Star. — London, England, 1817-06-13 00:00:00

R POEN CS CANAL. NOTICE k hereby giVeh. That on SjOVTOedd. jrOVNEtt Al. AiSEMBLY of t.e CON' I'ANY 4 P1(0. ealE I 0145 of the ItEGEN I'S CANAL, will be hcid at the Fres-sustsotve I avatt, iss the Parissh of Saint t:iles nt tl.e in tbe County of Middlesex. on Wiougrair,she itstday ot July awn, at Oat o'Cluck rsecistly. EUWARIIIS sad LYON, Clrrlc, Itlaaatsbary-squarp, June I 1111 7. • . . ......... WL3rERN ti.k It V, et lattl.k.s., fREEI. WE; rvt:Ni - Me Grace the Duke of BLPTP e.I .'eI.P.IIGH nod QUEENSBERRY, K.tlert. - (IN SUNDAY MORNING NEXT. the 15th of IL, lane Inen.nt s the ANNIVER%ARY SERMON, fee the BENEFIT nt thitcHAßrrY, will IN- preached in ST. M AR GARAT's CI 1L ROL WES I MIN +I ER, 11 , the Rev. WIL LIAM GaiwKi. MA. Ctirale to St. MArgeict's, W.-4t minute; _ Itttow tierrce will b•-gita at Floret' et.lisck precisely. The ANNIVERS.I:tY I)INNER the Gourmets and Frirues ei this linicurimi will hr a TUF..-I)AY ars , . env 17th June inotant, at the Crown MO A uchot I &Tern, in tits Susing. S I EWA It 1).3. John Ahinonn s Lbs. hir. Appleby, Mr. Ascii, Mr. Cowderoy, Mr. Gooier, Mr. Hoot C .Iret oo ;her Dinner. the bite/Ards, at the Dibpeo-ary, WM. LINI Lipi ei Mr, l'aii,trr, Itohinotron, Al t. ..carliell, Air. J. St. -t•, Mr. 1 hatch. r, Mr. Wat son. ricketA I each—to be had tat at the tavern, anti of I DEMAIsf, Secretary, Croattl-%t reel, M'e,rmin4ter. Fifa, 4 MEN! Rr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDi, JUNE it Counsel were beard at considerable length on the Appeal Cause " Wt.ite v. Billant)no." To proceed 4;4111 to•niorrow, Pending thrjud•cial busin.•us in the !ore,lot,n The bad of LIVERPOOL, by command of !di Rol al High ness the Prince Regent, presenie I and laid upon the TJUIt. A green hag, stated, c..ittaihing, as supnmed, iteormation to he common cited to their Lordships' Secret Committee, and which wa• accost dingly referred. lovorce SO was taken into farther consideration, tend •-n'se additional evidence receiv.d. barther investizsition posed. REPOR I OF THL SLCKET COMMIT The Lad or HA RROWBY, AS Lrtrd President, presemed the Report of their Lordships' Secret Cum appointed to take into consider ltion the utli ci.l information coti,municatrd to the House, by the command of his Royal 1-IThiiess the Prince Re . L;ent. The Report was read at the Table, and was to toe fnliowinst effect ; " The I.orL3' Cunimittees had proceeded to exa mine rind take into their immediate consideration the papers and documents referred to them for that pur pier by the House. f hat the information so refer red, a r pi-ared to contain many proofs 1:t the exist. i ence of widely extended system of combination, having fur its real object the overthrow of the esta blished laws, constitution, and government of the realm, and to have already in its course disturbed and eudan red the pudic tranquillity. That the Odor :nation so conirnunicated to them, appeared to have horn co.rectea horn many and various sources ; and a non); ors, irons the tenour or the con •spondence trd commun'ca 111.• s of persons concerned in these unlawful and danger i.is (within tions, and more or less interested iii those criminal o • itir , !crefeiird to by the Lords' Committees, and'commu 'cued to divers Magistrates, or to the Secretary of State. , After carefully examining the whole information be. fare them, the Lords' Committees have, to the best of their judgment, from all the circumstances, formed a Report, ,shich they trusted Would be found a cor. rest at o nement of the result s That. such a spirit of combination, and for the objects stated by the Lords' Committees, has actu. ally Manifested itself in many parts of the country, especially in the North of England, and also in Scot land.. That notwithstanding this alarming and es tensive spirit and system of combination. yet they Weft persuaded that even in those very places, where such a spirit so prevailed, there were numerous loyal, good, aridwell-affected individuals, and among those who suffered most from the unavoidable misfottunes resulting from die distresses Of the times. That a numerous portion of those Who were engaged in these traitorous combinations, were not of that description who suffered from such causes.' These persuasions were strenigthened in their Lordship? minds by those -considerations which were adverted to in their first Report. That_the spirit which those persons endea vented generally to excite was that of disrespect and hostility to the established Government and Constitu- Eon of ..he Reain-, and an indifference to and disre spect for all law and religion—considerations, the ne- 1 cessary results al which must eventually prove no lass is jurious to the real interests of those whom they seek to delude, than to those ot the unhappy and criminal . agitators themselves. Among the principal and most eti.tensive scenes of these practices and combinations were the town of Manchester and other great towns is that quarter. 'Chat they assembled repeatedly in those places in numbers sufficiently to menace and endanger the public - tranquillity. That particularly on the Sd of March several thousands of persons so d:sposed had collected together, .and took steps to se cure the assemblage of another more numerous and formidable meeting on the lOth of the same month and at this subsequent mooting it was proposed they Mould proceed to London under the pretence of intl. Coning his Royal .Hishness the Prince Regent. On many of these occasions, their deliberations, so far as they respected such subjects, were not upon the frequent pretexts of Parliamentary Reform, but avowedly for the establishment of a Republican form o! Government. Meetings of the same description were also held at or near some of the large townk in Yorkshire, and at these they were taught by the con spirators to believe that 100,000 men were on their patch from Scotland to join them. Arrangements Pad been made at some of these meetings for the pro jected march to London, and blankets and provisions were furnished, and other preparations were mad.: for the purpose, and intimations were given to those who had not been so furnished, at that time, to provide themselves with the means necessary foe undertaking the'March. Bet this proceeding did..not appear to have been fully acted upon. That upon the 10th, or from the loth to the 12th of March; elarge number of these deluded persons actually snitched off towards. Loudon, and at the same time, aoother part of the ILA) , proceeded towards Scotlind4 but the zeal and activity of the Magistrates prevented tae commission, at the time, of any seriously extrOsive outrages, and ft ustrated the execution of the moke immediate design. • That this check did not appear ire discourage those, ortho, though their measures were interrupted, still ci.tatiuued to coiled lesser gicetingb, paniculaly 1 the neighbourhood of the great manufactur i ng towns ' in Deroyshire and Yorkshire. Reports were made at ' such meetings as to the quantities of fire-arms. pikes, :yid other weapons whir4l had been prov dad ; these rerirts were made by the leading conspirators in the several towns. At these assemblies, the usual pre , text of Parliamentary Reform and petitioning, appear I to have been abandoned, and that nothing short of Revolution would satisty the parties. That in va rious punlie meetings the question of taking off those persona who were most obnoxious to the conspira tors, was openly stated and discusssd, and the most sedAnus endeavours resolved on to corrupt and se ' duce to their purposes, individuals who were out of employment. On the SOth of the same month, a general insurrection was intended to have been at tempted by the assassination of the Magistrates, and other persons in authority ; the destruction of the sol diery, by firing the barracks; and that specific sig ails for the commencement of these proceedings were to be the firing of particular buildings. ,' At this period a Proclamation was issued gene rally to the King's subjects, with reference to these alarming and destructive projects ; and the atrocious conspiracy was detected and frustrated by the vigi lance and activity of the Magistrates, supported by the exertions of divers loyal and well-affected sub jects of his Majesty, and by the timely apprehension of s'inie of the ringleaders of the conspiracy. ts During part of the month of April many meet. inge were held, more or less numerous, and also of Select Societies established for the common object, were held at difierent public houses. Among most of these a correspuudence appeared to have I been established, :Ind select meetings of delegates hum vatious plac , s were also held. Towards the end of A pill, and during the month of May, this correspundence has been more active. On the lith of May a meeting was held in a town in the West.' Riding of Voiksliite, which was attended by dele gates Iron) other principal towns io that district, and twin Leicester, liirmiligliam, add Nottingham. At this meeting repotts e tie made by the delegates of the numbers which could be collected Irons the different dis.ricts-..they were sated to he very large; Igut the Committee states itself to be aware t.I the exaggeration probable in such a matter. About this 1 : time it 0 as proposed that there should he another Igeneral niettiig, 1 ,, t as early a day as pos.ible after the discussion . f the tiwstion of Retcrm in the House I of Commons. flie insurgents were first to mai ch to Nottingham, where du y were expected t... be j.)int'cl by other b .dies ; and on their way to London by still more, all armed eithir betctre, or to be armed by I the robbery i , f private houses pr of different barracks and depots, wi.ich were to be attack.A. At several subsequent meetings it was reported that the increase of members was so great, that it was said at one of them, that it Was necessary to extend their divi sions daily. and enlarge their committee. Sim-' lar information from many quarters whence the d:- legates were deputed, confirms the expectation of a' general rising about the time that has been men tioned ; and states, that a postponement took place to the 9th or 10th of Jane, for various reasons. 13y the latest intelligence from these quarters it appears, that these tesigus were frustrated by the same causes that formerly come :, namely—the vigilance of Go vernment, the activity and intelligence of the Magis trates, and the assistance lent them in the exercise of their functions by the r. gular troops and yeomanry acting under their direction, the efficient arrange ments c the officers intrusted with the service, the knowledge obtained of the plans of the disaffected, together with the arrest and imprisonment of the leading agitators; and that by these causes a still farther postponement of their atrocious plea, would be occasioned. Subsequent intelligence leaves nu doubt that the plan, in its fell extent, has been frus trated ; but the correctness of former information has been confirmed by the late appearance of bodies of armed men at the petiodpreviously fixed, and par ticolarly in one Of the districts which had been de scribed as determined to rise, without waiting for a general co-operating. The Committee think it im portant to state, that many of tl:e most active Ma gistrates and persons whose civil and military situ*. lions enabled them, upon the most extensive infor mation, to form the most accurate opiiiioo, concur , in attributing the disappointment of the attempts ' ~ already made, and of the hopes of continued wan. quillity, to the exercise of the new powers which Par liameat intrusted to the ezecuiive Government, and to the inluence produced by the knowledge that these powers would be called into action as soon as neces sity should justify their employment. They concur likewise in a representation of the danger with which the expiry of these powers, at the present moment, would threaten the country—and the Committee feel, that they should ill discharge the high trust reposed in theist if they did not declare their assent to this opinion. They, therefore, with the fullest confidence in the loyalty and good dispositions, not only of those classes. of the community and those portions of the kingdom which have generally hitherto remained free from dis affection, but of the greatest part of those very dis-! tsicts which are the chief scenes of discontent and o( threatened disturbance, einnot - refraftifrontodeelarnsg • it as the result of all the information which they have collected, that the time is not yet arrived when the maintenance of public tranquillity, and the protec tion of the lives and property of his Majesty's sub-' jects, can be allowed to depend upon the ordinary . powers of the law." I The Report was, on the motion of the Earl of Lwaarooo, ordered to be printed. The Earl of LIVERPOOL, stated, that as the prints of the Report were likely to be on the tablets,- morrow, a Noble Friend of tis would then present a Bill for the renewal or continuation of the Act for i authorising his Majesty to secure and detain persons, whom he shall suspect of conspiring against his per son and Government, for a time longer ; and in case such Bill should be brought in, its second reading would be moved on Monday next. Lord HOLLAND presented a Petition from the County of *As, against a renewal of the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act : Earl GREY presented one from a Gentleman of the name of O'Hanloo, late a Magistrate of the County of Doan, in Ireland, complaining of his being removed from the Coramiation of the Peace in that county, without sulkiest cause or reason.• The Petition 1 being read at length, contained a circumstantial de tail of his ease, and an allegation, that be was sold i that his being favourable to Catholic 'Emancipation I Was a cause of his rem.val ; that -be was protu;sett, but without effect, to be restored. by one of the high est Au horities in Ireland and finally, • that he now only hoped. from their Lordships' protection and pstice, t h at relief to which he considered himself to be entitled.—These Petitions were seven:Ey laid upon the table. The Officers' Compensation Bill was bronvill up from the Commohs by Mr. GILLIKIIT. The Mid ny, and the Last India and Mediterranean Trade, at.d a few Bills of tnittor itnpottance, were brought tip by Mr. B:tOC;DEN and others, and severally read F7b: time; and these Bills on the table being respee:ively forwarded, their Lordships adjourned till to morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The West India Free Ports Bill was read a world time, and ordered to be committed to•mo-row. Lori ARCHIBALD HAMILTON, with the mien-reure. of the Chancellor of do: 21clirTicr, oloamed Uri•ir Bill, to al:er and amend so ninth ,it the .13.1 oi Georre tin. I bird, as rela , ed to the laymen[ t•f any fax in Scola :41 on Houses, having no more than tour windows, and milt; a lent nu: ex ceeding Es annually. Mr. H. ADDING TON obtained leave ter bring in a lila similar to that which be introddced last year. to amend the Militia Laws. Mr. W. DUNDAS obtained leave to b:ing In a 1311 to autho rise the Court of Di:emit. of the East India Compstiy. In cena•u cases, to make estraortlinary Iti!OW:1,41CO. to the ow turn of cern n ships in the service of t'•e bast Isola Company. Ihe Wwch and Ward bill was read a third .in and passed. The Salt Exportation Lill was read a second caw, and ordered to be committed to morrow The 1 roman y l'ava:ry Corps Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed tn.:ll*mm. Mr IL. ADDING I'ON presented a Return of the Parochial Clergy of -:cotlastd, and of the number ot Benefices iti Etyland in which there were no Clerical Beetle-mg.—Laid on the table. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER brought in a Bill for the better regiSlation of the Coul lidate , l Fund.—Resd a first time. and ordered fur a second reading to-morrow. Mr. GRE.NFELL gave notice, that on roods)? net he would move for some accounts respecting the tramtamsous of the Balk of England with Government. MAItSHALSEA. Mr. BENNETT moved for a Return of the num. ber of Persons confined in the Mitnia.d.ea last year. He took this opportunity of asking the Wit Hon. Secretary, whether there was any irobability of the persons who had undertaken to examine into the state of that prison, making a Report on the sobiret ? Ile had put the same qwestion 14st year, and had been answered, that the Report would soon appear, but that hope had been disappointed. H. ADDINGTON said, that if the business rested teith the office to which he belonged, he shchld be able to give a decisive answet ; hut as it depended on the Commissioners for that p4rticular purpose, it was impossible for him at present to give the infor mation required. The Motion was then agreed to, as well as another .from the same Member, for an Account of the num ber of Persons discharged horn the same Prison dur. ing the same period. TIIINITY Housr. Mr. BIRCH complained of the manner in which the funds of this charity were disposed of, contrary to the intentions of its founders. The pensions were most untquall) and partially distributed. Liverpool and other towns had not the mainber to which they were entitled. • He concluded by moving for a return of the mode of election adopted by the Elder Bre thren of the Trinity House on admitting petitioners to the benefit of the funds of the Corporation appli 'cable to charitable purposes. Mr. ROSE seconded the motion. The Corpora tion of the Trinity were as anxious to give, as the Honourable Gentleman to ask, for inicrniatioh. He cootended that the pensions were distributed with fairness and inspaitiality. If there were any fault it was in their not being always applied for. No sooner bad Liverpool asked for some, than fifty at a ttrokc had been given that town. Mr. CUItWEN thought that the pensions should be apportioned according to the contribution ; and complained that in Cumberland no appointment was made but through the influence of a Noble Peer. He complained also of the terms of a letter written by the Elder Brethrea of the Trinity, in answer to some questions that had been made. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT remarked, that the comity of the Right Hon. Gentleman's manner (Mr. Rose's), contrasted with the asperity of the letter alluded to. pot him in mind of Drydeta's character of Lord Dorset, that he was the best natured man with the worst natured muse : he hoped the Rouse would see that the funds were impartially d:stributed. Mr. MONEY defended the conduct of the elder brethren of the Trinity. They frsd acted on all oc ' casions in the most disinterested and meritoribus man. ner : particularly in removing the buoys, under the peril of being hanged, at the mutiny of the Nore. If I the Board acted wrong, a petition against them lay to the Privy Council. Mr. GRENFELL believed that the funds of the Society had been distributed with great impartiality. though he agreed that the distribution should be pro portioned at various places to the contribution. Mr. BIRCH shortly replied, and the motion was agreed to. • LORD comma TER. On the second reading of Lord Colchester's An nuity Bill, Sir M. W, RIDLEY observed, that by the Bill L'ord Colchester's annuity was only to be diminished one half in the event of his accepting an office equal, or -greater in value than the annuity. He thought this an unnecessary deviation from the usual practice. Mr. PONSONBY said, that Lord Colchester's pension was for his own life £4OOO a year.—Sup pose him made Secretary of State, for which he would receive £6OOO a year—Was he to give up mow a year of that, or only tr2ooo a year from the annuity ? There was a singular exception in this case to the general rule. Hr ought to give up what was equal to the sal try of the office he accepted. Mr. LUSHINGTON said, halt the pension was to abate on the acceptance of office. Mr. PONSONBY ebutd see no reason for depart ing from the usual rule. If Lord Colchester took an Jake with a superior salary, he ought to receive the whole of such salary, and give up all the pension pro trot. After some farther conversation between Mr. D. GILBERT, Mr. PONSONBY, end Mr. LUSHINOTON, the Bill was read a second time, and committed. 19CELLAN l FS. On the motion of Mr. TIERNEY, the Order for the Call of the House on Moacloy was dischsrged, and fixed for Tuesday nest. Tl.e Report of the Committee of Seprly was taken it'Etc fL:rther consideration , iF Retaliation. agreed re, rd Bits ordered Accordinglr. The rkh,c ci Trade 241 was reid a serrnd time. T ,, bv corturtut • .1 I. -min-row. Mr. LUS ill NGION brour . .,ht up the P Tort c f mitten the Co mit t n the Sugar .unty Act s . Sir F. BURDET 1' moved that a Peri•ino frre l certain pei pay. living in the line nt t!.e rew sre.. f .. • should ho referred to the Com ortzee co the n. w start. Mr. CI{OKER hoped that the Fielootit,ihi e i t ,. met would Lot press the motion in the abrence of the Commissitmer of Wol.da. • Sir F. BURDETT, alter a few words ffem M•. BANKGS and Mr. ettoctmt, withdrew his m : :;,,,,. 'lle Irish Sheriffs Bin was read a third tie-, and ragged. Mr. HAMMER:II.BI moved for an Accwilt ..i the Sum, tin! to Cleat li.itain frog- i Als-ria, on imeount of th e Lo u , 4 17 , 4 and MIT ; mod the Amount or bividsnds pa;sl thereon by this Citilityry. On the te,zottr of Mr. Clter Clt, the oictiso *as pos•rortd. roue of the Min:toms Immtg pres,nt. Mr. I.linitlNG lON rooted for litre to to.h.g hi a Pit' ~, • a it ow the Imptotet.on ett WOollril. troll* 111).144 to t :mit t•taii‘r, which was read a first tone, ill (Mkt' to it. Drill rtite.al. Adjourned rill to-morrow (this day). INENING STAR_ 1.0 N DON. t FRIDAY. JUNE IS. Isl 7. PRICE OF WI OCK s THIS DAY AT •rw art.not Strewed 7ttil—Cotasols sistot.—Con.ols for Opg. 341 I per trot. 90t i—Navy, %hut—Bank Lang ALL.. -- India Bends lig sS pre.—Esr.k. Edls $.. I gb• Ir.. In the proceedings of the House of Peers, we have given the substance of the Report of the Committte of Secrecy on secret Conspiracies, which was Lot night presented to their Lordships. From this Re. pots, it appears that much discontent prevails in various quarters: indeed, this fact was Itisoam to the Public before, and also that among the turbulent there were disaffected people who w , .uld rejrice at any distinhance, which would give them an typos. tunny of robbing and plundering their neig::bo t a s . 'file principal point on which opini , :ns were divided, WAS, whether chi., dispositio n s to riot, and the (*salty with which the le.ijers found tullowere, was attribu table to the genert.l distress among :he labouring classes, arising ft urn low wages, want of emplo ) went, and the big!, p ice of bread? Or from any thing like a settled steki initiation among any large portion of the the constitution of the country! We were !:app :r to he ir, from the general tenor of the Report, tnat, notwithstanding the discontent and outrageous con,luct of some iudividteils is diCtent quarters, having for their object the actual subvers:on of the Constitution and Government, yet the Com mittee found is their duty to state that eves: in the disturbed disti icts the greater part of the people were loyally attached .5) the Government ; tier can u e doubt, from the whole Report, that the greater even of those who were actually engaged in t;;;-rrui wary proceedings, were deluded arid misled by a comparatively small nutnbet of wicked and desi4ring men. There proof of honest intention so on the face of this document, as, in our mind, 11 en. title the ReVorters to much credit ; for they admit that " The evidence upon wine!) they found their opinion, was in part derived from persons impli.iced in these transactions, and front cola lid par ticipated in them with the view cf mating eommuninniont to the sub j ect to the Magistrates or to the Secretary of &a:es' , Nor is this all—in some instances these very spies had been active in urging other irdivilualt to a:. , 1 of tai:. lessee, instead of merely watching their proceedings. To what extent the incitements of these men riay have been instrumental in pin !tieing the very frnt ments which constitute the ostensible acts of ris: mentioned in the Report, it is impossible that hum; n sagacity should be able to determine; but one thing is self-evident—Let only a sufficient number of such unprincipled people be let loose among the thooght less and ignorant, at a period of general distress, ar.3 at any time they may be ori!ed to acts sirnd sr t , .) those stated in the Reptrt. We retnember, upwards of twenty years ago, that a person of tl:e name cf WATT performed a similar part in Scotland. lie endeavoured to induce those who would listen to him to make pikes to arm themselves against the Gnverr. meat ; and it must yet be in the recollection of many that he was visited with exemplary vengeance, being executed for his offence. Is it too awe') to hope that on the present occasion a similar pr• cedure may be adopted against these officious inciter: cc rebellion ? But whatever share the excitements rf there nun may have had in producing or cliending a spirit of insubordination and disliyaity, it csnnot be thasbtrd that such a spirit rc:v eriqi, though cnly a nr4ng A small minority, even in the disaffected di,tricts, and means must be adopted to mainta;!. the public peace. These means, we doubt not, will have for basis a further suspension of the Hahn Corfu: Act; nor have we any doubt that the very circumstance et the exposure of the means by which some of the eviJeuce ha: been procured, will have a powerful influence in opening the eyes of the roiled rabble to the illy "f listening to those violent demagogues who would in future urge them to acts of riot and violence.—acs 'ot madness anal insanity. By the accounts from the North, it appeirs the rising, which, according to report. w es to have taken place on Cie lctli, has been entirely frustum , . .Forty-eight of these iniaiu.sted iteople have been made prisoners, twenty of whom have been sent to Nottingham, and the remaining twenty-eight the gaol of the county of Derby. In cootie 'nation the Lords' Report, it k to be iemaiked, that not t'' . e least disposition favourable to the pri s oners was maio •..-