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

The plan of oderations was, it seems, to appraise', the
too it it. four die ishe.s. The South division, wept. to assents
it'd* al A tutiodletre-latitk, anent a milt: 01 Ise ceolle of the
lowa. 'roe teet,t division were id rendezvous in liirklers-
lama nationtieg to the pas k 'Weir George Ai mil:etc. hart ,
e hich s. three milts from Huddersfield, the north division,
wore to :eSeothle id I.lols Park, neatly two miles front that
place; end the NN est die i•hui, s. ha li was the :1 numerous,
se ere to assemble ins Lindley-moor, about elle si • distance
from Ilti alersfiehl, mid ail of Mem having in view the Castle
Hill, MI which a beacon aa. lighted as the sigunl for the
rutimieucement of the march mein the town. Having tllUil
surrounded the toa it, all the patties were to advance lit the
smite momeid, mot vs bile one division raptured the horse
hart:irks, mid seemed the cavalry, entailer %vas to Dike pus
•.-ion of the hid-rucks occupied by the iitlantry, who were
ii:mo to he secured; the et vd authorities were at the
.ante moment to he wade prisoners, and the principal
itiltabitantstif the town coldined to their dwellings by the
new nrOsistount r,tiveriiMent. This desperate project,
wicked and visionary as it may epee ir, -as undoubted 1.,
farmed, and !Le rapture of Huddersfield, with the stoppage
ut the tissue his usually passing throneh that place, vi ere to
form the senals for the Zeneral rising !
Abort tea o'clock at night all the divisions were in mo-
tion; the northern division, some of the see ' aof which
had tensed the peaceable tubabitants from their bests, and
(selected Heins ft 0111 theist in their route, assembled in
Fin by-pai lc, to the number, pi otethly, of '409 or 3 .0; the
southern division had approached, Wit never, it appears.
reecited Altitondlitta y lieut.:. The advanced guard of the
western division had, before Us, o'clock, taken their stn.
ties at Greetilicad, on the height a hit It commands HIM-
& rstield, and is a titbits half a mile of the too u; while the
main ho ly of that division was stationed tin latidle:i-nvor,
In split kitig of litialliers it is extreme de difficult to attain to
any thing like precision, but it is confidently asserted that
thele (audit he no lewer than five or six hitadied men in
the whole of this divd•inti. To the east the hers etre
less fOrmidable, and perhaps world not exceed flout one
to ten hundred. Whet, they had !me:toed at their I en-
dezvous, near the Obelisk, on the Leeds and Huddersfield
road, at the entrance to the Clifton road, by the way of
Kit klees.they were passed by Live persons in the iteigh-
ham hood, who had been at Middlestown on bit-Mess, and
were oil their return home about half past eleven o'clock
at night. The attention of these gentlemen was at first
excited by seeine several persons standing its the road,
appa.eittly its consititation, but none of them a ith arms in
their hands, In Wining tip the lane towards ISI ighuose,
two (tithe gentlenten, of the names of Smith and ISt earley,
observed a number ut men sitting under the walls, and at
the same time saw, by the 1,011 Of the moon. a glittering
of .;pears. So unusual a sight, at this late hour of the
eight, iiiiltteed them to stop, and Mr. Smith putt out his
hand towards one of the pikes. to aseettain what it was,
on which he received a violent Mow with the sharp end
of the pike, which cut his hand desperately, and induced
him and his companion It) Inn ry off, cry hag out " Help."
'Chia cry brought back the 'Wee other gentlemen, who
were pi eceeding forward towards Cooper-bridge; and on
eteilieg near Lathe Park-wall, one of them, Mr. Robert
Tolson, a master manufacturer at Dalton, put his foot on
a I Ile of pikes, and imputed what was these. The
reply was given by a viulent stroke, several times repeat-
ed, with one of the pike handles, and at length a fellow,
mote desperate than the rest, made a theist at hint with a
pike, which taking a slanting direction inflicted upon hint
a %%mind about the middle of the back, at the left side,
aliatit leo iiirhcs iii length, and halt' an inch deep. On
set lug his li mend so ill treated, Mr. John Hinchlitfe
s:eeptel tip to his assistance, but (lading that they were
likely to be overpowered, they made off, though not till a
pistol likil been fired at Mu. Hinehlifie, the hall from
a hieli he braid distinctly %lice past his ear. With sonic
difficulty ali. 'l'imison was got to Mr. 'lliumas Atkinson's,
the Captain Commandant of the Huddersfield troop of
Yeomans y Cavalry, %lime his would a as dressed, and lie
was some titne at te•l vv.ird, enabled to return home, having
suffered much less than might bc exile cted.
Before midnight all the iinsgtst rates verve assembled at
the (ieolgieinn ; the cavalry', %Melt consists of out hoop
of the lit I)ragotili Guards, ice Captain aib'llorpe,aufl
die iiimittry, of shier companies of the eatli I egianent of
tom, motet Captain M ening, arse catty(' out, while the
I. t winett y Cavalry were stititivone il limn Illeir I iiiii Sell at a
,hot 110tiett. SOuil after Iwo t.'t lock, the lielleoll 011 the
Cast le. bill , which seems to have consisted ut a goantity of
shavings smeared with coadetatibit matter, oud hoisted on
a pole, was tired. For sonic time the approach of the
illitill gents, to take pusses too of the lots ti was every Mu-
liiclit expected; two or three rockets had been observed
it, lire beleire this how, mid lei (plead repot is of fire-urns.
weir heat il slung the hanks tit the liver to a considerable
distance; bat limn sense cause, which is not yet aster-
lighted, the il•sul gent, Iteiain to dispose in eves), direc-
tion, and the eitaittatial attack teem the won ass abau-
dotit•il. The Avocet ter iii i i mime of all enterprise which
appeased so Melia( log lies been accounted for in dd.-J-
-r tit ways: aecuttlisig to some, the to epatations made by
the magistrates and the military had ititimidated the ill-
p.iii.telit%; mealier suppositiou IS, that the le ielittiess of
the leo iiii a hien Allolir a ilk tittitsnal lostre vu that night,
pie:vetoed the signals from tieing distinctly seen; and
mettle:l, and pet bars the most piolianle of all, is, that
the leadm s ut these infatuated wen, either Isom cowar-
dice or treachery, Uttsook them in the illoiliellt et trial.
As the gumming approached, sevetal patties nf horse tool
turd-soidies II were seta out So lee( iiiii tette hie etailoty, mitt
to pick tip streggiers, but but as stiade pie...tier was made
during the night ; ;old it is a little it warkaltie that, Milli
the exception of the outrage itt kirklees-lane, amid the
steatite: of arms mid ether utiesisive weeeims, no excess
or &T I etlation a hates ,'r was eti iiiii liked tit the aisle cit.-
COO user wheels 1110. I i•ing eatesidi il. The foit.),,ilig per-
sews at re taken tido ctistady, etilitlay :Hid Moiiiiay.—J•
Balker. of Coln Inidee, wish his two sons, Joseph and
Utekiiiiiti, alio ale ail irlaek•lniths, and are charged with
the (abet. abut ut pikes, and with joiniug in the rising.
—John Liwlley, of alitlield, nail-maker, on a similar
chin ge. Thema - Hitickleti ie of Mit fit Id : N attend. I
iltic Islcy , el Ledger-bridge, a journey snail clothier ;Just•pli
dersep and aaiiitiel J. '-up, of Haien:mail, Kirkiteattin;
end Joshua :1t-I, of Deigition, all ut whom ate clanged
a lilt having been iii arms unlike night of the :AO alt.
A !peat malty prisons out of the disturbed edlneeslias e
oe eittleistatal, absconded in teoiscipit we of Isle pail
ihi y have taken in these ietVi it e• piticeetlings, and Oa
extent Of the wischita to tits distt esS. il familia II of mese
1151.41 initial meet is n.caletileter. '1 he ;seasons ahead)'' ap-
areheilded will, we utideistautt, be committed to ittrk-