The National Register.
London, England, 1817-06-16 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAME r.

HOUSE OF LORDS.
MONDAY, .11,Ne 9.
The Rock Salt Bill was read a second time.
Ihe Poona Eng)lo)rnent Bill went throut,4l a Omnil,tec
without oppositioa.—Adjourned.

' TUESDAY, JUNE 10.
Thr Earlettatinttitosi.s: mowed the second reading of a
Fill for extending the propixiees of an Aot of Parliament,
prohibiting the parysent al wage* el workmen employed in
certain Maisufartones, in goodly er lekros, iastead snoopy.
mil Lordship stifled, that where the payload, titre made in
,gbods or tokens, for goods, the workmen were neverprofte-•
I paid.-he Bill was read a second dais, •
The Metropolis Pawing Bill was read aJd (him slid passed.
71„. r:.bra..qiier Bills-Grant BO was read a third tiinc and
pit at} red.

THE TIONAL REGISTER.

TtItTIODAY, Jcnr 12.
TRAITOROUS PRACTtetS.

The Earl or I.tyrn pont.. about one e'r:,.e1,.14.! on tita tr.
ble a crceo baz, contaioiti:: farther inform/Mon on the %tibjeet
or traito•ne< prdetiee2.. The pope's were referred to the
Secret Committee.
Rr.powr OF Tlll SECRET COMMITTEE.

. . .
The furl of I.lxiatetiot. e resented the Report.
"'By the Lords' Committee appointed to tyke into conei-
diVistion several papers, sealed up in a bag, &c. and to report
to the House, &c.
"The Report beeins by stating, that the Committee, after
in exiosaisilicii of the papers referred to them, felt it their
painfid duly to des-laic, that thee sec but too many proofs of
a it antis (els entispitaey to overdo ow the Coseriiene nt and
thcConstitetion, and to sobvert the existing order of NBC lily.
" The Report then praises the active exertioes of the Go-
verionem, and parsicolioly of the Magist I HIC3 111 the execu-
tion of the Izeocrai laws. and ost. the special post irs intrusted
to them by the new Acts of Parliament ; but the Committee
assert, that though the plan's of the eonspirttors have been
thus frustrated, yet, in spite of all this, the tame wicked and
desperate d.oimis are still pursued. The information on
which this entsekisieti is folmdett, is said 10 be collected from
sonices frequently unconfirmed and mik now n to curls' whet ;
but the recent is said to be uniform, and is also corroborated
by a striking imincidenev in many minnte partimilars.
" The Committee the II observe, that their intelligence rests,
in Many or its parts, upon the testimony of persons who are
either themselves illiplic:lttli in these climbed transactions,
or who hese apparently engaged in them foe the purpose of
obtaining information, and imparting it to the magistrates or
the Secretary of State. ,
" The. Cou 111 l ittee allow that surd' testimony must he very
questionable; and state, that they have reams) to apprt bend
that the latimiagc and conduct of sonic of the latter descrip-
tion of %Vl:tresses has had the effect of encouraging those de.
siens which it was intended they should only be the means of
detecting. But allotting for these circumstances, the Com•
mince are still of opinion, that the statement which they pro-
Cecil to give, is by no means exageerated, but perfectly %sar-
ranted be Me papers submitted to their inspection.
" It proceeds to state, that the papers relate, almost
midmost exception, to the manufacturing dist; jet% in the
midland and northern comities; and although the disaffected
stilt look to the metropolis with the hope of assistance and
direction, yet to the districts ffins referred to, the more recent
projects of insurrection were to have ()erne milked.
"The Committee then state, that although in many of these
districts distress has operated to expose the minds of the la-
bouring classes to irritation and perversion, yet this distress,
in their -opinion, has been rather the instrument than the
cause of the disaffection. In some of the disaffected districts
they believed that distress had been less felt than ia many
other parts of the kingdom ; while in other places, where the
distress has been mo-t gries out, it has been sustained with
such patience, Inyaky, and good conduct, as cannot he too
highly commended ; and the Cotnmittee thiuk that it is chiefly
by the means mentioned its the Report of' the former Com-
mittee, namely, by the estensive circulation of stalitionx and
blasphemous publications, and by the continual repetition of
inflarametotv discourses, that this spirit of disaffection has
been excited and diffused. These have gradually weakened
among the lower order the attachment to our Government
and CraStitotion, and the respectior law, morality, and reli-
gion; and their minds have thus been prepared for the
adoption of' measures mo less injurious to their interests and
happiness, than to those of every other class of leis Majesty's
subjects.
" Since the former Report, Manchester and its neighbour-
hood are stated to be the only pieces where meetings have
been held in such numbers as to excite alarm. At a meeting
there on the 3d of March, for the purpose of petitioning
against the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, on which
occasion several thousand persons were assembled, it was
resolved, that another meeting was to he held on the 10th,
with the intention that ten out of every twenty ',moons should
proceed to London with a petition to the Prince Regent.
't he interval was employed in repeated and numerous meet
ings, when the designs of the leaders were developed in
speeches of the most undisgteished violence. (tee man avow-
ed himself a republican and a leveller, and would never give
up the cease till a republican form of government was estab-
lished; others stated, that if their petition was rejected,
they must force it; that the large towns its Yorkshire were
acting on the same plan, and would meet them on the road, or
at least march to London at the same time- that the Scotch
were em their march, and that they slifttliti be one hundred
thousand strong when joined by die people of the menufac-
testing districts on the mad ; and that it would be iiitpossi.
ble for else army, or any thing else, to resist them. 'l' he
:peahen were sometimes checked by some of their associ-
ates, hut were generally received with strong marks of
applanee and concurrence. Arrangements for the march
were pointed outsand the people were told to provit'e them-
selves with blankets, shoes, hal knapsacks, and wills money
and food. Those who renuthied behind were to assist with
subscriptions. Every ten men were to choose a leader, and
one was to be placed over every hundred. Strong intima-
tions were also gleca of the ,propriety and necessity of pro-
viding themselves w ith arms, hat those do not appear to have
been acted upon, esempt in a few instances.
" (In the 10th of March the meetii g took place, consist big
of from 10 to 12,000 persons; and although some of the
leaders IA been previously arrested, and some were seized
on the spot, the luwhbow was not Abandoned, and large nuna
hers of the deluded people marched off towards London.
" It goes out to Mate, that a considerable body was stopped
on their stay to Stockport, while great numbers passed
1111111 Tb Leek, andense party went as tar as Ashboorne : bet
the activity *like imagietrates, in dispersing the meeting ;mil
stopping these parties, prevented the eseectien of a design
which probably woald have disturbed else peace, not only of
the counties thrones which they passed, but might have led
to consequences bights dangerous to the public trampsillity.
" It observes' dud the planters of the plot, instead of be-
ing discouraged by flus disconditore, pursmed their measures
iminterropted*y. Fords meetings, thosigh in smaller num-
bers, were soon afterwards iseltt, consisting Mike& of dele-
gates lions Manchester, Derbyshire, and the sitatMtlecturine
districts of Yorke. At some of those meetings reports
were mode et the 'tv of pike., firelocke, and bolters.,
wlnetlfesoold be pro for Elie intended rising. Commie-
nighttime mete kept l`
h illottisethant, Shifts:4d, Will Ili r.
till,
'situates& in order to lifite thetpeople of those +lists:lets t •
shaflaraiLlellAPla. Illtd te hadellein hie progress el their ...
phoneme. In these meetings. Usk stated that the pre'em
'of Put I ilUlitili ta ry ',form nee aleast.t am deely disearde". .1 '
nothing less tbau revs/Ohm was meditated: and to sleek a
dreadful Ilejfee were flit, istiuds of• many people at these

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•tiiigs corrupted and inflamed, that in public speeches ti.e,
eiect..“itv of doing arm, bilk,' or disposing of. (ibis was tl:
'xlllo the persons most ohimAioits to ttsciit was mirescrvedly
annomiced; and it is edited to have bean ((((( *to proposed to
make Manclic,ter a MoScow, in eider to.stretegthen the cause
by thoi% dug uro.it numbers out of work.
"--A general insurrection was to have continence cl at Man-
chester oti the ; magistrates were to hare boon seized,
prisoners liberated, soldiers either to be surprised at the',l
barracks, or to be drown gout of then, by oho burning tai.
factories to lota set an tire, and while they were thus diver led
from !heir posts, the hoicks were In be occupied by a party
stationed for that purpose, and the' magazine was to It:
seized. The tiring of a rocket, or rockets, WiVo to be lite
.dual for this I ising. 'flue numbers sufficient for the intnie•
diate 'lmpose mete estimated at 2 or 3,000 Men; but it %%list
c:Weeteoi that tile insurgents would amount to 5,000 in the
looming.

" In some parts of these proceeding,' there are traces ofan
intention to ib!;11e premlamillerms' absolving the King's soh-
frets from their alegiance, and denouncing death against
the iropponents. The Committee, however, allow flail they
have not tonna any eridenee of the actual preparation of
these proclanialionS.
This atrocious conspiracy was detected anitdefeated by
the ssagacito of the magistrates, who seized and confined some
of the ringleaders before the period fixed for its es.ecution.
This timely prevention appears to have checked very consi-
derably the piereeeelinga of the disaffected; and the subse-
quent intelligence front that platter is ?la more favourable
kind.
" During part of the month of April there 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
less frequently couveded, • veil in public houses. Chiba
have been elisolved, meetings suspended, or held so pri-
vately, nod so remotely as to•have escaped observation.
"They have fewer commernicationa in writing : the names
of leading persons have been recontrooststed to be concealed :
few persons only are entrusted with the progress of their
plans, and these men are to give notice to different delegates
to have their partisans ready to art when and as required.—
These delrTates have met in small numbers, and have kept
up a general though verbal correspondence among the disaf-
fected.
" Towards the end of April, and during the month r f May.
this correspondence has been more active. On the sth of
May a meeting was held in a town in the West Riding of
Yorkshire, which was attended by delegates from other prin-
cipal towns of that district. and from Leicester, Mirtnio„cieam,
and Nottingham. At this lemming reports were made by the
delegates of the numbers which could be collected from the
ditlia-cut districts: they were stated to be very large ; but
the Conunittee 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
clay as possible after the discussion of the question of reform
in the House of Comnions. Thee insurgents were first to
march to Nottingham, is here they were expected to be
joined by other bodies; and on their way to London by still
moue, all armed either before or to be armed by the robbery
of private houses or of different barracks and depots, which
were to be attacked. _ _ _

" At several subsequent meetings it was reported, that the
increase of members was so :peat, that it was Raid at one of
them, that it was necessary to extend their disisions daily,
and enlarge their committee. •
" Similar information front many quartets whence the de-
legates 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 June,
('or various reasons. Hy the latest intelligence from these
quartets it appears, that these designs were frustrated by the
same causes 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
functions by the regular troops and yeomanry acting under
their ditecticn, the efficient arrangements of the offiet rs
intrusted with the service, the knowledge obtained of the
plans of the disaffected, together uilk the arrest and impri.
sonment of the leading agitators ; and that by these causes
still farther postponement of their atrocious plans would be
ncra,ioned. Subsequent intelligence leaves no doubt that
the plan, in its full extent, has bccu frustrated ; but the cor.
rectuess of former information has been confirmed by the
late appearance of bodies of armed men at the period pre.
vionsly fixed, and particularly in one of the districts which
had bet n described as determined to rise, without waiting
tOr a general co-operation.
" The Committee think it important to state, that many of
the most active magistrates nod persons whose civil and
military situations suable them, upon the most extensise
informaliml, to form the Most accurate opinion, concur in
attributing the disappointment of the attempts already made,
and of the hopes at continued tranquillity, to the exercise of
the new powers whirls Parliament intrusted to the executive
Govi rument, and to the influence produced by the knowledge
that these powers would be called into action as soon as ne-
cessity should jfistify their employment. They concur like.
wise in a oepresentatiou of the danger with which the expiry
of there powers, at the present moment, would threaten the
country ; mid the Committ, e feel, that they should ill dis-
charge the high trust reposed in them if they did not declare
their unreserved assent to this Opilllo{l. 'limy, therefore,
with the fullest confidence in thu loyalty and good disposi-
tions, not only of those classes of the community arid those
portions of the kingdom which have generally hitherto re-
mained free from ditaffectien, but of the greatest part of
those eely districts whielrare the chief scenes of discontent
and of threatened tlistorbance, cannot 1'4141111 from declaring
it,as the, esult ofall the ineormation which they have collected,
that the time is not yet arrived when. the maintenance of
public tranquillity, and the protection of the Fires and pro-
perty of his Majesty's subjects. cau be allowedto depend upon
the ordinary powers of the hew."

FRIDAY, JUNE IS.
Several llills werebrought Narrate' the Commons, and read
a first time; the Mutiny Bill was read a 6cGoud CHOC ; as was
Toinkins's Picture Lottery Hill.

RENEWAL OF TOE HABEAS rpart:s SIUSP/F660111 ACT.
I.ord SIDMOUTO co.sr to pi opolir the Cast reading of a Bill
similar to that wide:, their Lordships had already sanctioneB.
one 00000 el. •• • the ite .geo or persons ho had conspil ell isgaiinot
lkl•••e,. Covers meld;
Ear' Ott shat Kinn ithstanding all be had heard, he
saw t.c ind • -sal, •• neresaity for a ringlet- susi•ension of the
ri • f •••e pie of England. He stionld, however, fol.
lorri..g the e. mple I the Noble Lord, reser% e himself till
Mond4; swiien the B is to be read a second time, and tut
da/ the Lord+ itiy antumoned.—Adjourtbed.
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HOUSE bF COMMONS.
AIONDAV, .11:NE 9.

Leave wu atyett to Airing iu a Bill to amend the Acts re

to Prize M w.
lie Pour diteintival Hill wag inmetl.
'LOUD CoI,CIII 511.31.
On the ;notion lir VAN•lerAlt-t, the nonce Went into
it Committee on the Prinee Itilenra Mesataer tnr granting.
It Pension to lard Calctit,tcr. The Rizni lionottrablei
KiyntlrtnaN attorily scrvireN Of !lir Noble Lori!.
•daris the time lio fi li sl lair chair sit this I iou‘e ; observing;
that in the ease of Sivi•aki;r the Floosie had clawed,
:0131. a year itv a rrntiineritn.n.' Hut as since Chit thins
'Cid yenta.) the liti.ineva of the lionise hail erratic increased,
he ithinald prbpose that the grain of the Niddi Lei 1„ daring
4tisill'teliinc, be .WOUI. and in the event of hi.. dcatii
•to It imeers:or in The title.

Mr, Hotste Svsyrrn, with great relnetanrc, ~tat-1 1.!,
•opitsion, that the hnm proposed to be :voted was insutficknt.
Agreeing in tile statement of the Right ilonotivah:e Gent:e.
man, that the ',wines• had greatly increased, and adin:ttili4
that the resources of the country were impoverished, yet
he could not believe that We were 11111101 I ephiced as not
'to be enabled itiffiviently to reward our public scrilints.
itiovril to aitteoil the proposition by rubstittiting the
words" Five Thousand."

Sir. M. W. Rint.Ey hail hoped t hat the nn inimity of the
!loose Would out be diqurlied. The situation fdf the cmintry
'would not admit of voting so large a sum as that proposed
-by the night Honourable Gentleman. At ail events he was
anse that the House mail not,ionsistetitly uith its duty to the
riblie, consent to vote so large a sum as that proposed by
the Honourable Gentleman in his amendment. He should,
if it was persisted in. divide the House.
Mr. VAPSSItTaitT hail brought forward the propopition,
nil fixed the
`the citeurnitonccs of the eoindry.
Mi. H. SUSINEIt (Ml not Wish to press kis amendment, and
withdrew his 'wand).

Mr. rONSUN Y stns glad the. Honourable Member had
withdrawn his amendment. With every respect for the late
Speaker for his scrvieer, he could not think that he should
• Nlo his duly to the public, if he voted for such a proposition ;
the cirenntstiniees of the country were to be considered ;
and with respect to the sum proposed by the Hight Hun.
(tientleman 01r. V) if any lie thought even that was
rather I.n high for the Midi's of the people to support
large grants; for sensuionating public servants was instead
'of increasing, rather decreasing.
Mr. H. Suotrien should feel it his ditty to move that the
Grant Ise extended to two lives instead of one, and if the
motion should he objected to, must press it to a ditision.
Mr. TunaTu nwst COaid not, with his view of economy, consent
to support the prOposition of 'the Honourable
.Gentleman,
• nor could he agree to vote lain 40001. The state of the
pnUie purse would not sanction him in so doing. He might,
however, consent to a proposition for 30001. a year fur two
'lives. Mr. Pitt had not more ; nor hail many gallant Officers;
the Duke of Wellington at first had only 20401. pension
per annum. To the grant of •44001. he should strongly object
soul gise his vote against it.
Mr. Cc En was of the same opinion, and if his night
Honourable Friend intended to divide 'the House, would
sete with 1 .

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Mr. LAMUTON ;.roposed an amendment to the effect that
300J1. only be granted. Tim Committee divided.—For the
original motion 120 —For the Amendment 42—Majority 81.
On our return- to the gallery, gee found the House discuss-
ing Mr. H. Suinner's proposition for evitentling the teem, and
granting the snot for two lives beyond the Noble Lord's.
Mr. VAAIITTART was not disposed to support the motion.
Ms. J. WARIb eOlllll not agree to vote the grant now
demanded, on account of the Peerage. Ile deprecated
the idea of establishing so dangerous a precedent its a cow
Ltinitional point of view.
The proposition was negatived without a divison.—The
Report was ordered to be received to-morrow.
Some couversatiou took Ware between Mr. Ponsonhy,
Mr. Speaker, Lord Castlereagh, Mr. Vansittart, to•
specting an irregularity, in not entering a motion on tio- Jour.
ands which had come under dismission, on a former evening,
respecting the Message front the Prince Regent. The result
was a motion, now made by Mr. Ponsouby," That the w hole
of the entry be made on the Journals of the 5d of June,
namely, that the Message, &Le. was with consent of the
llouse willt4rawn." The motion being pot was negatived.

SALE OF OAHE.

GoloherWoon moved the second reading of the Bill, for
logalizing the t.ale of Game.
Lord DMERIMOST objected to the second reading of the
Bill, which would pat an end lo one of our greatest colintr3,
vousernents. lie moved that the Bill be read a second time
that day Eix months. The motion being seconded, the Bill
was thrown out.
costiarrm: OF SL'PPI.Y.

The House went into a Committee of Supply, to which the
Ordnance Estimates were referred.
Mr. WARD/4;6d, as there was no alteration in arse Esti-
Vll4lO, racept a diminution of expence Inc Ireland, he
thisaiii not employ thu time of the House with any statement.
Ile then moved a sum of 359,9681. for the Ordnance Office ;
14,00:H. tin retired Generals and other Officers • 1:1.0001.
faesoperannaixted persons belonging to the Ordnance Office;
Lnat several other sums, which were agreed to without
opposition; as were the usual Groats for the Civil Services
in sew South Wales, Sierra Leone, Ilrpper Canada, &e.
tho motion for a vote of 75,0001. for the Caledonian
Canal, •
Mr. An el,rtineT said. that as a million and a half had been
expended on this work, it would he a wa'te of public wnvcy
to lose all that for want of this additional grant. However,
he would pospone this vote till a future night.
On the vote for keeping lip the Vaccine Establishments,
oar. Cussesls washed, that tie the efficacy of Vaccination
should be enquired into.
Mr. F. Lewis was of opinion, that even a doiffit should not.
be cast on the efficacy of this great blessing to mankind.
Lord C.I.STLNItgAIai said, that in other countries Vaeeina.
*lien had driven away the small pox l and if ii were more
generally used, it would perhaps extinguish the small pea us
a disease altogether.
The H.port of theßos
to-morrow.—adjourned.

was ordered to be reeeivud

TUESDAY, Jinni In.
PUBLIC WHIPPING OP WOHEN.

• General Twins-six moved for leave to bring In a" Dill to
abolish the public whipping of women ho bad been mare espe•
eially led to this by :to article in The !neatest Jorroal, which

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hated, that a woman, young all4llll.lliilflll, had been whip.
ped iti the piitnie streets—that she ass in a *tate of intosiea.
lion• -seems it quite lost to eve' y sense of her situation, and
•Itort;y rein; :v(1 to her old emirs( s. Spectacles such ai this
%t-rt• Hut likply to improve public morals. Phe pituishilient
had bc:•n pen tinny abolished in: England. and he proposed to
iholis% it en•i;ely, by commuting the pr,oisliatent fur 11110
in a wotkhonse, tor a period not exceeding three

The motion we` ncreed to, and the followitte Committee
appointe.t--the Attorney and Solicitor (ienrral, Sir S. Ka
tinily, Sir A. Piggott, and Air. C. Giant, jun.

BkNKRLPT t.tWP.
Mr. J. St4tTn propooli a Committee r g nof the
It.mkrapt 1..:41,c...--Alttr it ft..% wordy from Mr. Finial, alai
Mr. Wrottei:ey, the :notion agt eed to.

TNE LATE SPEAKER.

01 the reiolution for eivielr a Pcnson of 49461. to the lute
Speaker, as ainendinelit was proposed, to substitute :Otto!.
for 401101. hot it was rreati.cd, and &Bill wus ordered to be
brought in, pursuant to the re!•ultition.
The Newfuniullani: Marrianq Bill was read a third time and
passed.
As account wit‘ ordered of all Pewiong, with the particu-
lars thcteut, iu Ireland, pritious to the year 16 16.--.lJ-
jouracti.