The National Register. — London, England, 1820-02-27 00:00:00

i~• , , - HIGH THE SON, FURTHER ACLOUNT. ~~ INTENDED ASSASSINATIONS.' The Metropolis was considerably agitated the whole of Thursday, in consequence of the arrest of some obscure individuals. charged with a crime of the greatest magnitude, and mast repulsive to the fillings of Englishmen. Information had Leen re ceived at the Office of the Secretary of State for the Ilome Department, that a number of persons had conspired w make an attempt oa the lives of his Itlajesty's Ministers, and that their atrocious project t% as to be carried into effect on Wednesday night, when Ministers had met at a Cabinet dinner at the 1 ,r 1 of Ilarrowby's, in Grosvenor-square. Their eiabolical purpose, was fortunately frustrated by to apprehension of a number of the conspirators, but not without murder, and bloodshed on their part, is resisting the civil power. Mr Birnie, the Magistrate, having put warrants into the hands of the Police Officers tbr the apprehensien of the parties, repaired with them to a stable in Cato.street, Edg wnre.road, where the conspirators had assembled, who refused to surrender, when it was found neces s.ay to force the door. A fierce contest ensued, but at length the Police Officers gained the ascen dancy. In the contest Smithers, a very meritorious (Aker, received a mortal wound, and almost in stantaneously expired. The lights were then put out by the party in the loft, and some of the clivers were wounded. A detachment of the Guards havirg arrived, Capt. Fitzelarence headed the aeldiers, who dashed into the loft, which was filled with smoke. One of the villains presented a pistol at the Captain, which he was on the point of firing, when a serjeant of the Guards, named Legge, rushing fbrward to put it aside, received a shot in Lis arm. It is supposed that about fifteen of the renspirators escaped at the time, and nine indivi tle e:s were taken into custody, who were conveyed to 11.ov-street, and after Mr. Birnic lind taken the depositions against the prisoners, they were con veyed to tile House of Correction :dealt twelve o'eleck on Wednesday nigh, to be brought up again for re-examination. Arthur Thisilewood, who charged with the murder of the untbrtunate e.'elithers, was taken in bed Thursday tbrenoon, at an o.scure house in White -street, Mooi kids, and aonveyea to Bowestreet, and fiom thence was car r'2,l to Whitehall, where he was examined before the privy Council, and also a person of the name of Bernet, charged with being the second leader of the conspirators. _ _ 'Cho militery preserved thc. , strictest discipline rad.:r Captain Fitz Clareuce.—When Thistlmvotxl va:: taken ; be said, " The game is ny; I make no resistanee." , —lt is not yet, we believe, deternzined wl:etber they are to be tried or not by a Spe c ial ceraninwion ; and it is reported that Parliament will sit longer than was expected. Isle comtitu,:teationt of lite existence of a conspiracy to destroy t nine of the C'abinet Ministers was only 11hide oa 1V . C411106(1.1 morning to she Secretary of State for the 1 icier 1) pat linens, by the Earl of Harron by, ss ho, it is sa tl, was a o;oped by a man, s hen riding in st. James's Palk, who deli% ered to him a letter, the C01111:1113 of wide.' were, that a gang of assassins were to assassinate his Lordship and the rest of the Cabinet Ministers, when assembled at his house on the evening Malta' dly at a Cabiotet dinner, The Erl of Harrowloy, alehougis ite did not know the man, listened to his representati tttt t iu ario4tion to the contents of the letter, and afterwards eon:Mutt his biutlser Monsters upon the su! ject ; and tut:• result of Own determination, in the first place, was to postpotia theCalsinet dinner. Precautions were ins gioteliately nee Secretary of Store's office for the I:.• ety and apprehension of the villeins. The first i.tti.otatoon that was given of the affair at she office in Ikaw Street was at pest seven o'clock, when it was made 4.• t own that a number creamers, constables, and patrol, st •teld be waisted. Ellis, who is a conductor of a party & . patrol, was ordered to kave his division, and repair to tile (ace wish the melt under his direction,— '1 he business was kept se secret fi them till tisey started, which was between hog past eight (o'clock ant nine. The ol seep( rendezvous of the assassins was Cato Street, Joliet Sueet, in the Palgeware Road, to tere the otighbottrs hail become alarmed by a num of strange earn assemblitie in a stable, :tad a hitt ,•r ii, after dark; sacks being hung up un the inside tai the windows to prevent detection. o the Cason of the day inquiries hail Items made, *fief the result was, that smile desperate act %I/JA expected is take place. Toe Ministers' aervants were armed wlth p o ,tol s , and two (officers or constables appointed to each residence, The Earl of flarrowhy and VIY:01111i CM le r-azli (lined with the Earl of Liverpool ; and at 'lisle t. clock they went to the Secretary of staist'a 1 / 1 1 1, .e tor I Heine ihrimitent, at which time all the Cabinet Minister's asseitilolerl. Birnie, the Magistrate, was A . :frected by Viscount Sidninath to be in Cate-street,and to "emiliest to act in case of cifieneeney. A party of the I:start!s, wider the command of Captain Pitscfarence. w,ts unit red to illatell to Cato -street, to assin the police, ii IIeCeSP Uilf(l .111ly, howteer, they were not 'osarly direeteel,or tftey dttl nut insderstasiel inhere the !ace was, as they were 41 tile entitrary cod of the street to. ties) site assasttola commenced their murderous attack spots the (Miceli, and it was only by the discharge of kts.uts that they found ttut where the building THE NATIONAL REGISTER. %Viten the police officers arrived, they found two stn. thick at the door armed with emus J nil swords. These imposed their admittance without the pass word. The officers, however, sone. overpowered and secured them. They then gave an alarm, and the officers heard by the rise in the loft that several persons were up stairs. They ascended to the loft by a ladder which the con spirators themselves had used. Millivolt went first ; he was followed be Ellis ant: Smithers. The villains were armed with blunderbusses, muskets pistols, pikes, swords, &e. dressed with hel.s, and appe.tred in every respect ready to march 11111 M their murderous attack. Itittliven informed mean that he and his companions were officers, that they had a warrant to appiehend them, and desired diet(' to disaint and sui render, which they reinsert. Sotithers cooragemisly sit p l ied lorward, and by this act lost his life, as Arthur Thistlewood Lutist a sabre at hint, tt Inch entered a short distance I),•lniv his right breast. SlM:hers eeelainted "Oh shit:vied, and fell. As lie was in the act of falling, Ellis, seeing his brother officer butchered, dis charged a pistol at Thistlewood, the contents of which missed biro, val lodged in the wall: the gang then knocked out the lights, when most of them escaped ; die remainder of the gang then attacked the officers most furiously, and their numbers far exceeded what was expected ; they were two In one agaiust the ollicers, and, being d(-!lterate, there is every reason to believe they wool(' hare niass.tered all the potice-oflicers, haul it not been Air the titnetv arrival of the military. Ellis received a sli g ht %sound under his right knee. William %Vei tcotc was shut at liv Arthur Thistlewood, and alierwastls had a most narrow escape ; three other shots haring passed through tile crown of his hat, and the fourth shot through the thick part of his right thumb. Charles Brooks shut at three times, and only ;me of them hit him, which passed through all his clothes on his shoulder. John Wright received a stall on his right side, from s sword or sahre ; but, owing to his braces being rather thick, the point of the deadly weapon came in contact with them, which saved his life. John Sermon (not Salmon as reported Thurs day) received a serious wound on his head. the hand-grenades found with them are about the size of a large orange, made of cast iron, filled with combustibles ; they have a rowel hole, in which is placed a lose, which, on being set tire to, is thrown by ilse hand, and when it falls it explodes, the splinters Catised by the explosion 9preiul in all direelions, and one of them has been known to ktil ten or te.eive pet sons• It was intended to exit:ode Li.: se hotribla instruments at Inc Earl of Harrowity's hense. The officers wciiii! in putstait of Thistlewood till six o'clock Thursdav Tory sea oiheil the honse where he resided in Stanhope -street, Clare-markt t. and all those of Its connexions, but without effect. At half past 111 o'elock, Lavender, Bishop, Rotliven, Ellis, and i\Li.!inent, left the °Mee, to make another attempt to find him. About 12 tit:hick Lavender amp Bishop %vete seen stepping out of a hackney-coach, with Thistlewood in custody. Ile was conveyed into the front office, when he underwent an examination before Air. and it appear d tram the evidence of the officers, that buoyed him in the house, \o. 8, %%line-street, Cots voilki reel, in bed in a back pai guar, and, it is stipitosed, soundly asleep, as tit.. it first entrance lion the oxen &I not ateake.l luru. 0, the door being opened, Bishop cit ut I forward and sprung upon him in the lied, armed with a pistol. 'ritistlewtiad looked up, and exclaimed, "1s it )otl, 3 shop? I wall make no resistance." A shr.rt e:,:a.niitation of Itutioen took place, front whictt it appeared that Tr, sileworal was the man who stabbed Smithery. At the conclusion of the examihation he was 1.1::C11 to the Secretary id State':i office : Mr. Bailie also went there. The ofliet rs ha t i lig apprehended all the persons found in the house where they apprehended Thistlewood, s 1 r. J. E Conant, the magistrate, pus ceedol with their examihation; they nonsisted of the landlady of the house, Abs. Hill, ► lodger, and Lewis Casper, a 111311 W 114; lilth not lodge in it. Elizabeth Barris, the landlady, stated, that her hus band works at (7aslon's leifer-foundry. On W'ednesday she had a bill in her whitlow to let her lodgings, when iii she morning, between to and I I o'clock, Thistle wood came into her house and inquired about the lodg ing: told him it was only halt a !led with her nephew. 'lnistlewood agreed for the hall bed, for which he was its pay two shillings and sixpence a week, and was to take vissessimi of it that niebt. She staid Thistlewood arriv.,l at her how.e between to and 1 I deloh ou ‘Vevi• ttesday night: he observed that he was late; she replied he was late, and she hail/almost given him up. lie then went to bed. I ler streiii-door st inding open only by a latch, the rifle .rs bad t mere(' and searched the meter part before she knew y were there, when th e y in k e d her to unlock the door where Thistlewood was in bed, which she instantly did. She did not know Lewis Casper had been in her house till she found hint in dir coach with her when they were brought away. Lewis stated himself to be a watch-finisher residing in Union. street, Bishopsgate, and accounted for his being in the house by saying he was with Mrs. Hill the lodger, who washed for him, and he appointed tiis little boy to call for a key there. This 111311 was detained till it was ascertained if he ..vas the Mall he represented himself so be. Mrs. Harris and Mr.. 11111 were discharged. John Sytismoncls, a l'Uotnan. st 20, Upper Seymour street, was ;1 1 ,prel l ended by I-Av.:utter and Bishop, chare4l tm stospic;on 4,1 being cone,rned %s hit the assas :,ins. Ile is suspected of havits4 given them information resp•ctittl the I:Jos:lentil's of the higher orders. 1k was dettii.ted It is stas...! tTlat :t man called at the Earl of Ilar rowby's ionise in Grosvetior.sqnare on Wednesday morning, between eleven and twelve o'clock, and inquired of the porter if the Noble Earl was at home, who replied in the negative. The man up ',tared very urgent to see the F.:!rl, but the porter did not give him any hopes of accomplishing his object, not knowing the man, and he refusing to tell his business, it not being usual to admit strangers to. see the Earl under such circumstances. The man, however, persevered in his desire and necessity of seeing the Earl, and that without loss of time, and he at length made use of the expression, that if be did not see the Noble Earl the porter would not be sitting in that chair (meaning the porter's chair in the hall) to-morrow. This alarmed and astonished the porter, and induced hint to believe that the man had something serious and alarming to communi cate to the Earl of Harrowby. He then told hint that the Noble Earl was riding on horseback in the Parh, directed hint to the part of the Park where be was most likely to find him, described his groom and the livery he wore, The man in consequence hastened with all speed to the Park, and discovered the groom as described by the porter, hailed him, and asked hint it' the gentleman befitre him was the Earl of Harrowby ? the groom replied in the affirmative. The man told him he wanted, and must speak with him. The groom informed his Noble Master, and the Earl stopped his horst:. The man presented a letter to him, which the Earl open ed and read. The man having informed the Noble Earl he had a deal more to communicate, Lc dis. mounted from his horse, and walked and talked with the man for some time. FROM LAST' G.IZETTE. PTS. W. Block, Bath trick, Somerset. cabinet maker. Solicitor, Mr. Ilaliday, Old Bond Street. C. Comber. Dorking, Surrey. carpenter. Sols. Messrs. Tom linsons, Thomson, and Baker, Copthall Court. F. Gidney, Guenhitlie, Kent, %ictualkr. Sol. Mr. Glyles, Burr Street, Kart Smithfield. G. Ilamilton and J. Sampson, Queen Street, Cheapsidc, warehousemen. Sols. Messrs. Stratton and Allrort, Simret J. M'Master, Mile End, master mariner. Sol. Mr. Fitzge rald, Lawrence Pountney S. Bilbrough, Gildersoine, York, cloth merchant. Sol. Mr. Evans, Hatton Garden._ _ _ W. iiind,e, Leeds, draper. Sol. Mr. Makinson, Temple. E. France, Hudderbheld, York, glazier. Sol. Mr. Lake, Catcaton Street. J. Ritchie, Woolwich, biker. Sol. Mr. Al'Alichael, South Sea Chambers. - - - - - J. S. Voysey. Ratcliffe Highway, grocer. Soh. Messy. Evitt and Bison, Hayden Square, Minories. J. Lawrance, Hatton Garden, woollen draper. Sols. MOM. Bnurdillon and Hewitt, Bread Street, Cheapside. T. G. and D. Asquith, Fenehureli Street, merchants. Sok. Messrs. Lee and Townsend. Three Crowns Square, Sauthwat::. W. K. Taylor, Birmingham, dealer in bullion. Snls. Messrs. Alexander and Holme. New Inn. _ . P. Watson, Liverpool, merchant. Suls. Adlington and Gregory, Bedford Row. D. Edwards, Newport, Monmouth, corn dealer. Sol. Mr. King, Serjeants' Inn. .1. Levy, Houndsditch, dealer. Sol. Mr. Norton, New Union Street, Moorfic:de. D. Emmett, Chippcnham, Wilts, butcher. Sol. Mr. Eyre, Gray's Inn Square. J. Cook ' Helmsley, York, mer,hant. Sol. Messrs. Bell and Brozhick, Bow C:mrcli ard. - - - - - - J. iiorsfall, Gilder:of - o, York, cloth merchant. Sol. Mr. il•.on, Grcville Street, Matron Gault n. E. T. llorley, liarbury, %Yu:wick, miller. Sol. Mr. Burfoot, Teniple. H. Leigh, Liveri:ool, soap maker. Sols. Messrs. i.owe and Cow burn, Temple. J. King, Immingham, wire worker. Sole. Messrs. Bourdillon awl Hewitt. Bread Street. Ci,eapside. J. Wainwrtglit.Biriniagliain, bellows maker. Sole. Mews. Bourddlou and Hewitt, Bread Sweet, Chtak,..tete. - ~~ 1 DIVIDENDS. March 18, E. Saeage, Cpper Xorth Piace, Gray's Inn Lane, Btoter—ls, 'l '. W. Baseley and W. Stapleton, Newport ucks, brewers-21, J. and R. Potts and 11. Cooke, Loninan Street, merchants-11, S. Nclorme, liislimi,gate St act, merchant —2O, %V. Dickinson, Sc.aby, Yorkstiir.:, coal inere!..tt,t—s:l, R. ice, Great Winche,ter Street, underwriter—Vs, T. Cl:iiptia.•l, iittlebury Mills, E,sex, meillina.l-14, %V. Eminott, Lawrence Pountiley Lane, oil merchant-25, .1. Oulet, Charlotte Street. Fumy Squ:ire, jeweller —is, W. %V 0u,1,, Crawford Street, Maryielone, liner, draper-18, J. Jackson, Duke Street, Man chester Square, lialrerdustier—e3, .1, Newell, Redbridge. Sotott:- anipton, timber merchant-28, W. Simkins, Southampton. waiehmakei —2l, T. Cooke aa.d M. F. Brennan, Strand, &tilers in music—lS, It. Strachan and T. Stubbs, Cite:fside, ware housemen—Apia 6,C.1: hating. Bristol, pfumb,r—s, A. Philliks and 11. Loser, Salters' Rail Court, merchants-14, A.Walter and J. Stokes, llishopswood and I.ydbrool: Works, Gloucestershire. iron masters._ _ . CERTIFicAT ES to be granted March Itt. C. Mackenzie, Caroline Street, Bedford !squaw. merchant.— E. Maddock, it. Quinn, and J. CMarkv. I.n crpool, membunts. —B. Gash, Bridge Howl, Lambeth. coach 1. aker.-11. Juba. son, Waldron, sussex. tanmr.—C. Reid, Plymouth, mer ehunt.—W. Garner, l'oultomzuit -Seacotrot, Chester, Mailer in Crome. victua:kr.—M. Taylor. Long Laic, cotton dealer.—W. Ilcvcy, litaand Street. Christ church, and J. Levey, Coal Exchange, coal and ship 011.11crS. W. I I Caltil, Lower Street, Farmer. Ashburn', Derby, grocer.—C. Bee ley. Manchester.—J. Fuller, llilierrcay, Essex, horse dealer. The following is a etpy of the answer returned by the Duchess of Kent to the Address of Condc. lence, which was pa clieoted to her trout the House of Commons by Lord Morpeth : .‘ I am va of the lettings which ilidtlf. d Ihr Iliunse ul Cuitain.n. lu condole with me on Vie calantt lams anal untiinel) death ut . Ws late 1t..)al Highness tale 11)Llse (.1 . Krill; Asti I request that tiny will accept my gra,a I'o acknowiedgenictils for llacj i Niv a ,a t e, as if billows use !kilt lily hrluse•.l Inishand's no awry will I.? preserved isa this 1 wintry , new, I am pt.ros3 iv say, neetasie mine lay aatiee:t.. ine'inataute, as w a II as trona any •soon will' it la neap eagt to a mast 411114U1e and exevllcut Palm u 0 d,( 1 4., lu..i. to limeitrep4satile:" The Duchess held . the little fatherless Princess Alexundrina in her arms while the Address wos read to her, and received the Deputation, Lolls Morpeth and Clive, with evident feelings of grate. ful Sa:6filCtiOn) vex'