The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-02-28 00:00:00

TF.SMAN.

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street, Chisivell-street, Ellis recognised it. The account
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given by Mrs. Harris, the landlady of the house in
White-street, where Thistlewood was found in bed, is
not believed to he correct, of her letting half her ne-
phew's bed to hint on the morning of Wednesday, with-
out knowing any thing of him lyfure. The fact was,
he was completely concealed, fur not only was the door
locked, but the shutters and curtains of the window of
the room, which is a ground-floor parlour, were closed,
and on Lavender throwing open the curtain and shut-
ters to let in light, after Bishop had first seised Thistle-
wood, Ellis, the conductor of the patrole, who with
others were surrounding the outside of the house, to
guard against an escape, looked in at the parlour win-
dow, and sin Thistlewood raising himself up in bed,
Ellis exclaimed with a loud cuire, i• liy that is
the man who murdered Smithers." The persons as-
I smithied round the hatise immediately gave three cheers
to express their satisfaction that the murderer was dis-
covered io his concealment. Lavender had given three-
tions to his brother officers nut to let any person leave
the house, yet Mrs. Harris eluded their vigilance, slip-
ped out, and went to her husband, at Caslon's Letter-
knidry, and she returned again without any lost of
time.
Dr. Watson's late lodgings, in Three King's-court,
Fleet-street, has been 'rarefied, but nothing has been
discovered tending to his crineination.
'lke following is one acconut of the search:—
On Saturday, im consequence of certain information
received at Bow-stvert, several warrants were issued to
search the houses of persons that have latterly taken the
lead at the several radical meetings in the metropolis,
it Smithfield, Finsbury, fie. ; amongst those suspected
was the house of Hr. %fawn, Three King's-court, Fleet-
street. Mr. Stafford, the active and vigilant Clerk of
Bow-street, accompanied by a gentleman from the Home
Department Office and some officers, searched the house.
Nothing, however, was found, that could in the least im-
plicate any of the Doctor's family. Mrs. Watson, in con-
versation, declared to Mr. Stafford, that Thistlewood had
lot been at her bourse for more than six weeks, neither
load any of his party.
Mrs. Watson expressed herself in terms of warm:fn.
!joule for the kind and gentlemanly manner in which
Mr. Stafford performed Iris unpleasant duty.
To which we also think proper to subjoin another pa-
tagraph
Lc Watson still remains in Whitecross-street Prison. ,
and has lately been employed in preparing certain pa-
pers, the contents of which he seemed very anxious to
conceal ; be, however, solemnly protests that Thistle-
wood has not been with him for several weeks past, and
that he was totally unacquainted with the diabolical
transactions of the Cato-street gang till be saw the ac-
count in the papers.
The following information respecting the itinerant
orator, Jlr. Preston, will, no doubt, amuse our fisaders :
W hen the officers searched his lodgings, they found him
at his original occupation of translating old shoes into
new ones, in a garret in Hoke-street, Lincoln's-inn-
fields. When they to'd hi.st the nature of their visit, he
put down the shoe he had upon his lap, and monnti
his little work-bench, he addressed them thus
all Iltaellsitatural and wirtvons, gentlemen, you are w
rouse to search over the whole of my premises, but yea
won't find the ratite of a swan shot about them ; for I
know better than to F. them ere sort of lengths."—The
orator would have gone some length in speech., had not
the officers somewhat sternly desired him to desist. They
searched the whole of his premises, and finding nothing
which could at all implicate him in the Cato-street plot,
they left bitn as they found him.
Airs. Thistlewood, the wife of Arthur Thistlewood, ap-
plies!, on I:stonier, to Mr. Birnie for an order to see her
hasltansi in Culdirsth-fields House of Correction. The
ivorthy Magistrate informed her, that it was nut in his
power to grant her request, but referred her to the
Secretary of State's Office for the Home Department.
Mrs. Thistlewood is a delicate, interesting woman.
Front an acconot which has reaches) us, Tlaistlewocxl
seems to continue in good health, and apparently cheer-
fall. He eats heartily, and converses freely with his
keepers upon indifferent 'objects. He is quite reserved,
however, on the subject of the crimes with which he is
charged, except that he confidently asserts that he shall
prove an alibi by nuuterous witnesses. With respect to
this alibi, the following statement (beside other circum-
stances which we have mentioned) will tend to destroy
that plea:—
When the first gang of the conspirators was brought
down to the Police Office, in Bow-street, on the night of
the mnr•lrr, Ellis (the officer who received the falling
hotly of Smithers in his anus) distinctly stated to the
Magistrate, that he did not know the person of This-
tlewood ; hut he would swear that the man who stabbed
Smithers wore a broad black cloth belt, in which was a
pair of pistols and the seabbord of his sword. Now, on
the following morning Thistlewood was apprehended,
and Lavender, on searching him, found in his coat
pocket a hroad black cloth belt, exactly of the kind de-
scribed, with loops to receive a pair of pistols.

Simnionds, the footman, who, on his first examination,
hid niade some important disclosures, and seemed likely
to be very communicative, has now altered his mind ;
fist, on his second examination, the utmost ingenuity of
his interrogators failed to extract from him any thing of
the slightest interest. It was the examination of souse
of the witnesses that led to his discovery. Upon their
being interrogated how they knew that a Catnnet Din-
ner was to be given by the'Earl of Harrowbv, on Wed-
nesday. It was said that John tiiininoods, the footwon,
gave the information ; but it has not transpired how he
possessed that knowledge, or what connexion he hail
with official gentlemen's servants. He has lived eight
years in the service of Miss Stratfield; she gives him a
most unexceptionable character for integrity, honest•,
sobriety, lee. When Lavender and Bishop apprehended
him, on Thursday, he was in the act of laying the cloth
for dinner.

On S.ttitrdav Mr. Andrews and Mr. Fisher, the stir-
ports of the Police, reported at the Office, and at the
Secretary of State's Office for the Home Department,
that they continued to attend John Sermon, the patrole,
who was in the stable in Cato-street, when he received a
pistol ball, which struck the temporal bone obliquely,
and passed under the scalp about three inches, and
which had come out under his ear. Had it gone the
eighth of an inch further it would bare proved fatal.
They hail every hope of his doing well, and he was
going on extremely well towards recovery.
A toll.collector, in the Commercial-road, had an inter-
view with Mr. Bernie in the course of Saturday, to com-
municate some suspicious cirenmstances which he had
discovered in the east end of the town ; the particulars
bare net transpired.

Some important documents, they say, were discovered
late oh Saturday evening, which threw great light on
these transactions.

Some information was also communicated at the Se-
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At a late hour on Slatnri night several oth„
rants were istuell ; and yesterday (Sunday)
were out the greater part of the esaTes7
execute them; hut no treat arrests hal: heasiA4
a lite hour last night. 11
Throughout the %thole of yesterslav,
ffi tbapZigiows
sad officers at llow.street were actively eas ilk.
ther starch atter the confederated manilas.

The Cabinet Council aasernbled vesterdav, at
o'clock. at the Seeretrry of State's ()Ice
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Depattioew, to proceed with the investigation,/
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chatKos aitaitist the conspirators. Their lArdshigs,...
assisted by the Law Officers. Robert Admits, late a
rate soldier in the Royal Horse linsrds, was
before their Lordships. which trrclijoie4 their tithe t.
hall-past two o'clock. It was then too late a5,,,,11'
proceed with the examination of Abel Nall, the %as,
l'beir Lordships being engaged to attend the hilt,
to' nncil at three o'clock, at hi. Palace in Pall-testi, si;
examination was not gone into; and the tlisistenlm,
lag no time to spare, dressed at their others to num.
the King.
The Cabinet dinner intended to have been gifts lr
the Earl of Harronly last Wednesiley, ha„ hp•
the first this rear; its consequence t.f the demi" of
late King. on of them having been stispetiil.4l till sir
the funeral of his late Majesty, and it being renew.
for the Lord President of the Council to kite Ada:.
about the tisne of pricking for the Sherits, bet
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was postponed on aerount of the atone num fear
the at the,
the King Flicked for the Sheriffs, atulthe dinner sass.
pointed to take place last Wednesday instead of the r.
gular Sheriff's day. This annual dinner is not sole;
a Cabinet dinner, as the great (Ricers of stet.
Clerks of the Council, &r. are invited to it ; therefot,
the assassins' information could not have been ben, k,
their diabolical scheme, as there is scarcely anyone",
when there are more high Maria! characters safthiit
in one private house at the sense time.
The mitt shin gave information of the assembly ,/
villains in t sato-street, and happily led to their app role,.
sion, pers-vered so mush, and w .1s so prudent is gisis
his infermation, that lie would not entrust it to a tliy.
pereon, and he actually railed three tinics at the Earl,
Harrow bv's house, in tirosvetior-Ne re, perrernit•
against the refusal of the porter to let him see the Nab:
Earl except hr would say who he was, or what haw,
he had with the Earl; he expressed himself with nos
anger at the porter's refusal ; the porter thought helm
a moodiness.
As early as ten o'clock yesterday morning sIl Ile
great thoroughfares at the west eml of the lowa, lesifiti
to Cato-street, were lined with persons of every rasksa.
deseriptiou, pressing forward aids the utmost News
to take a view of the stable and loft.
John-street looked like a fair, but Cato-street rat
crowded in the extreme. The stable, her. was sin, ,t
so much a head, and the doors of a theatre wen are
more anxiously besieged for admittance than the sie,
shed; and it was said that upwards of WI. had he
taken before four o'clock in the afternoon, by things
sons who hail possessed themselves of the stable th
adjoining houses had also little boxes standing salt,
of their doors, inviting the passengers to supineal*
a look at the place by means of which the assassin
escaped. The windows of the back part of the ham
in John-street, which command also a view Nitre
miser, were tilled with persons of rauk and ladles sir
gently dressed.

SIDITIOUS RIPIESSIONS IN THE COUVIE Of 'MOO
Adjutant Drummond, of the ail Gourds, &Wyss
111 r. birnie, and informed him that two prisamd bit
corps were in the Coach and Horses publivesus is
Moyer-street, on Friday evening, and in the matt
conversation, a man, dressed like a coached, olio.
amongst other expressions of a similar 1
and b—st the old fat-g---d King, I had ,
him as Thistletrood and he d— to him."

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for his apprehension was isninedintrly
Salmon. as►isted by Bond, was despatched
it, aceompanied by the two soldiers who
expressions, for the purpose of pointing oat
They proceeded to the White Horse ellar,
where it usis understood the accused was

and one of the soldiers pointed out one IC
as the man. He was instantly seized by
as he was securing him, about twenty fellows
round and attempted to rescue him, and it
one of the toldiers drew his bayonet and tl
use it, that they were enabled to bring hit,. -
was bronght before Mr. 'Knit.; but it appeared,
awination, that he was not the man. and a •

rant was dispatched by the same officer% to
the real offender. In the evening Salta:Ryan
without his prisoner, who, it appeared, had
alarm and left town. Mr. fillfilef, the landlord
Coach and If orws, Dever-street, attended before'

gisirate, however, and stated that the person
by the soldiers of uttering %editions expressiww!
lodged in his house more than three ►aonths
Hared him to be an honest man and a good
unfortunately he was adilii tea to drinking
much, and, when inebriated, lie would sa;
merely for the sake of a lap k.
Mr. Birnie told the landlord, that the
also complained of his con;ltiet in not tivii
net answer, and treating them with runt;
they applied to him for the mall's address.
was highly reprehensible, to say the least
every licensed publican ought to consider
branch of the police, and elide:wow to fort)
ceetlings of justice, rather than retard them.
Tl►e landlord denied the imputation, and
had heard nothing at all shoot the words
the soldier called upon him fur the address
soldier, moreover, was not in uniform, an.; sew
that he could not understand what he wanted.
no wish, he added, to screen the man from;

would take upon himself to say, that he shouh.
coining in a few days. His mime was Edward
but he believed he wee better known as "Frew
The Magistrate expressed himself s.i:isfied
and the parties retired ; but the landlord re
the course of an hoar or two, with " French .
custody, when he wis ordered to bu brought
Tuesday.

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