Star.
London, England, 1803-02-10 00:00:00

TORII or Tilt OATII.

" I, A. B. do voluntarily doelare, that I will endeavour, to
the utunift of my power, to o,itsin the objects of dol.' union,
tisitwiy. to recov:r thole right. which the Su rests a Ilv.tno, in
his itifmit.. bounty, has given to all men : that m.ither hopes,
fears, rewards, nor punifoments, !hall ever induce me to give
any information. direttly, or indirectly, concerning the buutwfs,
or of any member of this, or any Similar fucks y. Su help we
Goo!"

Charles Bacon. a Bow-ilreet OtEcer, fpuke to the
fame faits related by the left Witnefs, whom he ac-
companied on the 15th of November to the Oakley
Arms. There were about thirty perfons in the room,
moft of them were dirty and ill-dreffed, and none of
them appeared like a gentleman, but the 'Wooer at
eie bar. (The prioted papers futind in the room, on
which the Witnefs had put his Egna.ure' were then
&two to, and identified by him.) While roan of the I
ConitaSles went to fearch after coaches, Colonel Del
pard, who was walking up and down the room,
wanted to know why he was detained there ? tome
of the people then jumped up, and the Colonel cried i
out—., One and all of you follow me." All the
Patrol., who had gone down (lairs, were then coaled,
and the people prevented from going. I
John May, a Police Conttsbk, was alto among thofe
who accompanied Mr. Stafford to the Oakley Arms.
It was about 9 o'clock at night when they got there.
The Wisefs lurched Thomas Philips, and found is
his hand. whlth he kept in his pocket, a printed pa.
per. Betide, the Prifoner at the bar, John Wood,
Monists Broughton, J Pin Francis, Thomas Newman,
Daniel Tyndal, Witham Lander, Samuel Smith,'
John Emblin. and —Come!, were there.

- Samuel Taunton, a Police Conftable, and Joreph
Hannah, a flow-Ifteet Pattole, who were pretest at
the time, (poke to the fame effed with the above Wit-
oc

John Rivett, a Bow-ftreet Officer, fail, he went
vrithrhe Cooltables at the time, and immediately knew
Colonel Defparl saloon as he law him.
Thomas Windfor was then called. He laid he was
a private is the Guards, and belonged to the Grena.
diet Company of the Firlt Botalioo. In the month
of March tall he had been with his regiment at Cha-
-tham, and on his ee'urn from that place he received
foatep,inted papers from John Francis, which he after-
wards lbewed to a Mr. Bonus, an army agent, and who
belonged to the Tranfport.office, and told him how
he got pofftifian of them; he left one of them with
him ; whost the time gave him advice as to what be
was to do. When Francis gave this paper to the
Wane' , he told him the übjea of thole concerned
with him, was to unite in overturning the pretest ty-
rannk.l fyftem of government, to uo:te in different
companies, and get arms. Ftancia applied alto to
Thomas Blades, a fuldier be onging to the fame com-
pany with the Witoefs, to enite in the fame plan.
Shortly after this the witnefs attended a meeting,
which was held at a public hook is St. Giles's, where
he was (worn in by Francis, who gave him a printed
card, containing the form of the oath he was to take.
This was the fasie ea d he gave to Mr. Bonus. The
manner of his taking the oath was, reading it over
feeretly to himfelf, and then killing the card. This
he did by the dire:lion of Francis. When the perfoo
abst.t to tie Iworn, could not read, the man, bringing
him f .s ward, read the oath to him, and then he killed
the card. About a week after this traefetion, Fran-
cis gave the %tads fome more cards, in order that
he ntigh' dinribute them, as he confidered him a per-
fon capable of taking the command of a company. Af-
ter this the Wood's was prefent at feveral meetings,
which were attended by from t 6 to 25 perfons, prin•
cipally confilting of labouring Irifhmeo of the lowrlt
elafs. At one of there meetings, theta was a "wain
named Macnamara, commonly called Mr. Mac, who
propofed to the company that they lhould change
houfea, as often as it was peffible, in order to avoid
detetion. This was accordingly done, and other
houfea were refueled to. The Witnefs attended fume
meetings at the Bleeding Hart, to Charles &et,
Hatton garden, and Francis was there.
Broughton accompanied the witnefs to one of :here
meetings. The übjea of the members was to unite,
to raife fubfcriptions to pay delegates to go into the
country, and to defray the expence of printing their
Ada -its, and their principal putpofe was to overturn
the prefent lynem of Government, and to deftroy the
Royal Family. Thofe purpofes were frequently men-
tioned in the meetings. The perfons beionging to
there focieties were to be divided iota companies;
each company confined cf ten men, to which was ad-
ded ao eleventh man, who took the command of the
company : the perfon who did fo, was generally the
man who furore them in, and after he took the com-
mand, he was cared the Captain of the Company of
ten. The Society was divided into fevers! died-lora.
There was a isiv.fisn in the Borough, one at Mary.
la•honne, another at Spitatields, and one from Black•
an! upwards, towards the City. The nt zr
order was, that the oldelt Captain of five Companies
took the command of theft fifty men, and was called
the Colonel of that fota-dinfioo. Francis and Mac-
samara told the wiesefi that he Ilsoald be Colonel of
the Borough diviGon. Tbefe two perk++a oiled
thendelves Colonels under the head Colonel or Con.
(Dander in Chief. The Spread Eagle, is Mill-lane,
was one of the honks at which meetings eft& to take
place. The perksa who generally retorted there,
were difcharged men from the Davy and others, who
had hue tiled to the great gun =recite. Written,
who called himfelf a Colonel. generally held hie duct
lions at a hook called the Hoop and Ram. The wit- '
nets knew the Oakley Arms publie.houfe, in Lam.
bed', where he attended fome meetings, particularly
use os Lord blares day t there were about thirty
men paten.. Brought°n Laid et that time. that he
received about fifteen fhilliogs aid fixpeoce, to pay
for leading deegates into the country, and to pay
for the piloting of oaths. Before if is time the wit
nth 1.40 Inca a:a nee tog in Wiadooll Meet, wher