The National Register. — London, England, 1820-03-05 00:00:00

4 104., . . FRENCH PAPERS. That our readers may form an idea of the reliance they ought to place in the correctness of the French rapers, we give them the fallowing literally trans lated accounts of the detection of the Cato Street conspiracy. rchmary 26. P. S. to u'dork at oght. Very• important news from London, contained in an Ertr«ordinaly Ga:ette, arrived to-night at the English Embassy, and was immediately communi cated to his Nlajesty. It appears that the Radicals, informed that all the Ministers were to dine at Lord flarrowby's, had limited the design of assami stating them there, `another.: AIR Thistlewood 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 sembled, extinguished the light, and defended themselves for a lung 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 ag•mts of authority several persons were ki'lcd, and among the rest two con stables. Nine of the conspirators arc taken ; among the rest Smothers, Thistlewood has succeeded in effecting his escape; a rew,-.rd of 1,001)/• is offered fur his apprehension. The papers seized on the conspirators contain the plan of the revolution which the Radicals were preparing to effect in Eng and. Thus, from one end of Europe to the crimes extend and assimulate. The secret oxioisisi; and Sandlists of Germany ; the Liberates of Spain; the Carbourtri of Italy ; the Radicals of 'England; and the Liberaux of France, all are dis contented, all are prep.red, and never has social order been menaced by !greater dangers.—Journal drs Admits. _ A courier arrived to-night at the hotel of the English Embassy, who brings intelligence, that, on the day of the 23d, a very serious conspiracy was to have burst forth. Its aim was nothing less than to rush, sword in hand, into Carlton-house, nt the moment when Ministers were assembled there in presence of the King, and to kill his Ma jesty and the principal agents of Government! The first intimation of the conspiracy was given by til e ' Lord Mayor. The constables and Horse Guard s were sent to a house in Piccadilly, where the con_ opirators 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 arrestol ; the famous Thistle wood, who succeeded in escaping, has since bee's taken ; the police are in pursuit of others, and a description of them was instantly sent to all foreign Governments! ! ! The Lord Mayor has issued a proclamation to the inhabitants of London to re move their fears, and to exhort them to watch over the safety of the King, and the maiutenance of the public tranquillity !—Quotidicone. FAWN Till NATIONAL REGISTER. itssig linteUtstna. HOME CIRCUIT—LENT ASSIZES. HERTFORD, MARCH 1.--Tite Home Circuit corn ntenced hem to-day, before the Lord Chief Baron on the Civil Side, and Mr. Baron Barrow on the Crown Side. Eleven causes were entered for t ial, of which mile one is a special Jury. The Criminal Calendar contained 36 cases, several of which were of a very heinous cha racter. _ CIVIL. SIDE. WISEMAN v. VENNETT. This was au action of alaiitler of the o•orst description, the particulars of which cannot be mentioned. The plaintiff's case wt conducted by Mr. Jessopp and Mr. Adolphus, and the delenclant's by Mr. Andrews and Mr. tValford. The parties were in an humble condition of life. Sv veral witnesses were examined on both sides, and the trial occupied the greatest part of the day. Tire Cliief Baron summed up the evidence with gi eat minuteness, and Tue Jury found their verdict for the plsintifT-1)a -mages 51. There was no other ease worth mentioning. CROWN SI DK. MURDER A IiORSBRY. John Bell, who stands charged in Middlesex with being an accomplice with It lehard B tyford, in the wil ful m urder of a getitleitiall, flamed John Thomas Taylor, at lloritscy, about a year slave mysterious circum stances of winch are fresh in the recollection of the pudic), was tried here on two indictments, the one charging him with stealing a lairds, and the other with stealing 60 pigeons. The evidence to support either indictment, he was acquitted on bOlh Mr. Barn (;arrow ordered him to be sent to the county of Mitilesex, to take his trial for the alleged tour der shove menutined. _ This inan was iittlicted at the last assiz•s for the county of Essex, with a gang of desperadoes, for a bur;tlarY, three of whom were cotte tete(' and executed, bust ma that occasusstt he was acquitted, acid toured to the gaol of this county, FitiaAy, NlArtch 3.—The otaiy cases of peculiar 111- ter.•st were the followitm LOU,' EL Louis Peter Louvel was born on the 7th of Oc tober, 1783, at Versailles. He was domiciled at Cosset, Canton dc Lapalice, department de P A lice. He entered the principal battalion of the artillery train of the Ex-guard, in Vendemaire, the loth year of the Republic, and was employed as saddler, The battalion was 'Aimed in IBoti. He is about 1;7 centimetres high ; his hair white, eyebrows the same, facts 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 abow. since; be now has provisions from the Infirmary, consisting of meat and soup ; he drinks no wine. He seems offended when his interrogators insist on his haviJg accomplices ; he replies, that he should not have been so imprudent as to entrust his secret with persons who might have been tempted to be tray him, in the hopes of receiving a high reward. lie explains his extreme sobriety by saying, that he fear. the secret might escape him if he were to be intoxicated, He boasts of his crime, and speaks with disdain of Racallbw, whom he considers as the vile instrument of fanatics, without courage. Jay keeping him on a low diet, he imagines that it is intended to entiteble his organs. He complains, as of a torture, of the woublesome precautions that are adopted to secure him from destroying himself. Ile is surprised that a razor to shave hindelf with should be refused him, and speaks of suicide us a weakliest of' which he is incapable. His character is composed of firmness without deception, of an attentive politeness far beyond the class of persons to which he belongs; but what astonishes his guards the most, it to see him remain incetsantly inucces. sigh to all remorse, glory in his crime, coolly anti eipate his punishment, and sleeping with profound tranquility. - - - His Majesty's Ministers, have, it is said, inti. MI at a an intention to allow the widow of the unfortunate Smithers a pension of 100 i. a year. CHARGE 01' ►IURDBR. Thomas Pertly and Gvorae limier had been indicted for the wilful murder ni W Jliant liar', w.;ii was thrum; 01l the Holyhead NI ;11, of which Pertly was the driver, and which had been upset by theCttester of which Butler was the dater, in conscquence of fife nusrnnduct of both pri:•onvrs, who had been raeina tnelr coact', s near St. in the ono;:th of August last, but the Grand Jury having thrown out the hill for the elynal offence, they were now tried on a charge of Nlauslangh tcr. _ . Mr. Brodrick stated the case for the prosecution. The first witness called was Mr. Arche►, a respectable boot-maker, of No. 91, Cheapsitle, who presented a mutilated and broken down appearance, having been one of the anhappy sufferers irons the misconduct which occasomed the death of the deceased. He stated, that he was an outside passenger by the liolyhead Mail on the loth of August last, in truding to go to Coventry on business He sat on the hoz with the prisoner Pertly. %Viten the coach arrived at that part of the road beyond Highgate, where a junc tion is formed between the Archway Road and the old Highgate Road, the Chester Mail came up. Both coach men began to whip their horses, and put them into a gallop, and drove abreast of each other at a furious rite for a considerable distance, when the driver of the Ches ter Mail slackened the pace of Isis horses, and seemed conscious of the impropriety of his conduct ; but, how ever, when the coaches approached St. Alban's, and had arrived at the hill, about a mile from that town, the pri soner, Pertly, put his horses into a furious gallop down tile hill. His example was followed by the mites who endeavoured to overtake him, and a most terrific race ensued between the two carriages, the Mot city of both increasing by their own specif i c I.:,ravity down an abrupt hill. The road was wide enovglt fu: three carriages to pass each other, but the prisoner, Under, perceiving that Pertly was keeping a-head of him, pushed his horses on, and waving bis hat and cheering, he suddenly turned his leaders in front of the leaders of the Holyhead which, in consequence of being Jammed in between the bank of the road and the other vehicle, was immediately upset. The consequences were frightful ; the deceoed was killed on the spot ; the witness nad a leg and an Arm shattered most dreadfully, and a gentleman's servant, named Denier, was taken up almost lifeless, and remailed afterwaals at fit. Alban 's seven or ceps days before he could be removed. The witness stated, that he could not identify the prisoner, Butlet, but he remembered that just before the accident happened, he heard a person on the box of the Chester Mail cheering very loudly in a triumphant manner, and saw that pvram waving his That, and he believed it was the coachman. After the race Pally spoke to ender, and said, "Oh, it is you ; 1 did not thinl: it was you." Lie afterwards observed to witness, that Hitler was a young hand on that road, and did not know that he, Nerdy, was to be at Redbourn by a particular time, Wit ness had no doubt that the mischief had occurred in consequence of the Chiter Jlail delver having turned the leaders upon the leaders of the plot tread, and com ing so near the latter. The accident happened half a nude south of Si, Alban's. :11r. IVebster, a surgeon of St. Alban's, proved that the deceased cattle by his death in the wanner alleged. A Mr. Butler, a friend of the deceased, slated, that the latter had liven parish clerk of liaitley, 111:ar Slow. bridge, in Worcestershire, and that rot the 10th of August he had dined with witness before ho went nit ►.y the The prisoner nutlet., svho is a stout well fed matt. sail, that the 11,iises whic it hu drove were young and high tnettlld, and that he helloed one of them had never been iu baruco„treforc j thatthey had started off _ . in consequence of the rattling of the other coach, end became unmanageable ; and that, if ten thouiand lines wer e at stake, it was quite out of hii power to prevent the accident. The object of Peril.'s defence was to throw the whole blame upon Butler. After the accident happened the prisimers had aliscondeil, and were not taken into custody until towards the end of Fehruary. Several witnesses gave Butler a high character fin civility, sobriety, and caution as a driver. The prisoner Perdy also received a good character, and was described by the witness .s to be a civil, sober, man. Mr. Baron Garrow summed tip the case for the Jury in an eloquent and impressive manner. TheJ fouud the prisoners Guilty. The Learned Judge, in passing sentence, commented on the conduct of the prisoners in terms of strung ani madversion. Their conduct was marked by the most brutal indifference to the lives of his Majesty s subjects. t was no answer to a case of this description, that they had pot their own liv es in the same peril, because they depended upon the chances of their own skill and dexterity in driving, in which the passengers had no share. The nature of the defence set up by one of the prisoners was a serious aggravation of his crime, for if lie knew that his horses were high spirited, he ought to have been the more cautious its his mode of (hiving.— For the itilbritration ofcoacii proprietors, he thought it his duty to censure the practice of putting unbroken horses into a public vehicle. Coach proprietors were not to traits their horses at the expence of the lives of the public ; they should take care to provide such castle as would not incrust the ordinaty danger Of stien con veyance; bin above all, they should provide drivers upon whose discretion and good conduct reliance could be placed. II is Lordship laid it down distinctly, as a pro• Ixuutiou not to la' disputed, that it was tot awful for the driver of a public coach to pun his horses nun a gallop, and that he was answerable for all the (4... sequences of an this ingement of this law. The di is et . t coach was bOffild to protect even the ihtogic tt.stt, !ue blind, the aged, awl the helpless against their own Willt of caution or improdeuce. The case now before the Court presented circumstauces of gross aggravation atid his Lordship tel• a sus dirty to pronounce the tteserest judg ment that time law .vill allow, which was, that the pri sotterS ‘nourid be sekerallv confined in the common gaol of this county for the term of nor year. ONOlls otyritAill, Catharine Hierties and 'Fatima, Kentish were in, dieted as anti accessary to an assati4 alma Ehza Harris, ao infant, under Inc age of 1(1 years, with Introit to Co Motaii gn),". (son atte On her peril, 11. It Is inipowno!e. to .• , i.ez nni a &lad of the circtun. stances of this roc,oits and dialiiiheal transaction. which excited, in an iitintensely crowded Court, feelings of horror and indignation. _ _ . Toe Jury, under the Learned directions, loo•.4 the prisoners Guilty. Tiiey were sentenced to three years imprisonment each iu Heriiiird wa rd, The female prisoner evinced in her countenance the most audacious impudence and confirmed profligacy. The other prisoner, %% as equally unprepossessing in his appearance. DESTRUCTION OF A VILLAGE. —'They write from Lausanne,under date of the Imh February.—A deplora ble event occurred on the 'a:7th December, in the valley of Visp, iu Vallais, by the sudden detachment of a part of the Glacier of ‘Veiphorn, which has destroyed a great part of the village of 'Linda. It was about six ti chock 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 f:aginents, 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. Roofs of houses, blocks of smite and ice, were carried away to a considerable distance. A great number of cattle, the only resource ofthis Alpine people, ocrished. Twelve individuals were buried under ruins , ten were extricated, living, by the prompt assistance given theta; the remaining two were crushed under a heap of rub hish. Deplorable as is the situation of these unfortunate persons, it is feared that they still suthu more severely. As the precipitation of the glacier was confined to one put of it, and as the other part threatens a similar eisi• onion to this unhappy country, the deco UCtioll of the remainder of the village is via; probable, and the mill resource which the inhabitants h use left is, to abandon a territory, which, if they rtotem there, will become their general grave. In the Consistory Court, on friday, sentence .of divorce was pronounced iu several cases, among which was that of the well-known actor, Mr. Harry Johnuop, Mr. A Ihiutt, pf Clapham was ordered to serve the olhoe of elturchwar4on of Allhallows, Barking. Dr. Swabia moved the admission of an al legation.on the part of Lai ly Ha w ke, otherwise Corri, bringing into Court one of kee Latly.llo slockings, with Lord Hawke's name niarla3l norm it, pleaded to be by his. Lordships Oirecti. uns, when he ordered the samo of one of his tradesmen Mr her use. The Court gave leave to bring in the allegatiou, and at the same time observed " This evidence was not very material." The late trials and ()cotyledons ft n. election bribery and corruption beve east a damp on the hopes of electors of rotten boroughs that ars corrupt, The candidates and their agents will beware how they infringe the law, for none can oxptet to eseano pu niihinvnt if fimiul offending, after the exampleh that have bean lately outdo, _ . Mrs, Coutts on Friday scot 1001. to Mr, Birnie, in be appropriated to the subscription for tho oth. c'era, and the worthy Magiptrato received in the whole 1 721. in the course of the