The Sun.
London, England, 1813-01-16 00:00:00

SITTING OF TILL lOTA OF JANUAitY.

The Sitting opened at three o'clock in the, af•-•
ternoon, under the Presidency of his. Serene
kJ igimess:the Prince Arch-Chancellor of the'Em-
pire.
•
Excellency the:Minister for loreign Af-
fairs was present at the Sitting.
Their Excellencies Counts.Regnand. de St. Jean
d'Angely, and Defurnon, Ministers of ;State and
ComicillorS of State, being introduced,
Ills Serene highness the Arch-Chancellor spoke
in these terms
" GEtirrLpmiN---The nation is, of itself, disposed
to adopt Measures which it judges neCesstay for the
support of its glory, and for the preservation of
its preponderance in ,gurope.
" From all points of this vast empire Addresses
succeed each , other;. Offers multiply ; the public
ill is ready to outstrip the appeal of sovereign, aii7
thority.
The Emperor, who reckons upon the love ;of
his people, and who appreciates their resources,
-has judged that there is no reason for varying from,
usual dispositions.
Ills Majesty would even have deferred:cm-
ploying thin it an unexpected event had not made
hiM think that the profiting of the useful co-opera-
ion of our Allies depended upon the developenient
ut enn own forces, which is toAceelerate the inti-
merit of an honourable,peace, such as a French
heart can desire, and such as his Majesty has nit
ceased to offer his enemies... 'lt is in that , spirit,
Gentlemen, that Ocprojet submitted to.your
deli-
berations has been digested.
, ‘f gentlemen, Orators of the Council of State,
you will 'expose the motives, the advantages of it,
after the' Minister fur Foreigri Affair's has read
to you it Report,. and certain pieces, of *Web his
--MlneSty has commanded a cotimiunication S'uould
be made to you." '"
' Ilis Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs
th,,ri communicated the following Iteport :

REPORT .F`ltol4 THE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN
AFVAIRS, TO HIS MAJESTY THE EIsIrEROR AND

KING. •
" SINE-IVhen Russia, violating her treaties
and renouncing her alliance. with Vrance, to unite
ii :-di' with the systeni of England,. declared war
;tgain‘t your INlajesty, you appreciated, all
the importance of the contest in which you, were
r,ing to engage. • You ordered the' formation
der the title of cohorts of. the nation 4 gtv.ird, (d:
100 hattalioni of men between '2.0 and 26 yeall of
age, wild, belonging to the 'Six last clasies
tit
conscription, had not been called to the activearmy,
Thisinstit Ohm has had all the successes which yo
lkialesty could have
.expected from it. A liri/rlike
trttriet 'ld war. untior She.

irAtitution.oPold soltliers, eagerly demand to par-
take the glory at their brethern in arms. When
from Smolensko, your Alajcsty advanced towards
:.‘Tpscow your victorious •artns, yod did not dis-
simulate that .its progress, in the enemy's country
added • fresh chances to the common chaneei of
war. You wished to strengthen further the basis
of its opemtions, and you ordered the levy Of the
couSeription f or 1813, the whole of which is now'
under arm.

‘c With the garrisons of the fortresses of France
and Itaily,your Majesty. has therefore, in the irate-
riot• of your dominions, a force of more than
300,000 men, sail-kit:lit to S' tkp port. the war against
Russia &tying the next campaign. And your in-
lention was not to demaild any extraordinary sue-
emirs of our allies, and especially Austria, Den-
mart, and Prussia, remained faithful to the coin-
.
mon cause.

" A►tstria, Denmark, and Prussia, ha've given
your Majesty the strongest assurances of their
sentiments. Prussia has even offered to augment
n third, and carry the contingent which she had
furnished, in execution of treaties,. to 30,000
la en.

But whilst that this Power manifested dispes-
sitoOs 16 conformable to her engagements, and
toe the interests of her-policy,. the intrigue OfEng-
hind.had 'prepared one of those events which elm-
taCtisriSeS tht! spirit of disorder end :Anarchy, which
that Power dues licit cose to ferment in Europe.
Geoeral &York,' commanding the Prussian corps,
under the'ordCrS cif Niatsbul the Duke of Taren-
tum, betrayed nt once his hOnour, his General-in-
Chief, and his Kint. Ile has made a ,perfidious.
compact with the enemy. •
" There are no intrigues, no threats which'
England has not put in work to change the dis-
positions of sovereigns. But when she has found
them firm to their true interests, and immovable
in their alliance with your Excellency, she has
undertaken to produce a general disorder, by en-
deavouring to shake the fidelity of
,the people.—
Beyond the estates of your Majesty, Sire, there
are few countries where the audacity and ma-
noeuvres of disOrganisators haVe carried uneasi-
ness among the depositaries of the public tran-
quility. In the Courts. of the agents of corrup,
don, in the camps of vile instigatorS, and in short
in cities, schools, atid'even the bosoms of the Most
revered institutions, false enthusiasts incessantly
labour to seditee, . by dark doctrines, those who
Ought. with the most courageous fidelity maintain
the authority Which has, been confided to them,
and those whohave no other duty than that of
obeying.
In such circutnstances, Sire, and when even
the intentions of an Allied Plinee has not been,
able iii guarantee the advantages which yOur poli-
tical sy'stent oughtto have ins-tired you, it becomes
an imperious necessity to hsve recourse to the
means which your. Majesty Wilt find in thelsower
of your, emPire, and in the love of your subjects.
• By. these considerations the Ministers of your
Majesty, assembled in an extraordinary Cabinet
Council,' propose to you—
" To send to th 6 active army* 100 Cohorts of
*ltional Guards. • .
k 2. To make a call of 100;000 men from the
conSCriptious (if 11300, 1810, 1811, and 1812.
41. a. To raise 150,000 men of the !conscription
which shall be.forrned in garrisons anti
:campS, upon our frontiers tint' coasts, and ready
to murch, whenever it 'may be necessary, to the
assiitanee- of your Majesty's Allies.
-E' By this immense developement of forces, the
interests, the consideration of France, and' the
sfifety'ofliet Allies, will lie guaranteed'against all
events. " _ _ _

" The French pcnplelVill fleet the force of cir-
cumstances ; it will render fresh homage to,this
truth sty fregnenily proclaimed! by'your Majesty
front the height of -Vour ill-re'ne, that there is no
reppse Tor Europe England shall have been;
forced t6.conplude is pOictt...
" It is itot in:vaiti, Sire, that you have given
France the title of ,‘`the Grand Nation no 'effort
is painful to her when the object is to evince her
love for your Majeity, and her devotion to the
glory of the Fturdeld name.
Join.to this Report the documents relative to
the defection ,of.t.i,..4trai, ('York, ;
" 1 um, with the most profound respect, Sire,
Your Majesty's very humble,
• " Very obedient, and faithful subject,
(Signed) " The Dince of IlassAso.-
" Pari', -Jan. 9,
(aloiliteur; Jan. 12.) •

After the reading of tlai a Report, Messienrs the
Councillors of State preNentud a pro et of a Se-
mans Consulta (see the following Sitting of the
11th), the motives for which were explained by
At the Count,Regnand ae St. Jean d'Angery, in
thetnanner following :

,Motives of the Senatas Consultum for. pattitig
350,000 Men at the disposal of the Aritlisterat
War . •

" MY LCRT :")ENtianus---TheTreilty of (ra-
sa has given to the North of 4tirope a peace,
which it appeared woold'have been of duration,
but Englawd, menaced with a warNith the United
States of:-America, and dreading; with greatAta
son, thtr,bad is:me fur her which ;muot sooner or
later attend the flame kindled.in Spain, has eecui-
pied herself in giving. birth to a new wiaregain4t
France, by obtaining the breach of the. allianca
lately sworn to by

Ali theetforts of the Emperor to keep it, Ind
to irsure the execution of the treatio•huve 4ceu
-useic6i, and the svat: is renewed.'

44 k IMS been forced on him by ON violation t,f
, .
ilie most solemn conventions, by ntu atin.t.
merits, by 'evident oggressions, by -repented re-
fusals of every exidicurion, alid hr short, by the
Ileee.isit.y imposed ill" his Majesty to rti,kintui,l the
-rights and consequence of his ctowit anti LlioSv of.
his Allies.

I, The success of thic new nittito 14, thiit it will
always be condi:erect for theVrencit by that &ettiui
.which 1105*Ateenstoined tbon to etnigner. The
chemy;foreed front all his, repulsed in every
combilt, vaniiiii3lied n* every battle, been
forced to alialolon 1114. capital to tilP vo,tor, brit he
gave it to the:titian:a, which have hituvit redueo.l it
to aslies.

From thence The ticeeN!sity of rhitilOnrinut re-
treat—a retreat in which we have in betel dr..
rAftred or tiiiheartened by the hiperity of the

mate, the early severity of the season, or its usual
excessive rigour.

" When the Twenty. ninth Bulletin of the Grand
Army shall at once astonish:and reassure Franco,
the information of its losses unveiled to the nation
with so much energetic simplicity, with stztsh a
noble confidence, swill awaken in all Frenchmen a
Feeling of the necessity of "repairing them every
thing will then yield to the demands they present,
and more dispose to prevent and repair theni, than
to debate on or to wait for theni. *ll,4lmM:site the
Enaperor, whom his enemies most altivays fear,and
WhosOarrival is wished for by ltis..Allies and his
subjects, was returned to his capital, whilst 11:• was
belieVed to be still before IVilna, and, cao...tingac-
Conuts to be rendered hinipof the resources of Lis
ai*el :+ls,l u, magarines, his tretssury'; of the num-
ber of troops, had anni..aunced il`ratlce. ;As
in-
tention of noi making any remnant of Men, niir of
noir contributions.

" With the annual imposts and the sOldierY al-
ready under urrus, he can ,upport the 'kvants of
the campaign both in the South and in the North
of Europe.
_ _ _

" But, Senators, the facts of which the Minister
Of the Exterior affords, has just giVen you informa-
tion by hiS, Majesty's orders, alter the first
caltiulations, of his wisdom, economical in the sa-
crifices of his people, and cause them to be stic,.
cceded by calculations of foresight. and necessity,." Already; Messieurs, I have seen in this :71'ent-
blv ,burits of that indignaticin which Europe
wilt feel at the recital of a treason to which` we
would hesitate to give belief, were it not avowed
and
:written by its author himself.
" The Prussian Gen,::%.11, whOSe 'name .must
'henceforth become infamous, betrayed at once his
Sovereign's honour, the duties of t citizen, and
thoSe of u soldier.

shamefully separated himself from the
army of which he famed a part of the :orps with
which he marched ; he has gi.ven up those who
were exposed upon his faith to the hazardens con.
senuenees of his base abandonment, of his unex-
pected desertion..
" Informed of the crime, new in the history of
modern Wars], his Majesty the king ul< PrilSilit
evinced a resentment worthy of his loyalty and of
his fidelity to his, allies ; joined in sentiments with
the Monarch, his cabinet has only shown the wish
of repairing, of punishing a political and military
crime which offends the Prussian nation and out-
rages its Sovereign.
.‘"lliese facts, these assurances', are contained
in letters of which the Minister for. Foreign Affairs
has given you a' conniumication..
'' The guarantee is, that the heinousness •of
this event will not only be appreciated by the
Government; but by the .ohole Prussian people.
They will judgeoind all the nations of the North
will judge with them, of what misfortunes .such a
crime might be the source. Prussia will shoW her
attachment to the , Prince who. governs her, by
rallying at his example and the voice of honour,
and by the faithful observance of treaties.,

" *everthelest,- •policy). attentive for many
yeari to the course of events, will necessarily
pause respecting the causes which have effected
what I have just spoken to you of; and these
causes, Senators, do not appear improper to me
to be rapidly traced here.-
NVe evidently find them in the .maumuvres
and intrigues, at England upon the Continent.
Too weak to defend herself alone upon the sea
.against the French power, she has constantly and
succesively laboureirto arm against her all Euro-
pean Cabinets, It is England who has brought
and re-brought tiphu the fields of battle the armies
which the Emperor :tits conquered and re-con-
quered during the lan twelve yeari.
" When enlightened Cabinets, by experience,
wished for peace, that peace Which rejoiced
Europe made England groan.
"'Then she scattered among the people, and
particularly in large cities, by means of her nu-
merous emissaries and an active cor•rnption; the
seeds of hatred, the causes of division, the prin-
ciples of disorganization which separate subjects
from their Princes--people from their Alovern-
meats. •

" It' Wat 3 thus, that numerous tocietles, under
the name of the friends of the truth of nature, Iget
or under other titles less ridiculous, have been
forirted, encouraged, supported, /notching ha-
tred, insurrection, disobedience against every
snvervigti.the friend of Prance, of Peace, and the
Continent.

Alas, it was in our France, now so peacea
ble,. then so miserable and so sgitatcd, ,that the
-English Cabinet *nude, during several ye.ais,
which were years of crimes. and misfortunes, the
trial of these (said means of discord and civil trou-
bles.

It was by these means that England acted in
1809, against the Cabinet of St. Petersburg, the 4
site shorted friendly dispositions towards trance.
it w:ts by Irtl, t gents that I?inghold prepared,.itt
Russia the influence of the party hostile' to Frinice,
itud by it, the hesitations, the varintionti
hostile esolutions Of the Cabinet; arid iii short
this last which has cost Russia the devastation
of, her finest provinces, the repose ofiktrope, th.e
regrets of ltornanity. • •
" •Englanti has employed, without doubt, to
prepare tho eternal dishonour of General d'York,
the:Arne totans,• the same associations, lty which,
ill P'jo9o Hhv brought i'egtilur corps into a rebel-
hon, and (a thing unheard of) to make wair,
thFir acconnt, notwithitanding the intention,
wy!iiiit the orders even o$ -their Sovereign, •
" En land (lishoites and divide the eOIM
trieS ka Which she cannot domineer ; she pre-
pare.s the join of States %%Illicit she cannot subject •
to her :,yt.xrra.iy - - •
In short, what means' of flestruetion more
For the throw!, I I.e most strongly secured,
:than the de-tortmo or an aritiy : it 4 oppqsition to
the interests or itt criontry; dkohemeney to the •
Qt-dpeys of its i‘ltin 10'4. it all tit •!...O,eercigtitt U.
wrested in the slo,,yressiou of 'Wit not,
unite titan'voict.; to tmere theii efforts to i3'tsar4
the pattklinient or it, it will 14ot be in their ptkovi
is p.retrent ii rei itrreitee of it •
"Atappily, tventlemen, lite attempts •of our
cocottes totextend to frmicc their lat:tl influence,
their fatal .Skicce.4seSp are iitipotellt.
4, gur vast territOry, oar iintat:tot population,
bel only the sacrifices inseparidde from the stoic
of war, hut are far lam stdrring the cnititottones
of the country whiph 14 ie. •

•Insvardly, tranquility reigns; indimtry, the
arts, the public works pursue their course.
" Exteriorly, Austria and our. other Allies show
themselves affectionate and faithful.

" Our forces; our theans,-our military resources
are immense:. • •• -
" Always at the moment.when the first erup7
tion of those destructive volcanOs, fired .by Eng-
land, is going to break out under these thrones
which wish to rest' independent of her politics, it
is necessary to reunite propOrtionate resources,
even superior to the dangers which prudencedis-
covers.

" That which was yestertlay aufficient for the
4ecurity of Government,-ii to-dayfound to•bc de-
licient in foresight. New events have created new
WatltS ; nnforeuien conjanctdres require iinexpect
t,(l ;act ifrces.
•
" An universal sentiment of devotion and fide-
lity unites itself in the French people, to the feel-
iiigs of their interest, and their glory, to direct
their conduct and determine their resolutions.

" His Majesty purpoSes to you to put under
the disposal of his - Minister at War a force mini-
ciently considerable to overcome all our enemies,
to destroy all their hopes in all their suppositions,
and you know it, illesSiefirs, reflection and his-
tory have taught it you,- that it is tinis we must
repulse danger, that
,Success is guaranteed, that
we iustire glory, and that we must prepare

pence.
The number of ►nen demanded by tl►e Minis-
ter at War are to be Aliivi►led into tl►ree classes

'' 'rite first is to be composed of those cohorts,
whose iviihes have' outstripped necessity, and who
ktve solicited as n favour to exchange the duty
of defending the frontiers of France for the ho-
nour of seeking the enemy on the other side of
the Sienna.

" The second class consists of a levy among
those men, who, for Ming part of tho four I)lTc:ell-
iug conscilipticios, tire not comprised in the last,
" This levy has for its object to keep bp in the
interior, until the moment when they Will have
acquired a greater strength, a more decided apti-
tude for the military service,- the
" Third clao3„. called by the &natio Cusultum;.
would say the Conscription of 181,4.
This is not to'beimmedintely united, the:Sti-
nkter at War will judge at. What Moment it will
be snitable to cause them to march.

" The eiforts of the Islandets, founders of the
Continental war, spectator:, of a war without end,
cause an imperious lOW to Entice of making her
formidable armamet.ts. She has not forgotten her
insolence of the victors under Louis XIV, nor-the
disgraceful treaties under Louis XV..; neither
will she forget the triumphs which have effaced
those Immiliat ions, the necessity of preserving un-
tainted the glory she has acquired, the utility of
preparing for new successes, the dignity of the
crown, and the. honour of the nation and of the
French arms.

" The ptnot of the Senatus Consultuln is re.
turned to a Special Commission, and the Senate
adjourned t;11 to-morrow.

SITTING OP VIE 1 'TIT cir JANUARY.

The Senate re-as-with:ell at two o'clock tnultir
the ['residence of his Serene Highness the Priney
Arch-Chamcellor of the Empire.
M. the Count de Lncepede, in the name of the
Special Commission, nominated in the Sitting of
yesterday, made the Report of the projct of the
Comailium.
The Sena + niter having delikrated on the pro,
jet of
,the senatus Considtum,.ordered it to be pre-
*entecl, with an Address to his Majesty. ,
In consequence of which, at half-past eight
o'clock this evening, MessrE. the Counts Lace-
pedes, i'resident ; Dc Beaumont and Lappareus,
;secretaries, 'owe had the honour of presenting
the Senatus Ornsuitron to his Majesty, with.an,
Address, the contents of which are as follow

Extruct from ,On negistxrx of the t'-oto,ervative Senate of
Munthq, .laututry It..

The Cu) ,etvai re setiiitc essembled to the num-
ber of 1%14.1,11),:r, pre',cribed by the 90th article of
the AeL «f Comtitto ion of • the 13th December;
1799. _ _

ijaving adopted the projet of &flatus Comltum,
which was pt em:ltted to it in the Sitting of yes-
sorday, by which :,150,000 men are placed at the
disposal of Government.
Deliberating on the proposition made by its
Speeial Commission, charged with the report of this
projet, ordain that the Senotwt l.'s:mull:11n of this
liay be presented to his Majesty the EMperor and
.King by the Bureau of the Senate, and that after
'much a presentation, M. the Annual President,
expres3 to his l‘faje4ty the sentiments of
the Senate, by an Address of the following tenor :

" SIRE—The Senate has the honour to pre-
vent to your imperial and. Royal -.Majesty the
homage of its fidelity, its devotion, its respect,
und the Satatus Consiatum. which it Las just
,U4iOptCoo, , , ,

tt WII4 its desire, ,Site, to express atthe foot
of your Majesty's throne,. the prolownt indigna-
tion with which ,the French areAnspired,. at
the treason Oa tieneral of 411 allied power, under
the orders of one of your, 1418jesty't Mershiiis,
awl emitting a part of. your armies; ishis
of the I ws of honour-fold of %via, is a new
effect of the corrupt , Intrigues of the British,
Cabinet.

" It is a crime sgainst,. the safety of 'the
.rernuiciit, the repose rollout against. public
faith, and the order of society. The Continent
Uurope, Sire, is menaced. with tlisse terrible
-eouimotions which your 'lllajety ;acme has bccri
Able to annihilate hi our own country.. . • •
B .
But your •.a.,ti.jesty has foreseer) every thing
you luive discovered, ilia it Was to eru-'
ploy the greatest puissauce Order to coininatiA
;or to direct di+ ellots you to have
Amdahl; that tarn you from tt,e objeet
011,Vocii"clesire,?,.ot all pail!' ViOorieS, pi. the.
50 frequeutly,reneweii incrifice4 of your reposii,
your .itlectioiAf„ of your 41V:lrl."It.riij~iti~ at its,.
its otlinerote,' I,hree
hundred 4101 fifty liu,nsiitid Frew:lmam, the brave.
of tkc 4,llMense- armies %vhich •you'r Majesty

is going to put in motion will be tha conquerors
of peace.
" The President and Secretnries,
(Signed) " CAMBACERES.
" The Count Dr, 1b.:Au:4074T.
" The Count DE LAPPAREUT.
" Seen amt sealed, .
The Chancellor of the Semite,
(Signed) s' Count tvoi.Ang.

Napoleon, by the Grace of God and thc Con-
Stitnti on, Emperor of the French, King orltaly,
Protector of the. Confederation attic Mine, Me-
diator of the Swiss Confederation, &c. &e.

To whom these presents may come greeting..
The Senate, after having heard the Orators of
the Council of State, has decreed, and we ordain
What follows : .

Extract from the Registers ofthe Conservative Senate of

Monday, the 11th of dituttar}:, 1813

The Conservative Senate being assembled to
the number of Members prescribed by the 90th
Article of the Act of the Constitution, of the 13th
of December, 1799.

See the Projet of Senatuf' Coimultum drawn up
in the form prescribed by. the. Act of Con sfitutioti
of the 4th of Attgust, 1802.
. After having heard the orators of the Coutteltof
State on the motives of the said Project: and'the
report of the especial Commission nominated in
yesterday's sitting, the adoption having been de-
liberated by the , number of voices prescribed by
the Stith Article of the Act of Constitution of.the
'4th ofAugnst, 1812, decree,

Art. 1. 350,000 men are placed at the disposal
of the Minister, at War, to wit. :
" Ist, 100,000 men, forming the 100 cohorts
of the first ban of the National.Goards.

_ . . .
" 2ci, 100,000 me►► of tl►e couscription•oi 1809,
1810, 1811, and 1812, take►i fr►►m a►uong those
who have not been called upon to niake a part
the active army.

`.` 3d; 150,600 men of the conscription of 1814.
" Art. IL In the execution of the preceding
..„Asticle, the hundred cohorts ()tithe first ban shall
cease to torin a part of the National'Guard, and
shall form a part.ot the active tinny. . .
Such men as have married befoi e the publica-
tion of this present Seqqius Consuitzto, cannot be
designated to make a part of ,the • levies taken on
the conscriptions for the years 1809, 1810, 1811;
and,lBl2.

" The 150,000 men of the conscription of 181-1,
shall be levied in the COIIrAF, of the year and to
sw;lt time us will be designated by tba Minister at
War.

Art. 111. This present Senatus Consultum shall
he transmitted by •Message to, his Majesty the
Emperor and King.
"'Tie President and-Secretaries,
(Signed) CAmaActitEs,
" The Count DE Bt. somoNT,
" 'rho Count Dr. LAPPAREUT.
" Seen and sealed,
"The Chancellor of the Senate.
(Signed) " Count LAniscrt•"
" We command anti ordain that these presents,_
furnished with the seals of the State, inserted in
the Bulletin of the Laws, shalt be addressed to
the (,'ourts, the Trilmn:ds, and other Aministra-
five Authorities, to be by them insetted in their
reghitera' to observe them, and cause them to be,
observed, and our Grand Judge, Minister of Jus-
tice, is charged to see that they are duly pub-
lished.

" Given at our Palace of the Thuilleries, on the
11th of January.
(Signed) NAPOLIMN.
" Seep by us, we Arch-Chancellor of the Em-
pire.

(Signed), CAMBACEREq.
" By order of the Emperor, the Minister Se-
erntary of State, ad interim,
(Signed) " Duke DE CADvana."

SPECIA,L CONIMISSION.

YORE, JAN,

- -
David Moorhouse and John Smith having been
put the Dar, Mr. PARK stated, that he was in -
duuced, by circumstances, to consent to their ac-
Tutu!, and added
Gentletnen,,---1 have no more cases of felony
to bring before you. In the name of the, country,
I thank you for your attendance. It, has been a
fro-4. painful one undoubtedly, bit 1. hope and
t uvt that what has been done here, will restore
peace and comfort to this deluded county, and
that those within these walls, and all in every
part of the kingdom, to whom the account of
what has passed here may come, will be induced to
abstain from the cOnimission of such offences, and
will he satisfied that lives of honest industry arc
far preferable, considered even in a temporal view,
to lives of rapine, • violence, and outrage against
their neighbours, and to the assassination of ho-
nest and innocent individnals."

The Jury immediately acquitted the prisoners. ••
PARX..---I.‘ My Lords, there -are still.remain-
ing in your calendar, seventeen persons, who stood
capitally indicted for diderent: offences. Ijpon
looking through a list of their cases, With all the:.
ACCUaley in nay power, assisted by my learned
friends, I discovered that three of the ringleaders
In all these offences have already suffered.the pe-
nalty of. the law ; two others of those, who arc
involved in sonic of these indictments, have also.
been capitally convicted trot state their
names, because wish:-to create no prejudice. I
fityther observe, that two others of those persons
were acquitted upon a former trial, on. Saturday
night. Ido not thick that that ought to influence:
my judgment upon the present occasion, so as to
render it my duty to put. them on their trial' again ;
but, inasmuch, us I consider that those, whose
,cases remain, including the two who were ac-•
qnitted on Saturtlfif night have been, to con,,i-
derable degree, the dupes of designing persons,
and Coat they kave been led on by the five persons
to Whom I have alluded, I am in hopes that -I shall-
wt be doing wrong. in permitting them to he tlis-
charged, on giving. bail to appe:tr at any time,
when, called upon by the Crown. And Idu as
sure your Lordship, that if they will conduct
,themselves ,as honest and, industrious subjects,.
they never shall be called upon ; and I•trust.that
I shall .yrery materially bone fit this, County, by the'

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course I have taken, and that this lenity and for-
bearance on the parr of the Crown, (for so the
prisoners must con,ider it) will have a powerful
effect upon their minds." -
The 17 prisoners alluded to, were accordingly
discharged, upon bail to answer the indictments
when required.
After which, Mr. 1131.011 Trt omsoN • proceeded
to pass sentence upon the prisoners convicted, be-
ginning with the minor offenco.

Mr. Baron TIIONIE;ON':----" John Eadon, John
Baines the elder, Charles Milnes, John Baines the
-younger, Win. Blakeborough, aml Oreorge
worth, you, the several prisoneis at the liar,
have been convicted of an offence, which the
dm of the legislature has iiiude a felony. You,
John Eudon, and John Baines the elder, are con-
victed of having administered to different persons.
an unlawful oath, an oath tending to bind the
persons taking it, and intended by you that it
should so bind them, to join in a society of per-
sons to distuth the public' peace, binding them to
secrecy in
,that association, and never to declare
what they should know respecting that confe-
deracy. You, the other four prisoners at the
Bar, have been convicted of being present, aid.
ing and consenting to 'the administering of that
unlawful oath by the pi isoner John Baines the
elder, and your offence is of the same degree as
that of the men who actually administered that
oath.

" In the course of the very serious investiga-
tions, about which we have been so long employ,
ed in this place, it has but too plainly appeared
what have been the dreadful effects of such oaths
so tat {en.--'They certainly have been the means
of inducing many unwary persons to enter into
these illef;atl associations, and to continue in them,
the effect, of whiA associations, and of which en--
menlents in support d them, tuts been sncli tt4.
eve-have. witnessed in 'the evidence
laid before us in the course of the inquiries ; they
have tended to the disturbance of the public peace
in the most populous manufacturing part of this
county; they have induced lare,,e bodies of men
to engage in the most tumultuous proceedings, to
attack the houses, plunder the property, begin to
demolish the mills, and to destroy the machinery
employed. 'in. those mills—rmy they have had the
effect of going much further, and have even in-
aced persons, to proceed to the horrid crime of.
murder.----Strictly speaking, the administering
those oaths does not make you in law accessaries
to"those offences, ,but still they, must' lie `heavy
upon your consciences, yon have any tense of
right or wrong left.
" I-o'l;Jan Eadon, seem to have been long
Practised in. so achninistering'theie oaths. Td the
person to whom you administered it, you gave in-
structions to 4:pact that oath by heart, that he might
qualify himself to be the administrator•Of it; and
to a,person .who Called upon you shortly after
you bud so administered•thot oath, you'fully ex-
plained to what it was intended to bind the par-
ties, not scrupling to admit that t:,e intention
of it was to overturn the. very government :of this
country.
" You, John Baines the elder, ltavc- made it
your boast that your eyes have been opened -for
three and twenty years, and yeti atko.detlared
your so”titnent with respect to (ioverinne.nt; tend
with ,respect to no Government, plainly, -accord-
ing t• what we have coli•.Tted from the'evillence,
preferring anarchy anti confusion to order and
subordination in society. •:,I)i.sh is the oircue„f
*hie!) you, the prisoners at the bar;:stand convict-
ed, and the punishment which ,the Legislature has
provided for that offence is certainly not a Levert
one, if it is considered only what a profanation of
religion it is ; such 'a daring appeal to the Al-
mighty, to witness your deSperate engagemeots,
asWell•as the hnriid consequences that follow from
it.-1f the offence committed by one of you, that
Is, by John .Baines the elder, of atithinstering this
oath, had been committed only two days later than
it-was, the administering of that oath Would have
amounted to a capital. felony; for the Legislature
seeing that the poislunent was hardly sufficient
for offences of such magnitune, .have enacted,
that to administer any such oath's, whereby a per-
son is held bound to commit any murder or other
capital felony, shall itself amount to Li capital of-
fence—that Act of Parliament, however, did not
take place till a day after you bad committed this
offence.

" Under all thesecircomstaneer, we feel it :our
duty to pronounce that judgment upon yon which
the 'Law has provided, and in the extreme in
which it is provided. The judgment of the Court•
upon you, the prisoners atthe Bar, is, that you
be severally transported beyond •the 'seas for the
term of seven years."
The prisoners capitally convicted being next
put to the Bar, and asked, what they had to say,
why Sentence Of Death should not be passed
upon them,, prayed that their lives might be
spared*.
Mr.-BARON
" John Swallow, John Batley', Joseph Fisher,
John Limb, Jobkiey, John Hill, William Hart-
'ley, James Hey, Joseph Crowther, -Nathan Hoyle,
James Haigh, Jonathan Dean, John Ogden,
Thomas Brooki. John Walker, you, unhappy pri-
soners at the Bar, stand convicted of various of-
fences, t'or which your lives are justly forfeited
to the injured Laws- ofyonr Conntry,. You have
formed a part of that desperate association of men;
Who fora great -length of time,.have disturbed the.
peace and tranquility of -the 'West Riding of this.
County. Yobt have formed yourselves into bodiei:
—you have
proceeded to the ,Host serious' ex-
tremities against the property of MatiYindivichtals.
The cause of, your' so associatiiKappears to have
been a strange delusiOn, which you Cuterta:ned,
'that the use of machinery in the woollen niacin-.
facture ,was a detriment to the hands that were
employed in another way in- it ;:a grosser dela-
sion never could be entertained, proceeding pro.
ceeding prolnlbly frolit.the -Misrepresentations of
artrid and tresigning men,:who have turned it to
the very Worst purposes which. riot and sedition
couldaroduce.—Yo4 have. proceedeg to, great ex-
tremities. The first object, perhaps„ seems to
have been that Of your procuring arms in order
to carry on -yOur nefarious designs, MA
that view, it seems that
.soul Vof you went

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