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missiuners, strain the logical Inference of the recent
discovery, and give it an influence so far retrospec-
tive as in appearance to justify their° wn eusiduct ;
but his must be a very grovelling mind, and a very
base disposition, who would endeavour to fling the
reproach of Thistlegeosd's conspiracy over all who
questioned the policy in November last of destroy-
ing, upon very defective or equivocal testiniuny,
some of the noblest privileges of Ruch.lintel,.
Such, however, is the object of more than one
ministerial scribe, and it is right that the electors
should guard their understandiugs against such gross
attempts at delusion.
It is observable that at many iteriods of our his-
tory weak and tottering administrations have brood
very effectual support from the ationniable discove-
ries air gross conspiracies. One set of Ministers
kept their seats against all the power and influence
of the real Court party, and the actual wishes
of the KING, by the discovery of the •' Popish
Plot," and in some time afterwards their rivals
blond no less advantage from the equally lie-
titious " Rye-house Plot." In the succeeding
reigas the name of the Pretender was an in-
exhaustible source of strength, and it has
ever been observable, that the de►tgus of ene-
mies and traitors were most violent and most dan-
gerous at the precise m 1111 l pant when the existing
Ministers were moat sorely prest by their !political
rivals in ParLatnent. The French Revolution was
of incalculable advautage to Mr. PITT, and the
progress of the war gave his party an extent of in-
fluence and pat age which during its continu-
ance rendered them invincible in the warfare of
parties. The teriiiiiiation shook their power. and
then. most fOrtniiately fur the Ministers, up storied
the Radicals. The " Old Stocking Conspiracy" or
Spalields rived the Cabinet ; and now a plot to de-
stroy the Servants of the Crown. exploding at the
eve of a general plectioss, will, in the opinion of the
ministerial writers, if properly urged. ensure their
political immortality. The occurretice, however,
is in itself too isolated to ►ender it a dexterous wea-
pon—it affords sin evidence of a bad svirit -snout;
the body of the people—lt is the crime of a few
itidivotuals—and when they ►hall have suffered for
their atrocity, the coutitty will be purified from the
stain. The Ministp rs felt this, and they there-
fore avoided to solicit front Parliament any addi-
tional atithority.
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An Evening, Paper in commenting upon the Co-
rooter inquest held on the body of the murdered
SMITHERS, displays the character of that spirit of
faction by wh ch it is ever influenced. It com-
plains that one of the Jurymen should question wit-
nesses to know it they were certain that Thist/e-
-wood was prtsitit • henSMITHERS was killed," and
hims that one •o incredulous upon so notorious a
fact cannot be u loyal •subject, Such iv the justice
of this ministerial writer ! • Ile is surprised, for-
sooth, that a conscietitious mail, charged ;you oath
with a solemn investigation. of a murder, should
inquire particularly rcspecting the !mentos' who
were actually present when the crime wus commit-
ted! This writer would have the Juryman, un-
mindful of his oath, disp-ense with the vulgar ne-
cesvity of evidence, avid find a ve►dict against
any individual whose nutne may chance to have
been mentioned !• This, if not law and justice, would
be whit the ministerial writers facetiously cull loy-
alty. The incredulity of the Juryman isa matter of
ridu•ule or and tlWse Gentlemen W 110. e
loyal oniniscieuce would receive unquestioned any
assurance whatsoever that might inculpate an
enemy or u traitor, can Make no allowance fur the
possibW ignorance of a man placed in perhaps
novel situation, amid elisions to obtain e••e►y in•
formation on a point upon which he is to declare
his belief, under the solehin sanction of an oath.

Paris Papers of Sunday last have arrived at our
Office. The discovery of Thisiletruud's atrocious
conspiracy ix noticed in the Moniteur, and in post-
scripts to the other Pape's: The details of this
event were trunsinitteil Isy Sir CUARLES STUART to
the K t NG. The Gazette de France assures its renders,
that right or ten iwrsons were killed in the riffruy,
and that the object of the conspirators, after having
a inAterf the 11inistets, was to attack tide King's
Palace, and crown their atrocious enterprise by the
•niarrlev of his MAJESTY. Steeped so deeply as
these desperate ruffians were in guilt, we should not
be surprised to learn that they had contemplated
an outrage even upon the sacred person of our
Sovereign ; hut their apparent. design of first mur-
, tiering the Ministers, would in some degree dis-
credit the further supposition; for, debased in on- •
derstanding as the ruinous evidently were, they must
still have known that the success of their enterprise
must depend upon the suddenness of its perpetra-
tion ; and the attack upon the Ministers would have '
lead the effect of putting the KING upon his guard.
and providing spinet personal violence..
But according to the Jawed des Debates this
conspiracy was perhaps the most hirotiglobte, end
certainly had in view the most extensive objects of
all the plots eves recorded ;n history. ',The
papers." it sem ," @sited kilo ceespireters, coo-
taiu the plan of the reveloties edaiel, the Radicals
were preparing to 4:ifeet le XPlOasid. That, fres
one end of Essepe to the ether eicimes extend sod

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