The National Register.
London, England, 1820-03-12 00:00:00

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No. 1,225.—V0L. XIII.]

THE TREASONABLE CONSPIRACY.

Information was received at Bow-41..1a Office on
aturday, that a man, named Robert George, wai
.ctively engaged in the Cato-street Conspiracy, and
A warrant being granted by Mr. Birnie for his ap.
isrehension, Ruthven and Salmon were on the alert
the whole of Saturday night and Sunday ; and on
Sunday evening, about seven o'clock, these officers
traced him to the Dundee Arms public-house, at
)Capping, the usual place of embarkation for the
Gravesend butts, where they found him in sailors'
lotbes, with a bundle under his arm, ready to start.
i-le had taken a passage in a Gravesend boat. to join
the Prince Regent East bohemia at that port. It
appeared that he had beets at Wapping three or four
.•'!ays, and had procured a birth us Captain's servant,
ein board the Prince Regent, which was to sail in a
.nay or two,
The officers had received information that the
izisoner would be armed with a dagger, and a dirk
in his stick, and that it was his determination not
to surrender himself tamely, and in consequence of
this, they went well armed into the room, and Sal-
ton, clapping a pistol to his head, said he should
blow his brains rout, if he attempted to make any
resistance. He surrendered quietly, and had no
arms about hitn. He complained of what he termed
the violent conduct of Salmon ; but the latter, from
the private information he had received, and the
sample that he had before him, in the murder of a
brother officer (Smithers) conceived himself justified
in using every precaution in securing him. He was
placed in Covent-Garden watch-house for the night,
and a man appointed to sit up with him. Mon-
day. about 12 o'clock, he was brought from thence
to the private room at Bow street, where he un-
derwent an examination of more than two hours,
before Mr. Birnie. Ruthven produced a stick, with
a tube at the end, in which to fix a pike or dug,
der, and stated that he found it at the house of the
•illikesimosar'shrother, who stated that belonged to
the former, and that he had left it with him a short
time ago.
It is understood that the foundation of the charge
against the prisoner is, that a blunderbuss, sword,
and pistol, found on a dunghill, adjacent to the
loft, in Cato-street, on the night of the conflict,
are proved to be his property.
When he was apprehended he said his name was
White.—He strongly protested his innocence of any
connection with the State prisoners.
He was committed to the House of Correction,
llis commitment charges him with High Treason.
TIIE STATE PRISONERS.
Thistlewood and his fellow prisoners continue to
express themselves comfortable and satisfied in their
new situation. They converse cheerfully with the
warders whose duty it is to attend upon them, care-
fully, however, asoiding any allusion to the charges
against them. There is a particular degree of cool-
determination in the demeanour of Thistlewood
who seems to have made up his mind for the worst
that can befall him. Monument appears completely
sunken in despair. Them is no change in the be-
haviour of lugs.
The prisoners rise at an early hour in the morning
and partake of their allowance of provisions with
apparent cheerfulness and appetite. They continue
to be guarded as at first, the warders who attend in
the rooms as well as the sentinel tvlio guards the
door, being relieved ut certain periods. The pri-
soners are very closely watched night and day
They will, by the indulgence of the law, be
provided by the Government with Counsel to de
fend them on their trials.

The precatttious usually adapted at the Tower on
occasions like the present, are now acted upon. The
yeomen porter is in constant attendance at the great
entrance, and every person entering is chant:l44yd
by him and questioned as to what part of the tin.-
tra ss he is going to This, however, is a mere matter
of form, and is no prevention to the free admission
always allowed to the public.
The eight conspirators all remain in the same
prisons mentioned by us, with the exception Da-
vidson, the black, who was se it to ;t primal over
the water-works. This place was tia.nd, t n ac
count of its largeness, to he extremely and,
out of compassion to the priso-ter, he was removed
on Sunday morning to the But-tower, immediately