The National Register.
London, England, 1820-05-01 00:00:00

TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER.

o'clock. He told me to get up in the 1111 l rning as soon nt I
could aud el.asi hi. boots They were very dirty. fie cal-
led sue in the morning at half-past six, and wisest I got up he
asked nie if l knew the Borough. I told him yes. lie then
ask, dmeif I knew SOO% 's Field's. I said no. Ile then
went into the back r 111111 l and put the things out of the cup-
board into two baskets; one of which was afterward, poi
into a blur tiara's beloonAing to Mrs. Brunt. This apron
hail before been as a cut tabu in hig's MUM. My master told
ine that Pinter lived in Snow's When we Mid the
basket( ready, tan officers came in null took tea-ter into
custody. 'fill lived IVall-passage, Brookes's
Inc 0.11. Adams lived next
Cr.ss-examined by Mr. Adolphits.-o-Nly master is a join,
neyman shoemaker : nut a vcrs l main Adams is also a
shoemaker. logs had the lodgings live weeks. I Is 1 eve
they had meetings there every nialit. I thought there were
about 20 persons there on the Sunday. I kilo% some
of the prisoners. Strange is a boot •seller--selling boots sic a
slow. Edwards was an artist. 17...taint's ate: there ahnost
every day. Hall was u jouriwymato tay Ito-, I believe.
dont know where he lives. I cat 1111 l t Ely how many persons
acre thew at one time on Wednesday. The baskets used
by icy master acre rash baskets. As near as 1 can guess
t iiere were about YO poles. They weir branches of trees in
a green raw state. I believe they kept a tire in lag's room.
I do not know a heater the poles here t sot up to light the
tire or Scot.
Jahn Hector Marais examined by the Attorney-General.
I am a journeyman cutler to Mr. Underwood, in Drury-lime,
I remember on Christmas-eve :a man !nought a soo ord its my
master's shop. The usaii was haltited like a butcher. lie
drew the saint' from under his 1111 l ck-frock, a ithout a scab-
bard. He wiihed to have it groan(' sharp, pariieulai ly at the
palm. lie said to put the name of I illib all it t hut lam hard
of heal Mit, and it ought he lut s. lie called for it Ma few
days. In al a fuetnight he brought another ,word to have
it sharpened its the some way. It ails minis 10112.1 r than the
other. LI lere the a itileSS identified the prisoner 11%4 as the
men who brought the swords.) I should know the swoids
again.
Tliomss Hyden examined by Mr. flurney.-1 ant a cow-
keeper. I was formerly a member of a shoe.makeis' club.
I ktn•w Wilson there. I saw him a few days before the
23d of February. lie met site in the street and made a pro-
position to use. He asked me if I scolds' lie nice •f a party
to destroy his Majesty's Ministers. He said that they were
waiting tot el cabinet dinner, and that all things were
ready. He told me they had a sort of tilings which l never
saw—they were called by the Millie of baud-grenades--and
lie said lie depended on me to be one. He said that This.
tlewood would be glad to see me it I would be sour. He
said the use to Ice made of the Mind-grenades, was to be put
under the table (at the cabinet dinner) welt the fuse alight,
and those who escaped were to be destioyed toy the sword or
some other weapon. He also said that fires were to be
lighted, and the town kept in conliosion several dots', till the
thing became geueral. He named some houses. Lard Hai-
rowhy's, Lind Castlereagh's, Lord Wellington's Lord Sid-
, 1111 l the Bishop of London's, and several others which I
do not remember. 1 told him L would make tone. This was
I believe tour or lye days before the Cato Street basin-as.
Before that I went to Lord Has rowby's ; I do not remember
the day. 1 followed his Lordship in the Park, - L gave him
a mite. Oil Wednesday the 2:341 I saw Wilson again.
believe it was betweeti four and fiie (o'clock in the aftertiotian
I met him in Manchester Street, Manchester Square.—lle
mid •' Hydra, you are the very man I wanted w see." I
asked him what there was going to be; and he said, there
was to be a cabinet dinner at Lord Harroirby's, Grosvenor
Square. lie 1.1111 MC 1 was 11l it to the llorse and Gloom
public-house, I was to go in there, sr ()therm ise I has to
wail at Ilse corner until I was shoved into a stable .lose loy.
I then asked him the hour, and he said about half-past five
or a quad tee before six. I then asked hint boa many there
acre to be, :Laid he said twenty or thirty. I asked 1 • was
that all that there was going to he, and lie said there was to
he another party in the Borough, another ta Gray's bu-
tane, and another in Gee's Court, or in the City. lie said
all Gee's-court were in it, but they would not act till after
the English began, us they had so often dec. ived them before.
(tec's tort is inhabited by Irish. It is at St. Gile's end of
Ox ford St reel. He. also sa id there aas a gent lemon's servant
supporting them with money. and if they a mild at t up to the
subject, he would give them a great deal mule. Ile asked
me it 1 had a gun, and I said yes, but it was oaly a rtib•
bishing one. lie then said they would provide me a itii
gun, and something to Mork a lib. 'I brie area, lie also said
two pieci s of cannon in Gray's lan-lane, a Melt they could
get by bresking iti a small door, He said there acre four
pieces of et in the artillery-ground, and they could be
very rani). lA:tinily killing the scmtiuel. Alter they left
Grosve Square they were to meet near the :Mansion-
house, I was told to come to my tune, Or the thing would
he done befere I came. I went to John Slice' that evening
It "as nearly seven o'clock. The entrance to Cato Street
is a little gateway from John Street. When 1 got tho re I
say,' 11 ikon :aid Davidson. I had seen Davidson before.—
Davidson asked me if I would go in. 1 said ito, as I aas
g g somewhere else to hook fog same cream. He said if I
would iti ii r. Thistles( toad aas inCle. I inked him 1% lei
'Four I should he there and lie said eight o'clock. If I ivi•re
mot there to time, he said I was to failasi lieu Moose to
611e:senor elM:ele, turd at the fourth Incise (tom the emller,
at the Itattom of the square, I should find them.
Cross s !outlined by Mr. Adolphus.-1 am not certain
a 'tether the first conversation 1 had with W ilsoti aas
In foie the solidity of the (:ado Street basiness. I am
tool twit./ certain. It was four or live days. I ant tut
If tthi.• ti, %ay aliat day 1 gave the info' 'iitials to Lord
I tat tea Ity. It might be a slay or two before I saw Wil-
ots in Manchester Slicer. The conversation with Wilson
was in ;Manchester Street, ice were walking lip and down
the street. -

A note was here pot into witness's hand, which lie said
was the one given by hint to Loki 'Linos% by, It was his
0%%11 111111 d writin L.
(.:10%s-examitoe.ll.—The reason why I gave the note to
Lord Harrod by was, beeaose I could not see Lord Cas-
tlereagh. I did not call at Lord Castle' eagles boost., but
I rot duce or tour times near the house, in ostler to *ye
linO. 1 dill not see him, and then I ease the note to Lord
Hai rowby. I ant certain that in Wilson's conversation with
me, the words, " His Majesty's Hinkle's," were used.
The Earl of Hiierowliy examined room the Bench
by the Atiorney 6earral.---1 it side in Grosvenor
S'l"tne, on the smith side, near Chillies Street, next
door to the Ai elthishop of York's. lam a ivy
limo, and mie of Ms Majesty's 'Ministers t 1 ant I),"
sident of the. Commit, and one of the C.tbmt•t.--(n
cammon parlance they are called his Majesty's HMls-
ters. On the 'Tuesday before the intended dinner, I was

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titling nt tne Park without a servant. it was about two
o'clock. I went to a Council at Carlton•lrouse. lamnt t
positive as to the hour. As I came near Grosvenor-gato
a person met me, and asked me if 1 was Lord Harrowby.
I said yes. Ile said be wished to give a note to Lord
Castlereagh, which was or considerable importance to him
and to myself. Ile then gave lac a letter. Ater some
further conversation, be gire toe it card, with his addres,.
I saw the man again by appointment en W. ditt.sday mot..
ning in the ring among the young planotitai in Hyde. Park.
The dimmer did not take place at my house ou Wedur sday.
The preparations went on as if the pat ties were to dine
together, until I wrote a note from the Lai of Liverpool's
to my head servant, to say the Cabinet would ten dine
there. It would be 3CVL-11, or half past, at which the
party would dine.
Cross-examined by Mr. Corwood.—l lord some general
knowledge ()Isome con•pitecy, or something of the kind,
going on before this. Ido not know a 11C1801/ naused Ed-
wards. We had some general information a consido able
time before this, that attune planlwas in agitation, but we
did not know the time at which it was to take place, or
at particulars. I will not say to two months. It was
SOU' considerable time before this.

John Monument and Thomas Dwyer, two other ac-
complices, were then examined, and each corroborated
lie evidence piVell by Adams and Hyden.
Hutliven, and the other police officers, gave evidence
as to the taking the prisoners iu Cato-siresr ; as did Capt.
Fit 7.1 Metter and the soldiers, the whole of winch we
stated at the time of their apprehension.
Sergeant Edward Manson, Or the Royal Artillery, had
examined one of the grenades. It aas thus composed :- -
Tile tin in the heart contained three ounces and a half Of
gmipowdei ; the painting in the mite was saltpetre ; thet
was pitch over the tin, and then rope-yarn, in which were
pieces of lion; next the tin was oakum. abide WWI a!I
tarred. In about half a iii i l inte it would explode.
The explosion would Jo much mischief. itness pro-
ceeded to open one.
Mr. Gurney exclaimed, " Stop, stop ; that knife may
strike fire upon the iron."
%Witness said, there wits no danger of that. Five large
cart nails were found in it, and tau old stockings. The
tube extended from the tit box to the •urtace, and WAS
about three inches long. The tin ass bill Of 2110110 N der.
. . . . . .

He next examined it fire-ball; it consisted of oakum,
tar, eosin, and stone brimstone porn:dell. LI Oiled and
dimwit into a twilit:, if it touched wood, it was sure to
set it on tire.

Attorney General.—That is the case on the part of the
rroieenitost.
Wiinesses were then called for the prisoner. but their
testimony VIM% ; after vihich the Solicitor
General addressed the Jury on the part t.l the Ill'U`Cell•
ilOll, and the Judge, in stunttaine up, leek a eeneral review
of the evidence on both sirlett. The Jury retired for about
minutes, and returned a vet diet of —(itALTY.

FROM TUESDAY NIGIII".S* GAZETTE.
FOREIGN OFFICE. Arno. 25.

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The King has been pleased to approve of Don Juan Conflates
de ltiva.s as Consul at Gibraltar for his Catholic Majesty.
The King has also been pleased to approve of Mr. C. F. limner
as Consul at Liverpool for the Swiss Confederation.
The King has also been pleased to approve of Mr. John Wall
as Consul at Drogheda for his Catholic Majesty.

BA NKRUPTS.
C. S. Harvey, Newcastle upon Tyne, brush manufacturer.
Solicitors, Messrs. Morton and Williamson, Gray's Inn.
R. B. Aluchall, Birmingham, merchant. Sols. Messrs.
Clarke. Richards, and Medealf, Chancery Lane.
J. Swindells, Itomilley, Cheshire, dealer. Sol. Mr. Tyler,
Temple.
J. Barrow, Mould Green, Yorkshire, clothier. Sol. Mr. Bat-
tye, Chancery Lane.
J. Broughton, Linthwaite, Yorkshire. cloth nterchant. Sols.
Messrs. Willis, Clarke, and Watson, Warnford Court, Throz-
morton Street.

T. Palin. Hanley, Staffordshire, butcher. Sols. Messrs. Prise,
Williams, and White, Lincoln's Inn.
W. Anderton, Bridgeton!), Devonshire, brush maker. Sols.
Messrs. Sandy and Co., Crane Court, Fleet Street.
1.. Hollis, Birmingham, victualler. Sols. Messrs. Alexander
and Ilolme, New Inn.
T. Garbutt, Manchester, woollen cord manufacturer. Sole.
Messrs. Wright and Cole, Temple.
S. Minot, Piffling Lane, merchant. Soh. Mews. Reardon
and Davis, Corbet Court, Gracechurch Street.
W. Wall, Weedon Beck, Northamptonshire, smith. Sol.. Mr.
Taylor, Walbrmik.
J. Gardner, Birmingham, victualler. Sols. Messrs. Bourdillon
and Dewitt, Bread Street. Chearside.
J. Welch. Ainsworth, Lancashire, cotton cloth manufacturer.
Sol. Mr. Ellis, Chancery Lane.
W. Stevenson, Sheffield, grocer. Sol. Mr. Mal:clock, Ser-
geant's Inn, Fleet Street.
1. Parker, Oldbury, Lancashire, victualler. Sol. Mr. Lowe,
Birmingham.
F. llutchins, Glocester, cheese factor. Sols. Messrs. Frowd
and Clow, Serie Street, I .incoln's Inn.
S. Jackson, ltonisey, Southampton, book,clier. Sols. Messrs.
Winter and Williams. lietltiml Bow.

( Lit I I I. IR A l'Es to be grat•.ted May 16.
B. Langston, sell.. Manchester, cotton no:reliant—R. Gray,
Norwich, broker—J. Hahne, Goinersid, Yorkshire, woolstapler
T. Ilealord, John Street. stepncy, dealer—J. Willrnott, Man-
chester. grocer—J. Brickdale, Taunton, battler—C. Ross, Great
Barr, Stafthrdstiire, britshinaker—W. Smith. New Roast, St.
Pancras. builder—W. Martin, Ormond street, Queen Square,
horse dealer.