Star.
London, England, 1820-03-06 00:00:00

THE CONSPIRATORS.

rhistlewood continues to evince, in his present
place of confinement, the same coolness and indif-
ference that he has uniformly manifested since his '
appi ekension. He and his fellow-prisoners seem per-
fectly contented in their new situation.
ANOVItte Willbe recollected, that on
the day but one succeeding the night of the arrest of
the conspirators in Cato-street, Perry, one of the con-
ductors of patrole, received information that a gun, a
sword, and pistol, had been seen by some boys, whilst
playing near the house of a man of the name, of,
George, close to the New-road, in a sort of hovel, or
outhouse. The boys communicated the circumstance
to old George, and he immediately nailed up the
hovel to prevent access, as well as to disguise the
arms. Perry lost no time in proceeding to the spot
with his party ; he broke open the hovel, and took
possession of the arms, as well as some hall-cartridges
which he found with them. He carried the whole to
Bow-street, and subsequent circumstances led to a
suspicion that young George had been connected
with the conspirators. An inquiry was made for
hiM, but he had absconded. From that time the
Officers have been on the alert in pursuit of him, and
last night Ruthven, and some of his brother Officers,
traced him to the Dundee Arms, Wapping, from
whence be was about to embark on board a Gravesend
boat. He was immediately secured, and conveyed
in a coach to St. Paul's Watch-house, Covent-garden.
In consequence of information being given at Marl-
borough.street Office, on Saturday last, Valentine,
an Officer, was dispatched to search two rooms in
Molyneux-street, near Cato-street, which were hired by
Firth, the cow-keeper, now in custody, and which
have since been closely locked up, being only occa-
sionally visited. The particular result of th. 2 search
is not known, but it was deemed of sufficient import-
ance to lay it before the Secretary of State, as several
suspicious implements, together with papers, were
seized, which tended to throw some light on the
mysterious intentions of the conspirators.
A blacksmith, in the neighbourhood of Gray's Inn-
lane, was arrested yesterday, charged with being the
manufacturer of the pikes of the conspirators. He
was conveyed to Tuthill-fields Prison, previous to
examination.

Ings, one of the conspirators, was formerly a butcher
in the King's slaughter-house at Portsmouth. He
was afterwards a guard to one of the coaches. His
family now live in the neighbourhood of Portsmouth.

The CROWN SOL lc' roft has given notice to Keikhi,
and the other persons committed to Lancaster Castle
in December last, for High Treason, that it is not the
intention of Government to prosecute them on that
charge.
A duel took place in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, on
Monday last, between Mr. Grissom, one of the young
Officers of the unfortunate expedition to South Ame-
rica, and Coionel LvsTrn, of D'EvntEux's Legion.
The parties discharged four pistols each, when the
seconds refused any longer to act, and the principals
quitted the ground without a reconciliation beiqg
effected. Colonel LysTER was slightly grazed by
three of the balls.

TERRIFIC PLEASANTRY.—An occurrence, calcu-
lated to give rise to painful reflections, which took
place a short time since in Berlin, is much spoken of
in all parts of Germany. During the late Carnival,
a masked ball was given in the Theatre of Berlin.
Four masks entered, dressed in black, and bearing a
coffin. This strange circumstance produced a very
' unpleasant sensation, but it soon ceased to excite any
attention. The four men deposited the coffin in a 1
1 corner of the room, and mixing in the crowd, soon
disappeared. On the following morning, the coffin
was discovered under some black cloth, arod on open-
ing it, there appeared a very correct likeness mo-
delled in wax, of an august Person dear to Prussia.
The figure was pierced with several stabs of a po-
. niard. A bloody dagger was deposited in the coffin.
The authors of this terrific pleasantry have not as• yet
I been discotered.—Paris Paper.