The Sun.
London, England, 1818-02-27 00:00:00

INDEMNI'T'Y BILL.

A 'Btu., intituled 'an Act fOr. ludemnifying Per.
sans sans who, sine✓ the ,first day of January, one
thousand eight hundred and seventeen, have
acted in apprehending, imprisoning, ott.detain,
ing in custody Persons suspected of High Trea-
son or Treasonable Practices, arid in the Sup-
pression of Tumultuous and Unlawful Assem-
blies.

XVlteicas a traitorous conspiracy was formed

Ifor the purpose of overthrowing, by means of a
gene•ral insurrection, the established Government,
Laws, and Constitution of. this,kisigdom : snd
whereas divers persons
.have tomuiruously, no-
lawfully, and in a disorderly wanner, assembled
together under Pretence or for the purpose of pro-
ceeding to London in s'tch numbers as-greatly to
disturb and endanger the public peace and tran-
Trillity, and to cause terror and intimidation in
the minds of his Majesty's loyal and peaceable
subjects : and whereas, in order to secure the in-
ternal peace and tranquillity of the country, and
to counteract such traitorous conspiracy, .it has
been deemed necessary, since the Ist of January,
1817, from time to time to apprehend, 'commit.,
intprisoo, and detain in custody divers persona
suspected of high treason or treasonable prac-
tices, and to seize the papers of divers such per-
sons, and also to di,perse the persons so tu-
multuously, unlawfully, and in a- disorderly
mariner assembled together as aforesaid,- and
to apprehend, commit, and detain in custody
divers of such last mentioned persons, anti
to search the houses of divers persons for
arms and other offensive weapons concealed, or
suspected to he concealed therein ; and trhereas
in case the acts and proceeding of the severstl per-
•sons concerned or employed in such apprehending,
commit tins , imprisoning, and detaining in custody,
and dispersing- and seizing and searching as afore-
said should be called in question, it may be im-
possible for them to justify or defend the same
without an open disclosure of the information
given, and the means by which the said traitOrous
designs and unlawful put poses were discovered;
and it 13 necessary for the safety and protect inn
of the persons by whose information and means
the same have been discovered, and for the future
prevention of similar practices, that such in-
formation and means should remain sect et and
undisclosed i be it therefore enacted by the
King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with
the advice and consent of the Lords Spirit-
ual and Temporal, and Commons, in this pre-
sent Parliament assembled, and by the autho-
rity of the smite, 'fiat all personal actions, snits,-
indictments, andprosecutions, heretofore brought,
commenced, preferred, or exhibited, or now de-
pending or to be hereafter brought, commenced,
preferred, or exhibited, and all judgments there-
upon obtained, if any such there be,• and all pro-
ceedings whatsoever against any person or persons-
for or Oil account of any act, matter, or thing by
him or them •done,- or commanded, ordered, di-
rected, or advised to besione,' since the fir4it day
of January 1817, for apprehending, committing,
linprisoning, detaining in custody, or dis-
chatging any, person or persons who bath or.
haVe been imprisoned nr detained in custody
tor high treason, or. -suspicion of high trea-
son or treasonable practices, or for apprehend-
ing, committing, imprisoning, or detaining in
custody airy person' or persons who have been
imps isoned or detained in custody for having been
so tunothuonsly, unlawfully, and in a•disorderly
insinser assembled as aforesaid, or for dispersing
any persons so assembled as aforesaid, or for
seizing the papers of any such person or persons,
or for scathing houses for arms and other offer-'
sive weapons as aforesaid, shall, be discharged and
made void ; and that every person by whom any
such act, matter, or thing shall have been dune,
or commanded, ordered, directed, or advised to
he clone, shall be freed, acquitted, discharged, and
indemnified, as well against the King's Majesty,
his Heirs, Successors, as against the person and
persons so apprehended, committed, imprisotted,
or detained in custody, discharged, or dispersed,
and all and every other person and persons whom-
soever.

. And be it further enacted, that if an action or
suit hath been or shall be brought, cotnntc•nced,
or had in a►►y court of those parts of the United
Kingdom called England and Ireland, against any
person or persons for or on account of any such
act, matter, or thing as aforesaid, he and they may
plead the general issue, and give this act and the
special matter in evidence ; and if the plaintiff Or
plaintiffs shall become nonsuit, or forbear further
prosecution, 6r stiffer discontinuance ►n any site'►
action or suit, or- if a verdict shall pas's-Against
the plaintiff or plaintiffs therein, the clefen►dant or
cdefe►;dauts shall have and be entitled ,to double
costs, fur which he they shall have the like
remedy S. other eases in which costs by law are
given to defendants; and if ally, such action or
suit bath been or shall be brought, commenced, or
had in any Court within that part of Great Britain
callvd Scotland, the Court bc.fore whom or in
which sue!► action or suit-shall be, brought, com-
menced, or had, or shall be ►depending, shall allow
to the defender or defenders therein, the benefit
of the discharge and indemnity herein before pro-
vided, ar►d shall further decern the pursuer or pur-
suers to pay the defender or defenders the full
and real expellees which he or they shall be put
to by such action or snit.

And be it further enacted, that if any action,
suit, indictment, information, prosecution, or pro-
ceeding bath been or shall he brought, comineoc-
ed, preferred, exhibited, or had in any. Court,
against any person or persons for or oil account
of any such act, matter, or thing as aforesaid, it
shall be lawful for the defetlant or defendants,
defender or defenders, in any such action,- suit,
indictment, information, prosecution, or proceed-,
Mg, or for any of them, to apply by motion, peti-
tion, Or otherwise, in a summary way; to the Court
in which the same bath been or shall be brought,
commenced, preferred; exhibited, or had, or shall
he depending, if such Court shall be sitting,
.and
if not sitting, then to any hue of the Judges or
Justices of such Court, to stay *ll (tiro er. pro 7
ceedings iu such aCtiOU, suit, indictment, i.ufOraka.

THE SUN.

soLENI QUIS DI C ltF; Fit U :%1 A 11-I)—EAT ?

- LONDON,
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1818.

We regret to observe, that our Port Letters of
this day contain further accounts of damage done
by the butricane,

IVe are again without any arrival of Paris Pa-
pers. Three days' Journals are due.

This morning we received Halifax Papers to the
18th of January. They contain no news of any

imporanct.

The General Assembly had been prorogued, by
a Proclamation of the Earl of DALnousta; from
the 21st January to the sth February, in conse-
quence of the intelligence arriving of the death of
her Royal Highness the Princess CHARLOTTE.
A Public Notice had been issued from the.Seer-
tary's Office, calling upon his Majesty's Loyal
Subjects in that Province to put themselves in
decent mourning ; the Court. mourning was to
commence on Sunday the 18th.
The Levee that was to have been held at the
Government House,' on the Anniversary of the
QUEEN'S 'Birth-day kept,; had, by au order from
the Governor, been postponed.

" Ministers (says The ;Morning Chronicle of
this day) are accused of having grosly abusel
the authority confiled in them under the Snsp.en-
sion Act." True, they are 'so accused but by
whom ? The Abettors of Faction and the Po:
menters of Sedition !—Rat it is added, that they
are" sitting in jndglnent upon,themselves.'"rhis
the. Writer knows to be an absolute falsehood.
The SECREt COMMITTEES of both Houses con-
sist of Members in which there is a mixture
of Parties, and they are, on the whole, fed
as likely to decide upOn conscientious conviction,
as the Opposition are to vility their proceedings,
and to impeach their decision. Is it to be stip•
posed, as Opposition Members form a part of the
Committees of both Houses, that they will not be
full as vigilant, in thefr'examinatious of the (loci,-
Meatiipbmitted ter them, and as SC I tip tions in
their decision thaw, as any of th-e Party

coliM possiMy be, t'brY wife 'to
concerned in the investigation 13-esitleS„-everi
Member of each Contniittee is known to the Pub"
lic. their oven conduct is snhinitted to the great
tribunal of the 14inpiie ; Vlc:y Lave O ttracter
tti.p'reserve in the estimation of their. Couutryi
and it is not likely that they would concur in an
Report that %vat not amply juitified by' the evidence;
of facts, and be impressed bythe awful conseritiettees
likely to have resulted from those facts, if the evil
had not been. checked in due tinie by the vigilance
Anil firmness ',f Goveruthent, and the active zeal
and cautious moderation of the local Magistrate,
Whose names ate also well known to the commu;
nity at large. The grounds of the invcstigatiOn
of the Secret Committees are also as " public as
.
the noon-day sun," and none of the artifices and
falsehoods of faction have been able to discolour .
or obscure them. Such is the formation of the
Committees, such the real state of facts, and suph
the documents submitted to their inspection.
On One side; therefore, we see a wise and
vigilant GovernMent, which, by a timely and
vigorous interposition, saved the Country from
anarchy, and bloodshed. perhaps general massacre
and ruin. On the other side we see a band of
seditious scribblers, Who have no character to lose,
and who, from the despicable impulse of a base-
ambition and venality, fill the columns of a polluted
Press, every d.ay; with incentives W sedition and
rebellion, calculated to delude the refuse di So-
ciety, and to induce item to attempt the total
overthrow of our unrivalled and
siastieal Establishment ! !

SUPPRESSMN OF Alfrolotorrv.—Ori perusitt
the Report of the Meeting of This truly henevoler.o
Society, which we inserted yesterdty,.eml which
was taken from a Morning Paper, we find that
did not contain those effusions of party turbulence
and malignity to which we had referred in a lead
ing paragraph, concfuding that, as they had
ap-
peared in most accounts of the meeting, they
were also in that which we had extracted. O►t
reflection, however, we do not regret the omis-
Sion, as our readers could feel little gratification,
but would rather have felt disgust, in seeing any'
polluting mixture of factious rancour and hack--

neyrd declamation, in the Report of a meeting'
that does honour to the Society which am.tembled
on so-Jautlable an occasion, and which, we douV
he attended with consrcluEnces
I:.enciicial_to the community.

T:IF. PITT CLUII.—A .general and numerovt;
v. !or tine 'eiectiom
we'2ting of this excellent Institution was .brick
ytsierdmy II:, Albion Tacrn,
of Members- and other affairs, when ae Right
Hon. RouFAIT Petri Wei ek[led
of the Club; its the PL:ce ofthe I,,te Right Hon.
GEORGE ROSE, deCeaSel. Several Gemlemutt
were b3lioted for, and admitted Arembers, a.rrd
many, others were proposed for election at Ih:a
next general ineeting. S. R. LusruNGToti,
M. P. WaS in the Chair at the dinner. UpwatiO
of eighty Members w' ete present ; and in ti.t%
course of the evening Mr. flaw us, -Mr. 'f
ER.
Mr. MOLYSEUX, and other proiessiona!
sting several beantiful glees awl songs; and ainpir
32 o'clock the party retired, highly gratified with
their afternoon's entertainment.

By the Royal Marria.4e Act two modes arc pro-
virled by which ate Princes of the Blood nosy
marry By the KING'S-previous
by and with the consent of his Pt ivy Connell',
and conseqUently, by the -same authority, in. the
name 'arr.l on behalf. of, his MAJESTY, by the
PeaNce REGENT. 2. By. the Prince intendint. to
marry, if be shall have attained the full ate of 2.6
years, entering on the books 'of the Privy. Court'
cil such his intention, sp.ecifying the person',
which 'notice shall antholi.,e the union, tuiles4
both Houses of Parliament shall, before the ex-
piration of twelve months from the date of such
entry, expressly declare their disapprobatiOn of
such intended marriage.
The Duke of DavomsnraE, according to report,
is about to proceed to the Continent on account.
of indi,position ; other reports, on which. kv6
more tell, state, that his Grace is on the eve of
entering into the pale of matrimony.
CoR-ExcHANGE, FEB. 27.—We bail 8 feces
"Al rivals this morning, ant) the few sae
made to needy buy.rs, in 141 eat and Oats, were
at Monday's pikes; but as we are Mill waiting
for supplies, there is so little business doing, the
pri, es are little more than nominal. .
Ron Roy.--Dramatic Pieces from' this popular
Romance are ptePariitocat both 'Theatres. It i4probable that Mr. 'IRE ay, who introduced Gag
Monneritig on the Stage, is prcpating the new
Drama at Covent-garden. The Opera, founded
forthcoming at Drury-bane,
on the same Novel,
attributed to a Geutleman of great celebrity
the•!itcrary world for learning and poetical la-
!ents. The music is said to be preparing by Mr.
T. COOK F.
The Memorial to the Lord Lieutenant of
land, for the opening of a second Tb ea tre in Dub-
lin, has already recei‘e'l the signatures of sqverat
hamireds of the residents of that capital.

The bcnefi,s at the :Bath 'lheatre have this sea-
son
41)1.,,ved that, USIIHIIy. productive to tl,q
Pejt(irttiers, ‘vhilit those at liristol have 1410.

The Falls of Ihe Clyde, and The C'ulder c f -Pres;
tot:, t) re amongst the novehivs pi ep:-.1.10g tit
Hie Dublin Theatre. hi the foil
Kitt.LY to resume the character of the lueroitte,
which she performed at the Dtitry-lane Theatt-e.
Twctoy7three angels aid crown's of gold, in
.good presercatioa, coined is reign 1-I'rsic:v.
the Eighth, Were lately dug tIF in a
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