The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-06 00:00:00

EVEN ING ED ET I ON•

PT9TS -)...TEW PORT.

CAPTURE OF MR. FROST.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

NEWPORT, Nov. 5, 1839.
All is now calm ; Newport is saved, and the
infatuated Chartists have fled to their hotrieF, deeply
deploring their insane confidence in unprincipled
and cowardly demagogues. John Frost, the great
Chartist leader of the Convention, and correspond-
ent of Lord John Russell, whose forbearance he
abused, is now a prisoner at the Westgate Hotel
—a prisoner under a charge of high treason. A
reward of 1001. was offered for his apprehension as
a leader of the Chartist insurrection, and he was
taken last night at a Chartist printer's house. He
had three loaded pistols, a powder flask filled and a
large quantity of bullets were found on his person.
Sixteen men were killed, and a large number,
not yet ascertained, wounded. Too much praise
cannot be paid to Mr. Blewitt, M.P., Deputy-
Lieutenant of the county, who acted after Mr. Phil-
lips, the Mayor, was wounded ; to Mr. Coles, and
Mr. Brewer, the Magistrates ; to Mr. Dowling,
Mr. Lewis Edwards, and the brave Lieutenant
Gray, and his company, and the special constable!.
The sergeant of the company received a slug rir
his forehead, but it has been extracted, and hie is
doing well ; the brave Mayor is better.

(From the Times.)
MORE PARTICULAR ACCOUNTS, RECEIVED
SINCE YESTERDAY'S SECOND EDITION.
BRISTOL, Nov. 4, Eleven o'Clock.
Since the hurried despatch which I forwarded as.re-
ceived by me by express from Newport, I have seen
the gentleman who brought the despatches to the Ml'
gistrates here, and some other persons who have left the
scene of these unfortunate riots, from whom I have ob-
tained the following information :
It appears that the demagogue Vincent, who is now
(or was at least yesterday) confined in Moninnuth
gaol, has all along pointed out to the ignorant mom"
taineers of South Wales that there it was the kingdom
of Chartism should first be erected, and from all I have
been able to learn, the men of Tredegar, Merthyr, Scci;
have been led to believe implicitly in everything whie
he may have said upon the subject ; the consequence
of which has been, that ever since his confinement a
plot has been concocted (rendered more difficult.?!
discovery from the fact of the mountaineers universally
making use of the Welch language) for seizing the
whole of South Wales to erect a Chartist kingdom, and
for the liberation of their leader from Monmouth 83°t'
" Henry Vincent."
For some time, in order to lull the friends of orderd
into security, in South Wales as well as in England'
there have been no meetings, nor anything which
would lead the superficial observer to believe at?g,..o
but that with the breaking up of the " Conventi.oea,
porton, the Chartist cause was dead. During the whole
however, a secret organization has been carrying or%
and the Chartists of " Blackwood" have been beard
to declare that the sth of November would not pas:
over without the liberation of Vincent. Their designs
were not, however, entirely secret, for although,
Magistrates could not entirely penetrate their design s ;
yet on Sunday they learned that there was some evident
design of a rising shortly, and they endeavoured to Orir:i
pare for it as well as they could during the brief Pe
which they had before the lamentable
riot commenced.
It appears that, according to a preconcerted arrange'
ment on Saturday night (2d of November), the men
began their march from the " hills" in the neighbour-
hood of Merthyr, &c., armed with muskets, guni, pikes'
r
swords, crowbars, pickaxes, &c. (it is here worthy 41
remark that in the firing they mostly used " slugs
and proceeded towards Newport, with the intention u
dividing into various columns; one to attack and keep
in check the soldiers at Newport, another to keep to
check those stationed at Brecon, while a third marched
t
to Monmouth to liberate Vincent. After which they
were unitedly to seize the whole of South Wales.
With these purposes their march was continue-s A
the rioters in their progress sacking the villages in
their route, seizing the provisions, and compelling
the whole of the adult male population to join
them, under the threat of instant death upon re-
fusal. Late on Sunday night they passed through ,
Caerphilly, a village between Cardiff and Newport, to
which they entered every house, turned every
male in-
habitant out of his bed, and compelled him to join them
in their progress. At all the iron-works, Sce., they
compelled the workmen to join them, and blew out all
the furnaces.
In this way, to the number of many thousands—ac"
„
cording to well-credited accounts, not less than :="l—
clock
—they marched towards Newport, and at four o n
this morning halted in Tredegar-park, the seat Of Sir
Charles Morgan, Bart., where they waited for about
two hours for the junction of another division from
Pontypool and its neighbourhood. The junction
having been made, they formed at about six o'clock
into two divisions, and marched into Newport, the ope
division marching down Stowe-hill, the other throne
Charles-street, and both joining in the centre of the
main street. •
The Magistrates having received private informa-
tion of the intentions of the rioters, were at this time
assembled at the Westgate Arms Inn, where a party
of the 45th Regiment of Foot, of which there is one
company in the town, were stationed, the remainder
being at the poor-house on Stowe-hill.
Upon the mob joining, they proceeded with loud
cheering to the Westgate Inn, one party, as we have
been well-informed, being led by Mr. Frost (the
late Lord John Russell justice), and the other by his
son, a lad of not more than 14 or 15 years of age.
Proceeding up the main street they reached the
Westgate Arms, and were no sooner arrived in
front of it than they gave three cheers, and im-
mediately proceeded to demolish the house av d
fire upon the soldiers who were within. NotW,ng
says an eye-witness, can heighten the horror of the srJene
at this moment. Ladies with their children were in
many of the rooms into which the slugs fired by the
Chartists were flying, and threatening instant death to
every person present. The Magistrates, in spite of the
fire of the Chartists, before a soldier was allowed to act,
proceeded to remonstrate with the deluded men, and at-
tempted to restore peace ; finding this, however, inef-
fectual, the Mayor proceeded to read the Riot Act,
during which, we regret to say, he was twice wounded
by slugs from the Chartist muskets, one of which
passed through his arm, and another through his hip-
We trust, however, that the wounds are not serious.
Several of the special constables were also wounded.
At this point the soldiery commenced firing, and in
few minutes the Chartists, again forming themselves
into divisions, retired into the fields, leaving 10 or 11
dead, and a great number wounded, not less, we under-
stand, than from 30 to 40.
The utmost fears are, however, entertained that ',no
town will be again attacked, and set fire to. To-•,,,ight
(Monday), as the guard of the mail was cominr down
the railroad from the hills, he saw large bodir,ainareb-
ing from the hills upon Newport, and at t.east 1,000
coming from the neighbourhood of Risco.. I have not
been able to learn whether any of the i•Jhabit„ta have
been killed, but a sergeant and two so' severely
wounded ; as also Mr. Williams, irjnmonger, of New;
Bristol, New-
port, and Mr. Morgan, of
gwiAttly The troop 01
10th Hussars, from Clifton, near -filers are
are just march-
ing for Newport.

CARDIFF, 4 oVIO Afternoon.
The Mayor and Ala
.i4;istrates here having received
Mondaylsonia intelligence of the 0-aartist intentions, assembled
last night, and having
surrimoned the staff of the Gls-
morgan Militia and the .pensioners, kept watch all night.
Everything, however, was quiet.
To-day, upon the arrival of an express from Newport
with the above alarming intelligence, still further mea-
sures were taken to preserve the peace of the town, and
the Mayor ordered some six-pounders to be placed at
the various entrances to Cardiff, manned by some sailors
and the pensioners.
The following is a postscript to a letter received yes-
terday morning from Pontypool :-
4' Another outbreak of the Chartists occurred last
night ; our town has been full of confusion ; the sol-
diers are expected to arrive this morning."
You will be gNlardsrEtooh'ceLaroctxh,aTt uthicesnparoyeeMedoian:slNou•
f the
Chartists were yesterday brought to a crisis here.
Thousands of them came down into the town yesterday
morning- from Tredegar, Serlioney, and other iron-works
and collieries on the hills. They were all armed with
guns, pistols, swords, pikes, ani.'. other weapons, and led
on by the notorious John 'frost, the Monmouthshire
delegate. When they entered the town their first
stationed inquiry
; and t
was for
e?..nge military, and where they were
of them v. stationed
dmeadt ttlhmet
:as stati
formed in front of it, and immediately
the mob were
.cmmence:d an attack by firing through the svindows,
Navesstmgaaltle detach-
mentflotei
into thm house. The military, under the direction o!
our excellent Mayor, promptly returned the fire, and.
ir. a very short time several of the rioters were deprived
of life, and lay weltering in blood—a horrible spec-
tacle for the survivors, who very soon retreated 111 I
great disorder and in every direction. Great praise s
due to the military for their cool and determined con-
duct. The Mayor was wounded by a gun-shot in the
left arm, and by a severe cut in the right side, which
has quite disabled him, but I amhappy to say that
he is now doing well, and reported by his attendants
to be out of danger. He has acted altogether with
great firmness, discretion, and determination ; and has
well entitled himself to the thanks of the country. I
last night searched the house of Mr. Frost for treason-
able and seditious papers, and possessed myself of all his
manuscripts, and I also searched the house of his prin- 1
ter, a fellow of the name of Partridge, where I met li,
with some resistance, and was obliged to force my way 1
in. To my great astonishment, on my entering into ;
the house, the first person who met me was. John Frost, 1
for whose apprehension 100/. had been offered. 1 irnme- 1
diatcic secured him ; his printer Partridge and another
person also, I found there concealed. OD. Frost's person