The Sun. — London, England, 1817-06-23 00:00:00

arming.tbe soLliers by niglitt, in,their qoariers, of tediOiog , them from their duty; and of providing rantsfor themselves, partly by these seizures, and pertly by tin easy method of forming pike-heads oat of common tools and utensils. it appears to your Committee, that the utmost 'confidence prevailed among the delegates, as to the ultimate:l nail:meta offheirokket ; that thesucces sive arrests of ,everal of the principal leaders, tho' they oeeas oneil momentarfairs'appointtnent, did not ex tintr`eisie• the spirit of insurrection, or the }pip es /if saCOOSS; )11 the parts of the country above m e m ton e d ; 4 .1. t h e utmost iinpatience was matii lesiva at. the delays %Odell had taken place in fix ing tlie. dot for the general rising. This, after several' postponements, w a s appointed for the Monday in IVltitsuit week, and was afterwards again postponed fo; the fyli of Jtine,`.ii•hirlt was tholight more favourable for a midnight insurreco lion, as the-tnriou svonld then be in .the wane. Notiec of this hitt appointment had beeb so seidely circulat. d, Ilott it beeatio;,almost of public notoriety ; which „while it awaked the attention of those whose ditty it was t o preserve the public peace, did not appear to derange the preparations of those who were disposed to dikturb it. Even 'where the planners of the insurrection suggested a ,farther d lay, they found it impossible to re strain the impatience which they bad excited Amon their followers, who had forsaken their ordinary habits of indostry, and who must tither proceed to the immediate attainment of their ob ject, or for the present relingaich it, and earners to thei: accustomed occupatious. Onthe2BthofM,ty a electing of delegates in the neighbourboodof act - geld was dispersed, mot some of the panties were apprehended „; and opt the Gth of June,sevetal per sons desiotbedto h e delegates (amid believed by yoot Committee to be such), who wereassembled at an other place iii time s nlr neighbourho o d, were rip. I/rubew :ed by the Magist lat es o f the Riding, asiist ed by the military; and the filial arrangement of the whiclewas tittle to be settled, was thus hap pily.frustrio ed. It was confidewly expected, that these arrests would discoocert whatever Memitirei were iii preparation, and they appear to have had that effect in the immediate vicinity of Sheffield ; but the spirit which had been excited could not be wholly suppressed. In the neighbourhood of ~ludrlersiltld, in the night of the Bth instant, se veral houses were forcibly entered.and plundered of arms. A considerable body itt armed Melt were noproachioe. the town, wh en a sm all patro l e o f Y o emotry '.. Cavalry, attended by a peace-officer, fell in- with them, audWas 'received with the dis charge of several .shot,' by which one of their troop horses was wounded. 'The patrole having ascertained lila! they were too few to oppose such nemthers, thought it prudent to retreat, when se veral shots were fired atter them without *effect. Ott reituriting with an udditional force to the spot, they :wool that the whole of the insurgents had disopeca t ed ; but guns fired as signals, in different dir e ct tons, and ts sh own onaliebeights through. out the ermotry sutlicieolly proved the extent of the eottfe , :eotey, and the concert with which it twig organized. It; .nape populous' villages'of Derby- Shire, a more open insurrection took place on the Pitta of, dime. A delegate front this part of Abe eottotry hid attended a previous meeting at Not. /Ingham, iind an active emissary front thence paid joi ed them in the course of the night. The in. sup ection began, aceatdiug to the general plait proposed, with attacks upon houses, for the pur pose of procuring arms ; in one of which a servant wAs wantonly allot ; about 200 insurgents were soon assembled, mostly wined either with pikes or with lite arms., and beion their march towards Nottittoam, in expectation of increasing their number s HS they went . , and of finding that place in full insurrection, and prepared to supp or t th em . They were, however, intercepted by detachments of cAvalry (muter the orders of active and intelli gent M igistrioes), which came up with thein in different directions, nnd totally, dispetsed them. Between SO and GO were taken, and lodged in the different gaols ; many . fire arms and pikes' were taken ai the - same time, and a clualttity of atomm mitioo was found upon the per*ons of the pri. timers. Your Committee have thus stared the prominent points; of the information, which has been laid before there, particularly as affecting the mauls. facruring disti icts in the Northern and Midland tionsities, and which has been substantiated, in almost every particular, by depositions on oath taken. before Magistrates. , The character of tire danger remains the same a s was deaCribed in the farmer Report. It arises from the indefatigable exertions of persons in the lower ranks of life, or bot little above them, of some popular talents, in. iiamiug and aggravating the actuardistress of anu merous marmfacturing, population, by exciting hopes of an immediate retredy to all their suffer• lugs from a Reform in Parliament, and preparing them (in desphir of attaining that object) to at. tempt, by force, thermal subversion of the esta blished Constittition of Government: Your Committee stated, in. their former Report, th at t h e mode of organization, pi PICT iSeti w tit slit& mischie‘ous succesi io tire populous (Hitt lets, had been in very many instances conducted under the cover of as,ociallons. called Hampden Clubs, formed for the ostensible purpose' of procuring a Reform in Parliament and they now find that iu many instances, *here the 'open meetings of those ‘ocieties ;rave been discontinued, ! , everal cff th e men:bets of them have assembled more private. I ) *, a nd been the principal leaders in the projected combinations. t he it former Report they did nor think it ne. cessory to arfvert to that atrocious system tfcron bitoci,m, outrage, and hired 'assnissioritiout,,whiCk hill prevailed hr sonic of the trutlland comities, under the name of Luddism; both because . the trials of persons, ch..trged with those crimes, were then known to be d pending ; and because the firtetri itsit did nor than distinctly appear to your C , thamittee to have any immediate applica. tion to pohical purpo,es. But 'they have rsince found reason to believe, that those who are con cerned in iostiptiOg the people to 1(14 lirreet have availed 'themselves ot .this frowerfol engine for tire more extended purposes of tiolitleaf intro• `station. ripw) 'the whole, your Committee have been poximis Heiiiivr , to exaggerate or extenuate the ItittlllT and - etit ut Thvy i„ i v e „„, bCCI) t& the jeit:ousy Siitit - Which the testimony or persons, trriglually implicatellitr the designs tsf -the Conspirfttors; or even ofperinns who, never having engaged in thisse designs, have attended their meetings, in order .to discover and report theirieOeeediitlis,.eitht tip h e but the facts:.stated by your Committee rest not only upon :confirMatoryevideoce, hot on distinct, substantive, and sa 'she' ory testimony ; and al though your Committe' et. have seen reason to apprehend that' tbelanguage'timl conduct of some persons. front wlsOni information has heels de.. rived, !nay, in some lust 4nces, have had the effect of et -cooraging those' designs,.. which it was tended they should only be the instrument( of de. tecting ; yet it is perfectly clear to your 'Com ,- otittee, that hefOre any such encoutagement could have been given,, -the plan of a simultaneons in surrection, in different parts of the country, had been actually concerted, and its execution fully determined on. Your Committee have the satisfaction to continue to believe, as they have before' stated, that the danger which they have described, is to ho fauna only among the lower order of Clic- manufacturing population, is particular parts of the country, many of whom are labouring under considerablt• privations, from the low rate of wages, and in the increasing priceaif 'the necessaries of life; though your Committee cut,. nut but remark, that. the most active and determined 'hist'' , gents are, in' Many instances, to he found among those whose earnings, even in the preseiit state of the manu factures, would enable them to support their families in comfort. They find, that of the promoters of these corn motions, many have either left the comitry, or are prevented front prosecuting their designs. The disaffected appear to want leaders to conduct sach enterprises as they litre con ceived; ate• frequently disconcerted by joilousy and distrust of each other, and lee the cousciottotess that their I Lots aft ' watched ; and -by the arrests of the . ringleaders. Meat as the numbers probably. arc, anmeg whom disaffection, to an alarming extent, has made considerable progress, 'fomented at first* by popular hatatignes, aad still by the mole powerful and general excitement of sedi liens,publications, your Committee are fully aware. that the number of those, who are now prepared to take the lead in any project of open insurrection, is not to be estimated by the exaggerated reports of their Delegates. Though they hare been all along tan4ht to look to London for coup. tentesece and support, though some of their own mis sal-int hare, from time to time, affected to bring them hopes of encouragenramt from twat quarter, in Cite sit success; mat though it., lets been stated to your Commit , - tee, that a Delegate frion the country lout recently been tendiog. a meeting of Delegates in London, tie specific it fit 'nation has been laid helve your Committee et the existence of ony body of men, ass - Omitted in the metropolis, with hien the disulreeted in' the coulltry appear 16 be acting in concert, or to hold commituiration. Thcir hopes Mite froin their own numbers, which, it they Ctott Id he excited to simultaneous movements, would distrait their opportenti.,:end would procure the 'beaus for care ying their utinost designs into execution. It is hoped by them, that the timid and ir resolute would thus be encouraged to '!seed forward ; and they dotter themselves, that efficient leaders would not be entitling to put themselves it tlkea • head of a successful in surrec ti on. Your Committ ee cannot contemplate what has passed in the Country, erell since - the date of their former Report, without the most serious apprehension. During this period, the precautionary measures adopted by Parlianit ot have been in force ; many of the most active promoters of pculic tbs. torhances . here been apprehended; the immediate projects of the disaffected have been discovered awl deranged; yet nothing has deterred theta front a steady pursuit of their ul timate object. Though hitherto clicked. the least itdvance towards the attainmeht of that object could not but be at tended with the titio.,st hazard to the lives and properties of his Majesty's anhjects. In the late insurrection on the borders of Dergyshire and Nottinghamshire, the MASS of tho population, throtigh which the insurgents passed, evinced the utmost ahhorressee of their defigns . and piabj'ects v Io other instances, where the tants have heel; called upon to aid the civil power, that cell has tiesm answered with alacrity and zeal conduct hi creases the claim 'of peaceable and loyal inhabitants ta the disturbed parts of the country to the roost efficient pro. tectioo. roar Catumittra.find that it le the concurrent oplalots of Many of those elitriWed with the pre4ervation of the peace, and best acquainted with the.state of the disturbed districts, as well as the .td mission of the disaffected themselves, that the surprebsion of the littenliitS at insurrection hitherto made, man in a great degree, be *berthed to the existenco of the extraordinary , powers entrained by Parliament to the 164. cutive Government, cull in cases where it has been found necessaty to e4il them into action ; . and that the tranquillity of the country would he put to hazard, if those powers were new withdrawn. In this your Committee fully concor l tool, confidently as they rely on the loya lty nod guno disposition o f th e great b o d y of, his Majesty 'ssilbjeCks (even in those parts of the country in which the spirit of disaffection has shewu itself in tht must formidable shape), they cannot hut express their conviction, that it is not yet sae to rely entirely, for the preservation of the pablic tranquillity, upon the ordinary powers of the law. - T ATILICA REGISTE It. Performed on Saturday Night. KINA'S TIMATIII4.-11 Dull GiUMlliti. After which, Les per . Ages, ou les Quadrille:. CovENT.GAtiligNo—The Stranger: theStraniter,Mr.K.emble Mos. Haller, Miss O'Neill. After which, No Sung Nu Sup. per. NEW THEATRE ROYAL. &NUM Orefte.ttnrse.—TheAngler. After Mild:, 'l'wa Words, 'I he Bridge that 'garde* us sate over, and is lie Jealous ? MAILM. Aartiven—l France, I Hamhurgt,, I Guernsey and Jersey, 2 Dublin, 2 Wale' ford. Dur.—i Holland, I Huaiburgb, 1 Flanders, I Dublin, I Waterford. PRICE 0 tiTt)t:KM 1),11' r r a per tent•. Red ..75111 S per Cent. shut 4 per Cents 6.per Cent. Navy Ann... shut o'cLocrt. Bank L. v i tu0.....19i 7-16ths Indio BIN. 894. pr. Ruth. Rills... • • 9s. 13s. pr. Cos. for July, .. 744 .Arerage Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the Returns made in the week ending the 16th day of June, ;817, is 471. Id. per cwt. 111(411 WATER. AT LONDON MUDGE 'lll-MORROW. 'l)9 tiLl..“tvb sitter D. 1 ibrnirssi 114 usisintiot artt!criti. "4 " 1 F SUN lot.Ll yiviS Dick:Ha rALium AUDRATt LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1817. FUNDSO"";I'he glut of money at present in the market is beyond all precedent; the Blinkers have this morning issued a Circular Letter to their county customers, ittforming them that the diffi culty is so great of disposing of their money to advantage that they cannot make any use of it it irstated that they cannot get 34 , per Cent. and therefore the adeuntage of holding is not worth the hazard. We announced last week that the Bank would discount at 4 per (cut., it is posi tively stated this morning that they will discount at four, the consequence is that Bonk Stock iris Kinn b per Cen.. in the course of fait Week. Canvils, this; morning, opened at 761, mill lose to 4, 4. ‘Vc received yesterday and this morning the Paris Papers of Thursday and I' ridgy last. They announce the restoration of tranquillity, with some few exceptions, in the markets, and that the price of grain had in general considerably fallen. Eight persons in ahni, however, been arrested at Perrette (Deux Sevres), and nothing is said respecting the finally suppressing the tumults in the neighbourhood of Lyons ; but the prospect of a plentifill harvest, added to the actual fall in the price of grain, seem to have bad a very bene ficial effect.. An article from Madrid, dated the sth instant, says, " The'present situation of Portugal has ex cited the attention of our Government. Orders have been sent to all the frontier places, to stop and scrupulously examine all the Portuguese coming into Spain. Measures of precaution have also been adopted in the fortresses. It is said that letters from Portugal have been intercepted, which disclose n connection with time projects of the partizans of the Cortes, to excite disturbances Spain. Detarhments from the garrisons of Vittoria, Burgos, and Valladolid, have received orders to march in great haste to the frontiers of the kingdo m art Leon." The Princess of %Vides arrived at Rome on the 2d instant. According to the intelligence from Wurtemberg, the King , had submitted the •Ceustit ution to the seliMies of, the atilhvicks. This step is said to !Jaye been oppo•edi by some of the illenthers of the tujority of the' dissolved States ) who it is ru. moured endeavoured !o excite disturbances. The Legislative Assembly of the lonian Isles, consisting of deputies trom the Slates of the dif ferent Wallas, vvith the exception of the deputy from C. l .vrigo . , bssetnbleil . at Cort,ti The Lord High Commissioner, Sir Tilos. NIAIT. LAND, (Veiled the assembly hy a speech, in which he stated, that tie important object of their deli iteration was " in execution of the '4th Article of the Treaty of Paris, of lith NoVember, 1815, to establish the fundamental bases of a ConstitOtion, which, on being adapted by the assembly, was, be fore being carried into effect, to be submitted to the approbation of his Britannic Majesty, the only and exclusive Protector of the said States." The Baron Tniorroxl, the Besidear, made a reply echoing the speech. The. Lord High Com mistioner.being under the necessity of proceeding to Malta, tilled to that island on the title of May, having' appointed Colonel PATRIC& STUART to act for I,itn In Ids absence. The intended journey of the Xing of Prussia, in th►e Prussian Provinces on the left back of the Rhine, has been officially announced at Coblentz and Cologne. M. M.Come and DuNongtt, the authors of the - Censeur, were arrested on Tuesday, and conveyed to. La Force. The . ifettt day they underwent a long interrogation beWre, the Juge d' Instruction. A Spanish chebeck arrived at Alicant on the Ist inst. which lett Algiers the 29th tilt. ; at that period the utmost tratignillity prevailed in the Re gency, and it is now clearly established that the sinister reports of R massacre of Europeans were *holly des tit ute of foondalion. The tolluming are f u rther extracts Jutits 20.--The King, nnd the Doke end Duchess d'Angonleme, wcnt Tuesdnyeren. 1g to St. Cloud, to remain there till the 7th July. " FIVE PUR cerrrs. " Monday .......... , . C 8 f. sQ e. " Tuesday .... ....... lib f. 2') c. " INSPRUCK, J 1 NII is said the Princess of Wales has purchased the fine villa of Frascati." The following is an Extract of a Letter from the Agent to LlOyd's at Buenos Ayres, dated 25th March The Patriot ship Chacahtteo, and schooner San Martin (late American vessels, Clif ion and Davie), are all ready fur sea, and will' sail in si few days, on a'cruise. The former Mounts. 84 guns and 250 men, and the latter 18 guns and 150 men it is said they are to proceed round the Cape, but we rather suspect their cruising ground will be off Cape St. Vincent. The .San Martin is considered the fastest sailing vessel out of ti.e United States.-4he brig Savage of 18 guns, which arrived here on the 18th inst. from more, is another of the,snuadro u from America, and as their nearly loaded with military stores, it is likely she will proceed round to *Valparaiso.— ThetiMsequencia and Independence have not yet sailed. --A number of commis4ons far privateers have lately been issued by thitt,Goternment, and forwarded by individuals to the United States."- 1iieta,....14y ativices from Buenos Ayres of the 13th April, the San Martin and. Indi . pendence had sailed. 'A We turn again with rehictance to the subject 01 THE thrtRAS CORPUs SUIPRNSIoN /int, a atm. iare that the wisdom of the Legislative! b‘,(lies fully etanrassed, and has asostsatlstadO lil li gsti. dvt i t h il me t ai e o lv r c oms cl u a o eir i etill i t u P o in the t ` Is of all honest and tellatingrtn' fled Milt P i p er ; however , *biclu we ba'rdly know Ith. generally with a hostile spirit towed' the l atter ' v.abcasillattoe.sdatyoweagradisas both ttitscil::.i.l Secrecy, and asks if this; 'Committee he t et" to proceed on put ijt ° front other q ua vers besides that their bands by Ministers. ' Was the Coositas, Report of the Committee vi r SO nut the country, and art the part 0. - i' and Informers? Wiimt r i 4 iit ioi the PiP er i ' question to s uppose t l ! , r t h e c„,„„iittee dill 1 1 1 1 sill the matter to the utmost, awl did tl' t (I I iipon Aliniittrs for all possible document' a:i. oaatirploi denominate r the PP ° si i i n ° or MitiOttrirl, a alatrhoevrit,TCoculitldii srseill'iltii tteisitroi:: explanations tip:,n any doubtful points ? 11311 0 Paper in question any ri;.:lit to a• 4 tbeCt )illmifr i whether the ground:, upon which obey f°1114( their Rep:rt was all the evidence that theytt; ceived ? What right bits it to ►b Lyrae 119 :Ministers gave them only what it or st : ' (l ecenfly calls " garbled documents," 0 ' 1 ! I . 'Committee have not full a s timell sl,:tritY °I s l . l ' public Journalist, and that they would bait ll ' as h'gli and as,honourable a spi rit of re'istg jilta • if . Rl' Y attempt , had been matte to (triode 'II by ." garbled documents 2" The Corntrit:ets lied theamplest information that could be procl- ti l, they consist, i:, both Houses, as " ii3;11111: 0 the count r y, c a o s u i n s t A r t y n , ir w e irtslaiolluytkiini3ottivflisc,t.iomf, otfhpe:ttb)1::::141:11t u dibtl threatened the Country, and which t he l ~„, reason to beFiere are still in secret opersw'fi 14 ‘ R i v ) ja i t: l : l i .e i e c o l 1 : : t t u i o ,:li t i l i r : ; ) i u rging )1 wait l ' i l l y , ci e ° , 4l l ni : , : t v' o c ai e f u : t i t e il ;:t i ne t I s t a l :: 1 e t : e l ti life ; ' : i‘ n ifjsi s :ll o :d e: d e licbl i s o l p u b t lf : l4 rate, malignant, and rebellious 1110. n' llo !ill 0 into Vi i" c i I ° confusion. s ioot:: other L i e l I " : atitttamnast:tirethrri°,:vt "filet $13 :: 1111)eP t; is still e b s t se s n n t o ia t l 7 t: ly i t b s 2 T p e re Ci St d r i % S I preservation . fr°llllll-' The Leeds Mercury ~, ilthi s morn ing , contains another VCIV lo n g lati t ° l /01 ecting 0 -41 VIER,, but so completely aPrige:oh, there is actually included in it the Itstr°6lc: 0,1,0 of SAturday, rectei fp Out o ath, of one of the Leeds D' le g gtc :h labs conduct4e lf o er f cl o l had . been arrested, but discharged, s '"` l telin i/4 evidence against, 0 1 , in nie— t 13 IVitit. It pppc i , il lictc. ° numerous / • netting of Magistrates at I. 4 0410 Si Monday last, Eat, FtrzwiLLtaStt i n Ibi , .ig the Which some evidence was heard relPlll•oation t as private, the Leeds AT ercur y i!oes ti °l ect iog „o assert, that ail its former staid res Ping or e the other paiticulais stated respecting 'h i — , ceedings at t hi s meeti,, ,, of (tic m s gistr aci the for Sessions persons recently apprehended at , es : P c' Lees, on a charge of treasonable Pr 3clic ( 1,0" wood,lIle" ;s to cinuider 8, ~,,y,.0,1 toss Right Hon. Eat! Fitovillian,l yi i llif lewenant), in the Chair; Sir Fi'llcili, Ile Wood, Bart. Rev. Wm, IVood, Cle rk ' j. : ‘ ll4 ll ~ Benj. Dealtry, Godfrey Ilg:iliolli3qi , s atker, Michael Stocks, Thomas tiortnib etesto„. 4 V ‘ "' BenYuu, and Win., Marston., Es9 s . Esq. Mayor of Leeds, was also present' of 0 ra diels " Atter the examination of Willi° llsi i et° *Sheffield, on Whose information the pr' -° , poi' bury,u, .eencowmams caller} Minr.a.l:;:ibtoxl),fin:cikuiclui j s , on to , :: 001;i , i t i ll t t, cireutusteOces of Oliver's Conduct, a n y l;' the f g!!,`. william . thelLord- Lieutenant , took ti ° ' t dence with great minuteness. 1 0 0 4. ", Mr. James Willan, the bookoller' state l''' evidence, called,a" S t e t l e a X ti p y r e es to sed thel i h is t r te eB tt i t i p i' t ' s e3l:l.4 " 7: , l) : * l ° o llti;:' to seduce him from his allegiance, ii ,-e 111 amrmation, but this . being a criminal rill:woo: umrmation of a Quaker is not aditOible'. t'ii, ivat, ..; wtts obliged to w ithdraw without b ...; d coil evidence. t oo ~-.• ..:. The examination or or ' the w itne `' oer'...::: r ( l e ' o , gt i d, . t , , ~, Several hours, and the "%tit strata, Afte tint • 1 ming some time on the evidence, ( li t e ' : . .. i . ft,v' f , ..: " Thomas Nforray, of Leeds, MiJira I Witilertrva F i e re'! „ Town, Miles Iltingworth, of Mantingli.lin, W ri 4 'P , of Iligh.Town; Joseph Mideley, "bf AlawildbilrY.' i r 0 11° ' Walker, of ThorohilV.+Sbould he discha r g ed ar` the coanizanees. - Wo ke 1 i `• Tito . Wood, of Westgate•Conoln;L:ii, hil° field,' was ilso-d;sebarge.i, on find ing , self in 40!. end two sureties it' '2O l . e4ca' of if° , filth/ li! If Benjamin ni'llitley, of irl" nih: 4,1 tln it lid tuanded until Friday, when he ' 4 " l I( • , il f ''' '' ~,e ter n/. would be d;scharged on the 18--