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gistrates of the said county, held 

 at the Shire-hall in Bury St. Ed- 

 mund's, on Monday, the 27th 

 day of May, 1816, for the pur- 

 pose of taking into consideration 

 the late outrages and disturb- 

 ances which have taken place 

 within this county; the Duke of 

 Grafton, lord-lieutenant, in the 

 chair : 



" Resolved, That it is the opi- 

 nion of the meeting that the most 

 patient and careful attention 

 should be given, with a view of 

 tracing the causes of these dis- 

 orders, and of relieving, as far 

 as circumstances will permit, the 

 present distresses of the labour- 

 ing poor ; but that it is the de- 

 cided opinion of this meeting, 

 that no concessions should be 

 made, nor any agreement entered 

 into with bodies of people assem- 

 bled in a riotous or threatening- 

 manner ; and that the utmost 

 exeitions will be used to put 

 down all tumults, and to bring 

 to punishment all persons who 

 may be concerned in such riotous 

 proceedings." 



28. Ncwcaslle-iipon- Tyne. — We 

 are concerned to state, that serious 

 disturbances have broken out 

 amongst the pitmen and other 

 workmen connected with the col- 

 lieries upon the Wear. Several 

 hundreds of them are off work, 

 upon the ostensible ground of 

 their present wages being inade- 

 quate to their support, while the 

 price of bread-corn continues so 

 very much higher than it has 

 been. 



The pitmen and other mis- 

 guided workmen upon the Wear, 

 however, have, through the 

 promjit and vigorous exertions 

 of the magistrates, aided by two 



troops of cavalry from Newcastle, 

 been induced to return to their 

 work. We understand eight of 

 the ringleaders were taken into 

 custody on Saturday, and com- 

 mitted to Durham gaol. No dis- 

 position of joining them was at 

 any time evinced by the pitmen 

 upon the Tyne. — {Tyne Mercury.) 

 29. About three o'clock in the 

 morning, a lire broke out at the 

 Plough Inn, Clapham, which 

 spread itself from the tap-room 

 upwards with such rapidity, as 

 scarcely to give time for the es- 

 cape of the inmates. Two or 

 three gentlemen, who had taken 

 up their abode at the inn for the 

 night, narrowly escaped. One 

 of them in bed, up two pair of 

 stairs, tinding his retreat cut off 

 by the staircase being on fiie, 

 called for assistance from his bed- 

 room window, and fortunately a 

 ladder was brought him, and he 

 was saved from destiuction. A 

 Mr. I. was placed in a still more 

 perilous situation ; he slept in 

 the one pair, and in the confusion 

 which took place the people of 

 the house forgot to awake him. 

 At length he was roused by the 

 crackling noise of tlie tire under- 

 neath his bed, which he at first 

 supposed to be rain violently 

 driven against the windows ; but 

 immediately being annoyed by 

 the smoke, he rushed out of the 

 room with part of his clothes in 

 his hand, and was just in time to 

 save his life. The family about 

 the same time wei'e apprised of 

 their danger, and as the landlord 

 had eight or nine children, it re- 

 (juired great exertion and con- 

 siderable risk to preserve the lives 

 of all, in \vhicii, liowever, he 

 fortunately succeeded. The tire, 



being 



