Star.
London, England, 1820-02-26 00:00:00

FURTHER PARTICULARS.

The conspirators were examined before the Privy
Council separately. Serjeant Legge and the privates
were in attendance the whole day, and were con-
veyed into the different rooms where the prisoners
were, in order to be able to identify them. None of
the prisoners seemed at all inclined to address the per-
sons in the room with them, except John Monument,
the shoemaker, who entered into a long explanation
with the Gentlemen near him. He said, among other
things, "that he had not been in the loft ten minutes
' before the Police Officers arrived—that he clime-by
Thistlewood's desire, of whom he had some know-
ledge—that when he saw arms, he was sorry he came;
and wished to go away—that he had heard nothing
upon the subject till after the King's death—chat he
had seen Thistlewood once or twice at a house which
he named; that he was told there were several simi-
lar meetings ; the purpose he did not particularise.
He denied that they were bound together by any oath;
but it was a general understanding among them,
that whoever was guilty of treachery was to he taken
off. He had heard something of going to Lord H A It.
ROWDY'S, but he declared he knew not for wlnit."_
It would be almost impossible to select a set of men
more disgusting and ill-favoured than the conspira-
tors first arrested—vulgar, feroCious, and particu-
larly malignant. Davidson, the man of c,lour, was
the best-looking man amongst them. Ings, the but-
cher, had one of his eyes severely wounded ; he had
discharged a pistol at one of the Officers ; but it.
missed' its object, and the Officer struck him with his
staff on his eye. In the same room with him was
another of the prisoners, a man apparently about 60,
whose features, attentively considered, betrayed more
resolution and malignity of purpose than any of the
rest. He threw around him a scowl, which seemed
/to say, that among those who were looking at him
were some who would have been victims, had the
plot been carried into execution.
Other warrants were issued yesterday, and Laven-
der and Bishop went in search of the persons intended
.to be apprehended.

Among the grenades found on the premises in
Cato-street, was one weighing upwards of 141 b. It
is a large tin canister, filled with gunpowder and
combustibles, and is wrapped round with rope-yarns,
which bind to its sides old snuffers and pieces of old
iron. The whole had afterwards been dipped in .tar,
and covered with an outer coat of brown paper.—
There is a fuse at the top, and the 'intention wad to
throw this into the banquet-room on fire. When
once exploded, its effects would have been horrible.
During die whole of ycsactday morning, notwith.
standing the weather being so unfavourable, num-
bers or personspf the first respectability, in their car-
riages and on horseback, have been to view the spot,
now rendered important, as the rendezvous of the
confederates of the hellish conspiracy. About eleven
o'clock, Captain FITZCLARENCE, accompanied by
two friends, walked through the street. Shot marks
are visible in various parts of the premises. The sta-
ble and hay-loft are under the charge &f the Police
Officers, who.have strict order's to suffer no one to
enter them. A private passage, from No. 6, in John-
street, to the back of the stable, is also under the
charge of the Police, who, as well as the inhabitants
of that house, are strictly charged to suffer no per-
son to pass that way.

Yesterday morning, on making further search in
the stable; in Cato-street, the Officers discotered
eleven pike-handles, concealed under a door, and a
tuck-stick. The former are about five feet six inches
in length, and two inches in diameter. They are
quite green, and appear to be young trees recently
cut down. At one end is an iron ferrule and a socket
to receive the pike which hat been described to be.
formed at the end of the stilettoes. A considerable
quantity of ball-cartridges, found in the areas lithe
neighbouring houses, which it it supposed iverip
thrown away by the ceospirators is their Agin, have

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The traces of the execrable plot, which has been'
so happily detected, continue to be followed out with
the greatest activity, and we are happy to add, with
every prospect of conclusive success. Several more
individuals have been arrested in town, and arms of
various kinds, and in no inconsiderable quantities,
have been brought in.
Where it is thought right, for the ends of justice,
that examinations should be private, particularly in a
case of this importance, but little, of course, can
transpire. We are, however, well assured, that fearful
discoveries have been made—that a fresh light has
been let in upon this horrid project of massacre.—
There is little doubt that some of the culprits have
already given important information. It was to
.be expected.
The bond of crime, unsupported by fanaticism or
delusion, (for this appears a plot of mere naked in-
stinctive massacre) is but feeble. Even CATALINE'S
associates were inn all faithful to Min, alter having
pledged their faith with lips moistened in human
gore. What compunction produced in Ccatus, fear
will operate, or has already operated, in meaner ruf-
fians. It is understood, and indeed highly probable,
that the murder of a few individuals, however ob.,
noxioes and eminent, was not alone their object.
They had the frantic hope of calling up all that is
depraved and despei ate to general massacre and
plunder. The hope was as frantic as it was wicked ;
for never was conspiracy so contemptible in its agents,

;is well. as rocrable in,design. As yet not a single

individual of the least consequence or character has
been found implicated in the business; with the ex-
ceptipn of their leader Thistlesviod, of infamous no-
toriety, they are all obscure individuals, and all poor,
nee3y, and destitute—in fact, the very dregs of society.
Considerable anxiety has been klt ever since the
detection of the Plot, to know whether it has had any

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ramifications in the couutry ; and we understapd that

it was resolved by Ministers to defer the intended dis-
solution of Parliament, expressly with the view that
there might be time for the return of the Messengers
klieg have dispatched to nuichester, Glasgow, and

other districts, to ascent kin whether there was any •
preparation tor a corresponding inaSsacre in the
North ; and to put the Civil ,and Military Power on
the alert upon this tremendous explosion.
We are eqabled, by the arrivals -this morning,
partially to relieve this anxiety ; and we are sorfy
to state, that they present not only strong indications
of the existence cf the Plot having been known in

the disaffected Districts, but even some appearances

of simultaneous action.

On the same night (Wednesday) that the Plot was
detected here, there was a genetal turn out OF the
Members of the Union, at Dewsbury ; two cloth-

mills are said to have been set on fire, and various
other atrocious excesses were committed. A dispatch
arrived at Leeds early on Thursday morning for mi.

litary aid ; and such was the urgency of the call,
that a party of the 4th Dragoons rode off instantly
in their stable dresses. The Civil Power had happily,

however, succeeded, before their arrival, in dis-
persing the rioters, ten of whom were seized, and
have been since committed to York Castle, to stand

trial for their lives.

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Of the state of matters in other parts of Yorkshire,
and in Lancashire, we have no tidings ; and from the
silence of our usual Correspondents in these quarters,
we have reason to infer that no manifestations fof a
similar nature to those at Dewsbury have occurred,

From Glasgow, however, we have intelligence of
an important description, and which, at first sight. it

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difficult to view otherwise than as having some

connection, to be yet developed, with the plot de-
tected in the Metropolis. On the night of Tnesday,
the day preceding the explosion here, the Sheriff of
Lanark -arrested twenty-five persons, who were
assembled together at an obscure Tavern in Glasgow,
and, according to the information received, assembled .
for illegal purposes. No resistance was made, nor is
anything said of their having arms to resist with.—
They are ranked under the general denomination of
Radicals, and are stated to have been a Committee
of Delegates from the different Radical Unions in
and about Glasgow.
ire proceed now to lay before our Readers the
particular accounts of these Provincial occurrences,
such as. they have reached us by the Post of this
morning :

COPY OP A LETTER FROM A RILIPECTABLE CLOTRIER
OF HECIEMONDwIKE.

a URCEMONDWIKE, FEBRUARY V 2.
" Yesterday morning (Monday), a scene of the most
daring and barbarous outrage presented itself that
can possibly be described or conceived: a number
of the Members of the Society called the Clothiers
Union, assembled at Batley, from Hanging and
Earl's Heaton, Dawgreen, and the neighbourhood
of Heckmondwike. During the whole of Sunday
night numbers were heard talking, and walking
backward and forward ; but about four o'clock on
Monday morning, some of them knocked at the
door of a poor woman, and inquired if William
Goodall lived there? Being answered in the nega-
tive, they proceeded on until they came to the poor
man's door ; and then, with the utmost violence,
burst it open ; at the same time calling out to the
poor fellow, who was in bed, " Come out, thou
black Devil, or else we'll draw thee!" His wife got
up and looked out of doors, when she beheld a vast
host of men, armed with large cudgels and other
weapons, waiting the arrival of her husband. Ter-
rifled at the sight, she hastily shut the door, and
fastened it as securely as she could. Just at this time
their cruelty was exerting all its efforts on a man
called Milton, whom they kicked and beat in a man-
ner too shocking to be related. Alarmed at this con-
fusion, one of the mill-owners sent the above Wils
ham Goodall for the assistance of some Peace Of-
ficers and others ; bat before he had gone far, he
found himself pursued and surrounded on all sides.
They knocked him down, then kicked and beat him
with their clubs in all parts of his body, so that he
is now confined to his bed. At this crisis the Consta-
bles arrived, but found it impossible to enforce the
powers of their office, beset, as they were on all sides,
by these desperate and inhuman wretches, who wee
vowing, with all their vengeance, that,

might be the coasequence, they would till every
man that opposed them. Would to Hitooax I could
stop here But it was now time for the Black Max,
as they call them, to come to their work ; and, alas:
as soon as those from the neighbourhood of Morley
appeared; they were seized s they were hewn and
beaten, to a degree the most barbarous and cruel,
While these unfortunate men were suffering the
cruelty of their unexpected foes, lamentable to tell,
another poor, quiet, and inoffensive man, who waj
coming from Howden Clough, to work at the mill,
was met by another company of these furious
wretches, who beat him in so unmerciful a manner,
that the poor sufferer's eyes were nearly lacerated
from their sockets, his legs and arms broken, and
most of his ribs fractured. Their barbarous career
did not stop here. A poor old man, who was re-
turning from Mr. Srzontoo's, where he had been to
seek for employ, was identified as a Black Man, and
immediately knocked down, nearly strangled, beaten,
and kicked, in a most unmerciful manner. Having.
as they thought, deprived him of life, they threw
him over an adjoining wall into a ditch.
is But perhaps you will now ask, was thfre no one
to help? To which I answer, that so far were these
murderous wretches from receiving their just deserts,
kthat they were strenuously encouraged by others as

'bad as themselves. 'The numb 'r of these. depredr:
tors was at least three hundred. lam informed tha
their plan of operations was settled at a meeting ct
their leaders, hell in the vicinity of Dewsbury. a
five o'clock on Sunday morning last r

/RCM. OUR CORRESPONDENT AT LEEDS.
" LEEDS, FEBRUARY !4.

" The most alarming reports were ye;terilay in
circulation, lout I could not trace them to any authen-

tic source. One report was, that several thousands
of the Union men,' who are standing out for an
advance of wages, had set fire to two large cloth-
mills, at Dewsbury, and that they had killed several
of the Black Men, as they term those who work at
the existing prices. These rumours, though not true
to the extent stated, are not without some founda-
tion. There was a very violent riot and disturbance
at Dewsbury and in the neighbourhood, at a late
hour last night, and the' Union men' evinced every
disposition to proceed to the lengths I have stated.
Their conduct was most violent and outrageous—so
much so, that an express arrived here, at an early
hour this morning, for a military force; and se str-
' gent was the request, that a troop of the 4th Dra•
goon Guards set off immediately in their stab)e-
dtesses, but before their arrival at Dewsbury the mob
had nearly dispersed. With the aid of the peace
dficers, they succeeded in apprehending ten of the
ringleaders, and brought them to this town, where
they underwent an examination, and were this after-
noon sent off to York Castle, to take their trial on a
capital charge."