The Sun.
London, England, 1820-04-11 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

The following is an extract from the Leeds in-
telligencer of yesterday, a paper always marked
by good information and sound principles. The
Mercury, to which it refers, is a Journal of so
different a description, that it is well for the town
that the former paper exists to counteraas the
radical tendency of the latter. But if the Mer-
cury gives such an account of the intention of the
Radicals, there can be little reason io doubts its
correctness, at►tl it is therefore rather surprising
that a Radical Journal should so openly have de-
veloped that intention.
" We last week communicated to our readers,
the alarming intelligence relative to the designs
of the disaffected in the neighboui hood of Hud-
dersfield. Several of the London Editors have
insinuated, that, although there might be some
ground for the suspicions of the Magistrates, yet,
that the greatest part of our narrative must be
fictions. We, ho‘s ever, can inform these gentle-
men, who would scout alt idea of danger till it
has entered our very houses, that instead of ex-
aggerating, we under-rated, the extent of the
contetnl►lated initniection, and the consequent
alarm ; and that every subsequent account has
more than ennui wed our previous statements.
We would refer those who are inclined to suspect
the truth of our narrative, and to question the
existence of a disposition to rebellion and outrage,
to the Mercury of Saturday last. They will there
find a detaile4: plan of operations, by which the
town of Huddersfield was to be approached on the

North, West, East, and South sides ; and (says
the Editor),— •
" Having thus strrounded the town, all the parties were
" to advance at the same moment, and while one division
" captured the horse barracks, and secured the cavalry, an-
" other was to take possession of the barracks occupied by
" the infantry, who were also to be secured : the Civil Au-
" thorities were at the same moment to be made prisoners,
" and the principal inhabitants of the town confined to their
" dwellings by the new Provisional Government. This
" desperate project, wicked and visionary as it may appear,
" was undoubtedly formed, and the capture of Huddersfield,
" with the stoppage of the coaches, usually passing through
" that place, were to form the signals for the general
" rising!"
" We think the above roost convince the most
sceptical, as to the actual existence of a conspi‘
racy of a very atrocious nature ; a conspiracy
which, but for the vigilance of the Magistrates,
would have involved in ruin and misery a popu-
lous town, and perhaps occasioned the loss of
thousands of lives ! Nor was it in Huddersfield
alone that the vuemies of social order, and of the
Constitution, were at work. Our accounts from
.Scotland state, that a sicnilltaneous risinz was ex-
pected it, the vicinity of Glasgow, io which town
(anti also in Paisley and the neighbouring villages)
time wolkintim left their employ, at the command
of an anonymous incendiary, declaring they
not return till their grievances were redressed.—
These towns wete kept it) a state of alarm for
three or four days ; and we have details to lay be-
fore our Readers, which will prove that those
alarms were not groundless."

THEATRICAL ItEGISTE It.
Performed Last Night.
TO FA IRE ROYAL, DRUIIY-LANE.—WiId Oats: Rover, Mr.
-Lady Amaranth, Mrs. W. WeA. After which,
Shalispeare Visrslis Harlequin.
TurATrle .:11rival„ CovENT-GartnEN.—nniflCO and Juliet:
It'itneo, Mr. C. Kemble; Juliet, Miss S. Muth. After
which, Harlequin and Cinderella.