Star.
London, England, 1820-02-25 00:00:00

EX A MIN ATION ♦T bow-sTitErr,

The Officers were in pursuit of 77,1)11c;ro.:(/ did
whole of yesterday morning ; they first searched the!
house where I.e resides, in Stanhope.street, Clare-
market. At halt-past ten, Lavender, Bishop, Ruth-1
yen, Ellis, and Maitiment, lett the Office to make
another attempt to find him. About twelve o'clock
Lavender and Bishop brought him to Bow-street in
a hackney-coach. lie was conveyed into the. front
Office, when he underwent an examination before
Brims. It appeared, from the evidence of the
Officers, that they found him in the house, No. 6,
W.hite-street, Chiswell-street, where, after searching
the whole of the upper part of the house in vain, they
fund him in bed in a back-parlour. Bishop rushed
torward and sprang upon him in the bed, being
armed with a pistol. Thistlewood looked up and
exclaimed, "Is it you, Bishop? I will make no re-
sisLanco ;" and also said, " I hope the person wounded
last night was Mr. —," meaning a certain official
Gentleman, whose name, from prudence, we omit.

Ituthven identified Thistlewood as the man who
stabbed Sniithers. During this time, Tnistlewood
stood with a very sullen countenance.
Mr. J. E. CONANT, the Magistrate, proceedel with
the examination of the evidence. They consisted of
the landlady of the hearse, Mis. /14 a ledge?, and a
man named Lewis Casper. •
Llizabeth Danis, the landlady, stated, tint her
laishand works at Caslon's letter-tuandre. On Wed-
nesday she had a bill in her window to let her lodg-
lags, when, in the morning, betv..een Lea and eleven
o'clock. Thistlewood came into her hone and inquired
about the lodging. She told him it was only half a
bed with her nephew. Thistlewood agreed for the
halt bed, for which he was to pay hall-a-crown a
w::'ek, and was to take possession of it that night.
—it was st,rosed she kept a common nightly lodg-
ing-Low,e, by her taking a man in she did not know,
3.valiout ar.y reference, and the only explanation she
roe to this ovals, that she thought he looked respect-
-4..!:, and sl4e had as many as eight Feople lodging
her hoo e. 5!!... said she had a slight knowledge
ct Thisilewood, but denied it aftei wards, saying
slie was mis...!ken. It was supposed she was con-
tva:ing Thistlewood, as he was locked in the
rn. This she explained ; the door flew open,,
aA she could not keep it shut without locking
r. the said Thi:tlewood arrived at her house be
Neon ten and eleven o'clock on Wednesday night
i•bserved that he was I.c.e. She replied, he was
And she had almost given him lip. Ile went to
b, J. Yesterday morning, at rim- o clock, her bus •
Le.d c,ime home to his breakfast, and went into the
lauho 121,1,,tlaweod was in bed, when Thigle-,

wood *lced him for some coEee, and she took him a
basin full and some toast, in bed. Her street door
being only fastened by a latch, the Officers entered
and searched the upper part of the house before she
knew they were there; when they asked her to un-
lock the door of the room where Thistlewood was in
bed, she instantly did so. She did not know Lewis
Casper was in her house till they met in the coach
on being brought away.
Lewis Casper stated himself to be a watch. finisher,
residing in Union-street, Bishopsgate, and accounted
for his being in the house, by saying he was with Mrs.
Hill, the lodger, *who worked for him, and he ap-
pointed his little boy to call for a key.
This man was detained till it was ascertained if
he was the man he represented himself to be.
Mrs. Harris and Mrs. Hill were discharged.
John Firth, a cow-keeper, of Bryanstone-street,
Mary-la-Bonne, the owner of the cow-house and loft
where the assassins were assembled, attended, and
stated, that he let the premises to a man named
John Harris, who was a discharged soldier, who
hired it but a few days since, for wl.ich he was to
pay him five shillings a week, for six months certain.
llarris stated his object to be in hiring the premises,
was to keep a horse and cart in the stable, which his
4other was to buy for him, bnt neither cart nor
horse had been brought there yet.

EXAMINATION' BEFORE THE LORDS OF THE

COUNCIL.

After this examination was concluded, Thialewood
was conveyed to the Secretary of State's Office. $e
was taken there in the same hackney-coach, and in
the custody of the same Officers who had brought
him from White-street ; and as the coach drove off
from the door of the Office, the crowd, which by
this time filled the street, uttered loud cries of exe-
cration. Mr. BIRNIE instantly followed in another
coach. They arrived at Whitehall before the Coun-
cil had assembled. In the meantime, Thistlewood
was seated in the Porter's Hell, between Lavender
and Bishop, Ruthven and Salmon standing near him,
and ten or twelve more ORiccrs stationed in different,
parts of the Hall. There was also a &rjeant's guard
of soldiers in the Hall, and the Lodge adjoining. This-
tiewood, whilst waiting in this place, inquired of the
Officers the names of the different Members of the
Council, as they passed through. " Who is that?
13'at that Lord Castlereagh ? That is the Lord
Chancellor, I believe, isn't it ?" &c. His counte-
nance, at all times unfavourable, seemed now to have
acquired an addidonal degree of malignity. His
dark eye turned up,m the spectators as they came
in, as if he expected to see some of his companions in
guilt, who, he Lad bearl, were to be brought thither.
He drank some porter that was handed to him. He
asked, To what jail shall ibe sent ?—I hope
not to Horsham ?"--(This was the place in which he
was confined in conscaluence of la., conviction for
sending a challenge to Lord Sidnicmth).
By, half-past one o'clock, the following Privy Coun-
selors had arrived :
The E:ali of liariowl, Liverpool, and Westmoreland, the
Duke et Wellington, Lord. Castlereagh, Sidmouth, and Mel-
ville, the Ciuncellur of the Exchequer, Air. Canning, Sir-Wil-
liam Scott, Sir Samuel Shcpperd, Mr. Wellesley Pole, Mr.
Bcagge Bathurst, the Lord Chancellor, and many other Mem-
bers of the Council. Mr. Birnie, and Mr. Baker, of the Marl-
borough.streetyolice, were in attendance.

Shortly after, the Officers were directed to bring I.
in their prisoner, and Thistlewood was instantly
placed before their Lordships, when the LORD CHAtc•
CELLOR addressed him as follows :—" Mr. Thistle- I
wood, you stand charged with the two-fold crime of i
High Treason and of Murder.—Have you any thing
to say ?" Thistlewcod replied firmly, " I have no-
thing
to say at present."
Ile was then removed to the Porter's Hall again ;
and, in a few minutes, Mr. BAKER delivered his com-
mitment to the Officers; who instantly conveyed him
to the Ilouse of Correction, Coldbath-fields. In his
way there he appeared particularly anxious to know
when he should be sent to the Tower? and the Offi-
cers, taking advantage of the opportunity he had
thus given, of making inquirie.: in return, asked him
v•Lat he had meant to do with the ball-cartridges
found in his pocket ? To which he hastily replied—
' " It wo'nt do, Mr. Bishop, I shall answer no ques-
tion.." He.was safely lodged in the prison about
half-past two o'clock, and, in the meantime, the
1 nine prisoners, committed from Bow-street the night
be:Ore, were tAken before the Council, and evidence
at some length received against them: At the close of
their examination, they were taken back to the House
of Correct:on, under a strong escort of the Life Guards.
Thistlewood is much altered in his personal ap-
pearance of late. Ile never was a very comely man,
but now he looked care-worn and exhausted; and
though he affected to appear firm and unmoved, yet
there was a ghastliness in his countenance, and a
restless anxiety in his eye, which manifested a spirit
perturbed in the extreme. 'While the Officers were
relating the circumstances of his arrest to the Magis-
trate, he stood by the fire, his hands still manacled,
and seemed to listen to all they said with the-most
intense anxiety—a hectic flush shooting over his face
as the different instruments of destruction which had
been found Were mentioned or brought into view.
He was dressed in a threadbare black coat and waist-
coat, corduroy breeches, much worn, and shabby
dark-coloured worsted stockings, with worn-out rusty
shoes. lie was asked no questions here, -nor did he
speak at all; but the worthy Magistrate having satis-
fied himself as to the identity of his person, sent him
off instantly to be examined before the Privy Council.
it is a singular fact hat not sae of the nine pii-
. soners apprehen2cd in Cato-street, on Wednesday
night, had a single piece of money about them ;
and when Tiiis:letcood was searched, he was found,
equally destitute. Some of them, however, appear
*in high spirits nevertheless ; Davidson, the black,
especially. In his way to and from the Council,
yesterday, he amused himself with singing, with all
his might, Scots :rha fide we Wallace bled; and,'
when reproved by the Officers for being so noisy, he
abruptly replied, " I shall do as I please—l am ready
to die for liberty.'