about eight persons were severely wounded, not a rioter was for some time to be seen. The main body of the mob that had been driven down Broad-street, ran round through the Pithay and came up the alley in Wine-street, and pelted with bricks, stones, and pieces of iron the troops as they passed. Among the most active in assaulting the soldiers, was a man (belonging to St. George's parish) in a light-coloured dress, whose practice it was to advance into the street several paces, and throw his missile, of stone or iron, with well-directed aim. Capt. Gage, having observed him do this several times, drew a pistol and levelled it at him, but it flashed in the pan; one of the troop fired, and the man fell. The circumstance of the man being shot has been laid as the sole cause of the exasperation of the mob against the 14th; but it is much more probable that it arose from the conviction that the 14th would not trifle with them, and the proof they had given of their determination in driving the mob from their attempt upon the Council-house; and how can those who would rest the ulterior proceedings upon this feeling in the mob against the 14th, account for the attack upon the Council-house, when the professed objects of irritation were assembled within the Mansion-house? But for the timely aid of Capt. Gage, the Council-house would have been destroyed, and there would have been the commencement of the incendiarism and plunder.

However the arrival of the troops in Queen-square may, for the time, have saved the demolition of the Mansion-house, their presence, unaccompanied with those active measures which it was their undoubted duty to have performed, it is more than probable gave a fearful sense of security to the mob; and the extraordinary conduct of Colonel Brereton, in mixing with and

shaking hands with the rioters, and admitting their familiarities towards himself, must have given them great confidence, and even hopes of the co-operation of the soldiery, and that their atrocious attempt would be crowned with a military triumph. And perhaps this, not unreasonable expectation, may have induced the principals of the riots to defer their operations, that they might, in the interval, either gain the soldiers to their purpose, or direct their first attention to effect the removal of any they could not trust, or whom they had at least more reason to fear.

About two o'clock on the Sunday morning, the mob having mostly withdrawn, and comparative tranquillity being restored, the troops retired to their quarters, with the exception of a picquet of the 3rd dragoon guards, left at the Mansion-house, and a picquet of the 14th dragoons left at the Council-house, which were relieved at intervals till between 7 and 8 o'clock in the morning of Sunday, when Colonel Brereton ordered both the picquets to return to their quarters.

On this occasion, Colonel Brereton represented to the Magistrates that the picquet of dragoons must be withdrawn,—that the troops were greatly fatigued,and that the few remaining on duty only collected a crowd, without doing any good. They were accordingly sent off. Colonel B. wished the troops to be close together, and the attendance of a Magistrate was requested. One accordingly left the Square with the Colonel, and Leigh's Bazaar stables were hired for the troops, the Magistrates agreeing to pay as for private horses, and all other horses were removed to make room for those belonging to the military.

The Narrative has now reached the termination of the first day of the Riots. It will be necessary, however, before the commencement of those of the succeeding day, to return, in order to gather a few circumstances and particulars which, though important, could not have been well introduced previously, without disturbing the clear account of the general proceedings.

In the temporary absence of the Under-Sheriff, between six and seven o'clock in the evening, for the purpose of ascertaining if Sir Charles Wetherell had reached a place of safety, Major Mackworth, Aid-decamp to Lord Hill, (whose personal narrative will be given in the Appendix) offered his assistance to the Mayor in organising the constables, which was readily accepted; they were accordingly sent out in parties into the Square and adjoining streets; and in a short time nine prisoners captured by the civil force were safely conveyed to the Gaol.* Major Mackworth remained with the Mayor till two in the morning, and thus gives his testimony of the propriety of the proceedings of the Civil Authorities. "During this period the Mayor and Magistrates appeared to me to be using every means in their power to call out the citizens, and enrol them as special constables. When I quitted the Mansion-house, the crowd had nearly all dispersed, and I really thought the worst of the riot was over. The dragoons had hitherto only used the flat of their sabres."

*The fact is, the constables were not so disorganized as it would appear from Major Mackworth's statement. Many of them had been on duty from eight o'clock in the morning, and had acted with great courage and propriety, and were then, as the dragoons had possession of the street, taking some refreshment, their commander, the Under-Sheriff, being sent in search of Sir C. Wetherell.

When the necessity of calling in the troops became evident, two Magistrates made the best of their way to the head-quarters of Colonel Brereton. They did not find him there, and proceeded immediately to Fisher's stables. But the troop of the 3rd dragoons would not move without the Colonel's orders. Shortly after, Colonel Brereton came in, when the extreme danger of the Recorder was urged, and the order was given to proceed to Queen-square, at a trot. On their arrival, "some of the rabble addressed the Colonel, but what they said was not heard; the Colonel then took off his hat and cheered, as also, from a sense of military etiquette, did the officer in command of the 3rd, and some of the men; but which condescending example (says the military narrative in the United Service Journal) was not followed by the 14th.”

The houses in Queen-square having courts before them, the mob took possession of these as secure places, from whence they pelted the soldiers. It was thought proper to clear them. One of the officers of the 14th had marked a respectably dressed person very active in giving orders to the mob, and pursued him into a court, riding in after him. The man was very abusive, and the occupier of the house came down and took part with the rioter, and joined in ordering the officer out of the court. In less than four-and-twenty hours that house was burned to the ground. Such is the reward of a relinquishment of manly duty, and the gratitude of ruffians!! And such is the safety to his property that a bad citizen will ensure by his base concession to the demands of a revolutionary rabble.

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At every stage of the riotous proceedings, instances occurred which completely refute the assertion, that the mob acted wholly from momentary impulse. The fact we are about to quote, shews that the mob were on the look-out for the means of revolutionary resistance, against any attempt to counteract their operations, and that they had well considered the efficacy of those means. Captain Morley, of the trow Weekly Packet, of Stroud, states, that on Saturday, the 29th October, he took on board, with various other goods, a quantity of oil of vitriol: that about eleven o'clock at night, a number of men, most of them Irishmen, came from Queen-square to his vessel, then lying on the Back, and demanded that he should deliver to them a carboy of vitriol. He addressed himself to one of the men whom he recognized as having been employed during the day in loading the vessel, and asked him what they wanted the vitriol for. He said, to throw over the horses in Queen-square (the 14th). The captain told him the vitriol was under the fore-deck, and that they could not come at it without discharging the trow. They said, as there was plenty of room right and left (meaning overboard) they would not be long unloading her, and were about to commence, when they heard the approach of the 14th, who were on their way to the Back to light the gas lamps which had been put out. They left the trow, and ran under the Market-house, and commenced throwing stones at the 14th. In the mean time, the captain of the trow found assistance, and hauled off his vessel to the middle of the Float; and on the return of the scoundrels they could not board her.