ABSTRACT
On Thursday several Gentlemen met to dine at the Hotel in Birmingham, to celebrate the anniversary of the French Revolution; but as some disloyal and inflammatory hand-bills had been distributed in the town, the populace hissed and hooted all those who entered the tavern. The meeting prudently broke up in about an hour and a half; but at night the populace assembled, broke all the windows of the hotel, burnt the new meeting house, and would not suffer the engines to play upon it; pulled down the old meeting house; proceeded to Dr. Priestley’s, about a mile and a half from the town, gutted his house, and destroyed every thing in it: and the walls were burning, and the town under the greatest apprehensions for the consequences of the following night, when the letters left the place.
