The Sun.
London, England, 1820-02-24 00:00:00

[New Times]

We received late last t►igttt information,
whick K e columunictite to the Public witiA the

strongest feeling/I of horror. The existence °f
treasonable conspiracy of a most atrocious ct'
raster his, we understand, been for some I'',
known to the Government. The first. blow Was
to have been struck yesterday by the Assassigatw
of his Majesty's Ministers, when assembled st
'Cabinet- dinner. About sevewo'clock in the ever"
ing Mr. Birke, the Magistrate, under the dire°.
tion of the SeCietary of State for the Home Pie;
pawl:tent, proceeded. to. the 'rendezvous of (1,
Conspirators on the Edgware-road, with a 08'.,).
rant to apprehend them. They were at the lit,
upwards of 20 in number, with Arthur Tel
wood at thieir head. They were armed, and on
being required to surrender, refused to do 10, °es
commenced a desperate attack uPon the Pes,,,
Officers, one of whom, named Smatters, was stab
by 'fitistlewoocl, and instantly fell dead; othe.,ll"
of them were severely wounded. Thistlete°7
effected his escape, hut,eight or nine of the C°l3-1
spirators were finally secured by the assistance
a .party of the Foot Guards, who were called '0
liy-the Magistrate, to the support of the &lc-
,
Officers.

[British Press.)
Mr. Birnie, the Chief Magistrate of Bow-street
Office,, received private information that a fortill•
(fable party of disaffected persons were to We
yesterday, at a house in the Edgware-road, where
they .had provided themselves with arms of variots'
kinds, consisting of pikes, cutlasses, arid pist°l3l:
VVe understand that the information further state
that they meditated some immediate act of s*.(111
fence, and the house of one of the Minister's,
Downing-street, has been mentioned as the °Of
ject of their meditated attack. A large body
constables was therefore dispatched to the silt;
who surrounded the house, and proceeded to 12%
the patties into custody. They met, however,
most desperate resistance, in which we regret a
-state that a constable, of the name of Smithers°
well known at Drury-lane Theatre, was killed °t
the spot. According to one aecount lie was tin
through the body ; another account states till
he was killed by•the stab of a pike. Salmon, IT;
other constable, was tvounded on the side of It's
head Ilya pistol bail. Several othei-s of the constBble
were wounded in the contest. They finally suc.:
ceeded, however, in making ten of the party Pr(
soners, whom they carried off to Bow-street 01c"
where, after having undergone a short exona„t•
tion, they were committed to the House of L'";
rection. The whole party amounted to about°-
persons.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FEB. Q 4.
SEDITIOUS PUBLICATIONS.

On the Sitting of the Court, and it being knot
that only six of the number of persons chtsiget
with vending Seditious Publications would be
on their trial, the ATTORNEY7GENERAL rOSe
stated, that having understood that the Court hi
ll
fixed the trial of six of the defendants to come tio
to• day, it perhaps might be_cotivenient for biro
state, that in conseqnenee of a most lamentat%
occurrence, which it was not requisite for bah;
more than to advert to, one of the witnesses ts„
should have called was no more. The Gentletne—
of the Jury, in that case, therefore, need not tit
in attendance. The following case was then call

THE XING against WATLIN.
The following Special Jurors were then Waal
Edward Payne, Esq. John-Carrick, Esq.
Thomas Adams, Esq. William Pill, Esq.
Edward Merrick, Esq. Daniel Jones, Esq.
John Reader, Esq. Edward Mason, Esq.
Richard Gregory, Esq. George Read, Esq.
James Saunders, Esq. 1 William Roberts, E-99• - •

Mr. RAttge opened the pleadings.
ft
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL stated, that no o
of his duty was more painful to discharge-, 115144
to notice any thing that in any way interfefeA
with the Public Press, but he felt he should to
eischarge that duty, if he bad not brought L
defendant before the Court. The defendant '7l
charged with publishing a Paper, called The P-0 „,;
publican ; this he called a libel, and it would At,
for the Jury to say if it was so. (Here the •
torney-General read the Letter which appeal,
in The Republican, addressed to Lord Siduangt„;
signed " Richard Cartile," commenting on tui
proceedings at Manchester, on the 16th August:,
The Attorney-General said, the Jury would 7
their verdict support the existing order of tiling
in suppressing seditious publications.
The defendant said, be was not the author ; irt
sold them together with Newspapers, to supe
his family honestly.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL replied, observilt
that poverty was no excuse for committing crib
,4
The CHIEF. JUSTICE summed up, and the
immediately returned a verdict of Guilty. yrtr
This is Swithers, who was killed in the aboruio
transaction recorded in another part of our Paper to-daP

FEBRUARY 43.

THE KING V. WAY: t 1
This was a prosecution against the defenwl
for leaving a sailor, named Itoyle, at Pernarnb°rl;
contrary to an Act passed iti the reign of Kil
William, which renders every Master Matinee
e
subject to fine anti imprisonment who shall lefj-i
airy seaman behind in a foreign country iv"
willing and able to return according to contrB4`,
The seaman, in this case, sailed with the fieteor'fi
dant in tire New Minerva, from Liverpool. ""„
his arrival at Pernambuco, he went On shore,
the hospital, in consequence of an accident
for some time- Made hiin incapable of doing ledduty. When Ire recovered, the, Captain reft's;o
to take him on board. The man applied to t./
dj
British Consul, and this prosecution was ca:"
tneuced.—"fire inry found the defendant Guill.Y‘