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worked with one Webb, or Web- 

 ster, at the same place (and for- 

 merly with Mr. Cartwright at 

 Halifax), was shot throu;:h the 

 breast; he died yesterday afternoon. 



From the direction of the shot, 

 it is conjectured that he received liis 

 wound in the act of firing oa the 

 mill, or in an attitude similar to 

 that of firing a musket. Several 

 hammers, masks, and a pick-lock 

 key were left upon the premises. 

 Both the men died without making 

 any confession of their accomplices, 

 but several must have been so 

 wounded as to lead to the know- 

 Jedge of them. 



Letters received yesterday state, 

 that since the resistance made by 

 Mr. Cartwright and his assistants, 

 the rioters have not ventured to 

 appear in great numbers in that 

 neighbourhood. Of the deluded 

 wretches concerned in that attack, 

 two more have since died of the 

 wounds they received on that oc- 

 casion ; which makes the number 

 of lives lost four. To prevent the 

 recurrence of similar dangers, the 

 military no longer waited for tu- 

 multuous assemblings, but went 

 about, dispersing the disturbers 

 wherever they found them meeting 

 together in small numbers. 



The town of Macclesfield was 

 on this day the scene of an alarm- 

 ing riot, apparently originating 

 from the high price of provisions. 

 A disorderly mob of colliers, car- 

 ters, and others from the neigh- 

 bourhood, assembling in the fields, 

 entered the town, and began de- 

 stroying the windows and furniture 

 of the houses of a number of shop- 

 keepers. As the eflbrts of the ma- 

 gistrates to disperse them proved 

 ineffectual, it was found necessary to 

 call in the assistance of a party of 



the Cumberland militia, and of the 

 Maccleifield volunteer cavalry, 

 who, after much skirmishing, suc- 

 ceeded in entirely clearing i\\e 

 town, and apprehending some of 

 the ringleaders. Several casualties 

 occurred on the occasion, but no 

 lives were lost. 



13, Bristol. — At Bristol somedis- 

 turbances took place the last mar- 

 ket day, on account of the dear- 

 ness of provisions. Potatoes had 

 been on the rise for some time 

 previous; and the farmers who had 

 several waggon loads at the mar- 

 ket, were attempting to advance 

 their price, when a mob assem- 

 bled, and threatened them with their 

 vengeance. Some of the respect- 

 able inhabitants of the town .in 

 consequence interfered, and endea- 

 voured to appease the mob by pro- 

 mising to prevail on the farmers to 

 sell the potatoes at the price of the 

 previous market day. In this they 

 were unsuccessful ; and the con- 

 sequence was, that the mob seized 

 the provisions in spite of every op- 

 position, and either destroyed or 

 carried away the whole. 



13. Between four and five o'clock 

 on this morning the Highgate 

 Tunnel fell in. The labour of 

 several months was thus in a few 

 moments converted into a heap of 

 ruins. Some of the workmen, 

 who were coming to resume their 

 daily labour, describe the noise 

 that preceded it like that of distant 

 thunder. It was the crown arch, 

 near Hornsey-lane, that first gave 

 way ; and the lane, in consequence, 

 fell some feet deep, and instantly 

 became impassable.. The houses 

 in the vicinity felt the CaU like the 

 shock of an earthquake. The 

 number of persons whom the fine- 

 ness of the weather attracted on 



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