The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-05-03 00:00:00

DISTURBANCES IN MONMOUTHSHIRE.

On Friday last a meeting of the Magistrates sad Deputy
Lieutenants was held at Usk. at which the Duke of Beau-
fort. Lord liestelasat, presided, for that purpose of taking
1810 consideration the disturhal state of the manisty. Item-
Ingons were • entered into, and other measures adopted, for
the purpose of reckiming
the deluded workmen to • proper
sense of their duty
A Special Seminos of the Cooney Magistrates was also held
al Pontypool, on Friday se'imight, which, though convened at
• short notice, w•ea entitlement, attended. A reward of 501. 1/41.4
ordered to he offered fur the conviction of persons suing about
In diegnise, in women's clothes and with blacked fare,i, by
bight, exercising any species of threat or intimidation ; a
proclaispettou was also ordered for preventing or suppressing
TllirM•lority t sod other enrrgette and iterrssary Irlei.ifirell fur
prelierrinf and restoring the peace of the comity were adopt.
ed. The MairiPtrate• present Iseatil with great pleasure from
I gentlemen (resent, connected with the iron trade,
that a general resolution has been entered into, of paying the
wages of the workmen employed in the Iron trade in gooney,
weekly, without any restrietins whatever as to the place or
i Manner of laying out the same.
The preceding night (Thursday), a violent Work had been
made on a house at Tredegar, in which were some men who
still continued at work: as they repelled the violence by
tare-arms, ose or mote of the assailants were wounded,
which, it is expected, will lead to their being discovered and
taken. Early 4111 geturday morning a large party of colliers
assembled at Gelly-haw colliery, stopping by force and
,t4haining together alueteen waggons, laden with coals for the
Tredegar works. _ . _

late'licence of this outrage and complaint having hero
Mode to J. H. Moegridge, Eve. the neighbouring Magistrate,
he instantly repaired to the spot, accompanied by Captain
Lewis', troop of yromanry cavalry, who were •t the time
breakfasting at Woodfield. every endeavour to dissuade the •
misguided workmen from their illegal poi pore, and every
warning of dsuger •ad friendly exhortation pristine vain,
the Riot Act w■s mail, and the emmequences of remaining
together after the expiraltou of an hoer or of any peccoos
breach or the peace, fully explained. In less than SO mi-
ssiles, howe►er, a general attack was made on the waggons in
the rear, and the coals were throws out ; upon which, hoping
still to avoid the painful alternative of ordering the cavalry
to charge. the Magistrate seized one of the 60E1e...fees, hut,
sate" some resist:Race, lie was rescued, and the cavalry were
the. ordered to clear the ground, which was elected in • few
minutes, with equal celerity and humanity. nut a single it,-
(Hairdo', being even wounded. The wsgtona were then for-
warded under guard of the cavalry, and, together with fib
others (making in the whole 74 waggons), were conveyed,
notwithstanding repeated attempts to break op the roads in
advance, to within three miler of the Tcdegar Works, where
they were met by a detachment of the Scots Greys, tinder
Capt. Wynham, seeompsnied by the Vicar of Abeig y.
Mach praise is due to Capt. Lewis's troop of yeomanry et-
ernity, fifty of whom, partly from the confine' of Hereford-
shire, had mastered in the wester. part of the county be test
o'clock in the morning of Saturday, though the orders for
their assembling were nut signed till the preceding afsernons,
and had then to be aspersed throughout nearly half the
county.
Every possible exertion had been previously mode by the
Magistrates to preserve the peace of the comity without hay-
ing recourse to the military, even that molt coostilutional
species of it, the yeepassury cavalry, which is composed of
the gentlemen and yeomanry of the county ; and, therefore,
anemia as the proprietors of the Neuf • y gloss and Ilkaufort
works bad gives way to the claims of their troilism the
Monmouthshire yeomanry cavalry, which bad been called
um, and smtioried at Abergarenny, were dismissed. The
hollow sort of truce obtained by these concemaions war, how-
e►er, as was formeen,unly of abort disratioo. Then endeavours
were made to gorse is special constables; but this being
found impracticable in numbers maßcient to he of adequate
use, the HighSberifforthe county was written to for the par-
pose of having the w►ole civil force of the moot', embodied;
and, at the Special Sessions of the Magistrates ou Friday,
the 19th April, a Resulativio unanimously passed fur ap-
plying to the Sheriff to raise the pone eomihrests, the terror
of a night visitation from the " black cattle" and "black
ladies" as the bands amounting sometimes to tOO in each,
who scour the country by night, sue called, deterring not
only well.dispoised person. in the neighboorliond from siding
the Magietrary of the comity, but large bodies of yyuykloon
from continuing at work.

On Sunday morning last a most inflammatory band bill,
ensimining the most b.,rrid , was found stick up In
a level belunging so M . Leigh, George. and Smith, afar
Pontypool ; a... 1 we undimmed the collieries of those geo-
tlemeis are so completely deserted, that not only mast t►e
furnaces at Blaendore be speedily blown nut, bet it is ex-
pected a supply for their tie-troika will not bete be obtaiaed.