Star.
London, England, 1817-06-23 00:00:00

TESTIMONY OP THOMAS HURRAY.

" Thomas Murray is a lines.weaver, in the employ of Messrs.
Smote, Timm, and Sage, of ibis place, mid says, that on
Fattay morning the nth of lune, about half-past seven o'clock,
lie was standing our his muter 's works in Meadow-lane, neer
the jeoction of the two roads Lone Leeds to Dewsbury, along
with a young nun of the noose of Thomas Dovner, when a per.
we with the appearance of a Gendesnan, answering to the de.
suiptien given of Mr. Oliver la the second edition of the Lade
Memo of last Samtday, walked up to them and !expired the
rind to initesbary. On the stead being pointed out to itim, he
tosisired how much farther thernhill was than Dewsbury and
untold two miles. Jim then asked Moray if he was not of
essioymest f Wed an being told that be was for that day. owing
to the woman whci magma him In his huskiest, being obliged to
mein at home to attend to her family; Oliver observed, that
be Ind Mae business at rhumba!, and Ming se satiff Wears in
that pert of the emote% be should be glad if be would acmes-
pay Nis tad spew him the wily, for white services he world
reward hiss, by paying his cordless% and satisfying him far his
thy's work,

" Mar sant pent:adobe Mundy Was prevailed upon to go,
sod oe their we, to Devishery.they regaled themselves at the
pablic-heuse at Saunp-eross with a ehflmgr'•wortb of rum and
milk, for which Oliver paid. During the journey the subject of
polities was never introduced but once, and then Oliver informed
Igs guide, this • Mr. Abbot was elevated to the Peerage, and
lo nesipld ed it, for he was an impartial clever little fellow?
Ca their moiled m limirehanyreliver went- iesses sonaliboloir•
ekes shop, (Mr. Willem's) and requested his guide to wait for
be at the door. When be CM! Ow, he said, the person be
wished to we was not in, and they then went into an adjoining
pititio•honses Wheat they again refreshed themselves at Mr. Oli-
va% evened. While they were in the bows a woman came in,
•bid Murray believes was Mr. Milano's wife, and said, that
her husband had come in, en which Oliver immediately followed
ter into the bookseller's ship, and in the "WO sheet a quarter
as hour returned.

0 Murray wed Be then proceeded ea their way td Thornhill,
when they had arrived in a lane about vine kindred yards
from the Sportsman Arse,' they. saw three Gentlemen, one of
them being Majer-Oenerai Sir John /lynx, riding up to meat
Wm at full speed. On their approach, Sir John advanced rap
to Ober, and pointing with his anger, said, ' I think I ham
*SW Oliva, afectiog to be overcome with fright, made
he John then said, 4 I have had an accurate dew:rip-
en of you from Lendoo : Sir, is not your name Oliver r Oliver
sal remained silent, add, by the order of Sir John, be was cur.
needed by a pony of cavalry and taken into custody:
" Sir John then called to another detaehment of Yeomanry
(MAT, who were on the road to stop Murray, which they did,
and den driving him into the ditch, they dragged him into the
niartiman's Arms publiabouse. Hers they seirebed the person
ff the Leeds Delegate, but found not a single scrap of paper upon
hex At chat time there were about Eve or de persons in the
room, all in castodyeand be learned that they bad all been picked
tip a afferent parts of the neighbourhood.
" When they had been in the public-house about half an hoer
nand post•chaless, which seam to have been previously pre.
rued, drove up to the door, and in them they wife conveyed,
Intiar an escort of Yeomanry Cavalry, 'to the Coon-boom at
Vidakid. From the time that Murray was apprehended up to
tht pried of his ditcher. hemerra sikw Oliver but once, sad that
be wubroagin into die teem at the Spensarao'sAmes is custody,
but he bad not remained there above halls minute, when he was
caned est of the room by rue 9. Bpi, ad never ages appeared.
" After the examination at Wakefield, Manny and his fellow
DekPas, not one of whom, to the best of his bnecebdge, be
ltd net before teas, vreritoontaktod to the Boon at Come-
t* and were there kept tot dam dor Is Wks:, conlinanent,
and on the prises allowance.
Seth are the statements that we hove readied free the
taouths of **persons whose antes they bear. That they aim
an in their leading particulars isomer, we have net the slightest
daubt. They are publishai with the basset Jordan .1 was-
Cannting the public Adel, or joadrying the innocents and of as.
Nang the guilty.

4 Had we eensuketi either MOP OM . Mit filt 002' peneop

13!ety, we should handsaw*, In doss Ike dress, from; the rs:
of thb esporars, bbt deft Is h feelhi of the :wind
gramNrit to all then Conalderatkuis-1 moss of publio daty,

la: try niats4latlplit sloes we love been actuated.'
Mae the Nltot Introduces the Letter addressed
to him by General ihNe, a copy of which was in-.
:used in our los, on which he Makes the following
observations] :
" rn justice to omelet', ft is paper fo remark,
that in our paper of last week, we stated faets rather
than drew inferences, and that not one of those' facts,
has been shaken by the above letter. We did not
ay that • Oliver was employed by General Byng to
tatlV .the
,Fostsoos lakes up at Thornhill Loris. 1 On

Ithe eiriiraili we Mich that trdtii e`eh thing ire
bad heard of the charietar god eohduet of Geielil
Brig, tie were persuaded that he WI been meiely the
medium for receiving infolination, AU that
whoever might have einpleyetl hitli, the General had
merely acted in the discharge of his official distj:%:.-
Nor did we state that Gili.er left London with the'
view of exciting and fothenting distutbences id dif-
ferent parts of the country.' We could not di., itjto
the dark recesses of Oliver's Mind, and it was as On-
prittible for us to know, with what view' he left
London, as it must be for General Byng to speak to
the same fact. But after the ialposurs which it has
(llen to our lot to make of his nefarious practices,
both General Byng and the country mini now be
convinced, that this profligate informer has excited
and fomented disturbances in different parts of the
colintty, and in the words of the Wa keffeld Jerrold,
4 that had there been no Mr. Oliver there would have
been no plot.'
" That there is a great mass of dissatisfaction in
the country, and that rumours of the nature alluded
to in General Byng's letters, will continue to prevail
at long as the public distress prevails, cannot be
doubted ; but that there was any concerted plan for
a rising of the people, till Mr. Oliver and.his coed-
Owes canwinto the country, and injected their tree-
sons into the minds of the people, would, we appre-
hend, be very difficult to prove.
" Even with Mr. Oliver's assistance, the meeting
at Thornhill, if a meeting it could be called, was a
most pitiful assembly, and General Byng, we are
convinced, when he saw the materials of which that
meeting was composed, must have perceived; that
all apprehensions of the West Riding of Yorkshire
being three days afterwards thrown into a state of in.
surrection, were utterly groundless. When the. Ge.
anal uses the word dekvest, be must, we presume,
apply it in the popular and not in the cornet accepts-
don of the term. It is our firm conviction, that not
a single individual present, Mr. Oliver alone excepted,
was clothed with delegated powers. The narrative of
Thomas Murray, given above, proves very clearly,
what sort of delegation he possessed ; and from every
thing we can learn, we are persuaded, that the other
delegates just as much represented the places where
they happened to reside, as Thomas Murray repre-
'seated the totes of Leeds.

di General Byog's mode of accounting for Oliver's
late attendance at the Meeting, is proved by the tes-
timooy of Murray to be incorrect, (unintentionally
so, no doubt.) We find this man in Leeds, twelve
miles only from the place of Meeting at half-past
seven o'clock in the morning of Friday, the 6th of
June, inquiring, not for Gird Anion, but for Deowirry
and Thornhill; and we find also, from the concurrent
testimony of Mr. Winans and Thomas Murray, that
the prineipal tanseAsf lit lam astarsdaseo was, bit
wish to seduce Mr. Winans to attend that Meeting,
to which he had, by a different artifice, deXoyed Tho-
mas Murray. General Byog's disavowal of the pos-
session of any powers to hire persons to give him in-
formation, we do not tan in question, though we do
not perceive the propriety of making such a dis-
claimer, when the conduct of a confessedly hired spy
is under discussion. It is a matter of perfect indif-
ference to the public, whether Mr. Oliver's remit-
' iteration stands under the head of • Secret Service
Money,' or of Army Estimates.'
is The observation of Lord Livaturoox, that Mr.
Oliver was sent by Government to Arrow; and not to
Jorge, plots, may be trues but a first Minister of State
ought to know, that when a spy-cannot find a plot,
be will Make one ; and when he knows that his em-
ployers have a Free iog to fill, he will not fail to pre-
sent them_ with his well-timed contributions. But
Lord Livearoot, in some of the reports of his speech,
.says, that if Oliver has practised the arts alleged
' against him, and endeavoured to excite the people to
treasonable acts, be has exceeded biainstructions. In
that case, let him be brought to justice. Overt acts
of treason have been committed, and Mr. Oliver, an
avowed agent of Ministers, has perpetrated the crime.
Either the agent or the principals are guilty. If he
be not tried, they ought to be impeached. Impartial
justice, and the londly-raised voice of the country,
demands it, and it is the duty of Parliament to see
that so seasonable a demand is satisfied.

EX AMIZiATION AT WAKEFIELD.
(ALOO molt TVS -ilia/
" Monday a anasereat ametlag of the Magistracy of the Wee
Kiang was held he the anew Resat at the Howe of Corne-
d" Wakeield, for the purpose of Mediates the ems of the
perms randy apprehended at Thenshill Less, on a charge of I
treenalable practices s present, die West Hoe. Earl Pinwales
(Lord Lemmas) in the Cher, far Fran* Lhiley Wood, part.
Was. Wood, Clerk, I. P. Heywood, Ea} Deism Godfrey
Higgins, Hugh Parker, Michael Stesks,Tbomes Home, The
am Sears, and Wm. fiat:stow, Bele. We. Prot, lei. Mayor
of Leeds, was also meat. The ameroes mesdames of the
Maglatrasy en this oireasien, was, we hors season to believe,
yrodeed by the apogee is our last pabileatien of the diaboNeal
aid treasonable medilindeas of Oliver, the Goverment 8Fy...-
The eicaatioation was private--a dreamiest* which we regret,
berme U will prevent us free giving that UM mom of the
laveriptiee which we were Mines to preset to the etientry,
and which would, we are persuaded, have tended eseastWly to
tosinaugis
.the pub Pie mind.

After the exandostim of William lindley, of Slieltild, on
whom hiforamtioa the primal lied beim committed, Mr. John
mum°. of Dewsbury, was called la aid etansinati touching
site drainestances of Ol,cr's cesedoct. This gentleman's Mami-
uadop• ocalpied nearly two hours, In the coarse of which; we
haderstand, he cocirsted, upon cab, the circumstances detailed
the liscood Edina* of oar lue keper, and Bari Pitswilliam,
the . Lard Lhenteisent. took . down the evidence with poet
eximitorness•
Mr..lainss WM*, the iseoliseller. was Dent callid, and
expressed his readiness to Molds eaTiolsoce, relative co the at-

tainpts niacin bi tUIV. io iiduee him &milli!' allegiance. en his
anime alirmation, bet this Sittig a Uilininal ease, the affinnatico
of 4 INsks• Is ndt ardsdire, 414 he Was obliged to Withdraw
witidit giving his eirklanern
tsis atansinatioti if the iiiciiessei Contifitiel setreiai bobs,
tart Magistintes; dief dellburatinit some time on thC
cN-
deia;directed that Tirnitai Matra,. ef. I.ecels ; MictudWaller,
of Rabat Tows; hides Illinginwth, of Matioinghaut t Inward
fluidise; of Higb Tara ; leseith Vatigley, of Almonlllmiey; and
Welke Wdbar, ; shatdd be dUchargad oia their
own rationtssaca.
Thorns Weed, el WestgatwOontition, Wakefield, was also
disabarged, an Galin bill, fantod( in din, and tied Sureties us
ttflO ma. •

" Benjenths Whidty,etHolnierth, was reMaided until Friday,
When he was mid that he main* discharged els the same terms
as Thomas Wood, if ao further charge was preferred against Win.
4 And Jobs Snuffer, of Horbury, and James Mann, of Leeds,
were then brought up and discharged, bat were immediately taken
into custody by a King's Messenger, under a warrant signed by
Lord ilidmoutb, and *ere sent off the same genes in a poa-
ches* to London, accompanied for a short &tante a small
escort of cavalry. The warrant fur the apprehension of these
Unfortunate men is, we understand, founded on the information
of the informer Oliver• It b impeisible to describe the gene.
ni satisfaction which the htvestigaticit of this day produced--
The Markle of the State Prisoners was justly considered as
a &sacrist on the pet ef the highly-I-especial:de Magistracy as-
@misted; of the serious plot spine the Government of the coun-
try, =tribe inapressior. made up.= the mind of the Lard thine_
nett wiD, we hope, have a wintery influence la medley place."

. .
It appears by a letter from WooLae, (now under
prosecution for a libel) addressed to the Editor of the
Miming aro:sick, that he had been waned on by
the spy, Oliver. He states that Oliver, (whom he
bad seen three or four times, after an introduction
about three months ago,) called on him, in 'the
King's Bench Prison, and made some very extrava-
gant statements of the disposition of the people in the
North, to which WooLna gave no credit. He wished
him to take some steps, if possible, to go down with
hits, or follow him into the North, as he said, to take
the lead itt the business, as they only wanted a leader.
He also prdpbsed to him to print some papers for
distribution, at a signal, the copy of which he
offered to send me to town. “ This of course (says
be) I drelined, deeming him mistaken, and misled by
as enthusiasm resulting from distress. 1 did not e:-
pert to hear any thing more upon the subject, but
the recent discovery of his employers renders the sub-
ject important."