The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-27 00:00:00

THE REBECCA RIOT

We gave on Friday the particulars of an attack made by
the lawless depredators under the command of " Rebecca,"
on the Carmarthen Workhouse. The Carmarthen Journal
of Saturday contains the proceedings which have been adopt-
ed in consequence against those who were apprehended on
that occasion. That paper says, " Several of the persons
brought before the magistrates were identified as belonging

the distress warrants at Conwil, and they were committed to
gaol, as were also the persons that assaulted Mr. Hughes,
Glancothy, (who was most active in his exertions to arrest

rioters were captured. Mr. Harries, of Talog mill, was re-
manded for further examination, on a ()barge of sending
threatening letters, although bail was offered for his ileum-

he amount of

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He was privately examined on Wednesday, of which we
have not been able to get the particulars, but we understand
he was further remanded until Saturday. The whole of the

rest entered into recognizances for their appearance at the
Assizes, should a bill of indictment be preferred against them.
We have no doubt that severe examples will be made of those
who appeared to take a leading part in the riot; but we are
sorry to say that those worst implicated have escaped for the
present. A person who personated Rebecca, and was orna-

mented with a profusion 'of curls about his face, entered the
Workhouse, but when the Dragoons advanced, he clapped
his curls in his bat, jumped over the wall, and made off across
the fields, leaving his horse in the
yard_ A nront n.irnh". "C

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other horses were left in the yard, as well as several hats, a
shoethaker's apron, a hatter's apron, and an immense num-
ber of staffs, some of which were loaded with lead, and others
were very genteel walking-sticks. and had evidently belonged
to some respectable per,ona. The board which carried the
placard was also left in the Workhouse, but the paper con-
taining the inscription was torn away.
The Workhouse garden was so trampled by the men and

horses, that the whole it contained was completely destroyed ;
but the injury done to the building itself was comparatively
trifling. Great injury was also stistained by the persons
living and holding, lands immediately ndininin,

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rioters their flight regarded nothing but their own safety,
and we beLeve they will not soon visit Carmarthen again to
-tiother demonstration of their strength,

reirestnenrs, and the horses fed, of which they must have
been in extreme need. One of the horses died on the road
here, and another died in the Workhouse yard from fatigue ;
and there are several others so knocked up, that it will re-
/lairs. CAT,.

We are sorry to hear that since the outrage committed in
this town on Monday last. these lawless marauders have
broken down several gates in the neighbourhood, viz :—Pon-
hPre.;,. )2... • .

..aanddarog Bar, Pout-
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newydol flak, apd a gre4 many more diFerept parts of the
t•nnntr„

REBECCA ANp THE BAILIFF.—A distreos for rent liras
levied on the rods of a titian named Lloyd, living at
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the 4ioion Tavern, Illensteplian, and a bailiff of the name of
Rees kept possession of the goods i but previous to the day of
sale, 12ebecca and a great nnu-lher pf her daughters paid him
a visit, horsewhipped him i 4 a ,4'sr4tai nlanrlef zlnd kept him
in safe custody until tho furniture waw, entirely Cleared from
the house, and when he was let loose he found nothing but
an empty house, Rebecca and her followers having made their
exit.
Last Tuesday, Rebecca and a great number of her daukliters

)out lour o'clock hi the afterloon

JCL& Lucre some 110UrS. They were nearly all dressed
clothes, and Rebecca was on horseback, elegantly
Thrty palled at the Wheaten Sheaf, where they
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o'clock dep‘artgii 1 r Str:die

.f
men in th 4 village, dernandin,
her children could not carry

rat tp several gentle-
RePeana and

something to eat and drink, They assembled at
,§t.'Efear's
from all parts of that country, most of them armed with
guns and other destructive weapons, and immediately loyAip,i

with the ground the gates leading to St. Clears from both
ends. Mr. Thomas, of Clyngarthen, a resp!ctable farmer
from the neighbourhood, refused to join the depredators, and
)11 that night the cattle from the mountains were turned into
,;;tit field, which was completely destroyed before the
morning,

At about 12 o'clock or) ;Vat:Parlay night, two commercial
gentlemen were stopped at tlie"brldge, Nowpastle-Einlyn,
by Rebecca and her daughters. They had heard shots fired
at intervals, for about three miles, and on arriving at the
bridge, they were surtounded by several hundreds, who they
describe as all dressed in women's attire. with thpir

rmed with staves and firearms. The leader
came up to them and entered into conversation, relating the
grievances of Rgbeec4 ,?O0 her Children ; and in order to get
put of their hands, thp gentlealA thought it prudent to give
them some Miser, when liebeeca gave the wotd of earn-
nand, end they were immediately spfferpd to pass, and
indeed, conducted to their iptis, amid the PIIPPrs of the
Rebeccaites."

,CkelleC

Thirteen persons engaged in the late military riots at
Manchester, were tried at the Borough sessions in that tow❑
on Friday last. Two were acquitted. nine were sentenced to
tweive mouths' imprisonment and hard labour, and two to
six months.

Two men, whilst in a state of iptoxipatjon Fell into the
river lrwell, near Salford, on Sunday week, and were
drowned.

SOLAR ECLIPSE.—There will be an annular eclipse of the
sun on Tuesday (this day); that is to say, the shadow of the
moon will fall upon the earth in such a manner, that, instead
of the entire face of the orb of day, a bright ring only will be
visible. The not,

ng phenomenon vvi
visible in this part of the world.

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PrtucTiso..z--Amongst the fanciful novelties of the day is a
patent, which has been taken out for a mode of printing
called mi-type, by means of which the expenses of printing,
paper, and binding would, according to the patentee, be
diminiqicd by half. The tni•type may be thus shown. Take
a flat rule, and Plane it on a lilio of print, so is to Met' the
lower part of the letters.-arid•the line inaV ba read with ease_

says the inve

19.w.er part of printed letter

Elways the in:

This, however, is not the case, if we cover the upper half
The patentee, therefore, proposes to hare a type coinoosed o

the upper half of the letters.—Galignani.—[This is nothing
to Rosenberg's machine; it is not intended to do things by
halves : P. D.l

u rEACE UONVENTION.—The sittings of this
body commenced on Thursday, at the Freemason's Hall,
Great 4ueeri-strpet. Delegates attended from different parts
of Europe and from 11.merica, for the porpose of forming an
Universal Peace Convention to advocate tlieprinpiple,'!' That
war was inconsistent with the spirit of Christianity and the
true interests of mankind ; to deliberate upon the best means
to show the world the evil and ineipediency of the practice
and spirit of war; arid to promote permanent and universal
peace. "file proceedings commenced at ten o'clock, a.m.
In the absence of Judge Jay, Mr. Charles Hindley, M.P.
was called to the chair. The meeting was addressed by Mr.
Joseph Sturge,• and other eminent friends of the cause.

sent were twenty from America,
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to Joseph Ridgway