The National Register.
London, England, 1820-04-10 00:00:00

castle; but the magistrates wail a reply from Government
before they decide a bet her to make out the committals for
hikh treason, or simply fur a mistlt int.ammr.
The at ins hitherto captured by the y amount only
we beliert, to three pike-heads, a few side arms, and se.
veval pike-handles, with Iwo or three scythe blades, fag.
(etted into shafts. The pikes are about nine inches lout,
re‘entoling the head of a halbert, will, a screw at the
end, to fasten into an iron socket, a 1134:II is livened at the
top of the pike-handle, and the handles are ft ow sia to
eight feet in length ; some of them formed of ash plants,
and oiliiirs of deal, rather,,thickcr than the handle of a hay
fork. None of the Pikes which have been found are
forinep to cut a hurse's bridle ; but we have reason to sup-
pose that there MY some such instruments, as Hit attempt,
b) the way of experiment, was male with one
of them to cut a gentleman's bridle, who was last Sunday
night riding between Thornhill and Kit klieaton, but
a loch, tin-stag the rein, caught the gentleman's pantaloon
and tore it hum the knee to the article.
t)ur 11 CtlliCbtlii night last, at SeVell o'clock, the magis•
hates of Huddersfield, Joseph Winjamin Haigh
Al cii, ~ad3otia Ilar,f,ll, convened a meeting of the
at the (icurg' luu, intimating that they had a
c 1111111 l unication to make to them oft onsideratile imput lances
At this meet MA. about 100 of the principal inhabitants and
trades peuple..tthe itto attemird, trod Mr. Ilai;th having
taken the comir, lie proceeded to state—" That the magis-
trates hail that there were, on Friday
night last final 1,000 to 10do persons in arms in the neigh-
bourhood of I laddet sfield, abuse ouject it ant, tot bange
Yy
force the exisiiint order of society, lto rob and plunder
the re-pectalote part of the t it). A itch guute, whom
they n kit.rw, and 011 n I they had kept sin eye, had
come over front Nottingham t,i that place, on 'Thursday the
30th ult., and nad convened n ineettog of d,le..atis, at which
twenty acre present. On the meeting hying dissolved,these
men were despatched ii at various pails of the country, and
each of them had a ticket Oren to film, tin w hich was a ritten
:t significant word (which the chairman winnowed, but
which it may perhaps 111/I be a.:viseuble to state in a public
n.iscsvaper,) and these cards, a hell cut in tau, trete to form
a shot and counter.sign by which ihr leaders acre to be
',Dawn. From causes which could not at present be ex
plaiiiiitl, the wicked designs of the law le 8 had bet n hitherto
fiatstrated, but there was Oil reason to suppose that their in-
tentions had beets altered. In this Jar 11l il 14 state of things it
became the duly of the inhabitants to hone tor the preset..
yeti ll of tle:ir laws, their persons and their property. This
was the substance of the coinmanication, and it is scarcely
necessary to add, that the meeting instantly gave their sanc-
tion to the application to the Lord Lieutenant. lis the
course of the co 11111 l uuication the chairman very candidly
admitted, that he did not believe that the Reformers, as a
body, haul any thing to do with the conspiracy, which had
sread such very general and well-founded alarm through
the neighbourhood—the conspirators were the mere dregs
of society.