File MB1/42. - Copy letter from T. Edmund Marsh from Llanidloes, to Viscount Clive,

Left Newtown yesterday, spent the night at a farm house two miles from Llanidloes, and entered the town this morning. Everything is calm. The Trewythen Arms Hotel has been wrecked. Door panels and window frames have been demolished, furniture destroyed, and robbery committed, chiefly by women, 'but no ale and spirits taken'. Blankhorn [of Newtown] was dreadfully abused, but the Metropolitan officers escaped miraculously and hid themselves in a hay loft. The windows in his own house and that of the Vicar were broken. [Both J. E. Samuel, Dowlais, in The Montgomeryshire Chartist Riots, in Cymru Fu, Aug. 1889, and Edward Hamer in A Brief Account of the Chartist Outbreak at Llanidloes in the year 1839, state that no robbery was committed].