About five thousand Chartists assembled in the Market-place of De-
vizes on Friday evening. A. considerable number Caine from the sur- rounding villages ; and one of the principal speakers was a Mr. Carrier, of Trowbridge. Mr. Henry Vincent and Mr. G. Burns, of the Na- tional Convention, and Mr. W. P. Roberts of Bath, were the other leaders of the assembly. According to an account given in the Morn- ing Adoeraser, Mr. Carrier, who acted as chairman, had scarcely spoken foi• five minutes before the peaceable meeting was broken in upon by " a body of from two to three hundred Tories, composed of drunken farmers. lawyers, parsons, and other supporters of the renegade Burdett, headed by Tugwell, the Under Sheriff of the county." The account goes on-
e A horn was blown by Tugwell, the Under Sheriff, as the signal of attack.; when an immediate rush was niade upon the meeting, with cries ii orn-laws
for ever ;' ' Church and State ;' No Dissenters t' • Ni, bloody sea 'Radicals;' "fhree cheers for the Queen,' and ',Down with inesne"f meetieg thus suddenly thrown into confusion, no man knowing friend from foe, and the dark of night approaching, a seene of indescribable confusion cc- corral. Mr. _Roberts, of Bath, endeavoured to obtain a hearine; bet in vain. Mr. Burns then mounted, and said, Here are a few drunken Torie trying' to raise the antiquated cry of Church and State ; but we will neither tes 1....iii- boozled by the one nor plundered by the other.' '• Mr. -Vincent rose amidst stones, flints, and mud, which were flying in all directions. Ile said—' Friends, be not alarmed.: these fellows lielow tire aiving us very important lessons—they are convincing us of the LA-4.m.y of mond force. (Loud cheers, swing if hats, !mauls, trail cries 4 (ora-burs aicl Church and Slate .1;)r ever.') We are met to-night to tell the btoe eriooeraey that we have sworn death to the sy,tem by which they live ; tool to tell them, that if these he the weapons with which the people are to be met, a e sliall take uparnii. in our own defence.' (('rers, and ihrou..,,y mud owl Aoics.) The confusion increasing with the darkness, Mr. Vincent It is c,,:nlial the peace be preserveil; so I suggest the pmpriety of adjourning till: meeting*: "Mr. Carrier then adjourned the meeting until Easter Monday, at ten o'clock in the threnoon."
It is said that the Chartists dispersed in an orderly manner ; and that Vincent, Burns, and Roberts, addressed an assembly at the Curriers' Arms ; but that their drunken assailants continued their riotous pro- ceedings. Many of the Tory landlords carried fire-arms- " As soon as the meeting in the Market-place was adjourned, the Tories, in a pried ii dc of phrensy, retired to the Castle Inn, and other places. Three barrels of beer were given away to about three hundred men and boys. In a state of beastie drunkenness, armed with clubs, stones. knives, &c. the mob
eneeeieei ,'„;;;;;: rerriere' Ares. end surrounded the house. All the ii tutu Tories of the town and neistimo' , evere seen in thy ,crowd. An attempt was next made to force their way into the i,, anti i.e.: ?":1 of the door was immediately smashed in, together with the winciu'.? in front of the building, Several of the Chartists expressed their deterndnation al it film:Ise:Ws -and then friends, to attack the assailants : hilt Mes,:rs. ineenr, Burns, and Roberts, insisted upon the Chartists keeping the peace to the latest moment. Things getting worse, and there being every appearance of the drunken mob obtaining possession of the house, the &males were putt into a back hod-room. Mr. Vincent and his friends armed themselves with all avail- able weapons, and successfully protected the building from further injure'. By this time, the Mayor, a Magistrate, and the coin:hind:Iry flint. ari:Ivell. By the courage and persevehmee of the Mayor, the riotous body of Destructive;, who rejoice in the name. of Conservatives, were soon compelled to disperse. The gang of Tories who got up the row are the same persons who engaged three hundred ruffians to spit upon Dundas, the Liberal candidate at the late election."
This is evidently an or parte account of the affair, to which a different complexion will be given by the Tories.
The Mayor of Newport, in compliance with the directions of the Lord Chancellor, having sent up to his Lordship the commission of the
peace for this borough, the same was returned on Frid the' naine Mr. Frost having been erased therefrom. Mr. Frost is therelbre no longer a Magistrate for this borough : and the Town-Clerk has officially intimated to him the fitet—Monmouthshire
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