The Mayor of Monmouth received a letter with the London
post- mark, containing the following rigmarole, which appears to have created quite a " sensation" in that place, and which the T lints thought of
sufficient importance to publish in a second edition.
"Few Omnes.
"The people shall rise like brave lions, and shall not lie down tillt 1 eley eat the prey and drink the blood of the slain." 17nder "JESUS CHRIST, sx, "Fidel Defeusor, &e., "SILAIT, Secretary." Enclosed in it is a large strip of parchment, on which is writtea thus-
', Wales to wit,—We hereby order anti direct all our right trusty and Admirals, Generals, Marshals, Colonels, Captains, Lieutenants, E»dgos, Corporals, Sergeants, Bailiffs, Sheriffs, Constables, eee., to make note, run, osmotic, and sing ' 0 God! send us the King' from your holy court above the Third Heaven !!! " I AM TuAT I A.M. X "No,. at Great Itabylone."
The Times correspondent gives the following particulars of Frost as authentic ; but the animus against the Chartiet leader is manifest. If correct, however, Frost's sympathy with the working classes is ac- counted for.
"John Frost was brought up a tailor; but, liming, married a woman of snsall fortuue, he became a shopkeeper. In 1:321 he published a series of libels against a gentleman at Newport : before publishing the first of width, he sent a printed copy of it to the person who was attacked, with a letter, in which he endeavoured to extort money, by informing the person he addressed that unless reparation were made to him tar injuries which were never done, he would puhlieli the libel on the following day. The perso11 libelled took no notice of his intended publication, (or letter,) and the following dav he exhi- bited in los shop-windows printed copies of the libels. lIe hat then bevome 3 printer, and he printed and published his own writings. That pamphlet havina sold freely, he published several other pamphlet a, itt which he attacked not old:- the gentleman against whom his first pamphlet was &rented, butt ,eeveral nthei:s of the most respectable persons in the neighbourhood. For the bit Is published in the lirst pamphlet an action' was brought against him, and tried before Chief
Juoice Abbott and a Special Jury, in the Court of King's Bench, in Middle- , and a verdict obtained against bins for LON/. damages. To avoid paying
th0a2 danmees, he procured himself to be arrested IT his stepfather, and went to gaol. Having gaving notice of applying for his discharge to the Magietratee at the Quarter-sessions undee the then insolvent Debtor s Act, his ilkeharge was opposed, and he was ordered to be imprisoned six months in the counly gimlet Monmouth for fraud; the present Mr. Justice Bosanquet being the Chairman of the Sessions at which he was so senteneed. The fraud that he Wits proved to have committed was concealment of property from Ids Crolitor•:. and opening a shop in the name of his son, John Frost. a niere boy. lie wee subsequently indicted by the same gentleman, who had obtained' the verdict against him, by two bills of indictment, for libels contaieed in two suhsequent pamphlets, which indictments were removed into the Court of King's Bench, and tried before Special Juries, at Monmouth; and he was convicted on each indictment. When he was brought up for judoment, he prayed that, it' the Court sentenced him to imprisonment, he might be imprisoned in t he county gaol at Monmouth : whereupoms he was sentenced to six mouths' imprison- ment in Coldhath-fielde Prison; which sentence he underwent. In passing sentence upon him, Lord Chief ;Justice Ibbott said, • It is our duty to see that you are removed from that comity where you have done so much mischief, at least for a thne.' About that time, when he thought a revolution was at hand, in a printed letter he addressed the lower orders of people thus—, Look oat, iny boys; I recotnmend every one of you who has received any injury frona one at these fellows, to fix on a house or farm. I have already fixed on winc- h is Vu erndee; and when my injuries and the losses I have sustained are con- sidered, every one will think me very moderate.' Wernulee is an estate near Newport, of Sir C. Morgan, fiom whom he had never received the slightest injury or affront. He subsequently was a bankrupt."
As yet, we have seen no distract evidence that Frost, or his sou, were actually present at the Westgate Hotel. On the contrary, John Lovell, a gardener, who received a gun-shot wound, has been committed on
• the positive testimony of several witnesses that he was the leader of the rioters; directing the attack, ordering the Westgate Hotel to be taken, with the words " In, any men." He wore a blue frock-coat, with a silk handkerchief round the waist, and carried a musket. He also headed the mob which some months ago endeavoured to reaeue Vincent from custody ; and was notorious for his threats to obtain the Charter by " fair means or otherwise."
ha confirmation of the statement that wages are high ia Monmouth- shire, Mr. Homfrav, who employs 5,000 men in the Tredagar Iron- works, sent the average rate of wages which men earl in this dis- trio " in a letter to the Clerk of the Magistrates ; and it wos read openly in Court-
" Miler- and colliers, 22s. to 24a per week. Furnacernen, 35s. per week.
Pillars nisi heaters, :35a. per week. hi hers, 513s. to fins, per week. Fitters- up, emiulo. and pattera-mekers, 25a per week. Carpenters, 21a. per week. Moulders, 24s. p e. week. Maseue, :Ma per week. Labourers, of which there are very tee; emmoyed, 2.1. to 2s. 4,1. per day. Our men are at work, that those who are here ; but a great
mane ere miesieg.
A Special Commission, consistiog of Sir Nicholas Tindal, Sir James Parke. mia Sir John Williams. will be sent into Monmouthshire to try the prisoners. Considerable uneasiness existed ni the nognoourhood of Merthyr Tydvil, on Wednesday. Colonel Considine left Newport for the purpose of organizieg means of resisting tsar attack, and the :Magistrates swore in many special constables.
The Marquis of Normanby has addressed the following letter to the Mayor of Newport.
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" Sir—The Queen has been pleased to command me to express her Majesty's high approval of your conduct, and ef the conduct cf the 3legistrates acting with yon oa the occasion or the outrage recently eunnoltued in the town of 2,:ewoort. " To the resolution and courage of the Megistrates, and of the small military firer whirh su:p vied them in i;ithetendhifithe• unexpected and daring- attack of numerous bidies of armed men from the minim,: districts. her Al kiesty as- cribes in great measure the preservation of the lives and property of the in- liehl!ant,a
" !ler Mejesty is deeply concerned that any one of her faithful and loyal snhjects ,b hi hive :suffered personal injury in the discharge of his public dusty, and in .1 lleice of the peace of the tenra ugainst lawless agare,aion. And while
her 51 .j :vcannot bat regret that m loss of lith Itulil °emir, it is a satis- thetioe te bier MItiet_tty to know that this lug, which under the rirctimstances was unttvotittille, its keen cuutin,d to Ilit*e who Iv.:re foremost in malting the attma: and that the loss was not ;treater or In....re indist.rhoin:tt... bier Majesty to the jehnuent evieced by the 31 :gistratsa and IT the o:heer in cononend of the troepa and to the exot.iplary foi.:2;ar.titu. tail goo& conduct of the soldiers.
" I have, &v. o " The Mayor of Newport, Mimennutlishire."