and after a pause of about ten minutes, proceeded, with cries of "Hunt for ever!" along Fleet street to the top of Bridge street. They were proceeding thence up Ludgate hill, when they were met by a troop of the 9th dragoons, who marching to the bottom of the hill, formed completely across the street, rode to the top and cleared it.

Among those on the coal waggon before the arrival of Hunt, were two persons of the name of Watson, apo. thecaries, a father and son; Preston, a shoemaker; and one Thistlewood, all enthusiasts and wild reformers. About 12 o'clock young Watson addressed the meeting in a most inflammatory and seditious speech, against the Prince Regent and Parliament. He said their application to the Prince Regent had failed. That the Prince had only given 5000l. to the poor. The ministers had trifled with our liberties, and refused to grant the people their rights. He asked, had the Parliament done their duty? No, they had neglected the distressed and starving people, and robbed them of every thing. "Is this to be endured? Four millions are in distress. It can go no farther. (It shall go no farther, was re-echoed by the mob.) Countrymen! if you will have your wrongs redressed, follow me."

This was followed by shouts, and the persons on the waggon descended with the flags. A great part of the mob now left the fields, and proceeded with flags towards Newgate street and Holborn, and having divided again, another party appeared on Snowhill, where they entered the shop of Mr Beckwith, a gun maker, headed by a young man, supposed to be young Watson, who presented a pistol at the first he saw, calling out, "Arms,arms, we want arms." A Mr Platt, who chanced to be in the shop, alarmed at the action, instantly attempted to wrest

the pistol from his hand, and received the contents in his groin. The mob cleared the shop, and proceeded for the Bank and Exchange, upon both which they made attacks, but were opposed by detachments of the life guards and light dragoons, when they fled, most of them throwing down the arms they had taken.

About four o'clock the following official notice was placarded in the principal streets, the shops through. out which were all closed

"Our Sovereign Lord the King commandeth and chargeth all persons assembled immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the Act made in the first year of King George, for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies.-God save the King."

Lieutenant Terry, of the life guards, with a troop of 40 of that regiment, and Captain Hurd with a troop of the 9th, were drawn out in front of the Mansion-House, and videttes placed at convenient distances, to bring the earliest information in case of riot du ring the course of the night.

13th. When the new colours were presented at Portsmouth to the gallant 36th foot, the remains of the old standards were deposited with their respected Colonel, the honourable General St John; these were first received at Winchester 17 years back. Of the whole corps of officers, 63 since that time have been either killed on the field, fatally wounded, or died, and only three are now left; of 62 serjeants, remain but 13; of 24 drummers, three; and of 1350 rank and file, 43 only! the whole casualties sustained by the corps since the receipt of the colours, 3276!

A French paper states, that the use of vitiated rye has produced a singuIar disease, causing cruel ravages in

rye

the commune of Beaurepaire, department of the Isere. The effects of this poison are described as frightful. It acts with great rapidity even on the strongest men, producing gangrene in all the limbs, which it detaches from the joints in a manner so horrible, that unfortunate creatures have been seen to live for some weeks in the greatest agonies, with only the trunk remain ing. In this disease emetics have been prescribed, followed by anti-spasmodics, and especially strong doses of opium, the sedative virtues of which have been very useful. The parts threatened are sometimes recovered by the application of cloths dipped in a decoction of Jesuit's bark. Administered internally, this latter remedy produced no sensible effect. We should has been that the suppose vitiated by the wetness of the harvest. At the period of the revolution, when such destruction was exercised on the various colleges in France, none suffered more the vengeance of the demagogues than that of the Scots college at Douay, in Flanders. Not an atom was saved except the fine full length original painting of Mary, Queen of Scots, its founder, which was lately discovered in a chimney, where it had been hidden. It has been brought to Paris, and is now in the Scots College. This painting, with the prayer-book which the queen used at the period of her decapitation at Fotheringay Castle, and a tableclock, were bequeathed by her to the Scots College, and are mentioned in the college titles. Immediately after the event, they were brought to Douay by Miss Elizabeth Curl, one of the maids of honour who attended her on the scaffold. The clock (one of the first made at that time,) together with the book, were lost at the revolution. 14th. A statement of the amount of the forests in France has been pub

lished, from which it appears that there are in all 12,600,000 acres; of these, 10,200,000 belong to indivi duals and communes; the remainder 2,483,000 are public domain, but not above 60,000 were the domain of the secular and regular clergy, or of the Order of Malta.

The Moniteur mentions the follow

ing incident which took place at Am busson, in the department of the Creuse: On the 9th of October, about five in the afternoon, the wife of Pierre Mar tineau, a labourer, was digging potatoes in a field at a very short distance from the suburb of St Jean, having beside her her son, about six years old. Two wolves made their appearance, and attacked the boy; but the courage of a mother knew no danger, and she defended him with so much presence of mind as to succeed in felling to the ground one of these terrible animals with a stone which she threw at him ; the other took flight at the sight of the husband, who came to her assistance, and who, with a mattock which he held in his hand, gave the finishing blow to the one which was still struggling. Almost the moment after the courageous mother was delivered from the fear of having her child devoured, she paid the debt of nature, falling into a kind of delirium, which was not of long duration, and during which she spoke incessantly of her son, and of the danger which he had run.

The following notification was issued from Lord Sidmouth's office, on Monday evening, and circulated widely throughout the country by means of the Post Office :

LONDON, December 2, 1816.-Exaggerated accounts will probably reach the country of what is going on here. The most effectual means, civil and military, are taken by government to prevent mischief; and the same vigilance and activity, if there should be

any disturbance in the country, will doubtless produce the same good ef

fects.

A number of persons supposed to be leaders in the late riots, have been taken up by the police. The greatest consequences are attached to the elder Watson, Preston, Hooper, and Cashman, a sailor. Great assiduity has been employed for the apprehension of young Watson, but hitherto without effect. It is almost now certain that he was the person who shot Mr Platt in Beckwith's shop. The pistol he left behind him has been proven to have been one of four purchased by a person answering his description, and who, in fact, gave his name to Mr Birnie in Holborn. When the pistol had been taken from him, and Mr Platt

told him he had shot him, he either expressed, or affected to express, great regret. He cried out to send for a surgeon; he then said he was a surgeon himself. Mr Platt is attended by Mr Ashley Cooper, and remains in a very dangerous state. Preston talks enthusiastically about the extent of the insurrection, and, it is said, declares there were 300,000 persons inrolled in the cause. He constantly exclaims, ""Twas I who brought Hunt to the field, but that wretched young dog Watson spoiled all."

So anxious are the public for the apprehension of Watson, that particu. lars respecting persons like him being taken up and examined, are received every hour by the Lord Mayor, and the public offices.