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BARNABY

RUDGE

Charles Dickens

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BARNABY

RUDGE

A TALE OF THE RIOTS

OF ‘EIGHTY’

Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens                                                                                                        ElecBook Classics
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Contents
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Chapter 1................................................................................................13
Chapter 2................................................................................................33
Chapter 3................................................................................................44
Chapter 4................................................................................................54
Chapter 5................................................................................................68
Chapter 6................................................................................................74
Chapter 7................................................................................................87
Chapter 8................................................................................................95
Chapter 9..............................................................................................108
Chapter 10............................................................................................116
Chapter 11............................................................................................130
Chapter 12............................................................................................137
Chapter 13............................................................................................148
Chapter 14............................................................................................162
Chapter 15............................................................................................168
Chapter 16............................................................................................181
Chapter 17............................................................................................189
Chapter 18............................................................................................202
Chapter 19............................................................................................209
Chapter 20............................................................................................223
Chapter 21............................................................................................231

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Chapter 22............................................................................................242
Chapter 23............................................................................................251
Chapter 24............................................................................................264
Chapter 25............................................................................................271
Chapter 26............................................................................................284
Chapter 27............................................................................................291
Chapter 28............................................................................................305
Chapter 29............................................................................................312
Chapter 30............................................................................................327
Chapter 31............................................................................................333
Chapter 32............................................................................................347
Chapter 33............................................................................................354
Chapter 34............................................................................................367
Chapter 35............................................................................................375
Chapter 36............................................................................................389
Chapter 37............................................................................................396
Chapter 38............................................................................................410
Chapter 39............................................................................................417
Chapter 40............................................................................................429
Chapter 41............................................................................................438
Chapter 42............................................................................................453
Chapter 43............................................................................................459
Chapter 44............................................................................................474

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Chapter 45............................................................................................480
Chapter 46............................................................................................493
Chapter 47............................................................................................501
Chapter 48............................................................................................512
Chapter 49............................................................................................522
Chapter 50............................................................................................536
Chapter 51............................................................................................544
Chapter 52............................................................................................557
Chapter 53............................................................................................566
Chapter 54............................................................................................577
Chapter 55............................................................................................587
Chapter 56............................................................................................598
Chapter 57............................................................................................608
Chapter 58............................................................................................620
Chapter 59............................................................................................629
Chapter 60............................................................................................644
Chapter 61............................................................................................650
Chapter 62............................................................................................659
Chapter 63............................................................................................670
Chapter 64............................................................................................682
Chapter 65............................................................................................693
Chapter 66............................................................................................706
Chapter 67............................................................................................715

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Chapter 68............................................................................................729
Chapter 69............................................................................................736
Chapter 70............................................................................................749
Chapter 71............................................................................................758
Chapter 72............................................................................................772
Chapter 73............................................................................................780
Chapter 74............................................................................................793
Chapter 75............................................................................................802
Chapter 76............................................................................................816
Chapter 77............................................................................................823
Chapter 78............................................................................................838
Chapter 79............................................................................................845
Chapter 80............................................................................................856
Chapter 81............................................................................................866
Chapter the Last .................................................................................878

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PREFACE

he late Mr Waterton having, some time ago, expressed his

opinion that ravens are gradually becoming extinct in

England, I offered the few following words about my

experience of these birds.

The raven in this story is a compound of two great originals, of

whom I was, at different times, the proud possessor. The first was

in the bloom of his youth, when he was discovered in a modest

retirement in London, by a friend of mine, and given to me. He

had from the first, as Sir Hugh Evans says of Anne Page, ‘good

gifts’, which he improved by study and attention in a most

exemplary manner. He slept in a stable—generally on horseback—

and so terrified a Newfoundland dog by his preternatural sagacity,

that he has been known, by the mere superiority of his genius, to

walk off unmolested with the dog’s dinner, from before his face.

He was rapidly rising in acquirements and virtues, when, in an

evil hour, his stable was newly painted. He observed the workmen

closely, saw that they were careful of the paint, and immediately

burned to possess it. On their going to dinner, he ate up all they

had left behind, consisting of a pound or two of white lead; and

this youthful indiscretion terminated in death.

While I was yet inconsolable for his loss, another friend of mine

in Yorkshire discovered an older and more gifted raven at a village

public-house, which he prevailed upon the landlord to part with

for a consideration, and sent up to me. The first act of this Sage,

was, to administer to the effects of his predecessor, by disinterring

all the cheese and halfpence he had buried in the garden—a work

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of immense labour and research, to which he devoted all the

energies of his mind. When he had achieved this task, he applied

himself to the acquisition of stable language, in which he soon

became such an adept, that he would perch outside my window

and drive imaginary horses with great skill, all day. Perhaps even I

never saw him at his best, for his former master sent his duty with

him, ‘and if I wished the bird to come out very strong, would I be

so good as to show him a drunken man’—which I never did,

having (unfortunately) none but sober people at hand.

But I could hardly have respected him more, whatever the

stimulating influences of this sight might have been. He had not

the least respect, I am sorry to say, for me in return, or for

anybody but the cook; to whom he was attached—but only, I fear,

as a Policeman might have been. Once, I met him unexpectedly,

about half-a-mile from my house, walking down the middle of a

public street, attended by a pretty large crowd, and spontaneously

exhibiting the whole of his accomplishments. His gravity under

those trying circumstances, I can never forget, nor the

extraordinary gallantry with which, refusing to be brought home,

he defended himself behind a pump, until overpowered by

numbers. It may have been that he was too bright a genius to live

long, or it may have been that he took some pernicious substance

into his bill, and thence into his maw—which is not improbable,

seeing that he new-pointed the greater part of the garden-wall by

digging out the mortar, broke countless squares of glass by

scraping away the putty all round the frames, and tore up and

swallowed, in splinters, the greater part of a wooden staircase of

six steps and a landing—but after some three years he too was

taken ill, and died before the kitchen fire. He kept his eye to the

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last upon the meat as it roasted, and suddenly. turned over on his

back with a sepulchral cry of ‘Cuckoo!’ Since then I have been

ravenless.

No account of the Gordon Riots having been to my knowledge

introduced into any Work of Fiction, and the subject presenting

very extraordinary and remarkable features, I was led to project

this Tale.

It is unnecessary to say, that those shameful tumults, while they

reflect indelible disgrace upon the time in which they occurred,

and all who had act or part in them, teach a good lesson. That

what we falsely call a religious cry is easily raised by men who

have no religion, and who in their daily practice set at nought the

commonest principles of right and wrong; that it is begotten of

intolerance and persecution; that it is senseless, besotted,

inveterate and unmerciful; all History teaches us. But perhaps we

do not know it in our hearts too well, to profit by even so humble

an example as the ‘No Popery’ riots of Seventeen Hundred and

Eighty.

However imperfectly those disturbances are set forth in the

following pages, they are impartially painted by one who has no

sympathy with the Romish Church, though he acknowledges, as

most men do, some esteemed friends among the followers of its

creed.

In the description of the principal outrages, reference has been

had to the best authorities of that time, such as they are; the

account given in this Tale, of all the main features of the Riots, is

substantially correct.

Mr Dennis’s allusions to the flourishing condition of his trade in

those days, have their foundation in Truth, and not in the Author’s

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fancy. Any file of old Newspapers, or odd volume of the Annual

Even the case of Mary Jones, dwelt upon with so much pleasure

by the same character, is no effort of invention. The facts were

stated, exactly as they are stated here, in the House of Commons.

Whether they afforded as much entertainment to the merry

gentlemen assembled there, as some other most affecting

circumstances of a similar nature mentioned by Sir Samuel

Romilly, is not recorded.

That the case of Mary Jones may speak the more emphatically

for itself, I subjoin it, as related by SIR WILLIAM MEREDITH in

a speech in Parliament, ‘on Frequent Executions’, made in 1777.

‘Under this act,’ the Shop-lifting Act, ‘one Mary Jones was

executed, whose case I shall just mention; it was at the time when

press warrants were issued, on the alarm about Falkland Islands.

The woman’s husband was pressed, their goods seized for some

debts of his, and she, with two small children, turned into the

streets a-begging. It is a circumstance not to be forgotten, that she

was very young (under nineteen), and most remarkably

handsome. She went to a linen-draper’s shop, took some coarse

linen off the counter, and slipped it under her cloak; the shopman

saw her, and she laid it down: for this she was hanged. Her

defence was (I have the trial in my pocket), “that she had lived in

credit, and wanted for nothing, till a press-gang came and stole

her husband from her; but since then, she had no bed to lie on;

nothing to give her children to eat; and they were almost naked;

and perhaps she might have done something wrong, for she hardly

knew what she did.” The parish officers testified the truth of this

story; but it seems, there had been a good deal of shop-lifting

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