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the market-place^ and the riot 

 act was read ; several of the mob 

 having surrounded them, and be- 

 having in a disorderly manner, 

 three were taken into custody, 

 and the rest refusing to disperse, 

 after proper time had been allow- 

 ed them to do so, the military 

 were called in, but were on their 

 appearance received with voUies 

 of stones, and their horses alarm- 

 ed by throwing a large fire-ball; 

 they soon, however, succeeded 

 in driving their assailants out of 

 the market, and dispersing them 

 in every direction ; several who 

 resisted were committed to the 

 gaol, and before 11 o'clock every 

 thing was quiet. We are sorry 

 to add, that several of the yeo- 

 manry cavalry received cuts and 

 bruises from the stones, and one 

 gentleman was thrown from his 

 horse, and the animal falling up- 

 on him, he was severely injured, 

 but is now in a convalescent state. 

 On Saturday the magistrates is- 

 sued a proclamation, and having 

 the same forces ready for preserv- 

 ing the peace, the market and 

 streets were cleared at an earlv 

 hour, without any danger being 

 sustained. On Monday morning 

 the persons who had been taken 

 into custody were brought up for 

 examination, when two were 

 committed to gaol, and several 

 bound over to take their trials at 

 the sessions and assizes. 



Bury. — On Wednesday evening 

 a number of persons assembled 

 in a riotous manner before the 

 house of Mr. \\"ales, hosier, in 

 the butter-market of this town, 

 demanding that hr should give up 

 a machine called a spinning-jenny 

 (by the use of which they imagin- 

 ed themselves aggrieved), and 



threatening destruction to his pre- 

 mises in case of refusal ; but by 

 the firmness of Charles Bloom- 

 field, Esq. assisted by the other 

 borough magistrates, and many 

 respectable inhabitants, the in- 

 tentions of the mob were happily 

 frustrated, and they at length 

 dispersed, although it was foimd 

 necessary to keep tlie staff estab- 

 lishment of the West Suffolk mi- 

 litia (whose aid, with that of the 

 different recruting parties here, 

 had been called in) upon duty all 

 night. In consequence of these 

 tumultuous proceedings, a meet- 

 ing was next day convened by the 

 alderman (T. Foster, Esq.) at the 

 Guildhall, which was very nu- 

 merously attended (notwithstand- 

 ing the shortness of the notice), 

 and every one came forward with 

 the utmost alacrity to support the 

 civil power ; upwards of 200 spe- 

 cial constables being sworn in, a 

 party of whom have nightly pa- 

 troled the streets ; and we have 

 the satisfaction to state, that no 

 further attempt has been made to 

 disturb the peace of the town. 



On Sunday and Monday de- 

 tachments of the 1st royal dra- 

 goons marched in here from Ips- 

 wich, part of whom will remain 

 till further orders, and the others 

 proceeded on their route to Bian- 

 don. 



24. Cambridge. — Great alarm 

 has been excited here by the ap- 

 pearance of numerous knots of 

 strange countrymen, coming in 

 with large sticks, for two or three 

 days past. Our mayor. Colonel 

 Mortlock, apprehensive that this 

 might have been preparatoiy to 

 an intended entry of the Fen 

 rioters, convened the magistracy 

 in the town-hall this afternoon, 



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