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guilt by those who withdrew 

 their pleas of not guilt j', and 

 pleaded guilty to the same in- 

 dictment, and thus submitted 

 themselves to the mercy of the 

 Crown, appear to the committee 

 to have established beyond the 

 possibility of a doubt, the credit 

 due to the information mention- 

 ed in the last report, respecting 

 the plans of more extended in- 

 surrection, which had previously 

 been concerted, and respecting 

 the postponement 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 

 general rising 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 

 appears from the evidence given 

 upon the trials at Derby, that 

 during the march of the Der- 

 byshire insurgents towards Not- 

 tingham, one of their leaders, 

 afterwards convicted of high 

 treason, was sent forwards on 

 horseback, to obtain intelligence. 

 On his return to the main body 

 of the Derbyshire insurgents, it 



was pretended that the state of 

 Nottingham was favourable to 

 their designs ; the actual state of 

 Nottingham and its neighbour- 

 hood, 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 assembled 

 on the race course, in Nottingham 

 Forest, where the Derbyshire in- 

 surgents, according to their ori- 

 ginal plan, were to have arrived 

 at an early hour on the morning 

 of the 10th, and expected to be 

 joined by such a party. This 

 party was seen about twelve at 

 night; they were drawn up ia 

 line, two deep, and a part of themt 

 were armed with pikes or ..poles. 

 They remained assembled on the- 

 race ground until past two o'clock 

 in the morning, about which time 

 they dispersed. Some appear- 

 ances of disturbance in the towa 

 of Nottingham early in the night 

 of the 9th, induced the magistrates 

 to send for a military force from 

 the barracks; and order being 

 quickly restored, the military 

 returned to their barracks, and 

 were not again called out, until 

 the morning of the 1 0th, when 

 they were required to assist in dis- 

 persing the Derbyshire insurgents, 

 who were then on their march. 



Connected with these disturb- 

 ances in Derbyshire and Notting- 

 hamshire, a disposition to similar 

 conduct was manifested in a part 

 of the west Riding of Yorkshire, 

 On the 6th of June a meeting of 

 delegates was assembled at a place 

 called Thornhill Lees, near Hud- 

 dersfield ; and at this meeting it 

 was understood, that the time to 

 be fixed for a general rising 

 would be announced. The per- 

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