XXV.-SAINT CHRISTOPHER'S, NEVIS, AUGUILLA, AND THE Secretary and Clerk of the Crown in the Virgin Islands Attorney-General Solicitor-General 300 0 0 200 0 0 140 0 0 500 0 0 495 0 0 252 10 0 166 0 0 140 0 0 No return. No return. REPORT By the Secret Committee of the House of Lords, appointed to Inquire into certain Meetings and Combinations endangering the Public Tranquillity, and to Report to the House as they shall see occasion, Ordered to Report, That the Committee have met. and have proceeded in the examination of the papers referred to them. Their attention was, in the first instance, directed to those which relate to the metropolis; and they have found therein such evidence as leaves no doubt in their minds that a traitorous conspiracy has been formed in the metropo. lis for the purpose of overthrowing, by means of a general insurrection, the established government, laws, and constitution of this kingdom, and of effecting a general plunder and division of property. In the last autumn, various consultations were held by persons in the metropolis engaged in this conspiracy. Different measures, of the most extensive and dangerous nature, were resolved upon; partial preparations were made for their execution, and various plans were discussed for collecting a force sufficient for that purpose. But at a subsequent consultation, another plan was adopted, which was to get a great number of men together to see what force could be raised, and it was agreed, that the best way to get them together would be to call a public meeting. Spafields was fixed upon as the place affording the greatest facilities for entering the town, and attacking the most important points in the city. In pursuance of this design, and in order to assemble in the neighbourhood of London a greater number of the poorer classes of the community, and particularly of those in whose minds the pressure of the times might be supposed to have excited disaffection and discontent, advertisements were inserted in newspapers, and handbills were industriously distributed, inviting the distressed manufacturers, mariners, are tisans, and others, to assemble at that place on the 15th of November. A large body of people accordingly as sembled at the time and place prescri. bed. The most inflammatory language was there held to the multitude, having a direct tendency to excite them to outrage and violence; and the meeting was in fact followed by some acts of plunder and riot. A petition to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent was agreed to at that meeting, and an adjournment to Palace-yard on the first |