Newport Chartists Vol.6, p.13

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Prisoner - I don't know any other Edward Frost in Newport

I now hold in my hand another Card I found in the same

house - I have read this Card - it is thus - "Monmouthshire

"shocking men's Association - motto - peace law and order - equal

"Laws and Equal rights we advocate and claim as our

"inalienable birth right - and as Citizens Universal suffrage

"vote by ballot - Annual Parliaments and no property

"Qualification - intellectual fitness and moral worth -

"are the only qualifications we advocate for the Electors

"and Elected number 635 - James Rose. S.E - secretary

"John Partridge - Printer - Newport."

I afterwards found in the same house two flasks of powder

and a quantity of Caps - I think it was half a pound of powder

- they were Gun Caps - they are for discharging Guns - I

have them in my Pocket - I now produce some of them - I

did not find any balls or shot - In the bed room Chimney

up stairs I found three silver tea spoons marked S - a five

shilling piece and two half Crowns - there was a bag with

straw in it up in the Chimney - I pulled down the Bag and

down fell another Bag with the Silver spoons the five shilling

piece and the two half Crowns in it - No one was at home -

I got in at the Chamber Window - I brought away with me the

things I found - I came back to the Westgate Inn in Newport -

I saw Aust and his Wife there - Aust was then in custody - his

Wife was there with him - Aust was in this house with other

Prisoners - his Wife was with him as I believe - I am not now

certain whether she was with him or not - I am certain that

I spoke to both Aust and his wife when I spoke to

Aust - I now perfectly recollect Aust and his Wife were

together - They were both present when I spoke -

Aust's wife spoke first to me and said - "I believe

you have been to our house and searched it - I told him

I had she said there was nothing there but what "we

"had bought and paid for - I asked

her whether she had placed any thing in the

Chimney up stairs - she said "No, she would