Star. — London, England, 1820-02-24 00:00:00

' r ''' GENERAL ELECTION. TO THE LIVERY OF LONDON. TOricrintses, HE COMMITTEE for conducting the ELEC TION of Sir WILLIAM CURTIS, Bart. meet daily at the London Tavern, Bishopskate-street, where all communi cations respecting it are requested to be addressed. And, in consequence of the rniuepresentations which have been circu lated, they feel it incumbent upon them publicly to declare, that their Canvass is neither in conjunction with, nor in opposi tion to, any other Candidate. . TO THE WORTHY AND INDEPENDENT LIVERY OF LONDON. Grvttxstun, NITHEN I offered myself to your notice at the last General Election, as a Candidate to represent you in Parliament, I made an explicit avowal of my principles, which in the event of my success would guide my political conduct. Elevated to that distirguisited situation by your unbiassed s uffrages, I have endeavored to perform its important duties) with zeal, fidelity, and attention—with an honest desire to sup port the rights and privileges of my fellow-citizens, and to pro mote the real interests and prosperity of the Empire. The dissolution of Parlament will shortly terminate.tht trust which you then so zer.erJusly reposed in me, and you will be cal:eel upon to exereisc one of your most valuable rights. The kind and friendly reception I have experienced during my cat.vass, and the very flattering Resolutions of support unani mously passed at the numerous and respectable Public Meeting assembled this day, encourage me to solicit, with the most san guine expectations o. success, the renewal of your confidence. I trust, my past conduct will afford the best assurance of my sincere and zealous attachment to our excellent Constitution, of my firm determination to support every measure.of Economy and Retrenchment, and my ardent desire to promote a fair and" free Representation of the People in the Commons House or Parliament, which is equally essential to the stability of tlie Throne, and the Liberties of the Subject. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen. Your faithful and obedient Servant, King's Head, Poultry, S JOHN THOMAS TIIORP. Feb. 23, 18'.:0. GI": . NER.AL ELECTION. 1 THE ELECTORS of PR.ESTON, in the County of LA NcAsTrat, :Ire particularly anxious to rescue the Borough from a dezradins Coalition., which has lasted for twenty Tears. A Gender:nal of Independent Principles has now an oppor tunity of being returned fur the said Borough; as there can be no doubt of the r‘sult, the Coalition being held in abkortence by all ranks of the Electors. Preston. I.bruary a. Ib2o. GENTLEMAN MISSING. A - - - GENTLEMAN, about Twenty-seven Years of Age, in d. ;cried spirits, absented himself frem his Home last Sunday week. He had on a suit of black, with a brown great coat, lined with silk, crape on his hat, and grey gloves. He is about five feet nine inches high, thin, without whiskers, inclined to a florid complexion, rather a long nose, large grey eyes, and brown hair ; a little deaf, and frequently coughs. Whoever should meet with thcsaid Gentleman, will be pleased to take care of him, give immediate notice, by express, to Mr. Waartstaw, Solicitor, Rugby, Warwickshire, and they will be most handsomely rewarded, and all expenses instantly paid. Ficsao.wr 23, MO. It being probable that be may have co*e, to. London, is_. formation is requested to be forwarded to Mews. Pm.= and SaLreral., Solicitors, Carlton Chambers, Regent-sitar: THi E ENING STA tt LONDON. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1820. TILE FUNDS. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT MI O'CLOCK : Bank Stock 223 222 1 / 2 223 3 per Cent. Reduced 68 1 / 2 5/s 3 per Cent. Consols 68 1 / 8 67 78 GB l /g Si per Cent. 77 1 / 4 4 per Cent. 87 A 5 per Cent.. Navy 103 1 / 8 India Bonds 12s. pr. Exchequer Bills (2d.) Is. 2s. dic. Consols for Acct. 68% 67 78 68114. TREASONABLE PLOT! ARREST OF THE CONSPIRATORS. scarcely have we began to recover from the horror ; occasioned by the assassination in a neighbouring' country, than we have the painful task of recording , the detection of a plot which, had it notiortunately been discovered when just on the eve of accomplish ment, would in all probability have stained the annals of our own land with a deed of bloodier iniquity than any which modern history can exhibit, at a time of general peace and unsuspecting tranquillity. The existence of a treasonable conspiracy, of the most atrocious character, has, we understand, been for some time known to the Government ; and the tirst blow by which it was to have burst on the Pub lic, was the assassination last night of the whole, or the principal, of his Mansry's Ministers ! It had been announced, that yesterday a Cabinet dinner was to take place at Lord BATHURST'S, and, according to the information received, the conspira tors had fixed on this as a favourable opportunity for carrying the first part of their diabolical project into effect. Being from twenty to thirty in number, well provided with all sorts of arms, and; as the circum stances attending their detection shews, not without a S u fli c lent degree of murderous daring, it was their intcntion to burst into Lord BATHURST'S house, and make the banqueting-room the scene of their medi tated horrors. The house of Lord BATHURST is Si tuated in a very lonely part of the west end of the tubvn—Ma.nsfield-stt cc:, between Portland-place and Harley-street ; and, in this respect , no place could have escaping by a back way, by means, as it afterwards been better suited to the views of the assassin crew. appeared, of a rope-ladder. Mr. BUMS expose d' Information of the progress of the plot having, himself every where, and encouraged the Officers to do their duty, whilst the balls welt whitzing round however, been fortunately 'communicated to Go- . vernment, the intended Cabinet dinner was secretly his head. At this moment, Captain FITECLA RE N CIS deferred ; and the place where the conspirators were (one of the gallant sons of his Ro7al Highness the to rendezvous being known, Mr. BIRNIE, the Magis- Duke of CLARENCE) arrived at the head of a detach trate, whose intelligence and zeal have deserved and ment of the Coldstream Guards. They surrounded obtained the public gratitude, was entrusted with the building, and Captain FITECLARENCE, with Ser the important task of their apprehension. jeant LEGGIS and three fixes of Grenadiers, mounted Mr. Br RNIe, Stith a strong party of Police O ffi cers, the ladder and entered the room, now filled with proceeded accordingly, at nine o'clock, to Caw- smoke, and only illuminated by the occasional flashes of the fire-arms of the conspirators. A ruffian in street, Edgware-road. They stopped at a sort of stantly approached the gallant Captain, and presented outside house, in .that street, to the upper part Of which there was access, by means of a ladder, for a pistol at his breast ; but as he was in the' act of one person at a time. Ruthven, an officer, went up 'pulling the trigger, Serjeant LIME rushed forward, the ladder, followed by two of his brother officers, and whilst attempting to turn aside the destructive Ellis and Smithers. He knocked at the door; it weapon, received the the upon his arm. Fortunately was opened to him, and the interior presented an as - for this brave man, the ball glanced along his arm , semblage cf about thirty men, an exact image of tearing the sleeve of his jacket from the wrist to his e.' .elbow, without wounding him. It is impossible to banditti, variously armed with muskets, blond give a minute detail of the desperate conflict which busses, pistols, swords, daggers, wearing belts and followed, or the numerous instances of personal cartridge-bones,—and some loading fire-arms daring manifested by the Peece-officers and the Mili- The officer produced his staff, stated his authority, tary, thus brought into sudden contact with a band and called upon them to lay down their arms. — of assassins, in their obscure den, and in utter dark- The commotion instantly became dreadful. The lights were put out by the ruffians, and a desperate ness. Unfortunately, this darkness favoured the escape of many of the wretches, and the dreadful attack, with fire-arms, swords, and daggers , 'was skirmish ended in the capture of only nine of them. commenced on the Officers, one of whom was stabbed These were instantly handcuffed together; placed in to death by a person who, as stated by Ruthven, on hackney coaches, and brought down to the Police his subsequent examination at Bow-street, was the Office, in Bow -street, under a strong military escort; noted Thistleti -ood. While the conflict was still car and MT. BIRNIE, having arrived at the same mo rying on, a dbtachment of the Coldstream Guards, for which Mr. BnINIR had sent on the first appear - trtent instantly took his seat upon the bench, and ance of resistance, arrived, under Ilse command of Prepared to enter into the examination of the pri soners. They were immediately placed at the bar in Captain FITEELARENCE, and, with their assistance, the following order: nine of the conspirators were finally secured, all the James fun a butcher, 4 n rest having contrived, in the interval, to effect their • es Wllscm, a tenor, escape, chiefly by a window at the back of a loft, to Richard Bradburn, a carpenter, which a rope ladder had, it appears, been attached James Gilchrist, a shoemaker, by the ruffians, by way of preeaution in case of scar- Charles Cooper, a boctmaker, prize. The leader of the conspiracy, Thistlewood, was Richard Tidd, a bootmaker, John Monn.-nent, a shoemaker, among those who escaped. John Shaw, a carpenter, and On the nine conspirators arrested being brought William Davidson. a cabinet-maker. up for examination at Bow-street, they were all co- Davidson is a man of colour. At the Meeting in vered with blood, several of them being severely Finsbury Slarket-place, a few months ago, he was wounded. They did not offer to give any account one of the principal speakers. of themselves, and after the Police Officers and some Inds is a short squaeman, apparently between fifty of the military had given their evidence, the party, and sixty. The rest had nothing extraordinary in whose names will be found in our report of the mat- their appearance. ter,were sent, under a strong escort, to Coldbath-fields. The Office was crowded with soldiers and officers, Mr. BIRNIE and Captain FITZCLARINCE were both bringing in arms and ammunition of various kinds, exposed to the most imminent danger, from the balls which had been taken on the premises; muskets, car and daggers of the assassins, during the affray, but, bines, broad-swords, pistols, blunderbusses, belts, and we are happy to state, both escaped without any. r s ca ouche-boxes, ball-cartridges, gunpowder, (found personal injury. The unfortunate SMITISERS has, loo s e i n the pockets of the prisoners), havresacks, and , we are informed, left a wife and large family to la- a large bundle of singularly constructed stilettoes. ment his loss. . These latter were about eighteen inches long, and tr:e A reward of £lOOO has been offered by Govern- angular in form: two of the sides being concave, and ment for the apprehension of Thistkwood. the other flat; the lower extremity having been flat- PARTICULARS OF THE ARREST. tened, and then wrung round spirally, so as to make In consequence of private information received by a firm grip, and ending in a *crew, as if to fit into the Civil Power that it was in the contemplation of the top of a staff. Several.ststves, indeed, were pro a gang of ruffians to make an attempt on the lives diced, fitted at one end with a screwed socket; and of his Majesty's Ministers, whilst assembled at the no doubt they were intended to receive this formi house of Earl BATHURST, in Mansfield-street, to a dable weapon. Cabinet dinner yesterday evening, RICHARD Bums, The depositions of a number of Officers, most of Esq. with a party of twelve of rho Bow-street patrole, them wounded, and several of the soldiers, having proceeded about eight o'clock, to the place which been taken, their evidence substantiating the fore had been described as the rendezvous of these des- going narrative, the prisoners were asked whether they wished to say any thing? Doper and Davidson, peradoes, in Cato -street, John-street, in the Edge ware-road, where, in a kind of loft, over a range of the black, were the only ones who replied, and they coach-houses, they were found in close and earliest merely appealed to the Officers and soldiers to say, deliberation. The only approach to this Pandemo- whether they had not instantly surrendered them selves :' Ellis, the Patrole, who received the mu nium -was by a narrow ladder. Ruthven , one of the principal Bow-street officers, led the way , and he dered body of his comrade Smithers in his arms, re : was followed by Ellis, Smithers, Surman, and others plied that Davidson had made the most determined' resistance: 'At the moment when the light* were ex of the patrole. On the door being opened , about twenty-seven or thirty men were seen within, all tinguished, he had rushed out of the place, armed armed in some way or other; and, for the most part, with a carbine, and wearing white cross-belts. Ellis they were apparently engaged, either in charging pursued him a considerable distance along John fire-arms, or in girding themselves with belts similar street, and, having caught him, they fell together, to those worn by the military. There were tables and in the deadly struggle which ensued, Davidson about the room; on which lay a number of cutlasses, discharged his carbine, but without effect, and Ellis bayonets, pistols, sword-belts, pistol-bane inlreae succeeded in securing him. qua ntities, ball cartridges, kc. As the officers en. Captain FITZCLARENCE had. seized and secured" tered the room, the conspirators all started up , when one or two of the prisoners with his own hands, and Ruthven, who had been furnished with a warrart he was not only very much bruised, but.his uniform from the Magistrates, exclaimed—" We are peace was almost literally torn to pieces. officers ! Lay down your aims !" . At eleven o'clock, the depositions having been taken, as far as the circumstances of the moment In a moment all was confusion. A man, whom would permit, the Magi s trate committed the prisoners wood, opposed himself to the Officers ,- armed with a Ruthven describes as the notorious Arthur Thistle - for further examination on Friday ; and they were cut and thrust sword of unusual length. Ruthven then placed in hackney coaches, two erisoners bei ng placed in each coach, accompanied by two Police attempted to secure the door, and Ellis, who had fol- Officers, with two soldiers behind and one on the box, lowed him into the room, advanced towards the man, and the whole cavalcade escorted by a strong party a nd presenting his pistol, exclaimed—" Drop your foot. sword, or I'll fire instantly!" The man brandished of the Coldstream Guards, on 2 . his sword with increased violence, when Smithers, Boer-street presented a singular appearance arthis the other patrole, rushed forward to seize him ; and moment :—The Police-office surrounded by the mi ort the instant the ruffian stabbed him to the heart. litary ; their arms gleaming , in the glaring light Of Poor Smithers fell into the arms of his , brother Off- the torches; many of them carrying muskets and cer, Ellis, exclaiming e Oh, GoD!" and in the next in- other spoils taken in the affray; the roaring of the stant was a corpse. Whilst this deed was doing, the coachmen, in consequence ifthe Theatres having just lights were extinguished, and a desperate struggle closed ; and the confused buz of the multitudi, drawn ensued, in which many of the O ffi cers were severely toge th e r b y the a pp earance of the militaryi gave al wounded. Surman, one of the patrole, received a together a ver y un-En g lish com p lexion to the night, musket-ball on the temple, but fortunately it only There was not, howeier, the slightest political gx. glanced along the side of his head, tearing up the . pteesion among the assembled crowd, and in a quar,, ,• ;-s . . scalp in its way. . : t, ter an hour a f ter the escort had left . then The conspirators kept up an incessant fire;; isliilst there was nccippeaiance of arrything extvsee;absini. it was evident to the O ffi cers that many o f them Were having happened. At bilbpast . elevah'cloc - k, the • whole of the primers were safely' lodged' in h e House of Correction, Coldbath-fields. Government has lest no time in taking the neces sary steps to bring the sanguinary villains to punish ment. Messengers and Police Officers were last night sent off to all the outports to prevent the escape of Thisi!mood, and such of his infamous as sociaes as have for the present escaped; and at one o'clock this morning the following Esiroordinary Gakeite was publishecl i . offering a reward of £lOOO for the apprehension of, Thistiewood : " LONDON . GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY. nruasnAY, riiIIITARY 24, 1820. " FEIIICARY 23, 18804, Whereas Arthur Thistlewo9d stands charged with High Treason, and also with the Wilful Murder of Richatd &zither; a reward of writ THOCSANT POUNDS is hereby offered to any per son or persons who shall discover and apprehend, or cause to be diseevered and apprehended, the said Arthur Thistleweoe, to be paid by the Lords Commissioners of hit Maritur's Trea sury, upon his being apprehended and lodged in any of his Mai:nt . 's gaols. And all persons are hereby condoned, upon thair allegiance, not to recsive.or harbour the said Arthur This tlewood, u any person offending herein will be thereby luilty of High Treason. " SIDMOUTH. " The above-named Arthur Thistlewood is about forty-eight years of age, five feet ten inches high, has a sallow complexion, long visage, dark hair (a little grey), dark !male eyes and arched eyebrows, a wide mouth, and a good set of teeth, has a scar under his right jaw, is slender made, and has the appearance of a military man ; was born in Lincolnshire, and apprenticed to an Apothecary at Newark ; usually wears a blue long coat and blue pantaloons, and has been a Lieutenant in the Militia." APPREHENSION OF THISTLEWOOD. TWELVE O'CLOCK. We are happy to state, that through the activity of the Police, Arthur Thiseetectod, the chief actor is the diaboliCal scene above described, has been appre hended. Early in the morning, Officers, well armed, were dispatched in all directions in quest of the Traitor and his accomplices ; and between nine and ten, Lavender-and Ruthren, the Officers, succeeded in tracing Thistletrood to a lodging-house in White street, Little Moorfields. One of them immediately, went off for a reinforcement of Officers, while the. other kept watch near the place ; and at half-past ten o'clock, two coaches, filled with Officers, well armed, drove up to the dour of the house, which they entered, and found Thialewood, as expected. He surrendered without offering any resistance.— The Officers instantly proceeded with their pri soner to Bow -street, where Mr. BIRNIE was sitting. The worthy Magistrate satisfied himself with merely taking evidence . as to the identity of the prisoner. and then_ sent him off in custody, to the Office of tße •• Secretary of the Home Department, where he is now under examination. ORE O'CLOCK. • Two more persons have been arrested, as belong ing to the gang of conspirators. They were taken near the same place where Thistiewood %as seized. We have not heard their names ; they are in a low situa tion of life. They were conveyed to Bow -street, and thence, by order of Mr. Bintaz, to the Secretary of State's Office. We understand, that besides deterring th 4 intinckd Cabinet dinner at Lord BATnuasis, each of the Ministers, as a measure of proper precaution, bad Police Officers in his house during the whole of yes terday and last night. One of Cie prisoners, it is said, has expressed his abhorrence of the plans of his associates, observing, that they ought all to be hung immediately." Re seemed inclined to make a full disclosure at once, but his companions, by looks and gestures, checked him. THE Fun - tn.-4 considerable depression has been felt this morning. On the rumour of the conspiracy, some persons became alarmed, and Consols opened at 67 78, 63 ; the evening before they left off at 68%. There seems to be a general gloom upon 'Change since the discovery of the conspiracy, and many per sons are selling largely. Money is very. scarcelo-day. Viscount CASTLEREAGH had an audience of his MAJESTY yesterday, at his Palace, in PaILMaU. -The Duke ofCLARENCZ and Lord . KtLTB. yistted •the KING, yesterday. We are extremely happy to say the Duchess of Ycitta is much better. Yesterday, the Duchess of CLARENCE went to the King's Palace, at Kensington, on a visit to the D uchess of KENT. - ' - Prince LEOPOLD dined with the Duchess cf Ulf?, on Tuesday. The Dukes of YORK and Sussex, the Duchess of GLOUCZETER, and the other branches of the Royal Family, occasionally visit the Princess SOPIII; Rt. Cambridge House. Yesterday the Duke of YORK Ana Duchess of GLOUCESTER visited their Royal Sister. The Archbishop of YORE gave a grand dinner, yesterday, tlithe Directors of the Antient Music and several other distinguished personages, at his house, in Grosvenor-square. The Hon. GEORGE Awaits is arrived at his brother's (Lord AkioN), in St. James's-square, from a tour. . General Sir H. TURNER, Bart. is arrived at Carlton Palace, frOM Bath. The Earl of ltossneanV is arrived at his house in Piccadilly. Onft..rortro.—The Oratorios commenced al..Drory- Larie Theatre last night with great success; and the great poweks _of BARHAM, Mrs. SALMON, _Madame Ber.Locitt, Miss TREE, and others, were all brought into action with the most happy effect. , The Erne... tainments concluded, at ^a seassniable theireHOVTIA Grand Battle Sinfoniii,•tn - whidi-G t . i , kin's the King sung by Miss Tau, MUtie' , /.14:rs, BRAIIAM, Pea; Swirl., and Thane. rnol the I nv foil x ratio bey w3l dair F•' dis Pr 4 thi at