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BARNABY RUDGE - A TALE OF THE RIOTS OF 'EIGHTY by Charles ...

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county, and the borough of Southwark. Both Lord Mansfield and LordSaville, however, who had been great sufferers, refused to acceptof any compensation whatever.The House of Commons, sitting on Tuesday with locked and guardeddoors, had passed a resolution to the effect that, as soon as thetumults subsided, it would immediately proceed to consider thepetitions presented from many of his Majesty's Protestant subjects,and would take the same into its serious consideration. While thisquestion was under debate, Mr Herbert, one of the members present,indignantly rose and called upon the House to observe that LordGeorge Gordon was then sitting under the gallery with the bluecockade, the signal of rebellion, in his hat. He was not onlyobliged, <strong>by</strong> those who sat near, to take it out; but offering to gointo the street to pacify the mob with the somewhat indefiniteassurance that the House was prepared to give them 'thesatisfaction they sought,' was actually held down in his seat <strong>by</strong>the combined force of several members. In short, the disorder andviolence which reigned triumphant out of doors, penetrated into thesenate, and there, as elsewhere, terror and alarm prevailed, andordinary forms were for the time forgotten.On the Thursday, both Houses had adjourned until the followingMonday se'nnight, declaring it impossible to pursue theirdeliberations with the necessary gravity and freedom, while theywere surrounded <strong>by</strong> armed troops. And now that the rioters weredispersed, the citizens were beset with a new fear; for, findingthe public thoroughfares and all their usual places of resortfilled with soldiers entrusted with the free use of fire and sword,they began to lend a greedy ear to the rumours which were afloat ofmartial law being declared, and to dismal stories of prisonershaving been seen hanging on lamp-posts in Cheapside and FleetStreet. These terrors being promptly dispelled <strong>by</strong> a Proclamationdeclaring that all the rioters in custody would be tried <strong>by</strong> aspecial commission in due course of law, a fresh alarm wasengendered <strong>by</strong> its being whispered abroad that French money had been

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