The Sun. — London, England, 1817-02-21 00:00:00

of such a plan may appear, it yet was deliberately premeditated by desperate men, who calculated N is nout reasonable ground urn, defection in their opposers, and upon active support from those mill- , thud( s, whose di s tr ess t h e y b a d w i tnessed, and svitont they had vainly instigated to revolt. That consequently it-was not merely the sudden ebullition of the moment, or'the unauthorized attempt of any uneoulteeted indvidnal. Your Committee are further convinced, that notwithstanding the failure on the 21 of Decem 'her, the same design;: still Continue to be prose cuted with sanguine hopes of success. Your . Cornmittee having thus stated the general result of the evrdeuee which has been laid before them, respecting the state of the Metropolis, have now the no less painful duty of calling the atten. tiati,of the,Flouse to what has been passing - dur ing_the same period in different •parts of the coun try, a criject.of equally momentous consider/I. tion. The &it thing .which has here forced itseil upon their observatioo, is :the widely diffused ra . mificatimi of system of :14'hibs, associated pro fessedly for the piwpose.of:Parliamentary Reform, upon the most extended principle of universa suffrage and animal Parliaments. These Clubs in general designate themselves by the Sallie nom*: 01 aimptlen Clubs. On the professed object of their iostitotiotr, they appear to be in communication and connection with the Club of that lialbe in London. It appears to be part of, the system of these Chili's, to promote an extension of Clubs of the same-stain* and nature, so widely as, if possible, to include every Villagc,in the kingdom. The tlg• members ere. active„ in the circulation of pithiteations likely to volume their object. re. titions, ready prepared, have been sent down from • the Metropolis to all Societies in the country dis posed to receive them. The communication be• tween these Clubs takes place by the mission o Delegates; Delegates from these Clubs in ih t country, have assembled in London, and are ex pected to assemble again early in Marco. What ever may be the real object of these Clubs in ge- Hera!, your Committee lieve no hesitation in stit log, from infoa matinee au which they place full reliance, that hi far the greater number of them, and particularly in dime which 'are established in the great mamilacturing districts of Lancashire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, and Derbyshire, and which are composed of the luster order of artizans, nothing short of a Revolution is the ob ject expected and avowed. Your Committee find, trout equally undoubted information, that the doctrines of the Speneean Clubs have been widely diffused through the Coontry, either by the extension of similar Socie ties, or more frequently by the intervention of Missionari e s or Delegates, whose business it is to propagate thrvic doctrines throughout every So ciety to which they have acee,s : „ It is the utii versal practice of these Societies, to require from the members a small weekly subscription, which provid,,s a land fur the expenees Of these Mission- Aries, and also for the purchase of aeditirms tracts, which are rend sod commented on at their meet ings. Some of these insets, now before your Committee, inculcate in the most artful manner, the necessity of overturning what they call " The Psis ilegetl Class ,"us distinguished from the People, who are described as consisting of labourers, arti zans, tradesmen, and every profession useful to society. A new Order is declared to be the will of the people Rebellion is justified by the assertion that a nation cannot he a rebel ; and all religions is disavowed, w:;I us loyalty, by the assertion, in ails wer,,to the question, 'lf Would you live " thOlit Gods or Ititirgs?"—" We abjure tyranny of every kind." It seems, indeed, to be a part of the system adopted by t!lese Societies, to prepare the minds of the people tor the destruction Of the present frame of Society, by undermining not only their habits of decent and regular subordination, but n il th e prioCiples of morality and religion. Your Commicee tint!, that there it scarcely any very numerous, Society, in the parts above referred to, t/f t 1 hose proceedings they have obtained ern ac. coon', in which home of the leading Speakers do not openly avow the most seditious opinions, and do not excite their hearers to be prepared for ac.ital Insurrection. Topics for discussion ere selected with this view : amongst others, the 4plett. lion, Whether the Jacobin or the Loyalist was the hest frlend to his country ? Even where petition ing is recommended, it is proposed to be con ducted in such a manner, by an immense number of delegates attending in London at the same time, in several parties attached to each petition, us might iodate an effort to obtain by force whatever they demanded. A general idea seems prevalent among those who compose these Societies, that some fixed - day, at no very great distance, is to,,,ht.spo, pointed for a general rising. They have been taught to look to the Meetings in LOINIOII as the signal for their operations, and have been in the habit of adjourning their own assemblies simulta neously to the same day , t and it is a lame nt abl e instatice of the common intere“ wllicb they feel, it mu Of the connection which is formed with those most implicated in - the outrages committed in the Nitt - molls, that about Manchester and spine other places, the • greatest exultation. was manifested previous to the meeting in Spa-fields on the 1 of Deceniber ; and the taking of the Tower and The ruin of the Bank were publicly and confideutly predicted. The news or the re stilt was impatiently evected, the roads were crust (fed during the night With a muriber of pep ton.s, snail of them delegates from the ilitFerent Societies iu the country, waiting for the arrkal 01 the mail c0 411: 1 4 ; stgd the dialappointment.was not concealed, when it was ascertained that the riot hail hi en quelled without much serious or exten. sine mischief Englis ••• •. GreyPr It siyear3, that the eurtfi4lenee of the disaffected is ,0401, that they reptvictil t tie numbers enrolled us ottliptalitittg to aieverhi howieed thottiand, awl that their Stociticti nre daily nteteasing ; That in finis list 3 they distingoi,h hy particular marks those ittbohi i , their atthseribers whi; are able-bodied men and ready to act when end that they itctli a lilt of those who refuse to join them vengeance against these persons when the general insurrection shall take place. In some parts of one populous colony, where. nearly every village has already its Hampden Club, the members - make it-no secret that they consider themselves as of no other Lists than as being ready to act when ever they are called upon ; on their admission they are said to be listed, and receive a secret card with the words " be ready, be steady." The habits and manners of thette persons seem entirely changed ; they already calculate upon the share of land which each is to possess, and point out the destruction of the churches, as the neces sary consequence of their success. It appears that preparations are in progress; in several places, for providing arms ; the demand upon gunsmiths, for every species of fire'arms, has been beyond all former example ; the intention is pro fessed, of having recourse for a still larger supply to those towns where arms .are ininsufactured, and where they are to be obtained at a very low rate, from , the general cheapness of labour at this time ; or in case of necessity they are to be seized by force. The facility of converting implements of husbandry into offensive weapons, has been suggested ; and persons have been sent to observe the state of particular -places, where deptits of arms for the public service were, supposed to have been formed. Your Committee find, that a system of secret association has been extended to the manufactur ing population of Glasgow, and some other po pulous towns of Scotland ; and although these Societies have availed themselves of the same pretext, of Parliamentary Reform on the broadest basis, your Committee are firmly persuaded, from the information which has been laid before them, that their ultimate object is the overthrow by force of the existing form of Government. That the time for attempting this enterprize was to depend in the simultaneous rising of the dissffected in England ; with some emissaries from whow occa siooal intercourse appears to have taken place, an d th at s ome provisi on of weapons has been made by this association. Yolir Committee have now submitted. to the HoutE, what they conceive to nc a fair, and nol exaggerated statement of the result of their in. ves lg., They it aver hought themselves pre eluded front inserting, in an Appendix, the infor -111011011 from which it is drawn, by the considera tine, that unless it were extremely partial and Incomplete, they could not make it public with out hazarding the personal safety of many useful and respectable individuals, and in some instances without prejudicing the due administration of piiblicjustiee. Oto a review of the whole, it is a great satisfac tion to your Committee to observe, that, mint withstanding the el/trilling progress ,which has been made in the system of extending Disaffuction and secret Societies, its SUCCCSS has been confined to the principal manufacturing districts, where the distress is more prevalent, and numbers more easily collected ; and that even in many of these districts,- privations have been borne with exem plary patience and resignation, and the attempts of the Disaffeeitd hay,. been disappointed ; that few if any of the higher orders or even of the middle class of society, and scarcely any of the agricultural population, have lent themselves to the more violent , of these projects. Great allow ance (rust he suede for those who, under the pressure of urgent distress,hrive been led to listen to plausible and confident Deinagogoes, in the expectation of immediate relief. It is to be hoped, that many of thos e wr o have engaged, to a cer tain extent, in the ptojects of the disaffected, but in whom the pri.eiples of moral and religious dilly have riot been extinguished or perverted by the most prolare and miserable sophistry, would withdraw themselves before those projects were Joshed to actual insurrection. But, with all these allowances,, yonr Commit ce cannot contemplate the activity and arts of the leaders in this conspiracy, and the numbers whom they have already solaced, and may seduce ; the oaths by which many of them are boom! to gether; the means suggested and prepared for the forcible attainment of their objects ; the na ture of the objects themselves, whielt are not only the overthrow of all the political institutions or the kingdom, but also such a subversion of the rights and principles of property, as must neces sadly lead to general confusion, phonier, ani bloodshed ; without submitting, to the mos serious atteetiou of the !louse, the diingos whirl exist, anti which the utmost vigilance of Govern. ment, tinder the existing laws, has been found in , adviriate to prevent. February IN IFII7. TI E MA RK EIS. CORN-EXCIIA NOE, FED. 21.—Wc teal no .fgesb Arrivals this morning, consequently real Fine Wbeat and Oats sold at Monday's prices, but or dinary is still very dull ; Fine Malting Barley had a rather better sale ; Molt is very dull ; in Pease and Beans there arc no alteration. Foreign Wheat - Ns. 100 i. 1/44. %%eat rois. 704. - 711 s. 120%. 4Gs. 643. —.A. Vth. 40s. 564• ti6s. 70s. ditto - -80 s. Bi3s. 'ePrage f.boiltrs)67s. 7t4. 7ts 12s, 505 Fine Ore)* /Yule • 51s. ws, Tick Beaus - 2Fis. 345, Old ditto • - • b-is, 1 1 8.. "tic 066. Attu -60 s. 725. Fred 0;43 -14 s. 'Qs. Finedittit ail. ridallti dint) - r flOs. 21s. Fine ditto - - atis, Ch. l'otatoe ditto - 434.505. Old ditto - •••11. Wipe Seed , W 1.541. per last Fine Flimr -100 s. lOb. Seconds 11.55. lOUs. Snrritrtstn, Feu. 9 .--Thii day's Nudist had not o gaud supply of the different of cattl e; p or k supp o rt a ,last price, Littl, Mutton mid Ye-:l are cheaper, and the trade for the most part was sonierthat dull. Tlie sale.. in the Hay market were not lively: Straw obtained last pike, Finland Cliortr hOer fallen in priers "I:tie fullowittr Prices and Netzthers are a correct statement: the Offal, per stone of it neer:l/L.ld. to U. 4d. Mutton, 8.1, to ds. Gil. Veal, 44. Oit. to lig. [M. Pork, 3s. )0.1. to •ii, od. Heastt, eiso. Sheep, 2700. tatve,i, I.lto, Pigs, 270. tr , 4„ to fit. eis. 11. I.ls. to 21, rd, 4!. tc,i, to t;l.o*, STOCKS lit olit►o itte ditto Wiley - ditto THEATRICAL REGISTER. Poformed Last Night. Dauov-Lara.--Othello : Othello, Mr. Kean ; !ago, Mr. Booth; Desdernona, Mrs. Bartley. After which, Patrick's Return, and Ile Follies of a Day. COVENT-GARDEN.—Guy Mannering : Henry Bertram, Mr. Sinclair; Lucy. Bertram, Miss Stephens. After which, Au rora, and The Forest of Bondy. MAILS. ARRIVED.-1 Hamburg!), I Flanders, I Dublin. DUE--1 Lis. bun, 1 Hulland, 3 Guttetiburgli, 6 Hailiburgh, 1 Guern. sey and Jersey, I Waterford. PKWE 0 THIS DAY TWEINF. Bonk .. 437 i India Stock, 1974 g per Cent. R e d.. lndia 80nd5,... 48s. r. .5 per C en t. C ons 'New Annuiti cs ,..... p au 4 per Cents 811 a Exch. Bills ......12s. 15 s . p r . 8 per Ct. Navy Ann... 971 93 elms. fur A ' ecount, 6O Bank L. :Ann.... I 4nn.... 174 9-ltitiis • HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE To-monnowiv Morning, 14 minutes after S. J Evening, J minutes after C. THE SUN. aPOLE3I 41.1.1 S 'DICERE FALSIJM AUDEAT LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1817. THE SUN of to-day contains the two Official Reports of Secresy.--that to the House of Com mons in our first, and that to the llouse of Peers in our last page. Both Houses take up theilues= tion,. the Lords this evening (the CommOfri on Monday), and ulterior measures to strengthen the 111111(13 of the Executive, in order to counteract the revolutionary designs therein exposed, will receive that serious consideration which their vital importance merits. We hope that those who de signate themselves the friends of freedom will not, at this critical hour, act as if they were the Abettors of Licentiousness.--We cannot believe that there is a man of common understanding in existence, who thinks there is the slightest dan ger to our popular liberties in the adoption of strong preventives against the accumulating rage of Jacobinism. Even party prejudice must, we think, be ready to trust something to the discre tion of Ministers, on the candid allowance that those who have steered the nation in safety hrough the storm and peril of War, will be hereby enabled more effectually to pilot ' , her hrongh the reflux and swell of I eace, hey make the Haven of Prosperity through the surf of Revolution, which would wreck us o the very shore of our native Isle. Such, for the good of the Country, we desire maybe the cow ,e pursued by the Parliathentary Opponents of the Administrations, though the language of their Retainers in the Press has not prepared us for a very sanguine expectat4on that it will be so. Those who scouted and ridiculed the idea of any plot existing, note that this melancholy fact is too notorious to be denied, turn round with the rapid inconsis tency so peculiar to them, and arraign Ministers (or supinenesi in not having sooner arrested the )rogress of this extensive.and dangerous Con spiracy ! At ether times they revert to their old allegation of no plat, chiefly on the ground that the plan on which the Traitors were to eniplOy their " physical force" has not been detected— probably never was embodied in a tangible shape. And is this the argtiment against there being a de sign to overthrow the Constitution ? Must the omission of the least effective of circumstantial pre paration be Itch! a sufficient assurance that nothing of Treason and Revolution existed ? To our minds the conviction is decisive, not only that a Plot , 601 a most dreadful .plot, was far advanced to'nja, tot it y. Had their been 'no standards of rebellinn, no tallying cry, no arms provided, ,no organiz. id communications among the disaffected, no Conservative. Committees, •no plans of midnight xWags rand conflagrations, no praseriptionss-- no attempts at seducing the Military from their duty, no revolutionary Placards, no assurances to the Felons who were to be let loose upon Society— bad none of these things been, still our a .. 0 1. nion that a perilous Conspiracy. was in pltl4 gress would have remained unshaken. And this is the nature of that Conspiracy, beyond which there is nothing necessary to fill the King. dom with misery and blood.--To corrupt the lower orders of the people till 'they lose all percep. tion of right and wrong, to fill them with irreli• gion and Atheism, and to goad them with.exag. gerated pictures of their own sufferings and the relentless cruelty of their Rulets—thus moulded to "be really, be steady," for . the most' diabolical crimes, to accustom them to assemble in crowds together, vithere they may be drilled into all the inferior processes of mob--at last, when accustomed to these excesses, to bring the multitude together at the same time and in many places, to infiame their passions to madness, and throw them at will on the perpetra tion of crimes, taking the dunces of Revolution' ib without encountering the response' it. —Such, even without the ordinary of secret Oaths and defined Operation', form a Conspiracy of the lutist porteutolig and we put it to the sense of the Country this career has 'not been pursued to ° which would alone render legislative jute . audispensible for the preservation of tlic try. But when we superadd, 511 tbt of minute and traitorous orgal izstioo in these Reports, the case assumes 1. ° 41°1 , more terrible, and the voice of the initials aloud to its 'Rulers for protection. German Papers were received WOO The following are their princip4l Contents " VIENNA, FEti. 7.—The prices of corn bare fl in the two last market days. " En"I"EN, Fes. I I.—The first considerable 0, Russian corn arrived here at last a few days since' i , i is of the finest quality, and the bushel at !raft it" than ours. " Large quantities of rye from the DOW atigl none but the monopolists can doubt 014041 derable decline in the prices." A Flanders Mail arrived at a late night. The following are eguac" from hers " 1 1 " linvssus, FED. 17.—Some Getman ItIPI" i.arttlette, who was saved by his heroic wife, many, and that he is going to reside with the lioliNnd, in the dominions FED. a the King of Safaria,:d, :roced 6. i — ng with the Theile.l*c greater i Later letters from Madrid make no Merl ,he dist u rb ances sta t e d to have taken l4l4; on the authority of a private letter ill t he i o dam Courant. We therefore presumes qd report is unfounded, thoug,li the Coltidr° Morning Chronicle think it true, beci ttlietloll , 6 l seen an epistle, dated ten days .after 10'r signed for the riots, which son -- " floe we Lave had such a season of los' , 0 made away with a g re at number of personlW4loo° poor Count d e ...--- I imagine by Uniting Will oiso i ed his last in Seville. The public distres s d s ot daily iucreascs, and, in the present nuoss ellt4e classes beg alms without any distinction ." 0 .110 This letter, the Chronicle observes) rot construed in a metaphorical seosit , 51)-(1 1,0 agree with it, f or i t i s non sense witho ut. d o it suggest s , means t h e measures of against t h e R evo l ters :—the Count dc Il rand hiatus in the constituted 01011,1 matter f lu 16 1 t z et / tell lias3snsteosi the e i o n ol g i Beggars, illyeinct f il l i ' itv i i : l " ntt(lll9:‘o:lllll:7 l 4° o eon' s (' he no class to beg of withal, would not beg of Beggars. d '01 341 We dare s a y, h owever, t h e dye men of the C'hroniele will be obi t I° f 0' knotty point as well as the res t o taphor ! ! ! fi A most diabolical was Yes te • l l 'i li l e 9 .6 on a wall between Richmond and gew' d i r ect' i of of which was to incite the popalace t o 00 0 1 do,,`ssassination. This infamous Por e , r t N O . by a Gentlemin who brough t)- , It was as follows : " ENGLISHMES, TUE REGENT :11C7s/ nr. PUT ASIDE FOR THE Any Ascr.ol or THE GENER GO"' " Pad you rath er Cd , tar we r e living an d i e 3115 0 1.1 '' Than that Cie s ar were d ea d, to live all F° re 01 aL II c e o. L I O I. R E D GE C N 1 3 1 ',p e re E vi L o ° us it thOrlltia:/ tl e viiiitigri C4ll''' !: a E f i :y e .l7li s e e t I . , P e nC il Drawing-roomßll - GRNT yes remained terday : 10 1 /titl e ; , the I" o ' l ' r h i i t s nivl ß si,eA t h , s y oT a ti, l lß, Mother and Sisters. " '-' 0 ,,, theTihie Loan Cit a mooLoti t , he tli s e ivx ":" c: P iti S .. l l l l l l e '‘ll , .l: 0 u . ilizze s .th g r o t a f il y - t e l i l l e , g ly r i al l :t il l s t Vn il e d rs °-t t l a ie ' resel;b : 4 o l : o : o . ' - it is said that the Committee of th,„ e roof (3 ° ll) mnos,.on . Finance and Expetyli t t nr ,j'e fo l ''' cr i, solved to recommend the abolitiao 4. - . 1 , 0 0$ '` l g t : ' :.,C l : l , t o o h g l i t t. l ,f i ° ll lll j g u e s e t t m l i t i c e e t a n s f i t : e i =- I : s t i h l l i e l l e l E l 7'l : a rt! f en ° sl f )i i t ) ii e M . Ptelfle ir si 1 ( 1 .: It t"-- e.e k s ' t e im ur a T te el s ( I. ,f " t h h . e y a ree rm f. 'beet' Pr ')i di' n, oil d delivered. liy these the n umber ''' f o r ( 4 1 file , .„ . . Indin and France' excepted, ar, e i ,' 50 L., ‘ nritaill, Ireland , andthe c 1 ' s ain • .ier 0 001 C I l ip 1 V fl COP IS . l ~...4a tilltit ion of Commissione d nut , ~0..% T h i s, i , °ulcers raises the number to 92, 28w * d o I' d if r arreltemt, is about 10,000 men (oaf ; 001 151 1 ti...%STLEII24GIi look credit .for With t ', - ,,,e11t 1 114 l i f i t S Ve la r t r e ctWi e r e c e c h s . rig l ifl i , e t o t e °l l e 23 l ,(lo "ol'l9lisgi ..., '"—i d ° l lll:ivA‘f i i t r) l ne t i : reerofe India, r e thev:lcotoi o b u e tn tar 2 rie s e , st O ot o , o bhee t r Oi ,lui l i : ie r i y a l a n ia e nr e c ;r is s etio t ot t oi li e r t iat : 8 E 1 1; 0 1 00 then only, iu round numbers, ; micceorf A its g ient iA , : eo. 4 ( r. i l n :d IJljveetriasleasielnl4votniot:ttlietide atrociousPb t y tt N t i c C co outr a g e l s a r p . l o g o Nl i oa : 711 . 0 ;1 00d d s aitio l :::: ,; : it ,,: ot t i l rei : t ant t h e o opt • no t 1 to freedorkof that Co ri r s p i t a ,r n a t ti — on th ‘ l v irk:‘ -- of ow/ I , it L l tv2oroot. And Lord CAsTLonEAGII, n-atiott,::o their distinguished abilities in Adniillistrodool!l, of testimony of their regard and high i l , res t ' ~1 0 their Lortlihips' energy arid firm n ess , „ 0 al l in g those. pri 'lei -- )s iiinoliu Ol pies of dangerot loo s ii, Pretended Reform, disseminated by 5. of r'' irtful men, for the subversion of 1 o il t Ile I te gj e OO. (boiit , Y., and the abrogation of our t tapsr ps :' stitutional'bulwarks t" 11 It' lii it ly