Star.
London, England, 1801-05-21 00:00:00

SECOND RETORT OT THE SECRET COMMITTEE..
The Committee nf Secrecy of the Houle of Corn.
loons have at length made their fecond Report,
and in doing in they have entered into a confider.
anon of a variety of minute details relative to the
plans of the difitffeded, both in this country and in
Ireland. The Report embraces filch enlarged del.
criptions of the plans of dilaffeftion in both coun.
tries, that our limits permit us only to prefent a
general outline of their Ilatements.
The Report begins by detailing the plans of the
difaffeeted in the Metropolis of the kingdom, and
goes on to refer to the different Ichemes which they
formed for the accomplifhment of their favourite
views. It Rates that, though, in confequence of the
reafures adopted by Government, the perfons
who had imbibed the principles of Revolution
were difpofed to fufpend their former projefts,
yet they never for a moment wholly renounced
their former principks, or felt any defire to return'
to their duties of loyalty and rubjedion. Notwith-
flanding the detention of feveral of the mot adive
Members of the late Correfponding Society, it
appears that others have continued occafinnally to
meet for the original purpores of this Afrociation,
at the fame time avoiding any conflant place of
Ambling, and ufing no conftant memorial of
their tranfaftions. The principal objet of their
meeting was originally held out to be, the collec-
tion of money for the relief of chore confined under
charges of treafonable and feditious pradices,
while under this pretext they gradually proceeded
to indulge in the moll treafonable and feditious 1
toafts and Tongs. In profecution of thefe views it
is found that they endeavoured to avail them-
fflves of the Rate to which the country was re-
duced in confequence of the preffure of fcarcity,
and to endeavour to combine this evil with the
general corruptions of the government. From
the metropolis they proceeded to trace the fame
fpirit to the diftrids of the country, in .which
various means were ufed to conned the mifery
of fcarcity with the fuppofed evils of adminiftra-
tion, and to reduce the loyalty of the people from
the preffure of temporary circumftances; on this
part of the rubjed the Committee detail a variety
of particulars, in which all the views and fchemes
of the difaffeded are minutely explained ; a parti-
cular allufion is made to the expiration of the Bill
for rut-pending the Habeas Corpus Aft, and a ftate-
ment is given of the pleafure diffufed over the
party by the expiration of the Bill, as well as the
meafures adopted during the period that the Aft
continued in force. The fchemes of the diraffefted
during this period, it appears, were endeavoured
to be covered under the name of meetings convened
".in a free eafy manner, which, without encumber-
ing themfelves with rules, were to converfe on the
fu hjed recommended to them, and to provoke in-
veltigation." In the courfe of thefe meetings, it
is laid, that a number of walls were propofed and
received with acclamation, which were of the molt
(editions and inflammatory nature. At the fame
period addreffes were prepared for circulation, ex-
citingft
in the molt carnet terms the inhabitants of
the country to the affertion of their rights and the
annihilation of what is ftyled the fyftem of tyran- I
ny under which they groaned. The adminiftration
of fecret oaths of a nature hollile to the exittence
of the prefent Monarchy is alfo pointed out, and
the circulation of fuch oaths is ftated to have reach-
ed a very confiderable extent of individuals. Nor
do the Committee think that the efforts of the
difaffeaed were confined to perfons in this country,
but fuppofe that they maintained a treafonable cor-
refpondence with our common enemy, folicited
their affittance to the accornpliffiment of their great
dbjed, and held nut to them at the fame time the
a hopes of a formidable co-operation from internal I
infurredion."
The attention of the Committee is next direfted
" to the fituation of Ireland, as difturbed within
and threatened from without, particularly with
reference to thole meafures adopted by the Parlia-
ment of that kingdom before the Union, before the 1
fuppreffion of the rebellion, and which have been
(ince renewed, for a limited time in the Parliament
of the United Kingdom." In this part ofthe Report,
though they remark that the effortsof the dilaffed-
ed have long fince happily ceafed to affume the
apeCt of Rebellion, arrayed in the field againft
the arms of their Sovereign, and that many parts
of the kingdom prefent the ufual appearances
of peaceful induftry, and loyal fubordination, yet
there is not wanting in others demonftrations of the
fame plan of fyftematic infurreftion, and thefe too
marked with the fame charafters of unexampled
atrocity. The zeal of the a principal traitors in
Dublin," in fending their EmilTaries through the
country to keep up the fpirits of the difaffedecl, by
the hopes of fupport from foreign invafion, are
particularly infifted upon and explained. About a
year fince, it is mentioned that a new fyftem of af-
fociation was about to be eftablifhed, and a new
Executive Directory formed in Dublin. The man-
ner in which this was to be efFeded, is defcribed
both in fo far as it refpefts the appointment of the
officers and the privates comiefted with Inch af-
fociations. This fcheme, however, in conic.
quence of the vigilance and activity of Govern-
ment, was defeated. Efforts were employed to
detach Ireland from the interefts of the Govern-
s of this country; hopes were held out to its
oef
efted inhabitants, of the probable fuccefs of
ign invafion, as well as the profped of a ge-
neral infurrreftion in all the principal towns of
this kingdom. Even the fidelity of our Tailors
is attempted to be withdrawn, and the various
addreffes iffued for this purpof are particularly
fpccified. The accredited emiffitries of the kith
Committee it appears had been fent to France,
with affurances of their defiring affiftance to throw
off the yoke that binds them: In particular, one
individual in this capacity is Cod a to have
palled over to the Continent, to have opened a
direft communication with the enemy, accrediting

himfclf as being &mated by a greal body of the
landed intereft of the country, whom he reprcfents
as being, like himfclf, fo diffatisfied with the union,
that they would engage in any effort in concert
with France, to procure the means of eliablifhing
under its guarantee Come nese form of reprefentatire

is conneeted with a fyilem of terror, accompanied
with pradices of the malt favage ci Itchy. The
oftenfible objects to which thefe outrages are di-
reded, "are now more danmonly dire led in an
oltentible manner to the lowering of rents, the abo-
lition of tithes, the regulation of wages, and the
price of pi ovifions, rather than thole of an alteration
in the form andConilitution of Government." The
counteradion of this fyftem, it is alledged, "could
not be effeded by the regular cotirfe oilaw, afford-
ing only periodical occafions of trial, yielding no
effedual means for proteding the witneffes from
fedudion, or the jurymen from outrage, and could
only be fecured by the apprehenfion of prompt and
efficacious punifhment for the guilty, and the fenfe
of fecurity and protection for the innocent."
The report afterwards goes on to the detail of
the other means employed by the difaffeded for the
accomplifhment of their purpofes ; their fcenes of
cruelty and outrage are delineated in terms calcu-
lated to imprefs on the mind the neceffity of a ju-
rifdidion more vigorous than that of the ordinary
procedure of law—a jurifdidion calculated to meet
the circumltances of the moment with an adequate
force, fpirit and energy. The fentences regularly
pronounced on the loyal inhabitants are fluted,
and a number of cafes are adverted to where thefe
fentences were literally executed and enforced.
Thele feveral ftatements the Committee fubflan-
tiate by an Appendix, fubjoined to the Report, in
which each of the fads is more or lefs circumftan-
tially explained.
We have thus laid before our Readers an im-
partial abftrad of the fubtlance of this Report.
The following we fubjoin as a fpecimen of the
Toafts, Paid to be encouraged by United Irifhmen.
It is needlefs for us to add that they are not only
of the molt abfurd but of the molt peftilent na-
ture.

A fpeedy amalgamation of party with the mars of the people-
Religion without Pricits, and Government without Kings.
A Dilh of Fiat for the Englilh, and may they always renal
an Irllh Pike.
Vinegar Hill; and may the foes of the people meet with four
faucc.
The Heroes of Wexford.
The Rights of the People; and may the People never want
fpirit to maintain their Rights.
Honelt Men at the head of affairs, and thofe at the head of
affairs without beads at all.
No Lord Hair Landlord, but the Lord God our only Lord.
May the Ufiirpation of the great Landholders be fpeedily
de-
ftrnyed, and every man recover his original Rare of Land !
May the Age of Superftition be anaihilated, and the Age of
Reafon be ettablfthed in its Read !

LONDON.

THURSDAY, MAY ix.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK:

Confoh 601—.Confols for ace. 64.—Omnium 81 9.
Red. 591-4 per Cent. 784—New 5 per Cent. 94.
TilCi OF rrocrs YESTIRDAY :
3 per Cent. Red. S 9 I Long Ann. tgi 18
3 per C. Cent*. 6of Short Ann. 5 a-161.
4 per Cent. 78/91 I Imp. 3 per Cent. siti
5 per C. Navy i i Imp. Ann. tI, 5-r6
5 per C. Loy. 9qt 9311 Oremium 9 st

The difpatches received yefterday from Lord
ELGIN (late, that in confequence of Lord K 2 t r H's
having informed the GRAND VIZIER of the viefory
gained by the Englifh, his Excellency began his
march towards Cairo on the 29th of March, with
fifteen thoufand men.

This morning arrived the Hatnburgh mail due
yefterday. We fubjoin the contents :
VIENNA, MAY 6.—lt is this day reported, that
another courier had arrived at Lord Mittro's,
from Conftantinople, with intelligence that the
French army in Egypt had capitulated, and would
be convoyed to Frejus, in France, without arms,
on board Englith (hips. In how far this report
is true, is not known, as our private letters from
Conftantinople take no notice of that event.
The new Imperial tide will loon make its
ap-
pearance, in which will be inferted the tide of Duke
of Venice. _ _

STOCKHOLM, MAT S.—To the note which the
Ruffian Minifter of State, Count VON De RPA Lew,
had fent after Admiral PARKER, fince he had failed
for the Baltic, in the name of the EMPEROR of
Russia, through the medium of the Ruffian cm-
baffy at Copenhagen, the Paid Admiral has re-
turned the following anfw•er to Baron LISAKE-
WITSCH, the Ruffian Ambaffiador at the Danifh
Court
" Oa beard otbl. Majeity's Pup LONDON,
" at Sea, April as, Oki.
" SIR—I have this moment had the honour of
receiving your Excellency's letter of the soth in-
Rant, together with a copy of the letter from his
Excellency Count Vow DER PA EN. I can affure
your Excellency that both hive given me particu-
lar pleafure, by the hope that Ruffia and Great
Britain will again be united, as formerly, by the
tics of frienclfhip and harmony. I (Hall imme-
diately' return to Kioge Bay, there to await the
orders from my Court. In confequence of a fimi-
lar order from the Emperor, I (ball likewife give
orders for defifting from every kind of hoftilities
againft the fubje&s of Ruffia, Denmark, and Swe-
den. I have the honour, &c. (Signed)
H. PARKER,

Adink4l in Chief of his Britannic Majcity's
" Fleet in the Baltic."

This anfwer was communicated by the Ruffian
Mini iter, Baron I.:Ulm rsc , through Couriers,
to our King, as well as to the Ruffian Ambafra.
dor here. Though hoffilities are fufpended by
the Engliffi fleet, yet the meafures of precaution,
for the defence of our ports and coafts, are continued
without any change, and our navigation to foreign
parts is Qill inconfiderabk. The Kam is not yet