Star. — 1820-02-26 (London, England)

URCEMONDWIKE, FEBRUARY V 2. " Yesterday morning (Monday), a scene of the most daring and barbarous outrage presented itself that can possibly be described or conceived: a number of the Members of the Society called the Clothiers Union, assembled at Batley, from Hanging and Earl's Heaton, Dawgreen, and the neighbourhood of Heckmondwike. During the whole of Sunday night numbers were heard talking, and walking backward and forward ; but about four o'clock on Monday morning, some of them knocked at the door of a poor woman, and inquired if William Goodall lived there? Being answered in the negative, they proceeded on until they came to the poor man's door ; and then, with the utmost violence, burst it open ; at the same time calling out to the poor fellow, who was in bed, " Come out, thou black Devil, or else we'll draw thee!" His wife got up and looked out of doors, when she beheld a vast host of men, armed with large cudgels and other weapons, waiting the arrival of her husband. Terrifled at the sight, she hastily shut the door, and fastened it as securely as she could. Just at this time their cruelty was exerting all its efforts on a man called Milton, whom they kicked and beat in a manner too shocking to be related. Alarmed at this confusion, one of the mill-owners sent the above Wils ham Goodall for the assistance of some Peace Officers and others ; bat before he had gone far, he found himself pursued and surrounded on all sides. They knocked him down, then kicked and beat him with their clubs in all parts of his body, so that he is now confined to his bed. At this crisis the Constables arrived, but found it impossible to enforce the powers of their office, beset, as they were on all sides, by these desperate and inhuman wretches, who wee vowing, with all their vengeance, that,  might be the coasequence, they would till every man that opposed them. Would to Hitooax I could stop here But it was now time for the Black Max, as they call them, to come to their work ; and, alas: as soon as those from the neighbourhood of Morley appeared; they were seized s they were hewn and beaten, to a degree the most barbarous and cruel, While these unfortunate men were suffering the cruelty of their unexpected foes, lamentable to tell, another poor, quiet, and inoffensive man, who waj coming from Howden Clough, to work at the mill, was met by another company of these furious wretches, who beat him in so unmerciful a manner, that the poor sufferer's eyes were nearly lacerated from their sockets, his legs and arms broken, and most of his ribs fractured. Their barbarous career did not stop here. A poor old man, who was returning from Mr. Srzontoo's, where he had been to seek for employ, was identified as a Black Man, and immediately knocked down, nearly strangled, beaten, and kicked, in a most unmerciful manner. Having. as they thought, deprived him of life, they threw him over an adjoining wall into a ditch. is But perhaps you will now ask, was thfre no one to help? To which I answer, that so far were these murderous wretches from receiving their just deserts, kthat they were strenuously encouraged by others as  'bad as themselves. 'The numb 'r of these. depredr: tors was at least three hundred. lam informed tha their plan of operations was settled at a meeting ct their leaders, hell in the vicinity of Dewsbury. a five o'clock on Sunday morning last r  /