The National Register.
London, England, 1817-02-24 00:00:00

RETRENCHMENT.

On our readmission to the Gallery. %te futtryi
Mr. 13/101.`11:111.iN say inr. that if any Member almald bring
forward the general plan of lietrenehtnent, it would he treated
in the same way a. the last question wWeh wooiti •11,tw the
public, tha. there w:ts no sincerity litte4tirs, %viten they
yroft•seci Illiernbeives tavotinab.e 1,) retreneinatetit.

111 4C. 'We WI the Bill for rnabrng the I xcitertucr to
receive voluntary contribution • from persona in office,
Lord '.:A•Tt.un6AOtt it au t er we• the introitiou of esta-
t‘: 14)( ~• °Hirt. ;on the cunt' art, or was out to be ee•-
sidrred on the light of vuuuNary einnrinutinnb.
Mr. GonDu wished knuw if it u.os intended to reduce
the Win.kor Ectabtiodunettt?

'II. VANSITTART gala, that, ennsi,lering ibe delicacy 4,1 the
intuition, he could not Let xp..cted to :in‘v,ct :t.
The 11:11 th. n went through a Comm1:1, ; the Mt*
ITeCiVI:II, auJ orili red to be taLeat tut) furtitei c ...,1•1 :than
nn Wt•Jnr~dny.
. . .

Mr. I,t statNcrow brought tic P liken reiativr t., th • D. ow.
ou Paper a.',100e.1 to foe U:tiver.it% of Glasgow.—Ur.
.iered to be laid uu the table. —Adjourned.

I UESDAY, Ft 18.

The noose was to ba;',ot fur a C tmouttee to try the merits
of tlu. p •tit"mti romp!aining of au undue returr. for th• Bo-
rough of tV tottmt 114•St'l ; when the re,ittkite tmmiter of
vutiters (Idd) toot hetng present, au adjournment, of course,
took place.
WEDNESDAY, FED. 19.

The chief bn,iness of general isupartance thi. day was the

REPO: Cr OF THE SECRET CO rEE.

Mr. liAlltUksT appeared at the bar With the Report of the
Secret Committee, which was read by the Clerk. It was in
suhslinee as follows :
" 'that the Cominitte., after a most attentive examination
of the docennests which had been referred to their cow. &ea.
lion, by order of the Print.e lle4ent, were conviticed th it at-
tempts had been made in various parts of the comely, as
well as iu the metropolis, to tale adviietage of the distr. saes
of the people, and to mate in their mind, a desire to over-
throw and destroy the present laude I and funded system.
That. in the metropolis and other places, there existed a so-
urly, denominated the Spencettos, from the same of the ori-
ginal thunder, a visionary enthusiast, who lived scene years
ago. At the umetnes of these persons Parliamentary Re.
form was described as a half measure, not calculated to do
any good ; the people were told, they must look to the land ;
that they had no Constitution, and would search for it in vain;
that the land-owner was a rapacious monster ; the fund.
owner still worse, and that they must be hunted down.
Other societies were held in the metropolis and elsewhere,
which. Meeting under the disguise of conviviality, littered
their seditious doctrioes and profane parodies on passages of
scripture, and raised subscriptions to defray the expense of
printing and circulating their opinions gratis to the people at
large. he Committee had also discovered that there had
bees its agitation a Plan for a general risiog of the people,
which was to have been rendered so numerous, as by its [phy-
sical strength to have overcome all opposition. Committees
in town hail been appointed to correspond with Committees
in the country—the Town Committee bad been busily and
actively employed hi collecting the names of persons alto
could he depeuded upon. The general rising ass to take
place is the right. The soldiers were to have been sur-
prised, the barracks set on hre, the Tower and /lank seized ;
a machine had been invented, a drawing of which was ex-
hashed to the Committee, for driving back the casairftrom
the streets, and other preparations were made. This plan,
however, was fur the present postponed ; and it was deter-
mined to hold a m:eting somewhere in the ueighbourhood of
the metropolis fur the avowed purpose of petitiunioc for
Parliamentaly ILL( form. The map of London aas exanuned,
and Spa fickle was the place tined upon. :Iccorelinely a
meeting was held in that place in November, and vatoms
indammatory hand bias were previous;e circulated amongst
the people, cue of which Colit.sioeti the following expressions.
" No Regent, no Castlereagh-44 with their beads; no
Bishops, they are only useless luother;" &c.—At the meeting
to November, no violence took place, but a secoliti areeliing
was fixed thr the gel of December. when it was hoped they
would be strong enough to proceed to aotion. In the menu
time tire situps where arias and autumn:tam might be obtain-
ed had been meted. Tri-coloured slags and cockades hail
been pros hied. and plans adopted for seducing the *oldie's;
Anti confident hopes were expressed th ,t if they could pre-
vail for two hortr,,onke, they should be able to furnish thent-
selveocempledely with anus. The pet •.ealS were all to have
been thrown opeu ; a Humber of pikes had been ordered,
Iwu hinedied and fifty had becu Matto, tic:it melt, a nil paid
fur. Tlitems-coloured flags, cockades, &c. were taken in a
waggon to Mpa-ficlds.- [Dere the report entered into a de-
tail of the tiarviactiont of the IA December, sod continued]—..
That improbable*, it was that success should attend this ee-
llaordinary anrletLeiin„get it was the resell am, at ranged
systeot, the ,i1I4(01"5 et V. kid.' were confident of success;
and, though then defeated, their coufideuce still continued.
The Committee next (stied the attention of On Rouse to a
chain of clubs, which, under the pretence of lot %as lligig the
great olliet of l'arhanteetary Reform, had lieu e3tatJatAtti