The Sun.
London, England, 1817-02-19 00:00:00

AIPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

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UOUSE OF LORLA, T.tiasr;A'Y; I'an IS.
Co.insel were fortherlicard respecting one of
the branches of Oa! Qocin;herry Leases Cause.
To proceed again ..on Friday.
Lord Easxtks presented a few petitions, the .
tides of which, as read, conk; not he distioctlY:
heard below the Bar. They appeared to he in..
specting the topics of tin geottomical and Parlia.•
mentory Reform ; one, as we could collect, was
from Birmingham. They weiT ordered to lift' on
the table.

Th.o EA of n'AIINLF:Y, after a few remarks m•.
lative to the state of this country and Ireland, par
deldurly the latter, respecting a supply of chill
and grain, and the etkets of the recent harvest,
moved for the production of an account of the '
quantities of corn .and grain imported into this.
country from Ireland since the Ist of September
last, distinguithing the kinds of each ; and tilo
for a similar account of the quanthies of corn and -
;rain used in the distilleries its Irrinhd since the
same period. Which were ordered accordingly.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OP SECRECV.
The Eat-1 of IlAartowaY presented the Report of
the Secret Committee appointed to inquire into
certain meetings and combinations endangering
the public tranquillity.

It stated, that their attention was first directed
to such documents as related to the metropolis :
and that the result of their investigation on this
point is a conviction, dint a conspiracy existed to
overthrow, by a general insurrection, thl/4, esta-
blished Government, and to produce a general
system of plunder.

It goes on to state, Hilt in ruirstianCe of this
treasonable oljeet, diirerent Consultations were
held in London in the lust autumn, when, alter.
considering and rejecting wimp plans, it was. at
last resolved to call a public meeting, in uSpa.,
fields: it was conceived that this plan would nc.
(laint them with the probable number;of adherents
that could he raised, while at the spine time the
place chosen was a central spot, from which the

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places at once. For tlt►s purpoe advertisements
and hand-bills were circulated, addressed to the
lower orders, and patticulutly to those a hose dis•
tressed circumstances and extreme sufferings, (torn
the pressure of die times, were supposed to render
thorn the fittest tools tor discontent nod disaffec-
tion.

The Report then briefly describes the prnreed4
logs of the first meeting of the 15111 of NovembeF,
dwelling strongly on the violent and inflammatory
I.riguage used by some of the speakers ; and ►e-
firs to the plutula that took place on that first
evening, as a consequence of the doctr..tte3 pro-
mulgated in the course of the d<iy. The repot t
then. notices the appointmerit oh Deorpther 2, as
the .titue for a second meeting; and supposed
that day was intended for the execution of their
object„

The modes of effecting their, purpose
first, a liberation of. all prisoners in the different,
gaols of the metropolis, to whom accordingly
notice was given (in the shape of an Address),
that they would all be set free-on that d-r• -""
have arms put into thoit... recommenda-
tion being added, to . procure the national trite
coloured cockade, anti to spare no means, however
sanguinary,,to ensure success. A second scheme
was to set fire to all the barracks ; •and an attack
on the Bank and the 'lower was determined upon
after several consultations. Pikes and arms were,-
procured ; leaders vvere Onsets ; and the places
of attack pointed out. Attempts were made to
seduce the soldiery at different stations, and the
most nuremitting exertions wereemployed in the in'.
terval of the two meetings, in visiting all the clubs,
and public-honses in the met r,ipolis, where,* even its
the most apparently casual conversations, .endea-
yours were made so to irritate:.and inflame the
minds of the hearers, that when collected in is
body they might be ripe for..the most desperate
enterprise. The persons so employed in going
abluit and haranguiog at these clubs are stated to
be the slime who on the second day showed them%
selves in Spa-fields,.. with arm's, ammunition, tel.
colour flags, tricolour cockades, and the banner
bearing the inscription,• ".The brave soldiers are
our brothers, treat them•kindly."

The. itentt then allodes:to.that direct exhortao
don to open insuirectfon made by one Speaker at
Spa-flehls,Jand.expresses its conviction, that the
outrage, plutitiet, and insurrectionary riolenett
that ensiled were not accidental .and unprentedi•
lilted, but the result of a deliberate plat' which,
:u their own opinion, tailed only from unexpected