Star.
London, England, 1817-10-31 00:00:00

bsithk, OCtoblit

THE CONVICTS FOR HIGH TREASON:
At eleven o'clock this der Brapecireth was visited by
his wife. Tnry e,inversed together for half an le tn.
Both were quite composed at th, it first meetinr, an.;
dering the convert mon. Almost the ordr :epic of
d•scourse at this trying interview was religion. "1 hey
coesoleil and enctuiraved on • another by bett'gn re-
presentations of Gen, and of the merits of human
conduct. Sic seems far advanced ist pregnancy.—
She is in vial her husband again in the evening. At
twelve the remotest corner of the gaol WAS hear" to,
resound to the lull swell 01 their voices, ex,tt-if its
singing a hymn of enthusiastic devotion. Old 11.1 w
Loam, sitting in his cell (which is situated bvtween
iln• two yards of the gaol), anJ holding a hymn 1
book in his hand, was repeating the lines and !cadene
the sacred inissic: Bratedreth and 'Turner, in their ad•
j:.ining cells, united their voices with solemn earnest
ness. A number of the less restrained prisoners :le
seinbled at the grated window of Ludiartes cell. One
bt:lti a hymn-book tiprn in his II mid ; another, less
devout, smoki.d his pipe. .le.kii B.ic:ic and laii3C
Godber walked baclwaids and forwards behind this
group, ajar their hands in their fobs. Old bon Da
con (45 tie is called) sat in iris room.

SOU I'IMINGFIELD REBELLION—MR. OLIVER.
FROM A StoaNING PAPrA.)
How far this celebrated spy may leave hen ;nem.
mental in exciting the ont•ages which have been pro-
nlunced 44 a levying of war against the Klng," is a
yearstion which still deeply interests public curiosity;
and the solution of which decides the miserable con-
victs for high treason to be either the credulous vic-
tims ot the moo atricious delusion, or the wilful
Agents of a frantic conspiracy. It is not for us to
inter this very important but most difficult question.
We %ill, however, state tact: which we know to be
correct, anJ add the explanations which both parties
assert with equal confiience, leaving it to an intelli-
gent and candid public to exercise their own judg-
ment upon these materials:

Mr. Oliver left London on the 17th of April, in
company with a Mr. Mitchell, who had been a dele-
gate from Leeds, at the meeting of delegate, in Lon-
don. By Mitchell he was introduced to a society in
Bir einghern a, the London delegate. The character
ce this and other societLs connected with or is one of
the main points at issue. They passel through
Derby on the 26th, and while coaches were changing
called upon Robertshaw, of the Talbot Inn. Thence
they proceeded to Sheffield, Wakefield, Leeds, and
and other places in Yorkshire, where Oliver was in.
troduced es at Birmingham. Oliver, alter lie had •
parted with Mitchell, returned through Nottingeein,
spent an hour there in fruitless inquiries alter Tho-
mas Bacon. Mitchell wisin a few days afterwards
apprehended, end hes lure in custody ever since.
On the 21st of May, the very day after the minion
respecting Parliamentary Reform was negatived,
Oliver lett London on his second excursion, visited
Birmingham, came to Derby, and lodeed a night
ith his recognized friend, the landlord of the Telbot,
and set off on the morning of the 26th to Notting
ieim, accompanied by Mr. 13urkin, who was ham-
duced to him by Mr. Itebertshaw. By Mr. Bur kin
lie was introduced to a society in Nottingtron. Mr.
Barkin has been ever since in custody. Oliver weet
on to Sheffield, Huddersfield, Manchester, and Li-
verpool ; returned again from Liverpool to Winches-'
ter, Huddersfield, and Wakefield. At Thornyley,
near ,Wakefield, Ise and several others were taken up
fin the 6th of June by Sir JOHN Bran's cavalry : lie
was immedieuly discharged, and lie set off to Net-
iiiighem. ('here he was present, on the evening of
the 7th of the same month, at a meeting o! the society
to which Burkin had introduced him. On the same
evening, Brandreth and two others were sent to take
A S.;eW of the barracks. On the next day Brandree
WAS at the White Horse, in Pent' idge ; and the scene
which tellowed is well kernel). We have' enly one
other tact to add to this narretive. A George Crab-
tree, printer, in Beidee-d, Yorkshire, bad been fie-
queatly seen in Peutridge; an apprehension was en-
terteined that this man, whom the witnesses for the
prosecution did not know, might be represented to be
Mr. Oliver; Mr. Lockitt, the atttorney for the pro-'I
secution, with a decision and impartiality highly ere
*suable to him, insisted that Oliver should be pre.
sented to the witnesses. He was accordingly brought
10 Derby after the trials had commenced, lodged a
night in the King's Head liin, and sheen' next more-
nog to the witnesses as Mr. Crabtree. They all at once
pretested that he WAS not the Ciabtree they sew at
l'entridge.
Such are the naked facts, which neither party can
controvert. Mr. Oliver, on his part, affirms, that he
never prompte.l, instigated, or encoureged, further
then the negetive Animation which his presence as
the London Delegate did certainly inspire. He re-
presents Mitchell to have calcutited, from what had
oaken place at Sp•fieles, that 70,000 men were di,-
posed to rise at once in London. He charges the
Society at Birmingham with having offered 150,000
armed men, and arms Ha as inittiy mote as would
take them. Thothas Bacon, according to ..is account,
was responsible for :30,000 men from L.eeester, Not-
tingham, and Derby, and double the number, if ne-
cessary. Altogether there was an army estimated at
€2,86,000 men. The supreme meeting "r,f Delegetes
was held at the Joiners' Arms, keel by Lien. &holes,
in Wakefield. There Mitchell, B icon, Oliver, hit-
worth from Bitminghens, and A few others met. Thi•
day tirst fixed on for A general rising was the Mulishly
Alter Sir F. Burdett's motion, which was Lite •25tis iLt y.
It was put off from that to the 4th of lisle, because
the soldiers would be all drunk On that day. Mr.
.Oliver does not hesitate to cl..im the merit of
again put it off to the 9h of June. He says lw frit
limo suspicion at Nottingham on the 7th, because he
was well dressed, and lodged at the leaceamoor's
Head, and that they had to, rued a plan for shooting
him. On the other hand, it is sthrnsed with the
most vehement cenfiJence, that every violent tuggers.
Lion originated with Oliver ; that he was repulsed
with suspicion and disgust every where till Ise suc-
ceeded in deluding Bacon and Breildreth, by giving
them assurances of a general and irresistible rising.
Here, then, we have an explication of the facts
we have stated, on the one side the assertions of a
single person, avowedly a spy ; on the other side, the
auctions of multitudes, but those also avowedly
Reformers, and suspected of conspiring tb overturn
the Government.