Scott, of the Sans Pareil Theatre,
for galloping his horses in the Strand, so as to en-
danger his life, which the Magistrate considered mis-
'behaviour to his fare.
S. Jarnints, a chimney-sweeper, was charged with
cruelly treating W. Hunt, a boy. It appeared that
the prisoner was journeyman, and the boy, who is
ten years of age, apprentice, to Mr. Leak, ,a **-
cep:weeper.. in tins-infect, Westminster. They
were sent to cleanse a chimney in Belton-street, which
the boy, after repeated efforts to ascend, found top
narrow ; in consequence of which the prisoner best
,him so severely as to-draw. blood profusely from v a.
rious parts of the body, and was proceeding to fur.'
they extremities, when he was interrupted by the
neighbours, who were alarmed by the boy's reite-
rated screams. Mr. Leake expressed his indignation
at the prisoner's cruelty, observing, that he had no
cause to, find flu* with the general conduct of the
boy ; and Sir W. PARSONS ordered him to be locked
up till be.prociared sufficient bail.
Quien-equAturs— kellSlNe IN A GARbEN.—riater-;
day, Thema: Granter, a boy about 14 years, old, Joon
Bands, and Joseft‘ Smith, two labouring men, were
broirkbe to the Office. by Richard Maybank, Watch-
hon'sedteeper and Constable in Sloane-street! Chelsea,
on the charge of William' Morton, gardener to Angus
Macdonald, Esq. of the Grange, at Old aroMpton,
of robbing his master's garden of pears. The pro-
muter stated, that on Sunday morning, about half,
past.five o'clock he Went into the garden, and there
detected the prisoner Granger under one of the pear
trees, gathering pears, of which his hat was more
than half full, and iris Coat pocket quite full. The
Magistrate ordered them to he poblicly whipped on
Weddesday, in that'part of Brampton Where the sob-
riety was cdnamitted, in order that the public might
me and ban thaw is a law to punish those Who ea o.

" SWANSEA, OCTOBER 19.
II It is with great concern that 1 inform you that
we are all in Swansea in a very anxioas stateof alarm
the whole of this day, and I am quite apprehensive
that consequences will end very bad. Yesterday dis-
patches came from Merthyr by express, signed by the
High Sheriff of the county, and other principal Ma-
gistrates, urging the immediate assistance of three
troops of the So..nsea cavalry, at Mertl.yr, stating
that the rioters had assumed a most alarming appear-
arce ; consequently the troops marched from .Swan-
sea at a very early hour this morning; and alio the
Catdiff.troop from that town; since which' thereh.is
been such a vat iety- of alarming rep:ms that it wr.uld
be endless to repeat. I must only say that the .dis-
contented are in great force, and determined to op-
pose every thing sent against them. The Magistrates
are now waiting the arrival of the first messenger.—
I hope things will be mach better indeed than the
reports—otherwise it is dreadful. lam much afraid
distress will be severely felt this winter."
The following are extracts from the Bristol news-
papers of Saturday : •
44 During the present week very alarming ac-
reports have reached this city, that there bad been
serious riots in .Glarnorkaashiee ;. hot upon inquiry
we are happy to and that the facts have been ready
etaggerated. The men employed in the inin works
have, we understand, struck, their masters havitig
been compelled to reduce the• wages to Is. per day a,
but no owners, at least none of any consequence,
had been perpetrated. As a measure of precaution,
however, detachments of the 55th Itegitnent, in Bris-
tol garrison, have, in the course of the last two days,
marched for the above neighbourhoods".
Sr Yesterday morning, a detachment of the 55th
Foot, quartered in this city, and in the evening,
another detachment, were ordered to march, withont
stopping, to the New Passage, to embark forthwith
for Monmouthshire : appearances of .disturbance and
riot having broke out at Merthyr and othet places
adjacent. Another detadment holds itself in. readi-
ness to embark this morning." )

The*High Sheriff -of Cornirall has caned a Meet
ing, ii pursuance of a Requisition : the persons who
signed it say—e 4 If the people are not relieved from
the present intolerable burden of taxation, their dis-
tresses will it Crease to k n extent that will endanger,
the very existence of the country:" - •
Saturday morning as a. drover, who had some
cattle in ale peas at• Islington, was walking across the
hay field to go to a public house to get some refresh-
ment,he found a man, "waren* not thirty years of
age, lying near a hay stack, quite dead and cold.—
tie was much emaciated, god it is supps6ed he died
ke Mint rpf food.