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nesday night, at which time the 

 town was quiet. 



10. A warm debate occurred in 

 the quarterly assembly of the cor- 

 poration of" Dublin on the 10th in- 

 stant, on a motion for granting the 

 freedom of the city to major 

 O'Donoghue, who acted as captain 

 under colonel Skerrett in the de- 

 fence of Tariffa. This was strongly 

 opposed on the ground of his being 

 a Papist. An amendment was 

 moved and carried, that the word 

 " thanks " should be substituted for 

 " freedom. " — The petition of the 

 board of aldermen, against the po- 

 pish claims, was adopted by a ma- 

 jority. 



11, Leeds. — Last Sunday night, 

 about 12 o'clock, a number of arm- 

 ed men, with their faces covered, 

 entered the workshop of Mr. Smith, 

 of Snowgate-head, near Holmfirth, 

 in the neighbourhood of Hudders- 

 field, and broke all his dressing 

 frames and shears. They proceed- 

 ed from thence to Horn Coat, 

 about a mile distant, entered the 

 dressing-shop of Mr. J. Brook, 

 and not content with breaking his 

 frames and shears, which they en- 

 tirely destroyed, they broke and 

 demolished his household furniture 

 and ;ill the windons. From thence 

 they proceeded to Reins, near 

 Honley, about three miles farther, 

 where they arrived about two 

 o'clock, and entered the workshop 

 of Mr, James Brook, and broke 

 one frame, which was all he had, 

 and which had been taken down 

 about five weeks. At the earnest 

 entreaty of Mr. Brook, they were 

 prevailed upon not to break his 

 shears. 



One case has occurred which 

 has spread alarm through the ma- 

 nufacttrring district On Thursday 



night, about twelve o'clock, the ex- 

 tensive cloth manufactory of Mr. J. 

 Foster, of Horbury, near Wake- 

 field, was surrounded by a large 

 body of armed men, who after se- 

 curing all the approaches to the 

 premises, proceeded to break into 

 that part of the mill appropriated 

 to the dressing of cloth, where 

 they completely destroyed all the 

 shears and frames ; the former were 

 not merely snipped, but absolutely 

 broken in pieces. They then de- 

 molished all the windows, and, as if 

 actuated by the most diabolical 

 phrenzy, broke into those parts of 

 the premises, against which these 

 depredators do not pretend to have 

 any ground of complaint ; the scrib- 

 bling-mill and weaving-shops, and 

 materially i..jured the machinery,' 

 and wantonly damaged a quan- 

 tity of warp ready tor the loom ; 

 destroying not merely the glass of 

 the window, but the frames, which 

 were of cast-iron, the windows of 

 the dye-houses, the counting- 

 house, and even the dwelling-houses 

 contiguous to the work-shop shared 

 the same fate. 



At the commencement of these 

 outrages, a detachment from the 

 main body invested the dwelling- 

 house of Mr. Foster's sons ; they 

 shivered the door in pieces, and 

 broke the window and frame ; and 

 proceeded to the lodging-room of 

 the young men, and demanded the 

 keys of the building, under pain of 

 instant death. They dragged two 

 of them out of bed, and tied them 

 together, making them lie naked 

 upon the floor ; the other they 

 compelled to accompany them 

 with the keys. The dwelling- 

 house occupied by the book-keeper 

 was also broken into, and his fami- 

 ly treated with brutal violence. 



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