The Sun.
London, England, 1817-02-27 00:00:00

likely to prove most mischievous and impolitic.
He confessed Ise was much surprised that the
Noble Lord '&,,uld have brought this motion
forward as ii mistier of course; that he had
not thought proper to say one word on the
subject of a ase-ssure which went to. deprive the
Peolde of l !Idaoil of. trial by Jury, and of their
hest rights oolifre the Constitution. He WdS SIS
willing, in extr,iortlieary times. to strengthen the
hands of Government, as any Mall colds' be; but
he askfssif any case is been made our, on
,the preseist occasion, to warrant the call which
had been made on Parliament by his Majesty's
Ministers. In p! ei-siing to comment on the re-
port of the C!,,ms•isietee, he took occasion to ex-
press surprise that a Right Hone Friend. of his
(Mr. Poosoisty), who had acted in it, and was a'
party, to the Report, should have the nght it safe
to sit its the saute ebember With the Noble Lord
(Lord Castlereagh), after the:experience he had
had of that Noble Lord's conduct, who, it would
be remembered, had called on his Right Hon.
Friend to agree to a' motion which Ise had sob-
Mitted to the trouse, and which he stated wool]
not pledge the Moose to a war, thought et that
time he had the declaration of war in his poCket,
which had already been subscribed to by, the Am-
bassador from this Dike of Welling-
ton, lie dolhpared the prociedings now in pro-
gress wish those of 1;94 sod 1795. Then it was
said a traitorous conspiracy existed in the emintry,
and wha,iessas the result ? Why, when the pardi s
to this tratorous conspiracy were brought to
when .the question was tried on the evidence
given by the witnesses of the Goserontent„ be-
fota: Judges intimately connected with the then
Adtninistratiou, n the proceedings were'
marked, by a display of rise greatest professional
ability, and when the Attorney-Gvneral (the
preseut Lord Chatter Hot ) bad made a seven
hours' speech against the. isectiseil,: the, result
Wilt, the Jury had declared, to the nation that the
parties put on their Ilial were not guilty of trea-
son. The Rei;orrs of Committers did not always
turn out to he such as might. to, be implicitly be-
lieved. Ths re sets, for iostatice, a Report made
by a Committee in 1312; of wlsicie9 10ths of the
allegations it contained were discovered to be
false, when it ‘Vas aslenipted to prove them on.
.oath, 11e could wish to ask his Right lion,
Friend if any witnesses had heel examined. Ile
had heard, but of course he could not depend'
upon the information, that hot rthe witness had
been examin et., and that one was the Lewd
Advocate of Scotland, :vim bad given in a paper,
on which, however, he did not wish the Commit-
tee to rely. He then sliewed.tehat had been ahe
:character of evidence formetly given before
Committees : its one inst mice of forty persons ac
.eased of being Luddites, ten
.hash turned out tip he,
militiamen in the pay of Govermiteot. These
toys),. it appeared, hatipronosed to burst the poor-
liouses, and when their Collipaoi its remnilStraied
,with them on the cruelty of doing this,,thdran-
sWer had been, that they would do any !Wog for the
sake of mischief. Much of, the evidence given be•
fore the late Committee might be of the nature of
that to which he had referred. It was said, the
most blasphemous productions bad hero circulated
among the people. No man could rvprobatesuch
productions more than. be did, but he would
ask, when these appeared where were the
Attorney-General and Sulicitor•Gruer3l, and
where the law that the publication of them
Lad not been punished i There was no, case
in which ()Headers could he more easily
brought to justice than is that of blasphemy.—
But if we had ,an -Attortley.Generill vitt) would
nor, or who was afraid to do Isis slaty, were the
whole of the people for this to be deprived of
their liberty ? tie attributed much .ot the-dis-
content in the country to the' distress which pre-
vailed, and the distress to the Pitt' system, of
which so much hatiebeen said. He ridiculed that
part of the Report which stated a rising by night
to haVe been contemplation, and he wished to
kisow by what means the soldiers were to he sur-
prised, and the Barracks, distant toi they were
from: each other, to be tired at the same time.
Was it, lie would ask, to lie believed, that mess
could grow mu of the ground (as, in the story of
antiquity, it was said they did, from Cadmus'
teeth), ,to accomplish all this ? No set of men
cupid have made such ass attempt without being
detected by the constables, sleepy as they were.
it might be true, that: some infuriated, drunk,
and liturgic persons, had discussed such projects
in ass ale-house. He dared to say the Committee
had plenty of evidence of.such conversations, hot
for this to (kepi ive the whole people of their eon!
stitutioual 'rights, was most unjust. It was then
said ill the [(ATM' S, that 'these persons intended
to: seize the artillery and secure or destroy the
bridges. These things were to be done, and the
Bank was to be taken by these terrible conspi=
rators,, who', fromony thing that had yet trans-
pired, did not appear to have exceeded six persons,
and whose stock of ammuoition was Catituined in
art Old stockiug. Stich ,banalities could not be
cont,einpkted with gravity ; such trash, lie was
Of opiuion, proved the whole, report onsvotthy
of serioes attention. .The story of the pikes said
to have been ordered anti paid tor, he believed to
have some truth in it, but he believed them to
have been intended for purposes very different
from those contemplated by the Committee.
'l hiss pert of tl.e Report'reminded him of what had
occurred 179.1, when ei4lit tail.srs and one pike
were discovered in fooley-street in the 110.
rough, and he also remembeeed the words of a
Magistrate CM short occasion, who had said, no
food t»other had., ever looked :,with mOre joy
on her only child,' than the friends of- Govern.
moon bad felt on discovering this pike." The pro-
jects of the conspirators were ooly calculated to-
invoke contempt. It was Worth while so Conti;
svhsat were, she fonds lay which thesemognifis
c 0.4 deoigos were ,sopported. In 1791; their
linloant Wets 91. 16s. Thee were lately discovered
ttP nittoSint to 101. being greater by tour
than they were twenty years ago. lie sttpposed.
their military ears' to have been captured, eostl,
perhaps, it had been con' aired into a (11.64, tie
thosight shame at tacitid to, those wlso could bring
forwent such a piot, and expect Parliameut to act
upon it. Itepoet sidled"; that 'few, it auy, of
the higher orders, suid noise of middling classes,
vete conoected with the designs lately discovered
to have bacts formed, lie considered this to be a