The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-04-11 00:00:00

PRICE SEVEN PENCE

BEWARE OF SPIES.

The black-faced corps are uncommonly active at th's
moment; and, by their manceuvres, will in all probabi-
lity succeed in producing a degree of panic which will
tend to lessen the general odium in which the Mauches-
ter massacre begins to be regarded throughout the coun-
try. Such a well-timed alarm will also have a tendency
to reconcile the timid or weak portion of the community
to the recent strong measures, and to any farther repe-
-1 rinients upon the public liberty or the public parse,
which may be attempted on the meeting of the new Par-
liament. -For our own parts, we regard all the roomers
which are now afloat as sham-plots, got up in the way of
business by a set of miscreants, principally from the
Lancashire academy. These rascals not only hennlios•
the country, but also contrive to hnax those willing
gulls, the Ministers,: witness the dreadful tale told by
Lord Cutler .ugh, and Priso.4l by Mr. Canning, shout
the two cir• loads if ; the trampling to death of
a ra,..i.ara .„ coo- ft y 1199 e t.n.ly has never y,.t
been Souod ; the petting 1111{% tiring at the solitary ; this
slionldei tog of the tour foot bladgeons ; the three read-
ings of the Riot Act, &c.
This week the public are appalled with a most alarm-
ing affair at Hioldersfieid, where a seizure has been made
or a Birmingham parcel, containing " a sword, two
hr .ices of pistols, three bayonets, three bullet-moolds.
nd two gun-locks." This must be allowed to he sof-
t:ideally alarming; and, with the addition of an old
stocking and halt a pound of gun-powder, would lie as
formidable as the celebrated military preparations for
taking the Tower, a few years ago.
The whule story is exaet4 n counterpart of what took
place at Manchester a few years ago. There large bodies
of armed men were seen marching in, tsco-ostii-ttro,
two &clot k in the morning too, over thirie-bridge : and
alien they arrived at the extremity of that mytteri
spot, they were suddenly lest sight of. This superna-
tural event was preceded by the letting off of blue rockets,
As the dnragetis persona are probably the same,
no wonder if the present
.piece hears considerable re-
semblance to the tragi-comic exhibition which was then
brought out with.such effect muter the patronage of dis-
tinguished personages. Some of the coincidences are
striking. At Huddersfield, the rebels marched in the
dead o! the night, or rather two o'clock in the morning;
awl when they were just on the point of accomplishing
their dreadful purpose, they all of a suddru disappearrt.,
to the great ratistaction of the peaceable inlmbitauts,
who to doubt exrcted to " rise its the morning with
their throats cut :::" There is one circumstance of dif-
ference in the two events, which toseiltittifelsce noticed, as
it shows that the professors of the e system an:
not altogetbee ignorant of the sciences. The awful af-
fair at Lucie-bridge was announced by blue lights, or
rockets, which any scheol-boy could manage; whereas,
at lluddersticld, the signal of attack WM. actuaily a I,llllla
tisi.LoON " Predigiose!" as Dun.iide stinipssio wesld
irly.—(Lirerpuol Altreur.v.)

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