houses, exclusive of the Mansion-house, Ex-believe, originated in the utter ignorance of cise-office, Custom-house, the four Toll- the Magistrates of the state of the city. The houses, the three Prisons, and the Bishop's Palace. shops had remained unopened, and the military were ordered to clear the streets; an orNot the least painful reflection is, that, after der which was fulfilled to the letter by a party the destruction of the Custom-house, the re- of the troops which had experienced some mainder of the mischief was owing to the rough treatment, and had in consequence wanton fury of a truly insignificant number of fired upon the people on the previous day. wretches almost exclusively boys. We saw The sight of this useless piece of duty was three urchins, apparently not more than ten peculiarly distressing; nothing was to be seen or eleven years of age, who, when their re- fou every side but unoffending women and treat from the attic floor of one of the houses children, running and screaming in every dihad been cut off, and while the flames were rection, while several men, apparently on bursting out from beneath them, coolly their way to work, were deliberately cut at, clamber along a coping, projecting not more several seriously injured, and some killed. A than three inches, and, entering an adjoining poor fellow who attempted to take refuge in house, immediately set fire to a bedstead and a house from which we were just emerging furniture, From the time we have named, on business connected with the restoration of many of the older ones gave themselves up tranquillity, was wounded at our side. Yet wholly to drinking and revelling in the scene worse effects might have followed this illaround them. We feel certain that, if fifty advised measure if the soldiers had not been men only could have been collected, more shortly after withdrawn from their bloody than one-half of the property could have been work, and the streets principally manned effectually protected. But the whole city with the inhabitants, armed with good strong seemed panic-struck, and but few cared ex-staves, and having strips of white linen tied cept for their personal safety. On this night, round the left arm; a regulation suggested at least, it may be truly said, that the city was by the Magistrates to distinguish them, supgiven up to plunder. In the heart of the town, posing the interposition of the military should young fellows, in parties of four, five, or six, be again required. Several troops, however, repaired to liquor-shops and public-houses, at of soldiers, together with the 11th Regiment the time intoxicated, knocked at the doors of Foot, continued to arrive during the day; and demanded drink or blood. In some in- and in the course of the afternoon, intellistances we know that they broke into pre-gence having arrived that there was some mises, helped themselves, and insulted the disturbance in the neighbourhood of Lawowners. And yet military, brought for our rence-hill, a party galloped off, and secured especial protection, could not act for want of four countrymen in the very act of robbing a orders! Oh, shame! shame! Few as they house. With these exceptions, we are happy were in numbers, had they been employed with to state that no further collision with the becoming energy, we should not have to de- military took place. plore the disgrace of our city. the extreme. Towards the evening, the flames in several Morning dawned on such a scene as had houses in the square broke out afresh, and never before been witnessed in this place. part of the pavement in King-street was forced The flames, it is true, were subsiding, but the up by the heat arising from some brandy appearance of Queen-square was appalling in which was burning in the vaults beneath, but Numerous buildings were re- the engines being in readiness, no further induced to a heap of smoking ruins, and others jury occurred. An attack on the shipping were momentarily falling in; while around, having been anticipated, the ships' bells were in various parts, lay several of the rioters, rung, signal guns were fired, and every thing in the last stage of senseless intoxication was prepared for an attack. The Earl of Liver and with countenances more resembling pool was moored in the centre of the river, fiends than men. Meantime the soldiers, and mounted with guns, an attack on her in who had been ordered out of town, were particular having been expected; but happily remanded; and the Magistrates, having these anticipations were not realised. It being re-assembled, came at length to a decision, thought possible, that if the rioters commenced called out the posse comitatus, and made an their attempts, they would, in all probability, application to Mr. Herapath, through the endeavour to reduce the streets to total darkmedium of Mr. Under-Sheriff Hare, for the ness, by cutting off the gas-pipes, the magisassistance of the Bristol General Union. Mr. trates issued a notice, recommending the in Herapath, their Vice-President, called the habitants to illuminate their houses, a recom members together by public notice; a course mendation which was pretty generally comwhich we understand he had already deter-plied with. The churches, also, were lit up, mined on; and in a short time a large body and the posse comitatus of the several parishes of them had collected together; previous to were stationed in them, a constant guard which Mr. Herapath was invested, by the being kept up, and relieved at stated intervals; Magistracy, with an authority equal to that the Members of the Union paraded the streets of the Under-Sheriff. We are sorry to have during the whole of the night. These meato record another piece of folly, wanton sures will be the undoubted means of cruelty we would call it, if it had not, as we restoring public tranquillity; already have they effected much, for up to the hour of our publication, we have heard of no further outrage: and we cannot but regret that the waut of common energy in the magistracy should have prevented the having recourse to the same measures early on the Suuday morning, since it is evident that the actual destruction of property might have been as easily vented as the places have been saved which were only marked for destruction." eleven years of age. In the same place there is also a considerable quantity of furniture, mostly in a shattered condition, which was found in the residences of the prisoners, many of whom were discovered in a state of intoxication, and in the act of enjoying themselves over the wine which they had purloined pre-from the cellars in the square. There is now evidently a re-action; and, in their turn, the plunderers have been seized with a panic. We hear that all sorts of stratagems have been resorted to by them to dispossess themselves of their ill-gotten booty. The total number of killed and wounded, as far as we have been able to ascertain, is as follows:-Four men and one woman, the latter in consequence of severe bruises re We have also heard, but we cannot vouch ceived in one of the houses where she had for the truth of the statement, that seventeen been engaged in plunder; a little boy also, of the ringleaders in the outrages of Sunday who was shot through the bowels, is not ex- are confined in the most secure wing of the pected to recover; fifty-one other persons, jail, the dilapidated building being now guarded including four women, have also received in- | by a strong body of soldiers. The persons aljuries, some of them very severe ones, princi- ready apprehended were principally found in pally sabre wounds; a few in consequence Back-street, Great-gardeus, Lewin's-mead, of the parties leaping from the burning Host-street, Temple-street, the Pithay, and houses. In this account we enumerate the Bedminster. We have just learned that the cases taken to the public hospitals only. Many 52d regiment from Southampton, will arrive lives were lost in the flames, and several per- here to-morrow, and the 35th was to leave sons who received injury having been taken Portsmouth this morning for the same destito their own homes, we have no means of nation. We regret to add that the fires are acquiring the requisite information respecting not yet extinguished though there is no fear them. of their extending beyond the premises previously materially damaged. (From the Second Edition of the same Paper.) BY THE KING. A PROCLAMATION. WILLIAM, R. Whereas in divers parts of Great Britain, and more particularly in the towns of Derby and Nottingham, and in the city of Bristol, tumultuous assemblages of people have taken place, and outrages of the ONE O'CLOCK.-The narrative we have given above brought down the principal circumstances connected with the present deplorable state of our city until the hour of our going to press. Being closely pressed for time, we however found it was impossible to speak of the laudable conduct, as we could have wished, displayed throughout the night by the Members of the Political Union, acting in conjunction with the parochial authorities. The firmness and patriotism they have dis-most violent description have been committed. played on the present emergency, entitle them not only to the esteem of their fellow-citizens, but to the gratitude of the whole country. A stronger contrast can scarcely be conceived than the good order of the last evening presented to the uproar and confusion of Sunday night. Under their protection we may now say that confidence is restored, though the city still wears the appearance of gloom-very few shops being open, and business still being in a measure suspended. We have now sincere pleasure in stating that they are, at the present moment, employing the most efficient means to bring the plunderers and incendiaries to that justice which their crimes deserve. Being authorised by the Magistrates to search all places where they had a suspicion any of the stolen property was secreted, and to arrest all persons in whose possession such property was found, they have already exercised that power with such success, that, at the time we write, there are confined in the Exchange no fewer than sixty individuals, men, women, and children, some of the latter (corroborating our previous statement) not more than ten or both upon the persons and property of divers of our subjects: and whereas all the restraints of law and order have been overborne and trodden under-foot by such lawless multitudes, the mansions of individuals violently eutered, pillaged, and set on fire, the ordinary course of justice forcibly interrupted, the jails for the confinement of criminals broken into and destroyed, and malefactors and persons charged with offences let loose upon the public, to the great disturbance and danger of the common weal, and the subversion of established Government: and whereas the welfare and hap piness of all nations do, under Divine Providence, chiefly depend upon the observance and enforcement of the law and whereas it is our firm determination faithfully to discharge the duty imposed on us, to preserve the public peace, and vigorously to exert the powers which we possess for the protection of all our subjects in the entire enjoyment of their rights and liberties; we therefore, being resolved to suppress the wicked and flagitious practices aforesaid, have thought fit, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, to issue this our Royal Proclamation, solemnly warning all : our liege subjects to guard against every attempt to violate the law, and to abstain from every act inconsistent with the peace and good order of society; and we do hereby charge and command all Sheriff, Justices of the Peace, Chief Magistrates of cities, boroughs, and corporations, and all the Magistrates throughout Great Britain, that they do effec. tually repress all tumults, riots, outrages, and breaches of the peace, within their respective jurisdictions; and that they do make diligent inquiry in order to discover and to bring to justice the movers and perpetrators of all such seditious and wicked, acts as aforesaid and we do further earnestly and solemnly exhort, enjoin, call upon, and command all our liege subjects, of all ranks and conditions, that they do come forward upon the first appearance or apprehension of any such disturbances as aforesaid, as they are bound by their duty to us, by their regard for the general interest, and by the obligation of the law, and that they be actively aiding and assisting to all Sheriffs, Justices of the Peace, and other Magistrates, in enforcing the law against evil doers, and in protecting their fellow-subjects in enjoyment of their property and the exercise of their rights, against all forcible, illegal, and unconstitutional interference, contrul, or aggression. Given at our Court at St. James's, this second day of November, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and in the second year of our reign. GOD save the KING. This is very proper, as far as it goes; but I wish that it had contained a word or two to sooth the people, to exhort them to patience. I warned LORD GREY against a long prorogation; and I do now implore him to adopt quieting measures as soon as possible. COBBETT'S CORN. land and Scotland; but I can give the A notion, very industriously inculcated by the tithe and tax-eaters was, that though the corn might ripen in this I ALWAYS said that I should not care country, still it would not have in it the a straw about the success of even this qualities which it had in America and great national good, unless the borough- other hot countries. If any other man monger power were abated; and, in- had introduced this corn, what a fuss deed, without that, every addition to the the tax and tithe-eaters would have resources of the country must be an evil. made with him! OLD MASSA WILBY Now, however, that power must, by would have had him up for a grant, hook or by crook, come down; and like JENNER; and TOM BARING (with honest labour, in spite of the efforts of his muzzled and ringed bear for crest) THE LIAR and WETHERELL, will would have called on us for a grant, as once more enjoy its fruits. Therefore I he did for MACADAM, who only taught now sincerely congratulate my readers what had been practised in France a on the complete success of my under- hundred years before. If any man but taking with regard to this corn. I have me had introduced this corn, what not now time to give an account of the praises the whole tribe of tax and tithecrops, raised in different parts of Eng-eaters would have bestowed on him! POUNDS. But, coming through ME, every effort and the bread of the American corn; has been made to disparage the under-so that he has furnished the means of a taking, and, if possible, to prevent its comparative as well as of a positive essuccess. All will fail, however; and, timate. Let me first take the sack the thing is now come to this; that the (four Winchester bushels, for never will cultivation must become common in Eng- I either sell or buy by the Scotch land; or I must, if I live six or seven quackery of “Imperial"), and state its years, derive a great fortune from it. weight and its produce. One of these must be ; and a devil of a dilemma it is for the tax and titheeaters, and for the nasty, mean, spiteful, envious and malignant race that write, or that, like JEPHTHAH MARSH, in Hants, gabble at county and other meetings. A devil of a dilemma! But, on one of the horns of which these wretches will certainly be hung. Either the Sack of Cobbett's Corn........ 244 Flour Offal (sold at 3s. 6d. a bushel, of ... 215 21 8 244 Now for a sack of American corn, corn will be seen in every market in bought at Mark-lane by Mr. SAPSFORD. England; and "Cobbett-Corn" it must be called; or I must have as much money as I please to have. Flour POUNDS. Sack of American Corn.... 224 170 43 11 224 Waste in grinding.. I was, when I took a ramble, saying that, the corrupt and envious crew, when compelled to acknowledge that the corn might ripen in England, asserted that it would not have the same qualities as the American Corn. That, There, envious and malignant beasts! in short, it would be good for nothing, There, LIAR! Now frank your circu at least, as human food; though it might lars again, and send them round the do to feed pigs or fowls; and that, even country to assure people that this corn for those purposes, it was inferior to is "the greatest fraud that ever was barley. Mr. SAPSFORD, Baker, No. 20, palmed upon the people." You told corner of Queen Anne and Wimpole- the good and credulous people in the streets, Marybonne, London, got some North, that "after all your sacrifices American Corn in 1828, and he has," in the cause, you had, thank God, A ever since, sold the flour, and sold bread" LITTLE PATRIMONY left to make made partly of that, and partly of wheat" you independent." Whether you had it flour. But he has been continually in ACTUAL OCCUPATION, you did asked, why he did not sell the flour not say; nor did you say WHERE IT of Cobbett-Corn. The reason was, he WAS! But if you really have it in hand, could get no Cobbett-Corn. What I go and raise some Cobbett-Corn on it; growed, I wanted to sell FOR SEED; and do one day's work, at any rate, beand it was a sort of sin to grind it, fore you become a forgotten clod; adwhile it was wanted for that purpose. vice which I also give to WETHERELL, But, this year, I was resolved to put PEEL, TRENCH, and all your recent felthe quality to the test. I sold, some low-orators of “re-action.” time ago (10th of October) a sack of my this year's corn to Mr. SAPSFORD, who had it ground, and who has given me an account of the result, which he has authorised me to publish, he being ready, by his miller as well as himself, to verify the facts. Mr. SAPSFORD has, ever since 1828, been in the practice of selling the flour Now, sensible reader, look at the vast difference in the produce of those two sacks of corn. But besides the weight, there is the quality of the flour. Mr. SAPSFORD says, that the difference in this respect is still greater than the difference in the weight He can buy American corn, or French corn, at Mark-Lane, for 32s. a quarter; but for agent. BANKRUPTS. silk-manufacturer. BRIGHT, T. R., Devonport, ironmonger. mine he can afford to give 48s. when,! mind, the average price of barley is 33%. ALLINSON, T., Manchester, commissionOf the correctness of all these facts any BAKER, G. F., Ratheaston, Somersetshire, one may be satisfied by applying to Mr. SAPSFORD at his shop, as above, where the flour is, for the present, to be seen and bought. The miller is Mr. DEATH, who lives in the east of Hertfordshire; for Mr. SAPSFORD has found that the town mills do not grind so well. Mr. DEATH, who is also a farmer, buys the offal of the corn at 3s. 6d. the bushel; and even that offal of my corn is better than prime barley-meal, and this every farmer will know, when he looks at the price of it. Mr. DEATH came to see me, at Bolt-court, last Friday, and bespoke seed corn to plant three acres. Many persons intend to plant considerable quantities; but I must advise no man to do this till a new edition of my Corn-Book is out; for subsequent experience has taught me many things which I did not know when that book was written, and which it is absolutely necessary that every one, who plants to any extent, PROVO, L. Y., Newton Abbott, Devonshire, ironmonger. victualler. SHEPARD, T., Upper Mary bonne-street, VICKERY, W., Brereton, Cheshire, innkeeper. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. ALLAN, H. and J. Sherwood, Edinburgh, coach-builders. POLLOCK, G., Chapelhall, near Airdrie, inn-keeper. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1831. should know. Without this addi-CROFTS, G., Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, tional knowledge, the thing cannot succeed well with any one. I will have the book ready by the 1st of December; and, with that book, no man can fail. merchant... PLOWRIGHT, E. G. and W. Plowright, Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, wine-merchts. WARD, J., Upper Ground-street, Christchurch, Surrey, iron-founder. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. 'BANKRUPTS. I shall want so large a part of my crop to sell for seed, that, out of my SYMONS, A., Falmouth, wine-merchant. acre, I shall not be able to let Mr. Sapsford have more than five or six sacks, of which he has already had three; but, next year, I will, if alive and well, and if the country be in any thing like a state of peace, grow, somewhere or other, a hundred quarters of this corn for grinding. But what I have further to say upon this interesting subject must be reserved for another, and, I hope, less anxious and affecting time. BRETTELL, J., Bristol, cheese-factor. From the LONDON GAZETTE, INSOLVENTS. HEMMING, W., Claines, Worcesters., draper. JOSEPH, S., Great George-street, Westminster, sculptor. WOODRUFFE, T., Ramsey, Essex, cattle-dr. FOARD, E., Brighton, wine-merchant. rectifier. PRATT, T,, Exeter, druggist. 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