The Sun.
London, England, 1820-02-25 00:00:00

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It is impossible to describe the anxiety and
aorror which pervaded the countenances of thou-
sands of persons• who visited John-street, Edge-
Ware-road, yesterday. Through the whole of
the (lay, and till very late in the evening, several
persons pf the highest consideration in the coun-
try, visited 'the place where the conspirators had
assembled on. the preceding night. The Horse
and Groom public-house, where the body of Suti-
thers now lies, is nearly opposite.
The alarm in the neighbourhood, on heating
the report of fire-arms, and the noise of contest,
on premise's Which they considered untenanted,
may be more easily CoOceired than described. It
was heightened by every circumstance of terror
that the imagination could form to itself:The house
was surrounded with soldiers and police-officers--
fighting was heard within—officers were obscure-
ly seed' scaling a ladder and entering the scene of
battle, while-their fate and the cause of the com-
bat were entirely unknown. Some of the persons
belonging to the public-house adjoining, aft er run-
ning to the spOt, fled in diSitiay when they heard the
„balls whistling about their ears. Several of the
inbabitapts of Cato-street observed since Monday
last, strange-looking men coining about the empty
premises. On-the morning of Wednesday they
saw Davidson, the man
.of colour, and three
others, watching at different
_ends of the Street,
while some of their associates were board

nailing up the windows within the-loft. Be-
fore dusk Davidson again made his appear-
ance, with a sack on his hack, which the
neighbours at the time supposed to contain car-
penters' tools for repairing or new modelling the
interior of the building, but which bad in fact
conveyed the arms with which they were to equip
themselves for their daring enterprise. After the
arsenal was formed, the band arrived; and the
people in the public-house were surprised, if
not alarmed, to see about twenty persons, entire
strangers to the place, hovering about their
premises, and at last entering the den. Still
they had no suspicion of what was goingfor-
ward, "and no presentiment of what was in
a short time to occur.. The Police soon

arrived, and the murderous struggle took place.
Smit hers, who was murdered, must have died in-
stantly, and without convulsion. He received only
one wound, about an inch below his right breast,
and abort an inch in width. His body is exposed
in a room on the first floor of the public-
house above-mentioned, in the dress in which
he was killed. His breast and neck are co-
vered with blood, but his countenance is as
placid, and his features as composed, as if their
expression had been arrested, and life extin-
guished, during a tranquil sleep. He has left a
wife, but no children, to deplore his loss. On his
death being mentioned to Lord Sidmouth, his
Lordship expressed great regret at the event, and
sympathy for his surviving widow, saying, with
great humanity, thatt as he could not restore to
her her husband, he would take care that she
should not want his assistance in a pecuniary
point of view.—The unfortunate man's sister
came last night from Putney, to see the dead body
of her brother, and, deeply•affected the spectators
with the poignancy:of her sorrow.

[Morning Chronicle.]
Three more of the Assassins were apprehended
yesterday, and seven more warrants were issued,
and by the clue which air. Justice Willie has re- •
ceived, there is every reason to believe that they
would be, in the course of last eight, or will be '
this day, apprehended. The retreat of the horrible
'lllistlewood was discovered by a woman, and
she, with the hold and vigilant Officers, will be
entitled to the reward of a thousand pounds offer-
ed in the Gazette Extraordinary . The second of
the gang is one of the three taken yesterday. It
is a curious fact, that on Wednesday night the
nine villains secured, were found not to have even
a halfpenny in their pockets--although the quan-
tity of fire-arms, ammunition, pikes, and swords,
shew that they must have had considerable re-
solrces ; for*, in addition to the immense number
of pikes, hand-grenades, pistols, &c. seized in
Cato-street, another depOt was discovered yester-
day in Gray's lnn-lane, where, among other wea-
pons, between four and five hundred weight of
grenades and pikes were found. These grenades
are of a most deadly construction ; they are filled
with pitched tow, gunpowder, and balls, so that
when flung into a room they must spread destruc
tion to all around. These were all brotight to
Bow-street, and it is supposed that further dis 7
L coverlet will yet be made. We oust in !leaven

that the execrable plot, through all its rarnifito
tions, will be laid open. Great credit is due to
Mr. Justice Birnie, and his Officers, for the
promptitude and bravery with which they attack=
ed the banditti with so inadequatelN\force. If
they had wait to assemble more men;.,,so as
virroupti•ohe tiveuse, tbot, bustle of repast'
tnialki. lispv-4at ' Wind 4 it, Ord .put amt arts q
tbtir guard.