Star. — London, England, 1801-05-21 00:00:00

SECOND RETORT OT THE SECRET COMMITTEE.. The Committee nf Secrecy of the Houle of Corn. loons have at length made their fecond Report, and in doing in they have entered into a confider. anon of a variety of minute details relative to the plans of the difitffeded, both in this country and in Ireland. The Report embraces filch enlarged del. criptions of the plans of dilaffeftion in both coun. tries, that our limits permit us only to prefent a general outline of their Ilatements. The Report begins by detailing the plans of the difaffeeted in the Metropolis of the kingdom, and goes on to refer to the different Ichemes which they formed for the accomplifhment of their favourite views. It Rates that, though, in confequence of the reafures adopted by Government, the perfons who had imbibed the principles of Revolution were difpofed to fufpend their former projefts, yet they never for a moment wholly renounced their former principks, or felt any defire to return' to their duties of loyalty and rubjedion. Notwith flanding the detention of feveral of the mot adive Members of the late Correfponding Society, it appears that others have continued occafinnally to meet for the original purpores of this Afrociation, at the fame time avoiding any conflant place of Ambling, and ufing no conftant memorial of their tranfaftions. The principal objet of their meeting was originally held out to be, the collec tion of money for the relief of chore confined under charges of treafonable and feditious pradices, while under this pretext they gradually proceeded to indulge in the moll treafonable and feditious 1 toafts and Tongs. In profecution of thefe views it is found that they endeavoured to avail them fflves of the Rate to which the country was re duced in confequence of the preffure of fcarcity, and to endeavour to combine this evil with the general corruptions of the government. From the metropolis they proceeded to trace the fame fpirit to the diftrids of the country, in .which various means were ufed to conned the mifery of fcarcity with the fuppofed evils of adminiftra tion, and to reduce the loyalty of the people from the preffure of temporary circumftances; on this part of the rubjed the Committee detail a variety of particulars, in which all the views and fchemes of the difaffeded are minutely explained ; a parti cular allufion is made to the expiration of the Bill for rut - pending the Habeas Corpus Aft, and a ftate ment is given of the pleafure diffufed over the party by the expiration of the Bill, as well as the meafures adopted during the period that the Aft continued in force. The fchemes of the diraffefted during this period, it appears, were endeavoured to be covered under the name of meetings convened ".in a free eafy manner, which, without encumber ing themfelves with rules, were to converfe on the fu hjed recommended to them, and to provoke in veltigation." In the courfe of thefe meetings, it is laid, that a number of walls were propofed and received with acclamation, which were of the molt (editions and inflammatory nature. At the fame period addreffes were prepared for circulation, ex citingft in the molt carnet terms the inhabitants of the country to the affertion of their rights and the annihilation of what is ftyled the fyftem of tyran- I ny under which they groaned. The adminiftration of fecret oaths of a nature hollile to the exittence of the prefent Monarchy is alfo pointed out, and the circulation of fuch oaths is ftated to have reach ed a very confiderable extent of individuals. Nor do the Committee think that the efforts of the difaffeaed were confined to perfons in this country, but fuppofe that they maintained a treafonable cor refpondence with our common enemy, folicited their affittance to the accornpliffiment of their great dbjed, and held nut to them at the fame time the a hopes of a formidable co-operation from internal I infurredion." The attention of the Committee is next direfted " to the fituation of Ireland, as difturbed within and threatened from without, particularly with reference to thole meafures adopted by the Parlia ment of that kingdom before the Union, before the 1 fuppreffion of the rebellion, and which have been (ince renewed, for a limited time in the Parliament of the United Kingdom." In this part ofthe Report, though they remark that the effortsof the dilaffed ed have long fince happily ceafed to affume the apeCt of Rebellion, arrayed in the field againft the arms of their Sovereign, and that many parts of the kingdom prefent the ufual appearances of peaceful induftry, and loyal fubordination, yet there is not wanting in others demonftrations of the fame plan of fyftematic infurreftion, and thefe too marked with the fame charafters of unexampled atrocity. The zeal of the a principal traitors in Dublin," in fending their EmilTaries through the country to keep up the fpirits of the difaffedecl, by the hopes of fupport from foreign invafion, are particularly infifted upon and explained. About a year fince, it is mentioned that a new fyftem of af fociation was about to be eftablifhed, and a new Executive Directory formed in Dublin. The man ner in which this was to be efFeded, is defcribed both in fo far as it refpefts the appointment of the officers and the privates comiefted with Inch af fociations. This fcheme, however, in conic. quence of the vigilance and activity of Govern ment, was defeated. Efforts were employed to detach Ireland from the interefts of the Govern s of this country; hopes were held out to its oef efted inhabitants, of the probable fuccefs of ign invafion, as well as the profped of a ge neral infurrreftion in all the principal towns of this kingdom. Even the fidelity of our Tailors is attempted to be withdrawn, and the various addreffes iffued for this purpof are particularly fpccified. The accredited emiffitries of the kith Committee it appears had been fent to France, with affurances of their defiring affiftance to throw off the yoke that binds them: In particular, one individual in this capacity is Cod a to have palled over to the Continent, to have opened a direft communication with the enemy, accrediting himfclf as being &mated by a greal body of the landed intereft of the country, whom he reprcfents as being, like himfclf, fo diffatisfied with the union, that they would engage in any effort in concert with France, to procure the means of eliablifhing under its guarantee Come nese form of reprefentatire is conneeted with a fyilem of terror, accompanied with pradices of the malt favage ci Itchy. The oftenfible objects to which thefe outrages are di reded, "are now more danmonly dire led in an oltentible manner to the lowering of rents, the abo lition of tithes, the regulation of wages, and the price of pi ovifions, rather than thole of an alteration in the form andConilitution of Government." The counteradion of this fyftem, it is alledged, "could not be effeded by the regular cotirfe oilaw, afford ing only periodical occafions of trial, yielding no effedual means for proteding the witneffes from fedudion, or the jurymen from outrage, and could only be fecured by the apprehenfion of prompt and efficacious punifhment for the guilty, and the fenfe of fecurity and protection for the innocent." The report afterwards goes on to the detail of the other means employed by the difaffeded for the accomplifhment of their purpofes ; their fcenes of cruelty and outrage are delineated in terms calcu lated to imprefs on the mind the neceffity of a ju rifdidion more vigorous than that of the ordinary procedure of law—a jurifdidion calculated to meet the circumltances of the moment with an adequate force, fpirit and energy. The fentences regularly pronounced on the loyal inhabitants are fluted, and a number of cafes are adverted to where thefe fentences were literally executed and enforced. Thele feveral ftatements the Committee fubflan tiate by an Appendix, fubjoined to the Report, in which each of the fads is more or lefs circumftan tially explained. We have thus laid before our Readers an im partial abftrad of the fubtlance of this Report. The following we fubjoin as a fpecimen of the Toafts, Paid to be encouraged by United Irifhmen. It is needlefs for us to add that they are not only of the molt abfurd but of the molt peftilent na ture. A fpeedy amalgamation of party with the mars of the people- Religion without Pricits, and Government without Kings. A Dilh of Fiat for the Englilh, and may they always renal an Irllh Pike. Vinegar Hill; and may the foes of the people meet with four faucc. The Heroes of Wexford. The Rights of the People; and may the People never want fpirit to maintain their Rights. Honelt Men at the head of affairs, and thofe at the head of affairs without beads at all. No Lord Hair Landlord, but the Lord God our only Lord. May the Ufiirpation of the great Landholders be fpeedily de ftrnyed, and every man recover his original Rare of Land ! May the Age of Superftition be anaihilated, and the Age of Reafon be ettablfthed in its Read ! LONDON. THURSDAY, MAY ix. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: Confoh 601—.Confols for ace. 64.—Omnium 81 9. Red. 591-4 per Cent. 784—New 5 per Cent. 94. TilCi OF rrocrs YESTIRDAY : 3 per Cent. Red. S 9 I Long Ann. tgi 18 3 per C. Cent*. 6of Short Ann. 5 a-161 . 4 per Cent. 78/91 I Imp. 3 per Cent. siti 5 per C. Navy i i Imp. Ann. tI , 5- r6 5 per C. Loy. 9qt 9311 Oremium 9 st The difpatches received yefterday from Lord ELGIN (late, that in confequence of Lord K 2 t r H's having informed the GRAND VIZIER of the viefory gained by the Englifh, his Excellency began his march towards Cairo on the 29th of March, with fifteen thoufand men. This morning arrived the Hatnburgh mail due yefterday. We fubjoin the contents : VIENNA, MAY 6.—lt is this day reported, that another courier had arrived at Lord Mittro's, from Conftantinople, with intelligence that the French army in Egypt had capitulated, and would be convoyed to Frejus, in France, without arms, on board Englith (hips. In how far this report is true, is not known, as our private letters from Conftantinople take no notice of that event. The new Imperial tide will loon make its ap pearance, in which will be inferted the tide of Duke of Venice. _ _ STOCKHOLM, MAT S. —To the note which the Ruffian Minifter of State, Count VON De RPA Lew, had fent after Admiral PARKER, fince he had failed for the Baltic, in the name of the EMPEROR of Russia, through the medium of the Ruffian cm baffy at Copenhagen, the Paid Admiral has re turned the following anfw•er to Baron LISAKE WITSCH, the Ruffian Ambaffiador at the Danifh Court " Oa beard otbl. Majeity's Pup LONDON, " at Sea, April as, Oki. " SIR—I have this moment had the honour of receiving your Excellency's letter of the soth in- Rant, together with a copy of the letter from his Excellency Count Vow DER PA EN. I can affure your Excellency that both hive given me particu lar pleafure, by the hope that Ruffia and Great Britain will again be united, as formerly, by the tics of frienclfhip and harmony. I (Hall imme diately' return to Kioge Bay, there to await the orders from my Court. In confequence of a fimi lar order from the Emperor, I (ball likewife give orders for defifting from every kind of hoftilities againft the fubje&s of Ruffia, Denmark, and Swe den. I have the honour, &c. (Signed) H. PARKER, Adink4l in Chief of his Britannic Majcity's " Fleet in the Baltic." This anfwer was communicated by the Ruffian Mini iter, Baron I.:Ulm rsc , through Couriers, to our King, as well as to the Ruffian Ambafra. dor here. Though hoffilities are fufpended by the Engliffi fleet, yet the meafures of precaution, for the defence of our ports and coafts, are continued without any change, and our navigation to foreign parts is Qill inconfiderabk. The Kam is not yet :-• t. - ••••• - M • YV •C H T ET STLIt, %WOO has !Agile& the Chief Command at Carlfcrona, arrived here to day, to be prefent at the legal inveftigation of the caufes which retarded the failing of the fleet from Carlfcrona. Citizen NET H ERWOOD, Chief of Bri gade, and Adjutant of the Fit-ft Conful, fct out to-day on his return for France. . Corsaunozw, May IL—The fquadron under Admiral TOTTY, confifting of five flips of thelinc, one frigate, and eleven cutter brigs, intended to re inforce the Englifh fleet, arrived in our roads the day before yellerday. It is faid that he will go up the Baltic to join Lord Necsom's fleet, lying at anchor between Moen and Falfter. Our (hips of war Seieren, Najaden, Harfruen, and Freya, that failed for Malaga on the z9th of March, are fafely arrived in the port of Hoyvarde, four leagues from Stavanger, having met only two , Engin frigates on their voyage. According to the laft accounts from the Danifh Well-India Iflands, the crop of fugar has been more plentiful this feafon than it has been for many years ; but there is a great want of fhips for carrying that produce to Europe. Irefterday the KING, accompanied by the Duke of KENT, and Prince ADOLPHUS, attended by General GWYNNE, and Major DISBROW, rode out on horfeback. Her MAJESTY and the PRINCESSES rode out in a phaeton. A great number of fpec tators were aiTembled to fee the ROYAL FAMILY. A cutter was difpatched on Tuefday to Egypt,. with the Vote of Thanks of the two Houses o f Parliament to our gallant army, and of courfe with difpatches, announcing the fuccours which are forthwith to he fent out. The fecond Battalion of the Colaream Regi. ment of Guards, was yefterday reviewed by His Royal Highnefs the DUKII of You, in Hyde- Pail:, accompanied by the General Officers of the Regiment. Six regiments of cavalry, five of infantry, and 9 • corps of artillery, comprife the reinforcements now under orders for Egypt. The tranfports will be convoyed by a fquadron of three (hips of the line, with frigates, under the command of Rear Admi ral Pot.E, and as many troops : s o be put on board the men of war as they can couvehiently take. A large quantity of Military Rores, &c. is alfo pre paring for Egypt. The =Land 24th Regiments are amongft thofe ordered for immediate em barkation. One hundred of the molt experienced Military Surgeons, and principal mates, are ordered to em bark with the new reinforcement for Egypt. The Hon. Colonel Lusitty is returned from Egypt in the FLORA, in confequence of ill health. The widow of Sir RALPH ABERCROMBY, betides the dignity of a Peerefs, is to receive from the country a penfion of aocol. per annum. The Standard of BoNAPARTE'S own Invincible Brigade, brought home in the Fiore, is fo much fhattered and defaced by fervice, as well as by blood, that,the infcriptions recording its victories can with difficulty be traced.—Le Pease du la Piave, Le Pottage du Tagliamenio, Le Pease du P Ifiutzo, and La Prfli de Grass, are tolerably dif dna, but fcarcely any veftige remains of the affair of the Pone eG lAA - The Cornifh Miners, commanded by Colonel LsMON, embarked on inday at Portfmouth, for the He of Wight ; and the Firft Snmerfet Regi ment of Militia difembarked from Weymouth. Lord NRLSON has prerented to the Academy of Sea Cadets, at Copenhagen, two medals, having A head of himfelf on one fide, and on the reverie a reprelentation of the battles of Aboukir and St. Vincent. This prefent was accompanied by a' , very polite letter, with which the Academy were peculiarly gratified. General Jonanam, in an addrefs to the PrefeCts and Sub-Prefers of the Departments of Piedmont,, gives them a direa affurance that their country is not definitively united to Franee, but that they are to ea merely in the capacity of a Provifional Adminiftration. A fingular circumftante occurred the other evening at the French theatre in Hamburgh.— While the PRINtt of HMS was attending the performance, a Placard was Huck upon his car riage to the following effea : " No begging is al lowed within the territory of Hamburgh, under pain of being fent to the houfe of corration." The next day a reward of a hundred dollars was offered for the difcovery of the offender. Yefterday the magnificent Seat of Woodhall, in Hertfordibire, formerly belonging to Sir THOMAS RoMICILD, and lately to Mr. IanFIELD, was fold by Mr. Dyes for the fum of ay,sool. The lot in cluded 4.09 acres of land inclofed within a park paling, but fubjea to a valuation of the ,timber on the eftate and the fixtures of the houfe, which may make the whole purchafe near 40,0001. It is fup pofed to be bought in for Lord CARRINGTON. Nothing, lays a Correfpondent, can be a ftronger indication of the truth of any opinion, than its being fupported by men of genius and ability who apiear to be unconneaed, and even unacquainted with each other; efpecially; if, in fuch opinion, they differ from men in high office, with whom they ge nerally agree.—" It was the boaft," lays the I.tte Minifter's very ingenious friend, the ukivowa au thor of The Purfuits of Literature, p. 472.—" It was the boaft of the Roman Emperor Auourr vs, that he found the city of brick and left it of mar ble. I truft we fhall not reverfe this memorable faying. I truft that the Public Credit of the Na tion will revive; and that in this refpea, when fpeaking . of Mr. PITT, it will not be engravcn with an iron pen, and in the Rock of England for ever ("Aurecra invcnit ; charm:earn reliquit.") He found it of gold; he left it of paper." What has Mr. Bost) done, in his celebrated pamphlet, but unfolded and enforced this Patriotic fentiment, which is fo happily condenfed in his well•chofen motto, Raitalt iN awma revers Atriresah—May the ancient Golden Age return 1 MAILS THIS IMY.—wind S.S. E. DU* Hamburgh, May is, et Dutdia, • Waterford, May t 6, ry, • Donnagbadcc, May 17, YARMOUTH, MAY 2 - Arrived the DIANA packet from Culthxren, with the Hamburgh Mail of the isth Sailed the EARL of LFICESTER, Captain 'Nome. sow, for the Continent. with the' Mails of the tsth inflant. Sailed the Cosoneo cutter, on a cruice. Arrived the LADY Axx armed veffel, with a French cutter privateer, mounting 5¢ guns, and 7o men, taken off the Heads ; fhe had been out five days, but had made no captures: the crew of the privateer was landed at Scarborough. FALMOUTH, MAY z& Arrived the American fhip Hannah, Captain HoPKINS, from Bath, in America, laden with mans, fpars, oak timber, (laves, and rice, after a paffage of 36 days, called here for orders.—Sailed the American fhip Argo, Capt. HOWLAND, with brandy and wine for Portfmouth.—The Ham burgh fliip Adventura, Capt.. RorERS, for Mocha, in Arabia.—The Pelican privateer, of this port, Capt. GAGE, on a crui ze.The GMILLMIZ frigate, to join the Channel Fleet iiuf the Aiiierican fchooner Friend(hip, for Liverpool.—Sailed the EARL GOWER packet, Capt. DEAR e, with the Mail Of the 12th inllant, for Lifbon.—Arrived alto, this morning, in want of water, the American fhip Fair American, Capt. Bovrox, from London, bound to New York.—Wind N. PLYMOUTH, MAY scr. Came in the PLYMOUTH lugger :of 18 guns, Lieutenant EtttorT, from a cruize, and brodght in the American 111ip, Hannibal, from Tenerife, laden with barilla for Hamburgh, which the de- tamed on fufpicion. Sailed the CHAPMAN armed (hip of 24 guns, Captain BROWN, to the Eaftward, with a fleet under convoy, amongil which are the Ariadne, London, Nancy, Indefatigable, and the Marquis of Stafford, which lately arrived here from the Straights under convoy of the PHOE ES frigate. Came in the MAGNIFICENT of 74 guns, Capt. BOWATER, from the Channel Fleet : alfo the Sarah, of Nzwcaale, Groacs THOMPSON Mailer, from London, for Jamaica. Sailed the GLORY of 98 guns, Capt. DRAYYR, on a cruize. PORTSMOUTH, MAY so. Arrived the HYDRA, of 38 guns, Capt. PAGET, and the Stutz, of 16 guns, Captain CARTHEVI, with a large convoy, amongil which are feveral tranfports, ordered td carry troops to Egypt.— Arrived the Acoalssos, gun-boat, SER►ENT, and TERPSICHORE hoops of war, from a cruize. The latter is appointed to convoy the Weil India fleet. The 26th Regiment of Foot, lying at this place, has received orders to embark for Egypt. Four teen new Telegraphs are immediately to be erected on the Eallern Coati, to communicate any attempt of invafion, more than ever ezpeded. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. DEAL, MAY 2o.—Wind E. N. E.—Sallied the' Escorr gun veffel to the Weftward. GRAVESEND, MAY 19.-Tafred by, the Wafking . - ton, , from Lillson ; Freafte, ftcm Dantzic ; Harry, DRYSDALE • and Helen, CAlt r tarsi, from Hamburgh ; Andalulia, Cox, from • Oporto ; Telegraph, ffWAIH, from South Seas; Ruffen, from Baltimore; Modelle, —, from Charlellon ; and Ajar, THOMAS, from Vir ginia.—Sailed the Drie Gebroders, from Embden. MAY 30.—Pand by the Juno,Crofs, and Louifa, --, from Hamburgh ; Polly, Davis, from Africa, and Manhalton, —, from New York. Sailed the Francifcns. Timms, for Dieppe. ARRIVED. At Dover.-421loosaDouitaztlt. lastmei; Ann, John. (on, from Baltimore ; Cheap runToc" . Tencriffe ; Eliza, —from Charlellon ; Emery, from New York ; Neptune, Cock, from PlaikdelpHa;, er, from St. Michael's: u 2 , 3 A__ C. At Liverpool-4trab, Mafon, from Nair Valk; Camilla. Kingfton, from Philadelphia; Lady Kinnaird,—, born LW bon ; Manchefter, Atkins, from Bahamas; Edward, flail, and Diana, Chace , from New York; Hazard .- -... . from Chide. (t o o ; Air ea, —, from Wife:act ; Swede. -- • Sally; M•Niel ; and Juno, Cien, from Virginia; Succefa, Davldfon, front Chatilion ; 'Fravcilcr, York ,fmni Maffarhufers ; Trope, Clark, from Savannah; Governor Strong, Steinfon, from Wif caller; and 'alma, —, from Stettin. At Brillni—.Hope, from Virginia; and Betfq, Young, from Philadelphia. At Clyde—Atlartha, M'Klnley, from Philadelphia; Want ington, Holden, from Savannah; and Neptune, Coak, from Jamaica. Off Falmooth-.Argo, Howland, from Barcelona; General Walhington, Keefe, from Bolton; Sufan and Polly, Wood bury; and Wolfram, —, from Charkkon. At Philadelphia—Prudence Berry • Thomas, Wollaltun ; and Kenlington, Smith, from liverpoOl. At New York... Liverpool Packet, Beam; Eliza, agad General Mercer, ---, from LiverpooL At St. Kitts--PhMis, Smith, from London. At Lynn—Baecbus, Smith ; and Ceres Smith, from Oporto. At Newry—John, Aylct ; and Ann,Thomas, from London. At Dublin—l.lberty, Hudfon, front Rhode Hand ; C lir lotte, Hughes. from Jamaica; Liberty, Ernes, and William. --, from Bolton ; Bedford, Waterman; Peal. C icy; and Delight, Weldon, from New York; Daphne, Joey. Inten Loa don; end Hope, —. from Oporto At New Carolina—Polly, ---, fro L i v erpool. In the Dovrna--Betfey, Cot berty, from Leon& At Cork--Ajrut. Thomas. from Virginia; Alhy, W.vid„ from New York; Italica, —, and Uncle Toby, Batty; trona Baltimore; and Ottavio, Gots, from Virginia. At H difita..-Carkort, Bionozis kcal Liverretti Ilkjines Uoridtuan, from lanais& * qi• I /