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of such a plan may appear, it yet was deliberately
premeditated by desperate men, who calculated
N is nout reasonable ground urn, defection in their
opposers, and upon active support from those mill-,
thud( s, whose distress they bad witnessed, and
svitont they had vainly instigated to revolt. That
consequently it-was not merely the sudden ebullition
of the moment, or'the unauthorized attempt of any
uneoulteeted indvidnal.

Your Committee are further convinced, that
notwithstanding the failure on the 21 of Decem-
'her, the same design;: still Continue to be prose-
cuted with sanguine hopes of success.
Your.Cornmittee having thus stated the general
result of the evrdeuee which has been laid before
them, respecting the state of the Metropolis, have
now the no less painful duty of calling the atten.
tiati,of the,Flouse to what has been passing- dur-
ing_the same period in different •parts of the coun-
try, a criject.of equally momentous consider/I.
tion. The &it thing .which has here forced itseil
upon their observatioo, is :the widely diffused ra-
. mificatimi of system of :14'hibs, associated pro-
fessedly for the piwpose.of:Parliamentary Reform,
upon the most extended principle of universa
suffrage and animal Parliaments. These Clubs in
general designate themselves by the Sallie nom*: 01
aimptlen Clubs. On the professed object of their
iostitotiotr, they appear to be in communication
and connection with the Club of that lialbe in
London.
It appears to be part of, the system of these
Chili's, to promote an extension of Clubs of the
same-stain* and nature, so widely as, if possible,
to include every Villagc,in the kingdom. The
tlg• members ere. active„ in the circulation of
pithiteations likely to volume their object. re.
titions, ready prepared, have been sent down from
• the Metropolis to all Societies in the country dis
posed to receive them. The communication be•
tween these Clubs takes place by the mission o
Delegates; Delegates from these Clubs in iht
country, have assembled in London, and are ex-
pected to assemble again early in Marco. What-
ever may be the real object of these Clubs in ge-
Hera!, your Committee lieve no hesitation in stit-
log, from infoa matinee au which they place full
reliance, that hi far the greater number of them,
and particularly in dime which 'are established in
the great mamilacturing districts of Lancashire,
Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, and Derbyshire,
and which are composed of the luster order of
artizans, nothing short of a Revolution is the ob-
ject expected and avowed.
Your Committee find, trout equally undoubted
information, that the doctrines of the Speneean
Clubs have been widely diffused through the
Coontry, either by the extension of similar Socie-
ties, or more frequently by the intervention of
Missionaries or Delegates, whose business it is to
propagate thrvic doctrines throughout every So-
ciety to which they have acee,s : „ It is the utii-
versal practice of these Societies, to require from
the members a small weekly subscription, which
provid,,s a land fur the expenees Of these Mission-
Aries, and also for the purchase of aeditirms tracts,
which are rend sod commented on at their meet-
ings. Some of these insets, now before your
Committee, inculcate in the most artful manner,
the necessity of overturning what they call " The
Psis ilegetl Class ,"us distinguished from the People,
who are described as consisting of labourers, arti-
zans, tradesmen, and every profession useful to
society.
A new Order is declared to be the will of the
people Rebellion is justified by the assertion that
a nation cannot he a rebel ; and all religions is
disavowed, w:;I us loyalty, by the assertion, in
ails wer,,to the question, 'lf Would you live " thOlit
Gods or Ititirgs?"—" We abjure tyranny of every
kind."

It seems, indeed, to be a part of the system
adopted by t!lese Societies, to prepare the minds
of the people tor the destruction Of the present
frame of Society, by undermining not only their
habits of decent and regular subordination, but
nil the prioCiples of morality and religion. Your
Commicee tint!, that there it scarcely any very
numerous, Society, in the parts above referred to,
t/f t 1 hose proceedings they have obtained ern ac.
coon', in which home of the leading Speakers do
not openly avow the most seditious opinions, and
do not excite their hearers to be prepared for
ac.ital Insurrection. Topics for discussion ere
selected with this view : amongst others, the 4plett.
lion, Whether the Jacobin or the Loyalist was the
hest frlend to his country ? Even where petition-
ing is recommended, it is proposed to be con-
ducted in such a manner, by an immense number
of delegates attending in London at the same time,
in several parties attached to each petition, us might
iodate an effort to obtain by force whatever they
demanded. A general idea seems prevalent among
those who compose these Societies, that some
fixed- day, at no very great distance, is to,,,ht.spo,
pointed for a general rising. They have been
taught to look to the Meetings in LOINIOII as the
signal for their operations, and have been in the
habit of adjourning their own assemblies simulta-
neously to the same day, t and it is a lamentable
instatice of the common intere“ wllicb they feel,
it mu Of the connection which is formed with
those most implicated in-the outrages committed
in the Nitt-molls, that about Manchester and
spine other places, the • greatest exultation. was
manifested previous to the meeting in Spa-fields
on the 1 of Deceniber ; and the taking of the
Tower and The ruin of the Bank were publicly
and confideutly predicted. The news or the
re-
stilt was impatiently evected, the roads were
crust (fed during the night With a muriber of pep
ton.s, snail of them delegates from the ilitFerent
Societies iu the country, waiting for the arrkal 01
the mail c0411:14 ; stgd the dialappointment.was not
concealed, when it was ascertained that the riot
hail hi en quelled without much serious or exten.
sine mischief

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It siyear3, that the eurtfi4lenee of the disaffected
is ,0401, that they reptvictil t tie numbers enrolled us
ottliptalitittg to aieverhi howieed thottiand, awl that
their Stociticti nre daily nteteasing ; That in finis
list 3 they distingoi,h hy particular marks those
ittbohii, their atthseribers whi; are able-bodied men
and ready to act when end that they
itctli a lilt of those who refuse to join them

vengeance against these persons when the general
insurrection shall take place. In some parts of
one populous colony, where. nearly every village
has already its Hampden Club, the members
-make it-no secret that they consider themselves as
of no other Lists than as being ready to act when-
ever they are called upon ; on their admission they
are said to be listed, and receive a secret card
with the words " be ready, be steady."
The habits and manners of thette persons seem
entirely changed ; they already calculate upon the
share of land which each is to possess, and point
out the destruction of the churches, as the neces-
sary consequence of their success. It appears
that preparations are in progress; in several
places, for providing arms ; the demand upon
gunsmiths, for every species of fire'arms, has been
beyond all former example ; the intention is pro-
fessed, of having recourse for a still larger supply
to those towns where arms .are ininsufactured,
and where they are to be obtained at a very low
rate, from, the general cheapness of labour at this
time ; or in case of necessity they are to be seized
by force. The facility of converting implements
of husbandry into offensive weapons, has been
suggested ; and persons have been sent to observe
the state of particular -places, where deptits of
arms for the public service were, supposed to have
been formed.
Your Committee find, that a system of secret
association has been extended to the manufactur-
ing population of Glasgow, and some other po-
pulous towns of Scotland ; and although these
Societies have availed themselves of the same
pretext, of Parliamentary Reform on the broadest
basis, your Committee are firmly persuaded, from
the information which has been laid before them,
that their ultimate object is the overthrow by force
of the existing form of Government. That the
time for attempting this enterprize was to depend
in the simultaneous rising of the dissffected in
England ; with some emissaries from whow occa-
siooal intercourse appears to have taken place,
and that some provision of weapons has been made
by this association.
Yolir Committee have now submitted. to the
HoutE, what they conceive to nc a fair, and nol
exaggerated statement of the result of their in.
ves lg., They it aver hought themselves pre-
eluded front inserting, in an Appendix, the infor-
-111011011 from which it is drawn, by the considera-
tine, that unless it were extremely partial and
Incomplete, they could not make it public with-
out hazarding the personal safety of many useful
and respectable individuals, and in some instances
without prejudicing the due administration of
piiblicjustiee.
Oto a review of the whole, it is a great satisfac-
tion to your Committee to observe, that, mint-
withstanding the el/trilling progress ,which has
been made in the system of extending Disaffuction
and secret Societies, its SUCCCSS has been confined
to the principal manufacturing districts, where the
distress is more prevalent, and numbers more
easily collected ; and that even in many of these
districts,- privations have been borne with exem-
plary patience and resignation, and the attempts
of the Disaffeeitd hay,. been disappointed ; that
few if any of the higher orders or even of the
middle class of society, and scarcely any of the
agricultural population, have lent themselves to
the more violent ,of these projects. Great allow-
ance (rust he suede for those who, under the
pressure of urgent distress,hrive been led to listen
to plausible and confident Deinagogoes, in the
expectation of immediate relief. It is to be hoped,
that many of those wro have engaged, to a cer-
tain extent, in the ptojects of the disaffected, but
in whom the pri.eiples of moral and religious
dilly have riot been extinguished or perverted by
the most prolare and miserable sophistry, would
withdraw themselves before those projects were
Joshed to actual insurrection.
But, with all these allowances,, yonr Commit-
ce cannot contemplate the activity and arts of
the leaders in this conspiracy, and the numbers
whom they have already solaced, and may seduce ;
the oaths by which many of them are boom! to-
gether; the means suggested and prepared for
the forcible attainment of their objects ; the na-
ture of the objects themselves, whielt are not only
the overthrow of all the political institutions or
the kingdom, but also such a subversion of the
rights and principles of property, as must neces
sadly lead to general confusion, phonier, ani
bloodshed ; without submitting, to the mos
serious atteetiou of the !louse, the diingos whirl
exist, anti which the utmost vigilance of Govern.
ment, tinder the existing laws, has been found in,
adviriate to prevent.
February IN IFII7.

TI E MA RK EIS.

CORN-EXCIIA NOE, FED. 21.—Wc teal no .fgesb
Arrivals this morning, consequently real Fine
Wbeat and Oats sold at Monday's prices, but or-
dinary is still very dull ; Fine Malting Barley had
a rather better sale ; Molt is very dull ; in Pease
and Beans there arc no alteration.
Foreign Wheat

- Ns.
100 i. 1/44.
%%eat rois. 704.
-
711 s. 120%.
4Gs.
643. —.A.
Vth. 40s.
564•

ti6s. 70s.

ditto - -80 s. Bi3s.
'ePrage f.boiltrs)67s.

7t4. 7ts
12s, 505

Fine Ore)* /Yule • 51s. ws,
Tick Beaus - 2Fis. 345,
Old ditto • - • b-is, 118..
"tic 066.
Attu -60 s. 725.
Fred 0;43 -14 s. 'Qs.
Finedittit ail.
ridallti dint) - r flOs. 21s.
Fine ditto - - atis, Ch.
l'otatoe ditto - 434.505.
Old ditto - •••11.
Wipe Seed, W 1.541. per last
Fine Flimr -100 s. lOb.
Seconds 11.55. lOUs.

Snrritrtstn, Feu. 9 .--Thii day's Nudist had not o gaud
supply of the different of cattle; pork supporta ,last
price, Littl, Mutton mid Ye-:l are cheaper, and the trade for

the most part was sonierthat dull. Tlie sale.. in the Hay-
market were not lively: Straw obtained last pike, Finland
Cliortr hOer fallen in priers

"I:tie fullowittr Prices and Netzthers are a correct statement:
the Offal, per stone of it
neer:l/L.ld. to U. 4d. Mutton, 8.1, to ds. Gil. Veal,
44. Oit. to lig. [M. Pork, 3s. )0.1. to •ii, od.
Heastt, eiso. Sheep, 2700. tatve,i, I.lto, Pigs, 270.
tr,4„ to fit. eis. 11. I.ls. to
21, rd, 4!. tc,i, to t;l.o*,

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