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To: average joe who wrote (571)	2/21/2005 8:49:29 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5290

Oliver Goldsmith - Rioter (1747) Several scholars were expelled for raising a sedition and a riot in the city of Dublin. 'Twas occasioned by a report that a scholar had been arrested in Fleet Street. To revenge this supposed insult, a numerous body of scholars rushed into town under the command of "Gallows" Walsh - who in those days was Controller-general of riots - explored the dens of bailiffs, conducted the prisoners in triumph to the College, and pumped them soundly in the old cistern. In those days of primitive simplicity, the pumping of constables was a very fashionable amusement. The commander then proposed breaking open Newgate and making a general jail delivery. The enterprise was attempted, but failed for want of cannon. Roe, who was constable of the Castle, and was well supplied with artillery, repulsed the assailants; and some townsmen, whose curiosity induced them to become spectators of this futile attempt, were killed in the action. Goldsmith, though not a principal, was present in this transaction, and was publicly admonished for aiding and abetting the riot. --Dr. Thomas Wilson, Letter to Edmond Malone