The Sun. — London, England, 1817-03-10 00:00:00

Jt i AN r PARLIAMENTARY !JAPERS sEntnous MEETINGS AND ASSENIBLIES. A BILL (as amended by the Committee of the House of Comthons) fir the more effectually Preventing SEDITIOUS MEETINGS and ASSEMBLIES. [Concluded from Saturday's Paper.) Provided nevertheless, and be it furtherenact ed, That it shrill be lawful for two or more Jus tices f the Peace for the county, stewartry, city, borough, town, or place, where any house, loom, or other building shall het intended to be opened for any of the purposes aforesaid, by writing under their hands and seals,• at their Ge neral Quarter or General Sessions of the . Peace, or at Any Special Ses'sion to be held for the part', colar purpose, to grant a licence ,to any person or persons desiring the same, to open such house, room,, or other building, for the purpose of deli vering for money any such lectures or discourses as aforesaid, or for the purpose of holding debates On any subjects, the same being clearly expressed in_such licence, for which licence .a fee of one shilling and no inure shall be paid ; and the same shall be in force fur tire space of one year, and no longer, or for any less space of time therein to be specified ; and which licence it shall he lawful fur the Justices of tire Peace of the same county, stewartry, city, borough, town, or place, at any Cieineral Qoarter or Gentral Lathe Peace, to . revoke nod declare void and uo longer in force, by any nwderdf such Jostices ; a • copy whereof, shall he delifered to or served upon the person to i the said liceure so revoked shell have been granted, or shall be left at the house, room, or building, fur which such licence shall have been granted; and ..thereupon such licence shall cease and determine, and lot thenceforth utterly void and or no t ffeCr. That. it shall be lawful for any Justice or Jas. Ikon of the Peace of any county, stewartry, city, borough, town, or place, where any inch ,house, room, or other huildiug shall be licenced as herein provident, to go to such house, rooni,.or building to licenced, at the time of d e li v e r i n g any such lecture or discourse, or of holding any debate therein, as .aforesaid, or at the time appoint en! for delivering any such lecture or discourse, or of holding any .debate, and demand. to admitted therein ; and in case Bitch Justice or Justices shall he refused admittance to such boost!, room, or building, the same shall be deemed, not withstanding any such licence as afore said, a disorderly house or place within the mean ing of this Act ; and all and every the provisions hereiobefore contained, respecting any house, room, field, or place hereiubefore declared to be a'disorderly house, or place, shall be applied to such house, room, or building, so licensed as eforesnid, whet e such admittance shall have been refused as aforesaid.;„ and every penal) refusing. such admittance, shall forfeit the sum of 201. to ante person who shall sue for.the.same, • That, it shall be lawful for any. two Justices of flee Peace, acting for any county, siewartry, rid division, city, town, or place, upon evidence 'on oath thet any house, room, or plate so licenced foul opened as aforesaid, IS commonly used for the purpose of delivering there lectures or discourses of t seditious or itutnoral tendency, to adjudge trod declare the licence for opening the same to have been forfeited, and such licence shall there- Ilium cease deteimine, and shall thenceforth bo utterly void.and of no effect. That nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend, to any lecture or dis courses to ,be delivered in any of the Universities 411 these kingdoms by any member thereof, or any ;person authorized by the Chancellor, Vice Chen. te,lfor, _cohe i r proper officers of such Universi • ties respectively ; or to any lecture or discourse to be,delivered in the public hall of any of - the nos of COlll t or Chancery, by any person autho zized by the beuchers of the Inns of Court, or by the Professors in Gresham College; and that no payment made to any schoolmaster or other per-, son by law allow Eel An teach and instruct yo ut h, in respect of any lectures or discourses delivered by such schoolmaster or other permit for the in structioui only of such youth as shall be commit ted to his instruction, shall be deemed a payment of motley for admission to such lectures or dis courses within the intent and Weaning of this Act. That no person shall be prosecuted by virtue of this Act for any thing done or committed con trary to the provisions hereinbefore contained, unless 'such prosecution shall be commenced hix calendar utonths after the offence committrd. ~.That all the clauses and provisions bereinbefore contained shall commence and have effict within the city o f London, am! within t wenty miles there of, from, the (lay next after the day of passing this Act' r and' shall commence and .ha va.tttfect, within other parts of the kingdom, from the expiration of seven d' next after the day of passing this Act ; and shall be-and continue in force until the_ 2511411,4 y of Alarch 1818, and from thence, until the end_ of the then next Session of Parliament. And whereai divers Societies or Clubs have beet, instituted, in the Metropolis and in various nf this kingdOm, of a dangerous nature and 1;-441tency, inconsistent with the public tranquil-, hy, and the, existence of the established govern , law s , and cnnstitution of the kingdom; ai l & the members o f tu,tny Of such bocietivs or Clubs have t Art! . unlawful oaths' and engage- On-nts of fidelity and secrecy, and have taken or soliserilted, or assClitCli to, iilegal tests and deck- , rations I alibi many of the mild -Societies or Clt4ts el t ,et, appoint or employ "Committees, DelegAs, Representilti yes or. .MlSsionaries of such Societies tit Cinha ; to meet, confer, communicate or car ;-apond ith other Societies or Clubs, or with l} (r.+; lies,' Rekesentatives or Missionaries of twit whet So,cieties or Clubs, and to induce and pk. I %wide lii her persons to become members thereof, awl by 0 , 4. !non* maintain an influence over large mt,n, and delude many ignorant and tin si:iry ,v.eootto into the commission - of Acts highly cyinkv,n„i mut killeteaS Certain'SOCretieS or Oohs Mft•u."4 l ive s. " Spenrelos ur Spencean Plii 10?I ; (1ropists,!! Thold , and prote,.s for iii it object the rouhseal oil and n; , 'iSion of the land, glut the extioutioo ut LlR:lnn4;ed property of the kingdom : and Meerees it rL eqe.dieut and eecessary the a ll such Societies or Clebs as aforesaid 'should be utterly suppressed and prohibited, as unlawful combinations and confederacies, highly dangerons to the peace and tranquillity of these kiqgdoms, and to the Coustitution of the Government thereof, as by law established ; be it enacted, that from and after the passing of this Act, all Societies twelfths calling themselves 'Spenceans or Spencean Philanthropists, and all other Societies or Clubs by whatever name or description the same are called or knowu, as above described, shall he and( the same are heteby utterly suppressed and prohibited, as being unlawful combinations and confederacies against the Government of our Sovereign Lord the King, and against the peace and security ot his Majesty's liege Subjectsa That train and after the passing of this Act all and every the said Societies or Clubs, and also all and every other Society or Club now established or bed edifier to be established, the members whereof shall be required or admitted to take any oath or engagement which shall be au unlawful engagement within the meanieg of an Act passed in the thirty-seventh year of his Majesty's Reign, intittiled," an Act for m o re effectually prevent ing the administering and taking of unlawful oaths," or within the meaning of an Act passed in the fifty-secoml year of his present Majesty's Reign, iutituled, " an Act to t ender more effectual an Act, passed in the thirty-seventh year of his present Majesty, for preventing the administering and taking.of unlawful oaths,'' or to take any oath not r.quired or authorized by law; and every Society or Club, the members whereof or any of them shall take or in any manner bind themselves by any such oath .or engagement, on becoming, or in order to became, or in conse qoence of being a member or members of . such Society or Club ; and every Society or Club, the members or any member whereof shall be re (piked or admitted to take subscribe or assent, or shall take subscribe or assent to any test or de, claration not required or authorized by law, iii. whatever manner or form such taking or assent. ing shall be performed, whether by words signs or otherwis. ; either on becoming or its order to be. come or in consequence of being a member or members of any such Society or Club; and every Society or Club that shall elect, appoint, nomi nate, or employ any committee, delegate or de legates, representative or representatives, missio nary or uossioneries, to meet, confer, communi• ease, or correspond, with any other Sadiety or Club, or with any committee, delegate or dele , gates, representative • or representatives, missio, nary or missionaries, of such other Socie - ty or Club, or to 'induce or persuade any person or per sons to become :members thereof, shall be deemed ant) taken to be unlawfulconthinations and conic deracieS, within the meaning of an Act passed its the thirty-ninth year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intitnled, " an Act fOr the . 'nosee effec tual suppression of Societies established for se ditious and treasoneble eurpOses, and for better preventing treasonable and seditious practices;" and shall and may be prosecuted, preceeded• against, Bud punished, according to the provi sions of the said Act and every person .who,. from and after the passing of this Act, shall be ecime a member of any such Society or Club, or who, after the passing of- this Act, shall act us a membertherent, and every person who, from and after the passing of this Act, shall directly or in directly maintain correspondence or intercourse With any such Society or Club, or with any corn tnittee or delegate, representative or missionary, or with any officer or menther thereof, as such, or who shall, by contribution of money or other wise, aid, abet, or support such Socety or Club, or duty members or o ffi cers thereof, ks such, s hall be deemed guilty of an unlawful combination and confederacy, within the intent and meaning Of the said Act. passed in the thirty-610th year of his Majesty's .Reign, •" for the mote effectual sup pression of Societies established for seditious •and treasonable purposes, and for better preventing treasonable and seditiOus practices ;" and shall and may he proceeded against, prosecuted, and punished, actin - ding to the provisions of the said Act, with regard to the prosecution end punish ment of unlawful combination, and confederacies. That nothing iu this Act contaidied shall, extend, or be construed.to extend, to any SoCiety or So cieties holden under therlenomittation of Lodges of Free Masons, in conformity to the rules prevailing ing in such Societies of Freemasons, provided such lodges shall comply with the rules tied regu lations contained in the said Act of the thirty. ninth year of his•present Majesty, relating to such lodges of Freemasons ; nor to any declaration to be taken subscribed or assented to by the mothers of any Society, the form of which declaration shall have been first approved anti subscribed by two or more Justices of the Peace, and confirmed by the major part of the Justices present at a Ge neral Session, pursuant to the rules and regula». lions contained in the said Act of the thirty-ninth year of his present Majesty; nor shall Fsteoft,'or be construed to extend to any meeting or society of the people commonly called' Quakers ; or to any meeting or society formed or assembled for • purposes of a religions or charitable nature only, end in which no other Matter or business what• soever shall be treated of or discussed. .• That if any person shall knowingly permit any Meeting of any Society or Club hereby declared tobe an unlawful combination or confederacy, or of any diviiion, branch or committee of such so cietror deb, to be held in any house or apart ment, building, or other place, to him or tier belonging, or in his or her p o ssession o r o c c u pte. .14)0, touch person -shall, for the first offence, for. left the sum at five pounds, anti shall, for any end) offence committed after the date ot his or her conviction tor such first offence, be deemed guilty of an unlawful combitiation and collie dewy:, in breach of this Att. • • . That it shall be lawful for any two sar more Justices of the Peace, acting for any county, stewartry,-riding, division, city, town or place, upon evidence oe seal) that any meeting of - any.' Society or club hereby declared to he an Helm. ful•Comhination and confederacy, or any•meeting for any. seditious purpose, bath been held, after the passing of this Act, et any house, room- or place, licensed for the sale of • ale,- beer,- wine or spiritotts:liquor, to edindgeand declare the licence' licences tor selling ale, beer, wincor spirituous, rnoort, grant el to the person or persons keeping such house, room or place, to be forfeited ; and the person or persons so keeping such house, room or place, shall from and after the.day of the date of such adjudication and, declaration, be sub. ject and liable to all and every the penalties and forfeitures for any act done after that day, which such person or persons would be subject and liable to, if such licence or licences had expired, 'or otherwise determined on that day. That all or any of the pecuniary fines, penalties. or forfeitures, exceeding the sum of 201. incurred under this Act, in England, Wales, or Berwick• upon-Tweed, may he recovered by action of debt in any of his Majesty's Courts of Record at %Vest. minster, and in Scotland in the Court of 'SeSsion there; and it shall be sufficient to declare in Eng. land or conclude in Scotland, that the defendant or defender is indebted to the plaintiff or pursuer in the sum of • being 'the sum demanded by the said action. (being for feited by an Act made in the 57th year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, " An Act for the more effectually preventing seditious meet ings and meetings and assemblies ;") and the plaintiff or pursuer, if he shall recover in such action, shall have his full costs or expellees, and any pecuniaiy penalty imposed by this Act not exceeding, the sum of 201. ; and for the recovery whereof no provision is hereinbefore contained, shall and may be recovered before any Justice or Justices of the Peace for the county, stewartry, riding, division, city, town or place, in.which the same shall be incurred, or the person having in curred the same shall happen to be, stunmary, way ; and in case such last-mentioned penalty shall not be forth with paid, such Justice or Jus tices shall by warrant under his or their hand and seal or hands and seals, and directed to any con stable or other peace officer, cause the same to be levied by distress and sale of the Offenders' good and chattels, together with all mitts and charges attending such distress and sale ; and in case no sufficient distress can be had or made, such Justice or Justices shall commit the offender to the common gaol or house of correction, for Ludt county, stewartry, riding, division, city, borough, town or place, there to remain without bail or mainprize, for any time not exceeding six ca lender months, nor less than three calendar. mouths : provided always, that no person shall be prosecuted or sued for any pecuniary pe•; . natty imposed by this Act, - unless such prosecu tion shall be commenced, or such action shall be brought within three calendar months next alter Such penalty shall have been incurred. That all pecuniary penalties and forfeitures im posed bychis Act, shall when recoveretleither, by. action in any court, or in a slummy way before any Justice, be applied and disposed of in man ner hereinafter mentioned ; that is t o sa y, one moiety thereof to the plaintiff in any such action, or to the informer before •any justice, and the other moiety thereof to his Majesty, his heirs and 'successors. That any action and suit which shall be brought or commenced against any Justice or 'Latices of the Peace, Constable, Peace officer, or other per son or persons, in England, Wales, or the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for any thing done or acted in pursuance of this Act, shall be com menced within three calendar months next alter the fact committed, and not afterwards ; and the venue in every such action or suit shall be laid in the proper county where the fact was committed, and not elsewhere ; and the defendant or de fendants in kvery such action or suit, shall and may plead the general issue, and give t4is . Aet and the special matter in evidence at any trial to be had thereupim ; and if such action or snit shall be brought or commenced after the time !tilted for bringing the same, or the venue shall be laid in any other place than, as aforesaid, then the jury shall find a verdict for the defendant. or defendants; and in such case, or' if the jury .411.511 find a verdict for the defendant or defendants upon the merits, or if the plaintiff or plaintiffs'shall be come nonsuit, or discontinue his her or their ac tion after appearance, or if upon demurrer, jodg. meta shall he given against the plaintiff or plain tiffs, the defendant or defendants shall have dolible costs ; which lie or they shall and may recover in . such and the snipe manner as any defendant can, bylaw in other cases. That every action and suit which shall be brought or commenced against any person or per sons in Scotland for any thing done or acted in pursuance of this Act, shall in like manner be continence(' within three calendar months after the act committed, and Hot afterwards, and be brought in the Court of Session in Scot land ; and the defender or defenders may plead that the matter complained of was done in pur suance of this Act, and may give this Act and the special matter in evidence ; and if such action or suit shall be brought or commenced after the time limited for bringing the same,• then 'the same shall be dismissed ; and in such case, or it the defender or defenders shall be assoilized, or the pursuer or pursuers slt f tll suffer the,action or suit •to fall asleep, or a decision shall be pronounced against the pursuer or pursuers upon the rele vancy the defender or defenders shall have treble costs or expellees; which he or they shall and may recover in such and the same manner as.any Ldefender can , by law recover costs or expenses in other cases. That convictions by any Justice or Justices of the Peace for offences against this Act, and adju dications of forfeitures of licences to be made in pursuance of this Act, shall or may be in the se veral forms set forth for such purposes respee, Lively in the schedule to this Act annexed, or in words to that effect. That nothing in this Act contained shall be deemed to take away or abridge any provision al read made by the law of this realm, or of any part thereof, for the suppression or punishment, of any Qtreute Whatsoever described in this Act. That no person shall he prosecutes- under this Act for having been, before the passing of this, Act, a memb er o f any society or club deelarcd hereby to be an nnlawful combination and conf4- devilry, if such person shall not in any manner have acted as a member of such society orelitk' .littn the passing of this Aci;' but that nothing in this Act contained, shall extend to prevent any vrosecution, by indictment or otherwise, for any tltiug Which shall be an offence nithiu the intent .111," niesiii.g of this Act, an d which toiAlitli - cos so prosecuted if . this Act had out t° boil Provided always , th at no person wi h° prosecuted and convicted, or acquineti tato Act, shall be subject or liable to be tat cuted for the same offence ; provi(lea 81 % nothing herein contained shall extol t"',,,, i any person in custotlylt the time of psol i i i Act, or who having been In custody, been Or been discharged on bail or recoguiza"Nr °P ° pro se c u tion which might have Wu such person, if this Act hid not been et of I p l a nt ri t ia t m hi e s o ict shall andanty,be oriel'', whole, or in any part thereof, .or in snY P, c ': altered or amended, during the l'r e ' gul " D —.— .---.......------- --- ECORDISICS REPORT... --0a Ssualloy M A N corder made a Report to the PRINCE 1110° 21, P risoners, joi:n..,:easp:tafullry ato:::6 ,i i c n t:t y it r i o i b a b : j: , !la" last, viz,—.H ahn for Po e n Irvine , John Cochrane, Charles lkikes, Jf D od i r t n w iset s se m aß i l i , ant A gt 7 n ii i tl l i r , e af aß :e : k l i r ie t i tologra.,,ei:Jiitiesuu:s; pl:tifticiri;:4l:l for a like offence ; Mary Johnstool,i;orrribltsuittl Thomas Goodall, James Sims, Phar`di, Charles Erick, John LUnienCe,Willi4l6l„°bo Samuel Bower, tor like offences; l'cl'fij, (or returning from transportation ; ouw .l Oat ton, for stealing goods from ash YOl John Cashman was ordered for ex ec , s !iesday next, opposite Mr BECKWITH'S D os, 1 Skinner - street ; and Andrew Parini: ev il Frampton for execution, on Friday ileXl,„l,, pence of execution before his 'Aljesty'i, Newgate. The others,were respicolduri*i sure. collected llan b o y y P it n r ° l l7l:le — rs ' , ls t il v i a s s Y c ° ') l n lt v uict;l:t g f A l l i , Garden Police-Otlic.:, before linos. M,'",,, O°El41 -°N, Esq. for selling Cobiptit's ileSt ger ti to,tt a licence, and then gave notice of 311 11 , .. the Sessions a gainst the conv?ttiun', alic Hunt and Cobbett entered into recog to t• !uPP°II the Said Appeal, Lest WVek/:ftii)(lli I`,H.lrned Sessions for the County or '''',,, ''6lts's Hall, Clerkenwell-Green, a fter t' ot business o. of the Court was over, 111,,,r.‘, Ite ri t?..q i ,part of the Commissioners of 11 , a ve c ol . (113 rs , moved the Court, that tile 11 ` 1 :! ic lp rr )11 he confirmed. The Court itattiOtti firmedM t t h o e e c Ci n ti v r iC t : inn. it was elPeclicit' Messrs. es • Hunt and Gobbet t would 114"0„01 a either in person or by Counsel, nt 1 0 ,0 n P i Peal ; but failing to do 50, Mr' *:,, 3 0c0 oved I Court of Exchequer. The Court seect motion.. and C. bte"etst :e l it j etc rdiettlils.'il.ti: iron headcrow, and BURGLARIESipstahI state.-- Sa turday , &C. —On the 511) Norio house street of Mr. Joshua Gale, No. " a pri thieves, --• Luke's, Was entered hY - I 4 0 ntves, who forcei opon the sbot,e,„` 1 . in Bank robbed it of a qintoloo notes.---The boost oli,ptif was hat manufacturer, No. 47, Cil'i°b%l7ololl roke - into time same night, 0"111,0110; dozenstat"e of hats , some of liiCITI in wards, night time house of fit' both os riot's! fashion-street, Spita6elds, one o'clock , a y entered, and tohhe d- of a great qp.,Jd wearingofp uppard, and other rropertY'edjiol building (lie i w was elei-atreeti Golden-square, 0 0 16 . 0 a stopped in - the Five- fi elds, Clicis ch lA ° 1 ' 1 066 smock-frock and a coal-he a ver s * ev e ed hiin of a olie.posiod ooteal)(1° DflsT . e aan.•* ••• %.• •.• ••• p, g.•l RE eS el 114 ma i oi tire broke out at Ml:owe,' sini,"rtg4te'strert, which in °°l'oJrrld The e t t il y assistance' 04 1 ',r i l e d flames,'""e-keepet onfortunatell Pe,tird death and "tic Of t svo Imorses in" of that extenSiVe neath, a „of in Conseil A fe w - ago, as 1 r r stones o f .GARsTious -w.. pa.,;„,4 CI Placed on, the wally of la e :iester, to ltd F b ' e t ' and he tell fromt the s hittilli t 111100,1 repair a breach in thew) o.); sustaining the least • • cevi tolury, e% w oe ' "en t e le e sc o e i n t t h j:tt. htie.lyr ir °l4i MARRIED. .poiond, n y, at St. Jnes's, Lieut. vs Mil Omin ,Saturda of the C o ldstream a tinar ds; scr iti r ot vs Milton') Bars. to Maria Margareitt . r „ Charles i bilorgan, of Tredegar, Ott"' ~ ---------------- co ol Yesterday morning, at four 'lock' , ..mli i i i ,, 0 0 bridge, at her house in Boiton-rovv, ia u' o f i th l o o o age. Her Ladyship was the dalighteiritood,e 0,00 Campagne, Dean of Clonmacnoiso ja it 11 6 %1Aii , tied to the late Earl of Uxbridge in Arr, eo o, 0, o f mother of . the present Marquis of Aag' 0 0 0 oi l 0 1 f ei 1 0 t i l i t . s 'n ' i n e t i t i :l e a i tt e r C i e g i ° G c tu t: n i l ' s r : d l u e' ‘ 4. l:t a c . : e st i f :g k e: e 4 l : l ' I t Y i l . u o ye . a j o YE r t i : c l ::::, t i to egit : ll' :;, ' r tlf(t Nag el, 'ltarle 9 ' the a latine of Lancaster. sari 1 Friday, (the day of completing his 62J Y - tio osilo Lintern,.of the Orange Orove, Bath- _ oi ly 0,4 sg° Aged 7G, Mr. Thomas Ninths, 1 1, fad'''' , 0 brasier of Bath, but fur many year s I , o tso' l the patentees of the Bath Theatre. , 11 , gth ' .. 1 , 1 1 , At Leamingtou, Werwicl.shire, 0a liire, „orillii Knox, 'Esq. of Carlton-Hall, Leicestetistir_rr, 00,1_14, Suddenly, at his lodgings in Bolton- ejous,idy iot ins, the Rey, Dr. Hu h . Principal • "' J . o ll°' g ts, ford. . .. 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