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PARLIAMENT. MUSE OF LORDS, TUMMY, Jura 12, VRAITOttOUS PRACTICES. The Earl of LIVE 111°00 . 1., about i eCIACk t laid o‘n the Table a green bag, containing farther in formation On the subject of Traitorous Practices. The Patten were referred to .the Secret Com mittee. , Further evidence was beard in Millar's Divorce proceed again to-morrow. Mr. Maitland presented Papers from the East India House, which were ordered to lie on the . Table. The Civil Compensation Bill, the Mutiny Bill, /the Warett and Ward Sill , the East India and ls,letliterratrtan Trade Bill, and the Manure Car riage Bill, were brought op from the,House of `Commons by Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Brogden, and ether Members, and 'read a first time. The Anvnilment made by the Com Mons in Sir Edward Owen's Divorce Bill was agreed to. REPORT OF THE . COMMITTEE OF SECRECY. FURTHER. SUSPENSION OF THE HABEAS CORPUS, The Earl of 1-4ttaowEY, as Lord President, i.tresestted the Report of their Lordships' Secret _Committee, appointed to take into consideratiOn the official information communicated to the -Muse, by the command of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent.—The Report 4VaS read at the Table, and eras to the followitw, effect :-- " By the Lads' Coniraittee appointed to take intorensi tieration several Papers, seated up in a bag, &c. and to re curt to the t - lousei`&c. • " The Report Legins by stating, that the Committee, after an examination of the Papers referred to them, feel it their :rainfUl duty to deelare,That they see but too many proofs of traitoruni conspiracy to overthrow the noverriiiietinti the "Constitution, and to sobrert the existing order of society. " Report then praises the active exertions of the Gn vernment, and pal tieula,ily of the Magistrates, in the execu tion of the general Laws, and of the special pewers intinsted to them by the new 2scts of Parliament : hut the Committee. assert, that thong!' the plans of the conspirators have been thus frustrated, yet. in spite of all this, the'same wicked and desperate designs are stilt pursued. The information on which this conclusion is founded is said to he collected from source; frequently unconnected and unknown to each other, 'but the result is said to be uniform, and is also corroborated 'by a striking coincidence to many minute particulars. " The Committee then observe, that their intelligence rests, in many of its parts, upon the testimony of persons ghetto are tither themselves implicated in these criminal trans 'actions, 'or who bare apparently engaged in them for the Vimpose df obtaining information, and imparting it to the Ifitgistrates or the Secretary of State. " The 'Committee &low that such testimony must he very questionable ; and state, that they hare reason to apprehend, /hat the language and conduct of some of the latter descrip tion of witnesses has had the effect of encouraging those de signs which it was intended they should only be the means of detecting. But allowing for these circumstances, the Com. tnittee are still of opinion, that the statement which they pro ceed to give is by no means exaggerated, but perfectly war ranted by tile papers submitted to their inspection. " It proceeds to state, that the papers relate, almost with slut exception, to the manufacturing districts in the midland and northern counties; and although the disaffected still look to the Nfetropolis witl4 the hope of assistance and direction, yet to the districts thus referred to the more recent projects of insorrection were to have been confined. " The ComMittee then state, that although in many of these districts d'i'stress has operated to expo‘se the minds of the labouring classics to irritation an perversion, yet this distres.s, in their opinion, has been rather the instrument than the cause or the disaffection. In some of the disaffected dis. kids they believed that distress had been less felt than in many either parts of the kingdom ; while in other places, where the distress has been most grievous, it has been sns tisiatil with such patience, loyalty, and good conduct, as can not be ton highly conunended ; and the Committee think that it is chiefly by the means mentioned in the Report of the for mer Committee, namely, by the extensive circulation of sedi- Cons rind blasphemous publications, and by the continual repetition of inflammatory discourses; that this spirit' of dis ' affection has been excited and diffused. These have gratin a?7y m,eaktiml arnoug the tower order the attachment to our Government and Constitution, and the respect for law, rim ra4ty, and religion ; and their minds have thus been prepared fu: the sdopti , in of ►rleazures no less injurious to their inte r ir.ts and hap tiniest, than to those of every other class of his suWet4. Sines the fottner.report, Manchester and its neighbour hood are stated to be the only placei .where meetings have been held liceuell numbers as to excite alarm. At a meeting three •-on the &t of March, for the purpose of petitioning apinst the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, on which `oceasien several thousand persons were assembled, it was re solved, that another meeting was to ,he held on the 10th, I,lie intention that ten out of every twenty persons slatuld prore'ed to London with a Petition to the Prince Re vot. The interval was employed in repeated and numerous meetings, Allen the designs of the leaders were developed in speeches of the most undisguised violence. Ono man avowed hiu k se:( a itepublican and a Leveller,,and would never give up the cause till a republican form of government was esta blished : others stated, that if their petition was rejected, they mast force it; that the large towns •in Yorkshire were acting on ;he same plan, and would meet them on the road, or at least march to London at the same time: that the ',Scotch Were on their march, and that they should he 100;000 reng when joined by the people of the mannfacturiag dis trict on the road; and' that it 'would be impossible for the army, nu' any thing else, to reSiit them. The speaker's were su,uetintes checked by some of their associates, but Were uerally rece i ved with strong marks of applause and con currence. Arrangements for the march were pointed out, and the people were told to provide themselves with blankets, *hoes, and Unaraciss, and with money and food. Those witti retrained behind were, to assist with sOscriptions. Every ten men 'were to choOse a leader, and one. was to be placed over every hundred.' Strong intimation's were also given of the propriety_ and necessity of providing themselves with anus, but those do not appear to have been acted upon, ex- capt in a few instances. " On the 10th of March the meeting took place, consist ing of from 10 to 12,000 persons; and although at - into of the headers had been previously arrested, and some were seized on Me spot, The putptrse tc nett oltartilonen, largt note bets of the deluded people marched off towards Loudon, " It goes on to state, that a considerable body was stopped on their "tray to Stockport, while great numbers passed thrtmgh Leek, and one patty went as far as Ashbourne ; but the activity of the Magistrates, in dispersing the meeting and stopping these parties, prevented the execution of a design Which probably would have disturbed the peace, net only of the counties through which they passed, but might have led to Tor:sequences highly dangerous to-the public tranquillity. " It observes, that the planners of the plot, instead of being discouraged by this discomfiture, pursued their mea sures uninterruptedly. Fresh meetings, thongt• in smaller numbers, were soon afterwards held, consisting chiefly of de legates from Manchester, Derbyshire, and the manufacturing districts of Yorkshire. At some of those 'meetings reports were made of the oantity of pikes, firelocks, and ballets, which could be procured for the intended rising. Communi cations were kept up with Nottingham, Sheffield, and Bit mingbam, in order to excite the people of those districts to similar attempts, and to ascertain the progress of their pre parations. In these meetings, it. is stated Wet the pretence of Parliamentary Reform was almost entirely discarded, and nothing less than Revolution was meditated : and to such a dreadfiil'degree were the Injtids of many of the people at these meetiDgs corrupted and intlatniol, that in public speeches the necessity of danger:egg will's, or disposing of, (tpWwas th e term) the persons most obnoxious to them was utipttersedly announced ; and it is stated to have been once pTitireed to make Manchester a Moscow in order to strengthen the cause' by throwing great numbers out of work. - "A general insurrection was to bare commenced at Man chester on the 30th ; Magistrates were to have been seized, prisoners liberated, soldiers either to be surprised at thelr barracks, or to be drawn out of them by the burning of fac tories to be set on tire, and while they were thus diverted froth their posts, the barracks were to he occupied by a party stationed fur that purpose and the magazine was seized. The firing of a rocket, or rockets, was to be the signal for this rising. The numbers sufficient for the immediate purpose were estimated at 2 or 3000 men, but it was expected that the insurgents would amount to .5000 in the morning. !‘ In some parts of these proceedings there are traces of an intention to issue proclamations, absoliing the King's sal). jects from their allegiance, and denouncing► death against their opponents. The Committee however allow, that they base not found any evidence of the actual preparation of these proclamations. " Tili3 ritrotious conspiracy was detected and defeated by the Magistrates, who seized and confined some of the ring. leaders before the period fixed for its execution. This timely prevention appears to have checked very considerably the proceedings of the disaffected, and the subsequent intelli gence from that quarter is of a more favourable kind. " During part of the mouth of April One appears to have been a general intermission, at least of the more open pro ceedings. Owing to the regulations of the new Act, public meetings have been less frequent, and societies have been lesi frequeiitly convened, even in public houses. Clubs have been dissolved, meetings suspended, or held so privately and so remotely as to have escaped observation. ." They have fewer communications in writing: the names of leading persons ,bare been recommended to be concealed: few persons only are intrusted with the progress of their plans, and these men arc tu.give notice to different * delegates to have their partisans ready to act when and as %Attired. 'these delegates have met in small numbers, and have kept up a general though verhal • correspondence among the disaffected. " Towards the end of April, and during the month of May, this correspondence has been more active. On the 6th of May a Meeting was held in a town in the West-Riding of which was attended by delegates from other prin cipal towns of that district, and from Leicester, Birmingham, and Nottingham. At this meeting reports were made by the delegates of the numbers which could be collected' from the different districts : they were stated to be very large; but the Committee states itself to be aware of the exaggeration probable in such a matter. About this time it was proposed that there should be another General Meeting, for as early a pay as possible after the discussion of the Question of Re form in the House of Commons. The insurgents were first to march to Nottingham, where they were expected to be joined by other bodies ; and on their way to London by still more, all armed either before, or to be armed by the robbery of private houses or of different barracksand depots, which were to be attacked. " At several subsequent meetings it Was reported, that the increase of ►uembers was so great, that it was said at once of theM, that it was necessary to extend their divisions daily, and enlarge their Committee. 4 ' Similar infermation from many quarters whence the dele gates were deputed, confirms the expectation of a general rising about the time that has been mentioned; and states, that a postponement took place to the 9th or , 10th of Jane, for various reasons. Ily the latest intelligenee from these quarters it appears, that these designs were frustrated by the. same cause that formerly existed, namely, the vigilance of Government, the activity and intelligence of the magistrates, and the assistance lent them in the exercise of their function, by the regular troops and yeomanry acting. under their direc tion,' the efficient, arrangements of the nffiet4: rustg4 with the service, the knowledge obtained of the plans of the diva. fected, together with the arrest and haprisontifent — of the leading agitators; and that by these causes a Still farther postponement of their atrocious plans would he occasioned. Subsequent intelligence leave's no doubt that the plan, it; its full extent, has been.frustrated; but the correctness°, former information has been confirmed by the late appearance of bodies of armed ;men at the period previously fixed, anti par ticularly in one of the districts which had been described as determined to rise, without waiting for a general co-opera tion. " The Committee think it important to state, that many of the most active magistrates and persons. whose civil and military situations enabled them, upon the most extensive itiforination, to form the most accurate opinion, concur in attributing the disappointment of the attempts already made ) and of the hopes of continued tranquitlit}•, to the exercise of the ►►ew powers which Parliament intrusted to the Executive Government, and to the influence produced by the knowledge that these powers would be called into action as Soon as ne cessity should justiff'their employment. They concur lika wise in a representation of the danger with Which the expiry of these powers, at the present mome n t, would threaten the country: and the Committee feel, that they should ill dis charge the high trust reposed in themif they did not declare. their unreserved assent to this opinion. They, therefore; with the fullest confidence in the loyalty and good dispositions, not only of those classes of tbc COlll4lunityagd those portions. a! li'in.;;;urn hare hitherto Tentaintli .frce from divafectiou, but of the greatest .part of thane rtry dis tricts wlklt are the chief scenes of discontent and of threat ened disturbance, cannot retain from Ilectaring it as the re sult dal! the informatics which they have collected., Olathe time is not yet arrived when the maintenance of public tran quillity, and the protection of the lives and property of his Majesty's subjects, can he allowed to depend upon the ordi nary powers of the law." The Report was then, on the motion of the Loan PRESIDENT, ordered to be printed. The Earl of LtveaPoor. stated, that as the prints of the Report were likely to he on the table to-morrow, a Noble Friend of his would then pre sent a Bill for the renewal or continuation of the Act. for authorising his Majesty, to secure and de• taut persons, whom he shall suspect of conspiring against his petson and government, for a time longer ; and in case such Bill should b e brought in, its s econ d readifig would be moved on Monday next. PETITIONS. Lord liot.r.ANn presented a petitiop from the County of lierks, ogainst a renewal of the-Sus pension of the Habeas Corpus Act ; as dik . Earl GREY, one from a Gentleman of the - name of O'Hanlon, late a Magistrate of the County of Down, in Ireland, complaining of his being se moved from the Commission of the Peace in that County, with Out sufficient cause or reason. The . ' Petition being read at length, contained a cit..' cumstantial detail of his case, and an ,allegation, that he was told that his being favourable . to Ca tholic Emancipation was a tame of .his removal ; that he was promised, but without effect, to be restored, by 'one of the highest authorities in Ireland ; and finally, that he now only hoped, from their Lordships' protection and justice, that relief to - whicfrire-' Considered himself to - be enti tled. These Petitions were severally laid upon the table. The Officers' CoMpensation Bill was brought up from the Commons by' Mr. Gilbert. The Mu tiny, and the East India and Mediterranean Trade, and a few Bills of minorimportanee, were brought up by Mr. Brogilen and Others, and severally read the first time; and those Bills on the table being respectively forwarded, their Lordships adjourned till tO.IIILUTOVir. [For the Proceedings in the !louse of Commons see the. Last PAge.] THEATRICAL REGISTER. • Performed. 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Ditto, at Sight 37 8 - Anistei darn Ditto, at Sight ll 11 Rotterdam ll 15 it i/i. Antwerp ll 15Ex.Moncv . . Haniburgh B3 it Us. Altona 3 4 Us. Paris, .t Day's sight Ditto 24 85 2 Us. rlourtleaux, ditto 24 85 Frankfort on the Main Madrid 84 Effective Cadiz 35 Effective Gibraltar . 3.5 It 81 Leghorn ' . Genoa... 4', ----...'reilil•V Nlalta... . • 41--N,tilles 4O Lisbon Palermo 119 per Oz. . Oporto • - 59- kilo J Dublin.... Agio of tile Mink on Holland.... 2 Portugal Gold, in Coin I I i 9 0 per•OT. Foreign Gold, iu B ars... ~ . , 319 0 • Now Dollars 0 5 ' Iti Silver, in. Bars, Standard 0 5 3 HIGII WATER AT LoNnoN BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning, 4 minutes after 2. I Evening, 29 'ninnies after 2. THE SUN. SOLESI QUIS TALSUNI AUDZAT LONDON, MIDAY, JUNE 13, 1817. After having read the copious Abstract , of the *Report (4 the Committee of Secresy presented *yesterday to the House of Lords by the. Earl of atattowav, our Readm, we are sure, will not require many words from us. Theßeport speaks. too emphatically for itself to leave any doubt on the minds of all good men as to tbe formidable de- signs which had been Conceived for a totalsubyersion of our glorious Constitution. It will be seen that the §editious were undisguised in the - avowal that RevoLtrrioN Was the object in view. The intek ligence in our Second Edition of yesterday, which we repaint this (lay for the satisfaction of our Readers th,roughdit t the Country, manifestly shews that the Report is well-foumil.d, it" any doubt can exist on' a aubjeCt which the Committee of Se cresy have prolitd to the bottom, and exa- mined in all Its ramifications, and which 1 06 ' fies them in declaring, that their ROO founded upon the most alarming facts. It af i sera not that the men who were rooted is DIP byshire proved to be cowards, when tberinr opposed by a farm .Magistracy and bliliterjA Success would soon have made them bald' 1 1 there can be no doubt that hardened and red! / men would have joined them. in shaft, nail the weak and the wicke d will contemli thsli augmented power of G overnment was noir!: tiaily required fur the protect io n of the C o 1 and the security of the Constitution. Wet I that the Liberty of the People is abli 4 r . .. hionstrous falsehood ! Liberty for all ear poses is as fully enjoyed as at any petiods history. Has any man a ri g ht to corop: he is restrained from t he power of Will* upon his Country i Yet, because in ZIA it is admitted that some of the irines4.: were employed to detect Sedition A r um , the excess of their - zeal - , or from-aibii,a, encouraged the Measures' Of the attiOrecr' ' , Morning Chroniets of this day intio l01 01 1: • 11 the Committee , would never h av e stigOosOlea part of the evidence which WSJ laid be( if they " had n ot found that the,isrger 1 of the evidence was grounded upon t il l s of deception." And the Huraingagnar,.. 4 iatibilf hardihood to say, that " this.will asintß-20:, conclusion drawn by the page) "' it) ll !..i ti d perhaps, that the Committee itkle al ° tg- ,iit to make the statement alluded to,in coniell"- finding that they had open a former occsliaa _ Ai will imposed on by similar evideno,for o° '' e o 'o'o moment imagine that th ey would dare 0' * 0 terized a part of the evidence Wore tlie t io l the; not discovered that i t formeds o li ;„,;ii tion of the testimony they had to deternonfol.:.l a fr s o g m re s a ti t c l h y ntoarreourwharrass them in the dec.' I '4 1 Ne ver was so large a conclusion 4 0', 1i I Co pressly declare thatPtrbeismeisveigd'ene're,hewhic4 sfirterofitl4ll srei d soo% o s,oriu u (snie b e t n f ec u fe ll ‘ y vi s i u ic s h pic a i t o to n g s e , t f b o e r r te f : i b li ot i e s e t al io Si t i i P :r oos th nothing o efei s ice h t o ment, and consequently a repetito, 1 ta be the t F i r i e im o y o f t:til l :1: i oteoavtioailoion:sivotorwtilhol overthrow -414°L:10.1"11;1:44110:°br -' happily detected, and which, We t_74;ooot, . merit and the gea m e i r b :l ifiiti loyabltYytliofelige°Pwv*lt'' erntAci• or A LETTER PROo44;rl;biCh Vl' ' The smptoms of insuberdifatir, A i t 1 ,„ ohe' _ i _ th o manifested ? yesterday seem to w- 'ti toes pears that two troops of'buSie.-istii,f7nee; irtai4: ham had arrived early yesterday a. p v. f siO dt '''' where th ey found an assembisge %owl, persons, some having 6 re.son e , oth er s The Hussars charged the .mob , w h° les ders' , t a ta t i l s k d p e e n t r i s i e e e d nd o i ti sle s n r t o a t m r o o N n 6 g ot o t l in t g lifbs:ingT :lfi trrlit Cavalry from Derby divided, orte t9-00100' Between Ripley and Alfrtehteonetnblielierfi°iineicatilh.l6l% terfield Troop actively emp lo s l4 ' 1 04 14 1 mob having made their appearsnce onhotebie issuing threats, &c. Great s um 1 0 1 0 1 cured. Five or six were brought afternoon, and about nine o'clock I :t more. Several were taken this ma r bp* The distill every thing now appears quiet. alicherie is supposed to have originated in the copo quel ° . 0 ." _.ait! some men from Butterly Foundl, i n i .0 in to some Jacobiaical OOP of belong g received this morn e onlul•T s s s tity r !bit y eretv3 f' llse.r:'ll,rl We rec • Tuesday , lasi, but "whaling the Journat 11"1Y,I, Journal markets, i nt liotiohtt e vt, v:i:in t ueng i seg o a n ttaroodr e w tgti l ev a ex t i l e t r sirig e ci t s e ep eo : taut there is ts ri r These rs in fete ► he ci sn u m en e ti p r e y a ß s; ' t-s,tjilargasie°4.--wiAtht T O bticellr-sf°(rll:' .aes t:4l T tc inp l ot e eare,argsyjie l eAk i dia o rittni st set i ret ; ami tn,gb it rrak b btgi: e ynut, c o.n fia os m r(f,lioar e :ie,giirgti n )eude e bi : ge e:: u t c . (tv e . r op t l e , of th 5112 w he ss fire seas returned, by cibieb Doe of t he f peasants of Landes manifested a tt charge them, by which theY • pr ie o :tir7l:atnbtes ainn°dlnt:it:ht°lculsialsrsreeroltbeichd, 11:;11104;:cep 1: , of the Prefect, to consider t e bet roellg curing the provisions. r teill r h 6t u b co ia , l it e:le a n t " Therenes htuasthheeennesiogmhbeatlisoroer in t' v°° Commu g( tiisanne. 1; 1111: • " At Paris the price of Wurheb:11:)tt:Ijiler:::000' " The French ship La Felicite, fr°'" 0, No hauiettleys.wistilliecoitetfat u,reor;:siaivetticof