Star.
London, England, 1820-02-24 00:00:00

GENTLEMAN MISSING.

A - - -
GENTLEMAN, about Twenty-seven Years of
Age, in d. ;cried spirits, absented himself frem his Home
last Sunday week. He had on a suit of black, with a brown
great coat, lined with silk, crape on his hat, and grey gloves.
He is about five feet nine inches high, thin, without whiskers,
inclined to a florid complexion, rather a long nose, large grey
eyes, and brown hair ; a little deaf, and frequently coughs.
Whoever should meet with thcsaid Gentleman, will be pleased
to take care of him, give immediate notice, by express, to Mr.
Waartstaw, Solicitor, Rugby, Warwickshire, and they will be
most handsomely rewarded, and all expenses instantly paid.

Ficsao.wr 23, MO.
It being probable that be may have co*e, to. London, is_.
formation is requested to be forwarded to Mews. Pm.= and
SaLreral., Solicitors, Carlton Chambers, Regent-sitar:

THi E ENING STA tt

LONDON.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1820.

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TREASONABLE PLOT!

ARREST OF THE CONSPIRATORS.

scarcely have we began to recover from the horror ;
occasioned by the assassination in a neighbouring'
country, than we have the painful task of recording ,
the detection of a plot which, had it notiortunately
been discovered when just on the eve of accomplish-
ment, would in all probability have stained the annals
of our own land with a deed of bloodier iniquity than
any which modern history can exhibit, at a time of
general peace and unsuspecting tranquillity.
The existence of a treasonable conspiracy, of the
most atrocious character, has, we understand, been
for some time known to the Government ; and the
tirst blow by which it was to have burst on the Pub-
lic, was the assassination last night of the whole, or
the principal, of his Mansry's Ministers !
It had been announced, that yesterday a Cabinet
dinner was to take place at Lord BATHURST'S, and,
according to the information received, the conspira-
tors had fixed on this as a favourable opportunity for
carrying the first part of their diabolical project into
effect. Being from twenty to thirty in number, well
provided with all sorts of arms, and; as the circum-
stances attending their detection shews, not without
a S u fli c lent degree of murderous daring, it was their
intcntion to burst into Lord BATHURST'S house, and
make the banqueting-room the scene of their medi-
tated horrors. The house of Lord BATHURST is Si-
tuated in a very lonely part of the west end of the
tubvn—Ma.nsfield-stt cc:, between Portland-place and

Harley-street ; and, in this respect, no place could have escaping by a back way, by means, as it afterwards
been better suited to the views of the assassin crew. appeared, of a rope-ladder. Mr. BUMS exposed'
Information of the progress of the plot having, himself every where, and encouraged the Officers to
do their duty, whilst the balls welt whitzing round
however, been fortunately 'communicated to Go- .
vernment, the intended Cabinet dinner was secretly his head. At this moment, Captain FITECLARENCIS
deferred ; and the place where the conspirators were (one of the gallant sons of his Ro7al Highness the
to rendezvous being known, Mr. BIRNIE, the Magis- Duke of CLARENCE) arrived at the head of a detach-
trate, whose intelligence and zeal have deserved and ment of the Coldstream Guards. They surrounded
obtained the public gratitude, was entrusted with the building, and Captain FITECLARENCE, with Ser-
the important task of their apprehension.
jeant LEGGIS and three fixes of Grenadiers, mounted
Mr. Br RNIe, Stith a strong party of Police Officers, the ladder and entered the room, now filled with
proceeded accordingly, at nine o'clock, to Caw- smoke, and only illuminated by the occasional flashes
of the fire-arms of the conspirators. A ruffian in-
street, Edgware-road. They stopped at a sort of
stantly approached the gallant Captain, and presented
outside house, in .that street, to the upper part Of
which there was access, by means of a ladder, for a pistol at his breast ; but as he was in the' act of
one person at a time. Ruthven, an officer, went up 'pulling the trigger, Serjeant LIME rushed forward,
the ladder, followed by two of his brother officers, and whilst attempting to turn aside the destructive
Ellis and Smithers. He knocked at the door; it weapon, received the the upon his arm. Fortunately
was opened to him, and the interior presented an as-
for this brave man, the ball glanced along his arm,
semblage cf about thirty men, an exact image of
tearing the sleeve of his jacket from the wrist to his
e.' .elbow, without wounding him. It is impossible to
banditti, variously armed with muskets, blond
give a minute detail of the desperate conflict which
busses, pistols, swords, daggers, wearing belts and
followed, or the numerous instances of personal
cartridge-bones,—and some loading fire-arms
daring manifested by the Peece-officers and the Mili-
The officer produced his staff, stated his authority,
tary, thus brought into sudden contact with a band
and called upon them to lay down their arms.—
of assassins, in their obscure den, and in utter dark-
The commotion instantly became dreadful. The
lights were put out by the ruffians, and a desperate
ness. Unfortunately, this darkness favoured the
escape of many of the wretches, and the dreadful
attack, with fire-arms, swords, and daggers, 'was
skirmish ended in the capture of only nine of them.
commenced on the Officers, one of whom was stabbed
These were instantly handcuffed together; placed in
to death by a person who, as stated by Ruthven, on
hackney coaches, and brought down to the Police
his subsequent examination at Bow-street, was the
Office, in Bow-street, under a strong military escort;
noted Thistleti -ood. While the conflict was still car-
and MT. BIRNIE, having arrived at the same mo-
rying on, a dbtachment of the Coldstream Guards,
for which Mr. BnINIR had sent on the first appear-
trtent instantly took his seat upon the bench, and
ance of resistance, arrived, under Ilse command of Prepared to enter into the examination of the pri-
soners. They were immediately placed at the bar in
Captain FITEELARENCE, and, with their assistance,
the following order:
nine of the conspirators were finally secured, all the
James fun a butcher,
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rest having contrived, in the interval, to effect their •
es Wllscm, a tenor,
escape, chiefly by a window at the back of a loft, to Richard Bradburn, a carpenter,
which a rope ladder had, it appears, been attached James Gilchrist, a shoemaker,
by the ruffians, by way of preeaution in case of scar- Charles Cooper, a boctmaker,
prize. The leader of the conspiracy, Thistlewood, was Richard Tidd, a bootmaker,
John Monn.-nent, a shoemaker,
among those who escaped. John Shaw, a carpenter, and
On the nine conspirators arrested being brought William Davidson. a cabinet-maker.
up for examination at Bow-street, they were all co- Davidson is a man of colour. At the Meeting in
vered with blood, several of them being severely Finsbury Slarket-place, a few months ago, he was
wounded. They did not offer to give any account one of the principal speakers.
of themselves, and after the Police Officers and some Inds is a short squaeman, apparently between fifty
of the military had given their evidence, the party, and sixty. The rest had nothing extraordinary in
whose names will be found in our report of the mat- their appearance.
ter,were sent, under a strong escort, to Coldbath-fields. The Office was crowded with soldiers and officers,
Mr. BIRNIE and Captain FITZCLARINCE were both bringing in arms and ammunition of various kinds,
exposed to the most imminent danger, from the balls which had been taken on the premises; muskets, car-
and daggers of the assassins, during the affray, but, bines, broad-swords, pistols, blunderbusses, belts, and
we are happy to state, both escaped without any. rs
ca ouche-boxes, ball-cartridges, gunpowder, (found
personal injury. The unfortunate SMITISERS has, loose in the pockets of the prisoners), havresacks, and,
we are informed, left a wife and large family to la- a large bundle of singularly constructed stilettoes.
ment his loss. . These latter were about eighteen inches long, and tr:e
A reward of £lOOO has been offered by Govern- angular in form: two of the sides being concave, and
ment for the apprehension of Thistkwood. the other flat; the lower extremity having been flat-
PARTICULARS OF THE ARREST. tened, and then wrung round spirally, so as to make
In consequence of private information received by a firm grip, and ending in a *crew, as if to fit into
the Civil Power that it was in the contemplation of the top of a staff. Several.ststves, indeed, were pro-
a gang of ruffians to make an attempt on the lives diced, fitted at one end with a screwed socket; and
of his Majesty's Ministers, whilst assembled at the no doubt they were intended to receive this formi-
house of Earl BATHURST, in Mansfield-street, to a dable weapon.
Cabinet dinner yesterday evening, RICHARD Bums, The depositions of a number of Officers, most of
Esq. with a party of twelve of rho Bow-street patrole, them wounded, and several of the soldiers, having
proceeded about eight o'clock, to the place which been taken, their evidence substantiating the fore-
had been described as the rendezvous of these des- going narrative, the prisoners were asked whether
they wished to say any thing? Doper and Davidson,
peradoes, in Cato-street, John-street, in the Edge-
ware-road, where, in a kind of loft, over a range of the black, were the only ones who replied, and they
coach-houses, they were found in close and earliest merely appealed to the Officers and soldiers to say,
deliberation. The only approach to this Pandemo- whether they had not instantly surrendered them-
selves :' Ellis, the Patrole, who received the mu-
nium -was by a narrow ladder. Ruthven, one of the
principal Bow-street officers, led the way, and he dered body of his comrade Smithers in his arms, re:
was followed by Ellis, Smithers, Surman, and others plied that Davidson had made the most determined'
resistance: 'At the moment when the light* were ex-
of the patrole. On the door being opened, about
twenty-seven or thirty men were seen within, all tinguished, he had rushed out of the place, armed
armed in some way or other; and, for the most part, with a carbine, and wearing white cross-belts. Ellis
they were apparently engaged, either in charging pursued him a considerable distance along John-
fire-arms, or in girding themselves with belts similar street, and, having caught him, they fell together,
to those worn by the military. There were tables and in the deadly struggle which ensued, Davidson
about the room; on which lay a number of cutlasses, discharged his carbine, but without effect, and Ellis
bayonets, pistols, sword-belts, pistol-bane inlreae succeeded in securing him.
quantities, ball cartridges, kc. As the officers en. Captain FITZCLARENCE had. seized and secured"
tered the room, the conspirators all started up, when one or two of the prisoners with his own hands, and
Ruthven, who had been furnished with a warrart he was not only very much bruised, but.his uniform
from the Magistrates, exclaimed—" We are peace was almost literally torn to pieces.
officers ! Lay down your aims !" . At eleven o'clock, the depositions having been
taken, as far as the circumstances of the moment
In a moment all was confusion. A man, whom
would permit, the Magistrate committed the prisoners
wood, opposed himself to the Officers,- armed with a
Ruthven describes as the notorious Arthur Thistle-
for further examination on Friday ; and they were
cut and thrust sword of unusual length. Ruthven then placed in hackney coaches, two erisoners being
placed in each coach, accompanied by two Police-
attempted to secure the door, and Ellis, who had fol-
Officers, with two soldiers behind and one on the box,
lowed him into the room, advanced towards the man,
and the whole cavalcade escorted by a strong party
and presenting his pistol, exclaimed—" Drop your
foot.
sword, or I'll fire instantly!" The man brandished of the Coldstream Guards, on 2 .
his sword with increased violence, when Smithers, Boer-street presented a singular appearance arthis
the other patrole, rushed forward to seize him ; and moment :—The Police-office surrounded by the mi-
ort the instant the ruffian stabbed him to the heart. litary ; their arms gleaming, in the glaring light Of
Poor Smithers fell into the arms of his, brother Off- the torches; many of them carrying muskets and
cer, Ellis, exclaiming e Oh, GoD!" and in the next in- other spoils taken in the affray; the roaring of the
stant was a corpse. Whilst this deed was doing, the coachmen, in consequence ifthe Theatres having just
lights were extinguished, and a desperate struggle closed ; and the confused buz of the multitudi, drawn
ensued, in which many of the Officers were severely together by the appearance of the militaryi gave al-
wounded. Surman, one of the patrole, received a together a very un-English complexion to the night,
musket-ball on the temple, but fortunately it only There was not, howeier, the slightest political gx.
glanced along the side of his head, tearing up the
.pteesion among the assembled crowd, and in a quar,,
,• ;-s . .
scalp in its way. . : t, ter an hour after the escort had left . then
The conspirators kept up an incessant fire;; isliilst there was nccippeaiance of arrything extvsee;absini.
it was evident to the Officers that many of them Were having happened. At bilbpast .elevah'cloc-k, the