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fervice covld not be performed without 
Jofs: the fir& battalion of the sad regi-, 
ment had the principal fhare in this ac~ 
tion. The enemy Joft about 100 men 
killed and wounded, and 30 or 4o pri- 
foners. ‘¢ Seeing,”” fays the general, <*and 
comparing the difficulties which prefented 
themfelves, and the rifk attendant on fai- 
ure on one hand, with the profpect of fuc- 
cefs, and the advantages to be derived from 
at on the other, I came to the determina- 
tion of reimbarking the trosps, in order to 
proceed without delay on my further def- 
tination,”” The Englifnhad 16 rank and 
file killed, and 59 rank and file wounded. 
All that we know of the further deftina- 
tion of the armament, is that it proceeded 
fouthwards, and on the 30th of Augut 
reached Vigo, out of which bay the boats 
of Sir J. B. Warren’s fquadron cut La 
‘Guerre, a French privateer of 20 guns. 
Here they. were joined by the detachment | 
from Cork, confifting of Hompefch’s 
mounted riflemen, and a brigade of 
guards ; and fettine fail from thence, an- 
chored in the bay of Gibraltar. The fur- 
ther deftination alluded to by the general 
is probably the defence of Portugal. 
Letters from various parts of the king- 
dom contain diftreffing accounts of rioteus 
afieémblages of the people, for the purpofe 
of enforcing a reduétion of the price of 
grain, and in fome inftances to punifh 
thofe perfons to whom the late advance 
had been alcribed. The bakers and mil- 
Jers have in general been fufferers. At 
Norwich, and fome other places, the po- 
pulace furrounded the mills, and fold the 
meal at 2s per ftone. At Pool, Shefiteld, 
Hereford, Derby, Nottingham, Worcefter, 
Hinkley, Mansfield, Romfey and South- 
well, the interference of the military was 
found neceflary to reftore order. Nume- 
rous perfons have been taken intocuftedy, 
Not even the metropolis has elcaped a tu- 
multuous affemblage of the people ; for on 
the 1sth of September, in confequence of 
fome inflammatory hand-bilis ftuck upon 
the Monument the preceding evening, a 
great crowd of the populace affcmbled in 
MarkLane, and infulted a quaker; and late 
in the fame evening, a party of thefe mif- 
guided people proceeded to the houfe of 
Mr. Rufby, of Temple- Place, Blackfriar’s- 
road, who. had been found guilty of re- 
grating, threatening to deftroy his howle 
and furniture, which they were enceavour- 
ing to put in execution, when they were 
ftopped by the volunteer corps. About 
the fame time, an attack was made on the 
houfe of Mr. Weaver, a refpe€table cheefe- 
monger, in the Borough; the ammofity 
againft him probably arofe frem the cir- 
State of Public, Affairs, in September, 180c. ‘[ORsber I, 
cumftafice of a quantity of perithed cheefe 
and hams having been conveyed from an 
uninhabited houfe in the neighbourhood, 
which however, it fince appeared, had been 
fpoiled during a long voyage from Embden. 
About midnight, feveral riotous perfons 
affembled in Whitechapel, threatening the 
deftruétion of feveral bakers. The win- 
dows of one baker in Church Lane were 
broken to pieces ; as well as thole of two 
others in Brick Lane. Money was ex- 
torted from feveral perfons ; but the ap- 
pearance of the peace-officers, with the 
Tower Hamlet Militia, and other corps in 
different directions, had the happy effect 
of difperfing thefe people ; and about five 
in the morning, the tireets were quite 
clear. At two o'clock in the morning of 
the 16th of September, the drum of the 
volunteers at Batterfea beat to arms in 
confequence of an aflembly of the popu- 
lace, who were proceeding to a millin the 
vicinity of the village, to wreak its ven- 
geance, but who, after perfifling fome 
time, were difperfed by the volunteers. 
Some apprehenfions of difturbance were en- 
tertained at Camberwell, and about Vaux- 
hall, as well as at Millbank, where there 
are confiderable granaries; but timely 
meafures were taken to prevent the mif- 
chief. Several tradefmen have been very 
feverely, and, we make no doubt, very un- 
juftly ,ttigmatized and infulted during this 
commotion. A great many unfavorable 
appearances were difplayed on the 16th of 
September ; but by the aétivity and exer- 
tions of the civil power, aided by the pa- 
rochial and other affociations, happily no , 
milchief of any moment occurred. Thke- 
Lord Mayor of London has defervedly ac- 
quired great credit and popularity by his 
activity and ability in pre&rving the peace 
of the metropolis. We truft, by his lan- 
dable endeavours, and that of other well- 
diipofed perfons, that peace is now com- 
pletely reftored. A mob is our abhor- 
rence, its rage is not only wild and mif- 
chievous, but it is blind, and as likely to 
be directed again the innocent as the 
guilty. But while we exprefS ourlelves 
in firong terms againft thefe diforderly 
proceedings, we muft add, that it is in- 
cumbent on Government to take {peedy 
meafures for the redrefs of the grievance 
complained of, the enormous price of the 
neceffaries of life. The people bore wir 
exemplary patience the hardthips of latt 
year: the fcarcity then was real ; at pre- 
fent Providence has been bounritul to us 
in avery high degree, and thereforeto what’ 
caufe can we attribute the prefent ftate of 
the markets? We do not recommend the 
impolitic meafure adopted by the Jacobins 
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