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employment. The rioters appear 

 to level their vengeance against all 

 species of improvement in ma- 

 chinery. Mistaken men ! — what 

 would this country have been with- 

 out such improvements ? Not one 

 of the incendiaries are taken, nor 

 was there a soldier in that part of 

 the country. 



27. Letters received on Satur- 

 day from Manchester, inform us, 

 that Wednesday and Thursday 

 passed over without any particular 

 outrage in that place or the vici- 

 nity ; but that tranquillity was far 

 from being restored. The rioters 

 continued to hold nocturnal meet- 

 ings in the fields, devising plans of 

 fresh tumult. The execution done 

 among the rioters at Middleton, on 

 Tuesday, by the military, is slated 

 to have been considerably greater 

 than wasatfirstsupposed. A number 

 of dead bodies had been found in 

 the adjoining woods, and, adding 

 those who died of their wounds to 

 the number killed on the spot, it 

 is said that from twenty-five to 

 thirty of the misguided populace 

 became the victims of their own 

 folly and criminality. 



27. During the last eight months 

 (says an Austrian journal), not 

 fewer than 5,000 Servian families 

 have emigrated to Hungary,— 

 2,000 from Bosnia, besides great 

 numbers of individuals from Mol- 

 davia and Wallachia, — all to es- 

 cape the ravages of war. 



30. Letters from different parts 

 concur in stating, that the great 

 tumults have subsided, but that 

 shocking outrages are committed 

 by small partiesof depredators and 

 assassins. 



Mr. Cartwright, who so bravely 

 defended his property in Yorkshire, 



has been fired at on three distinct 

 occasions, but without doing him 

 the slightest injury. 



Mr. Horsefall, a principal ma- 

 nufacturer, was shot in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Huddersfield by four 

 men who fired at him on Tuesday 

 evening last, from behind a wall, 

 as he was returning from Manches- 

 ter market. 



The Luddites have had the 

 audacity to placard the streets 

 of Nottingham in the night, offer- 

 ing a reward for Mr. Wilson, the 

 mayor, dead or alive. He had 

 committed no other offence than 

 signing the offer of reward of 500/. 

 from the corporation of Notting- 

 ham, for the discovery of the as- 

 sassin who shot Mr. Trentham. 

 These infatuated men are said ac- 

 tually to meet in the streets of 

 Nottingham in 'small parties, in 

 the day time, and triumphantly 

 talk over their nightly depreda- 

 tions. 



Every thing was tranquil in 

 Manchester on the 29th ult. The 

 rioters were becoming mere ma- 

 rauders. The local militia had as- 

 sembled, and the public mind was 

 more at ease. 



30. " Manchester. — We are all 

 quiet here at pre^ient, but are 

 anxious to see what may happen 

 the next two or three days, as 

 the general meeting of the Lud- 

 dites is said to be fixed for to- 

 morrow, but the place we have yet 

 to learn. The Bolton rioters' com- 

 mittee, or rather the delegates, had 

 planned a secret meeting, at which 

 some important matters were to be 

 discussed. The fact became known 

 to the officers and police, and it was 

 deemed expedient not to prevent 

 it from taking place. The conse- 

 quence 



