The Sun.
London, England, 1818-02-25 00:00:00

rest of tlpe per:ou', inclip,fej
fled from justice, and have not yet been taken.

Prom the evidence given at the trials at Derby, it appeared
that the Derbyshire Insurgents had expected a considerable
reinforcement from this part of Yorkshire, 'believing that a
i general rising.would take place at the time to be fixed for
I that purpose; and 'it appears likewise, that in Yorkshire, as
well as in all the other districts where these designs were
carrying on, great reliance has uniformly been placed upon
the hope of powerful support and'co-operation from London,
bowevor erroneous such an expectation may have been, with
respect to the extent to which it was supposed to have existed
The Committee have the satisfaction of delivering it as
their decided opinion, that not only in the country in general,
but in those districts where the desiglis of the disaffected
were most actively and unremittingly pursued, the great body
.7f the people have remained untainted even during the pe-
riods of the greatest internal difficulty and distress.
The arrests and trials- which have taken place, and the de-
I ielopement of the designs of the leaders ~f the disrtffeard,
together with the continued act city anit vigilance of the
Magistrates and of the Government, must have had the salts-
tary effect of checking the progress of disaffection, where it
existed; and, the improved state of the country, and the in-
creased employment now afforded to the labouring classes,'
have contributed to render those WhO were most open to se-
duction, less disposed to embrace the desperate measures
which the pressure of distress might have led theM to hazard.
Some of the persons engaged in these projects, particularly
in London, are still active, and appear determined to perse-
vere, though with decreasing numbers and resources. It ap-
pears, therefore, to the Committee' that the continued vigi-
lance of Government, and of the Magistrates in the several
districts which have been !post disturbed, will be necessary.

Having thus taken a view of the state of the Country in the
disturbed districts; from the Feriod descril)cd in the Report
made to the House towards the close of the last Session
of Parliament, the Committee .have proceeded to examine
such of the papers referred to them as relate to the arrests
of several persons under warrants issued by one of his Ma-
jesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and the detention of se-
veral of the persons so arrested under the authority of two
Acts passed in the last Session of Parli sment, to empower his
Majesty to secure and detai❑ such persons as his Majesty shkta
suspect are conspiring against his Person and Government.

With r,!!„Yeet to those against whom bills of indictment
were found by the different Grand juries, and those who
have been brought to trial or !twee fled from justice, the
Committee conceive that it is unnecessary for them to. make
any particular statement. Warrants- were issued by the
Secretary of State against ten persons who have not been
tal.en. Forty-four persons appear to have been arrest-
ed under warrants of the Secretary of State, on suspicion of
High Treasonovhci have not been brought to trial; of these,
seven were discharged on examination, without any subse-
quent warrant of detention. Against 37, warrants of de-
tention, on suspicion of High Treason, *ere issued by the
Secretary of State ; but one, who was finally committed;
MO %sum after released ;, another was soon discharged on
account of illness ; and a third ,died in prison. The
grounds upon which those warrants were issued have been
asserally exantined by the Committee; on that exaiyaination it
has appeared to the Committee, that all these arrests and de_! tendons have been fully justified by the various circumstances
under which they have taken place; and in no case does any
' warrant of detention appear to,have been issued except in
consequence of infpqnuiun upon oath.
It appears to the Committee, that all the persons who were
so arrested, and detained, and *lto were not prosecuted, have
been at different times discharged, as the slate of the country,
and the circumstances attending the several trials which had
taken place, were judged to permit.
The Committee mider4tand that, tip to a certain period,
expectations were entertained of being able to bring to trial a
large proportion of the persons so arrested and detained, hu
that these expectations have from time to time beet) unavoid•
ably reliuquished.

bo the whole, therefnre, it has appeared to the
Committee, that the Goverument, iu (he esPecti-
thin of the powers vested in-"it by the two. Acts
before mentioned, has acted with due discretion
and moderation"; and as far as appears to the Com-
mitte, the Magistrates in the several disturbed
districts have by their activity and vigilance, coil-
:ributed materially to the preservation of the pub-
lic peace.

The Tragedy of THE APPEAL, which, to the
credit of the taste of the .Manager at Edinburgh,
has been represented, and very successfully, in
that• City, was written by 1111% GALT,• who has
sliewn great dramatic powers in several other corn-
positions If .our London Managers had qua/
taste they would long siuce have brought forward
this work, and others, from the same author, as
they hare been published wine time. - •

The fact of this actual insurrection first proved to the sa--
tisfattion of a most retpectable Grand .fury of the County of
Derby, who found the hill of indictment, and afterwards
proved in open Court, to the satisfaction of the several
Juries ss,vorn on the four several trials of the persons ceir-
sicted; proved also by the acknowledgment of the same
by these who withdrew their pleas dt Not Guilty and pleaded
Guilty to the indictment, and. thus snbrnitted theinsciveS to
the mercy eilhe ceewe,—eppear to the Committee to !ewe
established. beyond the possibility of a doubt, the credit due'
to the information mentioned in the last Itepart, respecting
the plans of more extended insurrection, Which had pre-
viously been concerted, and resm,eting the postponement of
these plans to the -9th'sr 10th of 11Ese.
Eut this insurrection is Derbyshire was not the only cir-
turns:lan& occurring, sin; the period described in the last of
ttiestwo-Reports before mentioned, which demonstrates the
correctness. of the information on which the Committee who
of ide the. Report proceeded, in representing such a general
rising to have beets letended, and to have been postponed;
and that Nottingham wes the head-quarters upon which a
part 'of- the insurgents were to marclein-the first inStaece ;
and that t hey were expected to be joined, there by insurgents
Irony.-different qtlarters.
Early in the some night on which the Derbyshire insnr-
gents began /heir operations, the town of Nottingham was
in a state est.censiderable agitation. It appears from the evi-
dence given upon the trials at Derby, that during the .march
of the Derbyshire insurgents towards Nottingham, one of
their leaders, afterwards convicted- of High Treason, was
seat forwards on horseback to obtain intelligence. On his
•rettern to the main body of the DerbyStire insurgents, it was
pretended that the state of Nottingham waS favourable to
their designs; the actual state of Nottingham and its neigh-
heurhood appears. from the evidence givers on lite trials at
Derby. In the night of the 9th of" Julie, some persons,
to tre In number about one hundred, had assembled
otr this Rucc COlirse in Nottingham Forest, where the Der-
byeliire insuirgOits, according to their original plan, were
to have arrived at an early hour on .the morning of the lOth,
,and expected to he joined
.by such a party. This party Was
seen about twelve at night; they were drawn up io line, two
jeep, and a part of them armed with pikes or poles. They re-
mained assembled on the Race-ground until-past two o'clock
iuthe morning, about which time they dispersed. Some ap-
pearances of disturbance in the town of Nottingham early in
the night of the Sth, induced the Magistrates to send for a
military force from the barracks; and order brine: quickly
restored, the military returned tolheir barracks ; and were
not again called out until the morning of the loth, when
they were required to assist in dispersing the Derbyshire in-
surgents, who were then on their march. •
Connected with these disturbances" in Derbyshire and Not-
tihghantshire, a disposition to similar eiinduct seas manifested
in a part of the li est Riding of Yorkshire. On the f;tb of
June a meeting of Delegates was assembled at a place called
Thornhill Lees-, near Huddersfield; and at this meeting it
.vas understood, that the time to be timid for a general
sign); would be anniitinced. The persons assembled at
that Meeting were surprised by the Magistrates, assist-
ed by a military hare, and smile were taken into cus-
tody. This arrest deranged the plans of the disaffected ;
and the greater part of the districts in that part of York-
shire, in which a general rising had beets proposed. re-
mained quiet. But in the neighbourhood of Huddersfield, in
the night of the Bth of June, a considerable body assembled,
some with fire-arms, and others with scythes fixed on poles,
and proceeded to various.ontrages, plundering houses for
arms, and firing on the Head Constable of Huddersfield, and
upon a person of the Yeomanry Cavalry, who went out of
the town to learn their objects. Indictments were preferred
both for the felonies and the burglaries, at the Assizes at
York, in the month of July. The facts of the ontraees there
committed appear to have been established by the finding of
the bills by the Grand .Jury; but sutficie'nt evidence was not
produced on the trial to bring the echoes house to any indivi-
dual's.