The National Register. — London, England, 1820-03-06 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS. That our readers may ihrm an idea of the reliance they ought to place in the correetness of the French Papers, we give them the thllowing literally trans lated accounts of the detection of the Catu Street conspiracy. February 46. P. S. 10 tick& at night. Very important news from London, contained in en Extraordinary Ga.:ette, arrived to•night et the English Embassy, and was immediately communi cated to his Majesty. It appears that the Radicals, informed that all the Ministers were to dine at Lord Ilarrowby's, had finned the design of assassi nating them there, Smythers and 'f histlewood were at the head of this plot. The conspiracy was discovered at the moment of execution. The con spirators, surprised in a tavern where they had as *alibied, extinguished the light, and defended themselves for a long time with the arms with which they were provided to attack the house of Lord Harrowby, In the combat which took place between them and the agents of authority several persons were killed, and among the rest two con.. stables. Nine of the conspirators are taken ; among the rest Sinythers. Thistlewoed has succeeded in effecting his escape; a rewure, of 1,0001 is offered thr his apprehension. T 1 ,3 papers seized on the conspirators contsil the plan of the revolution which the Radicals were pr:paritoz • to effect in Eng hnd. Thus, from one end of I.urope to the o her, crimes extend and wisirculate. The secret societies and Sand/is:a of Z._'erinury ; the Liberates of Spain ; the Carbonari of Italy ; the Eadicats of England; and the Liter , .: of 1 ranee, all are dis contented, all are prep.red, and never has social order been menaced by 'greeter dangers.—Journal drs Debuts A courier arrived to-night at ti-e hotel of the English Embassy, who brings intelligence, that, 6 the day of the 2A, a very rcrious conspiracy wa to have burst forth. Its alm was nothing less li th nto rush, sword in hard, into Caziton-litnise, at the moment when Ministers were assembled th re in presence of the Lirg, and to kill his Ma ,jo ty and the principal age :a of Government! The fir intimation of the conspiracy was "iven by the L ird Mayor. The constaLles end Horse Guards w..re sent to a house in Piccadilly, where the con_ spirators were assembled ; the latter were armed, and ready to march upon Carlton-house. A com bat began ; nine of the conspirators were killed on the spot, 26 were arrested ; the famous Thistle w, 01, who succeeded in escaping, has since beea taken ; the police are in pursuit of others, and a description of them was instantly sent to all foreign Governments !!! The Lord .Isivor has issued a proclamation to the inhabitants of London to re move their fears, and to caliort them to watch over the safety of the King, and the maintenance of the public tranquillity !—Quotidienne. LOl, 9 "g:L. Louis Peter Louvel was born cn the 7th of Oc tober, 1783, at Versailles. 1-7 e was domici!cd at Cusset, Canton de Lapslice, department de l'Alice. He entered the principal battalion of the artillery train of the Ex-guard, in Ventlemaire, the 10th year of the Republic, and wss employed as saddler. year battalion was reduced in 1:406. He is about 67 centimetres high ; his hair white, eyebrows the a one, face large, nose and mouth small, chin round, and face of an oval form. The search which was made in his lodgings has led to no discovery. When first taken to prison, he only had the usual show ance; he now has provisions from the Infirmary, consisting of meat and soup ; he drinks no wine. He seems offended when his interrogators insist on his havi:g , accomplices ; he replies, that he should not have been so imprudent as to entrust his secret wish persons who might have been tempted to be tray him, in the hopes of receiy;ng a high reward. He explains his extreme sobriety by saying, that he fears the secret might escape him if he were to be into xicated. He boasts of his crime, and speaks with disdain of Ravaillac, whom he considers as the vile instrument of fanatics, without courage. fly keeping him on a low diet, he imagines that it is intended to enfeeble his organs. He complains, as of a torture, of the troublesome precautions that are adopted to secure him from destroying himself. He is surprised that a razor to shave hitufelf with should be refused him, and speaks of suicide as a weakness of which he is incapable. His character is composed of firmness without deception, of an attentive politeness far beyond the class of persons to whit h lie belongs; but what astonishes his guards the most, is to see him remain incessantly inacces sible to all remorse, glory in his crime, coolly anti cipate his punishment, and sleeping with profound trauquility. His Majesty's 'Ministers, have, it is said► inti amAted a►► intention to allow the widow of the 'misfortune. Smitlers a pensioo of 100 i. a yibc. • THE NATIONAL REGISTER, Slow sntelligente. Hays CIRCUI T-LENT ASSIZES. U RTfORU, MARCH I.— Vile 11 , otte irenn coin spruced heie '01.4111, b••filft' MC Lord Chief Miran all the Gvtl mile, and Mi. Benin Gm raw on 111.2 Crown Side. Eleven causes were entered for vial, of which only one is a special Jury. The Crlllllll4l Calendar curtained 36 cases, several of which were or a %ell heinous dos- Mier. CIVIL SIDE. WISEMAN u. !SENNETT. This was an action or slander of the worst description, the parlienlars of which cannot he mentioned. The plaintiff's CJSC was conducted by Mr. Jessopp and Mr. Adolphus, and the deletulant's by Mr. Andrews and Mr. l'he parties were in an humble condition of life. Se veral witia esft.s were ex mimed on bode sides, and the lIIJI occupied the greatest part of the day. The Chief B iron summed Ull the evidence with great itinviv•ss, and _ . . . J.iry found their verdict for the rlaintiff—Da- Lunges 51. Inere was 110 other case worth mentioning. CROWN SIDE. 1111.1RDeR A r 110R2656Y. John Bell, who stands charged in Middlesex with bring AI ace idtce with li.ciiard Blsford, in the wil till murder of a „troth:man, nati,ed Join, ThoinasTavlor, at liortisey. about a year since (the nissterious citconi st,lllCVS of wino' are fresh in the recollection 01 the ptilille), was tried here on two intlietittents„ the one char./mg him with stealina a lanih, and the other with st altog 60 ingettlis. The evidence not being sufficient to s ippon CaIIICT 1101(1111CM, tie Was acquitted till both Mr. Baron Ga ordered I to be seta to the counts of NI idttlescx, to take his trial fur toe alleged mur der lilus e This man mi.'s indicted at the last as,iz. s for the county of ESSt X, With a "Lana of desperadoes, for a humlary, titre of whom w, re coil% icted and ezrcused , but int th t. oecisttot he Wits acgutt.ed, roil tutored to Lite gaol of this county. FRIDAY, MARCH 3.—Tite roily C 411.11 of peculiar in t.'', A. sure the lollowitor f--- CHANGE 01' MURDER. Thomas Per , ly and G,•orge lead been imlictcri for the tribal !minim Mtn, W.ill WdS thrum I. idl the Ilidylieati M of whim Rill!, W 36 ihe driver, whim had been upset by the Ciiester M4ll, Buller teas ine drltcr, in C 4 /11St Cilirnce of the ousconduct of omit prisoners, who had IST'S racitia their otecties nears. in the ciao th of Atianst last, but the Grand Jury having thrown out the lull Ihr we Cu (Metier, 'lvy were now tried on a charge of M.itislaii;tia ii:r. Mr. Brodrick stated the case for the prosecution. • I'he first witiliento called Was Mr. Archer, a respectable boot-maker, of No. 91, Cheapsole, who preseated a mutilated and broken down appearance, having heen one of the attliappy siderers hom the ntisemithict ohieh occasioned me death of iiie deceased. lie stele.!, that he was an outside passeiager by the Holyhead Mail me the lUtli of . August lasi. in tending to go to (;o%eatry oil bossiness He sat on the pox with the pri-otier l'erdy. %Viten tile coach writ ed at that part of toe mail heyiittil Highgate, is here a junc tion is torined between the Arcitway 'toad mid the old Highgate Road, the.Cliester .Mall came up. Both coach men began to whip thetr horses, and put them into a gallop, and drove abreast of each oilier at a furious rate for a considerable distance, wheat the driver of the Ches ter Mall slackened the p.ce of his horses, and *clued conscious of the impropriety of Ills COltdUCt ; but, how ever, when the coaches approached St. Alban's, and had armed at the hill, athmt a mile from that town, the pri otter, Pertly, put his horses into a furious gallop tiowit t.ie hill ills example was followed by the other lot s r, who endeavoured ,0 overtake him, and a most terrific race ensued hei wren the two carriages, the velo• city of both increasing by own specific gravity down au abrupt hill. The road was wide enough for three carriages to pass each other, but the prisoner, Butler, 'Perceiving that Pertly was keeping a-head of him, posited his horses on, and waving Its hat atid clierrinv, tie suddenly turned his leaders is front of the leaders (11 the Holyhead Mail. which, in consequetice of being jammed in between the batik of the road and the other vehicle, was immediately upset. The consequences were frightful ; the deceased was killed on the spot; the witness iiad a leg and all arm shattered moat dreadfully, and a gentleman's servant, named Fenner, was taken up almost itteless, and remained afterwards at St. Alban's seveit or right days belOre he could be renioveil. The witttess staled, that he could nut identify the prisoner, Butler, but he remembered that just before the accident happened, he heard a person on the Ixot of the Chester Mail cheering very loudly in a triumphant mother, and saw that person waving ilia hat, and lit belieted it was the coactsinaii. Alter the race Pertly spoke to Butler, and said, "Oh, it is you; I did not think it was you." lie afterwards observed to witness, that liiitier was a vowing hand 011 that road, and did not know that lie, Pertly, was to be at Itedhotarit by a particular tittle. N It• IletiS had no doubt that the mischief had Deem red in consequence of the Cheater Mail driver hat tog turned the leaders upon the leaders of the Holyhead, and coin ing so near the latter. The accident happened half a mile south of St. Alban's. Nir. Webster, a surgeon of St. Alhan's, proved that the deceased came b. hi, dealt sit the shassiter alleged. A N.l r. Bade, a frueml m Ilu dereau d , swtrd , trial the latter bad beets parish clerk of 11.4:1ey, hear S:our bridge, iis Woreestersittre, and that oh she 10111 of August he had dined systis *llllt'bb hefore he we-gaol; the mail. prisourr Butler, who is a Liffill wt II fed 111 Jet, said, mat the homes Witte ii lie drove were youty a." Pugh nettled, and that lie bylined one of Mew uau never been iu haruess,.bcfore; thauhey had stanal oil ..... . i ll consequence of the rattling o f t he other coach. and b ec ame unmanageable ; and that. if ten thousand lives wer e at stake, it was quite out 01 his power to pre vent the accident. _ _ _ -- file of of Perdy's defence was to throw the whole blame upon Butler. After the aecident liapriied the prisoners had absconded, and were tint taken into custody until towards the end: of February. Several witnesses gave Buller a high character rot civility, sobriety, and caution as a driver. The prisoner Perdy also received a good character, anti was described by the witness -b to be a civil, sober, wan. Mr. liaMll Garrow summed tsp the ease for the Jury in an eloquent and impressive manlier. TheJtary found toe pristmets The Learned Judge, in passing Sentence, commented on the conduct of the prisoners in terms of strong unit ntadver•ion. Their conduct was marked by the most brutal indifference to the lives of his Alajesurs subjects. It was no answer to a case of this description, that they had put their own lives in the saute peril, because they depended upon tile chances of their own skill and dexterity iu driving, in which the passengers had no share. The nature of the defence set tip by one of the 'insulters was a serious aggravation of his crone. for if he knew that his horses were high spirited, lie ought to have hero Cie more cautious iu his m od e 0 , d l k ing .., Fur the infortnatimi olcoach proprietiors, he thought it ots duly to censure the practice of patiotg unbroken horses into a 111111111 C %chicle. OEIIOI proprietors were Ina to train weir horses at the ex!etice to the lives of the public they should take care to provide such eattle as would not overcast the ordinary danger of such Cllll. sevance, buil ab ove all. they should prima,. drivers upon whose discretion and gist(' cosoloict reI.:MCC could be ! dared. His Lordship I dui it down distisictly, as a pro posount nut in he disputed, that 11 W. 1,4 11111jWIIII NO the driver in a pliblic couch to lost his horses 111t 1, a gallop, and tit it lie was answerahie for all the consequences Of all inhiptge neat oh thus law. Toe dotter o! a t !ge coach V. J 5 !wilful to orotect even the intoxicated, the blind. ute aged, awl the i►elpless against their tool' %viol of c.to t het or imprudence. The case now before the Court l oci...meal circumstances or 4rI)SS agar wation aunt his Lortishy felt it his (boy to l ootiotio2e the severest wilt the law will allow, which was, that the pri sinitqs should he s.•verallt confined in the common gaol of tins county for the term of 11111 C year. OHOSs OUTRAN. Catnarine Hughes and Tivoinas Kentish were in. dieted as principal and accessary for all as.atilt upou Eliza liarris, ail infant, under me age of 10 years, with intent to commit a erns ()Whop on her verNm. It is inipnasiiile to enter silo a detail of tUe circum stances of this atrocious and diabolical transaction, whims excited, its an immensely crowded Court, feelings tn . horror Anil inthi/natimi. Tim Jury, under the Learned judge's directions, found the prisoners Guilty. They were sentenced to three years imprisonment each in lierilord gJol. The female prisoner evinced in her countenance the inosi audacious impudence and confirmed proaigsc. The other prisoner, tv as equally tiaprepnssessiiig iu has appearance. DasTaucuosr CP • VILLAOB.—They write front Lansanne,moler date of the 15 tit February.—A deplora ble e vpbt neCtlrred 011 the 27th December, w the *alley of Visp, in Vallais, by the sudden detachment of a part of the Glacier of ‘Vciphorn, which has destroyed a great part of the village of itanda. It was about six o'clock in the morning that a frightful noise announced to the inhabitants of the valley the danger in which they were placed. Neither the glacier itself, however, nor its fragments, touched any part of the village; but the pressure of the air, caused by its tumbling down, tore up the trees, destroyed cattle, and overthrew houses. Root's of houses, blocks of stone and ice, were carried away to a considerable distance. A great number of (wile, the only resource of this Alpine people, perished. Twelve individuals were buried 'slider ruins , ten were extricated, living, by the Holum assistance given theist; the remaining two were crushed under a heap of rub bish. Deplorable as is the situation of these mint 11111 l ate persons, it is feared that they still suffer more severely. As the precipitation of the glacier was confined to one part of it, and as the other part threatens a similar visi tation to this unhappy CQUlltry, the destruction of the remainder of the village is very probable, and the only resource which the inhabitants have left is, to abandon a territory, which, if they remain there, will become their general grave. Tuesday morning last, about one o'clock, a bur. glary was committed in the house of widow Peake, on St. Peter's Hill, Stamford. Toe offender took a pane out of the window, which enabled hint to draw a bolt that fastened the door, and the poor woman was not alarmed until she found the titan standing by her bed side. She asked hint what he wanted.-1 le saal " mo ney." She replied, you have come to a wrong house." lie tfieu drew a handkerchief over her face, and attempted to strangle her, but fortunately her cries awoke a neighbour, who called to her, when the lain made a precipitate retreat, taking with him an old cite, ked apron, and leasing a stone blacknig-bottle, iu which e us a rand le The late trials and convictions for election bribery and corruption have cast a damp on the h ove* of electors of rotten boroughs that are co r rupt. The bc candidates and th e i r agents willw ;Pre how thel infringe the l aw , for none can es puct 4I CSeape p u. nislument if tinuid offending, after the examples that have been lately made. Mrs. Coutts on Friday sent 1001. to Mr. Birnie, to be appropriated to the subscription for the Offi cers, and the worthy Magistrate received in th• whole 1721. in the course of the day.