The Sun.
London, England, 1817-10-29 00:00:00

PROVINtIAi. JOURNAL-).

Welikve btteiehren'iodebted for local ihfhrma,
tinn •uild jitdiciou, remarks Leedshielli
gencer, Otte of the iMist tdyhl and hest conducted
'of the l'foviacial-ddeirniitt. :Froth that Naper, of
the Iti h inst. We extract the folloWing Statement
30d Ohso-vatiims, which, we trust, ‘vill-fidly're-
lute the m4).evOlent lalschoOds and artful sophis-
try of Vcction.

" by thei.oodneSs /4 Providence, and tfir;litgb;the stir-
" linen; virtue our Juries, thecourieit. of the wicked came .
" to nouochtb Inge the pit ttiev di god for Otters them-
" -serves h:We fatlen. They and thvir mytruidom, it is
" now fuanifest, are the .real traitors who )cou'l.rire to
" subvert the' irhstitritiuu."--/Iluck, Dwarf, Wednesday,
Sept. 10.
" Front the little which the mercy of 'Provi- -
deuce has suffered this country to behold of the
Open violence of the Seditious, it is too evident
that the demon of revolution erected its head in
England, under the same horrid influence, and
animated by the same diabolical spirit, as so re-
cently filled France witli clime and desolation,:
and deluged Eur Ope with blood. Designing men
tell us that the plots were too contemptible to
excite alarm--the actors too humble to claim at- •
tention—theriiischief they perpeti'ated too trifling
to merit punishment.
" %Vitt) respect to the evil already produced,
though as nothing, certainly, compared to the
awful inundation of every specie's of atrocity with
which the nation Was threatened, it has been
enough to excite both horr'dr and indignation.
The country has been thrown into a state of diss.
traction and alarm—peaceable and well-affected
subjects have every where found it necessary to
sacrifice a portion of their usual avocations, and
to devote some of that time necessary for. their
own industrious pursuits to discharging the duties
of special constables, or armed volanteers, for the
presersatioo of the public peace—the attention
of the legislattire has been, its a great degree, dis-
tracted trout the prosecutioti of inquiries import-
ant to the prosperity of the Empire----a heavily
increased public and individual expenditure has
been incurred—property, in numerous Instances,
has been plundered and destroyeda anederims
attack was made on the very person of the Prince
Regent himself, while engaged in the perform-
ance of his public functions--and more than one
act of assassination has actually been committed
by tile ferocious ruffians who unfurled the stand-
ard of blood in the bosom of their country. They
syl; affect to treat
.the treasonable conspiracies as
so utterly harmless mid contemptible, cautiously
abstain from noticing the various times, places
and multitudes, which have exhibited open ap-S
pearallCCS of iesurrection, as a continuation • of
the same scene, tinder the same influence and in
similar circumstances, _ forming one entire scheme
of rapine and anarchy, and consisting of detadi-
ttents of one phalanx of traitors and assassins
existiog every quarter of the kingdom. Na
they speak of ever y scene of outrage, every as.
seniblage of conspirators, as if each were nut only
unconnected with the others, but as if each were
the only culpahle event which had occurred. They
do nut admit that the disaffected have made at-
tempts to accomplish the same general and com-
mon objects in various situations. 0 no ! there
were disgraceful riots from Spa-fields, to be sure,
but what had they to do with the question of
Parliamentary Retorm, with the peaceable assem-
blage which remained to listen to Orator Hunt,
Or with tie dispositions of any portion of the
people in the country ? There was a horrible oath,
indeed, taken by the Conspirators in Scotland and
elsewhere ; but then it was clear no danger could
be eapprehended from them, because the great
hulk of the Reformers were sufficiently determin-
ed to effect their purposes without any swearing
at•all. We believe it. There were some out.
rages at Morley and several other places ; some
houses were plundered; the dwelling of a peace-
able subject was fired into, with intent to as-
sassinate him ; an armed baud was _ found
ridvancing to the attack of Huddersfield in
the dead of the night ; ,but these were 'a
set of foolish fello,es, who did all this,
they did not know why, nor for what purpose,
bat merely because a Air. Oliver had come down
from London, and desired them to do it. Many
thousand men assembled at Manchester, with a
view of marching to London ; but their they merely
wished to present a petition a-piece to the Prince
Regent ; and the whole of them happening to be
ignorant of the existence of a post-office, they
bad formed ,the peaceable resolution of -walking
two Inindre4l miles, without art adequate supply
of provisions or money, in order to pay their per-
sefital respects to his Royal -Highness, when, no
doubt:they would have returned as gitietly home.
again ; and all this would have been seen., it these
inoffensive men had not been so arbitrarily and
Onchnstitutionally interrupted in their journey,
And dispersed. The same men, it was said on
the highest authority, intended to burn Manches-
ter ; hut then some unknown individual falsely
asserted they had provided a brazen tube for the
purpose of injecting fire into the windows of the
factories ; and therefore the whole account of the
plot, was pronounced to be a hiazen-faced lie.
Now when• some Of the Nottingham and-Derhys
, Shire men, however, are clearly convicted of high
treason, :aggravated; if aggravation of so enor-
Mims a' crime be possible, by revolting excesses,
WC. are 'cajled upon to. oven(' our sympathy to
theta, on the ground that they are poor
ignorant men, in the humblest walks of life ; that
they iv et e driven to acts of violence by hunger ; and
that it is (pike ridiculous to suppose, whatever
might be tbeir intentions, they possessed any ade-
Tiede means of endangering the stability of Go-
vernment.
'' Plut let us' examine these grounds dispas-
ionately. The more ignorant and obscure the
individuals are who plaee themselves at the head
of insurrections, the more savage ferocity amid
barbarous cruelty do they generally exhibit; while
they have frequen.o been as successful in
proportion to their means, as men originally of
wore elevated stations. The higher the rank
and the greater the, intelligence.of an insurgent
Cuief,- there is the greater .security for his barna-
nity in the exercise of his newly-acquired power,

greater protabirmq, that, in hi 3 career of
crime, he will at least restrainlii,.followers, as
much as possible, from the commission of Watt iou
cruelty and unnecessary devastai ion. And we deny
that the insurgents were either instigated by hun-
ger, or that their mimbers or means of mischief
were either so limited or so contemptible as their
abettors would have time public believe. They
have been instigated to outrage by a long-prac-
tised and cold-blooded systifin of deloSiou arid
excitement, by seditimms writings and treasonable
harangues, by every itillaintnatory artifice that
treason and malice could soggest. Uo we out
know, ou the no-questioned evidence of the Rev.
Mr. Wyvill, that for a series of years Major Cart.-
wright and his fellow demagogues have purstmed
the diabolical practice of sending hired MisSioo-
mois into the disturbed counties, for the exoresi
purpose of intldOng the minds of time workiug
CIUSSeS ) Have we not weekly, daily, hourly, Well
those classes operated upon, st nog almost to mad-
ness, by disaffected declaimers and a seditious
press ? These have been the real instigators,
without whose devilish agency, the late privations
of the country %Void(' have been endured with the
fortitude of I.:tiglishmen. The 'seeds of uproar
were lavishly scattered—the poison of jacobinism
unsparingly instilled, till the diseased common-
wealth approached a convulsive crisis, which all
the skill of its guardians was requisite to avert,
and of which the partial eruptions that have hither-
to appeared, *ere only the Auhduel, 'though still
virulent and malignant symptoms. When ttunnito-
ous bodies of mtn, in seasons of privation and scar-
city, attack depots of corn, or of-other food,- the
motive is at once comprehended and recognized,
and-is readily admitted as a palliation, though by
no means as a jostification of the crime; and this,
too, although even in these cases; be most active
ring-leaders are generally found ao be persons
above the temptation of want. But hunger is
..not
the incentive to insnrrectionarywar. Its origin is
more remote than the immediate pressure of want.
An empty stomach may-give rise to the riotous as-
sault and plunder of millers, butchers, and bikems.-
Treason and rebellion spring from conspiring cal-
culating beads, remorseless discontented hearts.
That these remorseless
;oleo have not visited upon.
their coantry the most dreadod scenes, has-been
owimig neither to their want of power nor of ill-
clioation. The force which marched from Wing-
field to EAstwood; was but a very small part of
the whole. By previous agreement among the
conspirators, be it remembered, the towns of Bir-
miugham, Alanchester, Nottingham, Sheffield,
Iltoldersfield, &c. were to have been ill iosor.-
editor on the same night. Had the ti.4l»e horst
forth, without diScovt!ry, in all its strength we
are not-prepared to say but that even the stability
of Government might have been endangered. By
a series- of fortunate discoveries, however, the day
fixed upon for a general rising was ascertained,
and most of the principal leaders being known,
were arrested just previous to the commencement
of their operations. By this-wise step.--all their
plans were deranged, most of their followers were
confounded and intimidated,: and the design in a
great measure frustrated. But many of the more
daring and desperate adherents still ventured to
show themselves, at the appointed time, in arms ;
and, thong!' certainly rendered too contemptible
to attack the Government, were more than alarm-
ing and dangerous, in more places than Derby-
shire, to the lives and property of their fellow-
subjects. Had they met, at first, with but a few
faint glimmerings of success, torrents of blood
must have been shed to subdue them. If they
had been enabled to sheet, for hut a short period,
the head and,front of war within the realm, we
have seen enough of their spirit to know, that,
whatever might have been the result:, rapine, and
fire, and murder, and all enormities, would haVe
every where attended and distinguished their Ca-
rCer.

" It may be important and salutary just to oh-:
serve the similarity in aspect, character. and effect,
of the Spirit of Reform, in each quarter where it:
has appeared in the direction of physical.f,ree.—_
They have been such as strikingly to characterize
her votaries, and fahly to warrant us in consider-
ing the atrocities of detached bodies, and of in-•
dig ideals, as congenial to the . principles, and
satnples of what woold be the practice. of the
whole. The insurgents of Spa-fields, commenced
the reformation of abuses by plundering the
.shops
and•dtvellings of their fellow-subjects, and by
throwing the Metropolis into a state of alarm and
confusion. It was sworn in evidence, that the;
leaders intended to accomplish their purposes by
plunder and robbery, a 6 well as by enterprising.
courage—by fraud as well as by force--by set-
ljng fire to London in the dead of night—by suf-
focating those soldiers in their beds whom they
could not hope to snbdoe in the field—by every
.species of atrocity and devastation. To compare
with this, we have the authority of the illagis-
trates of Manchester for believing, that the disaf-
fected there intended to lay the town in „ashes ;
and that they had deliberately formed the horrible
resolution, for the mere purpose of swelling their
own ranks with the_ multitude of persons whom
the conflagration would have reduced to wretch-
edness and despair.
" In Derbyshire, again, each village, we find from
the evidence, was to kill its own vermin-,-that is,
to assassinate such of the inhabitants as rank, for-
tune, or loyalty, rendered obnoxious to the instil...
gents; while the grand army was employed in
plundering the houses which lay in the line of its
march, and in forcing their owners to join the
rebel ranks. In Shefijeld, the populace paraded a
loaf, with• the label, bread or blood. At Hall, the
printed Declarations of the loyal inhabitants were,
in the night, smeared with blood, a pretty.signifi-
cant intimation of thefate to which Treason
Wished them consigned ; and at Huddersfield, as
is well known, the syne. system of blood and
plunder was: to be pursued. But the similarity is
still more striking iu other respects.. To say no-
thing of the murderous attack on the Per Son Of tho
Regent, what is done by. Watson,- thtriirg his
career •trom-Spa-fields') Why, the first man
,who
merely remonstrated . with him (the unfortvnate
Platt).was. by that '.young ruffian, a tote scion
of revolutionary reform, .barbarously shot, though
he had offered neither provocation nor resistance
to his purposes. At Manchester, it is hell Isuown
that Mt. Nadia and other obnoxious inciiciduals
Were to have been drawn from their houses and

''butelartd. nyson swore, in, etving
evidence against the Huddersfield men, that on the
night when -her Louse was robbed'of arms, sw:te
ft the Instirke!A-•ealled out, " D—u her r,ura
bullet through her."—a threat Which,- f the ob- •
ject of their teroc‘ty had been a nran inste::d of a
woman, Might Possibly have-been 'executed. tee-
lain it is, that 'seVe'ral keutlentett„ whos.enatoes
have formerly appeareil in this paper, were marked
out for massacre by the same g-tug of ruffians.—
And Brandreth, again, 'the Hero of the Din.hy-
shire insurgents, of the•Nottinghatu
Traitors,. true to the nature of his tribe, also
shoots, it hri a mortal aim, the f rSt unoliending
victim who falls in his Watr, and amfaciously
threatens to inflict the saute fate itlinti all others
'whom his capriCions ferocity shoul.l Select:
" And yet it it for this man, still be it remem-
bered (notwithstanding his present wretched si-
tuation) a -cold.blooded murderer, and a tr,litor',
that the. Most unblushing clamour is raised for
royal clemency, and that every effort is tusking to
awaken a false humanity in his behalf ; merely,
forsooth, because the career of him and his asso-
ciates was arrested before they had done all the
mischief they intended--before they had imbrued
their hands in the blood of more of their,on-uf-
fending Countrymen ! However.painfid., it is the
duty of everyman to look at the facts and
•stances of the case, as he would at those of any
other heinous mime, with a dispassionate mind,
with coolness, with a• plain feelihg of, upright
justice, and with Comnion sense. However much
he limy pity the wretched victim of his-'ttwu
erimes---more to he pitied for the load of his
than the weight of his punisoaeuf—no re-
flecting unless he is prepar.ed to maintain
that all pnnishment should in all cases he dis-
pensed with, can for an instant hesitate as to the
necessity of vindicaling•puhlie justice, by the iii,
Bari ion ?Idiot sentence which may be passedmpon
his mimes. Ii there are any favourable circion-
stances itt the cases of all or etii.y of his' compa-
ohms, we trust and believe they will hati-e the full
beitefii of th(tri. Their live; are in -the liAtids of
a Go;erninent, totvhom a well-grounded appeal
for Mercy has never been made in vain—who 'viii
temper justice with moderation—who will pardon
all that are not too deeply involved in geilt, or the
sacrifice of ivltoni would be unnecessary far the
purposes of example—all, in short, who shall
appear to have the slightest pretension to cle-
mency ;—bur who, at the sante time, are neither
to be intimidated by clamour,' nor seduced by so-
phiitry, to swerve from tire faithful execution of
the laws, in this, or any other case, involving the
public irangniiiity and welfare."

Frona the LONDON GAZETTE, Ott. 28.

11.1tiatteil'S.

William Cooper, Fe.mclinrult-strc4et, r,iefeliant, to sarrepilvr
November I I, 17, apt i December 9, at eleven, at Gni!Atha%
Attornie,,, Ltrve ant) Bower, Soutlrimpton-bnilti-
jugs' Cliaticevy-lane. . .
DavvlßnbartA, Saint :-Ltjtlr, Cornwall, shopliceper,
November 1), 12, at ten, at thßrd Lim' Inn. and De-
cember 9, at JeWeirs Hotel, Bodmin. Attorniel,
Atflincron Grrgory Bedford-row London, or Z.,lr.

Norway, St.Coltbab.-
3oi,n %Vic vc•-, Harwich, EgAex, cail-titaitcr, November 17,
18, :ut December 9, at e?eveit, at the Thice cops

Harwich. • .11tornie51,, Mr. Cliapaiao, 'ur Mr.
liatton-garden, Lmidun.
Samtirl BrdloW nn4
grocer, November 1, 13, and December 9.; at ten, at
Lonthni. . Attornies, Messrs. Amory and Coles,

Lothbury.
Clia:h-s Tnckttt, Uis.bopsgate-Itrevt, ;Ind Birming-
-barn, grov.,r, Nuretulnr 1, IS, and Deeenilicr 9, at ten, at

London. Attornics, Net:43m Amory Itt)(1
Lotblmrv.
Philip Yeofantl, Plymouth, stralt•ltat-manufactr.rer, Noreen-.
her tit and December 9, at eleriNn, at the Oxford Inn,
,Plymotalk. Attunties, ‘Vallsce, Lincoln's Inn-fields,
Lon;Grtt, or Mr.F.! yne, Plymouth,
Thomas Dodd, Leicester-street,' Leicester-fJittare, Lomlon,
and Church-street, Liverpool; prints,ller; ikkmember 8,
15, and December 9, at ten, ;It Guildhall,, London. At-.
torney, M Serjeant.'s lon, Fleet-street, London.
John Miller and James Miller, Holym ell-street, Strand, shoe-
- makers, November:,; at. eleven. Is, and Dem:ll)l4er 9, at
• one, at Guildhall. Atturnics, Messrs. Amory and Coles,
Lot idmry.
DIVIDENDS.

Nov. Is, NV. Brock, Warnford-court, Thrergamrton-street,
tuerchant,--Noy. 22, T. Burton, Liverpool. plumber—Nov.
IS, C. Sundius, Devonshire-square, merchant—Nor. 18, A.
Fairbairit, Devonshire-41 r 1 et, merchant—Niel.. 22, W, Web-
' her, Exrnortth, Devoushire, butcher—Dec. . 10, •G.
'Tenbury, Worcestershire. I/Aker—Nov. 18, J. Wilton and A.
I-1. Adieu, Cross-street, Finsbury-square, merchants—Nor.
25, (i. Pearson, Macclesfield, and NV:Sykes:NIA-street, silk-
nufact tir(!rs —N ov. 20, R. 11 olc,rof!, Manchester, haber-
tishcr,—Nov. 18,- W. Koiht, Bagsliot, miller—Nor. 18, G.
Robinson and S. Robinson, Paternoster-row, booksellers—
Nov. 18, R. P. Cullum!, King-street, Lambeth, br.uvers—.
Nov. 18, .1. P. Leigh, Old City Chalohers, Bishop: ate-street,
insurance-broLer--Nov. 1.5, J. Davidson, East India Cham-
bers. Lcadettliall-street, riterchant--Nor. I. It. :Haines,
Scott's-place, Lower-road, Islington, mine-cooper—Dec.. 2,
P. Gvitve, Essex-street, Strand, chapwoman—Nov. 18, W.
Dorking, Surrey, hrandy-titereliatit—Dec. 2,1).
Kincaid, Spital-square, silk-manttfacturer-I)eir. 3, M. An-
drew, Nlanchester, brush-maker—Dec. 3, C. Johnson, Lever-
bauk, Lancashire, calico-printer--Nov. 28, T. Nicholls,
Bridgnorth, Shropshirer' grocer—Dec. 6, XV.Cheasley, Hayes,
ntrheeper—fh.c. 13,1(. 11luggeridge, Kingston-upon-Thames,
corn-Merchant—Nov. 19, C. Ransom, Salford, Lancashire,
wine-inerctatrt—Nov. 18, J. Farley, Manchester; drrialter—
Dec..B, .1. Jeffery, Tonhriclge, Kent, shopkeeper—Nov..29/
.1. Faulkner, A. Atkinson, W. Atliitison, and A. At liiirs•on,
Crotched-friars, merchants—'Nov. 27, W. Hilt, Leeds, wool-
stapler—Nov. 20, W. [Joyner, Mile-end, Portsea, Sotatiminp-
ton, grocer—Nov. 21, .1. Smith, Portsmouth, stip-chandler.—
Nov. 1.8, .1. Peetoti. Christchurch, Southampton, draper—.
Dec. 2, W. 1-1;111, Fleet-street, broil-maker.