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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1812. 



They afterwards set fire to the 

 building, whicli was extinguished, 

 after their departure, before it com- 

 municated to the main body of tlie 

 building. Having accompUshed 

 their object, they assembled in a 

 field, wlien the leader called over 

 their numbers, to which each an- 

 swered. Having ascertained that 

 their whole number was there, he 

 said, " The v.'oik is done, all is 

 well, disperse, " which order was 

 obeyed. 



1 1 . Truro. — We observed last 

 week some symptoms of commo- 

 tion among the miners ; the first 

 and most pernicious effect of which 

 was. to alarm the farmers and 

 dealers in grain, potatoes, &c. and 

 to check the open sale and free 

 circulation of provisions through 

 the country ; and the action and 

 re-action of tiie two evils heighten- 

 ing each other, till Saturday and 

 Sunday last, the workmen at seve- 

 ral of the mines then resolved to 

 stop working till they were sup- 

 plied. This could not be done at 

 the moment. They assembled in 

 groups of considerable numbers, in 

 the quarter between Redruth and 

 Truro, and then dispersed over the 

 country with their empty sacks, 

 to purchase corn among the farm- 

 ers. 



On IMonday, about noon, they 

 began to enter Truro, but not in 

 crowds or riotously. Few of them 

 looked like fathers of families. The 

 far greater part were boys, and no 

 small number of hnl girls (as the 

 girls are called who work about 

 the mines), and seemed rather to 

 have come from curiosity, having 

 been thrown idle by the stopping 

 of the works. We must do them 

 the justice to say, we could not 

 have conceived so many of them 



would quit their work under such' 

 circumstances, and do so little mis- 

 chief. The precautionary measures, 

 and the apprehensions they gave 

 rise to, formed the most serious 

 part of the business. The leading 

 men in most of the populous 

 parishes had already, as we have 

 said, exerted themselves to apply 

 all possible relief. 



The next duty of magistracy was 

 to protect property, and preserve 

 the public peace, rather by aw- 

 ing the turbulent, than contending 

 witii them. With this view the higli 

 sheriff signed an order for the march 

 of a part of the Monmouth and 

 Brecon regiment, from Falmouth to 

 lledruth. 



All was quiet to-day at Redruth 

 market ; where, however, about 

 100 of the Welch regiment still 

 continue ; the remainder having 

 returned to Falmouth, with the arms 

 of the Stannary artillery regiment, 

 to be lodged in Pendennis castle. 

 A letter received this evening from 

 a respectable friend in Illogan, 

 says, that all the miners are re- 

 turned to their duty. Two large 

 cargoes of American flour now in 

 Falmouth are expected to be land- 

 ed there; and several other cargoes 

 are expected from America, be- 

 sides barley from other parts. The 

 magistrates are doing all in their 

 power to relieve them, and to pu- 

 nish the ringleaders in any further 

 disorders. 



12. On Sunday morning the vil- 

 lage of Hankelow, near Nantwich, 

 was alarmed by a report, that 

 George Morrey, farmer, had been 

 murdered during the preceding 

 night having been found with his 

 brains dashed out, and his throat 

 cut from ear to ear ! It was sup- 

 posed that the crime had been 



perpetrated 



