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those of the 14 th to their quarters , partly , as it seems , for their protection from the populace , who manifested great exasperation against them . Or * their way they were constantly pelted by the mob , I believe without returning the attack till they came to College-green ; but there , especially or *
being pursued to their quarters , they repeatedly fired , and several wers killed or wounded * some of whom were carried near Lewin ' s Mead Chapel , in the way to the Infirmary . This was as people were going to their places , of worship ; and about this time the Mayor issued placards , one stating that Sir Charles Wetherell had left the City in tpe night ; and another , that the Riot Act had been read : and he also sent round hand-bills calling upon the inhabitants to support him *
I had been closely engaged in my usual duties , and had also gone down early to trie chapel , with several young friends ; so that I had learnt none of these circumstances ; and in passing through some streets which are far from orderly , I found them more quiet than usual : but in the early part of the service I heard the sound of horsemen riding fast through Lewin ' s Mead , and observed much perturbation among some of my hearers , who , it
afterwards appeared , had seen one or more of the wounded carried by . I went down into the Vestry , before sermon , at the request of the Committee , and learnt their opinion , that in the state of the city it was desirable to close the chapel in the evening—Mr . Rowe was then from home . The Mayor ' s hand-bill was also put into my hands ; but it was not deemed
requisite or desirable to end the service at once * I shortened it , however ; and , at the close , stated the opinion of the official members , in which my own coincided , respecting the relinqui&hment of the evening's service ; read the request of the Mayor that the inhabitants would assemble to aid him ; recommended that all whom duty did not call from home should stay there ; called upon the poorer hearers to do all they could , by their own conduct
and their advice , to preserve the peace of the city ; and urged all parents to keep their children within , the remainder of the day . I afterwards spoke to the children of the Sunday and charity schools to the same effect ; . * then accompanied my family and the pupils home ; took a hasty dinner ; and set off for tlie Square * with the intention of removing my young friends
from the scenes of alarm , if not of danger , which however , I found that other friends had anticipated . The assembling of , perhaps , twenty thousand of the best part of the population that morning , in the various places of worship , presented an opportunity for authoritatively calling out a constabulary force of four or This was more desirable than could have been anticipated . That horrid night , a boy . who was regarded as orderly and good , not connected with our society , went < Jt ) wa to the Square to see what was taking place ; drank , and became one of the burners . I have not heard what has become of him .
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$ 4 $ On the Bristol Riot * .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1831, page 846, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2604/page/50/
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