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thing is laid about the imprilon-
ment of the Lords. By this act,
however, obedience may be en-
forced to any ruleof his Majeliy’s
courts, againll any perlon intitled
to privilege of parliament, by dil-
trels infinite; and the iflues arifiiwg
from fuch dilirels may be fold from
time to time for payment of the
plaintiffs coils.

Extraordinary Condmf? of Ilse Reggi-
lators, in the Back Settlement: of
Nari]: C aro/i/za.

F ram the New-York Gazette.

Newbern, North Carolina, 0c}. 5.
_ N Wednelday lalt a fpecial
meflenger arrived in town
from Granville county, to his ex-
cellency the governor, with the
melancholy account of a violent
iulurrefition, or rather rebellion,
having broke out in Orange coun-
ty, among a let of men who call
themfelves Regulators, and who for
fome years palt have given infinite
diliurbance to the civil government
0f this province, but now have
fappetl its whole foundation, and
brought its courts ofjufiice to their
own controul.‘

Thele people have for a long
time oppoled paying all manner of
taxes, have entertained the \ilel’c
opinion of the gvllltimfin of the
law, and often threatenedithem
with their vengeance. According-
ly, as the Hon. judge Henderlon,
and feveral gentlemen of“ the law,
were returning from Salifbury cir~
cuit to Hilllborough, to hold the
court there, they were way-laid by
a number of them with their rifles;
but happily hatingnotice of their
hellilh defign, by taking a contrary
rout, eluded their bloody plot.

ANNUAL REGIFTER

177°?

They flill gave out their threats of
meeting them at ‘Hillborough, and
wreaking their vengeance on them
there. i

Thefe menaccs were treated with
contempt, or rather as the violent
ravings of a factions and difcon-
tented mob, than any fettled and
fixed relolutions of men of proper-
ty to commit lo daring an infult to
the laws of the country, and ac-
cordingly the court was opened,
and p oceeded to bufinels; but on
Monday, the lecond day of the
court, a very large number of thofe
people, headed by men of confide-
rable property, appeared in Hills-
borough, armed with clubs, whips,
loaded at the ends with lead or iron,
and many other ofienfive weapons,
aad at once belet the court-houfe.
The firll object of their revenge was
1m. ]ohn Williams, a gentleman
of the law, who they affaulted as
he was. entering the court; hirri
they cruelly abuled with many and
violent blows with their loaded
whips on the head, and different
parts of hisbody, until he by great
good fortune made his efcape, and
took lhelter in a neighbouring liore.
They then entered the court-houle,
and immediately fixed their attenl
tion on Colonel Fanning. as the
next object of their mercilels cru-
elty ; he for lafety had retired to
the judgtfs feat, as the highefi pm
oflthe court-houle, from which he
might make the greatefi defence
againll thele bloOdllliffiy and crud
lavages; but vain were all his ef-
forts, for alter behavingwith the
molt heroic courage he fell alacrif
lice to numbers. ' 

They feized him by the heels,
dragged him down the fieps, his’
head firiking very violently on
every Iiep, carried him to the door,
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