The Sun. — London, England, 1817-11-22 00:00:00

"PROVINCIA I, JOURNALS. -As the• Party, or rather the Jacobirtico(Writers, 'of the .Metropolis, have'etideavoured to mislead the PAhlic 'respecting the late Trials for HIGIA TaaAstilv, , .and to represent the CulpritSas'having 'been deludeil into their crimes by the seduction of Governtrient'Emissaries, we feel it oar duty to extract the following account of the origin and i)rugress'of the mischief from The 'Leeds Intelli geficer of the 17th inst., a Paer distinguished for its loyalty, good sense, and , zealous- attachment to our excellent Constitution is Chtirels and State : - " Oppressed by the weight of unaliP,ted grief, for the laniented death of the Peincess Charlotte, ve can scarcely bring our minds to the task of exanti i:'g the perverse artifices 'of -a restless faction, which labours incessantly to consummate the (:esiroction . of the country, by the subversion of cvety thing great, and good, and valuable, in the . Constitution and Establishments of the Eatpire. Their efforts are at present chiefly exerted to intpress a belief upon the public mind, that the recent seditious dispositions, and treasonable out rages. which have disgraced the country, origi nated in a Government Agency, for the- mere pur pose of enabling Ministers to take advantage of a season of consternation, in 'order to encroach upon the Constitution, and to wallow in the blood of • every innocent victim whom the wiles of their emissaries might ensnare to destruction. Amongst these agents, the name of Oliver has acquired, a prominent celebrity ; and those circumstances which good subjects have united to deplore, and which the arm of the law has been exerted to pu nish, have been boldly attributed to the machina tions of that individual. " The charge not only against that man, but against the Governnfent, is so monstrous (and it is not more monstrous than false), that, however f paintul, in the present frame and' temper of our feelings, we are constrained,' by a sense of duty, to place the fates, in their true colours, again before • our Readers. We have collected the information which follows, after much' lahorions• research, partly from authenticated detail, in various 'papers, and partly from other sources of intelligence ; and we believe we can safely pledge ourselves to the truth and accuracy of the, whole. " All the falsehoods respecting Oliver bad been so fully refuted, that a last desperate effort became . at length necessary to obtain the slightest degrte of credit to the fabrication. They therefore left no means notried to prevail upon the wretched men lately executed at Derby, to name Oliver as the person who had. instigaterthent tip the corn- InissiOnof those crimes, which had drawn down upon them the vengeance of the laws. However bort ible the fact, it is not less certain,. for it has been ascertained beyond a po.,sibility of dispute, that they sought to draw the attention. of the un happy-culprits from the awful situ-ition in which they stood—to prevail upon them, bY letters, sozneofwhich were intercepted, and by metsages, some of Which, were overbeard, to add the heavy guilt of this falsehood to their other crimes ; and, • though all the prisoners had repeatedly ack.noW ledged they knew nothing ei Oliver', that they had never even heard his• name; they so far succeeded " in their diabolical purpose, as to send one of them, lurner, into the presence of his Eternal JUdge, with this lie fresh upon hi's lips, that his un timely end Was owing to the machinations of Oliver and the Government !' " This fact alone is sufficient to excite the disgust owl indignation of the whole country, and to set the question of Oliver's guilt or innoeenee at rest for ever ;. but "as we are again upon the subject, we shall lay before our readers a tifore minute ac count: of the rise and progress of the disaffection, and of the share which Oliver 'took" in the recent proceedings, than they' have hitherto obtained-- m , a account which will enable them to judge of the extent of the danger, and of the veeessity imposed upon Ministers to suspend the Habea,s Corpus Act, and to bring Brandreth and his associates to trial and pimishment. " The jacobinical spirit of the French Revolution took' deep root in ibis canntry ; and, 'though re pressed by the breaking up of the Corresponding and other seditious Societies, which sought to effect a similartonvulsion in England, it has never teased, by infhimmatory writings and harangues, to incite the people to some desperate enterprise, of which 'the pr, j:!cts of 'ColOnel De3pard, and others; were the preludes. The vigilance of Go vernment, however, prevented any thing like a "general confederacy among the disaffected ; and they were still, for a lime, forced to confine their labours to preparing the minds of the people for some great change, and to seizing %vitt] avidity upon eves y event which could draw the Govern ment into disrepute, and to attach tO it a ‘'.'egree of- ()dim!' which the partizans of Treason turned to their own nefarious purposes.. Resolutions of a seditious nature were pissed, and writings of a similar tendency published ; hired .Missionaries were lent into the different counties to preach dis Affection ; jacnbinical societies were formed in the towns'and villages ; and every thing went gra dually add quietly forward towards that crisis, which the 'secret morels of this system of mischief cinuemplated. "hi 1812, the disputes arose between the mnster hosiers and frame-work knitters, at Not 7 tinghant, which gave rise to that villainous com bination known by the afl)ellation of Luddites. • These Miscreants., it is too well known ; spread over several counties, increasing rapidly in.num-• bcrs, and in the extent and atrocity of their depre dations. The great leaders, however, continued tv .he stationed in the town of Nottingham. and were divided into two botlit..3, called a Com mittee of CoUncil, and an Executive Cominittee, • Ti e comfier planned the ,atrocities Which were to he perpetrated ;' the latter, comsisting of men pt desperate characters, distinguished. by firinness of nerve and daring boldness, performei the work which the deliberative 'body appointed ; and it is well known that the work of death was to them a familiar and willing task. From 181 to 1816, , tnettetufgatts Coritinutii- their career, wit wqt re ceiving tiny effectual check, except in this courtly, where the terrible, example inflicted at York, hells pity put tit an' end to the confederacy. In the , other counties, hoverer, gaining confidence in proportion to their success, they became so hold as to mingle polities with their other objects, and formed the daring resolution of extending their views to the overthrow o he' Government. Cor respondences:were opened with souse. of the Seth- How; Societies in London, Manchester, Glasgow,' Ilirmingharn, iltiddersfielll, Wakefield, LeCtlii,. and elsewhere, and where business could not be done by letters, deputies were sent with full pOwerS to coalesce, anti to advisr- upon gene ral grounds.' The return of these deputies to Not-. tioghtim greatly flattered the h opes of the Lud dites ; foe,they found that a feeling Of discontent, fomented by more pokvelittl and able agrntt, than themselves, WAS already very prevlietit among the maitufacturiog and labouring popula- . ;ion of ,the kingdom, which Wanted brit ,a little more incitement to 4ecome ripe for the great : end —Revolution. " The distresses, which at this season heavily afflicted the poorer classes, were eagerly geized on ,by the seditious, as favourable to their views, and Major Cartwright having recommended the formation of Hampden Clubs, for the attaistqnt of Parliamentary Reform, they warmly -recom mended their addption, as affording not only a medium by means of which the disaffected . might be brought together and organi'zed, but a pretext, tinder colour of which their treasonable projects might he TrOmoted. Hampden Clubs were ac cordingly established in 'almost every town and vil lage in the kingdom, and their dispositions and numbers clearly ascertained. In November, 1816, printed resolutions, of the most inflammatory de scription, were circulated throughout the most dis affected counties, including York, Lancaster, Lei cester, Nottihgnam, and Derby, and it began'to be openly aunotmeed, particularly by the Leices • tershire men, that nothing short of the. total overthrow of the Government would satisfy the people. Declarations Were made to this effect early in December at the Heames Hampden Club, by the President and Secretary.. The same spirit soon spread to . the other Hampden Clubs ; and it was openly asserted that no good could be done with oat .a change of King and Government. Dele gates were sent to Leeds and Manchester, to learn how they stood affected there ; and it was agreed that a meeting of delegates should be held in Lon don, through whom the pretended petitions should be transmitted, and not through the . poSt-office, : or Members of Parliament, as had co iginally been intended. " William Smith (of Ripley), who has since A seconded, and Thaivas Bacon (a convict), now openly deelared themselves.of Cobbett's opinion, that the Clubs were of •no further use, and that if they expected any thing to he done', the people . Must be organized and armed. A delegate from Manchester, .named Benbow, at this time ar rived at Pentridge, and having prevailed on the Clair' to draw up a petition, he induced Bacon to take it up to London, where he arrived about the middle of January, and was present at the meeting of slelegates, by whom he was very well received.- Public'meetings being found by these miscreants inconvenient, a private room was taken, in which Bacon and a select few met, and by whom it was resolved that on the re, turn of the delegates - to their several club -3, they shwas! point • nut •the inefficacy of petition, •and the . abstilme necessity of organizing an armed forie,_ and of resorting to physical strength' without!, delay. Tom Bacon, on his return to Pentridge, stated all these things to his most con. fidential associates, and produced drawings of pikes and other implements of destruction, which had been approved in London, irons the. facility with which they conid be manufactured. " A new course of proceeding was now vigor ously commenced. 'Meetings were held to arrange th,e mode of rising, and to prepare arms and titt munition. ,The Nottingham men, or Luddites, because more active than ever ; and it was par= slag y resolved by then' that the country should -rise of themselves, without any regard to the Londoneys, who had become more catitiuus since the failure of the 2d of December. The Execu tive Conimittee of the Lttd'iitcs, men already de scribed as capable of any act, however daring, new became ao important body; for it was re solved to select from its members the leaders who were to bring forward the instirgenti from the neighbouring counties to Nottingham, which was to he the seat of the new Government ; ,and from that ,COmMittee, Jeremiah 'Brandreth was ap pointed to the command of the Pentridge, South Wingfield, and Ripley division. At the private ineethigs, at which Tom Bacon preSided, it was declared that the insurrection should commence on the Moirday after Sir Francis Bordett's motion for parliamentary reform ; awl the partizans were exhorted to make every effort for that day. Besides the private meetings, ge neral meetings were held, to which the minor meetings 'made' their' reports. The first of the General Select Committees embraced Nottingham, Leicester, and 'Derby, of which Tons Bacon was a member ; the'seeml took its Bit mingliam,Wol vetleanipton, Bilatoisi, and all the population of that district ; the third, Leeds; the fourth, Man chester; the fifth, Huddersfield; awl so on, thrOughout all the manufacturing counties. From each of * these meetings delegates were appointed, to form a Central COmmittee of Execution, which 4etsially assembled at theJoiners' Arms, the house •of Btidamin Seholes • (now in custody), in Wake field ; and thus an uninterrupted and intelligible comtroinieution Was kept up with the conspirators in all directions, and unity of design anti action apparently secured. " - During February and March last, the Central Meeting of'Delegates continued their delibera tion's. _Re - ports were made to them, from the re- Spectiee districts of the members ready to rise ; the pike heads mannfactored ; the arms procured ; the rlePOts established ; the stores collected ; the barracks Open' to assault inspected ; the number of military under arms ascertained ; and all those , necessary details, by which a judgment of the probability of success might be formed.' " At one of these Central Meetings, held in the middle' of- Alarch, an - order was filmic,. that . . , till ndeptes the tilt of May, and repot r .the number of staunch Mends ready at .ill .risks Co ris,—nmi ilk° posii ye - means of action. 1t WAS RISO [lo6'r:dried , that Icl;fCbell . he sent to London; to aScer lain what number cif men could be depended on there, to come turkvard chore the insurrectional experime,ut was made in the country. Mitchell atcoldingly set Off for London, and found his way . to Peudrill, the boot;•maker, in Newgate 7 street , , 'who, it is iil he rectAletted, was one cf the speakers in .Spa-helds, and who, it has heed understood, harhonred young Watson until his escape„ 00 board the Venni. Pendrill .himself was in a' s'tate of di:spair, and pre- . paring to leave England. " And now, for 11“: first time, does the haime of Oliver become in any way•connected with these ir;tisiictions ; for Mitchell lound Oliver with Pen di ill, assisting hini in making tip his boOks ; ao0.: in his presence, on the assui ance of Pendrill, gan to untold the object of his mission, and to lay open the whole proceedings of the Conspiran tors, and the extent to'whick their projects bad been-carried. " Ire our next we shall continue this narrative, comprising a most interesting detail of the further machinations of the disaffected, and of that line of conduct pursued by Oliver, which unquestion ably preserved the Empire from being eipased to the greatest danger, and visited with the most afflicting horrors.:' LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF C . FLINURT, Nov. 21. SIR WATKIN LEWES V. MO2GAN. This was an application respecting the payment of the interest of some money, relative to which order been made in this Court in 1793, and a subsegitent order in 1794. A. variety of lo ctimenta vve:'e produced, with which his Lordship stated 11 - e had formerly been aegnainted, in con sequence of his having at that time been Counsel for Sir Wtakin. He sincerely wished the case could stand over for a few days, till he should have an opportunity (..t reading over the papers, because it was utterly impossible for him, in any way whatever, to hear a case which necessarily involved a series of orders made from 1793 to 181 7.—The case had_been long prolonged to Lis own regret ; but till be had rend over the papers • • he could not on any account consent . to ' give it a bearing.--Gase postponed. COURT OF•KING'K BENCT-I, Nov. 21. TIIE BLACK DWARF. THE KING V. T. 3. WooLER. The arguments upon spvcial dernuricrs, ap - poi wed' for this day, busing been concluded, their LordshipS called upon the Solicitor-General, who said that he a ttended in consequeve of.a notice of !notion given by •the defendant in the CaSC Of the King v. Wioler. .Mr. Woo ler soon afterwards took his place on the floor of the Court, observing that his object. was to move for a rule to show cause why the list of perslns, flamed by his Majesty's Coroner and Attorney to form the jory'on the trial of the in tornicion against 'T. i4Vooler, should not he cancelled, on the girinrxlthat such persons have been in►propetly, illegally, and partially selected by the• said Coroner and Attorney; and %%by the Sheriffs of the city of London „should not again attend the said Coroner and Attorney with their fi b ,ok or l'st of persons qualified to serve on Juries whhin the said city, for the purpose of 48 persons being named for the trial of the issue joined. application was founded ilium three Affidavits which Mr. Wooler put in, and they were read by Mr. Dealtry, Of the Crown-office., The fires was that of Mr. Charles Pearsall, soli citor to the . defendanr.,wbich stated, that in poor snance of notice, he, accompanied by the defend•;. ant, had attended at the Crown-office, for the pile pose of witnessing the nomination of 4g persons for the trial Of the information of the King v. NVooler ; that the secondary of London produced several books', lists, and prpers, purporting to contain the names of persons qualified to serve on Juries for the City of London., which be presented to the Coroner ; that the Coroner then commeneed a selection of names : the deponent, as solicitor for the defendant, protested against the mode of selection as illegal and unjust, and intimated his determination to appeal against it ; that the Coroner then pretended to take the names indifferently, and turning his eye from the book or list, professed to put down as part of the 48, such names as'his pen lighted upon accidentally ; that the Coroner did not act fairly in this respect ; for, 'whenever his pen was opposite to a name he did not aro, prove, he • took another that better suited his views ; that one of those names was Richard Tapley, rag-merchant, in whose stead, the (..;0. 7 roper took a wine-merchant, the deponent pro testing against the proceeding, stating that Mr. Tapley was a man of the greatest respectability, and if commercial knowledge werea recommenda tion to a jotryman, Most competent to discharge the duties of that situation ; that this remonstrance was in vain, as the Coroner persisted in excluding Mr. Tapley's name, and inclUding among the 48 that of the wine-merchant ; that the Coroner also announced the name of Mr. William 'Gilman as a person upon whom his pen bad lighted in the list, but be immediately afterwards retracted his nomination and substituted a Mr Fellowes, whOui he liked better, .notwitliganding the representa tions of the deponent and his client, that Mr. Gilman•was a most respectable Banker, l perfectly substantial, and indifferent between the. parties ; that the deponent_ had subsequently noade' ries respecting Mr. Fellowes, and fotind thpt he was a broker in the habit of being employed by Government in the sale of old stores, &c. , Thus affidavit concluded w:th the assertion , that the WhOle 48 names were selected by the Coroner in the manner he thour,ht proper. The second 'affidavit was that of T. J. Wonler, the defendant, which confirmed that a his Soli citor- in the most material points, adding, that when they remonstrated against are unfair and ar bitrary manner in- which the Master of the Clown Office was proceeding, that Otbe'er complained of the troutte gi%'ca him reg4fding an old bot:k in - . nltich the r..rites of role-,Tiirors wer p-ArAed for "special' purposes. - Th'e . 'third nl , O bf Mr Charle! Pearseitl, rind it reeiti:d I . lvo acts 'Of the Cotrinvot Council of the City of litotollo, nnlde in 1518 and rega'rding the !node ‘7llit'll ref:it/Ns' 1.11/1• petent to serve opon f'irand -tnrl Petty.Juric4 should be Beier:let!. Tire (I , ..pot;etir that the hanks or lists frurnwnich the 48 mAtnee on this occasion were ; ta:,en - were not frainc , tl 'ac cording to the reglilations of those acts rotal. they were not illhrie up under the direction of the Aldermen of the sevcrd Wards', and certified by them ; but I.l;at st:me t! signed by the Dept , . ties Only, others by the Beadles, and only - one b$ the A.;derman and his Depute instead, at o, cat being annnAlly inepared, one was of 1814, ano ther or 1315, and oire ere!) as old as 1812. Front some tit the Wards no lists or books wet c retutnetl at all. TheSe affidavits having been read , by the Of. ficer, Mr. Wotiler observed, that having been subjected so recently to a trial', and consi dering the intervention of a Jury, impartially named as the only barrier left for the protection. of the personal liberty of the subject, it became a blither of irhportance to him to inquire into the nature and . construction of a Speciul jury. Lord ELLENBOROUGif interrupted the defendant; and observed, that it was unnecessary at present to enter into dethifs ; what was stated in the fidavit4 regarding the partiality of the, ofieet: a snflicient •gromid for granting a role to show cause ; of the other matters in the affidavits his Lotilship Would say nothing.—Rule to slum cause grorited. ' CERTIORARI.--UIOTS AT BRIOWTON. Mr. StIF.141E11:1 moved for a certiorari to the Co..' toner of the county of Sussex, to return the de.... positions taken before him on the view of the body of "a man of the name of Thomas Rowles, into this Court, in order that two persons, of the names of Williams and White, On-aged on the verdict of the jury with murdei, miglrt be bailed; The affidavits in support of the motion were made by four of 'the peace. officers of the town of Brighton, of ‘vbich W:fliams is the High Con stable ; and they stated., that apprehensions bling entertained that disturbances would take place no the stli of November' last, preparations were made for their prevention : for this purpose the High Constable summoned the headhoroughs end• pai,roles, who met on the Steyne, where about 200. persons riotously disposed were assembled, dis playing fire-works, and having a barrel of pi•cht, and tar, which they had rolled upon the tcy ne, and of which the constaWeA,B:c., took possession, but• were unable to disperse the mob, Most of . the Peace-officers were wounded with stones, &c., and driven from the ground. Mr. Williams Wa 4 .also attacked, and, ntan'y of ae windows of house ,broken ; and finding that t h e civil power Was wholly incompetent to quell t he disturbance, lit called in the aid of the military, and made ap plication to a Magistrate at Brighton, At half , past nine the Magistrate found it necessary to read the Riot Act, and while he was so doing; stones wet e cast at the Constablts , and not passed ovet the head, of the Magistrate. in about a qii4rt(r of air hour. afterwards, the military were seen to ad vance from the part of the Steyn,e where they hail been stationed, in consequence of an attack made upon t h em by th e Mob with stones and other ails"-. S!16: one of the depunents, who had been stand ing near the soldiers, was obliged to retit e in con sequence, anti •in the contusion a man named Thomas Rowics was killed ; he was a head• borough, and was assisting in repressing the riots, The coroner's Inquest afterwards sat for 8 days, and returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against' a Soldier and the High Constable. Ii id ELLsNaoat you ir:quied if they were ict custody, and Shepherd answered in the negative but notice hpd been given that they ernabi a pp e lif on a future hiy in Court, in order to be bailed—‘ The Certiorari was granted. A novel circumstance occurred at Marlborougl.. street (Ace yesterday, in the midst of.husiness. A female, who was charged with an assault, was taken in labour in the Office. 'A room was ho , maoely allotted to her, but she was well eit.u g k to be conveyed away in a coach by ber law.bami and female friends, and she was delivered whet) she got home., COURSE OF EXCHANGE, FRIDAY, Nov. 21. 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