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London, England, 1818-02-26 00:00:00

It le POR7' she SEC It R7' COMMI7'7'R

APPOINTED TO EXAMINE INTO THE NIATTF.R
OP THE SEVERAL PAPERS" SEALED UP, PRE-
SF.NTED TO Tlyr. HOUSE BY COMMAND OF
THE PRINCE REGENT.

By the Lords Committees •pooitita 41 a Secret Commitlee
u. examine into the Matter of the PAINTS permuted to
this House, ins Sealed Rag. by the Contemid of hie
Royal Highiscvv Ilk WHIM Regent, and to rerun to the
House, as they 511:111 see cause: and to whom were re-
ferred Additional Papeas (sealed up), also presented to
the 'loose by the Coannisud of his Royal Highness the
Paine.- Regent
011OCKIED TO RIPOIRT.
That the ('ommatire have proceeded to examine the
Papers so referred to them.
lu executiou of tlii. daily they have proceeded, in the first
place, to coss.ider such of the mid Papers sr cootaitied in-
formations aY to tin. slat. of Ifiure ports of Rimbaud iii which
the circumstances d. i sited its the Two Reports of the
former Committees appear to have arisen.
Ise the last of Ulnae Itrports, presented to the House on
the 14th of Jura lass, it was represeastrii that She Period of
a general risings of shish the inteutiou and idajPet were
stated is the Reports, appeared to have hewn hull for as
estily • day as possible after the discussion of an expected
stoteisto Cow Reform in Parliament ; that Nottingham ap.
peered to hare beau issteotted as the head-quarters, upon

The coeviet ion of these four i solaced Waimea' of 11k other
persons **dieted, whoee conduct had bent deemed lo the
nest degree most crisoimal, to withdraw their pleas of Nut
Guilty, and to plead Guilty to the Indictment, in boom of
than avoiding • capital punishment • and the tientence or
death out these persons was afterwards remitted, on different
maidens. Against all the other persons iudieted, who
were in custody, the Low Officers of the Crown drain. d
proilliciug soy evidence, and they were 'item dangly acquit lull.
The rest of the persons included iu the ludictutelit bad Rd
from justice, and have nut yet bees take it.
The feet of this actual insorrect ioo, first proved to Ow aa-
lisfaction of • most respectable Grail Jury of the county
of Derby, who found the bill of indictment, and afterwards
proved in open Court to the satisfaction of the 'several Juries
sworn on the four several trials of the persons conflicted;
proved also by the acknowledgment of the same pill by
Owe who withdrew their pleas of Not Guilty, and pleaded
Guilty to Om same indictment, and thus submitted them-
aelvea to the mercy of the Crown, appear to the Coutidlitre
to have established, beyond the possibility of a doubt, the
credit due to the information neentiedind lu the last Report,
respecting the plans of more emended imiurrection, which
had previously been concerted, and respecting the postpone-
ment of these plans to the 9th or lath of hose.

But this insurrection in Derbyshire was not the only eir-
eunsatenceocerring since the period described in the last of
the two Reports br fstre mentioned, whirls demonstrates the
correctness of the isforination on which the Committee who
made that Report proceeded, iu representing such • general
rising to have beets intended, and to have Iw•ru pust posed ;
and that Nottingham was the Isead.gnsrtera wren which a
wart of the insurgents were to march in the host instance,
and that they were expected to be joined there b) imoorgeitle
from different geartere.
Early iu the same night on which the Derbyshire insur.
Rents began their operations, the town of Nottimehani was
a state of considerable agitation. It appears from the
evidence given upon the trials at Derby, that durine the
march of the Derbyshire inallossetits towards Nottingham,
tole of their leaders, afterwards convicted of high treason,
was scut forwards ins borsthech to obtain intelligence. r in
his return to the toxin booty of the Derbyshire inseireente, it
was pretended thet she stale of Nottingham was favourable
to their desists"; the actual state of Nottingham and its
neighbourhood appears from the evidence given on the trials
at Derby. lei the eight or the 9th of June, some persona,
stated to be in ■umber shooed ore bemired, had assembled
on the Race Course in Nottingham Purest, where the Der.
byalsire insargents, accordiug to their orignsal plan, wire to
have arrived at ao early hour on the mooning of the lath,
and expected to be julard by such a party. •Plods party was
seen about twelve at night ; they were drawn up in line, two
deep, earl a part of filem wore mined with pikes or pules.
They remained assembled on the Care (hotrod until past
two o'clock in the tounsiox, about which time they dispersed.
Same appearances of dist'. bros.e in the bums of Noritimr.
ham, early in the night of the Pth. induct,' the Nlagistiateti
to send fur a military fince florin the barracks ; and urd• r
being quickly restuced, the miherry returned to their has.
racks, and were nut again cam ol out until the morning of
the 10th, when they wen retitoreol It swiss iii tlettwootog the
Derbyshire insorgenta, wino were tben coo their march.
Cototeelml with these rlisturbanco s in Derby:ohm. and Not.
tinelianishite, a dispoiNittooto to stitair el/11111Ni W•.; twoo-
fester' in apart of the ti•. st Om! of York•Mre. the mh
ofJsine•Sleetingof 1),•1. cotes was assemblo ol Ai • piAre d
Tisuroloill Lees, licat wool at this nseettiot: it
was understood that the ion, too Itv **or a gt•nrr.J 'Pool(
snood be anuorneed a..ciiiiitta at that tiled.
hog r ere soros oso ol by P, Nl.ortoittatta, mantled by a multarY
furore, and souse taken solo civil-My. This as ITO dr.
ranged the plans of the on,atreciert; and the eo eater part of
the districts an ihrt pit of Yon k•lino , to a bolo a pair. al
rising had b.:en poopu,ed, itma,steJ guict. But to the

tushagartl.
Some of the Pervai eagaged in the projects, pollen.
May've kowlint, are still active, sod appose. detewitemed to
PersioTre, though aith •;eereasing nuoil/em and rectiiireete..,..
II appeals., therefore, so elieVenteniusies ,t/tet. (ha. coo iiwtea
vigilance of Govereinseut, end of the Magistrates in illt•*.
vocal districts which have been meet dietfirbed, will be tn-
revery. •. • • •tt•
Having thus taken a view of the Mate of the Cononey hs
the disturbed districts, from the period described in the
Report mode Its the House, towards tbr close of the lest
Seminal oceirliament, the Committee. have proceeded to
examine I.lleh of the Pppegs referred to them its relate to the
• of several persona antler biennia issued by one ui
his kilejestes rriacipal Secretaries of State, and the delt#o-
huts aektrialiof the persons so arrested under she arthi'irity
of.two Acts pawed in the list Sessiou of Parliament, 1,1 em-
power his. Majesty jy secure and deletes such.perptort its tut .
:11sjeaty phial suspect are conspiring against his Person aed
GorrrisMeri.
Wirth rutted fo those against whom Bills of Indictment
Whew fouteil by differeit Chard Juries, snit those who have
hems brought to trial or have fled from justice, the Com-
mittee cueeeive that it wsuppieteesary for them to make nu y
particular atateaseut, Warraats were issued by the Secret:is y
of State agaisyt
,ten.perions who have ant betas Italica. ruify7
tube elteibiii appear to have tiara arrested andi•r Warrenta
of else apiatelait of State, ow auspitior of High Treasons
visa hentavei bean brought to trioli. of. three seven were
Slischanged- tow examination, trit,hout, any subeestsseat War.
guilt sit &troilism. Against thirty-seireni Warrant! of detrii-
teuit, atispieldst of High Trams, were issued by the &i -
cretin'y of &alit but owe, oho was AtiallY control teed, ass
snow after released; soothers's§ soon discitalgrd on seroiist
of •illuale; mad a third died in prisons. The kruiesair
even which- these Warrauts wive blued, hare been MI if/411y
examined by the Committee; uu that examiiiatitio it 113 s
appeared to the Committee, that all these arrests and deli ll-
tiwia hive been (idly Jastilled by the various ceieriiiistaneed
haler which they bare takes place; and in no emit shwa any
Wallow of detention appear to have been imoisl except in
eonsegnenre of informaliou upon oath.
It appeare so the Committee, that all the persona whit heti
so arrested and detained, and who Were not prusccuts d, has c
beets at duff, rent tithes discharged, as the stale of she a win-
try, 'stud the circumstances attending the several trials *inch
had taken plaice, wets judged to placid.
The Committee undessidand, that, up to a certain period,
egpeclatiesis were entertaiued of being able to broom a,, trial
large proportion of the persons so arreaird and di•taiiied ;
bait that their expectattous have from time to litne bests
istravuidahly relimpsished.
Oat the whole, ilwrefore, it has. appeared to the Commit.
lee, that the Government, in the execution of the powers
weeded ea it by the two Act before sientionest, lies acted
with due discretion and Moderation ; and, as far as aopears
to the Committer, the Magistrates its the several disturbed
slisitricas have, by their activity and vigilance, contributed
utatertally 1u the preset-ration of the public peace.