The Sun.
London, England, 1802-11-19 00:00:00

AZ PORTED CONSPIRACY.

Fort some days past there have been floating ru.
...flours of Plots and Conspiracies in this Metropolis,
but of so vague and indefinite a shape, and resting
upon such questionable authority, we did not think
ourselves justified to agitate the Public Mind by
their disclosure. Even so far back as the period of
the Middlesex Eledion, a plan was said to be
"In contemplation for pulling down the Prison
Cold-bath-fields, and the Magistrates, with
?lice Officers, were placed to guard it. Some weeks
go we heard the' Corresponding Society was again
lipid"lng its meetings. Event.; have now occurred
which these meetings gave reason to expert. Of
these we have obtained intelligence from quarters
'asst likely to be well informed, and upon whose
veracity we rely.
We Yesterday stated the apprehension of Col.
b
"Parc/ and thitty-two others, on Tuesday night,
at the Oakley Arms, Oakley-street, Lambeth, and
their examination before the Magistrates at Union
Mall on Wednesday.
The Warrant of Commitment expressly charged
Despard with conspiring to compass the death
(*the King, and was grounded upon the oath of the
Soldier who gave the information, and the circum-
"antes arising out of his' examination.
eiThe Party,
.when surprized, said they were a
wuub Tar met there for innocent recreation. This
the Only account they gave of themselves.
There is strong evidence, we understand, that this
account is false, and that they were engaged in
treasonable pratlices. Among other proofs, a print-
.. form of an Oath was found in the room where
the nature of the United Irishmen's Oath, and that
2,7 were in the aft of administering it to each
other, In performing this ceremony they were
;_worti
obat there
y one at a time privately, in order,
h
might be no witness ; from which, and
er circumstances of precaution, the Principals
ratappear to be well versed in the business, although
nt toajority are poor ignorant people of the low-
411"dition. All this transpired at Union Hall.
day e Privy Council -sat upon the business yester-
_, 7. •
tare, commenced at eleven, and broke up at
et. Colonel Despard was brought before it for
drop. .
tie nation very heavily ironed and handcuffed.
tads conveyed in a hackney coach, accom-
tr
ant tads
by Mr. Ives, the Governor of the County of
reY Gaol, and three of the Union Hall Police.
greater security, fifteen more Officers escorted
tut carriage as far as the Obelisk in Sr. George's-
-Iciss where seeing no crowd, or danger of a re-
at?e, they returned. During Col. Despard's examin-
tiro,*hich lasted the whole time the Privy Coun-
4ar, Mrs. Despard applied for admission to see
it,'
41 which was refused, and she withdrew, after
I:log waited above an hoer in the Anti-chamber.
ie 4 ABRAHAM GoLDSMiD, isf the City, was pre,.
rit at the
examination. After it closed, Col. Des-
L'"cd Was brought our, strongly guarded. He was
szTeiVri at)es CrOalin
121"Yecl in a hackney-coach to Negate, to which
itted for farther. examination this morn-
tn o'clock.
pre a Privy Council, which was to sit at

We
understand that it was the -objea of the Con_
razors to make an attempt upon the life of His
w4I"TY, on his way to the Parliament-House
ere Tuesday. In this horrid undertaking, they
tai_ to be joined by zOOO of the poor of Spi-
rzfields; and about the same number from Sr.
i'"rge's-fields, &c. amounting in the whole to
‘,#°'°°o men. The attempt on His MA J ESTY
Y intended as the first scene in the
otiegeeheidueldtirnat:; and, it is said, that having
it was their farther plan to seize
hletalowe tor, where, having armed themselves, they
pr_iiE return and take possession of the Bank.
um whence they were to proceed to Buckingham_
:Use* and seize the rest of the Royal Family resi-
nt there. These latter circumstances have been
4t%'Voned by the Soldier who gave the information
ItsYnion Hall. This business is likely to engross
atZ Whole attention of Government for some days,
vo„ "ill be prosecuted with all the zeal and energy,
'men a case of such great magnitude ought to excite.
It i
expelled that a Special Commission will be
is rdlately issued for the trial of the offenders. It
ea take place in Middlesex, and not in Surrey.—
Aft:nel Derpard, on his arrest, made no resistance.
his examination before the Privy Council he
appeared very much dejected.
It •
toi is almost unnecessary to add, that he is the
hati:nel Despard who was so long confined in Cold_
fields Prison.

44% ILDRALL .—On 'Wednesday last a Coal Met-
aPpeared, by virtue of a summons on anin
41.4;14400 charging him with having sold two chat_
liver:and an half of coals; on being delivered they
kid ire-measured, when there appeared to be ten
1)1,-eel& and an half deficient. Counsel were em-
ed by the Informer and Defendant. The Coal.
to-reliant was convided in the penalty of sol. with
par;C°ne half to the Informer and the other to the
-.3" Of St. Holy Trinity, Queenbithe. The coals
Were forfeited.
NIIPon Tuesday and Wednesday se'nnight, the
juslowing cases were heard and determined by the
'lees of the Peace for the distrid of Dundee :
kr E
Assi, • LAM, Agent and Cashier for the Dundee
_
two Company, preferred a complaint again 114,• .°llng men, for raising into the air a kite,
dratin.g a lighted peat or firebrand affixed to it, and
pwahnivoring it over the corn-yard of Wallace Craigie,
is insured with the Dundee Assurance Com-
the Y' 'rile Justices fined the offenders, and dismissed
the.:rl.4. after pointing out the incalculable loss which
va.•
~, rn
dPradent and illegal conduit might have oc-
-40.
Two
People Y°tlng men were convieted of disturbing the
buncienßaged in public worship at the Tabernacle.
dy' eC, by making a noise in the galleries doing
toe
but h 7rvlce. This was not merely accidental,
as
hrouGhad grown into pradice, and the aftion was
ntren; to cheek any farther offence. As butll
is so 13
check
only punishable by special statute, much
; fined the
tr,,,,ters ontra tolros mores, the Justicestheir
41turc 3 and put them under caution for
g(lod behaviour.

MR. sisiiiii iii.,l6k-iiito

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Tu following Letter has been circulated on this
melancholy occasion, by the Mayor of Henley-upon
Thames :

Henley' -upon-Thames, Nov. iS,

SIR,

A Man and Woman, eiaaly answering the description of
the Persons advertised by Sir Richard Ford in the London
Newspapers, as being suspected of the Murder of Mr.
Steel, on Hounslow Heath, were seen on Wednesday last,
on the Road between Reading arid Henley ; and on the same
afternoon, about half past four o'clock, near Gangsden Hill,
about two miles beyond Nettlebed, on the Oxford Road.
It is supposed they went that road to elude the search made
for them at Salisbury and the West of England.—Should any
such Persons be seen in or
.about your Town, you will, of
course, think an ExaMinatiOri of them highly proper.
I am, Sir, your most obedient Servant,
10i-IN. ALLEN,
Mayor of Henky-upon-Thames.