23 NOVEMBER 1839, Page 3

H.-11 of' the Monnenol• e tinned at

. yitool. Front the \ . lo.i...ets 1ub- lisl.."1 nt tit o .1.. ;Tees, we sob..c.. p. •. ao.1 importance.

C:oyd a sho,Analier trad,o, P. In I 'l,Jrch Bow, Somers

Town, nod a mmill‘er of' the " Gene] ••! ...cemion of the industriotui classes," was arrened in Newport on Thoreday ...veiling last, having

that day arrived by coach from Wor...esfer. Rev:gess, Commis- sioner of Police at Birmingham, lent aseeeniee I that Cards passed tin-me:di Birmingham, and forwarded a descrintimm of his person to the Mayor of Newport, together with tIte foliowig extract from an address whieh he had delivered on Wednesday night e' a meetiog of Birming- ham Chartiets- " The sA-cret is Vibe found not ym, 000d .1. ill after I return f:ont Newport. Wbo:-. I arrive thcrt-, I tl 7. ;iv doly to go to the hills, where I ed:all --.-e that tic-n the whole transaction, and it•.. I ru ..-t ; cud i shall endea- voor to get :1!I LTV With Mr.otto

WIen examined do.d'on.,...

promptitude zr...; firm ne,:os. asec:lain ;he ecal

they had be-en o,..c..t:ioned by Ponmsian Reverend Mr. J. lltiies actine- as tIlmairnete

George Torree, a man with a woodee : Ilhentte manmr upon the soldiers smetI committed foe tried on a charge of high e

S. Shill, ttithii-ro: G. Shell, \die '

neared to ident:':'y his sou's 'writing ii.: before his death. t, Nov. 4, 1839.

"neer Parcnte—: 11,10 0:1S talllitch y.c. ...--sedf at prest. I shall this night be e",.-:::ed in a .oiroggle fee o!,,...1,1 it please God to sp.atre nv lir. I :doll ..oee you soon, but if Lot for Me; 1 shall have fen in a noble 1.011,, at Mr, and likewise my clothes.

" P.m:Nell, yours truly, GLuIICIE SHELL." Shell, Oil! fr.11..T, a ppe:lr,..d in deep affliction.

Mr. Coles :uld.—" I um vvry sorry to see :„.ou, ; and, believe me, the Nagistrates feel Car you. I saw }oar paar sm after he was shot, but before he slits mal I p:ty yuu. Th; hoe,. seot for yun to

identify a letter wiinee. by the yeath hante aCath."

t advice.; and until

latch- be in-s ill.. III st ,Intiful of children."

nfe. Shell then produced a ti it'.',old 'It 11.2 7::1-1 WI:11 11 hi-i snn stone months in which he " Oh, ev,r: li-hued to the voice of your father. I Iii ti 1.1.• cow. Du Ict your yonthful days be spent in :in mid :lolly, bat \ o to know (mood." Ito also produced. S-hell's

warrant as a t.tpo.clart.'0.1.4:Ille, (hued $1 May 1...s.e.t.

Colt.--.• I....11,ov 1 then up to that time 1.0s-a.ssed the confidence of the 'llogiooteates: " St 211 (11: ix 11h1.!!).—" ; butt ID: was afterward:, delintal by wicked and designine men, lie is dead„ind not wh.o.,.‘ much for his loss if I could offlv think that It :cal \ Mr. Oiles (much nife;+e,l)--- paor man, th hope lini-etIllideehdesta.t" Mr. Roberts, the Chartist solicit ,r v-as apprel

Blackwood on Sunday, with several : dwl on Tuesday, Mr. Ro- berts was discharge,'„ there being en :en lest hint.

On Monday, the Newport Magist eat,: coInnmitted thlwaed Edmunds,

for sedition and hi,..11 treason. app,..aranee aescribed as very respectable. 1 le kept a publie-honse called the Greyhound, at Pontllanfraith. Mr. Coles said, he was very :awry to see a man of his respectability in fetch a situation ; and the 'prisomier being told that his offence was not dailahle, was removed. Aveening.

The Pontypool Magistrates were eltiefly occupied with examinations

of charges anainst Shellard, -sln,einalter of Pontypool, a man of some property, and well-dressed. It was proved that he

. Cando displayed yi was perfectly

lc es, and how far ee Magistrates, the I Card() till Monday. .;:od in the most de- .. Westgate Inn, was ap- nceons shortly .White Hart, Pontypool. I beard him state while I was in the room, ' that a man ought to be d—d, and have a chain around his neck, that was not a Chartist.' This was about May last."

Stephen Fletcher, a general shopkeeper of Pontypool, also had a conversation with Shellard on the day of the disturbance. Shellard had called upon him-

" I took him into an inner romn. I said, Shellard, tell me what this row is about now ? ' I said I kn.ow you are in the secret ; let me know ? ' He said, I suppose we are determieed to have it now; we have tried long enough by peaceable means.' 7 said, ' What ie really your ostensible object ; what is it you really want " 'Why, I'll tell you,' said he ; ' we intend to take the great men of the country first, and to conene them in a pit.' I said, And what then ? ' He said, ' Why- then, Mr. Prost. ill give us directions whether it is not best to go to 'Monmouth end r,.,:her,e Vincent :nal others.' I said, ' What do you

intend to do with the great imm ymi have got them in the pit ; what avail

will that he to N'Con ? said, 6 We intend to keep them there as hostages until the Charlist letrhrs are liberated." 7 said, I Imp you don't intend any thing unkind ttavards Air.l.sieh, (the Lenl-Lieutenanti es I think he is a real beneffietor to the eines reel I hope nothing unkind will he done to him.'

Prisoner said, :Ale. Ieieh have one of th.: driest stalls (places in the pit) that conid f t; 1. Ieskol him it' they intended to do any thing

agailiqt life or pros). rt ner said, N. by no means.' I said, hope you tell me the S.:I 1, do indeed, for there has been a meetiag of the Delegates.' I I. lieve he t1 fifty; he dill say where, but I do not distinctly reeoliect, but I believe he s;iid Duke's Town, (in the lulls,) and it was there determined tic:tln first nein V.io did any thing against life or

property ie. shot. Ife eeld he had promked to be at Newport by nine o'clock :that morning, and 'I believe by this time Newport is in pos- session of the Chattiete.' A third per...m. then came in and the conversation dropped."

The prisoner declined sayi tie; ay thing at that time ; and was com- mitted for e7lition and l i1 treosoa.

Samuel niaeridge, v•In, ia.,:ct a beer-house about a mile from New- port, was a:re,ted on a.. el at 3'.‘:ewport On Tuesday. Copies of the 1 7tou,Na,,,,, add *ooe inatalscript papers were found in his house. One of the manuscripts deserilted a plan of military organiza- tion— " Let us fern into sectiooe chm,,ing a good, stanch, indefatigable brother at the bend or each i.ect i n—t hat is t...) say, each section to be composed of ten men who are known to hiaito 1,c sincere, so that the head of each section will know his ; then five .-tetions w.1 compose fifty-tive men, with others;

then those •ueli i!. choose a head officer over them,

so that he may 1:■,`ice ; so those fifty men is to be called a

by-naIn, ; the:: !:',." v •‹.., eme pally, and the three officers trill choose a prise r peees; eleeienO the 1:7,5 in a company—offieers, and all

sea, 11$ a coy::: Il; t !:- tin ii i.s nih compose 493 men and officers, which office's will m..11 a. brigade-, . nerel ; so three breioades will choose a chief, whieh IIle 1 ' • hien and oeic, which chief officer is to be in the style of a conventhmai ger: ci; so that by those means the signal of W—r- can be given in two Immo' Jedice, within seven miles, by the head, noticing every officer under him till it conies to the deacons or corporals to notice ten men; the officers to Imre by-names—not a military name—to prevent the law." This letter was also produced, end with it the song which follows- Gap:dace, mom:loath. 2•24t June 149. " Citizens and Prethers—Yeur letter arrived safe: we have long expected a letter .from you w P g. iieu,,1 informati:m. We did not reply to your former ones, becaw:e not rtink yon eNpected any. We don't think of you as our friends at Newport (Co called) think of us, viz. 'out of sight out of mind.' We thank you ffir the books sent. was taken away again by Mr.

Dickinson : have volt liar; ? We ore in tolerable health considering our apartments : and (rust that ourfue Prothero and —are in pickle. Waiting your next,

" We remain, faithfully yours, W. W. Townsend, for Vincent and Co. "Newspapas are Iatl!cr scarce."

" The lahourer toils, and stems the more, Wie tyrants arc carousing; Bat, i,arP , 1110111 the roar; The Eritish youth are rousing. The rich are li;ble to pain,

The poor man feels the smart, Sir; Bet let us break the despots' chain, We eoon slinll have the Charter. "I have seen the puplars flourish fast Where humble briars abound them ; I have SVOlt them floarish in the blast of PrOnnd theni; The lightning through the sky, The thunder loud roars after, to stanch the oppressors—ohy ? Iheau=c they ranee the Charter.

:" Then loose, my boys, and light the foe ; 'four aims are truth and reason, We will let the Whigs and Tovies know That union is not treason. 'Ye Lords oppose us if you can, Your own doom vim seek after; With or without you we will stand motil you give the Charter."

The extent of (h1lrtlsL assneiatioos is indicated in a letter addressed " To Mr. F.therida. nvpor. I\Ionmontlishire."

4, Sir—At a 11e,.11,1r if the Couneil of the Merthyr Tydvil Working Meu's Association, held April PS:), it was unanimously resolved, That the Secretary In re ,,:e steel to write to tiw different Associations in Glamoissan nnd Ildonnuettloh;re, nee feting them to send a person to a meeting to be held at the Queen's Ilead, en the 30th of April, ffir the purpose of making ar- rangementn for hohline. hi eeend demonstration ill some central place, then and there to be fixed no. o, ir the purpoe of supporting the General Convention of the working Cic 4, 4, .1),.1 other matters. The meeting to take place at twelve o'clock in the for, 4, By order of the Council, " Monoax WILLIAMS, Honorary Secretary."

No evidence was prolztc‘al to show that the prisoner had actually

been engaged in ti.1,retiel' :he peace ; but he was acquainted with the movements of the Chartists, aud had testified joy at the insurrection. He accounted for his yn,session or the papers by saying, that they were given lull) by a persoa not then in Newport ; and that the one which alluded to the training. of the men woo part of an account of the re- bellion in Ireland in 1 ',", which it was intended to publish, and had no reference to the late movement, all concurrence in which he utterly denied.

Committed for Sedition and high treason.

John Llevrellyn, a beer4iouse4eeper, and treasurer of a' Workink Man's Association at • Pontnewenydd, was charged with • the .stase offences. He was in the habit of addressing the persons who met at Ith home. One of them described the sort of discussion which took place there— .• " The subject was universal suffrage, and we had no secret to know each other by. Heard nothing said about the Charter. Never beard of the Chartist's Association while I was there. Have heard of' an nssociation called the Radicals, and have heard it called the Chartist Association lately. I on. not tell what words I have heard the prisoner say, lie spoke about annual Parliaments, universal suffrage, vote by ballot, and like that. Never heard any thing said about the rights of the Charter. Have never said so, Base said that I heard John Llewellyn say, ' We must stick tip fin. the rights of the Charter.' Dave heard hint say that. [The prisoner said this was fule,] Members were admitted by ballot."

Llewellyn had proposed Frost as delegate to the Convention. Frost, Vincent, and Carrier, had been at Llewellyn's House. There was a large meeting of Chartists there on the 1st of January ; and a w itness read themorauda of speeches delivered by Frost and Vincent on that occasion. Frost's speech consisted chiefly of statements respecting the large. sum paid to Privy Councillors, the enormous expense of the Queen's Ifousehold-

4, She has nil income of 570,0001. immuilly of your money, besides carriages, servants and yid:tees; besides, she has twelve lords in the bedchember: ay, twelve fords in the bedchamber. Now, what would any of you say if your wik or your sister had twelve great strapping chaps about their ;yd.:handier? I think you'd be ready to discard your sister, or look out for another I know I should. And each of these fellows receives a thousand a year.' Again he said= Aml this is not all ; she, the Queen, has twelve grooms in the bee. chaullser—ay, t welve grooms to the bedchamber. Now, if any of you hear of It gentleman hiriug a groom, you know that Clint gentleman wants them to clean his horses; but whatever these fellows do liar the Queen, I eanitot tell you: All this WaS received with cheers and great applause.

Vincent said-

" He was ready to suffer death or imprisonment in the cause of the Charter, He said the House of Commons was a long room, with a chap at oue end of it with a bag wig on, singing oat, ' Order! order ! order ! ' with a lot of faows silting round, sotne drunk and some asleep ; and on the whole they were a lot of drunkards, gamblers, money-,griuders, and tyrants : that the meeting must join the polite of the North and send the Members sthout their bush:wee and so have a new House of Commons. Ile said the 111i:t1ibers or the llouse of Commons were limb, and enemies of the woeleing men ; and that ennui tine morning the people would rise and send the -Alemlfers to the rizlit-about ; and would not die men of Wales assist the men of England in compelling them to pass the Charter ? The people in Yorkshire, Liowashiro, London, and Blistol, Bath; Trowbridge, and Newport were determinelt Cl) have the Charter, sad they would crush the tyrants with one blow. Ile said the soldiers would not fire upon the Chartists; and if the soldiers came against them, they would put the women in front of the ranks, and then the soldiers would not lire upon the women; and that half the soldiers would turn over to the Chartists. The working classes produced all the wealth, and they ought to have their share of that wealth. The people had been kept down long enough ; the working men had thc shopkeepers on them, and on the shopkeepers were the limners, and on the limners were the parsons and the lawyers, awl the lawyers on the parsons, and the Army On the lawyers, and the Government on the Army, and on the Government there was a pretty little bauble ; that the people of England bad all joined together and now the people of' Wales tvonid take a long leap, and stretch it across the Channel, and the English would the Welsh, and then they would wriggle and twist about, (accompanying that by a motion as he spoke it,) till down would come those who were above them; and the pretty Pt tie bauble on the top would come down too ; and then they would all lie eqied, and have equal right and equal property."

The prisoner said that he considered he had in no way broken the law- " With respect to the public meetings which I am charged with having held at my house, and with myself attending at other places, I do not intend to deny ; for they have all been public, and no secrecy has been encouraged at them, so far as I have understood. It' I had found there had been any secrecy, I should have immediately abandoned them. It appears to me to-nigbt that I was chiefly blamed owing to the existence of these associations. I was only one single individuel myself; and with respect to that meeting, held the It of January 1839, it was not I who called it ; it was not held -on my prenlise Evan Emanuel, the turner you just spoke of; hired the field where the meeting was held, or James Bevan, of' Pontypool; and he came and asked bile if he should erect part of the hustings against my wall, which was in the field. I certainly gave him liberty, so that no injury was done to the wall. Ile erected the hustings himself, so I did not coos:der that meetings of those kinds were were illegal; no one ever told me that they were. Beshks, not two months before, Lord John Russell, the Secretary of State, said, at it public dinner at Liverpool, that public meetings were not only lawful, but commendable; for public discussion, lie thonght, wos the best means to elicit troth. Upon these considerations, I, with tunny others, thought these meetings perfectly legal; and under such considerotion:4,, I thought we were perfectly rig it in attending such meetings. If any one had told me these meetings must be stopped or put down, I certainly would have been the first to stop them."

Committed on the minor charge of sedition. •

Jenkin Morgan, a milkman mid a chandler in the borough of New- port, was brought before the Magistrates on Wednesday. The prin- cipal witness against him was Morgan James, a labourer. He related a conversation with the prisoner which took place on the night of Sunday the 3d of November, and seriously implicated Frost, besides disclosing the extent of the Chartist plans- " He said Frost and his men, thousands and thousands, were coming that morning ; he said they were coining to Stow-hill to attack the soliers at the Poor-house; he said the Charter would be had before daylight, for they should take the whole town and also the whole kingdom. He said Frost and his men were to attack the soldiers; he said be, the prisoner and his mem were to take the powder-warchouse, and keep it for the Chartists. He said Frost and his men were to come down at two o'clock on Monday morning the 4th of November. I went with the prisoner to the other side of the bridge, in a field between the Caerkon and Chepstow roads. Ile said I should have plenty of ammunition when Froq came down. When we got into the field, the captain (Junkin) and his men, and I along with them, stood. We were there about twelve o'clock on Sunday night, I suppose. He said there would be an in- surrection through Ireland, Scotland, and everywhere at the same moment ; and the Charter would be the law of the laud atter that night ; antLevery man who had joined them and did not come would be the first man kilkd by them. He said if I met any one on the road I was to say Beans,' and if it were a friend of the Chartists he would say ' Well ;' and if the person we met did not say ' Well,' we were to do what we liked in that, far !IQ was no friend to us. When the soldiers were attacked, their arms were to be taken from them, and, if they would not give them up peaceably, to kill them all. If they beat

alte.aoldiers, he said they would rule in Newport themselves. -lie told me the George Barnes, a butcher residing at Hexhann near Neweastle-upon

aignal Faust was to give when les catne to the Stow : he was - to throw rockets up and powder in the air; then as WC as they saw that, the pra miler and, his men were to go on duty, and not before. I think I stayed at the fis1,1 till about three o'clock, and then I made my escape home. It rained very bard and was very dark. I was wet to my skin. Next morning they called me out of my bed, and said there were thousands 1 thousands of the colliers comma It mi lit Dc about ei ht o'clock am e.

a got up ; it was a man working at the dock called me. I went straight on the tram-road towards the Court-y-bella machine ; anti I there saw hundreds and thousands running for their lives. I did not hear the firing; I saw Mr. Frost running away by the machine. I saw Dr. Price at the meeting at Duke's Town. When I was in the field, I heard them call the prisoner captain ; be ad answer all along. Jenkin Morgan was the captain. I know John the saapin; his name is John Lewis. The prisoner tleit night had a pike in his lama more than a tbot in length, on a long stick like a mop-stick. It was a seeiglit pike with a cross cutting-piece, and a hook to cut the bridles of cavalry. Ile was going to use it to take the powder-warebouse. I saw some of the men in the field armed, and sonic were not ; they had pikes like that, find one had a square stick like a constable's stick; another had bullets with him ; and I asked him what he was going to do with them. Ile answered that we should have plenty of arms just now. We were to stand in the field until we had the signal from Frost. The prisonersaid the Chartists were to come, sonic by Stow way, and some by Waterloo way, and front Pontypool mid Caerkon ; and they were all to be there at two o'clock in the morning.

Croas-examined by Mr. Clark, the witness said-

" I believe if I don't speak the truth I shall to go hell. I never stated in any house that there was no God nor Devil. I never was on that prii.ciple, and I hope I never saw anybody else that was."

The Reverend Mr. Coles interrupted the cross-examination with the remark—" I sincerely hope you never will."

George Hodge, a collier, said that several armed men came to Ids house on the Sunday night-

" They told me I must go with them to 131aelsweoa, to Inas( Mr. Frost at the Coach and Horses. The Coach and Horses is kept by Richard Pugh. I was compelled to go with them. At the Coach and Hors..s s.,u Mr. Frost, and another mina With hint, Who was a stranger to me. hod, to the best of my knowledge, a drab great-coat on, an oil-skin hat, aml a rad cravat Youvd his neck. There were a considerable number of num present. Mr. Frost advanced up to the Blackwood about thirty yards, and said lie woula scour Blackwood first,"

Mr. (leach, an attorney, on behalf of Mr. Frost, objected to this evi- dence being taken in his absence ; but Mr. Coles ruled that it should proceed. The witness went on-

" Some of the people would lather for it (111aelewood) not to be sconred. It was not scoured theta Mr. Frost desired its all to f011OW 111111 tO the Ccfyll. Whell I gOt to the road leading to Alareairn, saute of the 11(.611%.! Nvent to- wards Aberenirn, and the others along the trant-rood. Mr. Fri,st that Zephaniah Williams woulil inect them at the Cef; n with live thousand men. Ile said &ems, from Pontypool, was to meet them with about two thousand. I next FaW Mr. Frost at 'Jaye Corner. On our ivoy down, ire most a man near Risco, oil it horse, with a lantern in his hand ; it was it ear Mr. Cross's house: the man desired us to proceed on, for Mr. Frost was waiting for us with a body of men. Some of the men made remarks of what was the good of going there without arms; and a person returned an answer, that there were plenty of guns, ba.vonets, and anima:litho' there. We came up with Mr. Frost, and he orde:.ed the guns to the front. and the pikes on next. I ran up to him (Frost) and add—a In the name of God, what ore you going to do ?---are tt going to attack any persons or plaCC ?' Fttl,t said, yes, they were going to atittA New- port and take it. Frost said they would blow down the bridge to stop the Welsh mail from proceeding to Birmingham. Ile said there would. he gates awaiting the arrival of the mail at l3irininglimn. They would wait for an hour and a half after its time.' and if the inail did not arrive fur one hour and a half after its tints, it would he a signal that an attack should take place at Birmingham, and from thence it would sprsad all through the North of England. Ott hearing this from Mr. Frost, I said to him, ' You might as well lead us all to the slaughter-house.' I told him it WaS like leading a lot of lambs to the slaughter-house, and said, For God's sake, desire tlte men to re- turn to the hills.' Ile askett me if I thought so; and turns.; away from Inc with a scornful look, as I thought. I tried to escape all the way down, anti shortly afterwards I fleind an opportunity of doing so. I do not know the prisoner."

Committed for sedition and high treason. On Thursday, the noted Zephania Williams was bronglit before the Magistrates. 14e had been captured on board the Vintage, a vessel lying off Cardiff, and on the point of sailing for Oporto. Ile had a considerable sum of money in his possession-102 sovereigns, 11 Spanish dollars, and some smaller silver. Some evidence was produced against hint, awl he was remanded. Williams appeared muell worn, and was very dejected. Two other prisoners, Evau Edwards and Benjamin Richards, after an inquiry into their cases, were committed on charges of sedition and high treason.

A public meeting was held in Newport on Thursday, and thanks voted to the officers and men of the Forty-fifth Regiment, for their ser- vices in quelling the riots. The Queen has conferred the honour of knighthood on Mr. Phillips, the late Mayor of Newport.