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the Square ; but ju 9 t Ihen suddenly commenced one of those two charges rif die military , which , being made without previous notice , after the per * ftect sUpineness of the trighfc land the preceding day , could not but involve the innocent , and even the useftil , with the guilty . The second was a very serious and I believe destructive one , soon after ten ; but it was after the troops of the 14 th had been openly brought back , ^ nd when ( where there actually were proceedings of riot ) the clearing of the streets was the preservation from further evil : but even that was without notice to those
whom various -duties called into those public streets where there had been no riot ; and *! am glad that the order so given , ( though probably , in the circumstances , right for the commanding officer to issue , ) did not proceed from the magistracy . The one to which I first referred , about half-past
six , was , in my judgment , next to useless ; and sudden , and without nolice , as it Was , did not do credit to the discretion of the individual who caused it . * The soldiers quite unexpectedly dashed through the central avenue from the Square , and then in all directions through Prince ' s Street . At no great distance from me , a soldier broke his sword on a man , who was remote from all others , and who appeared as Httle engaged in riot as myself *
I went thence to the Bishop's Palace , and found two or three young special constables keeping the ground , and a few persons ( gradually increasing in number ) who appeared principally influenced by curiosity . One woman , however , told me , that she wished she could find an old Bible for tier son : my head was fall , and I did not tell her that the Bible would not by her finding it , have become hers . The young men wished the ground to be cleared ; and I spoke to a decently dressed workman who was -furthest from the gate , telling him that I thought we should all do well to -leave the place . As we were walking away , speaking of the vast devastation , he . said , " You all conspire to oppress the poor . " I told him I -never had knowingly done a poor man any injury . *< All of you , " he added , * that are in trade . " I replied that I believed him quite in the wrong there too . He went on a little more * and concluded by telling me , that he had himself been turned out of wotk , because he would not vote as
his master wished . It has been more common here for men to submit to -the degradation of voting against then * judgments , at their masters command : but by both systems the bonds which should unite the rich and the poor 'have been weakened . *—The ffcct seemed to me deserving to be re-© rded . < ,.. / i ...... .-¦ -. . . ,., .. i . > .... -.. . . . .- ~ .-. -.
" - ' ' / I Major Mackworth , an officer , who was on a visit in the neighbourhood , who after having , as he states in print , spent the night at a distance , came down to the Sqwai < e about the time 1 did myself , and , struck with the devastation , urged and even directed the troop * ti € r charge home , though , with Colonel Hi ere ton at their h&ad , they toad $ wtfk > iis ? ? "been 'looking &t \ , mi& though , £ believe , all riot was now over .
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850 On the Bristol Riots .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1831, page 850, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2604/page/54/
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