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emolished the windows of the room we were in.

I immediately gave the word to load. I did not do this
before, as I was in, hopevi matters would not turn out so
zeriously. While my men were loading, about one-third of
a minute, the crowd effected an entrance into the passage,
. .

t which communicated with a door from our room.

I soon as we had loaded, I stepped forward to unlatch one
i of the widow shutters, and the Mayor opened another.
Tius unmasked us, and a quantity of small arms were
l discharged at us, by which the Mayor was twice
! wounded, and my sergeant at my side (Daly) wounded
! in the head. I saw him covered with blood immedi-
ately after. I heard them both say that they were hit.
The Mayor said it to me only in a whisper, which could
rot be heard by my men. He went and sat down. The
. :ercreant also only spoke to me. My men soon got to
work,i and enfiladed the streets from the bow windows,
and the passage from the door way in our room. This
I enntinued for about ten minutes, when I saw our shots
i itad become thin for want of objects. The Chartists'
I *hots were not repeated after our soldiers commenced
i firing. I saw there was no more attack, and I ordered
1 the men to cease firing from the boa, windows. I then
I made every preparation to strengthen my position in
case of a second attack. We so employed, I entered a
side-room leading from the passage, and found the two
prisoners in the corner. I gave them over to my men
as krisoners. I saw nothing in their hands ; but on
i. examining their persons I found a quantity of ball am-
i munition on Benfield. When I saw them I was re-
-1
moving a dead body from the passage in case of a second
ettack. They had evidently gone into the room to
avoid the fire of my men, and could not get out again.
1 I. collected nine dead bodies. I dare say the Mayor
4 gavr me orders to ire ; but I do not recollect.
I The prisoners were called on for their defence.—Ben-
field said, " I have nothing to say against this." Rees,
through an interpreter, said " At eight o'clock they
f came to every one's house to threaten them. He was
i as much afraid to refuse as to go with them. There
i was nothing in his hand when he came to Newport. He
i had no more to say."
1 The prisoners were then committed to take their
t trial for high treason. After they were committed, the
prisoner Rees said he never was before a justice before,
and this was the way the innocent suffered far the guilty.
The Court sat eleven hours.
Jones, the watch-maker, of Pont-y-pool, for whom a
reward of 1001. was offered, was taken on Thursday af-
ternoon, and brought into Newport handcuffed. He
had been hiding from place to place since the riots, and
this afternoon he went into a public-house, where he was
soon recognized by persons present ; on discovering
..a'hich he fled, but was immediately pursued and sur-
rounded. He will be examined to-morrow.
FRIDAY.—The Magistrates present this day were
R. J. Blewitt, Esq., Sir B. Hall, Sir C. Morgan, W.
Brewer, and L. Edwards, Esqrs., and the Rev. Mr.
Coles.

Townsend, who s committed last night, was
brought up, and, after receiving a severe reprimand,
was discharged.
The case of William Jones was then called on.
William Evans said--I am clerk to Mr. Morrisson
of Crwmlyn. I know the prisoner Jones. I assisted
in apprehending him yesterday in a field adjoining the
Navigation Inn, at Crwmlyn. He passed through the
Navigation Inn, and endeavoured to make his escape
out at the back door, and had nearly reached the road,
when I and Edward Jones followed him. He ran about
thirty yards, and then drew a pistol out of his side
pocket. I called to John Willis who was about fifty
yards behind me, bo go and get his gun, and then Jones
immediately surrendered himself. I knew nothing of
the proceedings at Newport on Monday, but on Sunday
night, at seven o'clock, I knew it was to take place, as
crowds of people were passing through all night. I was
at a distance, but I saw the lights. They did not
attempt to molest me.

1 Edward Hopkins, superintendent of police, sworn—l
received the prisoner Jones into my custody last night.
I searched him, and found a printed paper containing
an inflammatory address and seditious song, of which
the following is a copy
" THE HORN OF LIBERTY.
" The horn of libertl sounded for the attendance of the
populace on the long bridge across the Severn, by Llanid-
loes, where they were addressed by speakers from the
4 parapets, after which they hurried to the rescue of their
I comrades, apprehended for training or acquiring the art of
' se- defence, held as dangerous by partial and jealous le-
tgislators to the peace and security of despotic government,
and moral duty therefore converted into legal offence ;
whereupon the authorities and their fore* (consisting of
1 some two hundred, or more, armed police, and hireling
special constables, from a neighbouring district, rivals in
, andent feuds, and suddenly ushered into the town, for the
purpose of thereby suppressing their meetings) were corn-
' pletely put to the route, April 30th, 1839. Vide report of
the trial at the Montgomeryshire Assizes, 17th July, 1839,
I of the Llanidloos and Newtown Chartists, defended by
the writer, charged with training and attending unlawful
t nie.et:ngs, &c., when forty individuals were convicted and
adjudged—three to transportation, and the remainder to
various terms of imprisonment, in Montgomery gaol; who
now undergo their sentences."
THE HORN OF LIBERTY.—Br HUGH WILLIAMS.
" The herald of freedom sounds far in the dale,
In notes full of rapture, sweep loud through the gale—
Gay prelude of liberty's heart-thrilling voice—
Now's the hour, my sons, to assert your free choice.
Your efforts I'll aid to destroy the fell foe,
So greet the death struggle with patriot glow.
She comes, lo 1 she comes, to our blood-reeking land—
she sighs at the wails of her long faithful band ;
Her Martyrs she cheers, who indignantly scowl,
As Despots add Insults to injuries foul.
Fair truth and hunts,nity honour her train,
I While Justice, rejoicing, thrice blesses her reign.
" Uphold those bold comrades who suffer for you—
Who nobly stand foremost demanding your due.
Away with the timid—'tis treason to fear-
1, To surrender or falter, when danger is near;
For now that our leaders disdain to betray,
'Twere base to desert them, or succour delay I
•"Tis time that the victims of labour and care,
:Should reap for reward what is labour's fair share;
'Tis time that these voices in council be heard,
Die, rather than pay for the law of the sword I
I MI power is our's, with a will of our own ;
W e conquer, united—divided we groan !
' Come hail, brothers, bail, the shrill sound of the horn;—
Fur ages deep wrongs have been hopelessly borne;
Despair shall no longer our spirits dismay,
Nor wither the arm, when up-raised for the fray ;
The conflict for freedom is gathering nigh ;
We live to secure it, or gloriously die I"

" In speaking of g insults added to injuries,' I refer to the
treatment the Chartists endure while in custody for politi-
cal offences. For instance, vide report of the brutal inde-
cencies committed upon nr. Taylor, and on Messrs. Lo-
vett and Collins in Warwick gaol, set forth by the latter
‘rt their two petitions to the two Houses of Parliament,

.:rnid the scornful laughter of certain members of the

House of Lords, and the morbid contempt of the Com-
' mens ; also, an account of the privations imposed upon
Messrs. Vincent, Edwards, Dickenson, and Townsend,
in Monmouth Gaol; upon Dr. M•Dowall, at Salford;
or/ Messrs. Carrier, Roberts, and Potts, at Devizes;
Ja Messrs. Powell and J. J. Lewis (of Cripplegate.

in Montgotnery); and withal denied books, pen:ink,

and paper ; and their communications subjected
! to the invidious inspection or interdiction of official med-

dlers, who commend themselves by exercising paltry vigi-
lance. Such are the merciless and petty annoyances prac-
tised by revengeful instruments of arbitrary power, ema-
-1 rutting from an absolute Government against parties accused
] of sedition—an accusation so yaps- as to be impossible to
I understand where the law ends, or crime begins ; but which
1 is said to mean, the bringing the Government and the laws
into contempt, and exciting discontent, to the danger of the
I public peace. If this be so, what ought to be the reward
of a government or of a legislative body, which brings itself,
by its acts or its laws, into contempt, and thereby causing
• disaffection among the people ? Here, therefore, is an
1 anomaly that the rulers of any country, guilty of causing
contempt by their measures, not only escape condemnation
k but
may not, for such conduct, be held up by any of the
1 sufferers, to public reprobation and obloquy ; or the
offending parties become prosecuted by the perpetrators
of the originating mischief, as its sole instigators; the
contemptible, in
: Whig effect, punishing the contempt. The
i . .Government appears a rare combination of incon-
gruities, and the sooner we behold its ' final extinction' the
better; but, any how, time will best tell what may be got
ty coercion ; we shall see, by and by, what calculating men
substance and capital, think of these goings on : let the
Government cast its eye abroad for a little while. Affairs
begin to easume
reap roblem, new in political ethics, but
which may not qre a seer to solve. It has hitherto
been She ease to sacrificeithe people—it now remains to be
seen oheart e case may be reversed, and the people can
when they
betray aders,
have the Power, if they
tbbeequenees. Time will
;•ave the united will to avert all
'how this also. But if this do happe
1 the ,

the
Ising genera-
-
!ion will probably profit by it, so that in
events, some gleams of hop: 4,B:an.cpeoltihtiecrael
are, a: all
hearth,
horizon appears lowering at last over the domear
Ilere,
for we are about to have regularly disciplined
1-!t loose upon us, in pristine and compound terrors,gaad
therefore, I must for the present pause.Nv.,,
I also took from his pocket 1/. 12s. The witness then
repeated his former evidenee as to the attack on the
Westgate Hotel, on Monday,
John Prosser—l live at New Inn, ire the parish of
lanteague, in the road from Pont-y-pool tr, Newport.
My mother keeps the inn, and I live with her. On
Sunday night last about two hundred men came to ow,.
house. It was between eleven and twelve o'clock.
Most of them were armed. I know Jones, the watch-
maker. The prisoner at the bar is the man ; be came
in with the men. They called for beer. Jones asked
for a noggin of rum, to put into a jar, which he pulled
out of his pocket. At that time I saw him pull out I

something like a dagger. He asked my sister how she
should like that stuck into her ? She said, " Ob,
Lord ! Mr. Jones, what have you got ?" He smiled,
and said, " Nothing." I saw the dagger. About
that time, one of the men jumped up and took a gun
that was hanging in the kitchen. The men took it into
the passage, and tried the lock. There was no flint in it,
and another man took a flint out of his pocket, and
put in the gun, and then fired it. I took hold of it, and
said " You must not have this gun ; it is mine, and
I want it." The men would not give it tip. I then
went to the bar, and told Jones, and asked him to get
it back. Jones said " Oh, never mind about the gun,
I'll see you shall have it back again." Jones returned
to the kitchen, and was tapping the men on their backs,
and said " Now, my lads, light your pipes, and let us
go on." There was a great noise proceeding from a
great number of men both inside and outside of the
house.

Cross-examined by the prisoner—There were only
three or four persons in the house when you came in.
When you showed the dagger you did not appear to
have any intention to use it. You have been on
friendly terms with our family for years. I should be
sorry to come against you, but I was compelled to do so.
I thought it was a joke your showing the dagger to my
sister. _

Edmund Douy—l am a carpenter living at Risca.
I never saw Jones but once ; it was at Sirhowby lectur-
ing the people, and I knew him after. He was lecturing
about the Charter. He was telling the people that they
ought to have their rights. Ido not know whether
Frost was there. I saw the prisoner between breakfast
and dinner on Monday last. I saw him by the High
Cross public-house, leading from Risca to Newport.
He came across the field, apparently from the canal.
He came over a stile into the road ; there were 50 or
60 men with him. Some of them were armed with
guns and sticks. Those with Jones were walking, but
there were others running from Newport. Jones asked
them what made them run away. He said that Dr.
Price was going to meet him with seven pieces of
cannon, and that if the men did not stand true he
should be hanged and the other ringleaders. He then
went into the public-house and I went home.
The prisoner declined saying anything, and he was
then committed to Monmouth gaol on a charge of high
treason.

There were about seventeen or eighteen other cases
of minor importance disposed of. Nearly all were per-
sons who had been arrested on suspicion, and there
being no evidence against them, it was thought right
not to detain them in custody longer. Three or four
were committed as vagrants, not being able to give a
satisfactory account of themselves. The remainder
were remanded.
The Court adjourned at half-past six.

SATURDAY, Nov. 9.
The peace of the town has been restored, but trade
remains completely at a stand-still, the entire attention
of the inhabitants being devoted to attendance and
anxious inquiries respecting the prisoners. During the
examination of Jones the watchmaker, yesterday, who is
one of the chief Chartist orators of the neighbourhood,
acting as the coadjutor of Frost and Vincent, the Court
was crowded to excess ; and among the visitors we ob-
served Sir Charles Morgan, Bart., of Tredegar ; Col.
Millman, of the Guards ; the Lord Lieutenant of the
county ; Colonel Considine ; Colonel Lewis, of St.
Pierre ; Mr. W. Williams, M.P., Llangibby Castle,
&c. Jones will be removed this morning to Monmouth
Gaol, for trial at the special commission, which is, I
understand, agreed upon ; and Mr. Maule, Solicitor to
the Treasury, will be here this morning to prepare the
indictments.

If we need proof that the plan has been long ma-
tured, the quantities of arms of all descriptions pos-
sessed by the deluded men of the hills gives sufficient
evidence of the state of preparation ; nor can its or-
ganization be doubted when we find among the prisoners
men who have worked in one employment for twenty
years marching a distance of 20, 30, or 40 miles to the
attack, many of whom had never been in Newport pre-
viously in their whole lives ; added to which it may be
stated, that it has been proved that in some portions of
the iron and mining districts no person would be allowed
to remain even for four hours without enrolling
himself in the secret Chartist Lodge of the place,
with its sections, its captains, and companies,
that all the boys were formed into Youth's
Chartist Lodges, and the " women" into their Fe-
males Associations. The secrecy their designs were
conducted with may be gathered from the fact, that
although the march of the rebels was joined simulta-
neously by parties living nearly 50 miles apart, yet the
Magistrates were entirely ignorant of the fact, and en-
tirely unaware of their designs, until the very day pre-
vious to their being carried into operation. One of the
Magistrates himself informed me that he was secretly
informed by a Chartist messenger, who respected him,
and wished to preserve his life, of the intended attack,
and that he was to be sacrificed on Sunday night as he
was going to chapel, previous to which nothing definite
was known of their intentions. Yet at this very moment
were there 300 Chartists in possession of one of the
gates within half a mile of the town—outlying parties
in ambush upon every road, and Jones boasting that they
were to be joined by a Dr. Price with seven pieces of can-
non, and Frost marching at the head of thousands to at-
tack the town in the dead of the night, from which they
were only prevented by an act of Providence, a terrific
night of rain and darkness, which prevented them from
completing their march until the morning. If they had
succeeded in arriving during the night, the Westgate,
then undefended by soldiers, would have been surprised,
and the town sacrificed with the lives of the inhabitants.
This was fortunately prevented, and the bravery of the
troops preserved the town from being sacked by the
lawless multitude.

The Magistrates assembled at eleven o'clock, there
being present the Rev. J. Coles, chairman, Sir Benjamin
Hall, Mr. Brewer, and Mr. Edwards. The first pri-
soner of importance examined was Edward Frost, uncle
of John Frost, when the following evidence was offered :
Miss Emily Hunt sworn—l am a governess, re-
siding at Stow-hill, Newport. I was at home on
Monday morning last. I saw at nine o'clock a great
crowd coming down the hill, most of whom had guns,
pistols, pikes, and other arms. I was greatly alarmed.
I did not see any one I knew with them. I know
the prisoner, and saw him going away from amongst
them. I heard the prisoner say to a man " You are
running away." The man replied " There shall not be
one of us run away ; we are tired now." I heard firing
to the best of my recollection. What occurred in re-
ference to Mr. Frost took place after the firing. The
prisoner appeared quite cool. The man said to him,
" There will be 20,000 more down by and by, but we
have had no rest since Friday, and we are very tired."
Cross-examined by the prisoner.—l supposed that
the man you spoke to was a Chartist, as he came from
among the body. I come here by compulsion to give
evidence. I was so frightened that I did not notice the
colour of your clothes. I have heard you were a
Chartist. I profess to be an Independent Dissenter.

The Rev. Edward Rees Taylor examined.—l am
Curate of St. Woblas Church, Newport. I saw a great
crowd approach on Monday morning last. I heard sol-
diers pass when I was in bed. I knew they were soldiers
by the measured step. I did not get up, having a bad
cold. I got up shortly afterwards, and as I was dress-
ing the Chartists passed. I reside at the house where
Miss Hunt lives. I think I saw 5,000 Chartists, armed
variously. They were going down, I think, five abreast,
not quite in regular order, as I heard many people de•
sired to fall in. This lessened my alarm, as I consi-
dered they could not stand against the soldiers. I then
heard the firing, and shortly after the Chartists running
back, and then I came out of my lodgings. The first
person I saw was the prisoner talking to Mr. John Wil-
liams, the maltster.

The examination is being continued. The Mayor is
better, but Sergeant Daly's and Mr. Morgan's wounds
have assumed a bad appearance.

COTT OP ♦ LETTBIL JUST RECEIVED BY THE MtGIS

TRATES, DATED FRIDAY NIGHT.

I am glad to inform you that all appears quiet at
present in the neighbourhood, and that nearly all the
colliers resumed their work this morning. There is a
general feeling of execration expressed by the men now
(how sincerely I know not) towards the three principal
" leaders for their conduct in running away, and leaving
the people to take their chance after leading them to the
slaughter." I am inclined to believe, from circum-
stances which have occurred, that one of the ruffians
who attacked Mr. Llewellin's house at Abercarne was
one of the persons shot dead at the Westgate.

11
°I3 ecn I came"ci.
NEWPORT, SATURDAY NIGHT,
Henry Scard, a policeman, examined—When d___ W
out of the house I saw another man with a pike. I
pointed him out to a special constable, but he said he
would have nothing to do with him. The constable's
name is Davis, who keeps a beer house. The
conse-
quence of this was, he escaped. After I came back
saw four dead bodies in the street, and five inside the
house. I afterwards saw one in the Friors'.fields. I
saw many persons wounded ; I saw a great quantity of
arms, and picked up upwards of 150 weapons myself.
I also picked up powder and ball. I searched the
house of a person named Aust, a gardener at Malpas,
who has been committed for high treason. I found
there a Chartist card, with " Edward Frost, treasurer."
upon it. That card, now produced, is the card. The
names on the card were " Edward Frost, treasurer, and
Charles Waters, secretary." The words on it were,
" Newport, Monmouthshire, Working Men's Associa-
tion. It is safe to do right. This ticket to be renewed quar-
terly. July 23 to October 22, 1839. No. 79. Edward
Frost, treasurer, Charles Waters, secretary, John Par-
trividogrek,ipnrinter, Newport." I found another card in the
same
dauneded
o dhrouesre.. have read it. (The card was here pro-
The words on it are " Monmouthshire
g Men's Association. Motto—Peace, Law,
ai3ndi Universal
mi
as our
l cares and equal rights we advocate
nalienahle birthright ; and as citizens
, Vote by Ballot, Annual Parlia-
ments, and no
tbj: PropertyhenleeQedua.lifiNcaot.io6n2-s.we
jaadmveoscaßteofsoer,
IS.E afterwards
e Secretary,
ar
the electors atlyd.
Partridge, Printer, Newport.")
found two flasks of powder in the same
t