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as to the state of those parts of 

 England in which the circum- 

 stances detailed in the two re- 

 ports of the former committees 

 appear to have arisen. 



In the last of those reports, 

 presented to the House on the 

 12th of June last, it was repre- 

 sented that the period of a ge- 

 neral rising, of which the inten- 

 tion and object were stated in the 

 reports, appeared to have been 

 fixed for as early a day as possi- 

 ble after the discussion of an ex- 

 pected motion for reform in 

 parliament ; that Nottingham ap- 

 peared to have been intended as 

 the head quarters, upon which 

 a part of the insurgents were to 

 march in the first instance ; and 

 that they expected to be joined 

 there, and on their march towards 

 London, by other bodies with 

 such arms as they might have 

 already provided, or might pro- 

 cure by force from private houses, 

 or from the different depots or 

 barracks, of which the attack 

 was proposed. That concurrent 

 information, from many quarters, 

 confirmed the expectation of a 

 general rising about the time 

 above-mentioned, but that it was 

 ' subsequently postponed to the 

 ! 9th or 10th of June, for which 

 I various reasons had been assigned. 

 I The report added, that the latest 

 intelligence from those quarters 

 had made it highly probable that 

 the same causes which had to 

 that time thwarted the execution 

 of those desperate designs, viz. 

 the vigilance of the government, 

 the great activity and intelligence 

 of the magistrates, the ready as- 

 sistance afforded under their or- 

 ders by the regular troops and 

 yeomanry, the prompt and efB- 

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cient arrangements of the officers 

 intrusted with that service, the 

 knowledge which had from time 

 to time been obtained of the 

 plans of the disaffected, and the 

 consequent arrest and confine- 

 ment of the leading agitators 

 would occasion a still farther 

 postponement of their atrocious 

 plans. 



It now appears that in the 

 night of the 9th of June last, a 

 rising took place in Derbyshire, 

 headed by a person who went for 

 that purpose from Nottingham, 

 and was therefore called " The 

 Nottingham Captain." The in- 

 surgents were not formidable for 

 their numbers, but they were ac- 

 tuated by an atrocious spirit. 

 Several of them had fire arms ; 

 others had pikes previously pre- 

 pared for the purpose: and as 

 they advanced towards Notting- 

 ham, they plundered several 

 houses of arms, and in one in- 

 stance a murder was committed. 

 They compelled some persons to 

 join them, and endeavoured to 

 compel others by threats of 

 violence, and particularly by the 

 terror of the murder which had 

 been committed ; and they pro- 

 posed to reach Nottingham early 

 in the morning of the 10th of 

 June, and to surprise the military 

 in their barracks : hoping thus to 

 become masters of the town, and 

 to be joined by considerable 

 numbers there, and by a party 

 which they expected would be 

 assembled in Nottingham Forest, 

 and which actually did assemble 

 at that place, as after stated. 

 The disposition to plunder, the 

 resistance they met with, and 

 other circumstances, so delayed 

 their march, that they had not 

 R arrived 



