Star.
London, England, 1820-04-17 00:00:00

CARLISLE, APRIL 13:

Saturday night, or Sunday morning,; a number of
inflammatory p4cards, inviting. the people to imitate
the conduct of the disaffected at Glasgow, &c. were
posted up, and scattered about the streets of this city
and its vicinity. It purported to be " printed at the
Constitutional Press, Glasgow ;" and as it is reported
that several Delegates have passed through lately,
from the Nortk, into Yorkshire and Lancashire, it
highly probable that these agents of discontent bad
taken that method to disseminate their doctrines.—
As we are unwilling to assist the purposes of the
disaffected, we may be excused from giving a copy
of Eke placard in question.
It would seem, thn the practice of secret chilling
is not abolished in this neighbuno)d. We are very
credibly informed, that on Sunday evening la,t
dies of men were observed training in the plantatio4g
at Coal-fell-hill, near Newtown.

POPULAR AGITATIONS IN THE WEST
RIDING OF YOI!KSIIIRE.

. (From the Leeds Mercoszy of Saturday
During the present wick, this part of the country
has been kept in a state of considerable alarm.
recent occurrences at Huddersfield, as ctatc.l
last Paper, the news from the manufacturing. -
.tricts of Scotland, and the assemblages of the une,n-
ployed 'in the streets by day, with some still more
dangerous Meetings by right, have tended to ke
up the alarm. The following is the substance of tae
information we have collected from the varitus touts
of the West Riding :
STIEFFIELD.—Soon after eight o'clock on Tuesday
evening, a number of disorderly persons assembled
in the Market-place at Sheffield, hut with what (h.
ject it is difficult to define. About the time of meet-
ing a pistol was fired in the street, and oiler giving
a loud shout, they marched down King-street, aleng
Ladies'-bridge, and advanced about halt a mile z!:e
Attercliffe-read. In the course of their march th,:ir
numbers were somewhat augmented, but never, '.l.e
believe, exceeded 200. On their return to the
which they re-entered about ten o'clock, some of then
proposed to stop the Mail; others cried—" Ail :u a
mind to the Barracks:" and others—" Not till the
14th of April."—" Remember the 14th of April."--
Ile proposed adjournment of the insurrection (svh cli
the number and appointmnts of the revolutionary
army seemed very strongly to suggest) met with ge-
neral approbation, and after a little more thing, ansl
la few more exclamations, they retired to their te-
ll spective homes. On the following morning, a persca
lof the name of Blackwell was arrested while he was
at work, and in the shop in which he was employed
were found a loaded pistol, a bayonet, and two pike-
handles. Soon after his arrest, Blackwell undet went
an examination before Messrs. Alderson and Chand-
ler, who had been sent for from Pontefract, and he
very frankly admitted that he was the person who
had fired the pistol on the preceding night. Sonic
pains were taken to discover what was the plan, or
what the object of the assembly of which the prisoner
seems to have been the head, but all the inquiries on
that point were fruitless, and Blackwell was commit-
ted to York Castle to take his trial for the offence.

BARNSLEY.—The report of a simultaneous rising
in the manufacturing districts, which was to take
place as last Wednesday, spread pretty generally
through the country on Tuesday, and reached Darn—
ley on the evening of that day. On this intiniatior,
which was thought to come from an authentic source,
the principal inhabitants of the town assembled ou
Tuesday evening, at the King's Head Inn, and a
patrol was established, on the moment, to traverse
the town and neighbourhood during the night. A
little before midnight information reached them that
a number of persons were assembled at Bank-top,
about a mile to the south of the town, on the Shef-
field road. About one o'clock the malcontents, who
amounted to about 200, all armed with pikes or
other offensive weapons, began to move by different
routes towards Grange-moor, the appointed rendez-
vous, which is a large common between Wakefield
and Huddersfield, and nearly at an equal distance
between the two places, from each of which it is
about six miles. In their line of match they did not
proceed in a collected body, but took different routes,
all avoiding the town, except a body of six, who,
notwithstanding the patrol, fearlessly passed through
the streets, each of them armed with a pike. Hav-
ing gained the main road from Barnsley to Hud-
dersfield, they re-collected their force:, and began to
collect arms from the inhabitants at a little distance
from the town. Their first call was at Mr. Pick-
ard's, where they were not successful. At Mr.
George Hurst's, of Bank-lane, they obtained a gun ;
and from Mr. Richardson, of the Rose and Crown
Inn, at Darton, after using considerable violence,
they collected three guns, leaving a pike and an axe
behind them.

From Flockton, which is about a mile from Grange
Moor, pnd where they arrived about break of day,
they were watched. Here these poor infatuated dupes
had been led to expect that they should find from
50,000 to 60,000 companions in arms, but, peiceiv.
ing that all these flattering representations were mere
delusion, they threw away their !arms, exclaiming
that they were betrayed, Soon after their dispersion,
a detachment of Cavalry from Huddersfield, consist-
ing of sixteen of the Yeomanry, and ten of the 4:h
Dragoon Guards, under the command of Major De
Bath, appeared, but they found that the enemy had
fled in small .groups towards their respective homes.
The pikes left upon the field amounted to upwards
of 100, which the soldiers picked up as trophies,
and conveyed to Huddersfield, frith a green flag,
edged with a bkck fringe, on which was inscribed—
,. He that smiteth a man so that he die, shall slit cly
be put to death."
The only prisoner made during the night in Barr s-
ley, Was a boy about fourteen years of age) who w-'5

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nd with a scythe in his hand, preparing to fix it
in:o a shaft, and he was sent off to Pontefract, where
the Magistrates were sitting, but he was discharged
en his master's recognizaece. On Wednesday three
seen were apprehended, and on Thursday morning,
the Barnsley troop of Yeomanry were sent to Dods-
worth, a neighbouring village, where they appre-
hended nine men on suspicion of having been
-limiest the armed Men at Grange-moor ; another
person was also apprehended at Barnsley the same
d 3 y, and underwent are examination before the Ma-
gi erates. Of these persons nine have been commit-
e_el to Yerk Castle, and one to Wakefield House of
Ctrrection.. Four other persons, one el whom is
tee; eseneed as the Captain, were apprehended by a
yrol of Cavelrys That the exchequer of the infi
e:rgent ermy was not very full, may be inferred
om the fact, that on searching the Captain (Con-
sese), and his three men, only a single halfpenny
els found among•.t them. Another patrol found,
the same-neighbourhood, a knapsack containing a
white flag, with a fringe round it, and black crape,
the corner, or. whist was inscribed—" You have
centlemned and killed the just, and he cloth not resist.
_lnd he that hash no sword, let him sell his garment
and buy one!" Amongst the prisoners taken is a
person of the name of Seholefield, of Horbury, aid
;mother named Pilling, of Ahnondbury.
lletavax.—A number of men and boys, appa-
rently With the wish to practise upon the fears of the
timid, assembled on Wednesday afternoon, upon
IL:aeon-hill, near Halifax, with a flag and music.
and about nine o'clock in the evening they again met
at the same place, where, after setting fire to a bundle
ef straw, discharging several pistols, and throwing
a sky-rocket, they all suddenly dispersed. With
the exception of this mischievous frolic, the town and
parish of Ilelifax were never more tranquil than.
-during the present week.
WAKEFIELD.—Though little subject to the agita-
tions which sometimes prevail in the manufacturing
p;trts of the West Riding, this town has this week
exhibited a scene of considerable bustle, not un-
mixed with a degree of public apprehension. The
intelligence of the intended simultaneous rising of
the people, brought General Sir J. Byug, the Com-
reinder of the District, over to Wakefield on Tues-
day, with he intention of drawing a cordon of troops
rennd the intended rendezvous, at Grange-moor,
and cnpturing the whole of the insurgent army. A
premature moremeat of the troops statioaed at Hnd•,
dersikld, is said to have frustrated etch design; but'
the fact is, that the instigators of the intended rising,
whoeeer they were, have so ill succeeded in their
mission, that only three or foer hundred persons
were frnnght to the fidl, and they instantly retired
hies the woods in disgust and dismay.
The General, after remaining in Wakefield over
Wednessley, left that town, alseut three o'clock in the'
afternoon of Thursday, for his seat at Campsall, and
two of the three troops which had been brought
thither from York, returned to their former quarters:

We have heard that a well dressed man, of man-
ners superior to those with whom he associates, and
an entire stranger in this part of the country, has
been pas,ing about in the villages in the neighbour-
hood of Barnsley, Wakefield, and Huddersfield, ex-
citing the people to rise in arms ; and that a propo-
sal has been made, sihich we hope will be carried
into effect, to offer a reward of 1.300 for the appre-
hension of the incendiary.

PONTEFRACT SESSIONS, APRIL 13.