The Sun.
London, England, 1817-06-23 00:00:00

arming.tbe soLliers by niglitt, in,their qoariers, of
tediOiog, them from their duty; and of providing
rantsfor themselves, partly by these seizures, and
pertly by tin easy method of forming pike-heads
oat of common tools and utensils.
it appears to your Committee, that the utmost
'confidence prevailed among the delegates, as to the
ultimate:l nail:meta offheirokket ; that thesucces-
sive arrests of ,everal of the principal leaders, tho'
they oeeas oneil momentarfairs'appointtnent, did
not ex tintr`eisie• the spirit of insurrection, or the
}pipes /if saCOOSS; )11 the parts of the country above
mem toned ; 4.1. t he utmost iinpatience was matii-
lesiva at. the delays %Odell had taken place in fix-
ing tlie. dot for the general rising. This, after
several' postponements, was appointed for the
Monday in IVltitsuit week, and was afterwards
again postponed fo; the fyli of Jtine,`.ii•hirlt was
tholight more favourable for a midnight insurreco
lion, as the-tnriou svonld then be in .the wane.
Notiec of this hitt appointment had beeb so
seidely circulat. d, Ilott it beeatio;,almost of public
notoriety ; which „while it awaked the attention of
those whose ditty it was t o preserve the public peace,
did not appear to derange the preparations of
those who were disposed to dikturb it. Even
'where the planners of the insurrection suggested
a ,farther d lay, they found it impossible to re-
strain the impatience which they bad excited
Amon their followers, who had forsaken their
ordinary habits of indostry, and who must tither
proceed to the immediate attainment of their ob-
ject, or for the present relingaich it, and earners
to thei: accustomed occupatious. Onthe2BthofM,ty
a electing of delegates in the neighbourboodof act-
- geld was dispersed, mot some of the panties were
apprehended „; and opt the Gth of June,sevetal per-
sons desiotbedto he delegates (amid believed by yoot
Committee to be such), who wereassembled at an-
other place iii time s nlr neighbourhood, were rip.
I/rubew :ed by the Magistlat es of the Riding, asiist-
ed by the military; and the filial arrangement of the
whiclewas tittle to be settled, was thus hap-
pily.frustrio ed. It was confidewly expected, that
these arrests would discoocert whatever Memitirei
were iii preparation, and they appear to have had
that effect in the immediate vicinity of Sheffield ;
but the spirit which had been excited could not be
wholly suppressed. In the neighbourhood of
~ludrlersiltld, in the night of the Bth instant, se-
veral houses were forcibly entered.and plundered
of arms. A considerable body itt armed Melt were
noproachioe. the town, when a small patrole of
Y o emotry '..Cavalry, attended by a peace-officer,
fell in- with them, audWas 'received with the dis-
charge of several .shot,' by which one of their
troop horses was wounded. 'The patrole having
ascertained lila! they were too few to oppose such
nemthers, thought it prudent to retreat, when se-
veral shots were fired atter them without *effect.
Ott reituriting with an udditional force to the spot,
they :wool that the whole of the insurgents had
disopecated ; but guns fired as signals, in different
direct tons, and ts sh own onaliebeights through.
out the ermotry sutlicieolly proved the extent of the
eottfe,:eotey, and the concert with which it twig
organized. It; .nape populous' villages'of Derby-
Shire, a more open insurrection took place on the
Pitta of, dime. A delegate front this part of Abe
eottotry hid attended a previous meeting at Not.
/Ingham, iind an active emissary front thence paid
joi ed them in the course of the night. The in.
sup ection began, aceatdiug to the general plait
proposed, with attacks upon houses, for the pur-
pose of procuring arms ; in one of which a servant

wAs wantonly allot ; about 200 insurgents were
soon assembled, mostly wined either with pikes
or with lite arms., and beion their march towards
Nottittoam, in expectation of increasing their
number s HS they went., and of finding that place
in full insurrection, and prepared to support them.
They were, however, intercepted by detachments
of cAvalry (muter the orders of active and intelli-
gent M igistrioes), which came up with thein in
different directions, nnd totally, dispetsed them.
Between SO and GO were taken, and lodged in the
different gaols ; many. fire arms and pikes' were
taken ai the -same time, and a clualttity of atomm-
mitioo was found upon the per*ons of the pri.

timers.

Your Committee have thus stared the prominent
points; of the information, which has been laid
before there, particularly as affecting the mauls.
facruring disti icts in the Northern and Midland
tionsities, and which has been substantiated, in
almost every particular, by depositions on oath
taken. before Magistrates. , The character of tire
danger remains the same as was deaCribed in the
farmer Report. It arises from the indefatigable
exertions of persons in the lower ranks of life, or
bot little above them, of some popular talents, in.
iiamiug and aggravating the actuardistress of anu-
merous marmfacturing, population, by exciting
hopes of an immediate retredy to all their suffer•
lugs from a Reform in Parliament, and preparing
them (in desphir of attaining that object) to at.
tempt, by force, thermal subversion of the esta-
blished Constittition of Government:
Your Committee stated, in. their former Report,
that the mode of organization, pi PICT iSeti w tit slit&
mischie‘ous succesi io tire populous (Hitt lets, had
been in very many instances conducted under the
cover of as,ociallons. called Hampden Clubs,
formed for the ostensible purpose' of procuring a
Reform in Parliament and they now find that
iu many instances, *here the 'open meetings of
those ‘ocieties ;rave been discontinued, !,everal cff
the men:bets of them have assembled more private.
I)*, and been the principal leaders in the projected
combinations.
t he it former Report they did nor think it ne.
cessory to arfvert to that atrocious system tfcron-
bitoci,m, outrage, and hired 'assnissioritiout,,whiCk
hill prevailed hr sonic of the trutlland comities,
under the name of Luddism; both because .the
trials of persons, ch..trged with those crimes, were
then known to be d pending ; and because the
firtetri itsit did nor than distinctly appear to
your C,thamittee to have any immediate applica.
tion to pohical purpo,es. But 'they have rsince
found reason to believe, that those who are con-
cerned in iostiptiOg the people to 1(14 lirreet
have availed 'themselves ot .this frowerfol engine
for tire more extended purposes of tiolitleaf intro•
`station.

ripw) 'the whole, your Committee have been
poximis Heiiiivr, to exaggerate or extenuate the
ItittlllT and- etit ut Thvy i„ive „„,
bCCI) t& the jeit:ousy Siitit -Which the

testimony or persons, trriglually implicatellitr the
designs tsf -the Conspirfttors; or even ofperinns
who, never having engaged in thisse designs, have
attended their meetings, in order .to discover and
report theirieOeeediitlis,.eitht tip he
but the facts:.stated by your Committee rest not
only upon :confirMatoryevideoce, hot on distinct,
substantive, and sa 'she' ory testimony ; and al-
though your Committe' et. have seen reason to
apprehend that' tbelanguage'timl conduct of some
persons. front wlsOni information has heels de..
rived, !nay, in some lust 4nces, have had the effect
of et -cooraging those' designs,.. which it was
tended they should only be the instrument( of de.
tecting; yet it is perfectly clear to your 'Com,-
otittee, that hefOre any such encoutagement could
have been given,,-the plan of a simultaneons in-
surrection, in different parts of the country, had
been actually concerted, and its execution fully
determined on.

Your Committee have the satisfaction to continue to believe,
as they have before' stated, that the danger which they have
described, is to ho fauna only among the lower order of
Clic- manufacturing population, is particular parts of the
country, many of whom are labouring under considerablt•
privations, from the low rate of wages, and in the increasing
priceaif 'the necessaries of life; though your Committee cut,.
nut but remark, that. the most active and determined 'hist'',
gents are, in' Many instances, to he found among those
whose earnings, even in the preseiit state of the manu-
factures, would enable them to support their families in
comfort. They find, that of the promoters of these corn-
motions, many have either left the comitry, or are prevented
front prosecuting their designs. The disaffected appear to
want leaders to conduct sach enterprises as they litre con-
ceived; ate• frequently disconcerted by joilousy and distrust
of each other, and lee the cousciottotess that their I Lots aft '
watched ; and -by the arrests of the. ringleaders. Meat
as the numbers probably. arc, anmeg whom disaffection,
to an alarming extent, has made considerable progress,
'fomented at first* by popular hatatignes, aad still by
the mole powerful and general excitement of sedi-
liens,publications, your Committee are fully aware. that the
number of those, who are now prepared to take the lead in
any project of open insurrection, is not to be estimated by
the exaggerated reports of their Delegates. Though they
hare been all along tan4ht to look to London for coup.
tentesece and support, though some of their own mis-
sal-int hare, from time to time, affected to bring them
hopes of encouragenramt from twat quarter, in Cite sit
success; mat though it., lets been stated to your Commit,-
tee, that a Delegate frion the country lout recently been
tendiog. a meeting of Delegates in London, tie specific
it fit 'nation has been laid helve your Committee et the
existence of ony body of men, ass-Omitted in the metropolis,
with hien the disulreeted in' the coulltry appear 16 be acting
in concert, or to hold commituiration. Thcir hopes Mite
froin their own numbers, which, it they Ctott Id he excited to
simultaneous movements, would distrait their opportenti.,:end
would procure the 'beaus for care ying their utinost designs
into execution. It is hoped by them, that the timid and ir-
resolute would thus be encouraged to '!seed forward ; and they
dotter themselves, that efficient leaders would not be entitling
to put themselves it tlkea •
head of a successful insurrection.
Your Committee cannot contemplate what has passed in
the Country, erell since-the date of their former Report,
without the most serious apprehension. During this period,
the precautionary measures adopted by Parlianit ot have been
in force ; many of the most active promoters of pculic tbs.
torhances. here been apprehended; the immediate projects
of the disaffected have been discovered awl deranged; yet
nothing has deterred theta front a steady pursuit of their ul-
timate object. Though hitherto clicked. the least itdvance
towards the attainmeht of that object could not but be at-
tended with the titio.,st hazard to the lives and properties of
his Majesty's anhjects.
In the late insurrection on the borders of Dergyshire and
Nottinghamshire, the MASS of tho population, throtigh which
the insurgents passed, evinced the utmost ahhorressee of their
defigns.and piabj'ectsv Io other instances, where the
tants have heel; called upon to aid the civil power, that cell
has tiesm answered with alacrity and zeal conduct hi-
creases the claim 'of
peaceable and loyal inhabitants ta
the disturbed parts of the country to the roost efficient pro.
tectioo.

roar Catumittra.find that it le the concurrent oplalots of
Many of those elitriWed with the pre4ervation of the peace,
and best acquainted with the.state of the disturbed districts,
as well as the .td mission of the disaffected themselves, that
the surprebsion of the littenliitS at insurrection hitherto made,
man in a great degree, be *berthed to the existenco of the
extraordinary , powers entrained by Parliament to the 164.
cutive Government, cull in cases where it has been
found necessaty to e4il them into action ; . and that the
tranquillity of the country would he put to hazard, if
those powers were new withdrawn. In this your
Committee fully concorl tool, confidently as they rely
on the loyalty nod guno disposition of the great body of,
his Majesty'ssilbjeCks (even in those parts of the country in
which the spirit of disaffection has shewu itself in tht must
formidable shape), they cannot hut express their conviction,
that it is not yet sae to rely entirely, for the preservation of
the pablic tranquillity, upon the ordinary powers of the law.