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his Lordship had received no fuch account, and that an exact statement, like the above, was hardly poffible to procure, not to mention that many have died in hofpitals, and other places, fince the above was published.

NOTE (1).

AND many more fince the first edition of this pamphlet: eleven were difcovered on one day, one of whom had a gin bottle in his pocket.

NOTE (Ķ).

A reputable tradefman, in the neighbourhood cited, gave the Author this intelligence. The fires were made Imaller and more numerous on account of the narrowness of the streets, which would otherwife have been totally deftroyed; but as many, who read the firft Edition, expreffed à doubt about the authenticity of the information, enquiry was made on the spot, and, it is probable, that the person who related it was deceived in the number,

LORD Mansfield has given the doctrine of Military interference an explanation as unexpected as it is new. He has confidered them, not as foldiers, but citizens; amenable to the Civil Magiftrate for their conduct; and having a right to act, in all cafes of tumult, like paffengers, or other perfons. The Public feem, unhappily, to have acquiefced, and taken his Lordship's word for demonftration. The doctrine is fpecious, and its novelty, joined to his Lordship's reputation, have given it the force of truth: but, if it is constitutional, the difference between the Government of England and a Military one is imperceptible. A foldier, who is merely. paffing, is in a very different legal fituation to a foldier under arms, called forth to act offenfively and defenfively: it would feem ftrange to hang that man for murder who only obeyed the word of command. If Lord Mansfield's affertion is true, all the foldiers who have been active in fuppreffing the Riots are liable to be tried for their lives.

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IT has been related with great confidence, that an Officer in the fervice of Congrefs, who was a prifoner at Charles Town, faid, that the Congrefs had much dif ficulty to perfuade the Americans to continue the war another year, and that they were at last only prevailed upon, in confequence of being affured that the Cities of London and Westminster would be burnt and destroyed. this fummer. Lord Mansfield, and others fuppofed to have the best information, have faid many things in Parliament too, by which it appears Government is of opinion that fomething befides Religion has been the occafion of the Disturbances,

VARIOUS accounts have been given of the fum to tal of Mr. Langdale's lofs: in Parliament, fifty, fixty, and ninety thousand have been feverally mentioned. The account, inserted in the text, was taken as affirmed from the mouth of one of his fervants.

THIS is a newspaper anecdote; but what Mr. Burke pleaded in his Lordship's behalf, in the House of Commons, was far more fevere than any thing his enemies have related or invented; that is, fuppofing his Lordfhip poffeffed of delicacy and feeling; which, however, are things by no means pofitively afcertained. A daily paper gives Mr. Burke's fentiments in the following

words.

All men, he faid, were not made alike. The LordMayor, he fuppofed, was of a timid nature, and without natural courage and capacity that fit fome men to act a wife and decided part in trying fituations. Neither had he made up, he prefumed, the difadvantages of his natural infirmity and timidity, by ftudy and culture. As he never dreamt, in his younger days, of filling fo important a ftation as that of Lord-Mayor of the City of London, it was probable he had neglected to acquire thofe talents that might be requifite, in certain emergencies, to dif

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charge the duties of it: for thefe reafons, he hoped, they would have mercy on the poor Lord-Mayor, in confideration of his natural weaknefs, and total want of education.

[THE Author is exceedingly obliged to the Gentleman who has taken the trouble, in fo candid a manner, to correct an error into which he had unintentionally fallen. Truth, without prejudice or partiality, has been preferved, as far as it was poffible, with the utmoft affiduity, to procure it amidst that hurry and confufion, and that variety of reports which, at the moment the Pamphlet was written, prevailed. The London Affociation deferves every acknowledgement, every praise, not only that the Author, but that the Kingdom can beflow. The liberty of printing the following Letter, it is prefumed, the Author of it will forgive, if not approve; and the original mistake is left as in the first Edition, that those who have not read that Edition may perceive the whole affair. As the following Letter does the Writer of it great honour in several respects, his Name and Address should have been inferted, as on the card he inclofed, but that it was not known whether the infertion would have been agreeable to his inclinations.]

To WILLIAM VINCENT.
SIR,

T was not 'till this morning, that a publication, under your name, fell into my hand; "A Narrative of the late Riots; which is penned with a candor and impartiality that affure me, you would be defirous to correct any affertion to the difadvantage of others, into which you have been mifled either by ignorant or prejudiced mifinformation.

In the 5d page of your Pamphlet is the following paragraph. It would be wrong to forget the Armed

Affociations, who turned out on Thurfday, though "fome have acculed them of being very quiet and peace"able till the danger was all over.'

In the foregoing paragraph it is eafy to distinguish between two diftinct particulars: in the firft fentence,

you

you feem to exprefs fome favourable fentiments, of your own, towards the behaviour of the Armed Affociations; and, in the fecond, relate only the remarks which others made on their conduct at the late interefting crisis.

As a Volunteer in the London Military Affociation of Foot, I think it incumbent on me to inform you, that on the Wednesday afternoon we made a tender of our fervices to the Lord Mayor of London. Before the hour of feven, the fame evening, we were under arms, and continued fo all night, in the fame duty with the Regulars; first protecting the Manfion Houfe, then marching to fuch other parts of the City as were actually attacked. Before four in the morning, we had fecured the Rioters in the houfe of Mr. Donovan, in Broad-street, and faved the houfe of his neighbour, Mr. Gorman, from the ruin to which it had been devoted; though not without the painful neceffity of committing fome execution on those who were not, by repeated intreaties, to be perfuaded to defift and disband.

Very little enquiry would fully affure you, that the fervices of the Armed Affociations were vigorously exerted, and unremittedly continued, from the moment the Civil Magiftrate could be depended on not to fuffer them to ftand the defencelcfs victims of that outrage and abufe, which they had, with indignation, feen the Military exposed to in the preceding ftages of the late horrid fcenes of brutality and confufion,

The Regulars were not permitted to do any actual fervice till the Wednesday evening, and from that very hour, the London Military Affociations képt even pace with them, in every endeavour for the prefervation of the dearett interefts of the community, from the ruin with which they were threatened.

Tuesday morning,

June 27, 1782.

I am, SIR,

Your humble fervant,

A Volunteer in the London Military
Affociation of Foot.

I fend my name and place of addrefs inclofed, that you may, if you pleafe, enquire of my reputation for veracity; as an anony.nous contradiction of certain facts, with the affertion of others, could not have a juft claim to attention.

ADVER