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in..; there i• t• miserable hovel, •nd working •s •
►liuvmrker. He some since was • print. in the

Royal Horse Guards, and served for five years iis
that regiment. lie very much resembles Thistle-
wood iu his person, but has a east in his left eye.
He is suspected to be one of those wbo escaped out
of the window of the loft on Wednesday nicht, iii
Cato-street. lie very much resembles them as to
their filthy dirty state—they did not appear as if
'their faces and hands had been washed fur a week ;
in fact, they were disgustingly dirty. so that it
w. is extremely disagreeable to approach them.—
The only clean man among thens -was William
Dav;iisoo, the tawney. Adam% and John Symonds,
the footman to Miss Siratfield, in Upper Seyeanuo.
weet, were couveyed by Lavender and Bishop to
the Secretary of State's office for the Home De-
p.trtment, at twelve o'clock, where, at one o'clock,
rii.other meeting of the Privy Council was held. It
attended by the whole of the Cabinet Minis.
hers, the Great Law Officers, the Attorney and
Solicitor General, and all the Privy Counsel-
lors, who attended the meeting oil Thursday,
and whose a+lllll.ll we gave yesterday. The ern-
dence against Symonds and Adams not being
sufficiently arranged to lay before the Privy
Counsellors, the Prisoners were referred back to
Bow-street office, and the Privy Counsellors pro.
seeded to hear the evidence of Captain Fitzclarence,
the oon-commissioned officers and privates of the
Guards. who were of the party sent to assist the
police in Cato-street, Edgervare-road.
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The examination of the military occupied the
sttentiou of the Privy Counsellors till four o'clock,
sidlen they adjourned.
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Sy nonds and Adonis were investigated before
M. flirnie, which occupied so much time, that no
w•tiiesses Were examined. Symonds principally
occupied the attention of the Magistrate; his inter-
rogation lasted between two and three hours, but
the result did not transpire.

Svniond. and Adams were detained in cu..

Charles Brooks, the patrol, who was shot
_at iloee times in the stable, gave his evidence 'w-
hole r. Lirnie, from which it appeared that a ball
had entered the armor his great coat, passed through
Lis 'lathes to his 'humidor, bruised it, but did not
wound loins. He was asked if he could identify the
man who shot at him. He replied he had not the
least doubt of the man being Ingo, the butcher,
oho was apprehended in Cato-street, and who was
one of the nine committed on Thursday night
ID the Homo. of Correction from the Secretary
of Stait'A Office for the Home Department;
he sAw him distinctly preattit the pistol and
el.ebaige- it at him ; lie had u perfect recollection
01 his pension Ile had since searched his lodgings
as-it found a variety of papers, but nothing of a
suspii ions nature except a large ticket with hiero-
glaphie unit emblematical engravings on it which
he did not sinderstta d, he supposed it to relate to
Freessrenitiry, and he took it to. a Freemason's
Judge to make inquiries respecting it, but there it
was& denied to be any thing relative to Freemasonry ;
he therefore suspected it to he some private in-
asgri s is answer a diabolical purpose—he should
tljer,fore usske further inquiries respecting it.

Nll Westcott, another of the patrole, pro-
chiced his hat as a relic of the battle of Cato-
; it had three large holes in the crown of it,
I,oologlo which halls had passed. He saved himself
from bang run through the body with a sword, by
WO of the bloodthirsty villains, by his instantly
clusaig in upon him, and • brother officer coming
up to his assistance they overpowered the wretch,
sud secured him. He attributed his escape to his
westing a strum kabty high crowned hat, which went
down very little on his head.
The discovery of the infamous wretches and their
intruded disbolacal act is next to a miracle, as we
have it from good authority, a man called at the
Fort of Harrowby's house, in Grosvenor-square, on
Wednesday morning. between eleven and twelve
o'clock, mod inquired of the porter if the Noble
Karl was at borne, who replied in the negative.
T7e man appeared very urgent to see the Earl, but
the porter did not give him any hopes of accobt-
plisiiing his object, nut knowing the man, and his
rehising to tell his business; it not being usual to
ad.oit strangers to see the Noble Earl under such
circumstances. 'll-he man, however, persevered in
Lis desire and necessity of seeing the Earl of Hair.
orn,bv, and that without loss of time; and lie at
leogth expressed himself so extremely earnest of
the absolute necessity of seeing him, and made use
of the strong expression, that, if he did not see the
Earl.ilie porter would not be sitting in that
choir (meaning the porter's chair in the hall) to-
morrow. Tors alarmed anti astonished the porter,
wit ch induced him to believe the man had some-
tiung serious to communicate to the Earl of Her.
ruwby, and he then told him that the Noble Earl
was riding on horseback io the Park, directed him '
to that part of it where lie would be must likely to
meet bins, described las groom, the livery he
Wane, The Mall in consequence hastened with
all speed to the Park, and 'discovered the groom
as described by the purter. He immediately
Ilion, and inquired whether the gentleman before
how was the Earl of Harrovrby, the groom replied
to the affirinatirre, the man told him he wished stud
moot speak with Isom. The groom informed the
Noble Earl, who stopped his horse, and tlfi'man
presented • letter 'te him, which lie read. Tte
mass hewing tolerated 41i* Noble Earl that he bad