Title | Rev. William Alderson from Sheffield town hall: "we have been engaged all yesterday in unravelling the most diabolical conspiracy of the Chartists you can possibly conceive ... We have seized an immense quantity of ... swords, guns, daggers, pikes, hand grenades, and combustibles of all kinds. We had some information on Friday that a rising was intended to take place on Saturday or Sunday even ..."; the town was patrolled by troops which frightened off any insurgents; 14 January |