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

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 plied 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 slight %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 they inked
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 ;11,prellended 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.
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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.
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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.