The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-03-02 00:00:00

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EAST 1 DI A-110U SF, 2Rib January, 1818.
Yr!IF: COURT of DIRECTORS of the
UNITED CO.WP lIIERCIL !NTS of ENG-
LAND,. trading to the East Imitiss, do hereby give Nulice.
- Tkatthe Transfer Books of the said Conspana's Murk will be
sini on Tnesdast, thefkl March next. at Tau o'Cleiele, and open-
Ed again, an Tlearlday, Ike 91h April following.
That a Quarterly General Court of the Slid Company, will
be heti: at their Douse, in Leadeuliall-street. or Wednesday,
the. 15th *welt nut, at Eleven o't lark in the Forenoon.
Taal a General Court of. the sail Company wilt be held at their
ltusose is LeadonhAU-street. um Wedneu.aa, the Sth April next,
from Nine u'Clork in the Morning, unlit Sim in Ike Evening. for
he Median of it Directive theaTid Coinpagy fur foal -"gars.
end that the Lists of the .Meinbers of the saidlEuntpany will be
Toady to be delivered al this Manse, on Momday, She 2.54 March
'next.
JOSEPII 1).111T, Assistant Secretary.
GOODLUCK, end Cn. heiing
-114' :Oinked tlir Scheme of the present I.OTTt:IIY In fill,
beg sow to rensioo ;their Ftiends of the principnl Points,.sonfl
the very tune approach of the 1)11 whir-41W Hies. hat., state
peeelissult4haevegio•viebiliss all Pertimiws andi•bilVere:

PETITION
TO. THE Biala HaNnuitAni.E THE Loam sPI-
RITUAL AND TEMPORAL OF THE UNITED
KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IREYAND,
IN PAULIAMENT ASSEMBLED.
Tut HUMBLE PETITION' OF TUOMAI ITANS, OS
NO. 8, NEWCASTLE-STREET, IN Tilt FARM
OF ST. CLEMINT DANES) IN THE CITY OP

he staid charged on oath on suspicion of High Tres-
,
son, or that any legal charge was to be preferred
spied hies; ustr would they elloW him to be in.
formed es the nature of thaisoppow:d -charge, in 'that
it consisted, Or the time or place of its commission ;
and your hir4ble 'Petitioner respectfully assaresyour
Right Han. House that he has never been otheriiiise
called in questing. for,, the legali.y of his condor',
than by this general assertion of the Right MO. Se-
cretary of State, which assertion your hatable Peti-
tioner has leaariably challenged as false 'slid eti-
founded, aid nothing snore Ws, at any time, been
reqebred of year humble Petitioner than to ibtorm
llwir.Loidships, if he knew Mr. Arthur Thistle* uod,
Dr. James Watson, and other persons named to him,
with matters equally trifling and onimportaut.
That your humble Petitioner was, not withstarsditigt
Sao slaw" enfamitted 'on preteare of te-fflailaaiddti.
to the Hoe* of*Correetirks, Csild tiath-lfeter, tti
warrant ender the hand and seal of the Right lion.
Secretary of State, wherein it was set forth, that
your humble. Petitioner had been brought before him,
and charged on oath, on suspicion of having com-
mitted High Treason against his Majesty ; and on
each of them examinations (as they were improperly
denominated) your humble Petitioner wits also Com.
mitted by Sir N. Conant, Knight, by warrant under
his hand amp seal, setting forth that your humble Pe-
titioner was also brought before him, and charged,
on oath, on suspicion of High Treason, although y our
humble Petitioner sever was brought, Of examined,
or questioned, or charged, on these occasions, before
Sir N. Conant, touching any criminal matter or thing
of any natury whatever; nor can y our humble Petitioner
discover that Sir N. Conant has, at any subsequent
period, discharged this warrant of commitment
against him; and your humble Petitioner preseuts a
strangeanomaly in the jutispruileuceof the country
being at large, though said to he charged on oath on
the warrant of one of his Majesty's Justices of the
Peace on suspicion of High Treason.
That your humble Petitioner knowing that neither
himself nor his son had, in any manner, skived the
laws of their country, and that your humble Peti-
tioner was capable of proving their ittuocence to the
complete refutation of the unfounded assertions con.
tamed in the general warrant of the Hight Hon. Se-
cretary of rState did, immediately on his commitment
to t'ie prison of Cold Bath-Gelds (by permission of the
Governor) state how polity the laws had Iwo,' yin.
lated in the arrest of himself mud his son, in a humble
Petition to the Honourable the House. of Commons,
which Petition your humble Petitioner at,:diessed to
the Met ir the cli - of Westminster. ter fa-
-.stir or 43rr

BbowtTne—That with all dee respect end virago.
lion .yoar humble Petitioner approaches your Right
lion. House to solicit your serious attention se the
grievous and illegal persecutions he is shoat tosiittail,
in .the confident hope that your Hight illonostable
House, in your judicial character as guardians of the
constitetional Chartered rights of the People,wl4 oat
permit 1p suoCentling sass* lieu, objessa of bialltle.:
jetty to be seized, imprisoned, %wished, and iaillpy-
ed without redress.
That your bumble Petitioner was seized on the
18th day of April, in the year 1798, pursuant to a
warrant issued by his Grace the late Duke of Port.
land, then one of his 'Majesty's Principal Secretaries
of State, charging him, on the unsupported as.
seriion of his Graz., h sutpicion of High Treason;
by which artifice he was Jets toed under re-ezamina.
lion until the Bill for Suspending the Habeas Corpus,
Act was passed, wen he was committed to the House
of Correct inn f4rthe C,,errity of Middlesex, on ptetence
of treasonable praclicei,but not on oath ; nor was it
ever in the power of his Grace to adduce any• matter
or thing done or said, at any time or place, as cause
for such an extraordinary procedure against your
bumble Petitioner.

4111 po which day,
All the nm": PRIZES of THIRTY THOUSAND•
POUNDS may he drawn.
On that day the Eir•t-dentre Prize will have .C.5,(1(10 more,
-And the Aral Moak will receive the pruppetion of TWELVE
PIPES of OLD PORT.
There Bye nu Stock Prizes.—No Claws.
Neatly s,f4)oTicketb will he drown 4th of Mardi.

• The repealed and well-knnan Band formic attending the
Fria* awl Calinater. of ICICII/14/DSON, GOODLUCK.
tad Cakyeadees H only arrewary In tihte, that the Imesinets t!.
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roolleetiti on the !AMC 1...1 ntaal.le nod liberal prim iptrb which
•Iwove dottiorgulpkell (44 tower I Will litorky Year, their fav,to toe
in Hoak Buildings, Corubill; and tack g the Gate of
she Kt/is-mews, Charing-erns,
NFAT WFMNP.ItIPAY
The Stale Listiery hexiiai Drawing.
THREE or EStLO,II3!-10J CAPITALS!!
Fsrw.dratra Prise X 5.000. •

TWF.I.VE I'IPES of PORT in uadiii ni to the Scheme.
"WPASB, Sfock.binker, 9 Chrithill, and 17,
.
-Urn Lidgote street, totrentt. hi. Friend. will consider bow
/way 411dvnottlices oitoe Prisms S iII to-e who do ttot buy
lkt,re WEDNESDAY Ne=ts
or
ON. WEDNESDAY—Tne rit.t Prize will 'receive E 5,000
in addition:

1 That your humble Petitioner was, in Aegost of
the same year, banished and sent to the Jail of Win.
chester, and there confined till the middle of Nu-
', timber, in utter.solitade, in a cell, without fire or
candle, or books, or other amusement than a flute ;
and from thence he was removed to the Jail of
Chelmsford, and associated with three other state
Prisoners already in that place; in all which prisons
your humble Petitioner was treated with more rigour
than the common ft lons, hating been denied, during
the whole period of this long imprisonment, the ac-
cess of friends, or the possession of pen, ink, or
paper. .
That the day following the arrest of your humble
Petitioner, namely, on the 19th of April, 1798, the
house of your humble Petitioner in the city of London
was taken possession of by a party of the Bow-street
Police, his wife in an advanced state of pregnancy, and
his infant son,were conveyedvb se Police-officers,
from their home to the iloosecif ..`'% 'on,anddetain-
-414 imbOttpi 044Mok,fltiegus - Jrs : it! r humble,
oreSocts
itefillOneei wifi lass tak;ii to IMAM to undergo
examination, and was then allowed to return to her
home, which she found had been abandoned, and
would have been left to chance, but for the tortunatel
arrival of the sister of the %sire of your humble Pe-
thinner, to take charge of his property.
That, at the end of two years and eleven months,
your humble Petitioner was liberated without trial,'.
remuneration, or redress, for the manifold op.
preisions he had endured, and before he could pro.
ceed to institute legal process, the authors and in.
(boors of those injuries procured from Parliament an
especial Act of linleinitity for this and other similar
abuses of their Ministerial true'.

••14 WEDNESDAYr•-Tie fialtieria the Fig,' Blank will he
',repented with Four Pupel of Poit
. • Wine.

ON WEDNESDAY:—Teo4 the Capitols will be decided
I i.i the Aro Teo Modules.
ON %YU/NMI/AY—About Furls of the Capitals will hr
diown, ni.d. perhaps the THREE
890.000 'Prizes.
cr Those srbo latead to buy, should therefore buy quieLly
—and if twin Lurk tansy be taken as tun earnest of the future,
• 9. Coialtillosett ti, lAtih(ute-street.
are reconstnrodedoas she mast probable plums to obtain
-.E.A.I.CSkt Prize—THREE of %hot amount having been SOLI)
IN biJAKMI THERE, in the short *puce of Thirteen Mouths),
3,E69 in II Shares 5E30,01:13
• 11,5.911.4.... in IS Shares 9.4100
5hare,.....,_ 90,0t10
Besides ntany'ssibeis 44020,0 M, ,ElO,OOO, Re. Ike.
fie, 1,10 nem! particularly ascended and all
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Stock-broker.

rpo-MORROW, 'March 3d (by Act of Par.
lirtment), the Lowry o:hre4 will be kept open uuiil
Twelve utliiek at Ni,thi, as tie DRAWING BEGINS ou

milted it to the ilomr
was detained from the 1 itt
and thereby prevented flo!
Honourable (louse.

ED3ESDA Y MORNING.
"The First Prize drawn will have X:3,000 more.
Teo Capitols will be (Irmo in tile first ten Minutes.
The First.drnwu Wank will have Emu Pipes of Pi.rt.
twist Forty Capital,. will hedruwn.
About S.RE Tickeis Ili be drown ON WEDNESDAY.
s€l9 ltl Il m:a) gain .... A3a,000
sel 7 U . inns V111
NISH, she t• nrior. 10‘ lin stilt.% in the very 14,1
TIIII Eli PRIZES OF 210,0 POUN DS,
And various other Capitol*. ALL IN in Thirt)
diffrient Towns in the Country.
Ig the hot I.,•ttery that emit tt tt ed Three Ps iZOS of 5ei4.).000
BISU SOLI) TIMM A 1.1. !
Vim has now a selection of Numbers in every Thou•iind fin
Purchaser,. to 4 know ALL THRIiE Pit IZ ES of £E;iU,Us.
In this Lotter), at No. 4, Curithill, or No
Charillg•ClON•

That your humble Petitioner discovered. on Eis
first interview with his wife after his ilicnr, 4.,
that this Petition had :lot be is presented to that lio.
nourable House, on w:lich your humble Petitioner
wrote to.his Sulicitor, directing him to call at the
Office of Lord gidmooth and demand that Petition,
or to procureauorder for admission to irceire another
Petition, or to sue out a writ of Habeas Corpus in•nr-
der to bring your bumble Petitioner into Court, that
some definite legal accusation might be enforced, or
his discharge obtained.

That this utiprceedent:tl punishment inflicted open
your humble Petitioner, was of the most ruinous con-
sequences to his Inane v; efface, as it debilitated his
.health, calsniniatr L', his character, destroyed l.is re-
sources, reduced Lis profession, broke up his coo-
tiertions, and tlissipatctl the fruits of his previous in-
dustry, and loft hilt' east upttn the world to maintain
his family, tinder ciscun.stsuces that seemed to fore-
bode years of penury and privation.
That your bumble Petitioner, since his liberation
from this confessedly illegal imprisonment in 1801,
had nut taken any put in political affairs, as the
whole of his time was engaged in a manufacturing
business, from tie labours of which he had not, for
si.xteen )ears, indulged in two successive days of re-
creation, when, notwithstanding his inoffensive con-
duct, be was again assailed in a manner equally as
unjustifiable and malignant, as his former persecution
was acknowledged to have been by the measures en•
acted to semen his oppressors from legal responsi-
bility.
'That early en Sunday morning, the 9th day of
rebroary, 1817, the house of your humble Petitioner
was entered by a party of the Police, led ty John
Stafford, who arrested your humble Petitioner add
his only son (a youth then under twenty years of age),
and seized sundry hooks and papers (which have not
been returned), 'y %Uwe of a warrant issued in ge-
neral terms by Lord Viscount Sidswouth, one of his
Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, which war-
rant, not on oath, hot on his Lordship's assertion,
imputed to them suspicion of High Treason: this ar-
rest took place several weeks before the Suspension
of the Habeas Corpus Act, when the laws were in
full force, and when, as your bumble Petitioner con-
ceives, it was highly illegal for any Magistrate to or-
der the forcible entry for the purpose. of arrest of
peaceable individuals in their own dwelline-house%,
excepting on information or evidence ou oath of
some specified breach of the law.
That your humble Petitioner and his son wore
kept closely and separately confined, aad denied all
intercourse with their friends, or the possession of
pets, ink, or paper, or to see the Public Prints, or in
receive infonwartion of any sort by any • possible
'means; and were taken silt different times before tits
L..rds of his Majesty's roost Honourable Privy
Council, but never esatnitted or questioned touching
any act of Treason, or any other unlawful conduct;
Inor could any entreaty of your humble Petitioner
prevail upon or induce their Lordships to say thii

That, on the last pretended examina►ion of your
humble Petitioner, on the 10th of March, he was re-
manded on the following commitment by Lord Sid-
mouth only 1—

WEDNESDAY NEXT. THE LOETEItY EEG's,.
THE FIESI"fEN PRIZES ARE SURE TO BE
C A PITA IS.
3.... or . • .. £30.000 3.... of £3.000
10 1 OOO 11 500
II 4 II J. . .. so.) ,
40 4200 :30 IVO
Besides £5O. £25, &e. all Sterling Althel
rrilE ',lnt-drawn Blank 'bill receive Four Pipes
1. or the %et) heel Old Part Wine. Tseketa al.d Sigma.,
te wiling of the In% rlil pa leer, ...ow., the A ilrrulUl et. 0.6 1 i r
abate tastot imp. moil Clitalicr,, at the ultl-e,tablio.ed 0th.....
NO. !6, (7111111111., N herr the TN.. tirst Prize!. of £3 .0 I'
were 43:11ed and twld It. the Public', mit,t 40-r.iicill Scivitd•.
HORNSBY and Co.

Henry Viscount Sidineetb. nne of the Lord. of hi. Male.ts'.
most Ho oburahle rtivy Colwo...land Ptiucip.J See...tars, of
State, dr. Stc.
These rre in hit Polaje.ty's name I authorise and require 30u
is receive into your custody the bodieo of Thomas Evoto nod
Thonsa. John Evarn, beret; oh sem von, on strmicion of High
Trelainll against hi. Majesty ; )ou nit In keep then; sore
and clove until delivered by due rout z.e of Ise ; and for so doing
this'll:ill Ire vnnf Wmirram.
Given ot Whit. hull ibis IStla day of Match, 1817.
Meraed) SIOSIOUTH.
To the Govern"; of the Hoist ofCotrertina fur

SANDERS, DURII A M. WALL. AND CO.
MORGAN suit SAN liEltS, tipholverers, Ca-
tharisir.otrert, Strand, srl V grateful y acknowledge the
Itberwl ~,spiwit 'bey have el-seised' rot the iosi sesentern )1441$
Irmo oho sohtlit% and Gann. in 11:111'..11'L.P.
we) and Wore• rJoin-, atri very bilmbly bey: aroe lu siorniArnee
that the husitte.s is slaw rrterluished (tiv Mr. MORGAN) in
favour of SANDERS, DUKIIAM, WALL, mid Co. k who
have been 11.11.111 in the VOACCICIttee si,weits C tttttt neure-

the Conti) of iis Deputy.
In which commitment his Lordship 'has, by with-
drawing the assertion that your humble Petitioner
was charged before him on oath, afforded the most
Loosing proof that the preceding commitments were
fabricated for the purpose of imposing (through the
influence of unfounded alarm) upon the sacred Ma.
justy of the Crown, the wisdom of the Legislature,
and confidence of the Peaple. _ . .

went); the) resprr:foll.t n cosahrnante ..f nod approti.
him and prrfeienfe obitll hot. area I• 11 hosig given In the oecsliar
articles of Furniture, sons.afat tared link io their estoblishaseut,
Nos. 15, 16, and 17, Cathorior-sirert, Strand.
N. N. The Patent Articles, with trial improveritest., surd a
general eabibioiou of 11141‘..1stery thudCabioct Foroituie al ways
ready tor wile.

That your Isolable Petitioner did (through the
ageocy of his Solicitor) procure to be presented on
the 27th of February, to the Honourable House of
Commons a second Petition he had prepared, setting
forth his case, and that of his son, challenging the
pretended charges of the Right Honourable Secretary
of State as unfounded, offering to prove, at the
bar of that Honourable House, the contrary of what
had been reported to that Honourable House with
intent to defame by implication your bumble Peti-
tiouer and bis son.
I'hui, in the succeeding month, namely, on the
10th of April, your humble Petitioner delivered a
Petition to Mr. Adkins, Governor of the Noose of
Correction, addressed to the Lords of his Majesty's
most Hancierable Privy Council, requesting, if any
offence could be imputed to him, that he alight be
admitted to bail to enable him to preserve his
manufactory from rain ; but, on the evening of the
time day, himself and ilk son were transported out
of their coenty to the Jail of Horsemonger-larte, and
there consigned to seos rate and solitary imprisonment,
where they discovered themcelves to be wholly at the
mercy, and subject, without reties or appeal, to
the caprice of the Right iton. Secretary of State.
who assumed the power to dispose of your humble
Petitioner and bis son at kis will sad pleasure, sub•

CATI/N'S %I ORO.
'llia day was published,
A New Edition, ?ewe Ss. illustrated with Cntiel.
LAPILATICAL I'REATISE en the I'REVEN.
• 'LION and LURE, of the VENEREAL DISEASE
in. both Seam. nod its VlllGNillelleeS: in which a mild and 'er-
emite aside of srentaaret is pointed oat, including Oh/mentions
am Strictures, Gala:woos Eruptions, Imaginary Venereal DM-
camel., kr. Introlefl as a Guide :toilet the dangerous effects
of this baneful ii.mludv.
By T. M. CATON, Surgeon,
U); StoohnpfS.street, N'eacieffe-street, Strand; and tale of the
Vetoed ti of St. Thomas and Goy.
2. A TR EA'I'ISE on INDIGESTION ; belug nn Enquiry
• lain tie 1/.brass, swiping mid .cried with the Functioos of
the Stomach, with Retool ks no tae Liver, nod its loam nee un
thelListrii• Svstem. To which tire prefixed, some geisronl Ob-
servations on Scruphulous and Castomous 1/isenses, price
3. A I'o l'tl I. Alt TR %TINE am 11w EV EN PION and

E-e.itb; tie ITeresitS4* A iiEg -of ASTHMA and WINTER
cuumi, with iww woo ,uccrattl 10-leuctious Tor the Pre-
vention and Tteittencut of Aillamutic Fit. Fourth Edition,
plier
4. PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONs •.n the DERILT-
TIES. 'naturist send unpaired. of the 61:.5iE1t ATI VE OH.
CANS of buts SLXLS, including the Theory of Generation,
Sr. price 1.. lid.
5. A PRAC TICAL TREATISE on FEMALE DIS-
EASES, eleven:ling Oteservatimin. iiiertureliens, Lact;slion. and
the Himiedvrei is to those iinpos ta.is chntigi s. ureze tid.
Panted leer Sherwood sand Co...Pate:u.iste.;-ten ; ti:.d W.
7as lioteb.iid wee!.

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jectint Rini ii 111 '&4l or pdiations Issiiiiiiiies
and critelty. -3
Tftift your
.bitlible Pe/Mosier, in .the tereeelliog
Ninth cif Jane, isiltailter/ piimktiera to' esseplain. of
Ibis inikiction by petition to: •tlite Hotroareble thrusts
of 'COMmons, wherein hi stated to that Hwearneado
Nouse, as he noes 'boil pertobsahm respomfoily to
state to your Right Honourable •Hoesel that it Is
wholly•out Or lila pOwtr to enojecturo the class tot
the itrest wad detention of himself and hia.son, as
they had not been. osembris cif any politica associa-
tion, sibr liken part in, any „political tnelqings, pe
been found aiding, gonsaltiog witit,„asivkind, °tell..
couraging any person of tremors in. the pursuit of po.
litical measures of anytilicl --slur had thoy, in ear
ways flpildoCletk*sosstisfs:conternetiowsly Intends
hisMa e'piailriteit er!, anent "qtr
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!IT t*Pil
ittlle
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ii-rif4, iii, r plot itintll 4.,
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with a breaithl
.of the 11l a any n toilore*a
end your hi Petitioner most respeetfolly, but
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!int con 4 lt aisir res your Right Ifoneerallin
House, that it t not in We power of the ttight Hon.
isocretary nf •itate to produce any person that his
dood to occuseyour humble petitioner, on oath, of
being *guilty of High Treason ;. nor can his LOrdship
ciente or ipecify assyact or deed, done pr Said at ant
time or place bryoor bwable Petitioner of the na:
lure of treason.. or any ether brfietr of 'Obeli's, not
is it in the power of. his Lokliltip to sham in'y'csasti
for the overwhelming destruetteri hat lllRtii Yoit
humble Petitioner by his arbitrary liersecofitiol be.
yotid ids oon unfounded assertion, set forth in the
general warrants of arrest ' anal commitment;
htrein mentioned, and which are unsupported by tbd
smallest testimony of corroborative evidence, titbit'
personal or circornstaiitiel.
That on the presentation of the before.osentioned
Pet i, inn to the Honourable the House of Commons;
in Jane, your humble Petitioner was visiteJ itt
Ilorsemonger-lane Jail by several 'Members of that
if wiourable House, when he experienced some miti-
gation of his sufferings, by being allotted e btid, anti
candles, and musical instruments, and 'to 'hive hill
door unlocked during the day that he might walk in.
a passage, !iodide wife was permitted to pass through
the iron grate into his room, and on the Vol grJott;
he was removed, and allowetisto associate Stith ail
son in one apartment till their liberation on' As. 20th
of January last ; hot they .never were IatICIN daring
all that tinte,suffered to have the snisllest•iarerenetse
with their friends, or to walk oat for exercise in any
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yard or place. . . .
That ' Jumble Petitl- respectfall,

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from all means of conducting thei. ire,
cut off from the world and their friends, from ea.
•rcise in the open air, from the cheerio; rays of the
sun, shut in the condemned rooms of • prison like
criminal• under sentence of death, waiting the hoer
of execution, (or no assignable cause whatever, but
because it has been the good-willow! pleasure of the
Right Honourable Secretary of itste, on a charge
manufactured for the purpose, wholly-groundless,
false, and unfounded.
That your humble Petitioner bogs permission fur.
they to observe' fo your Right Honourable House,
that himself and his son were arrested, at the same
time, and committed to prison jointly charged, its the
same warrants, with persons who were really charged
with High Treason, and were subsequently tried fur
that offence, by which contrivance the must ppm'.
cious calumnies have beets circulated against the cha.
racter of your humble Petitioner and his son, al-
though it most have been well known at the time of
their arrest by Lord Viscount Sidmouth, who was
then its possession of the information of John Castle,
lane of the confederates in the alleged Imams, that
your humble Petitioner and his son were totally an.
liqusinted with every part of the proceedings of t►ose
persons, as was indeed folly evinced on the trials
that afterwards took place at Westnunster.hall ; yet
your fumble Petitioner and his ton have beets the
only persons out of the vast population of the metro.
polis and its environs, selected by the Hight lion.
Secretary of State for victims of the most onjusti.
Sable and illegal persecution ever recorded, a per.
*notion undertaken for the accomplishment of de-
•igns of the worst imaginable character, on which ac-
*sum your humble Petitioner, anxious for a public
investigation of his own conduct and eaposere of his
oppressors, entertains the ardent hope that your
Right Honourable House will, from your love tai
justice, withhold protection from the Right Ito.
nourable Secretary of State, who cannot lutetium any
plea to justify his superseding sod dispensing with
the laws of the land•in the arbitrarily depriving your
humble Petitioner and his son of their libe►ty, their
property, anti fair fame.
Your Isolable Petitioner, therefore, with the utmost
humility and respect approaches your Right Ho.
Pourable House to implore your high end power.
Tel assistance to enable him to obtain justice against
his peesecutors, and for that purpose be prays
your Right Honourable House to institute such an
1140111 into the elect/ions set forth in this hie
most bumble Petition, as may enable your Right
Homirable !louse, in your judicial capacity, to
ascertain orishtbarlour humble Petitioner and his
Sow, as stated in the vsrinus commitments of the
Right Honourable Secretary of State sad Sir Na-
' thatiiel Conant, were Melly ever charged before
them on oath on suspicion of High Treason against
his Majesty: as your humble Petitioner Is that
cote prays yoer'Right Honourable House to ob-
tail. for himself and bia sou au nista trial by their

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the MengouslOr the city of Westminster, per fa- . 'nit your humble Petitioner symit respectfully 410.-
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your of Same! Crooks, Esti. in the Stroud. and cow- mitt to our Right Illonovrable. leek lOW Minted
witted the pAijok94olloftwotillterlatiati-
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Crotereet, Wbio kotltivitireistd,' bar he toner- sgstPdT v , • ' j W...wk:: •
milted it to the Home (Ace, Whitehall, where it county, put in irons like felons, branded or' .t. -...., -,
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was detained from the 11th of February to the 23t1r, epithet of traitors, sod destroyed; that they Avis
and thereby prevented (torn being presented to that languished Tor months in utter solitudo, se..lotiett ,
Honourable House. from all means of conducting their lawful atftirst
That your humble Petitioner discovered. on Eis cut off from the world anti their friends, from PI.