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and that it would be many hours before they would be fit for service again. He was told, if he sent them off, it must be done on his own responsibility, and that the magistrates would not relieve him from it; at the same time, upon the asking where it would be best for them to go, it was stated that the magistrates would not embarrass him if they could not assist him, subject to his responsibility, recom

Quay, to which the soldiers followed them, and were assailed by stones; they had before put out the lamos, and one of the cavalry officers came to the magistrates to know if he might fire some rounds of cartridges down the street, as the mob, by retreating into ships when driven by the cavalry to the brink of the Quay, preserved the means of annoyance, and rendered it impossible for the cavalry to get at them. One of the special constables pro-mended Brislington as the nearest quarters. posed, with 25 men, if supported by the soldiers, to go and clear the ships; but this was that the mob was proceeding to Bridewell to Soon after this, information was brought given up, as was any further use of active release the prisoners, and several of the inhaforce, it appearing, upon Colonel Brereton's bitauts having assembled at the Guildhal', in statement, that they seemed to be peaceably pursuance of a requisition of the magistrates, inclined, and that he expected, if they were they refused to act without the assistance of left to themselves, the city would be quiet. the troops. Colonel Brereton was desired to The military, therefore, continued merely to bring the troops into immediate service, and patrol the streets, and, with the exception of some time afterwards was asked, before the one short conflict, during which one of the citizens, if he bad ordered out the 14th, as well rioters was shot by a soldier of the 14th, it is as the 3d Dragoon Guards? He stated that believed there was no disturbance until the he had not, and could not do so; they would morning. At day-break the people began be useless, and it would endanger their lives. again to assemble near the Mansion-house in He was remonstrated with upon this, and told considerable numbers. About 8 o'clock, and expressly that the magistrates demanded and shortly after the soldiers were removed from required their protection. I find that, upon the house, a violent attack with stones and his going to the quarters of the 14th, and iron bars was made upon the Mansion-house, desiring them to go out of town, they were which had been barricaded with plauks dur-unwilling to do so, and expressed the utmost ing the night, and made as secure as circum-readiness to act, but that they were told by stances would permit; and the mob were upon the Colonel it was the magistrates' order, and the point of forcing an entrance, when 1, with that they must go. I find also that the horses, some others, left the house by going over the at that time, were by no means in a state roofs. The mob immediately afterwards, en- incapable of service. From this time, up to tered and took possession. Some time before eight o'clock in the evening, at which time my leaving the house, Colonel Brereton had the Bishop's Palace was fired and destroyed, withdrawn the troops, having mentioned that and the mob had set fire to the Mansionthe few troops there had no other effect than house, (in the mean time the jails of Newgate, that of attracting the mob, without being able Bridewell, and Lawford's-gate, having been to render any service, and that they were fired, and the prisoners discharged,) the namuch harassed and must go to their quarters.gistrates had no assistance from the military, Very soon after the troops had withdrawn, the and, as I believe, no effort whatever was made mob entered into the Mansion-house, got pos- to render any, except that some soldiers session of the cellars, and became intoxicated, marched to the jail when it was first attacked, and within 30 or 40 minutes after the troops and might, I believe, have been successfully had been sent to the stables, they were again defended, if the troops had not almost immecalled for, but, except a small party of the 3d diately retired; and except also that a few Dragoon Guards, did not stay long, and the troops went to the Bishop's Palace, in aid of mob having followed and pelted the 14th, four the constables, and withdrew from it when the or five shots were discharged upon them. Soon constables came into contact with the mob; after this, I and several magistrates being as- and also except about six or eight men who sembled at the Guildhall, Colonel Brereton patrolled near the Mansion-house. Having applied to us for our authority to withdraw gone to the Bishop's Palace upon the fire the 14th from the city; stating that they were alarm, with several of the special constables, so much harassed, and had so much exas- and they having been, as I have understood, perated the feelings of the public, that they in contact with the mob, and having been discould not remain, except at the peril of their appointed by the retirement of the troops, lives. Colonel Brereton was told in answer, just about the time when a fresh body of the that the magistrates not only could not autho-nob were coming up, I went to the house of rise him to do so, but directed it not to be done, saying that the military had been sent down for the protection of the city, and that the persons and property of the inhabitants could not be protected without them. Colonel Brereton stated that their staying would be utterly useless; they were harassed and worn out, and wanted refreshment, and were alto gether inefficient in their present condition,

friend in the neighbourhood, from which, in the course of the night (first at 12, and afterwards at 3 o'clock in the morning), I sent urgent requisitions to Colonel Brereton for assistance; not only the Mansion-hou-e and Custom-house were buruing, but other houses had been set on fire, and by the time the troops were taken down to the spot, through the personal application of a magistrate, two

POOR IRELAND.

sides of the square, consisting of nearly forty houses, were burning; but, upon their coming down, the mob desisted from further attempts. WE perceive from a letter from Mr. On the Monday, Major Beckwith, of the O'CONNELL in The Dublin Morning 14th, came from Gloucester, and the division of the 14th having been brought back, took Register, that he has renounced all the command of the cavalry, and, under the hopes of benefit from Ministers to sanction of the magistrates, charged the mob Ireland, and that he has not " at present wherever they were assembled in bodies, the most remote idea of even approach speedily dispersed them, and, in a great mea

sure, restored peace and security to the city.ing, much less accepting (if it were. I have considered it proper, with the con-offered), any office whatsoever." currence of my brother magistrates, to submit "Some friends of mine," he adds, "thought, this statement to your consideration, not and indeed I was almost-though never quite intending to make any charge or insiuuation of the opinion, that I might accept office to against any-body, but thinking it proper that aid in the change. I was the more near being the causes of such an awful calamity as the of this opinion, because I could, if my princicity has experienced should be inquired into. ples were not at once put into an active train, I have every reason to believe that the conbe able to fling that office in the faces, or at duct of of the soldiers and their officers was the feet, of those who gave it me. Such were entitled to you Lordships' approbation; but the ideas floating on my mind, whilst one doubt very much whether the military assistance could reasonably hope for a just and Irish afforded us by his Majesty's Government was government in Ireland, employed as it might have been, and as the pressing exigency of the case required.

I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lordship's very obedient, humble servant.

CHARLES PINNEY, Mayor.

To the Right Hon. Lord Hill, &c.

Sed Diis aliter visum!!

The day dream is gone by-the hope is. faded before it assumed tangible shape or form the old system is in its vigour the paltry corporators are unpunished-the Tory Attorney-General, whose dependents, friends, and relatives, all, all voted in Meath as ins Dublin, against the Reform, as well as minis. moted off or dismissed. The yeomanry are terial candidates, remains in office, not pro

The following is the notice which a very numerous and respectable portion of the inhabitants of Bristol have given of their inteu-all undisarmed--the police unmitigated-the tion to apply to Parliament for a legislative provision against the recurrence of those mischiefs with which they have recently been

visited:

"Notice is hereby given, that application

is intended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing session for leave to bring in a bill or bills, to establish and maintain an effective police, with stipendiary magistrates, within the city and county of the city of Bristol, and in the several parishes of Clifton, Saint James, and Saint Paul, Saint Philip, and Jacob, and Westbury-upon-Trym, in the county of Gloucester, aud in the parish of Bedminster, in the county of Somerset, and for superseding the present system of watching in the said city and county of the city of Bristol; and in which bill or bills provision is intended to be made to regulate the holding of Assizes by the Judges of the Circuit within the said city and county of the city of Bristol; and in which bill or bills provision is also intended to be made for the maintenance of such police and magistracy, and to provide for the loss sustained by the late fires and riots within the said city and county, either out of the property now held for the benefit of the said city, or otherwise, as the case may be.

"Dated this 14th day of November, 1831. "ESTLAN and BALL, Solicitors, Broad-street, Bristol.

most violent and the bitterest enemies of the conscientious privileges of the people may be STANLEY is coming over again— the magisfound amongst the County Lord Lieutenants. tracy

HIS

"But why should I follow the heart-rending catalogue? STANLEY, WITH ALL PREJUDICES AND PASSIONS, IS COMING OVER More need not be said-I take this. AGAIN.

one fact as a declaration by the Ministry of a renewed war upon all that the people of Ireland have clung to of hope or rational expectation.

"Let me only mention one other fact which has come to my ears, and fills my soul with bitterness and indignation. It is this: there is in the county of Sligo-a county outs out of which proceed three Tory high Bruns wick members-voting upon every question, great and small, against the Ministry and against reform. Why, at this very moment, the Irish government are appointing to the Lord Lieutenancy of that county a Kildareplace Biblical and Brunswicker barone:-although they could find in the town of Sligo, or at Ballina, a gentleman whose appointment would be hailed as a boon by every

friend of reform.

"I am heartily sick of the conduct of this administration towards Ireland. I do not think the honest Irish members will bear it much longer, Of what value is it to us to have a Whig administration in England, if we are to

be governed in Ireland upon principles more | Cobbett-corn, and they shall CALL Tory than the Tories themselves? From my it Cobbett-corn too, though it choke heart and soul I pity poor Lord Anglesey, who, probably, meaus very well, and actually them; and I will go into the markets imagines that one time or the other he will and laugh at them, and poke the name do some good for Ireland-that is, provided up under their noses. I said, last week, we wait for a while.' Alas! to-morrow that 14 persons had growed crops never comes; and so Lord Anglesey's good' near Great Grimsby; but my printers, to Ireland' will always be in the paulo post in the absence of moral knowledge, and futurum.' by a concatenation of thought, naturally bringing the corn to the tooth with aslittle intermediate space as possible, put ground, instead of growed. They also made Doctor Black call' THE LIAR a

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they will not, in this or a similar case, omit the r another time.

So, MELLISA, the butcher, is, accord-"friend," instead of a “fiend." I hope ing to the Morning Post, going to marry another of his daughters to Lord KINNAIRD, with, perhaps, another halfmillion of money! I should like to see some of the breed of this Mellish it must be stock of a rare sort. I dare say, however, that it does not, some how or other, like a reform of the Parliament. I could, if I would, tell the butcher why I do not think he likes the thought of it! I will tell him when we have got the reform: and I will tell it him not in a joking way. And then it is that I will tell the loanmongers why they abhor the thought of reform.

I thank my friends at LEWES, in Sussex, and at ALRESFORD, in Hampshire, for some very fine ears of Cobbett

A gentleman has sent me some ears of American corn, to show me that it will not ripen here. I thank him; but I knew the fact well. Seedsmen (mostly, I hope, for want of knowledge on the subject) have caused, in this way, great disappointment to numerous persons, who, in general, however, have deserved what they got; for they wanted the corn, but would not have it of me! And they wanted to prove, too, that iny sort was no better than any other! After many disappointments, from this cause, the seedsmen will actually sell the "Cobbett-Corn," and will be compelled to call it by that name. But, then, the people will not believe them! However, people will buy of their neighbours, whom they have seen grow it; and it will be all over the country directly. A thing that will produce, on an aveI beg Mr. PLASKITT of Great Grims- rage, on an acre, in five months, TEN by's pardon for having, in my last Re- QUARTERS of corn, each quarter gister, said that he sent me 14 ears of yielding more flour, and better flour,, corn instead of 21, which he sent. The than a quarter of the very best wheat; whole county of Lincoln will grow this such a thing must be of general cultivacorn in a few years. Don't tell me of tion, in spite of boroughmongering and the "prejudice" against it on my ac-yeomanry cavalrying. I will MAKE count. "Tis folly, 'tis impudence, 'tis the Bull-Frogs cultivate the Cobbettroguery, in some; and, in the Bull- corn. frog farmers, it is a fear that the corn will make the labourers more independent of them, and will again make small farms. They would, therefore, chop me down with their swords. If I did not know this description of men so well as I do, I should reason with them as it is, I make short work with them, and tell them that they SHALL grow

corn.

I want to rent, for a term not less than 10 years, a farm, in Kent, Sussex, or Surrey, or Hampshire, at not much more than 40 miles from Bolt-court. The things I desire are as follows:

1. From about 60 to about 150 acres of arable and dry meadow."

2. From 2 to 5 acres of coppice.

3. Not stony, not gravel or chalk | HAWKINS, W., Lambeth-road, carpenter. with 2 feet of surface.

4. Not hungry sand.

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5. Not clay, or wet bottom, so as to need water-furrowing, or draining. 6. Not much shaded by timber. 7. A common farm-house, barn, stable, &c.

8. Not in the street of a village.

If any friend of mine, even at a somewhat greater distance, should know of any-thing that he thinks likely to suit, I beg him to write to me on the subject. I will not go one inch to the North of London. My lease is not out here till March, 1833; but I want to enter next Lady-day; for I have pledged myself to Mr. Sapsford to sell him, next year,

HICKMAN, H., Devonshire-place, Edgwareroad, brick-maker.

LAWRENCE, C., and A. Hoggins, Philpotlaue, merchants.

MAYNARD, J., Brighthelmstone, Sussex,
draper.
NEWMAN, G., Pancras-la., Cheapside, agent.
ODELL, G., Northampton, horse dealer.
SWINDELLS, J., Manchester, mercer.
WATTS, J., Corsley-heath, Wilts, grocer.
WILTSHIRE, W., Frome-Selwood, Somer-
WINTERTON, T., Ea:1 Shilton, Leicester-
setshire, inn-holder. ·
shire, spirit-merchant.
WOODWARD, M., Rugeley, Staffords., mercer.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION.
STEEL, T., Glasgow, grain-merchant.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1831. INSOLVENTS.

100 quarters of corn of my raising! A FARRAH, J., Hatfield Hide, Hertfordshire,

farm with some hop-garden I should

coal-merchant.'

like. The coppice may be dispensed SHOTTER, G. J., Sunbury, Middlesex, shop

with.

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keeper.

BANKRUPTS.

ASPINALL, J., Giltspur-street, boot and shoe-maker.

BROWN, J., St. Mary-at-Hill, wine-merchant.

BONE, B., Greenwich, cabinet maker. BOAST, R., Hunslet, Yorkshire, innkeeper. BEAUCHAMP, R., Holboru-bars, pawnbroker.

CHURCH, W., Mark-lane, wine-merchant. CROSS, J., Bristol, provision-merchant. COULTHARD, B., Bolton, Lancashire, bleacher.

CANNINGS, J. jun., Bath, cabinet-maker. DUNNETT, W., Manchester, silk-warehouseman.

EDWARDS, E., Holborn, china-dealer.
ELLIOTT, Birmingham, fruiterer.
FARR, W., Bristol, silversmith.

GILLHAM, C, Romford, Essex, wine-mer

chant.

GREENOUGH, R., Manchester, manufac

ALSOP, G., Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, surgeon. turer.
ARCHIBALD, A., Thayer-street, Mauches- JENKINS, H. C., Bridge-house-place, South-

ter-square, coal-merchant.

BAILY, E. H., Percy-street, Tottenhamcout-road, sculptor.

BASSTON, J. and T., Grantham, Lincolnhire, ironmongers.

BEVAN, E., and M. Gates, Bristol, merchants. BUTT, T., Hart-st., Covent-garden, farrier. BROWN, W. J., Gt. Winchester st., silkman. CARELESS, J., Sweeting's-al., Cornhill, victealler, and Leadenhall-market, cheesem. CROSS, W., Old Swan-wharf, Loudon-bridge, cal-merchaut.

FRY, A. A., Great Ormond-street and Bridgestreet, dealer.

wark.

LAVERACK, M. and C. M., Kingston-uponHull, corn-factors,

LEIGHTON, J., North Shields, victualler. MARSTERS, W., Aldenham, Hertfordshire, corn-dealer.

MAURICE, W., Dudley, Worcestershire, printer.

PATERSON, J., Tunbridge, Kent, coal- mer

chant.

PERRY, T., Hilton, shropshire, tailor. WATSON, H., Regent-street, Oxford-street, print-seller.

WOODRUFFE, Ramsey, Essex, cattle-dealer. GOODRICK, E., Huntingdon, linen-draper. WOODHAM, P. seu., Piccadilly, corn-dealer. GUIVER, J., Enfield-highway, stage-master. WRAGGE, F. F., Preston, Lancashire, bookHARRISON, R., Birmingham, druggist.

seller.

LONDON MARKETS. MARK-LANE, CORN-EXCHANGE, NOVEMBER 14.-Our Supplies, since this day se'nnight, of English and Irish wheat, English and Scotch barley, and English. malt, beans, and peas, have been moderately good; of English Hour and Irish oats, rather great; of Scotch and foreign wheat, Irish barley, English, Scotch, and foreign oats, Irish and Scotch flour, foreign barley, rye and seeds, from all quarters, very limited.

This day's market was tolerably well at tended, both by London and country buyers; the latter appearing, for the most part, to be more on a visit of observation than of business; but, notwithstanding that the supply of every description of newly arrived foreign grain wae exceedingly short, the trade, on account of advanced prices being demanded, was, on the whole, dull; with wheat, barley, rye, oats, malt, and flour, at last week's prices; with beans and peas at an advance of about 2s. per quarter

Canary seed looked a little upwards. With other seeds the trade was either very dull, at considerably reduced prices, or their quotations are standing merely nominal.

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Bacon, Middles, new, ―s. to —s. per c.it.
Sides, new...50s. to 54s.

Pork, India, new ..126s. Od. to -s. Od.
Pork, Mess, new ... .60s. Od. to 65s. per barl.
Butter, Belfast ..100s. to -s. per cwt..
Carlow..... 100s. to 102s..
Cork ......97s. to 98s.
Limerick..975. to -s.
Waterford..94s. to 98s.
Dublin ....95s. to-s.
Cheese, Cheshire....60s. to 80s.

Gloucester, Double.. 56s. to 63s.
Gloucester, Single...48s. to 54s.
Edam
46s. to 50s.
44s. to 48s.

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Hams, Irish..... 42s. to 54s.

SMITHFIELD-November 14. This day's supply of beasts was good: of sheep, fat calves, and porkers, rather limited; Prime beef and mutton met with a ready sale, at an advance of about 2d. per stoue. The trade with inferior beef and mutton was very dull with veal and pork somewhat brisk, at Friday's quotations. The stock was of fair

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