LINCOLN—SPIL:.13tiRIC, Nov. 29.—At Irby, near this place, a hay-stack was
fired on Tuesday evening ; at Swaby, a considerable quantity of pro. perty has been destroyed ; and at Reston, three miles south of Louth, nine stacks. of corn, value about 6001. the property of Mr. Moore, have been coneensed.
Sraaproms, Nev. 29.—The machine-breakers bare approached within seven mileslof us. They were dispersed on Saturday night by an armed body, which succeeded in capturing and lodging twenty of them in Huntingdon gaol. This morning, at Oundle, a mob assembled and at- tacked the gaol to release three fellows who had been captured ; but they were drivers off, and the prisoners made secure. Eight of the ringleaders were taken, and sent to Northampton gaol. The number of prisoners now amounts to forty-four. Nov. 30.—About half-past nine last night, a fire broke out in the stack-yard of Mr. Woodroire, at Easton, within half a mile of Wothorpe. The first information stated Wothorpe to be on fire. The armed gentry repaired, mounted, to the scene of conflagration, followed by the engines from Stamford, and by prompt exertions soon ;educed the flames ; and by the good conduct of the assembled multitude, who flocked from all the adjacent country, was so effective, by removing other stacks that were contiguous, and confining the damage to 'one stack fired, which fortu- nately was only some thrashed rye-straw, the loss is very trifling. The
fire seems to have been the work of some stranger; it is said that a fellow was seen under a stack in the yard of another farmer, in the, act of striking a light, but escaped. The person whose stack was fired, and he also whose stack was attempted, are tenants of the Marquis of Exeter.
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