Star.
London, England, 1820-02-28 00:00:00

THE CONSPIRACY:.

The Cabinet Council assembled yesterday at one
o'clock, at the Secretary of State's Office for the
Home Department, to proceed with the investiga-
tion of the conspiracy. Their Lordships were assisted
by the Law Officers. Robert Adams, late a private
in the Royal Horse Guards, was examined before
their Lordships. His examination lasted till half-
past two o'clock, which was too late an hour to pro-

ceed with the examination of Abel Hall, a tailor, who

had been apprehended on Saturday morning, in
Seward-street, Goswell-street. Their Lortlships being
engaged to attend the limo in Council at three
o'clock, at his Palace in Pall-mall, Hail's examina-

tion was not gone into.
It was the examination of some of the witnesses
that led to the discovery of John Symmonds, the foot-
man of Miss STRATFIELD, in Upper Seymour-street.
On their being interrogated hew aley knew a Cabi-
net Dinner was to be given by the Earl of HAR-
ROWBY on Wednesday? they answered, John Sym-
monds, the footman, gave the information ; but it has
not transpired how he possessed that knowledge, or
what connexion he had with the servants of official

Gentlemen. He has lived eight rears in the service
of Miss STRATIPIELD; she gives him. a most unexcep-
tionable character for integrity, honesty, and • so-
briety. When Laventler and Bishop apprehended
him on Thursday, he was in the act of laying the
cloth for dinner, and his nai.tress took great interest
in his welfare. .

The Cabinet Dinner intended to have been given
by the Earl of HARNOWIY, on Wednesday last,
would have been the first this year, all of them hav-
ing been suspended, in consequence of the demise of,
the late KING, till• after the funeral; and it being
'customary for the Lord President of the Council
to give a dinner ;rnnually, about the time of prick-
ing for the Sheriffs, the dinner was appointed to take
place last Wednesday, instead of the regular She-
riffs day, which annual dinner is not strictly a Cabi-
net Dinner, as the Great Officers of State, the Clerks
of the Council, &c. are invited to it. Therefore the
information of the assassins could not have been bet-

ter for their diabolical and murderous scheme, as
there is scarcely any occasion upon which there are
more high official characters assembled in one pri-
vate house at the same time. The man who gave
information of the assembly of the villains, in Cato-
street, which happily led to their apprehension, per-
severed so much, and was so prudent in giving his
information, that he would not entrust it to a third
person, and actually called three times at the Earl cf
Haanowav's house, in Grosvenor-square, persevering
against the refusal of the porter to see the Noble Earl,
unless he would say who he was, or what business he
had ith the Earl :he expressed himself with so much
anger at the refusal, that the porter considered him a
madman. We hope this man will be liberally re-
warded, and even provided for. The Lord Cham-
berlain not being able to attend the dinner party
intended to be given last Wednesday, through indis-
position, sent an apology.
Saturday, Mr. FARRANT, the Magistrate, sat in
the Public Office, Bow-street, to hear the several
night charges, and the common routine of the daily
business, the interest of which has ceased since the
discovery of the plot of the assassins, and the proceed-
ings thereon. During the sitting ef. Mr. FARRANT,
a letter was handed to him, which was directed to
Mr. BIRNIR ; the letter being sealed with an Earl's
Coronet, he inquired if Mr. BrRNIR was in the Office?
and on being informed he was in the front Office,
proceeding with an investigation respecting the gang
of assassins, the letter was forwarded to him, which
proved to be from Earl GROSVENOR, inclosing £lO
for the widow of the unfortunate Smithers. The
example of the benevolent Earl was followed by se-
veral Gentlemen calling in the course of the day to
leave their subscriptions, not only for the widow of
Smithers, but also for the brave Officers surviving,
whose lives were risked in the apprehension of the
desperate gang in Cato-street, on Wednesday night;
and also for the different Officers who, since the
escape of so many of the villains, have used such ex-
traordinary exertions to discover and apprehend them
in their retreat; and under all the circumstances, con-
sidering the obscurity of the wretches, they have
been very successful.
John Firth, who was discharged on Thursday
evening by the Committee of the Privy Council, was
again apprehended, on Saturday morning, by Taun-
ton and Nicholls, at his residence in Bryanstone-
street, where he carries on the business of a cow-
keeper. He is owner of the premises in Cato-street,
where the diabolical gang of wretches assembled,
and when he was examined on Thursday before the
Committee of the Privy Council, his statement was
believed, that he did not know for what purpose he
had let the stable and loft, except for Jeremiah Hare
risen to keep a cart and horse in it ; whereas it has
since been proved, that he was connected with the
gang, and had been frequently seen in the company
of Davidson ; and upon this discovery a warrant was
issued, and he was apprehended, and, after under-
going a short examination, was committed to Tothill-
helds Bridewell. The said Jeremiah Harrison, upon
the first information given against him, was sup-
posed to be the man commonly called Parson Har-
rison, of Stockport, in iVheshire; but it appears he
formerly belonged to the Qd Regiment of Life Guards.
In addition to his being charged and included in the
verdict of the Coroner's Jury for the wilful murder
of the late Smithers, he acknowledges to being in the
loft, and standing close to Thistleroomi when he
cruelly and wilfully murdered Smithers.

Abel Hall, a tailor, of Seward-street, Goswell-
street, was. apprehended at an early hour on Satur-
day morning by Lavender, Bishop, and Salmon, at
his residence, on a charge of High Treason. The
evidence against him was not gone into.
Mrs. Thistlewood, the wife of Arthur Thistletoostl,
applied to Mr. Blame for an order to see her hus-
band in Coldbath-fields House of Correction. The
worthy Magistrate informed her it was not in his
power to grant her request, but referred her to the
Secretary of State's Office for the Home De artment.
It is a remarkable- circumstance, that T
was armed ready for marching his gang of assassins
from the loft, when the Bow-street Officer and his
assistants entered it, with two pistols, and his sword
in a black cloth belt, tied round his waist. The ac-
count given by Mrs. Harrir, the landlady of the boas!
in White-street, where Thisilemod was round in 644.

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is not believed to be correct, of her letting half her
nephew's' ued to Thistlewood on the morning of Wed-
nesday, without knowing anything of him.before.—
The fact is, he was completely concealed ; for not
only was the door locked, but the shutters closed,
and the curtains of the window drawn, and on Laven-
der's throwing open the curtains and shutters to let
in light after Bishop had first seized upon 7histle-
wood, Ellis, the conductor of the Patrole, whe, with
others, were surrounding the outside-of the house, to
guard against, an escape, looked in at the parlour
window, and on Thistle:wed raising himself up in
bed, Ellis exclaimed, in a loud voice---" By G—,
that is the man who murdered Smitliers r This so
elated the persons assembled round the house, that
they gave aloud three cheers, to express their satis-
faction that the murderer was discovered in his con-
cealment ; in fact, the populace, highly to their cre-
dit, have conducted themselves with the greatest de-
gree of propriety, in expressing their disgust, execra-
tion, and abhorrence of the wretches concerned in
this diabolical plot. Lavender gave directions to his
brother Officers not to let any person leave the house,
yet Mrs. Harris eluded their vigilance, ran out, and
went.to her husband at Caslon's Letter Foundry, and
returned again without any loss of time.
On Saturday, 'Mr. ANDREWS and Mr. FISHER, the
Surgeons of the Police, reported at the Office, and
at the Secretary of State's Office for the Home De-
partment,, that they continued to attend John Sur-
man, the Patrole, who was in the stpble in Cato-street,
yen he received a pistol ball,which struck the tem-
poral bone obliquely, passed under the scalp about
three inches, and came out under the ear; had it
gone the eighth of an inch farther, it would have
proved fatal'. They had every hope that he was going
on extremely well towards recovery.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
Bow-street presented on Saturday a scene of bustle
equal to any of the former days, and groups of
people, attracted by curiosity, were loitering about,
anxiously endeavouring to catch whatever transpired
upon the subject of the conspiracy of Wednesday
night Coaches were continually driving to the door
of the Office, and messengers going to and fro ; and
at every arrival or departure there was a great snob
of the spectators at the door.
Mr. Blame, whose activity has been so eminently
conspicuous during the whole of these important
transactions, was at his post at an early hour, issuing
orders, and receiving communications from various
quarters. The principal Officers were also on the
alert. Lavender, Bishop, and Salmon, were fur-
nished with a warrant for the apprehension of a man
named Abel Hall, a tailor, residing in Gee-street.—
They proceeded there, but he had quitted his lodg-
ings ; and after some inquiry, they found him at a
house in Seward-street, Goswell-street. He was
brought to the Office, and underwent a short examina-
tion ; and, together with Robert Adams, who was
apprehended on Friday morning, was conveyed to
the Office of the Secretary of State, where they re-
mained &or several hours. Adams was under exa-
mination before the LORD CHANCELLOR, Earl BA..
THORST, Lord CASTLEREAGH, and ether Members
of the Privy Council, the greater part of the morning..
Hall was only before the Council for a few moments.
They were both brought back to Bow-street' Office,
about four o'clock, and re-committed to Tothlll-
field's Prison.

Sim ands, the livery-servant, was for a long
time examined before Mr. BIRNIN ; and it was ex-
pected, according to his own promise, that he would
have made disclosures of a most important nature ;
but he appeared to have altered his mind, for the
greatest ingenuity of his interrogators, failed in ex-
tracting from him the facts he was expected to re-
late. He was taken back to the same prison.
Firth, the cow-keeper, and renter of the premises
in Cato-street, under General WATSON-, was dis-
charged after his examination on Thursday, but, in
consequence of subsequent information, Taunton and
'Nicholls were tent with a warrant to his house in
Bryanstone-street, where they arrested him, and
brought him before Mr. BIRNIE. He was examined,
-and remanded to Tothill-fields. As he caMe,from
the room where he was examined he appeared much
depressed.
A toll-keeper in the Commercial-road waited upon
the Magistrate in the cents, of the day, and detailed
some circumstances connected with the conspiracy
which had come to' his knowledge. The nature of
the information did not transpire. The greater por-
tion of the Members of the Privy Council wee oc-
cupied the whole of the morning at the Home Office,
in investigating circumstances connected with thel
conspiracy.
Thistkwood continues in good health, and appa-
rently cheerful. He eats heartily, and converses freely
with his keepers upon indifferent subjects. He is
quite reserved, however, on the subject of the crimes
with which he is charged. Be asserts that the wo-1
man, at whose house he was seized, knew nothing of
him whatever, and had never seen him but the day
before, when he took the lodging.
Monument, another of the prisoners, says, that
when he arrived at the rendezvous in Cato-street,
with Thistkwood, on Wednesday evening, he was
sworn to secrecy, and informed, that any one of the
confederacy who should divulge a single circum-
stance would be instantly " cut off!"
The body of the unfortunate Richard Smithers,
was brought to his late habitation, in Westminster,
between nine and ten o'clock on Friday night. His
disconsolate widow, in a pregnant state, is confined
to her chamber by indisposition, owing to the shock-
ing catastrophe. Lord &Dumont, in speaking of her,
to a person who was describing her affliction, said—
" Tell her I cannot restore her husband, but I will
take care she shall never want." Smithers's aged
father and mother, both of whom are 80 years old,
live at Fulham, and were supported by his industry.
The deceased was shot, in the shoulder, as well as
stabbed, in the conflict on Wednesday night. The
bullet was extracted on Friday, by Mr. FISHER, the
Surgeon who opened the body.
'I he reward of one thousand pottnds offered for the
apprehension of Thistlewood, it seems, is due to a
private individual, who gave information of the
place of his retreat.' The name of this, person is most
properly toncealed. • •
Great credit is due to Mr. BIR*Ii kid his tams,
for the promptitAide and bravery with Which they
attacked the banditti with so inadequate a fate. If
the/ bad waked ter assemble more mental:o. ai to.atir.
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round the house, the bustle of preparation might have
got wind and put the ruffians on their guard.
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS, mom CATO-STREET.
As early as ten o'clock yesterday morning, all tl'e
great thoroughfares at the \Vest end of the town,
leading to • Cato-street, were lined with -persons of
every rank and description, pressing forward with
the utmost eagerness to take a view of the,stable and
loft wherein the late horrible plot was planned to
murder his Majesty's Ministers, and where the unfor-
tunate Smithers met with his death. The horror it
has excited throughout the Metropolis cannot well
be described: John-street looked like a fair, but Cato-
street was crowded in the extreme. The stable, &c.
was shewn at. so much a head, and the doors •of a
theatre were never more anxiously besieged for ad-
mittance than the above shed, and it was said that
upwards of £5O had been taken before four o'clock in
the afternoon, by ,those persons who had possessed
themselves of the stable. The adjoining houses had
also little boxes standing outside of their doors, in-
viting the passengers to step in and take a look at the
place by means of which the conspirators had escaped.
The windows of the back part of the houses in Newr►-
ham-street, which command also. a ,view of the pre-
mises, were filled with persons of rank) and Ladies
elegantly dressed.

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SEDITIOUS EXPRESSIONS.
Captain DRUMMoND, of the 3d Guards, on Satur-
day appeared before Mr. BIRNIE. and stated, that
two of his men had reported to him the utterance of
expressions, of the most diabolical description, at the
Coach and Horses public-house, in Dover-street, Pic-
cadilly, on the preceding night. The soldiers were
called in and examined, and from their statement it
appeared, that a man, well known about the White
Horse Cellar, had, when the arrest of Thistlowood
was the subject of conversation, spoken of the King
in a mariner too gross for repetition ; and added, that
he would as soon shoot him as Thistlewood. Upon
this information, a warrant was issued, for the appre-
hension of the offender, and Salmon and the two sol-
diers were sent to put it into execution. After a short
absence, they returned with a man in custody, but
he did not prove to be the person alluded Salmon
and the soldiers were then again sent in pursuit.
At half-past seven in the evening Salmon returned,
but without having secured the man who had been
described. He was accompanied by the landlord of
the Coach and Horses, who was takes before Mr.
BIRNIE, and stated, that he perfectly knew the man
against whom the complaint was made ; he went by
the cant name of " Trend Ned," but his real name
was Eduard Forster ; he attended the stages at the
White Horse Cellar, and had lodged at his house
three months.

Mr. BIRNIE said, that a publican ought to consider
himself a branch of the Police, and should on all
occasions lend his assistance in the • apprehension
of offenders.

The Landlord admitted the justice of this obser-
vation, and said, he was sure he could bring Forster
forward. He did not know of what he had been
guilty, but thought he must have been in a state of
intoxication at the time. •
Mr. BIANIE said, the charge, although serious, was
still of a nature which did not require any immediate
proceeding ; be would-therefore wait till the man
was brought before him. At the same time, the ex-
pressions which had been used could admit of no
justification. He trusted the landlord would co-
operate with the officer in securing the offender, in
order that the matter might be thoroughly in-
vestigated.
The Landlord said, he should use his exertions to
produce him. He believed he had gone to his wife
and children, at Richmond.
The .niatter rests in this state at present.
A Proclamation has been circulated this morning'
offering a reward of 1:200 for the apprehension of
John Palin, alias Peeling, charged with High Treason;
This man was lately a Corporal in the East London
Militia, and is by business a chairmaker.

GENERAL ELECTION.

Mr. WETLAND has declined starting on the Mi.
nisterial interest for Reading, and Mr. LEFEVRE, one
of the present Members, having declared that it is
not his intention to offer himself again, it is expected
that Mr. PALMER' and Mr. Monte will walk over
the course.. The latter had declared that he would
not start in opposition to elthey of the present Mem-
bers, but the retirement of Mr. Lseevaz leaves him
now at liberty to avail himself of the offers of the
Freeholders. There is a rumour, however, of his
being opposed by Sir JOHN ELLEY.
GEORGE POCOCK, Esq. who has represented the
Borough.of Bridgwater in five Parliaments, does not
become a Candidate at the ensuing Election ; and
the vacant seat has been offered, by a union of all
parties,' and free of expense, to CHARLES KEHEYE
itzanys TyNTE, Esq. of Halswell House, near that
'town, who has accepted the invitation. The .present
Member, WM. ASTELL, Esq. and that. Gentleman,
will, it is expected, be returned without opposition.
The independent Electors of Chichester have soli-
cited HARVEY CHRISTIAN COMBS, Esq. the son of
the late worthy Alderman of the City of London, to
come forward and represent that City in Parliament.
D. S. DUGDALE and Sir C. MORDAUNT, Bart. offer
themselves again for Warwickshire.

CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, Fgtt. 28.—The
supply of Wheat being rather small this morning,
that of fine quality met ready sale, and is full 2s. per
quarter dearer than on this day week. Fine Malting
Barley supports last Monday's prices, but the mid-
dling and inferior qualities are full Is. per quarter
lower, and even dull sale at that abatement. New
Beans and Grey Peas are 2s. per quarter higher.
The Oat trade was not so brisk as last week, and the
ordinary samples are Is. per quarter lower, but fine
Corn sold on the same terms as on this day se'nnight.
Sitt ITHFIELD MARKET, FEB. 28.—The Market this
morning was well supplied, both in eattle and Sheep,
but there was a large quantity of the inferior descrip-
tion, of both sorts. Prime Cattle fetched the same
price as per last week't market. Mutton of good
quality also obtained last Market•day% prices. Veal
and Pork were equal in price as per last week.—The
ratrelnains thein price as per our last quota_
prices of Straw and Clover.
lion. Hay Market
No aion in
Current prices as under:
Beet oe 6d to fa 4/ I
Veal Ss 61 to 7a ad
Maim .. 4s 64 to 58 Ed Pork
Cattle at Market.
bans 200 o—sheep ami Lambs 17M—Calves 149--Ply 8,10.

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