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Monthly Chronicle.
MONTHLY CHRONICLE .
TREASONABLE CHARGES . INFORMATION having been received by Government that ill-disposed -II persons were administering an oath at Manchester , of the same tenor with that of the United Irishmen ( ro assist the enemy on their landing , & c . ) , and that 150 soldiers in one regiment had already been sworn , besides a great many inhabitants in that town and nei ghbourhood , officers were immediatel y dispatched with warrants to apprehend the ringleadersA Serjeantit
. , seems , who had taken the o ;> th , made this discovery . Ten persons were taken into custod y on Wednesday the nth of April , and on the Friday following arrived in London . B y papers found upon them , a connection was traced wtth other traitorous incendiaries in different parts of the kingdom , particularly in London , all members of the London Corresponding Society . On Wednesday the 18 th instant , a division of this Society , sixteen in number , was apprehended m a public-house in Compton-street , Clerkenwell ; and on the next another division
day , , composing the Executive Committee , of the same number , was arrested in an old house , Newcastle-street , Strand , while deliberating , with great formality , on the objefts of their institution . They were come upon so suddenl y that they had not time to destroy a single paper . One of the papers seized is entitled , The Torch ; a Light to enli ghten the Nations of Europe in their way towards Peace and Happiness . ' On the circular cards of the Society was emblematically engraved JBsop ' s fable of the and his three
man sons , whom he had called together , to advise them to be steadfast to ' each other in what they undertook . The books of the Society , found in the possession of this ( the principal ) division , led to still farther discoveries . Parties and individuals have since been and are daily apprehending , whose examination , and the investigation , of whose papers , have occupied greatly the attention of the Privy Council . Under the specious pretext of a reform in parliament , it is said , their objeft was to produce the same form of government which exists in France , by their own individual efforts , and b y aiding the enemy in case of an invasion . Their number is found to be very considerable .
These machinations formed the ground of a motion in parliament for the suspension of the Habeas Corpus , which passed both houses in one ni ght-Armed Associations are forming in all parts of the kingdom , consisting of the most respectable inhabitants ; the Supplementary Militia is ordered b y his Majesty to be immediately embodied ; and every measure is adopting to invigorate the exertions of Government to thwart the evil designs of both the internal and external enemies of the country . In the mean time indiftments have been preferred , and true bills found b y the Grand Jury , against O'Connor and others mentioned in our last Magazine .
IRELAND . IN our last number , speaking of the affairs of this unhappy kingdom , we augured a change from coercive to conciliatory measures . But painful is our task to record , that tumult , massacre , treason , insurrection , and ' rebelhon had arisen to so great a hei ght , that the Lord Lieutenant , with the advice of the Privy Council , issued a proclamation , on the 30 th of March , subjecting the whole kingdom to martial law . Being short , we shall recite the whole of it . — ' Whereas a Traitorous Conspiracy existing within this kingdom , . or the subversion of the authority of his Majesty and the Parliament , and for the destruftion of the established constitution and government , hath consi-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Monthly Chronicle.
MONTHLY CHRONICLE .
TREASONABLE CHARGES . INFORMATION having been received by Government that ill-disposed -II persons were administering an oath at Manchester , of the same tenor with that of the United Irishmen ( ro assist the enemy on their landing , & c . ) , and that 150 soldiers in one regiment had already been sworn , besides a great many inhabitants in that town and nei ghbourhood , officers were immediatel y dispatched with warrants to apprehend the ringleadersA Serjeantit
. , seems , who had taken the o ;> th , made this discovery . Ten persons were taken into custod y on Wednesday the nth of April , and on the Friday following arrived in London . B y papers found upon them , a connection was traced wtth other traitorous incendiaries in different parts of the kingdom , particularly in London , all members of the London Corresponding Society . On Wednesday the 18 th instant , a division of this Society , sixteen in number , was apprehended m a public-house in Compton-street , Clerkenwell ; and on the next another division
day , , composing the Executive Committee , of the same number , was arrested in an old house , Newcastle-street , Strand , while deliberating , with great formality , on the objefts of their institution . They were come upon so suddenl y that they had not time to destroy a single paper . One of the papers seized is entitled , The Torch ; a Light to enli ghten the Nations of Europe in their way towards Peace and Happiness . ' On the circular cards of the Society was emblematically engraved JBsop ' s fable of the and his three
man sons , whom he had called together , to advise them to be steadfast to ' each other in what they undertook . The books of the Society , found in the possession of this ( the principal ) division , led to still farther discoveries . Parties and individuals have since been and are daily apprehending , whose examination , and the investigation , of whose papers , have occupied greatly the attention of the Privy Council . Under the specious pretext of a reform in parliament , it is said , their objeft was to produce the same form of government which exists in France , by their own individual efforts , and b y aiding the enemy in case of an invasion . Their number is found to be very considerable .
These machinations formed the ground of a motion in parliament for the suspension of the Habeas Corpus , which passed both houses in one ni ght-Armed Associations are forming in all parts of the kingdom , consisting of the most respectable inhabitants ; the Supplementary Militia is ordered b y his Majesty to be immediately embodied ; and every measure is adopting to invigorate the exertions of Government to thwart the evil designs of both the internal and external enemies of the country . In the mean time indiftments have been preferred , and true bills found b y the Grand Jury , against O'Connor and others mentioned in our last Magazine .
IRELAND . IN our last number , speaking of the affairs of this unhappy kingdom , we augured a change from coercive to conciliatory measures . But painful is our task to record , that tumult , massacre , treason , insurrection , and ' rebelhon had arisen to so great a hei ght , that the Lord Lieutenant , with the advice of the Privy Council , issued a proclamation , on the 30 th of March , subjecting the whole kingdom to martial law . Being short , we shall recite the whole of it . — ' Whereas a Traitorous Conspiracy existing within this kingdom , . or the subversion of the authority of his Majesty and the Parliament , and for the destruftion of the established constitution and government , hath consi-