242 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1818. 



arrived near their place of desti- 

 nation at a late hour in the morn- 

 ing; and the country being 

 alarmed, a military force was as- 

 sembled to oppose them. 



The language used by many 

 persons engaged in this enter- 

 prise, and particularly by their 

 leaders, leaves no room to doubt 

 that their objects were the over- 

 throw of the established govern- 

 ment and laws ; extravagant as 

 those objects, were, when com- 

 pared with the inadequate means 

 which they possessed. In the 

 course of their march, many of 

 their body felt alarmed at the 

 atrocious projects in which they 

 had engaged, which had actually 

 led to a cruel and deliberate 

 murder; they found that their 

 confederates had not arrived to 

 their support, as they had been 

 led to expect ; and in the villages 

 through which they passed, a 

 strong indisposition being mani- 

 fested towards their cause and 

 projects, some of them threw 

 away their pikes and retired, 

 before the military force appear- 

 ed ; and on the first show of that 

 force the rest dispersed, their 

 leaders attempting in vain to rally 

 them, many were taken prisoners, 

 and many guns and pikes were 

 seized. 



This insurrection, of small im- 

 portance in itself, is a subject of 

 material consideration, as it was 

 manifestly in consequence of 

 measures detailed in the two re- 

 ports above-mentioned, and ap- 

 pears to have been a part of the 

 general rising proposed to take 

 eflPect on the 9th or 10th of June, 

 as stated in the last of those re- 

 ports. 



At the assizes at Derby, in the 



month of July following, tJie 

 grand jury found bills of indict- 

 ment for high treason against 

 forty-six of the persons charged 

 with having been engaged in this 

 insurrection ; and several of those 

 persons having been taken were 

 arraigned upon the indictment 

 before a special commission is- 

 sued for that purpose, which sat 

 at Derby in the month of October 

 following. Four of the princi(al 

 offenders were separately tried 

 and convicted ; three of thcni 

 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 degree most criminal, to 

 withdraw their pleas of not guilty, 

 and to plead guilty to the indict- 

 ment, in hopes of thus avoiding a 

 capital punishment ; and the 

 sentence of death on these per- 

 sons was afterwards remitted, on 

 different conditions. Against all 

 the other persons indicted, who 

 were in custody, the law officers 

 of the crown declined producing 

 any evidence, and they were ac- 

 cordingly acquitted. The rest ofr 

 the persons included in the in- 

 dictment, had fled from justice, 

 and have not yet been taken. 



The fact of this actual insurrec 

 tion first proved to the satisfac 

 tion of the most respectable 

 grand jury of the county of 

 Derby, who found the bill of 

 indictment, and afterwards proved 

 in open court, to the satisfaction 

 of the several juries, sworn or 

 the four several trials of the per 

 sons convicted ; proved also, iry 

 tlic acknowledgment of the same 



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