Letter from Colonel Trevor (Lord Dynevor) to [?William Chambers], 21 September 1843 [page 1 of 3]

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"Carmarthen, 21 September, 1843.

My dear Sir,

Your handbill would have done perfectly well, but I have, as you sent it, made an alteration or two in it. I will get it printed here in Welsh and English, and will also have it inserted in the three papers you specify, and in the "Swansea Journal". The question of the 371 persons who met to petition on and obtain the admission to bail of the Pontardulais rioters demands more consideration than I can at this moment give it, as I only got your letter on my return home to dinner after a day's absence. I will write on that subject to you again as soon as I can.

Have you got lodgings yet for my ten policemen? Pray let me know; I cannot send them till I hear.

Colonel Love and I are disappointed at not getting the House at Lanon held by Mr Fredericks (?) and now we must do as well as we can. I wish, therefore, to know whether we can put 20 Cavalry in three billets at Pontardulais or 30, Infantry in any one house with any officer; in either case we wish to put ten other policemen there and a serjeant. Pray let me have answers to these questions as soon as possible.

The police are not yet sufficiently armed, but I am going to write to get them fire-arms if I can.

Yours very truly,
Geo. Rice Trevor."

[Source: George Eyre Evans, 'Rebecca Riots: Unpublished letters, 1843-44', The Transcations of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club, vol. XXIII, p. 67]