had decorated his horfe with the chains of Newgate; but were repulfed at the first fire from the Military, and their fecond fucceeded no better. They made an effort to break into the Pay Office likewife, and met the fame fate. Several of them fell in these skirmishes, and many more were wounded, as the importance of these places made it neceffary to fhew but little lenity.

The Regulars and Militia had poured in fo faft, in confequence of the expreffes difpatched for that purpofe, that the citizens on Thursday began to recover from a confternation in which many of them, especially those whofe duty it was to have taken the most active part poffible, had been difgracefully ftupified. They were, however, fo thoroughly alarmed, and fo much affected by the depredations they beheld on every fide, that the fhops were universally shut from Tyburn to Whitechapel, and no bufinefs of any. kind, except at the Bank, was tranfacted; and here, the run, instead of being greater than ordinary, was near 80,000l. leis, a proof that the arrival of the troops had quieted their fears.

It is impoffible to afcertain the number of unhappy and deluded wretches who loft their lives on the last dreadful night; but it is a confolation that very few innocent people, or people of credit, a Banker's Clerk excepted, were among the killed. The efcape of one young lad, though

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perhaps he might not déferve fo good a fate, merits, from its fingularity, a place in this Narration. While the Fleet Prifon was burning, the Mob had the audacity, notwithstanding the prefence of the Military, to cut the pipes from, and toss into the flames, a large engine which had been brought to play upon the contiguous buildings. The foldiers were thereupon ordered to difperfe them. Among others, there were four people feated upon the roof of the Market-houfe, who refufed to obey the Military, and who were therefore ordered to fire. The discharge of the mufkets came from three directions, in the front, and at each fide, so that it seemed impoffible for any one to escape, and for a confiderable time they all four lay dead, as was fuppofed. At length, however, one of them was obferved to raife his head a little, and inftantly clap it down and lay ftill again; he repeated this manoeuvre two or three times, till at last he ventured to flide down, and ran away with great celerity. He was by far the genteeleft in appearance of the four. The three were fhot dead at the inftant, and two were on one fide of him, and one on the other. One of the dead was a chimney-fweeper, about fixteen years old, and had forty guineas in his pockets,

The toll-gates at Blackfriars appear to have been burnt for the fake of the plunder: there were fome lives loft there too, and one man who was

shot, ran thirty or forty yards before he dropped, as appears by the blood which may be traced in plashes on the pavement.

But powder and ball do not feem to have, been fo fatal to them as their own inordinate ap-petites. Numbers, it is faid, and at various places, died with inebriation, especially at the diftilleries of the unfortunate Mr. Langdale, from whofe veffels the liquor ran down the middle of the street, was taken up by pailfuls, and held to the mouths of the befotted multitude; many, of whom killed themfelves with drinking non-rectified fpirits, and were burnt or buried in the ruins. Eight or nine of these miferable wretches have been found and dragged out. (I) The fame scenes of beaftly drunkenness happened in many other places; at Mr. Cox's, at Lord Mansfield's, where an ill-looking fellow, about nineteen, that was wounded, and had his hair clotted with blood, was too drunk, at one o'clock the next day, to be made fenfible; at Newgate likewife many of them had made fo free with the liquor that they could not get away, and were burnt in the cells. In the streets men were lying upon bulks and stalls, and at the doors of empty houfes, drunk to a state of infenfibility, and to a con tempt of danger: boys and women were in the fame condition, and many of the latter with infants in their arms,

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There were fix and thirty (K) fires all blazing at one time, and all to be seen from one spot, made. from the furniture of the inhabitants, and the wrecks of their houfes in and about the neighbourhood of Queen-ftreet and little Ruffel-ftreet, Bloomsbury. A perfon who stood and beheld this fcene with horror, faid to the Officer who was there with a party of foldiers, that he thought a deal of the mifchief might be prevented, as the perpetrators appeared chiefly to be boys. This difcourfe was overheard by another perfon, a well dreffed decent-looking man, who damned the fpeaker's blood and bade him get home to bed.

But tho' centinels were pofted at every avenue, and every shop was fhut, tho' the whole city had the appearance of a place that every moment expected to be ftormed, and was fo well defended that nothing less than a regular army could have endangered it, yet the inhabitants could by no means perfuade themselves they were entirely fecure. Not only were their doors all fcrawled with chalk, intimating that they were no Papists, and their windows decorated with blue flags or ribbands, but the very Jews, in Houndfditch and Duke's Place, were fo terri fied that they followed the general example, and, unintentionally, gave an air of ridicule to what they understood in a very ferious light, by writing

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on their shutters, "This house is a true Proteftant."

The Military were exceedingly active all the day, and fecured great numbers of the diforderly; fifty were taken in the Cells of Newgate attempting to rekindle the fire in thofe few parts, which on account of the vast extent of the building, had not been totally deftroyed. It is remarkable that feveral of the prifoners who had been releafed by the mob, had fo great an affection for thofe fcenes to which they had been long accustomed, that they could not forbear loitering about the Cells, and coming to view them, and were accordingly retaken. Many others were found fauntering near their old haunts in Cloth Fair, Black Boy Alley, Gravel Lane, &c, by the thieftakers,and re-committed by the magiftrates. Every hour brought intelligence of the apprehending of fome of the infurgents, as all fufpicious perfons were examined, and all hackneycoaches, ftages, and other vehicles, fearched. An attack was this day made upon the Marshalfea Prifon by the Rioters, but they were repelled.

No fooner were the diftreffed citizens relieved in part from one fear, than they were invaded by another. They beheld, as before related, the Royal Exchange, the Bank, the Inns of Court, every place in the poffeffion of an armed force. Their lives and property were the

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