Ataasoeoico, Friday Evening-, Nov. 2titte " nay,
a party of rioters passed through the town, brandishing their-bludgeons, and demanding money and beer ; they were on their way to a farm i:i the vicinity, on which it was understood a thrashing-machine was keg t. Intimation of the fact was conveyed to a small body of constables, who
'immediately rushed upon them and secured four of the principal actors ; they were fully committed to Reading gaol. This day, six or seven of the ringleaders at the late outrage at Mr. Newton's, of Preston Crow- marsh, were apprehended. A regular night patrol is instituted ; and no suspicious characters are allowed to pass through the town without pre- viously giving a good account of themselves. Magistrates and respect- able people of every denomination throughout the country are now so much upon the alert, that it is confidently hoped the climax of the evil is past.'
Mr. Sharp, of Fawley, near Henley, received on Tuesday last a letter signed " Kent Swing," threatening .him with vengeance if he did not treat his labourers better. The letter bore the London post-mark, but, from the local knowledge of the writer, he was evidently of the neigh- bourhood.
1VaxrAGE' Thursday, Nov. 25. " On Wednesday morning, about one hundred of the lowest description of persons assembled at \Vantage. They destroyed two or three hay-ma':ing-machines, and threatened other outrages, but were met by some of the county magistrates, attended by two or three hundred well-mounted yeomanry and tradesmen, who soon dispersed them, on their promising to leave their grievances in the hands of the magistrates. Notwithstanding, the mob again assembled in the afternoon in Vantage, and destroyed the models of an industrious iron- founder named Austen Eight of them have been committed, and war- rants are issued for six more."
ABINGDON., Saturday, Nov. 27. " Yesterday afternoon, six prisoners from \Vantage, on their road to our house of correction, for machine- breaking, passed through the town at the very moment the potwallopers were leaving the Guildhall, where, in obedience to the mandamus lately obtained from the King's Bench, they had been nominating two bur- gesses to serve as Mayor. The consequence was, as might have been expected, an attempt to rescue them ; the townspeople succeeded in libe. rating four, and the other two would have been liberated also, but for the prompt attendance of the Mayor and Magistrates. To secure and preserve the peace of the town, stout two hundred special constables were immediately sworn in. Fourteen rioters have this week been com- misted to our house of correction ; viz. four from Wallingford, for threatening to break machines; and ten from Lambourn—one for threatening to fire the town of Eastbury, and the remainder for breaking machines.
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