The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-01-13 00:00:00

RIOTS AT NOTIINGHAM.

r/ROM Tilt NOTTINGIIASI TRIDIT.I
Unhappily we have this week to record, that the
hope expresee, in our last, of a speedy termination
co the outrages committed in our neighbourhood,
:which we founded on the weekly decleusion of their
needier, ha:: been In:lsled in its bud ; for this week
tbe ratatc;gue of crime eis long and awfule.—Frame-
heal:erg and burning still continue ; though of
burglaries we have heard but of one ; and we are
1,.,„1N in expressing a belief, that the gang of
eeetc";;:s which has excited such just had universal
7etn in Derbyshire, is about broken up. On the
eleete, an idle wretch, that had excited suspi-
ei• a sudden transition from rags and poverty
,:11-dressed plenty, was arrested at Realtor,
e•at comity ; and we understand, from iuforma-
:eel which he has given, that two other despera-
e,,es were taken at a public-house in Loscoe, last
Wednesday, and conveyed in chains to Derby
;out; one of which, a celebrated pedestrian,.
and %yell known ste a deserter, had long been
the terror of the neighbourhood fur miles arouud. •
Tile eight before our last paper went to press, a
r!dme was l,reken near Wollaton Toll-bar; the iron
eerk of which was cast into the canal. On Friday
e:eitioe nine were broken at Basfurd, and another
arn.: di stroyed at three o'clock the next afternoon,
in the same village. On the same afternoon two
e be ()Len at Ride:ell, while they were about to he
reeoeel 10 Nottingham, as a place of greater security;
ieecre numbers of frames continue to be brought in
eve the country villages, on the same account. On
Saturday night seven frames were broken at Ruck-
hail Torkard; and the iron works of two of them
-.we rallied clean away. The sane evening one
tare frame was broken in Poinfret-steeet, and one
f the same kind in Earl-street, in Nottingham ;
and on Sunday morning, at six o'clock, too other
fare Lames were broken in Old-street ; and when
•!e depredators had done their work, they fired
rOf four pistols or muskets, in open defiance of
!le civil power. These four frames belouged tee
a person, who, we enderstaml, Ills been in the
rawles practice of paying his well:men partly
ie goods, and had thn.s recited indignation. On
Snerlay night two frames were broken at Old Rad-
ferd ; and on 11Ionday night thirteen more at the
ba-ne place. And, we understand, that five have
be n itruken at Arnold during the course of the
Obtregeous as this practice is, it falls far
tt'es, rioral turpitude to that of setting firo to
ereciehr, which, from its exposed situation, is im-
be protected. A stack containing
evenly tote: of valuable hay, was, we understand,
ten to at Mansfield on Sunday evening; the
Ilene of which drew a part of a congregation from •
Nlethol:st chapel in that place, during Divine
Sr-eire. A.d on Wednesday evening a large weed-
hovel, containing a quantity of straw, the pro-
psee et Mrs. Daykin, of Bagthorpe, was set tire to
a, 13;1 iced, the whole of which was consumed. We
-anent record these circumstances without feeling
sh- utmost horror and invrgnation dreading the
oeisequenccs which may ensue ftom men being in-
bred to such crimes. Much eight be said here
eeiut the cause, but we forbear ; though we cannot
h• ";: iteadiug a return of the days of Richard ll.
fiame-breakiug at Basford on Friday night
;endured results which have created considerable
se:sation. An elderly woman, the wife of a person
4.! I held seven of these frames, has sworn to several
Per Salt%, as being concerned in the outrage (tee of
whom are committed), on which account, such was
indignation excited against her ti 111011.4 some of
the socking-makers of Basford, that it was judged
c‘peient to remove the family with their furniture,
c.,orted by the militate, to Nottitighnm, as a place
ci refuee, lest they should fall a sacrifice to the veil-
goaece of the fluters.

%It Italian journal of dm 611, or Nov. announces,
no timber for ship Imil(lioz, nor any masts,
1, rafter be permitted to be exported from
1., 1.

Ai! from Otranto, of the Colt of Nocem-
F I. !•;.ucs, that the French Athuiral I.EsiEtt.ut:s had
s ,n rived at Corfu with Iwo convo)s, K Melt left
im the Ifitit of October.
:ehrnt:•.: en:trent Of it Trappe was, on the
" • s; suppressed by a 11,cree of the Swiss

T.: Cotat of Diroctors are making some impor-
arrangements for the benefit of
intercourse between the Peninsula of India
;,'

A‘..tirtlin4 to the last letters from Cadiz, the ,
Irseit,ing farce amounted to 16,000 men, I
I.er ha% it at any period been reduced much below
lit number.
nod papers,. which arrived on Satyr-
-1., the ‘.:,! !.It. state, that large quantities of Bri-
?:sh niancractures continued to be smuggled into the
.:ritcries of the United States frees Canada. The
`'cesium-honer o.E:•ers on all the frontier stations had
doubled and trebled ; but, notwithstanding
etr vigilance, the temptation and facilities were so
tirat, that English goods still found admission.—
, 'lime severe contests had taken place between the
"kers and smugglers, which had not terminated
xithout the loss of many lives. Precautionary mea.
• 'res had been adopted by Lieutenant-General Sir
E • ;. Par.vorr, the Governor of Canada in the event
with the United States. There was a
:erable body of regular trocps in our North
iilerican Provinces, besides a tolerable militia,
loig whom the best disposition prevailed. The
NI-Importation Act, and other recent measures of
United States Government, have had the effect
increasing the trade of our colonies in that quar-
and consequently removing slight discontents
' might formerly have prevailed.
• .Jamaica-Paper, of the 25th of October, contains
• tollowing article
KINGSTON, Oc-r. 25.—William, Shaw, Esq. Wall
on his trial at the Grand Court in Spanish
. on Wednesday last, charged with assuming
iself the character of a British Agent, through
means a correspondence under false pretences,
Pt up with Rigaud in St. Domingo. After a
• investigation the ri'anner was found—