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their rettirn - s of thephysical force of tiieir'resliec tire dist' icts, disposed to rub all risks. Birniing 'ham distriet was rcprescoteil to be able to furnish a force 'of 150,000 men (it will be recollected this! 'the Manchester I)l4l:deers intended to take Bir mingham in their route). Sheffield, it was stated, would product. 10,000 Met. Tons Bacon gave in - 30,000 as the forces of Derby, Nottingham, and . Leicester "(and 30,000 more, if wantei;.)—Mit chell,,on the au tliority of Pendrill and others, re 'ported London as having a force of 70,000 ;--- 7 and - so on, each delegate reporting the effec nionhe'r of the disaffected in his division. " Oliver, having made his Ohservation3, soon after this quitted Wakefield and went on to Liver )iool, to see Pendrill according to appointment. He reported the state of affairs to Pendriil, who - said he was satisfied all was going on well, hut 'that he would not await the issue of the struggle, and he accordingly set sail for Anietica. " Was now taken into custody; mid - Oliver retnruell to London, making his way through Bradford, Leeds, and Nottingham. On his arrival at Nottingham, of which place lie had been told, at %Wakefield, Toni Bacon WO 3 - the presentative, he went out to inquire for him,while the coach passengers were dining : but no such per son was known in the town; Bacon being, in tact, a resident at Pentridge, and Oliver being entirely ignorant who lie really was. This circumstance not only falsifies the intimacy said to have sub sisted betweeo Oliver and Bacon ; but it also ac counts for Bacon not having been like the other pilucipal leaders, arrested, which event wonld have saved himself from transportation for life; and night probably have entitely prevented the Derbyshire insurrection. In fact, use may just observe here, that Oliver's information, from the 40er peliod of his knowledge of ;he conspiracy, and his superficial acquaintance with the persons engaged in it, was frquently incorrect, ns to the rniantite. None of his communications were ever laid before the Secret Committee of Parliament, the most important particulars being ascertained front other ion' more respectable quarters ; nor was any individual arrested solely on his evidence. Every person apprehended was known to be en gagedin the conspiracy, front the concurrence of unimpeachable testimony. We had a proof of Oliver's inaccuracy in this district, he having made an erroneous report to Sir John Byng, of the place of meeting, when some of the disaf fected were arrested on the 6th of June, at Thom n hill Lees. " On the 23d of May, Oliver left London again; and being now without his former companion, Mitchell, he could only pursue the same track throt►gh which Mitchell had taken him. Ile knew tiobody except through ;Mitchell's introduction. On his arrival at Birmingham, he found things going on as hail been stated at the Central Meet ing in Wakefield, the del6zate . ,9 being completely c►,n,joined. ()Li the 25th ..of May (Sunday), he reached Derby, and went directly to Robert.- dia - tv's. lie was too late for the family dinner, and was sliewn into a private room. ‘Vhilst there, Ito bet tshaw came in, and accos!ing hint, sail his face %Vas - familiar to him ; WheW Oliver reminded him of his haviog been intioduced to him some time before by Mitchell. Some conversation then'took ulace on Mitchell's fate, and other• topics; and Oliver having expressed a wish to be introduced at Nottingham, Roberts,haw sent tor two or three persons with that view, one of wl►om, Mr. Birkin (nowrio custody) came; and a good deal of con versation passed. " On thr 27th, the next day,Birkin accompanied Oliver to Nottingham, and winced him to the Secret Committee assembled there, among whom were Haynes, Holmes, Grosvenor, Henson, and Frank Ward. At this time Oliver did not know a human being at Nottingham, and only got to the Committee through the mediton of Birk.in, after undergoing a strict examination ou two dif- IE rent floors, before he reached the third, which the conspirators occiipird.—He was inrroduced by Riikin as an old Friend, and was informed by the Committee that they were all ready. On this hs on all former occasions, Oliver's first act was to go to the Magistrates, and inform them of the objects he had i view—Communicating to them, afterwards, the result of his infinities. " On Tuesday he set off again for Yorkshire, and reported to the Sheffield Magistrates what lie had heard, in the same manner as he had done at Birmingham and Nottingham. Front Sheffield he had proceeded to Halifax, Manchester, and Liver pool, and retitrning through Manchester, came to Leeds. In all these towns, he had communicii lions both with the insurgents and the Magis trates ; ascertaining from the former (as well as . he could) the extent of their arrangements, and preparing the others for the worst that might happen. He reached Leeds on the sth, and was taken in this neighbourhood, as is well known, by Sir John Byng's cavalry. He escaped from this dilemma, and fled to Ben `choler's house, in Wakefield, where he saw Scholes, who accom panied hint to the Leeds Coach. By this time the WAefield party began to suspect him to be a spy, and they were at once confirmed in their sus picions, by Sir J. Byng:s servant being Observed to come up and deliver hint a letter, while he was sitting in the coach. The conspirators instantly took the alarm, and, as may naturally be suppos ed, every pains were taken to turn the tables, and to exclaim, it was this Government Spy who bad originated all the plots and c on:pir ac i es . I n this effort, the Traitors were zealously seconded by the disaffected portion of the public press. The evidence, however, is now so ,clear, as to leave no doubt upon the mind of every rational man. The conspiracy was completely organized . , and ready for execution, before Oliver bec ame ac quainted, with the project. He was employed solely to obtain all the informatioo lie could, in addition to the ample details already in possession of Government ; and so t far was he front urging the rising, that the parties in custody accuse him of proposing thlay Os the fact was), in order to afford - time for thei'r being arrested; and there by'fra:ing the'refiellion.. " Saturday night the 7th of June, lie reach ed - Nottilighani; and finding there his friend Birk in;was introdneed to the Secret Committee. 'To 0;01 he'relateil the particulars of his escape, and prophSed A further poStnotrtnent of the iiiihrreC:. ; but having previously prevailed upon them j to put off the rising trout the night after Sir F. finrilett's motion, to the 4;lt of sns . picions instantly - arose of his being a spy and the Com mittee, conceiving themselves sftong enough lot their own !rosiness, determined to rise at 0 events on the night of the 91b,.which lrad subse quently been fixed upon for a general effort.— When Oliver had refired, Haynes particularly urged that he was a spy ; and his assassination was determined upon ; but lie got away that night, and was in London the next day. 4 ‘ And at this point °terminate the motions of Oliver amongst the Conspirators. The which we again declare is upon unimpeathable and most respectable authority, proves, that, though aupiainted with the plans of the insur gents, he was in no respect conreined in their fortnaliO , l 7 —the whole system having been ma tured bii . tre 'Mitchell's arrival at Pcioltill's shop in Loudon, where Oliver was first introduced to " The al,u•m conse•yuent noon the arrest of so many of the Conspirators, and upon their suspi cions of . Oliver, soon spread throughout all the districts implicated in tl►e Treason. The Central Meetings at Wakefield being broken np, all were a 7. a loss how to act. The systen of co-opera tion was broken. The unity of design was de stroyed. The principal leaders being in custody, their foliowe►s were not dati►►g enough to take the field, except a few of the most desperate, awl the :t►ost credulous, at Unddersfield, and at Derby, and Nottinghaut ; and ti n ts th..tt bloody compact, which might have laid ptostrate England's hap piest hopes, was, by the prudence of Govern met►t, under the blessing of Divine Providence, completely dissolved. " it has already been stated, that the Notting lv.on Committee, dissatisfied with the delay pro posed by Oliver, ca m e to the determination, at all hazards, of calling forth their forces on the 9th of June. Jeremiah Brandreth, the Not,inghain Captain, had been selected as a fit man to conduct the men of Pent ridge, and the adjoining parkhes, to Nottingham. Ills lirn►ncss was unquestioned, and his courage had b , 0:11 proved on many des perate and trying occasions. He had accordingly ' ncen fornkbrd with a map ut Derbyshire, on which the different post s at which he w a s to as semble his forces were pointed out. Ile then re ceived his filial orders, to be with his Men, armed in the best way practicable, on Nottingham► Forest, at two o'clock on the morning of the 10th. He set out on his expedition in company' with Tom, Bacon, and never afterwards returned to Notting ham. This was on the sth ot June, and from that day till the Bth, he was actively engaged in paying visits of observation to Bwanwick, Belper, Mire ton, and other villages in the neighboorhood, as certaining tl►e number of tl►e Insurgents, and giving directions where they were to assemble on the 9th. " Brandreth committed the fortunate error of not appearing on Nottingham Forest with :kis men at the appointed time. Instead of marching di rectly to the point of rendezvous, he felt assured that the Nottingham men would act without him ; confidently asserting to his followers, that Not ting,ham would be in complete possession of the Insurgents before mornin g ; ; atuf idly spent that time in marching aud counter marching from house to house, collecting a gun here and a into there, which. according to his instructions, should hove been employed in bringing op his force to join the main body. " Au immense force, it is known, was drawn out in the neighbout hood of Nottingham. There was not a single approach to the town which was not, on the night of the 9th, strongly guar d e d, and a watch•word used ; and large bodies, well armed, were dispersed ep and down, waiting for the coming up of the Pentridge men, and other - insurgent forces. Had they proceeded to action, it is beyond a - doubt that Nottingham must have fallen into their hands ; au event alone sutlicieut,, front the scenes of rapine and bloodshed with which it most have been attended, to have excited the most : painful feelings in the whole country. " But so many circumstances had previously occurred to excite the alarm and suspicions of the remaining leaders, that they continued to wait for the coining up of Brandreth ; and finding he (lid not make his appearance by day-light, they agreed on dispersing for the present.. Next day. the fatal dispersion of Brandreth's men, and the arrest of steinany of the Conspirators, with the conviction that all their plans were known, 4hrew a final (I,"inp upon their spirits, and compelled them, for the present at least, to abandon all thoughts, of .re assembling their adherents. " Nottingham was to have been the capital, and seat of the Insurgent Government, and to wards the maintaining- of this post, all the insur gents were to direct their strength, Leeds, Man chester, Birmingham, Sheffield, &c. &c. were all to send their forces thither, in order that they Might be consolidated and properly organized.— Diversnins were to be made in other directions, so as to distract the attention of fsiinisters : and the soldiers were every where to have been tempted by the most liberal offers to join the rebels. " Bacon was the . most zealous and active of the Pentridge leaders. When the Seditious Meetings Act passed, their meetings were held privately at Asher field's barn and elsewhere ‘; and here Bacon urged every argument to inspire confidence. lie paid visits to Manchester, Birmingham, and other manufacturing towns, bringing track the most Mattering accounts of the preparations in those places. The vermin - proposed to be killed by the Pentridge Conspirators, consisted of Colonel liaison, and a numerous list of respectable Ma gistrates. . . " On the night of the 9th of June, three blood horses were stationed on the road between Not titigham And Birmingham, in order to convey to the latter town, by express, the news of a success ful attack upon NottinghaM. Birmingham, of course, would instantly have been up, anti all other toWns implicated, in succession. " It is a singular fact, that the Luddites exe- Mucci at Leicester, wbir had been tried at the Sluing 4Ssiies, confessed that a plan had been foianed for insurrection and rebellion, and that the o/d . Neds'• (Luddites) were to -command.— &Hue of the most desperate of these had been appointed to sterns the Barracks, and perform other dangerous duties, Frank Ward, Grosve. 112 son, tail 11...yiles, were ail appointed to cotnnlA.nn.i, Hnd lvld at than early period p t.:retied to .11.eir ?.;everal stations. Iltliere was the instiga tion of ()JiVer at th it time ? The c6nntry ought ti rejoice at its escape from the frig‘lit'fil danger which I►ur4 , , over it—a danger, the ek't'e'n't of whi,ch is perceived to be of greater magnittide the wore the citcwnstanees of it are examined. 'lli'entgh we cannot sutrer our selves to think. that the Treason would ultimately have triumphed '; yet, "n ideas it had been prti deutly itul vigilantly defeated in the manner which w e have seen, it is not assuming too much to pro nounce that the Empire would have been for a tiMe, at least, r brown into uproar and devasta tiotr,„and that the consequences n'onld b k iye been such as the Nation could never- have ceased to de plore." • LAW IN rELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, DEC. 9. EX-PARTE :HUGHES IN THE MATTER OF' RICHMOND. The 140.11 D CHANCELLOR observed this morning, with reference to this case, that the contradic tory evidence to which he had yesterday alluded, with regard to the real purchase of the leasehold property of the plaintiii, was contained not-in affidavits, but in the depositions taken before the Commissioners. Had it not been for the issue, which the .assignees were so ill advised as to take, he should have decided at once that they ought not to pay the costs of any of the proceedings prior to that time. The question was now in some degree alreted, and he should state his impression concerning it hereafter. The whole of the•property, however, must be restored to the bankrupt, or to Mrs. Hughes, with the costs of all prOceedings had subsequewly to the last trial at law between the parties. There was another point relative to the recovery of damagus which it !night be neces sary for him to put into a shape for the considera tion of a Jury. As to the conduct of Mr. Wells, who was charged with a contempt of the authority of the Court, he should only at present say, that it ought to he understood from that place that no pecuniary indemnity to which Mr. Wells might be entitled from the assignees could shield hint from the consequences of that contempt, it he had in point of fact been guilty of it. Having said thus much, he should deliver himself fully un the subject to-morrow morning. COURT OF KING'S BENCII. TIP? IljtiG V. T. HATCHER. This «•as an information against the defendant fur assaulting an excise officer, named Ji.seph Smiler, in the execution of his duty, on• the 19th of September lust. JERVIS appeared for the defendant, and consented that a verdict should he recorded ~g-ainst hinr, and accordingly the Jury tonnd him Guilty. THE KING V. CIIARLES AND AVM. Mr.TOPPING said that this Wasan indictment pre-. ferret! at the instance of the Lords Commiisiouers of the Admiralty, for having in January last made use of opprobriotri and threatening language N) 'F. Pereeval, E.T. late Captain cat hiy Nlajesty's sloop of tear the Echo, on hoerd of Which the : defen (hut, Charles Davis, had been a midshipman, with intent to provoke Captain I'. to fight a duel. The Lords Commissioners conceiving that such conduct as that imputed to the defendant was subversive of eve 7v thing like the subordination that ought to exist in the Navy, and ought to be visited with due punishment, had ordered this pro secution to be carried on. The defendants were bro. thers ; Charles tv..ls now a Lieutenant in the Navy ; the other was a tiurgeon in the Navy,. and :vas now on half-pay. In 1811, C. Davis was a midshipman in the Echo, to which, during the sane year, the prosecutor was appointed Commander. The parties remained on board until 181'2, when Davis was removed to the Impregnable mail of- war ; mind from that time to January last no kind of inter course took place between him and Captain'Per ceval, except their having met one . . The Echo being paid off in August, 1815, the prosecutor was no longer employed in the Navy. He then married a lady at HAnnt»ersinith, and took up his residence there. While he was, on the 2lst of January last, walking with his lady near Brook Green, he was met by the two defendants, and ac costed in the manner which should be stated by the Captain himself. Captain l'erceval said he was a master and Com mander in his Majesty's Navy ; that front August, 1811, till September, 1815, he had been Com mander of the Echo sloop. When he took the command of that vessel, the defendant, Charles Davis, was on board, as a midshipman, and after wards as master's mate.- Witness had procured the latter situation for him. Davis left the vessel in Nov. 1812, and witness saw him afterwards at Deal, where they spr-ke to each other, parted on very good terms, and even shook hands at par ing. In 1815 the Echo was paid off; aft:rwhich the witness was married, and lived at Hammer smith. On the 21. st of Jannat y, he was returning brittle with his wife, who was very ill, being far advanced in pregnancy, when Charles Davis and his brother came up. Charles first him accosted hi in these words—" I wi s h to k now it you mean to give me any satisfaction ?"—Witness asked him stint he was, he not recollecting hint at the time. Ile answered, that his name was Davis, and the I • Captain then recollected hitn—"Satisfetion fOr what i" The other answered, " for your conduct lon board the Echo." The brother, whom the wit ness never saw before, then came up, and said„'' name is Win. Davis, I ant a Surgeon in the Navy, and I wrote to you at the time, to account for you d—d infernal, rascally, ,villainous, conduct towards my brother, a poor tinfriended midship man, as you supposed him. You are a d—tf ras-. I cal, and n d—d villain." A crowd had at this time collected round the place; and witness beg ged they would desist from such language ; he asked them to go and speak to hint at his honse, which was not far off. William - Davis repeaters his abusive language, swore that I , rittiess should fight his brother, and that 'he would stand by him till be saw - the last drop of witness's blood spilt. He afterwards abused and d-11 . the whole of the naval service, and said that if it were in his power he would hang one half the rascals engaged in it. The parties then came• to the house of witness, and went in together. Here they si)tne convasation, ,vhic!, t!ie ;;eon declared, that witnesS shoiiid either a written apology, or fight his brother., and agai' l called bin) d—d rascal. The Licutenant ai 1;0 1 for an apology ; tint IVitiress s ,id lie would gio hint none. On this the Lientenant said he won!' post the Witness.as a coward, in every cofisce-houst in London. The parties again asiied him to fight, and when Witness declined doing so, they said he was afraid ;• and I:ViMaim Davis then repeated abusive Iktiguage. As they were going 'away the witness said he Would refer to the purser of the Echo, whether his conduct to the defendat4 / Charles Davis, had ever been improper. They , then went away. I)ENNins, the Counsel for the clefeuthug, vvai about to put bowe vestions to i2:,iptain Pkr• ce . v,ll, when Lord EtAr.:I , I23OI:OT:CI4I observed, that nidess it was intended to contradict the statemuuts of Cap.. fain Perceval, he could not see what object was likely to be obtaFtied by cross-examinin g him. If the Jury-believed that officer, the defendants must: be found guilty ; and his Lordship suggested, whether it would not be better for the parties to reserve ‘e hat they bad to say in mitigation of their conduct until they were brought up for judgment. The Jury found tlie defendants Guilty. TUE KING V. METCALFE, This was a Scire Facias, to rec©l certain letters patent granted for the manufacture of tapering brushes for the hair. The question wag, whether tl►e defendant's brush answered the description given in the specification of the pateut ? Lord ELLENBOROUGH wris of opinion that it di'l not 3 and therefore a verdict was taken for tire Crown, with liberty•to the defendant to move to enter a verdict upon the point,'as to the supposed variance. PREROGATIVE COURT, DOCTORS' COMMONS: In the ease respecting the validity of the lasi will and testament of Thomas Arher, of Birming ham, deceased, late gun-manufacturer, the Conti pronounced for the validity of the former will, of . January ISI4, opposed to that given in by the son, as residuary legatee, against whom were awarded. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. IRELAND.—THE CHACE. Second Treek of the Athy Kildare Hounds.-•= nds.--Tuesd ay,itathsal ag ; Thu rsday, 13 urtoß ,Hall; Saturday, lidnibo Hall ;—each day at ten. Emu Honnds.—Monday, 13allythomas ; Wednesday, Kit tnerony ; Friday, - Cooper• Hill ;—Monday and Friday at hall past ten, Wednesday at eight. Hnuuds.—Monday, Newmark - a; Wednesday, Fir grove Gate; Friday, Dinan ISinli.;e;—each day at ten. Tallow Hounds.—Tnesday, Ballicitemple ; Friday, Go.la Hill; each day at ten: Each of the above packs hare had iegular good sport dorin l r the-first week of the Meeting, and has been attended liv very nototn,us fields of sportsmen. Not less than - one hundred nod fifty hoist-men wtre.present at. the. Corer of Bray last Thursday. Among them we no; iced Mr. joint Power, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Hobert Doyne, Sir Henry Parnell, Mr. Jol l a Farrell, Captain MaKennis, Colonel Keating, Mr. Bailey, Mr. M`Dermott, John' Duni , e, Whelan, Mr. Watson, Mr. '1 hompson, I\ Ir. Wall, Colonel Fitzgerald, ColonelB•igot, Colonel 'iVildow, Colonel and .Caotain Captaiii Johnson, Mr. H. Johition, Mr. Fiizniatiriee, Mr. But.ler. The-staliles of thy are full of horses, bel - ungin4 to Gen— tlemen who arc-6oine; there fur the second and third tri, c h i ,,f the Meeting. . ROBBERY AND CURIOUS DISCOVaRY.---011 Motl4 day night, a qttantity of timber was stolen from the premises of Mr: Monday, 62, Turninill-s; rce , , Clerkenwell. Yesterday morning, a notorious character, na med Smith, offered the. said timber fur sale to Mr. Basun), in ".rornmill-street, %%Atn puicinised it, not hupposilT it was stolen, acid thinking- it would stir My. Monday for buildin; - , Fte took it to him, and offered it four sale. Mr. Monday identified the poverty, and Air. Baston infmnicti him of whom he purchased it. They went in quest of him, and foitimately took him into custody, and . conveyed him to the watch house. COURSE OF EXCHANGE, TtlEsnAY, D.Ee. 9. Amsterdam Ditto, at Sight Anistet dant , Ditto, at Sight Rotterdam - 11 It 2 ITS. Antwm-p. ... - ll 11Ex.Money Haniburgh . 34 7 21 Us. :Mona Paris, 3 Day's date Ditto Bourdeaux, ditto Frani; fort on the Main . .... 145 Ex. Money • Madrid 33 Eli:calve Cadiz Seville 1 • • I3ilboa 373+ Gibraltar Leghorn Genoa... • 47 --Venire Malta... .. 49 -Naples Palermo Lisbon . Oporto 59 Rio Janeiro D.1b1in.... ..... 8..... Cork .. ... 1.; per Cw.t. . Ag - io of the Bank on Holland.... 2 per Cent. Portugal Gold, in Coin • 1 .0 0 0 per Oz.l, New Dollars 0 5 4 COAL MARKET, DEC. 8. Ships at ..farlict. Ships sold. Price. 49} Newcastle. 8 SunderlattA 4 sto. coal n I RTH On Mond-:p, the Bth int. at his house in. Gloucester-place, the Lady of co'. nel Hughes, 11. P. of a daughter. MARRIEO. On the 9tit inst. at M,trylehone Church, the Rev. John.' Milk, of Bury st. to Miss Hill; of rintstingdou. On the 25th of Oetimer last, at Kensinglon, Thomas Vs en-. ham, Esq.. to Elizabeth, only eitild of Major Donald Niaeilo mild, late of Sloane-street, thels‘,.a. DIED. Soddenly, this morning, DI r. Moat, surgeon, New-road. . rhurday last, -:It hls• * liiinqe'at llod lcsdon, in the dist' year of his age, .lasper . Leigh Goodwin, • On the 7,1 11 inst. at 'Wo.ilv,-"a li, William Thomas, Esq. of the Civil I)epirt went of th, ()nfilaocc. On Sunday , the ;;h init. at Knia,le-farm, near Tutiliridge.i . wells, Stephen • the youngest son of Nlajor-Generiti Beatsou, aged, six iii oil s. LONDON: Printcd by .5. B. CAItSTAIRS, of No. 29, Great Ormond-strcet, Queen•square; and published by W. A. SCRIPPS,. a • No. 7, :Conti! Molton-street, 'Su 01Fce, No. 112, Strand ; where Ad veitiNements, Order,, Letters, &c. (post-patl), must be addressed.