The Sun.
London, England, 1817-06-13 00:00:00

THE NEWCATLE FAMILY.

The melancholy state of this Noble Family is
well known to our Readers; and on the happy
tidings of, their restoration. to health, ihere was
recently a complete day ofjishilec in the vicinity of
Clamber : all ranks joined most cordially in cele.
brating the happy recovery of the Duke of New-
castle, his amiable Duchess, and young family, from
heir late dangerous indisposition, At Tuxford, the
inhabitants were early greeted by merry peals of
hells. As the morning at vanced,flags,streamers,and
garlands, covered with devices, expressive of at-
tachment to the Noble House of Clinton, were
profusely displayed ; a baud of music paraded
through the town till three o'clock, and then 'up-
wards of five hundred people partook of an excel-
lent dinner.in the open street. After toasting,the
Duke, the Duchess, Lord Lincoln, and the younger
branches of the Newcastle family, rural sports
began, and were kept up with great glee till tea
was prepared, and served up on the same tables
which had been used far dinner ; this being over,
dancing commenced in the marl:et-place, and ww.
continued till the approaching night closed the
scene. At Botha-mall, too, the inhabitants being
joined by their neigilhouis from Houghton, made
an uncommon display of affection and joy : tables,
at which upwards of three hundred people dined,
were spread in a large barn, and' covered with
a profusion of Englishman's favourite. fare,.
roust. beef and plumpudding. Mier dinner, the
health of the best. of Laudlords, his estimable
Duchess, and their young family, being toaated,
the air was rent with reiterated cheers. Yrom
the summit of the church steeple floated ttOo
heaHtual flags, .:whilst the from ot each individual
house wits so SplCUdialy decOrated With garlands,
&c, that the village, as well as its inmates, wore
is. face of joy. The festivities continued a4O here
to a late hour, and every thing concluded with
the greatest hailhooy.

There h every 'nominal a fine produce of fruit
this year.' with the exceptiim at goosehei ries and
wall apricots. Cherries anti plums u4l prove an
abuuddiit crep, atul the 'apple biossdins, it mite
aPpears, were much less injured by the late cold
nights than Was.apprebefuleil.
A iiew plough,hai been -invented which pro•
'minescousiderable advantage to the agriculturist.
It is so cOnStructed as to cover the' graiii when
town: under furrow, and by tows of it, teo am.;
ilgy can be eowu Mat Air bursc3,

After Mr. Justice PintloyD had disposed of a
great Many. catikthoo motions, the other Judges
took their seats on the Ileneb, and at half past
nine Mr. WriTHERELL commenced crosS-exa-
ruination of Castle, who W,:s brought up in custody'.
His first interrogations to thii •;vinteo- were tts
ascettain whether he had any comnittnication with
any person or persobs, direetly or indirectly, by
writing, piloting., or otherwiie, upon the subject
of his testhhony yesterday all of which interro-
gations he answered in the negative.
Several Noblemen, Members of Parliametrt,
and distinguished chatacters, were in Court dur-
ing the day. Amongst whom we recognized. Earl
Grey, Lord St. John, Lord lixmouth, Lords
Bradford and Grosvenor, Mr. Lambton, Mr. Tier-
ucy, Sir F. Boidett, Sir It. Wilson', Lord 'Var.
Month, Nit, Gordon, Mr. Bruce, Sir James, Nt'ln-
toSh, Mr. M‘Darell, Mt. Htint, Btc. The bra-
Cher of Dr. Watson, from Lincolnshire, sat with
Mt. Harmer, the SoliCitor fot the prisoner.
The cross,examihationof the Crown's witness,
Castle, continued to half-past one; after which ti
number of witnesses were, produeed to speak to
various detaelied circumstances. 1;1 the elomina-
tion of Drill, well known in the great contest at
tVestminster, . between Mr. Sheridan and -Me.
Paul, al the Green Coated Oralor, there was solutt;•
thing peculiar in the phraseology inwhiCh thewit-
ness dcliVered his testimony,.
During the, day on interesting argument took
place on the legality of receiving as eVidence to pa-
per found by a Police Ofticer in the residence of
Wation, jim. some days.aftet the arrest of the fa-
ther. Itlt. Wetherell and Setgeaut Copley sup.
ported. trip great ability the objection founded on
the ease of Algernon Sidney; *bete a mouttscripi,
unedited.anil ottpUblished, existing kiildy in tire.
mid ventiti, was brought forward ioprove the eti-
racter of hi mind-, and With the probability of
making .a hostile intptession GA the Ininds of the

The (otirt, tllongh at first inclined to recciv,e
it ka evidence, on coti3idt:ratiow, thought the pa-
per as too abstract, and unconnected 1% Ith the. pre.
vioui evideithe; ultbough it c0(1 nth at all 0(141'3
utly analogy with the titse r,f Mr. Sytliiiv,
The Attorticr,Ocnet.al dyferrvtl to the opinion
a the Conti; anti withdrew the pripbr.
llpott the rising of the COstrt, at half palt
the priotters were tondtti:ted back to the Tower
in the usual Wanner. '1 Imre Wal a itery large
usBembhige of pertions in 144toce-yard,
strct.!, and the Iteighlioltrttig itventiti. The car.;
riages

Saturtitly meriting, a terients accident Nipper:elf
at Horn ,incl Miry's pit, high end cif Smith, Si!irlda.
A corf, in which five men were tietcentiing, wag
caught by one c/ the lining boards and upset,
when. they were all precipitte,ell td tits tioltOm anti
instar.tly_

PARLIAMENT.

MUSE OF LORDS, TUMMY, Jura 12,

VRAITOttOUS PRACTICES.
The Earl of LIVE 111°00.1., about i eCIACkt laid
o‘n the Table a green bag, containing farther in-
formation On the subject of Traitorous Practices.
The Patten were referred to .the Secret Com-
mittee.
, Further evidence was beard in Millar's Divorce
proceed again to-morrow.
Mr. Maitland presented Papers from the East
India House, which were ordered to lie on the.
Table.
The Civil Compensation Bill, the Mutiny Bill,
/the Warett and Ward Sill, the East India and
ls,letliterratrtan Trade Bill, and the Manure Car-
riage Bill, were brought op from the,House of
`Commons by Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Brogden, and
ether Members, and 'read a first time.

The Anvnilment made by the Com Mons in Sir
Edward Owen's Divorce Bill was agreed to.

REPORT OF THE .COMMITTEE OF SECRECY.
FURTHER. SUSPENSION OF THE HABEAS CORPUS,

The Earl of 1-4ttaowEY, as Lord President,
i.tresestted the Report of their Lordships' Secret
_Committee, appointed to take into consideratiOn
the official information communicated to the
-Muse, by the command of his Royal Highness
the Prince Regent.—The Report 4VaS read at the
Table, and eras to the followitw, effect :--

" By the Lads' Coniraittee appointed to take intorensi-
tieration several Papers, seated up in a bag, &c. and to re-
curt to the t-lousei`&c.
• " The Report Legins by stating, that the Committee, after
an examination of the Papers referred to them, feel it their
:rainfUl duty to deelare,That they see but too many proofs of
traitoruni conspiracy to overthrow the noverriiiietinti the
"Constitution, and to sobrert the existing order of society.

" Report then praises the active exertions of the Gn-
vernment, and pal tieula,ily of the Magistrates, in the execu-
tion of the general Laws, and of the special pewers intinsted
to them by the new 2scts of Parliament : hut the Committee.
assert, that thong!' the plans of the conspirators have been
thus frustrated, yet. in spite of all this, the'same wicked and
desperate designs are stilt pursued. The information on
which this conclusion is founded is said to he collected from
source; frequently unconnected and unknown to each other,
'but the result is said to be uniform, and is also corroborated
'by a striking coincidence to many minute particulars.
" The Committee then observe, that their intelligence
rests, in many of its parts, upon the testimony of persons
ghetto are tither themselves implicated in these criminal trans-
'actions, 'or who bare apparently engaged in them for the
Vimpose df obtaining information, and imparting it to the
Ifitgistrates or the Secretary of State.

" The 'Committee &low that such testimony must he very
questionable ; and state, that they hare reason to apprehend,
/hat the language and conduct of some of the latter descrip-
tion of witnesses has had the effect of encouraging those de-
signs which it was intended they should only be the means of
detecting. But allowing for these circumstances, the Com.
tnittee are still of opinion, that the statement which they pro-
ceed to give is by no means exaggerated, but perfectly war-
ranted by tile papers submitted to their inspection.

" It proceeds to state, that the papers relate, almost with-
slut exception, to the manufacturing districts in the midland
and northern counties; and although the disaffected still look
to the Nfetropolis witl4 the hope of assistance and direction,
yet to the districts thus referred to the more recent projects
of insorrection were to have been confined.

" The ComMittee then state, that although in many of
these districts d'i'stress has operated to expo‘se the minds of
the labouring classics to irritation an perversion, yet this
distres.s, in their opinion, has been rather the instrument than
the cause or the disaffection. In some of the disaffected dis.
kids they believed that distress had been less felt than in
many either parts of the kingdom ; while in other places,
where the distress has been most grievous, it has been sns-
tisiatil with such patience, loyalty, and good conduct, as can-
not be ton highly conunended ; and the Committee think that
it is chiefly by the means mentioned in the Report of the for-
mer Committee, namely, by the extensive circulation of sedi-
Cons rind blasphemous publications, and by the continual
repetition of inflammatory discourses; that this spirit' of dis-
' affection has been excited and diffused. These have gratin-
a?7y m,eaktiml arnoug the tower order the attachment to our
Government and Constitution, and the respect for law, rim-
ra4ty, and religion ; and their minds have thus been prepared
fu: the sdopti,in of ►rleazures no less injurious to their inte-
r
ir.ts and hap tiniest, than to those of every other class of his
suWet4.

Sines the fottner.report, Manchester and its neighbour-
hood are stated to be the only placei .where meetings have
been held liceuell numbers as to excite alarm. At a meeting
three •-on the &t of March, for the purpose of petitioning
apinst the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, on which
`oceasien several thousand persons were assembled, it was re-
solved, that another meeting was to
,he held on the 10th,
I,lie intention that ten out of every twenty persons
slatuld prore'ed to London with a Petition to the Prince Re-
vot. The interval was employed in repeated and numerous
meetings, Allen the designs of the leaders were developed in
speeches of the most undisguised violence. Ono man avowed
hiukse:( a itepublican and a Leveller,,and would never give
up the cause till a republican form of government was esta-
blished : others stated, that if their petition was rejected,
they mast force it; that the large towns •in Yorkshire were
acting on ;he same plan, and would meet them on the road,
or at least march to London at the same time: that the
',Scotch Were on their march, and that they should he 100;000
reng when joined by the people of the mannfacturiag dis-
trict on the road; and' that it 'would be impossible for the
army, nu' any thing else, to reSiit them. The speaker's were
su,uetintes checked by some of their associates, but Were
uerally received with strong marks of applause and con-
currence. Arrangements for the march were pointed out,
and the people were told to provide themselves with blankets,
*hoes, and Unaraciss, and with money and food. Those witti
retrained behind were, to assist with sOscriptions. Every
ten men 'were to choOse a leader, and one. was to be placed
over every hundred.' Strong intimation's were also given of
the propriety_ and necessity of providing themselves with
anus, but those do not appear to have been acted upon, ex-

capt in a few instances.
" On the 10th of March the meeting took place, consist-
ing of from 10 to 12,000 persons; and although at-into of the
headers had been previously arrested, and some were seized

on Me spot, The putptrse tc nett oltartilonen, largt note-
bets of the deluded people marched off towards Loudon,
" It goes on to state, that a considerable body was stopped
on their "tray to Stockport, while great numbers passed
thrtmgh Leek, and one patty went as far as Ashbourne ; but
the activity of the Magistrates, in dispersing the meeting and
stopping these parties, prevented the execution of a design
Which probably would have disturbed the peace, net only of
the counties through which they passed, but might have led
to Tor:sequences highly dangerous to-the public tranquillity.
" It observes, that the planners of the plot, instead of
being discouraged by this discomfiture, pursued their mea-
sures uninterruptedly. Fresh meetings, thongt• in smaller
numbers, were soon afterwards held, consisting chiefly of de-
legates from Manchester, Derbyshire, and the manufacturing
districts of Yorkshire. At some of those 'meetings reports
were made of the oantity of pikes, firelocks, and ballets,
which could be procured for the intended rising. Communi-
cations were kept up with Nottingham, Sheffield, and Bit-
mingbam, in order to excite the people of those districts to
similar attempts, and to ascertain the progress of their pre-
parations. In these meetings, it. is stated Wet the pretence
of Parliamentary Reform was almost entirely discarded, and
nothing less than Revolution was meditated : and to such a
dreadfiil'degree were the Injtids of many of the people at these
meetiDgs corrupted and intlatniol, that in public speeches the
necessity of danger:egg will's, or disposing of, (tpWwas the
term) the persons most obnoxious to them was utipttersedly
announced ; and it is stated to have been once pTitireed to
make Manchester a Moscow in order to strengthen the cause'
by throwing great numbers out of work. -

"A general insurrection was to bare commenced at Man-
chester on the 30th ; Magistrates were to have been seized,
prisoners liberated, soldiers either to be surprised at thelr
barracks, or to be drawn out of them by the burning of fac-
tories to be set on tire, and while they were thus diverted
froth their posts, the barracks were to he occupied by a party
stationed fur that purpose and the magazine was seized. The
firing of a rocket, or rockets, was to be the signal for this
rising. The numbers sufficient for the immediate purpose
were estimated at 2 or 3000 men, but it was expected that
the insurgents would amount to .5000 in the morning.

!‘ In some parts of these proceedings there are traces of an
intention to issue proclamations, absoliing the King's sal).
jects from their allegiance, and denouncing► death against
their opponents. The Committee however allow, that they
base not found any evidence of the actual preparation of these
proclamations.

" Tili3 ritrotious conspiracy was detected and defeated by
the Magistrates, who seized and confined some of the ring.
leaders before the period fixed for its execution. This timely
prevention appears to have checked very considerably the
proceedings of the disaffected, and the subsequent intelli-
gence from that quarter is of a more favourable kind.

" During part of the mouth of April One 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
lesi frequeiitly convened, even in public houses. Clubs have
been dissolved, meetings suspended, or held so privately and
so remotely as to have escaped observation.

." They have fewer communications in writing: the names
of leading persons
,bare been recommended to be concealed:
few persons only are intrusted with the progress of their
plans, and these men arc tu.give notice to different* delegates
to have their partisans ready to act when and as %Attired.
'these delegates have met in small numbers, and have kept
up a general though verhal • correspondence among the
disaffected.

" Towards the end of April, and during the month of May,
this correspondence has been more active. On the 6th of
May a Meeting was held in a town in the West-Riding of
which was attended by delegates from other prin-
cipal towns of that district, and from Leicester, Birmingham,
and Nottingham. At this meeting reports were made by the
delegates of the numbers which could be collected' from the
different districts : they were stated to be very large; but
the Committee 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
pay as possible after the discussion of the Question of Re-
form in the House of Commons. The insurgents were first
to march to Nottingham, where they were expected to be
joined by other bodies ; and on their way to London by still
more, all armed either before, or to be armed by the robbery
of private houses or of different barracksand depots, which
were to be attacked.

" At several subsequent meetings it Was reported, that the
increase of ►uembers was so great, that it was said at once of
theM, that it was necessary to extend their divisions daily,
and enlarge their Committee.

4' Similar infermation from many quarters whence the dele-
gates 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 Jane,
for various reasons. Ily the latest intelligenee from these
quarters it appears, that these designs were frustrated by the.
same cause 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 function,
by the regular troops and yeomanry acting. under their direc-
tion,' the efficient, arrangements of the nffiet4: rustg4 with
the service, the knowledge obtained of the plans of the diva.
fected, together with the arrest and haprisontifent—of the
leading agitators; and that by these causes a Still farther
postponement of their atrocious plans would he occasioned.
Subsequent intelligence leave's no doubt that the plan, it; its
full extent, has been.frustrated; but the correctness°, former
information has been confirmed by the late appearance of
bodies of armed ;men at the period previously fixed, anti par-
ticularly in one of the districts which had been described as
determined to rise, without waiting for a general co-opera
tion.

" The Committee think it important to state, that many
of the most active magistrates and persons. whose civil and
military situations enabled them, upon the most extensive
itiforination, to form the most accurate opinion, concur in
attributing the disappointment of the attempts already made)
and of the hopes of continued tranquitlit}•, to the exercise of
the ►►ew powers which Parliament intrusted to the Executive
Government, and to the influence produced by the knowledge
that these powers would be called into action as Soon as ne-
cessity should justiff'their employment. They concur
lika-
wise in a representation of the danger with Which the expiry
of these powers, at the present moment, would threaten the
country: and the Committee feel, that they should ill dis-
charge the high trust reposed in themif they did not declare.
their unreserved assent to this opinion. They, therefore;
with the fullest confidence in the loyalty and good dispositions,
not only of those classes of tbc COlll4lunityagd those portions.

a! li'in.;;;urn hare hitherto Tentaintli .frce
from divafectiou, but of the greatest .part of thane rtry dis-
tricts wlklt are the chief scenes of discontent and of threat-
ened disturbance, cannot retain from Ilectaring it as the re-
sult dal! the informatics which they have collected., Olathe
time is not yet arrived when the maintenance of public tran-
quillity, and the protection of the lives and property of his
Majesty's subjects, can he allowed to depend upon the ordi-
nary powers of the law."

The Report was then, on the motion of the
Loan PRESIDENT, ordered to be printed.
The Earl of LtveaPoor. stated, that as the
prints of the Report were likely to he on the table
to-morrow, a Noble Friend of his would then pre-
sent a Bill for the renewal or continuation of the
Act. for authorising his Majesty, to secure and de•
taut persons, whom he shall suspect of conspiring
against his petson and government, for a time
longer ; and in case such Bill should be brought
in, its second readifig would be moved on Monday
next.