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offenders were separately tried 

 and convicted ; three of them 

 were executed ; and the capital 

 punishment of the fourth was re- 

 mitted, on condition of transpor- 

 tation. The conviction of these 

 four induced nineteen of the other 

 persons indicted, whose conduct 

 had been deemed in the next de- 

 gree most criminal, to withdraw 

 their pleas of not guilty, and to 

 plead guilty to the indictment, in 

 hopes of thus avoiding a capital 

 punishment ; and the sentence of 

 death on these persons was after- 

 wards remitted, on different con- 

 ditions. Against all the other 

 persons indicted, who were in 

 custody, the law oiScers of the 

 crown declined producing any 

 evidence, and they were accord- 

 ingly acquitted. The rest of the 

 persons included in the indict- 

 ment, had fled from justice, and 

 have not yet been taken. 



The fact of this actual insur- 

 rection first proved to the satis- 

 faction of a most respectable 

 grand jury of the county of 

 Derby, who found the bill of in- 

 dictment, and afterwards proved 

 in open court, to the satisfaction 

 of the several juries, sworn on the 

 four several trials of the persons 

 convicted ; proved also, by the 

 acknowledgment of the same guilt 

 by those who withdrew their pleas 

 of not guilty, and pleaded guilty 

 to the same indictment, and thus 

 submitted themselves to the mercy 

 of the Crown ; appear to the com- 

 mittee to have established beyond 

 the possibility of a doubt, the 

 credit due to the information 

 mentioned in the last report, re- 

 specting the pLins of more ex- 

 tended insurrection, which had 

 previously been concerted, and 



respecting the postponennient of 

 these plans to the 9th or 10th of 

 June. 



But this insurrection in Derby- 

 shire was not the only circum- 

 stance occurring since the period 

 described in the last of the two 

 reports before-mentioned, which 

 demonstrates the correctness of 

 the information on which the 

 committee who made that report 

 proceeded, in representing such a 

 s;eneral risingr to have been in- 

 tended, and to have been post- 

 poned ; and that Nottingham was 

 the head quarters upon which a 

 part of the insurgents were to 

 march in the first instance ; and 

 that they were expected to be 

 joined there by insurgents from 

 different quarters. 



Early in the same night on 

 which the Derbyshire insurgents 

 began their operations, the town 

 of Nottingham was in a state of 

 considerable agitation. It ap- 

 pears from the evidence given 

 upon the trials at Derby, that 

 during the march of the Derby- 

 shire insurgents towards Notting- 

 ham, one of their leaders, after- 

 wards convicted of high treason, 

 was sent forwards on horseback, 

 to obtain intelhgence. On his 

 return to the main body of the 

 Derbyshire insurgents, it was 

 pretended that the state of Not- 

 tingham was favourable to their 

 designs ; the actual state of Not- 

 tingham and its neighbourhood, 

 appears from the evidence given 

 on the trials at Derby. In the 

 night of the 9th of June, some 

 persons, stated to be in number 

 about one hundred, had assem- 

 bled on the race course, in Not- 

 tingham Forest, where the Der- 

 bysliire insurgents, according to 



their 



