Star. — London, England, 1817-06-14 00:00:00

.giii MI .., .11011111111 _ FT O rr pair OFF IC F', 18tA Jew, 1817. vr HE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS and commis- SIONERS elks ilf. AIESTY" I IVA V 1", do hen by:Pgr Notice, That the Contract foe supplying LINSEED ON., which has been advertised to be made on W EnNESDAY, the 18th instant, i , hereby DEFERRED until TIIURSDAY, the 19th instant,on whtc't last-mentioned day, at one o'Closh, Tenders will be re ea; ed accordingly. 1.18T•IN!)/A NOME, JIM 4, 11317. rid COURT or DIRECTORS of the UNITED -A- COMPANY I ! a/IC:WANTS of 81VGLAND, to for EAST ds Ivrrbyrrenltice, That the Quarterly General Court appointed to be Lehi at this House on the 18th instant, is made Special, fag the purpose of laying before the Proprietor: a Report from the Committee ap pointed to inspect the East India Company's By•Lates,prisposing the xdaluing, repealing, and altering, sundry B y . La w, of the Cmupany. ✓AMES COBB, Seated._ NeIST-12Valef ROME, tritile 13, 1817. 'LIE COURT of DIRECICRS of the UNITED - 11 .- COMPANY of MERCHANTS./ ENGLAND,troofiteg S. the EAST INDIES, A hereky give voice, That at the Quarterly General Court of the said Company, a ppoiLted to be held at this House on WLDNESDAY nest, the 18th iosiant, the Draft of a Bill intended to be brought into Par liatto io enable the Court of Directors to afford relief to ter (on Owners of Ships in the Compall'a Service, under the par t culir ereonistances of their ease, will be laid boorr the said Genet al Court. JAN AS COBB, Jecretari. PAVING AND REPAIRING CONTRAC T. ;s 11?teby given, That the TRUSTEES N fur PAVING the TOWN of PORTFEA, v.:11 tutet, at the fillip and Castle,on Tu tsnov, the tith day of June , 1141 7, at his u'Cituk in he Evening, to treat wish any PI.IIOII who may be willing to Contract for Repairing the Pavroirms of the s, vtral Streets, Courts, Roads, Lanes, Ways, ills". I . c Passages and Places therein, for Five Years, to tumultice the 44th clay of the same month, dete rminable the first tiro years of the said Terra on either parties giving to the: tiller nitre n.ontbs previous notice thereof. Those who choose to tender for the same, are requested to set their prices agatost the artirles, blank Lists of which may be had of the Surveyor to the 5.,i,1 Trustees, of whom the Conditions of the Contract may be known, snd to whom sealed Tenders may be delivered. *1 he Ltorrac tor to find all Materials, Cartage, Labour, and Gravel, to keep the several works Iu Repair fur five years after they are respec tively completed, and to give seed security for the due perfor mance of his Contract. WM. MARSHALL, Clerk to the said Trustees. CARKOLL. Stock•broker, cannot submit the mi•-$ • following SCHEME to the inspection of the Public with out expressing his most unqualified approbation of the uoprece derived advantages which it affords to every Purchaser. Ibis GRAND LOTTERY will commerce Drawing on the 9th of JULY. SCHEME. • 4 Prises of it 90,000 Consols ..... .e80,000 11 ... ...... «.••• 10,000 Money $ «,...... 2,CooConsob II 1.000 Money ... - 2,000 4 500 Dino 2,000 4 • 300 Ditto « ..... « 1,200 2 200 Ditto 1.300 lc . . ..... ..•«... 100 Ditto $0 ... 5O Ditto 1,000 100 20 Ditto 2,009 1,000 First drawn • 10 each Neat dn ' ants will each become a New) 4.900 i Ticket o same Number for the 19th July, 39,000 . . with the option of teteiving £lO instead. 1,010 iust•drawn Blacks, July 19th. to rteetve .£O5 nab, 6.060 11,064 Pr lies —10,400 Tickets. £199,490 Only 5,800 Numbers—Two 'rickets of nab Number. " ist-Drawn Prize • 410,000 More. Sd-Drawn Prize above £lOO to have £5OO More. tub Drawn Prize above .Catio to have £l,OOO more. 711. Drawn Prizaabove £lOO to have £20,000 wore. lit Prawn Prize 19th July to have £20.00 more. Tlekeu and Shares, at the following low Prices t Ticket • £lB.lBs. Nal( • £9 19 0 I Eighth •Alll s Quarter - 5 1 9 Sixteenth lel 0 Are 'belling by G. CARROLL, Stock-Broker (ektabliabed 1777), No. 7. Caution, and 26, Oxfur4-street, who Sold 7,735, the last Prised £30,000 ever drawn. „---. .NSPoltr UP .zia S.ECRAT TEE, APPOINT= TO TAMIL INTO CoNsIDERATION THE MA UL rAPINS *VALID UP IN A BAG. AND DELIVERED BY COMMAND OP los Rota, IficoNius THI rAINCA RauuNT. (OFFICIAL COPY.) By the Loans • COIII4ITTESS appointed to take into consideration the several Papers sealed up in a Bag, and delivered by command of his Royal Highness the Pamca Rzazgr, and to report to the House ; and to whom were referred several other Papers sealed ep in a Bag, also delivered by command of bis Royal Highness : ORDS REDTO aarowr. That the Committee have met, and proceeded in the examination of the papers referred to them. It is their painful duty to report, that these papers afford but too many proofs of the continued exiiteoce of Traitorous Conspiracy for the overthrow of our established Government and Constitution, and for the subversion of the existing order of Society. The attempts of the conspirators have, indeed, hitherto been frustrated by the active exertions of the Government, and particularly of the Magistrates in i different parts of the country, in execution both of the general laws provided for the maintenance of the public tranquillity, and of the special powers recently given by Parliament for that purpose ; but the in formation contained in the papers referred to the Committee leaves no doubt in their minds, that the same wicked and desperate designs are still actively pursued. The information from which they have drawn this painful conclusion appears to have been collected from want various sources often unconnec ted with sad unknown to each other; but it is uui• form in its general result, and it is corroborated by a striking correspondence in many minute particulars. This intelligence must be considered as resting, in many of its parts, upon the depositions and conimu socaCnios of persons who either are themselves more or less implicated in then criminal transactions, or W. 14) have apparently engaged in them, bat with the view of obtaining information, and imparting it to, tie Magistrates or to the Secretary of State. The testimony of persons of both these descripticns must always be in some degree questionable ; and your Committee have seta season to apprehend that the longtime and conduct of some of the latter may, in some instance:. have had the effect of encouraging those design which it was intended they should only b‘tyiisionsseats of detecting. After making,bow everop dm bes of their judgment, all due allowance s o p these cimemstaimes, the Committee are fully per sthideo that the fodowiag is a conect and not exagge rated. statement ot the tends of the information w h ic h has bear brought seder die* itow : Tee repoto'idete 11A1D, eselesively to the piaci. pal manufacturing districts in some of the Midland ' and Northern Counties of England ; and althodgh the disaffected in the country appear still to be look ing to the Metropolis with the hope of assistance and direction, it is to the parts of the country above re ferred to, that the more recent projects of insutree tion seem to have beets confined. The Committee think it their duty here to remark, that elthough in many of these districts particular causes of distress have no doubt operated to expose the minds of the labouring classes of the community to irritation and perversion, yetehey are persuaded that this distress must for the most part be conside red rather as the instrument than as the cause of dis. affection. In some of - the places where these pr.ic- tices have prevailed, they believe the want of employ.. ment to have been less felt than in many other parts I of the kingdom ; while in other places, where the pressure has been perhaps most grievous, it has cer tainly been sustained with a spirit of patience, loyalty, and good order, which cannot be too highly commended. And your Committee cannot retrain from expressing their opinion, that it is chiefly by the means pointed out in the Report of the former Corn-' miller, by the widely 'extended circulation of sedi tious and blasphemous publications, and by the effect of inflammatory discourses continually renewed, that this spirit has been principally exci:cd and diffused. By these the attachment to our established Govern ment and Constitution, and the respect for law, more lity, and religion, have gradually been weakened among those whose situations most exposed them to this destructive influence ; and it ii thus that their I minds have been prepared for the adoption of de signs and measures no less injurious to their own in terests and happiness than to those of every other class of his Majesty's subjects. Since the period of the former Report, Manches. ter and its neighbourhood have (as far as your Com mitter has seen) been the only places where meetings have been convened and assembled sufficiently nu merous to create immediate apprehensions for the public tranquillity. At a Meeting, which was con vened there on the 3d of March for the purpose of pe titioning against the Suspension of the Habeas Cor pus Act, and where several thousand persons appear to have been assembled, it was proposed and agreed to that auothet Meeting should be held on the fol lowing Monday, viz. the 10th of March, with the pro fessed intention that ten out of every twenty persons who should attend it should proceed to London with a petition to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent. The interval was employed in almost daily meet ings of the disaffected, which were numerously at. tended. The real intentions of the leaders were there developed to their followers in speeches of the most undisguised violence. One of them avowed that he was a republican and a leveller, and would never give up the cause till a Republican form of Govern ment was established. The people were told by others, that if their Peti tion was !ejected, they must force it—that the large towns in Yorkshire were adopting the same plan, and would meet them on the road, or at least march at the same time to London ; that there was reason to believe that the Scotch were then on their march ; that they should be 100,000 strong, when joined by the people of other manufacturing places upon the road ; and that it would be impossible for the army ' or any thing else to resist them - . These speakers ap pear in a few instances to have been checked by some of their associates, but their sentiments %sere for the most part received with strong marks of applause and concurrence. Arrangements for the march were also pointed out at these meetings. It was recommended to those who intended to join in it to provide, themselves with blankets, shoes, and knapsacks, as well-as with money and food. Those who remained to work were to as sist with their subscriptions. Every ten men were to choose one for as leader; and one was to be set over every hundred. Strong intimations were also given of the propriety mid necessity of their providing themselves with arms; but these do not appear to have been acted upon,except perhaps in a few instances. On the 10th of March the proposed meeting took place, to the amount, as is supposed, of from 10,000 to 12,000 persons at the least. Although some of their leaders had been previously arrested, and others were apprehended on the spot, the purpose was not abandoned; and large numbers of these deluded peoplemarched off towards London. A considerable body of them was stopped on the road to Stockport • some hundreds are stated to have passed through Lek ; and one party proceeded as tar as Ashbourne ; but the activity of the Magistrates in dispersing the meeting, and in stopping the pro gress of these bodies, effectually prevented the exe cution of a design which could not , probably have failed to disturb the peace of the counties through which so numerous an assemblage was to have passed; and which, if prosecuted to its full went, must have led to consequences highly dangerous to the public tranquillity. The discomfiture of this attempt does not, bow ern., appear to have materially discouraged those who had planned it; their measures were uninter ruptedly pursued. Within a very short time after this failure, fresh meetings were held in smaller num bers; they were composed either wholly or in part ef.Delegates from the neighbourhood of Manchester, from the borders of Derbyshire, and from the menu facturing districts of Yorkshire. At some of these meetings reports were made of the quantity of pikes, of &clocks, and of bullets, which could be provided for the intended rising Communications were held about this time with Nottingham, Sheffield, and Bir -1 mingham. by Delegates, whip were to give intelli genet of the plans in contemplation, to excite the people of those places to similar attempts, and to ascertain the state of preparation to which they had advanced. In these proceedings the pretence of Par liamentary Reform appears to have been almost wholly discarded ; they evidently point to nothing short of Revolution ; and it affords a dreadful proof of the meat to which the minds of. many of those who attended these meetings have been inflamed and corrupted, that in public speeches the necessity of doing away with, or Agway of (as they term it), the persons 'most obnoxious to them, has often been openly and unreservedly slowwitted; and that on one occasion it is stated to haveibeen proposed that Manchester should be made a Moscow, for the pur pose of strengthening their cause, by throwing num bers of people out of employment. It Wes met the night of the Nib •of .Much That a, general insurrection was inten#ed to have commenced at Manchester. The Magistrates were to be seized ; the prisoners were to be liberated; the soldiers were either to be surprised in their barracks, or a certain number of factories were to be set on Ere, for the purpose of drawing the soldiers out of :heir barracks, of which a party stationed near thera for that object were then to take possession, with the v.cw of seizing the magazine. The signal for the commencement of these ro ceedings was to be the firing of a rocket or rocbets ; and hopes were held out that '2OOO or 30(X) men would be sufficient to accomplish the first object, and that the iimirgents would be 50,000 strong in the morning. At this period, and in other parts of these proceed. ings, there are traces of an intention to issue Procla mations, declaring the King's subjects abbolved from their Allegiance, and denouncing death against all opposers ; but the Committee have not found any evidence of the actual preparation of such Procla mations. This atrocious Conspiracy was detected by the vi gilance of the Magistrates, and defeated by the ap prehension and confinement of some of the ringlea ders a few days before the period fixed for its execu tion. The timely prevention of Otis desperate at tempt appears to have given a considerable check to the proceedings of the disaffected in that quarter; and all the subsequent intelligence which the Com mittee has seen from thence continues to be of a more favourable character. . . During part of the month of April an intermission appears indeed to have taken place generally, at least of the more open proceedings. Public meetings in large bodies could no longer be convened, except under the regulations of the recent Act of Parlia ment. Numerous meetings of societies have been less frequently held in public houses. In some dis stricts clubs have been dissolved ; in other:,, their meetings have been suspended, or have been held in private houses, or in places remote from observation. The necessity of greater caution has been felt and inculcated ; communications by writing have been discountenanced—the concealment of the name, of leading persons has been recommended ; and it has been thought better that a few persons only shinld be intrusted with their plans, and should give notice to the different delegates to have their partizans in readiness to act when required and as directed. These delegates appointed from various places have met in small numbers, and thus kept tip a general but ver bal correspondence among the disaffected. Towards the end of April, and during the month of May. this correspondence appears to have been carried on with increased activity. As early as the .sth of that month a meeting is stated to have been held in one of the principal towns of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and to have been attended by persons calling themselves Delegates from other principal towns of that district ; and also from Leicester, from Birmingham, and from Nottingham. At this meet ing reports were made by the different Delegates of the strength which could be collected from the dis tricts which they represented. The numbers were l i stated as very large; but the Committee are wit aware of the exaggeration to be expected in such cases. It was about this time that the period for another ge neral rising appears to have been fixed for as early a day as possible after the discussion of an expected motion for Reform in Parliament. Nottingham ap pears to have been intended as the head-quarters upon which a part of the insurgents were to march in the first instance. They were expected to be joined there, and on their march towards London by other bodies, with such arms as they might have already provided, or might procure by force from private houses, or from the different depots or barracks of which the at. ' tack was proposed. At various subsequent meetings, at different places reports are stated to have been made of a great in crease of numbers, so great that it was said on one 'occasion that they were obliged daily to extend their divisions, and enlarge their Committee. Concurrent information from many of the quar ters from whence these Delegates were said to he de puted confirms the expectation of a general rising about the time above mentioned, and states its sub sequent postpopement to the 9th or 10th of June, for which various reasons were assigned. The latest intelligence from those quarters have made it highly probable that the same causes which have hitherto thwarted the execution of these despe rate designs, viz. the vigilance of Government—the great activity and intelligence of the Magistrates— the ready assistance afforded under their orders by the regular troops and yeomanry—the prompt and effi cient arrangements of the officers intrusted with that service—the knowledge %which has from time to time been obtained of the plans of the disaffected, and the consequent arrest and confinement of the leading agi tator', would occasion a still further postponement of their atrocious plans. Subsequent intelligence leaves no doubt that the plan, in its full extent, has for the present been frus-, Crated; but the correctness of the information which had previously been obtained has been confirmed by the recent appearance of bodies of men in arms at the precise period which is stated to have been fixed upon, and particularly in one of the districts, w'dich back latterly been represented as determined to act wiihout waiting for a general insurrection. The Committee think it highly important to state, 'that the reports received from many of the most active Magistrates, and from persons whose statio..s, I both civil and military, have enabled them to collect the most extensive information, and to form the most accurate judgment as to the state of the country, concur in attributing in a very considerable degree the disappointment of the attempts already made, and the hopes of continued tranquillity, to the actual I exercise of the powers which Parliament has intrusted to the Executive Government, and to the effect of the known existence of such powers ready to be called into action when necessity requires it—and in representing the danger which would threaten the country, were those Powers to be withdrawn at the present moment. And the Committee feel they should ill discharge the trust reposed in them, if they .did not declare their own entire agreement in this ()O nion. With the fullest confidence in the general loyalty and good disposition not only of those per , tions of the kingdom which h a ve hitherto remained is a great degree untainted, but by far the most con siderable.part of those very disuicts which are the chief scenes of the operations of the disa ff ected—a confide= whiciv Stu =cot experience has batisfac torn, eon Ermed-- . they cannot refrain from submitting to your Lordships, as the result of all the intortnatiuk they have received, that the time is not yet arrived, when the maintenance of the public i-anquill►ty, a n d the protection of the lives and properties of his Ma jesty's subjects, can be allowed to rest up on t h e oedi _ oats pcwess of the law. P4RLLIMENTARY PROCLEDINGS. MUSE OF t.0r.E.1, It - NE IP. Comm! were family heard in the Appi_al Cause of " r,t In the Irish Calla': of " I AEI , 12-. Air.," Counsel were fj , heard. On this case their I.rodsrp,' frtl decislor. teas 7 ,1,4 ptr - •pctivd. P.1ii131% Divorce 13111 :PC"i9Pil P chest Farther conatiat..dt:! Eirti.tl hearing of evidence oR Tin•Ni'ay next. The It:sti Fcrfeited Retn!ciTanetP., the Irish SLerl's, ou t Ager.t General's, the EL;nburk:h and Glaspow CP.• al, and a few other Bids, were brought up from the Commons b.! yr. Reocorri, Mr. ri tn T s and others, and read the frrt tore. The A;tatiny 11.11 was read a secor.ti time. hesPEtoi/ON OF Tile HABEAS CORPUP. A. Viscount SiDMOI: potsuant to the notice given yesterday by his Noble Frigid, stated, that its the prints of the Report of their Lordships' Secrc: Committee were now upon the table, he beard leave to present, for the adoption of their Lordships, a Bill for continuing the Act of this Session for em pisvering his Majesty to secure and detain such pet. sons as he shill suspect of conspiring ag tiost his Per son and Government. He submlted this measure to the House, under t!se pressing and full conviction of the urgent necessity for its adoption, and tbe mea sure being carried into effect. "The &tumid' Jinn which he entert.ined this ,pinion, be should byr leave to submit to their Lordships on Monday next, when he proposed the Bill should be read a second time. Earl GREY observed, that his view of the Report had induced him to form a direct contrary opiroor, to that avowed by the Noble Viscount; and hr could not suffer this opportunity to pass without staong his ccmplete conviction, that from all which he could twat and see, no such necessity as that referred to by the Noble Secretary of State, actually existed; and that, it some danger prevailed at the moment, which lie had no disposition to deny, he hrir.ly believed that die measure now proposed to be continued, and the coarse of measures pursued by the Noble Vii. count and his colleagues, were ri ,, t only not cacti lated to rtniedy, but greatly to aggravate all the evils complained of. The Bill was then, on the motion of the Ne 2.!! Viscount, ordered to be printed ; and he gave notice, that on Monday he shtuld move the second readii:g; and also moved, that the Loids be summoned for that day, which to ordered accordingly. The other Bills on the Tab;e, chietiy private cr local, being respectivtly fonvardtd, their Lordships adjourned until Monday. HOUSE or COMMONS. Mr. 1 1 .:et. took ?he or!.s anJ :1"1 Ne3t, at Merr.:ler for ()arced. The CIiANCIILI OR at the EXL.HEQUIstt brourbt r. Aill to permit the rfaosfer of C vtal rr •enato stock! end Funds of G^-at Oritam to hoe ut Ireland; vkl.s:h was told :. first time, and oruerttl to he read a sccohd .itre• .113 e Bill to :bash the %1' hipping ..f t eu..doa was read a stcood time, and ordered to be comninto cr Mr. W. DeNDAS brought in a Bill, 804Am - h&c the Eau. India Company to nuke certain allowances to the Ow•n Ti of East India Slipping, which was read a :irs: t•:ae, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday. Ihe Nassau halt Exportation Bid was committed.—Report to.morrow. be House resolved itself Into a Committee on the sugar Bounties' 11111.—. Report ordered to he received to-morrow. The CHANCELLOR ut the EXCHEQUER said, tbat he is tended to postpone the consideration of tier Budget item Mon day ull Wednesday neat. The Wcst India Free Ports Bill went through a Committee of the whole House; the Report of winch was ordered to be re ceived to-morrow. The Alt-house Meuse Regulation Bill was read a second time, and commltted.—The Report was then received, and ordered to be taken Into Naha' consideration on Friday ner, and to be printed. 7 he Frautitdetet Tenants Bill wn't committed, and ttc Rep& ordered to he sect ived to-morrow. Mr. W. DIJ N OAS gave notice. •het on Tuesday !e would muve that the Ordei of the Day for caling over the iioase at that day, be discharvd. '1 he 'ninny Doctrine Bill for Ireland was real a se:cnd erne. grport to•motrow. I h• House, in a Committee of Supply, voted £! 0 ; 000 for the F.dinburill, Xll,lOO fur the Millbank Pet.i , entiary, and a :it fain bunt for printing the Journals of the Boast.—Repot: en Nlondark:z... 'I he lialiftanry Corps Bill and the Conlolidatrd P. , ed went through Colffillittvem, the Reports of which were otierel to be reecived to•rnurrow. um)) coultEsTra's PENSION BILL. The House having resolved itwlt into a Comm7t:e! on Lord Colchester's Pension Bill, Sir M. W. RIDLEY stated, that at a future-tar of the Bill he should move a claw.t. tnactinty, that ye whole of the Pension should abate in th? event cr Lord Colchester's acceptance cf any office, the en- 9. luments of which should be equal to or vr9a!er the amount of the pension which the Bill ccalcrrt.l en him. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUEI said, that as the bill now stood; halt Lord Coi•lie ter's pension would abate in the event of his accer:- ancc of any such office as that alluded to by ike - nourable Barone:, to be re tored on his retitcmiti: from such (Alice. _ _ Alter a few words from Mr. GrrPs, Mr. CALCRAT7) and Mr. Dissrms Gmerier, the 8111 passed dirovr,l die Committee, and the House baying resumed, tit Report wits ordered to be received cn Monday. IRISH GRAND JURY PRESENTMINTS- On the motion frr the second reading of the rris!) Grand Tt:ry Presentments Bill, Mr. VESEY FITZGERALD entered at sorer length into the nature of the provisions of the 131:'• the prit.cipal of which was, the appointment t.'• Cennty Sairveyors, or Civil Engineers, to report the Grand .furies. Cc!oncl BERRY spoke shortly in favour of t'c Bill. In the Committee any of its provisois cni:, l %! be rnocli3ed. Sir HENRY PARNELL r as also in favour c: the Bill. Mr. PEEL thonght it would be proper that the Grand Juries should be freed from the ribliptioq of an oath of secrecy, as far as telattd to civil concrr.- Mr. COURTNEY spoke in favour of the 13 C.' , and said, that iu the Committee he meant to propcit A slight ,mendment. Sir JOHN NEWPORT hoped the Bill wouli r^t be allowed to lie over till another Session, as t' a much time bad alrefdy been lost. He also thozhi.: P ..-