The correspondent of the Times relates an attack on Middleton-hall,
the property of Mr. Adams, near Carmarthen- " On returning home, about half-past nine o'clock on Tuesday night, from the Quarter-Sessions held at Carmarthen, Mr. Adams saw a portion of his premises on fire. On hastening home, he found a wood near his house full of men armed ; his stacks were on fire, and the plugs had been pulled out of his fish-pond to let the water off. As may be imagined, his family were in the greatest terror, expecting every moment the house to be attacked and set fire to. As soon as be could he despatched an express off to Carmarthen for troops to protect him. The mob continued around his premises, making all manner of noises, watching the fire, and preventing any attempt being made to extin- guish it, and remained there till two o'clock in the morning. Before they left, while they were yet in the wood, the messenger, who might have been ac- companied by troops, or by some sort of protective force, returned alone, with an answer from Colonel Love that the troops had been out all day and could not come. The feeling of utter want of protection and helplessness of Mr. Adams and his family, in the midst of a lawless, an inimical, and a well-armed mob, at midnight, with a part of his premises fired by them blazing near him, may be better imagined than described. Mr. Adams is understood to have taken the determination of at once with his family leaving the country."
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