The Sun. — London, England, 1817-06-12 00:00:00

~,, . VIE WORKING CLASSES. LEEDS INTELLIGENCER, MONDAY, JUNE 9. 1 "‘• This very day, it is now known beyond a rhuht, was fixed foe the execution, at length, of I host revolutionary scenes, the commencement of svhieh WAS so lately averted at Manchester, by a happy discovery of the atrocious designs there prepared for the destruction of your country: This eery day, on which the triahrof the wretched men, now charged with High Treason, are proceeding in London, was, it appears, to have been also, distinguished by the beginning of a Civil VV,yr in this County, and all over the Kingdom ! Kit, you perceive, the vigilance of Government ant of the Magistracy (to wham be the everlast i!ir; gratitude of. their country,) is too unceasing colnniversal, for the Disturbers of Public Trim to have any chance of success, in 'their desperate and wicked courses. All their motions are observed and known—All their fancied secrets llme discoveredall their dark machinations and monstrous designs are penetrated, prepared for, And frustrated, just at the moment when, they Cal ter themselves, the accomplishment is at hand— when their greedy eyes arc fixed upon their prey, 'nod they are justJeAdy to spring upon their coun try, and to tear her vitals with unhallowed strife. The eye of Government; ever awake, is, as it were, constantly directed towards every gamier of the. Empire ; and while Conspiracy and Treason, prowling abroad in the darkness of night, imagine that they are enveloped in the safety of its shades, anti screened, by - the very gloom and mystery of their own iniquity, from detection, they are in fact ender the constant superintendence and rower of that Guardianship, which, sleeps not • upon its post. All is watched, and all is known ! At the very instant fixed for execution, therefore, in each quarter of incipient rebellion, the Traitors suddenly find themselves, to their consternation and dismay, not heading the rebel rout, but seized in the inflexible gripe of indig nant Justice. Thus will they find all their pro jects terminate; for the spirit which is abroad Las called into action u system of jealous obser. 6tion, which, with the blessing of Providence, no art can deceive, and regainst which neither open force, not skulking fraud, nor devilish hate, can prevail. Yon, yourselves, must now be sensible, then, than Insurrection, even only in meditation, is a desperate game. And it is a game, too, which a' few cold-blooded cautious scoundrels tvish to play, vot for your own but their exclusive advantage.— Not one of the men, whose detestable doctrines have created so many thousands of discontented minds, and dk affected hearts, is to be caught in treasonable practices himself, No, no t--they want power and plunder ; but they will not - pur chase them at the risk of a halter. They rare not bow many of your mangled hodits may form the ladder of their ambition ; but they will not ascend a step at the expence of a broken bone to them. seiva,'; You are Englishmen !--and_ yet you de base yourselves by becoming the voluntary tools of a set of despicable poltroons, unworthy of any en• tetprise, whether honourable or not, which re quires any portion either of constancy or courage ; whose . wickedness is only exceeded by their das. t4rdly coWardiee,—and whose character at once comprises all that is base, and treacherous, and rapacious, and blood-thirsty, and pusillanimous, and vile. " It has , been one of their treacherous expe. dieuts, to assure the country, and, in the face o facts, to assert, and re-assert, the falsehood, again and again, that no plots whatever had any ex. istence. If they could have thus lulled the People and the Government into a false security, then, in deed, their work would have been of easy accom plishment. " They, themselves, are now forced to confess that which can no longer be denied; and to admit that the disposition to Rebellion in the country is no sinister invention of Ministers, for the put*• pose of affording a pretext to abridge the liberties of the People. ,1 But—What do we say ?-one of the Scribes who has devoted himself to promoting the cause of discontent, in the very paper in which he, for the first titne, announces the discovery of a formi dable conspiracy in this district—one of these .wretched panders to the worst passions of human nature,, in one and the same paper proves the ex istence of It (mum, and yet slanders the Govern ment for resorting to salutary legislative provisions for its suppression ! In one column there is a long find laboured ,attempt to deny the existence of any design to overtlitow the State, and a slander- oils tisstie of declamation on the insolently pre: stirred disposition of Alinisters to encroach npon the Constitiition, Jn ,the very next column, there a brief and simple detail of the " apprehension " Of ten persons in this neighbourhood on sitspi " cion of.tretison. 7 til:C prjetideS3"_ atl4l of terided:GENEgfrr, 1i14 , ,1N0 OF TnX FORTO.P. " rl.7laraslt Ot'F:tti VitNINO GOVEANMENT, " By AP +1 pEsuL4lolst, WAS TU nhVZ " cotIMINCLO lust night or to-night;!! " We erinfet.,e, thisextravrdinary.conduct—this hot and (told kind of dorible-dealing speculations, t 0, us nitcrly ittex plicable, -on Ally aeknowledg ed principle of human action ! We havobeen of ten itiing to heli'Se'., that the frequenf•deni,it, of tltet ni. tenve of dangerous conipirricies originat , not an'y .:noire of wickedness, -.bot,in tincon queratife ptid presnmptuotts hiiarkess. tut it was impossible, even it, the ,th , -.criee of the most, recent and conclusive facts, to acquit 'the trio.: ii4s II .Y.III-Tected of con , irmed efforts at wilful Mt sion and pernicions misrepresentation,' Thr tits• fortunate Caslonao felt, and the scarce less wretched individuals who have still, too probably, to pay the forfeit of their beads to public justice, anti who are at this moment labouring under the agonizing anxiety of a trial for their lives—Cash man felt, and the others, we suspect,.dread, that the evidence of Treason is too fatally strong for them ; while his melancholy fate, and their awful situation, are alone greater proofs of the reality of wicked designs, and of the sad consequences which attend them, than Ilumanity can behold without a sigh, or, could bear to see increased, without in creasing pity and pain. It is true that each particular plot is known Only to Government, to the immediate Actors in the conspiracies, and to a few other individuals. Even you, whom we now address, and so many of whom are expected to engage in the; work of devastation, are of-course ignorant of the precise objects of the Conspirators, and of the period at which you were to have. been called on to aCCOM., Flish them. You have; generally speaking, been so well prepared for Revolution, that it is neces sary for a few only to conspire as to the means, and to fix the time and place, the manner and me thud of the insurrection, under the confident ex pectation, that, so soon as they raise the curtain, ' and plant the standatd of revolt, their stage will he crowded with actors. When the time they fix for an explosion has arrived, they calculate, it is to he feared with too much accuracy, that many of you will at Mice rise at their call. They have 'only to give the word—to apply the torch to the comlnistible materials which have so industriously been fortned—satid the times of Civil War, rising at once from the point of contact ion, would ra pidly spread themselves on all sides, till the con flagration wasamiveral. Let its see what has been the real progress of events, amidst so many endeavours, on the part of your Seducers, to conceal awl deny them. Hired Missionaries of Sedition have for years beet, sowing the seeds of disaffection, till the rank sorb was fully charged with tie revolutionary orioci ple, and quickly covered with its deai.lly plants. A few chief Orators then stilt( forth, and by the heat of their inflammatory. harangues endeavour to ripen the harvest of blood, and to render it fit for its ulterior operations. Seditious assemblies, under the extravagant pretence of petitioning for an impracticable Reform, are every where culled together at their instigation. The rioters of Spa fields assume boldly the characters of open Rebel lion—hoisting the tri-coloured standarn ; fOrcibly seizing fire arms ; breakiog open the shops and dwellings, carrying off the property, and outraging the persons, of their peaceable felloW subjects; resistitig, with arms in their hands, the COnsti toted Authorities : and endeavouring to seduce the Military from their allegiance. The premature breaking out of that Insurrection, in the middle of the day, instead of the dead of night, as had been originally intended, probably saved the shedding of torrents of blood. Societies of a seditious Cha racter are formed all over the kingdoni, and main tain an active correspondence with each other. The Press teems with Seditious and Blasphemous Libels, The Public Orators and Writers for Dis affection; daringly utter the Most insolent threats of what is to follow the rejection of their demands. And, 'that nothing might be• wanting to complete the monstrouy climax, a murderous and treason able attack is made, in open day - , and in the Me tropolis, upon the Sacred Pe►son of the Prince Regent himself, while he was. engaged in one of the most important public fintetions of the Sore reign ! ! ! " Under these alarming circumstances (and the fidelity of the detail carmen be denied)—under these circumstances, and possessed, besides of vastmass of information, the publication (if which was deemed impolitic or improper, the Executive Government, justly alarmed for the tranquillity of the State, and truly auxiints tolireserve it front the horrors of internal distractions, tome forivard, with expressions of gild at the painful necessity which influences their conduct, and call the atten tion of btith Houses of Parliament to the dan gerous state of thenation, too evidently on the eve of plunging into a Civil War. In each House, Secret Committees are formed, before whom the documentary evidence of Tteason, &c. is laid. Both CoMmittees, though containing Memberi of the Opposition, as well as of the Supporters of Ministers, come unanimously '(mind they were unanimous) to Resolutions, declaratory of the great danger of the country, and expressive Of their conviction that the existing laws were in sufficient for the preservation,ortranquillity. Some of the most distinguished ,notitleaKOpponents Ministers, therefore, ‘Veee-perfectly Btitisfied, by evidence, which, in such a caw must have been indisputable evidence' indeed, not 'only that Sedi tious Plots had existence, • but that those 'plots were so dangerous, as to .demand the arming of their own political adversarie with extraordinary power, in order that they might be strong enough for their suppression, " Surely, even if no public symptoms of-dis a f. fection had previonsly nianifesttid lit:twelves; these results ought to have convinced every unpreju. diced Mind, that the information snbmitted by Government to the Committees most have been of a highly important and conclusive character decd. If the proceedings of the COlntnittees had been the only grontids tiir our relief, it is Impos sible that any unprejudiced mind, after their Re. -ports, could have rejected the conviction that the situation of the Empire wasextremely dangeroolc 'fire Contents of the famous Green Bag, as the documents haVe ironically beco called, are utterly' unknown to every man iii the kingdont, - except to Government and the COmmittc.es. kVirat . those contents were, therefore, or what was their in formation,.- it is impOssible to divine, but of this We may be certain, that, if 'they - Were of such a nature at; to' satisfy the Opposition Members of the Comtnittees, they would, if published, be found sufficient to satisfy the minds Of all others. 'li i s impossible to be otherwise. And, it a doubt po3- sibly could exist, that doubt moit vanish before what was every man's own knowledge of ok; in ce of 'the Coitntry, previous to onyParliamentary pro ceedings upon it whatever. "But what motives - , - then,' you may ask, cold& induce so many persons to assert that the Commit. tees bad . no sufficient grotini4s for their. Reports We will tell you:—The sole business of too many unfortunately, is to " agitate your pat sioos," and to raise you up against your Governors. Livery act of Govet nusent, therefore, is incessa ntly represented to you as odious, unnecessary, vexa tious, and tyrannical. You yourselves, as we have before observed, are ignorant of the existence of any treasonable Conspiraciel. You are only the prepared tools of the real Plotters, ready to cut away in any or all directions, so soon as they think a fit moment has arrived for your services. By assuring you„ therefore, that no plots have any existence, and that the measures of Government arc founded upon mere pretexts, for your oppres sion, they set a keener edge upon their instruments, and inspire you with a degree of hatred, and a thirst for vengeance, still more implacable than had actuated you before. The system is extreme ly artful. No wonder it should succeed with you ; tince numbers who would shed their blood in defence of their King and Cotintty, and Reli gion and Laws, have fallen into the snare, and have believed, that, though there is a great deal of discontent in . the State, there is no settled design, on the part of any one, to attempt its destruction. " But to resume. Not only do the Committees recommend extraordinary legislative measures Both Houses of the Legislature immediately enact, by majorities uoprecedently great, all the salu tary provisions which- their deliberative wisdom suggested. As if to prove, however, that the sal vation of the Empire depends, not on Acts of Parliament, 'but on the Spirit of • the penple, the indications of Rebellion become stronger titan ever, though the uplifted arm of the law, nerved with tenfold strength, is held over the heads of the guilt v. It is discovered, that in one quarter of the Empire (Scoil,toll) the most hottid oaths are administered to the Seditious,, binding them, under penalty of death, to secresy. lit Manches ter, a•ter the proper preliminary steps, an im mense ho;ly of men are put in motion, for a march to the Metropolis, in imitation of that of the Marselh.is, in the French Revolution ; and these are to be joined, on their route, by aectimulAing crowds, till they should become a sufficiently powerfal " reiulurcement fOr the London Demo cracy." Arrests of many individuals, and some of the pending trials for treason, in consequence take place. The march to London is wisely pre vented.; and the deluded multitude compassion ately suffered to return to their homes. But so far front the spirit of the Conspiracy being broken, we find, a few weeks afterwards, that Delegates have assembled in the very same town—that they have determined on the destruction of it by fire—that they are to appear, simultaneously with the Disaffected in other large towns and populous Districts, in arms ; and that, in the dead of night, plunder, and , death, and devasta tion, are to be let loose upon the affrighted inha bitants "The providential discovery of the plot averted this awful 'calamity; and the Conspiracy, ren dered only more furious by disappointment, re news its meetings and its designs. In this . Dis trict was it to have commenced this day, had not another providential discovery again frustrated it. " We are not at liberty; nor would it be pru dent, to divulge all the circumstances that have been ascertained. But the most perfect infarunt tion of the state and disposition of all the Sedi tious in this District, is in the hands of the Ma gistrates ; and .woe to them who shall hazard another attempt to disturb it: The Wretches who have just been frustrated, have held secret meet ings (as they thought) in -the character of Dele gates, in various parts 'of- this County, as well as in other quarters of -the kingdom ; and had deter mined, in the madness of their hearts, on 'hoist ing the signal for &general rebellion. Foals that they are ! They saw not that they were drawing down inevitable destruction upon none but them selves ! Of their supposed number (for we shall not say more till they have been put upon their trial), six have been apprehended at.Sheflield,and ten others were taken on Friday last, while they were assembled together, in a public-house at Thornhill Lees, near Dewsbury. Amongst these are James Mann, cloth-dresser, the Chairman of your late Leeds Union Club, for obtaining Par liamentary Reform, 'according to the Constitu tion ; Thomas Murray, of Leeds,- linen-weaver, and John Smaller, Of Mnrbury. They and their seven companions were immediately escorted to Wakefield by a detachment of eavalry,where they were examined before Sir Francis Lindley Wood, Bart. Benjamin Dealtry, Usq., and . other Magis trates. After re -committing the prisoners for a second •examination, a dispatch • was sent, off to the, Secretary of State ; from', whom, probably, instructions will be received as to their present disposal.. " In the mean time the . Magistrates, and Sir John Byng, 'the General Commanding the Dis trict, have adopted the most effectual precautions for the preservation (Attie peace, in every-gnat ter of, the District, ptudent arrangements have been entered into. hi Leeds a number of Special Constables have been sworn in. Two Troops of the 'l3t" Light DraOnona have' been marched in from York, as an addition to the Military Force previnasly stationed here; anti an increased force can be had at the shortest notice. Patroles of horse and of constables vigilantly traverse the streets during the night. That fine corps; which has received such distinguished praise from Sir John Byng, for its spirit, appearance, and ►lit►- t:ipline, the Northern Regiment of West Riding Yeomanry, •'assembled yesterday afternoon, at llarewnod, and other places, and are ready to act in any direction. As the pl o t i s discovered, its explosion is for the prese n t, no doubt, subdued. But vigilance and activity are not the less indispensable. Those who are well affected will now of course be more and Snore strongly impressed with the necessity of en rolling themselves in Volunteer Corps—not for the defence of Government, which is far beyond the reach of any danger,—but for the protection of themselves and their families and homes—the pre servation of local tranquillity,—and the salvation of the deluded Men themselves, who would rush into excesses, the end of which could be nothing but their own wretchedness Find destruction. We have every reason to believe that the Magistrates could readily obtain, in this town and neighbour hood, the services of a sufficient number of indivi duals to form a corps of Volunteer Infantry."_ iIORR I D AI UrthEß, " ? -Y, . , Yesterday sennig___ ht, about half-pest tit, ril neighbourhood of Arundel-lane, in Sheffiel d ir: thrown into great alarm by a violent sertertault proceeding from a house in that lane ocenpieat one Win. King, by trade an edge.tool' aell!: Nblorn.sleN:isna.).sl,ltahnalteayb, oicivthbosifli.ves in the otij °lll in bed, he beard a violentPasscre t saixt:inscginociit's4.l* man's voice in Wrii, King's house, aud WO lent blows or strokes, and heard some 11. groan twice. A report was quickly cire# , that King had murdered his wife, %Welt lift.' bad drawn many of the neighbours to !Li t% where the dreasilisi occurrence we are tn r i i .' relate took place. On their arrival in thels.:.. which W. King's house stands, the feeling °fa; was inconceivably heightened by the 0P i P e11 . 4 ,,, of blood on the glays of the chamber viill9Vai the voice of a child es ying,. and one wittietOr. that be heard the voice at a %Tomanesllitlr " Lord base meicy Upon me !" One ai . sons in the yard; Mr. Jolin Gonflftitis eel a ; smith, instantly exclaimed, u Will tiaboilYi7b. up stairs with me F.' King called out, 'c Pi% dare come up ?•' Upon this the. former alletrlArtv to ascend the stairs, but wag immediately repro;;" by King, who brandished en iron pokers ib e i tt c with which be is supposed to ►bare firtifirtu, the horrid crime for which he is cominitttil. '''i Eight o4 ! person repulsed instantly went hit° a 11- .. L a hfluse and armed hiniselt with a poker. tvhca,co i m m e diatele fl ew out into the yard a nd sir` i „ j ,,„ hien with his poker, bnt,Mr.Gondlad tieteml!tii7;, self , and King placing himself in a raelof1:."01 t it lisle, against she wall, the o ilier struc k 11111 1 .,; e sti disables} his arm, %Thereupon he `‘'," (. s4tri seized, and the poker taken front liuni 0 . 1 person then went sip Stairs, and 011i e ! er re T s ie r ise . ii thou} tit there was life in 11,:t . . i 0 .dre stone) fur answer, " I ho p e lin t l" . i . ilJ el s i li ly s . istance was inunediatcly sent tor, ants • 11 1 ,44 pipit! Carr, surgeon, of Shetlield.,,,wot .1„:01 anti saw the dccease;l ill . the same 'state 1 7 ,0 g r she was ' first discovered —filing ( 10( !' • f iesto hotly crost-wise on sire bed, bat %rill ) i' e t r ,pittO the chamber floor. Her head wo i, }e. ' t“ t onio ) (apparently with some hard and heevY tivi „ot The print husband of the deceased ' O4l 4 std lard a soldier, when Sarah Trippet, thete,sio -o'lo 4 with a respectable family') Shone!'" , At Ilkit thusband estima t ion inibi siebc aitlniu)tadesi a cc or din g to c , or 'Tripper,idtrs s :e l o 11 1 cteneabroem?teadadiliii :,e g in : so ti si ti tasoc e op : s i tip‘ r o a tvi l os t .. :I r id : 0 ,1 41, . solte r:: froted ! ~ : t iht 0 IP written to the regiment in wh5e4440,10.,' c p( e t4. i en v v e dio d , for answer that her htlibin" of iiii ii° ' this informatio n, name, but not her husband, Ito ,u r i ; a diiell"_! A in gtheV j i d e soner, and they have since lircurr,_,,,itly tws77 eion;cste;:tietieleecisaiirsi:efruittlitijole'edila.' isfh:1;;;. and wife. But the prisoner htla t a i r t,' i'' vered that the prior husband Os $-, '' , • ..,,,,, ...........moi."' Lon OW bli p aialtt l i ‘ rbi ' d it e t otr i s: G ni t sc e tao r oi rl A ,i.it. a ito rr y eet ti:nouMff)OpPltrthneltlaloft:ror---.ol:noo:Ziiidgrill. miti,7ll.o::,;4oillia-.iiitii:o:HtH:ll4,o:l'iiiiat:7ol; use o'clock ,t l aiendproefe, e i d n i i n i g tildv c ri ; r 7 ticrti e et t i i: 3 etb ° o6o ll l ;n l l6l " ; so4o % ; , name of E ll is, described to Ve'ri", t ut ista a " e 'illo years of . age, mach pitted oat"' 1)001(044i lack; and employed as a man of . the name of Coolteri C r 4 l -e ars o f l 14 of Mrs. Curry, a L a dy about 6Y.Y e. leo in g t siding at No. 11, Upper lerroca' lid.serilfifiiill Church, and being known to the ni a ti reoititi.oti bad tea With her in the' kitelie n i 4 . ° 1 lie t a ttlr . t ri be an opportant Y' die ssof lit the heavy ` kitchen s poker, and gal the teulls"W nate woman a blow with it dercisis , odd s i i i ; laid her fiat ; she screansetl ° at L i i i int o i,4l l ; . ' could, when the villain b othrepeatedh' her_ l i* she strove to defend by lifting 0 ? , v iio 1 $ 10; Her screams alarmed her atistrealh o iber, o liV presence of Milid to lock the duo 41 0 .4' sh a be 'O7 meet, and lifting up the Its Z ihe is illlti. 6 . . " Murder ! robbers !" on Whie",t,,,, a hasty retreat, without electing P . 1 %. o r - ol io . leaving the poor woman fordeadPboti 11!!',01} found with her scull frecturds ularialP4' broke, and several other wouodizninedistlist. • of her body. A surgeon Was i h n ii i t N A.," tor, who dressed her w ounds; - O the.„‘ts, hope of her. recovery. . Mr. Soi-,f' c i;dt, l ",if f trate, and Mr. FORD,' the CIO" , it io.;.7:: the house to try to take her dee' make further inquiry. ..--"" .. COAL t4fAitta'T, Jo° ' 1 7111 arket» Ships sultl• ..40; :o\o, Shilis at M 404 Newcastle . • .......... .313••••••* ' o l•.ii 0. 1 4. 64 , Sunderland ......... •.. 54, ... • . .:. sp. 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APrfo r ) oat', the ed inst. at Bromptors 3:1,,b50i iei late si Petersen, in the county of Cardig,.. 11,4711 ~,, 'Li;of rittlialltellt for Carmartbons 10 P obi Li; age. in '6C°PeoP,or 0n hionday, the 9th inst. at Persliore, toweit , t tirt•iii‘at'iltliti,:fstsa.Plaxtort Allsock, one of :1;4 , 1, jeoll:.°J.l , ei "100 r On the :9th of April, at Rome, sgt J a co , thr stcond son of Thomson /lobar, Sol . - Chielhurst, Xent. L°l4llarrnonNittPrrintt.taX J . .nl.34:inCa'reSlt;Crolit'Jit,Nt4reetifs.ll'4ll IIqr::I.' SCRIPPS, o f No, 1, Sonth.golf 9 P; t • tell) eat if Cefcr, Nn. lilt, Strand; where lA, f . , 1 0 1 04 , Lettets? &c. fseas.imia) ow% bc aa..