The Sun.
London, England, 1817-07-16 00:00:00

" HUDDERSFIELD

,; " The state of affairs in .the neighbourhood of
Huddersfield has been ruuc►r more serious than we
imagined, and there is still some ground of alarm
for the further probable pr-ogress of the disaffected
that quarter. Twenty-three prisoners, in
.all,
haye been sent to York Castle, sow,.' of them
charged with High Treason—others with rioting,
stealing arms, 4c.—Eighteen still remain in
custody at Huddersfield, of whom tour, and a fifth
since discharged, were apprehended on Tuesday
night last, namely, John Spencer, Cleckheaton ;
:Edward Fletcher, card-maker, Hightown ; . Ben-
jamin Heptonstall,. clod►-dresser,, Hightown ;
James Clegg, of Hightown aforesaid ; 'and
Sampson, Robert-Town, who is dis-
charged. Besides these, about 50 men, against
whom there are informations for having beet► con-'
cerned in the late outrages, I►ave absconded ; but
they are diligently looked for by the civil antho-
rities, and luip►es are entertained that' many of
them will yet be apprehended. One of these
fellows formerly resided in Leeds, which he was,
forced to- quit, in consequence of some alleged
brutal attempts upon a woman in child-bed. This
prt•cious Reformer of the State was, it appears, to
have been a Lieutenant-General oftbat Insurrec-
tionary Arrny which the disaffected hoped would
have existed.in great force on the day fixed for the
general rising. His late residence is Close to
Folly-hall-bridge, at which the small. patty of
Yeomanry under Capt. Armytage. were attacked
by the Insurgents ; and the deserted house now
bears the mark of having. been struck by a ball
from tire fire of the infatuated mailmen who were
marching to. their own destruction and that of
their country.
" The information previously obtained, saved
Huddersfield, that night, from the most horrible
fate. The band which was met at Folly-ball-
bridge, constituted only one party of the nume-
rous insurgents, whose plan was to have attacked
the town, simultaneously, and by surprise. In
the hope that the Magistracy would have no inti-
mation of their approach, the night of attack was
Changed from that of Monday the 9th, to Sunday
the Bth of June. Marching silently and rapid y
to the execution of their plan, the military were
to have been suddenly secured and their arms taken
by the Insurgents ; while the Magistrates were to
have been seized, kept as hostages, and conelled

to use their authority.in favour of the insurrec-
tion. Several . individuals were marked nut- for
massacre; and the daring ruffians who-avere en-
gaged in these
.ontwageoins proceedings, entertabitd
confident hopes that the town would have. beet, in
their undisputed - possession before morning.—
Plunder, fire, and cat nage, to a fearful extent, no
doubt would have succeeded the authority of the.
Magistracy and the ride of the laws.
" Most fortueately, intelligence had been- ob-
tained..of the meditated attack. .The Civil.and
Military. Authorities %vete on the alert. - The spi-
rited corps of Yeomanry, as well as. the ,regular
troops, were-under arms.. The town wails itn.a
complete state of -preparation for defence ; and.
the encounter with die Insurgents, at Folly•ball-
bridge, by convincing, them their .plan was detect-
ed, frustrated, for the present, their enterprize
' and their. hopes.. Many of the inhabitants tneatd
the.firing, the alarm of the bugle, the galloping
of the. Cavalry .ii,rong,,h the streets, •and awaited,
in breathless anxiety, the result.
" A master shoemaker, of Huddersfield,. in re-
spectable credit, and:flourishing business, is .an.:
other of the persons who have _absconded. lie
has been seen in Hamburg!) since-his flight ; and,
it is to be hoped, will repent him, in his wretched
exile, of tine courses which have compelled hint to
fly from those-blessings in this _country which he
'as unworthy to enjoy.-
".In our last we announced the apprehension'
of a roan at Huddersfield, on Friday the 4th in-
stant, by virtue of a warrant from the Secretary:
of State. He torus out to be one of- the Thorn-
hill Lees Delegates, Benjamin Whiteley, of Holm-
firth, cloth-drawer ; and has been in the regular
receipt, for the labour of; himself and his wife, of
not less than about six pounds per week ! ! ! lie
is committed to Salisbury.
" One of the chief Conspirators, now in York
Castle under a charge: of High Treason (whose
name we shall not- fli(ntion,. as the trial for his
life is at hand),..warily avoided engaging personally
in the outrages. He, however, it is said, assisted
actively at all the:meetings for arranging the plan ;.
and has been impeached since the apprehension of
some of his accomplices. On being taken up him-,
'self, he said he.had for many years kept the Law
and the Government at defiance ; and now he was
betrayed to destruction by a set of his o'an block-
heads at last !: "While he was in custody of ihe
Constables wlao..avere pharged convey .es-
corted by.cayalry, to York Castle, he,was placed
in an 'nppe,t WOW, till the horses were got ready;,_
and be 'bad seized the opportunity to attenn4_
self-destruction;• the ..Constables having cut him,:
dcaven, after he had actually stispended himself
from a bedstead in the apartment !
" On the accuracy of the preceding particulars,
the public may rely; as we have carefully exa-:
mined into tine troth of the facts; during tine past
week, on the spot. While there has been so
much falsehood and misrepresentation palmed op-
on_the country, we have mod] being
also able to stale% that after making the most di-
ligent 'inquiry at Huddersfield, we cannot find r.)qt--
any one of the numerous persous apprehended,
has pretended to charge Oliver, or any otter
in-
dividual,. with having sect iced of .entrapped
Not onb, indeed, as tan ,s we can -learnt, -appears
to have even tool any knowledge of thiver's visit
to this district.

" The spirited and highly respe-table Corps of
Huddersfield Yewuinry (100 strong) are above
al praise, for their late and -present p tttiotic ex-
er ions. To them may he all ri bait ed , in ,a great
measure, the safety of their town, and p. reaps of
he surrounding country, to a great extent, from
the moil tearful state of outray. They muster
with an-alacrity that does them honour, by day Cte
by night, and are even yet, in occasional parties,
employed in searching the country;at nights, for
the' insurgents who have absconded: Hudders-
field is now committed to their protection, with
that of two Companies of the 33d Foot, and they
have e+inced a degree of activity 'and Zeal that
must make their townsmen feel at ease as to the
alefence of their property will: persons, from the
turbulent disciples of tliose.fanta,tie, dangerous,
and wicked doctrines, which have already mofe
than once endangered the tranquillity.of the:v(4*
Empire,!'

. . ,
STEAM-BOATS.--The regulations recopnencled
by the Committee of the House cat ComtnotO ap•:.
pointed to consider.of .the means of prevcbtiOg,
the mischief arising from explosion on board
Steam-boats are-as follows

. .
That all steam-packcts carrying- passengers for hire should
be registered at the port nearest the place from or to which
.they proceed;

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That all boilers belonging. to the engines by' whieti such
vessels'shall he worked should be composed of wrought iroa.
or-copper. .

That every boiler on board such steam-packet should, Fre-
Tious to the packet being used..for the conwevance of p:tsseo-
gers, be tnhmitted to the lAspection of a skilful engineer, or
other person convet sant with the subject, who shoidt ase..
tain, by trial, the strength of suckhoiler, and should certify
his opinion of its sufficient stscmgth, and of the se-ltrrity with
which it might be employed to the extent proposed.
That very such boiler should be rrovided with two suffi-
cient safety valves, one of which should !me inaccessible to the s,
vogineman, and the other accessible buttrto hint and to the
persons .on hoard the packet: •

That t he inspectorshall examine such safety valves, and shall
certify what is the pressure at which such safety varti•es shall
open, which pressure shall not exceed' ant-third of that by
which the boiler has been proved, nor one-sixth of that which ,
by calculation it shall be reckoned able to sustain.
That a penalty should be inflicted on any person .placirg.
'additional weight on either.of the safety valves.
•

The child which was carried off from its
Cher last week, whilst walking on beach at'
Budleigh Salterton, has been discovered. It now
appears that one' of the persons ►vho hurried it
away, is its fatber, who has Fur some time beets.
Separated from his wife.

From aue LONDON GAZIct"rE, JulU 15, 1817.

Ey lis Royal Highness the PRINCE of WALts,
Regent of the United Kingdom of 'Great*
Britain and Ireland, in the name anti on the
behalf of his Majesty,
A PROCLAMATION.
•
GEnRGE P. R.—Whereas it bath been repre-
tc:nied unto Us, that. divers misguided persons in
score of the midland enntnies of England, have
of late years committed various acts of (Mirage,.
in breaking and destroying frames used- in making
--vockings, lace, and other articles in the frame.
worked-kniccd metnotactory, and that, among
other instances of such outrages, a most heinom.
one was committed on the night of the 2Sth day
of -June last, at Loughborough, when -a large
number of such frames were broken, and an at-
tempt was made to murder one of the persons ia-
trusted with the cure of them ; and-whereas it
ham been farther represented unto Us, that such
Outrages have for the most part been prompted by
a desire, on the part of the journeymen employed
in the said mannfactoty, to dictate to their mas-
ters the terms on which the manufactory should
be carried on, or the prices at which work should
be dune, which dictation is ntterlv inconsistent
with the principles of justice, and destructive of
the freedom and prosperity of trade.; and: whereas
measures have been taken, by the Wisdom of his
Majesty's Parliament, for repressing, such out-
rrtg'es us future, by increasing the punishment fer
the sante ; and in - the hope that such . measures
Will effectually deter persons from the future coot-
mission or such offences, We are desirous of ex-
tending his Majesty's most gracious pardon to all
those whO have hitherto offended herein, except.
as hereinafter is mentioned': We have therefore
thought fit, by and with the advice of his Ma-
jesty's Privy Council, to issue this Proclamation,
and in the name and ou the, behalf of his Ma-
jesty, We do hereby promise and declare, that
every person who bath committed any offence
against the form of the Statute made in the 54th
year of his Majesty's reign, for. the punishment of
persons destroying stocking or lace frames, but
bath not yet been charged therewith, and who
shall, previous to the first day of September next
ensuing, appear before some Justice of the Peace
or Magistrate, and declare such his offence, and
when, where, and by whome the same was com-
mitted, shall receive his Majesty's must gracious
pardon for such offence ; and that no confes-
sion so made by any such person shall be
given in evidence in any Court. or its any case
whatever ; provided, nevertheless, that nothing
herein contained shall extend to the offence 'so
committed at Loughborough as aforesaid, nor to
any other offence, except such as may have been
committed contrary to the said statute made in the
54th year aforesaid.

At the .Court at Carlton.flouse, the 13th of JOly, 1917,
Pieseot—His Royal Highness the PRINCE RECENT in Guuncil.

Whereas by an Act, passed in the last Session
of Parliament, cap. 57, mtituled "-An Act to em-
power His Majesty to suspend training, and to
regulate the quotas of the militia," is is enacted,
that it shall be lawful for His Majesty, by any
Order or Orders in Council, to suspend the
calling out of the militia of the United King-
dom, or any part of the United Kingdom, or of
any county, riding, shire, stewartry, city, town,
or place, for the purpose of twin; trained and ex-
ercised in any year, and to order and- direct that
no training or exercising of the militia of the
United Ki►sgdom, or any county or counties, rid-
log or ridings, shire or shires, stewarty or stewar7
tries, city or cities, town or towns, or place, or
places, specified in any such Order or Orders in
Council, shall take place in any year, any thing
contained in any ACt or Acts of Parliament relat-
iug to the militia, to the cont►y notwithstanding :
And .whereas it is deemed expedient that such
training and exercising should be dispensed with
in the present year; it is ordered by His Royal
i.lighness the Ptince Regent, in the name,and on
the behalf of His Majesty, and by and with the
rtilcice of His Majesty's Privy Council, that the
calling out of the militia of that part of the United
Kingdom called Great Britain, for the purpose of
being trained and exercised in the present year,
be suspended, and that no training or exercising
of the said militia do take place in the present year.
CH ETWYND.
Given at the Court at Carlton-house, the 15th day of July,
1517, in the 57th year of his Majesty's reign.
God save the King.

Carllox-Housc, Jul,/ 14, 1817.

. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased,
in ,the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, to appoint
Major. General Sir Benjamin Bloomfield to be Keeper of the
Privy Parse and Private Secretary to his Royal Highness, in
the morn of the Right Honourable Joh►t M‘Malion, who
has prayed his Royal Highness's permission to retire from
those situations, on account of ill health.

Commission in the West Kent Regiment of Militia, signed by
the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Kent.
dearge Charles Earl of Brecknock to be Captain, vice Croft,
resigned.
CounniSSion in the Bloxhain and Banbury Squadron of Ox-
fordshne Yeomanry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the
County of Oxford.
The Honourable FrOcrich Sylvester North Douglas to be
Captain.
[For the Bankrupts, &c. see the Last Page.]

The following trait, so honourable to the King
of DENMARK, deserves to be made as public as
possible :—The Danish frigate Minerva sailed from
the Downs on the 7th of May last, with a pilot on
board, to conduct her f hrougli the Channel. Dur-
ing the night, while sailing at the rate of seven or
eight knots an hour, in foggy weather, she unfor-
tunately ran dow_n a fishing Smack ‘vhich was lying
at anchor : but nut having, any light on board,
Was not seen till too late. One man Was saved,
the other man and two boys were unfot tunately
drowned. As soon as his ftinish Majesty was in-
formed of this melancholy accident, he ordered
2G IL to he paid to Mr. Wm. norm ms, of Wool-
who acknowledges that he is thereby fully
and liberally indemnified. JOHN SUTTON, the OHO
Who was saved, has also received twenty -guineas
16r the loss'of his clothes ; and his Majesty has
also expre.sed laic intention of being useful to the
child of the tuatt who was unfortunately drowned.