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London, England, 1839-11-12 00:00:00

RIOTS AT

EVI4NING EDITION.

N.EVVPORT.

known to my Lord John Russell, ho would then but
barely have had an exeuse in appointing. a low-bred man
of Mr. Frost's description to the Commission of the
1 Peace while there were so many gentlemen of the county
(who were in every way so much more fitting. But, ac-
quainted as he was with the whole of this man's history,
I will leave it to his Lordship's Whig-Radical supper: t'4'4
if they can defend so monstrous an appointment.
The Mayor is much better.
It having been stated in some of the London pap, rs
that the Lord-Lieutenant of the county wished le
withdraw the troops from Newport for the protecti..ll
of his own residence, I am instructed by the 1.11,0 r
to state its entire incorrectness, and that the state-
ment can only have arisen from the fact of a corporal
and four men having been sent to Pontypool under the
directions of the Mayor, and by order of Captain Staci,:.
The Lord-Lieutenant's conduct has been, the M...r
informs me, most indefatigable, and, indeed, since I is:, v.;
been here I have seen him unremitting in his exeitietis.
The following cards were fOund upon some of the
prisoners :
....

NEWPORT, SUNDAY.
MO infantry have arrived here to-day-540 soldiers
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rl
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Awed, ehunte not
1 of the 45th.
yvevtasahsocuerryti
a ienxepde cwt ehde tyl''eesrt cArl4
arrived, have
requisition, numerously signed, has to the worthy been addreso.--' rthy Mayor of this town, solieiti”- '-'
consent to be put in nomination l'," ~g him to
office of Mayor lb:. the en." ~ re-election to the
so doing, oil the gi v i.-
..ing year ; but he declined
'llrf.. of the ur-
—
R 13. ind that quiet is necessary to the
.
..unds inflicted on bim by the Chartists.
iiewett, Esq., M.P., who has been to London
with Mr. Phelps, solicitor, it is believed on a mission
to the Secretary of State for the Home Department,
has returned this day from London ; but the nature or
' result of his journey has not as yet transpired.
The town remains quiet, excepting as far as the ex-
citement consequent on the arrival of the troops is con-
cerned.

(From the Times.)
The IVestern T'indicator, an unstamped paper edit .(1
and conducted by Henry Vincent, says—
" Intelligence has just reached us, by; a gentleman
from Newport, that Mr. Frost, of Newport, and Mr.
Waters, of Carbon, are fully committed to take their
trial, on a charge of treason. Where are the Welsh-
men now ?"
In another part of the paper it says,
" Oh, Englishmen ! let not the sturdy sons of Wales
eclipse your glory ; be up and stirring, and hold your-
selves in readiness, for—

Newport, Monmouthshire.
Working Men's Association.
" It is safe to do right."
This ticket to be renewed quarterly.
No. 79. July 23, to October 22, 1839.
Edward Frost, Treasurer.
Charles Waters, Secretary.
John Partridge, Printer, Newport.

(Copy of tha other card.)
Monmouthshire.
Working Men's Association.
Motto —" Peace, Law, and Order."
Equal Laws and Equal Rights.
We advocate and claim, as our unalienable birthright
as citizens, universal suffrage—vote by ballot—annual
Parliaments—and no property qualifications. Intel-
lectual fitness and moral worth are the only qualifica-
tions we advocate for the electors and the elected.
No. 635. James Rose, S. E. Secretary,

Now's the day and now's the hour
To resist oppression's power."
And again,
" We, being somewhat conversant with the history of
the revolutions which have taken place in other nations,
and having made it our business to ascertain the cause
of those revolutions, foretold that nothing could avert
a physical revolution in this country. The Ministry
and the Government have goaded them on to acts of
desperation. And what do we now behold ? What
is the consequence of such wanton tyranny? Why,
revolution, a most awful revolution is convulsing this
kingdom from one end to the other. An outraged
people are resorting to the last expedient to obtain
justice, to free themselves from the yoke of the most
galling, insulting, and damnable tyranny that ever
cursed the world."

Newport, Monmouthshire.
Youths' Democratic Association.
" Union is strength, knowledge is power."
Henry Frost.
Entered June 13, 1839. No. 1.
John Ball, Secretary.

" When we reflect upon the state of the country, and
consider how our friends have been cast into dungeons,
there to die of starvation, we are not at all surprised
at what has taken place near our borders. We warned
our rulers of it, they heeded not the warning. They
persisted in their own unhallowed line of conduct, and
now we witness the consequence thereof—a fearful and
bloody revolution."

" MONMOUTH, MONDAY, Nov. 11.
" We are as yet, here in a state of doubt and uuter-
tainty. The Chartists are yet upon the hills. Some
strangers have been prowling about this town ; but. es
they state, when apprehended, that they come here for
protection, of course no farther notice can be taken
of them. I have learned that the Chartists, as soon as
they heard that the two pieces of artillery were to be
sent here to guard the gaol, sent two of their party into
this town to discover whether the account was true.
Under all circumstances it seems that the insurrectior&
is far from being quelled, and if they do rise again
the gaol here will be the first object of attack, And
yet, notwithstanding this, we have not received any
reinforcement of military. The artillery, who were to
have been here, have passed on by Chepstow to New-
port, and there is at present at the gaol only a few old
pensioners and the militia-staff, relieved at intervals by
a body of the 12th Lancers.

This is the language breathed by the paper published
in Vincent's name. This paper circulates by thousands
in Wales. It is not, therefore, to be wondered at that
the deluded Welshmen should have become the victims
of the demagogues who have excited them to their ruin,
and who have endeavoured to lull the Magistrates into
security, and to lead them to believe that all agitation
had ceased, by letters, such as the following, received by
the Chairman of the County Magistrates, the active
and indefatigable Rev. James Coles :
" To the Rev. James Coles.
" Newport, Sept. 28.
" Sir,—l beg leave respectfully to solicit that, as a
Magistrate of the county of Monmouth, you will be
pleased to make some alteration in the very severe re-
gulations of the gaol to which Messrs. Vincent, Ed-
wards, Dickinson, and Townsend are now subject. As
the agitation has now subsided, an alteration for the
better would now appear an act of mercy.—Your obedi-
ent servant. " JOHN FROST."

" f send you below the copy of a letter which was..r„.
ceived yesterday by the Mayor of this town. It
dressed to the Mayor, Aldermen, and Comm,A Coun-
cillors, and bears the London post-mark. Or, the in-
side of the envelope is written—

" Eece Omnes.
" The people shall rise like brave, lions, and shall nr.t
lie down till they eat the prey and drink the blood of
the slain."

"Under
"JESUS CHRIST.

JOHN FROST AND LORD JOHN RUSSELL.
As Mr. Frost is described in the Vindicator in the
following terms—" The virtue of this great man—his
nobleland disinterested patriotism—his love of his country
—his whole patriotic career—have so endeared him to
me, and, I believe, all who know him, that I am de-
cidedly of opinion that his capture will be the signal to
make Wales a scene of the most terrible devastation"—
it may be worth while to inquire who Mr. Frost is.
The following brief history of his career I have ob-
tained from the most authentic source. I have seen the
documents referred to in it, and therefore I can pledge
myself to its accuracy in every particular :
" John Frost was brought up a tailor, but, having
married a woman of small fortune, he became a shop-
keeper. In 1821 he published a series of libels against
a gentleman at Newport, before publishing the first of
which he sent a printed copy of it to the person who
was attacked, with a letter, in which he endeavoured to
extort money, by informing the person he addressed that
unless reparation were made to him for injuries which
were never done, he would publish the libel on the following
day. The person libelled took no notice of his intended
publication (or letter), and the following day he exhibited
in his shop windows printed copies of the libels.
He had then become a printer, and he printed and pub-
lished his own writings. That pamphlet having sold
freely, be published several other pamphlets, in which
he attacked not only the gentleman against whom his
first pamphlet was directed, but several other of the
most respectable persons in the neighbourhood. For
the libels published in the first pamphlet an action was
brought against him, and tried before Chief Justice
Abbott and a Special Jury, in the Court of King's
Bench, in Middlesex, and a verdict obtained against
him for 1,0001. damages. To avoid paying those da-
mages, he procured himself to be arrested by his step-
father, and went to gaol. Having given notice of ap-
plying for his discharge to the Magistrates at the
Quarter Sessions under the then Insolvent Debtors
Act, his discharge was opposed, and he was ordered to
be imprisoned in the County gaol of Monmouth for
fraud, the present Mr. Justice Bosanquet being the
Chairman of' the Sessions at which he was so sentenced.
The fraud that he was proved to have committed was
concealment of property from his creditors, and opening a
shop in the name of his son, John Frost, a mere boy. He
was subsequently indicted by the same gentleman wl:o
obtained the verdict against him, by two bills of in.
dictment for libels contained in two subsequent pamphlets,
which indictments were removed into the Court of
King's Bench, and tried before special juries at Mon-
mouth, and he was convicted on each indictment. When
he was brought up for judgment he prayed that, if the
Court sentenced him to imprisonment, he might be im-
prisoned in the county gaol at Monmouth ; whereupon
he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in Cold-
bath-fields prison, which sentence he underwent. In
passing sentence upon him Lord Chief Justice Abbott
said, ' It is our duty to see that you arc removed from
that county where you have done so much mischief, at
least for a time.' About that time, when he thought a
revolution was at hand, in a printed letter he addressed
the lower orders of people thus :—‘ Look out, my boys ;
I recommend every one of you who has received any in-
jury from one of these fellows to fix on a house or farm.
I have already fixed on mine ; it is Wernilee, and when
my injuries and the losses' have sustained are considered,
every one will think me very moderate.' Werndee is an
estate near Newport, of SirC.Morgan, from whom he had
never received the slightest injury or affront. He subse-
quently was a bankrupt. After the formation of the Town
Council at Newport the Council intended to have sent to
the Secretary of State for the Home Department the
name of the person who had proceeded against Frost
and of Mr. Brewer, to be placed in the commission of
the peace for the borough. Frost wrote a letter to
Lord John Russell, informing him that the firstolarned
person was an attorney, and his Lordship immediately
replied to Frost's letter, that the name of that person
would not be placed in the commission because he waP.
an attorney. At one time that gentleman's name was on
the Rolls, and he was in one of the most respectable
firms in the county ; but he had retired from any prac-
tical participation in the business, and was a person of
considerable fortune in the county.. Frost showed
Lord John Russell's letter to the Council, and, to tl •
astonishment of most persons, he got himself named
by a majority of the Council, and his name was sent to
Lord John Russell to be put into the commission. The
gentleman who had been superseded hearing that, wrote
to Lord John Russell a statement of all the circum-
stances (detailed in this paper,) but his Lordship
had not the courtesy to acknowledge the letter,
and Frost's name was in a short time afterwards
placed in the commission. Yet after this, and Lord
John Russell's being made acquainted with the whole
of Frost's conduct some time afterwards, when a dis-
cussion took place in the House of Lords on the ap-
pointment of borough Magistrates, Lord Melbourne THE AUTUMN OF LIFE.—" A phrase fratlit
said that his Noble Friend (meaning Lord John Rus- with 'weaning, and S".ggesting the gravest reflectionsm
sell) had exercised great caution and vigilance before bringing in review t':,e elasticity of youth and vigorous mail-
ooff t mi
meed,rei c saPult eelriannsd results
he made those appointments, and had not made
iyneaarms ;anyneetr,
head as contrasted with the sober bearing of declining
and stay,
sewiparoiglarnesds
any but after the fullest inquiry as to tlir:,
,
fitness, in every respect, of
the persons rer.orm. science can obviate one of theses y
i(thteh
mended to be placed in those borough commissions. In Mr. Frost's case, after the. statement that was change thlt.aehcurrent of sad reflection, and be prodra':t'Ast
isent to him und,o the signatnre of the gentleman sending of the 1,,, hest gratification. The Loss of Hr' oltvisi
t, who alma stated who Ise was, can Lord John Russell ftbehatnsobset annoying proofs of the inroads. o', ►
ruthless
,ptstify himself far the appointment, without having
time,toss of Oldriedn tpsost successfully supplied s and the sue-
made inoui
, what
at 'wit, into the truth of the statements:'
has been ge
Balm of Columbia in Vaese cases has
Atikkt Waal have been the results of this monstrous ap-
havenoless remarkable than impo-dp,sit to thousand&
P64tniMt ! The Agitator, who, I am informed by who
.experienced its powerful effects in
.oeets in encouraging
or re rod
every person of respectability here, of whatever shade of
rid cps
Balmucing a fine growth of F.air." C. and H. Old-
pelities, has, for the last 20 years, kept Newport in a
regve tthe causes whiskers and eyebrows to grow,
continual state af Agitation, who has libelled every per- 12
frees itn eats
hair from tar wing grey, and completely
son of respectability, the man who was convicted of ..,. fro scurf. Sold,, 'wholesale and retail by the
fraud, the bankrupt reearnmender of revolution and of a V
. roprietot a, 1, Wellin.gtou-street, Strand. London, and
partition of property. is placed by Lord John Russell, is 1 1,7, uP:at •of the re_speetable Perfumer's and Medicine
placed upon the bench, to preserve the peace of -4 ()aunty 1 V -nders, price 3s. 6d., 65., and 11 s. per bottle. No
which be had agitated from one end to t..,1e other, ar.,l other prices are genuine. Some complaints have reached
making use of his ill-acquired power to foster Chr4rtism the Proprietors of a spurious Balm having been vended ;
and spread se ()Aka through. Cno land, finishes his career they again caution the public to be on their guard
by erecting the stainl4l-4 of open rebellion to the Queen', against tha base imposters, by especially asking for
authority, anti tteOming a leader of a nand of traitors in " Oldridge's Beau of Columbia."
the deatiaietion of thelives and property of the peaceable CowEs.-Iti is now expected that Sir Jo' hn
iuhabitants of the kingdom.
Rennie's plan for deepening the Medina will be ekr ried
Town Quay will "
If the facts which we have set forth baa not been into execution. A spacious
rmz,o be
1 Was a large coal proprietor in addition to being on erected, and it is rumoured that the membeva of the
the Rolls, employing upwards of 400 reetiAnd at that period Royal Yacht Squadron, at.? about_ removing.. their rev,.
doing oue-iiit of the entire coal trade of Newport, to eeavous from this place to the anchorage es:,
t Nortis, on
whioit I can add, from personal observation, that he is a which estate a splendid Club House is to be ];wilt for
tql;ave been Appongert
gentleman of education, skill, at4d /a every way most ittiag the accommodation of its members.-
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nEx,
" Fidei Defensor. &o„
Enclosed in it is a large" SELAIL Sreretary." strip cif pa„knim„, on
which is written thus—
" Wales to wit.—We hei-eby order and direct all our
right trusty and beloved Admirals, Generals, Marshals,
Colonels, Captains, Lieutenants Ensigns, Corporeis
Sergeants, &ilia's, Sheriffs, Constables, &c., to tnal.c.
note, run, invoke, and sing, " Oh, God, send us the
King" from your Holy Court above—the third Hum-
yen !!! " I AM THAT 1 AM, k.''
" DoneZat Babylone."

LADY LYTTON BULWER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST.

Paris, November $7,.
SlR,—Having perused Lsdy Lytton Bulsve,:s ",,, er
in the Morning Post of October 31, just,.ce to hu.
Ladyship requires me to state that, upon F;cri,,,,, inquiry,
I find that no such scene as that descr,Ded in my cor-
respondence (inserted Oct. IS) has ta:„, place at Lady
Aylmer s.
I deeply regret that, reVing 'apon the affirmation of
persons who alleged that the, story was told them b:,
by Mr. Henry Bulw,r himself, I should have been .tae
unintentional mea.lis of giving pain to Lady Lytton 13o!-
wer, and that a purely political paragraph should hiLvo
rlnnoyed her Ladyship in the slightest manner, whi.ll
was far from the object of your
PARIS CORRESPONDENT.

ELECTION OF MAYOR AT
LIVERPOOL.

,
.e for that itu-
,ai#Joshua Whims-
sot!
The Town Council of Liverpool proceee.ed on Sato
,day
fellagi
ley, Esq., a gentleman whose service
e as an earnest It,-
former merit the honour. Apart from the possession of
a splendid private fort,;me, Mr. ."Walmsley has long been
distinguished as the. advocatr.2 of everything tendng to
the moral and -political a.avancement of his townsno.o.
In his capacity as President of the Liverpool Mechliti.cs.
Institution, he has shown his sincere desire for the better
education of the people, and his exertions have contri..
buted not a little to the success which has attended t' „e
introduction of the Irish system of education into the
Liverpool corporation schools. As the determinr,d and
se..alous opponent of the Corn-laws, his practior.d know-
ledge
was appreciated in London during the early part
of the present year, when the convention sat daily to
enlighten the Members of Parliament re'specting their
working. More recently, his name,
neciane familiar to
the readers of the Morning Chror,ide yan argumenta-
tive and powerfully written Letter .addressed by him,
through its pages, to the ,:,eluded Chartists, pointing
out, in his capacity as Coairman of the Liverpool Re-
form Association, the suicidal policy followed by those
misguided, tnen, whose conduct has retarded, instead of
advan6ng, the progress of Liberal opinions.
The election of Mr. Walmsley to the e:vic ela of r
Liverpool was unanimous. The Tories (by wht •
gans in that town he is of course bitterly abused) hir.,
dislike, but they dared not risk a division, for the r
1
would have displayed their weakness and his op,ohiritv.
The election has given unmitigated satisfactioi to th„ Liberal party. Mr. Walmsley's principle?. P.m. Radical,
but the urbanity of his manners, and Ills general cha-
racter, have made him a favourit:2 A:4th the less ex-
treme section of Reformers. The da.y, probably is not
far distant when the new Mayor's. field of usefulnes3 tall
be extended, and the present Chief Magistrate of Liver-
pool become its Parliamentary representative. His
popularity and prin6ples point him out as the only Lodi,
in that community, on the Liberal side, who could wtt'_, any
chance of success ease Mr. Cresswell from bik
tendattee in St. Stephen's.
The following is the address of the new 111.4y0r, on
his installation :
Mr. War.msLXY expressed his sense of tl-.e confidence
which the Council reposed in him. He sioce rely
thanked them for their good opinion, a'ad he prized tie
honour more highly, because
Lc regarded it as a tribute
to those political principles or opinions which he 11.,d
uniformly advocated.---(Cheers.) He was known to
entertain strong poli‘ieal opinions ; but he hop, Ai his
zeal and firmness in the maintenance of their would
never suffer hint to compromise the dignity of, office
to lvhich he had been elected. In that offi•.,, he would know no distinction of politics.—Cheers. ln the per-
fortnance of its duties, his best guide 'wou',d be the line
of conduct pursued by his prodece'..sore , and he enter-
tained the hope that at the end of Pie term he would
resign the trust as he receiv:2d it.—pure and unsus-
pected.—( Cheers.)

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