New-York tribune., 1841-11-10

! .irict instructions 10 be ~cicHiu. w 'i'- r.
night; and all the doors were iocHg"
tleuen OF the Temple. and the oihef ii'''
- nm their gates, and streng thened them
-, ,he grrat stones of the pavement which they
,oni, -, for the purpose. In Lincoln's Inn, they
.o,. an the hall and commons 10 the Norlhumber-
I'D militia under the command of Lord Algernon
Percy: in some few OF the city wards, the burgess
ses turned out, and without making very fierce
4 show. looked brave enough. Some hundreds of
/ stout gentlemen ,!rew themselves, lned 10 the
teeth, into the nails of the different companies,
dosbc-locked and boiled all the gates, and dared
the rioters (among ih-rn.elves) TO come al their
peril. These arrangements being all made .imul-
raneously nearly 80, were completed by the time
IL got dark and then the streets were compare
lively clear, and guarded at all the great cor
ners and chief avenues by the ro.ps while parties
of the officers rods Up and down in oil directions
ordering chance s;ragglers home, and admoni.hing
the residents 70 keep within their houses and. II
any fling ensured, not 10 approach the Windows
/ More chains drawn across such thorough
fares &c were OF nature to favor the approach OF
great crowd ard a. each OF these points con-
/ s1.rable force was stationed. All these precau-
tons having been taken and it being now quite
dark. those IN copman. awaited the result in some
anxiety; and not without hope that such vigilant
Vi ;iiS
populace and prevent any further outrages.
Bur in this reckoning they were cruelty mistaken,
! for in half AN hour, or less, though the setting
in of night had been their preconcerted signal, the
rioters having previously, in small parties prevent
ed the lighting of the street lamps, rose like great
sea ; and that in many places at once, and with
such inconceivable fury, that those who had the
! direction os the troops knew rst, al FIRST where 10
turn OF what To do One after another, new lres
/ bazcd ~ in every quarter OF the town, a. though
it were the intention of the insurgents to wrap the
the civ in a circle of flames, whics, contracting by
degrees should burn tho whole to ashes the crewd
swarmej and roared in every street; AID none but
rio,er. and solders being out of doors, it seemed
to the latter a. If all London arrayed against
them, and they stood alone against the town.
In TWO hours, xand-thir,y fires were rigging
six-andthrty great conflagrations; among them
the Borough CInk in Tsoley-strect, the King
Bench the Fleet, and the New Bridewell. In al
mos, every street, there was battle; and IL every
quarter the nuskets OF the troops heard
above the shouts and nmuts of the mob. The
Grlng began in the Poultry, where the chain was
drawn across the road. where nearly score OF peo-
pie were killed on the first discharge. Their bs-
dies having been hastily carried into st. Mildred ;
church by the soldiers, they fred again, and fol-
! lowing fast upon the crowd, who began give way
when they saw the execution that was done formed
across Chcapside, and charged them at the point
of the bayonet.
The streets were now dreadful spectacle ia
deed while the shouts Of the rabbc, the shrieks
Of women the cries Of the wounded, and the con-
slant firing, formed dcafcning and awful ac-
compartment To the sights winch every corner pre-
sented. Wherever the road was Distracted by the
chains, there The lighting and the loss Of life were
-, ,Io ho, ,bct IN
almost every leading lhoroughilre. and in every
one the same appalling scenes occurred.
At Holborn Bridge, and on Iolborn Hill, the
confusion was greater than in any other part for
the crowd that poured on, of the city in two great
streams, one by Ludgnte Hill and one by Newgate-
street, united AT that spot, and formed mass su
dense, that at every voey the people seemed 10
fall in heaps. Al this place large detachment OF
soldicry were posted, who fred, now zap Fleet Mar
ket now up llolborn, now up Snow Hill-cOn-
stantly ral;ing the streets in each direction. At
this place too, several large fires were burning,
that all the tcrrors OF that terrible night seemed Ia
be concentrated in this spot.
Full twenty times, the rioters, headed BY one
man who Welded an in his right hand and ba-
strobe brewers horse of grea, size and strength
caparisoned with letters taken out OF Newgate,
which clanked and nglei az he went, mcde an al
tempt to force passage Mt this point, and hre the
yiptncr's house. Full twenty times they were re-
pulsed with loss Of life and still came back again;
and though tho fellow at their bead was marked
and singled cut by all and was Il conspicuous Oh
iect as the only rcter on horseback, not man
could hit him. So surely as the smoke cleared
away, So surely there was he; calling hoarsey to
hi, companions brandishing his axe above his
head. and dashing on as though be bore charmed
r ILL 4
This man was Hugh; and in every part Of the
riot, he was seem He headed two attacks upon
the Bank, helped TO break open the Toll-houscs
Blackfriars Bridge, and cast the money into the
street; fired tvyc Of the prisons with his hnEd;
lie was here, and there, and every where-aways
foremost-alwnys actiyo-strikirg at the soldiers,
cheering on the crowd making his horses iron
music heard through all the yell and uproar; but
never hurt or stopped. Turn him at one place,
and he made new struggle in another; force him
to retreat ut this point and he udvaaced or thar
directly. Driven from Holborn for the twentieth
time, he rode the head OF great crowd straight
upon Saint Paul's, attacked guard of soldiers
who kept watch over body of prisoners within the
iron ratings, forced them TO retreat rescued the
men they had in custody, and with this accession
TO his party, came back again, mad with liquor and
excitement, and hallooing them on like demon.
1t would have been no easy task for the most
careful rider to sit horse in the midst of such a
throng and tumut; but though this mailman rolled
upon his back Che had ma sadile) like boat upon
the sea, he never for instant lost lis seat.
failed to guide hin, where be would Through the
very thckest of the press. over dead bodies and
burning fragments, now on the pavement, now IN
the road riding up flight of steps make
himself the more conspicuou. TO his party, and now
forcing passage through msss OF human beings,
so closely wedged together that it seemed if
the edge of a knife would scarcely part them,-on
he went as though he could surmount nil obstacles
by the mere exercise of his will. And perhaps
his NOT bens shot wns in SONS decree uttributahe