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been actually extinct in two of 

 them for some time, the bodies be- 

 ing perfectly coIil. The third, a 

 soldier, had some faint signs of ani- 

 mation Jeit ; but he expired the 

 following morning'. From some 

 papers found in the pockets of one 

 of them, he proved to be a jour- 

 neyman peuterer, from London, 

 who being lifBicted with a contrac- 

 tion in his wri:ts, had obtained an 

 order for admission into the Bath 

 Infirmary, for the benefit of the 

 waters. On the above fatal niizht 

 it rained incessantly ; and to the 

 cold, added to the drenched state 

 of their giMments, the fata! catas- 

 trophe was doubtless owing. 



.S. The Nottingham paper of Sa- 

 turday does not make any mention 

 cfdisturbances during the last week; 

 but a disposition to riot has manifest- 

 ed itsclfnearHuddersfield, in York- 

 shire. Last Saturday week a num- 

 ber of persons assembled near the 

 premises of IMr. Joseph Hirst of 

 Marsh, with tlieir faces blacked, 

 and their persons in other respects 

 disguised, and having forcibly ob- 

 tained admittance into the dress- 

 ing-shops, proceeded to destroy all 

 the macliinery used in the dressing 

 of cloth, such as dressing frames, 

 shears, and other implements, used 

 in what is commonly called gig 

 mills, the whole of which they com- 

 pletely demolished. The same, or 

 a similar party, then proceeded to 

 the workshops of Mr. .James Bal- 

 derson, of Crossland-Moor, where 

 machinery of a similar description 

 is employed ; upon which they 

 committed similar depredations, 

 completely destroying or render- 

 ing useless the whole of the ma- 

 chinery. The depredations appear- 

 ed to the magistrates to be of 

 eo alarming a nature, that tiiey 



were induced to apply to general 

 Vyse, at Beverley, for military aid, 

 who dispatched an express to 

 Leeds, with an order for the 

 troop of Scotch Greys stationed 

 there, to proceed immediately to 

 Huddersfield. It not being ihougiit 

 expedient to leave Leeds with- 

 out military, a squadron of cavalry 

 was marched from Sheffield, and 

 arrived about nine o'clock on 

 Tuesday morning ; and, in the af- 

 ternoon of the same day, a squa- 

 dron of the 2nd Dragoon Guards, 

 stationed at the barracks near 

 York, was dispatched to Hudders- 

 field, to relieve the Scotch (ireys, 

 who returned to Leeds on Thurs- 

 day. 



5. Several dead bodies were 

 found on the north shore, near Li- 

 verpool, which were of course, sup- 

 posed to have come from some vessel 

 which must have been wrecked dur- 

 ing ihe very severe gales of the pre- 

 ceding night. By the inscription on 

 part of the sternof a vessel which has 

 been found, she appears to have 

 been the Fly packet, from Newry to 

 Liverpool. There is reason to be- 

 lieve, from the best information that 

 has yet been received, that the 

 number of persons on board was not 

 less than forty, every soul of whom 

 appears to have perished. 



9. Disturbances in the vicinity 

 of Huddersfield continue. On 

 Wednesday an armed party broke 

 into a mill, situated between Slaiih- 

 waite and Hudder.^field ; after 

 they had effected their purpose, 

 the leader drew up his men, 

 each man answering to a particular 

 number instead of his name,, then 

 fired ofi" their pistols, and marched 

 away. 



10. At the Isle of Ely assizes, 

 on Thursday last, Michael Whiting, 



a shop- 



