ON Tuesday and Yesterday there was an extraordinary Riot in this Town , as followeth : A false Report was spread about the Country , that the French Goods on Board several Prices in this Port were to be Destroyed . Whereupon the Tinners and Country Rabble , to the Number of Three or Four Hundred , came into the Town , and went directly to the Key , Swearing that the Salt and other Goods which they wonted so much , should not be thrown into the Sea , but that they would have it ; the Officers of the Customs Interposed , and told them the Hazard of the Enterprise they were going about , to break up those Ships whose Hatches were Locked and Sealed , and the Ships and Goods the Kings . And to Pacify them , told them ( what was never intended to be Perform'd ) that when the said Gooods were Condemned , and to be Destroyed , they should have a Publick and General Notice of it , wherewith they were well sattisfied ; and going off . When several of the Townsmen called them Fools , and Eged them on again ; whereupon , they Entered , and brok up the first Ship they come at , Laden chiefly with Salt , which they Unloded by the begining of the Night , and then gave over till the Morning ; by which time their Number were Increased to near Two Thousand in all , Men and Women : The Men Declared for Salt , Wine , and Brandy ; and the Women Declared for Linnen , Resolving to Plunder every Ship in the Port.

The Captain of Pendenis sent down ( at the Request of the Price Officers ) Two Files of Musqueteers to help Guard the next Ship they were to come at : Which they Entererd notwithstanding , and Assaulting the Souldiers , forced some of them to make use of Ball , who shot only with Powder before , so that one of the Ring-Leaders was shot through the Body , another in the shoulder , a third had his Belly slit up with a Baggonet , that his Bowels hung out , and several others Pricked and Wounded .

But this had not Ended , but Encreased the Mischief , if they had not bethought themselves of somge reat Guns that were on Board , which they Mounted and Loaded presently in the View of the whole Rout , and Runing with Lighted Matches as if they would have immediately Fired amongst them ; the Women began to shriek out and Fly ! and the Men by degrees followed them , till they all got out of Town .

So that we are now quite rid of them , being quietly gon to their Respective Habitations of this Town . Many Joined with them , whom I suppose the Officers of the Customs will take Care to Prosecute .