The National Register. — 1812-05-24 (London, England)

PROVINCIALS.  MAY 24  DISTURBANCES IN THE COUNTRY.  - - We are sorry to observe, that the disposition to tumult and disorder in vatious parts of the country has not yet subsided. At the Carlisle market,Saturday week, considerable agitation prevailed among the po. pulace ; and a farmer who bad become obnoxious to the misled multitude, on account of the price which he put upon his grain, was assailed with stones on his return home, and severely wounded. We are glad to learn, however, that judicious arrangements have been made for the protection of the dealer, in brireing his produce to market. Sevesal miner depredations, such as the stealing of potatoes and hams, hays also, we are sorry to learn, taken place in the same district. 'llse Meeting of the 'Magistracy at Wakefield, on Thursday se'nnight, was the most numerous and respectable ever witnessed. Generals Maitland and Grey were present to assist in the deliberations, and to form arrangements for the proper disposal of the large military force collected in that disti ict. At this meeting it was strongly recommended, that voluntary associations should be formed of the peaceable and welldisposed inlibitants of the Riding. At Huddersfield all was quiet last week. A person of the name of Sykes, a shopkeeper, in Meltham, near Huddersfield, has been exerted frens thence in a chaise and tour, by a troop of the queen's bay., on hie route to York Castle; charged with representing himself to be one of General I.udd's men, entering people's houses in Meltham in the night time, and demanding and obtaining possession of arms. li.arly on Sus:day se'tinight, a body of men, supposed to amount to near 100, passed down Kirkgate, in Wakefield, and mischievously broke the windows of several of the most respectable bitants :—from what quarter they came, or to which they retired, has not been ascertained. The following nights by some of the same zee:, the hot-house of Mr. Tootal, corn-factor, was attacked, anti about 3e4 squares of glass broken. The perpetrators of this outrage escaped detection. We regret to state, that letters received from Nottingham communi: cate, that on Sunday night last a Mr. Gaunt, a gentleman who hack bete particularly active in discovering the Luddites, was shot in his own neighbourhood It is not certain whether the wound he received would prove fatal or not. Letter; have been received front Manchester, which communicate the unpleasant intr. 'ligeuce, that during the last feev days several yielme outrages had be en cemmitted by the Luddites. No tewer than tee.: persons had beets she; in different parts of the country, without .ey discovery or even suspicion of the murderers. Besides these atrocitics a gentleman v: h:: had incurred the hatred of the Ltutdac,. was attacked in a lane in the middle of the day, by men tel were strangers to bins ; after receiving a violent blow on the head with a large store,' he had tke good fortune to escape by the swift less of hi horse. A workieg man, who had been mistaken for another person that had given in l'ormation against the Luddites, was taken to a coal:1:e, with an intent of precipitating him to the bottom, when it was dice vercd that he was net the man whom the assailants were in quest ct; and, in consequence, he was suffered to depart, without sustaining ary injury. All possible mean; have been tried to induce the Ludditcs prison to divuiee the whole extent of their plan, and to imeezell ther ringleaders, hut without effect. The Special 'Commission for the trial of the Rioters in leu was to be ripened at Lancaster Castle yesterday. The Judges named e the Commission are the Lord Chiet Baron, Mr. Justice Le Blanc, :I.r . Chanibre, and Mr. Baron Graham. There are upwards rt sO prisoners for trial. About 40 of these, whose imputed crimes are :c: companied with circumstances of aggravation, will be selected, aka tried under the Act of the present Session, making the malicious ee str ction of machinery a capital offence. The Special Commission for the trial of the Cheshire rioters wi:!le opened to-morrow. '1 he number fur trial at Cheeter exceed :ere of. whom about twenty-five will be selected for trial on the prege: , casion.