The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-05-30 00:00:00

EDHWRDS, THE SPE

[Documents coecluded from our Pallet of yesterday.]
XIV. _ . .

Statement of . knows licorice Edwards well.
Has heel' frequently in his company. Souse time before
the Cato-street business, Edwards said to hiss, We
have got all things ready to destroy the Ministers. Wr
are prepared with ammunition and weapons; yeti of
course will join ns." replied, that be world
have nothing to du with his d—d mad-brained pro-
positions.

XV.
heard Edwards tell Davidson that he would
prepare the tire-halls, and that hr was to roue to him
the next morning, and he Would give hiw the money to
purchase the materials for the hantl-granades. Ou the
23J of February, a person called on we and desired me
to go to Cato-street to meet a few friends: I went, and
stayed about five minutes; when wishing to come away,
Edwards entleavnitied to prevent our ; but on my insist-
ing on going, he begged I would not stay more than two
or three minutes.
xVf.
can bring forward the person who nursed F -
wards's wife hat a few months sen, and prove that they
had nothing better than a straw bed to lay on at that
time ; neither could Eilwarls pay the woman for her at-
tendance to his wife, until lately, when he paid a pan of
it to stop the execution that was out agaii.st him.

XVII.
Statement of --. .1 person came to my boast
whose name I do not know, and said, that he wantml
one doyen canisters • they were for trying an experiment
with, and should ;hey answer, he should want silo
seven dozen. I told him I would make them ter 31. a
dozen ; he produced a pattern two inches long sad tee
inches in dianseter, with a hollow tube is the metre.
lie called about three weeks before the eircnmstaste ia
rato-strret, and ordered three dozen more tin rears.
Ile asked me if I mild make then, in three days. I was
nut mire I could do them so soon, but I would try.
person called at the time, but I was out ; the nos were
not made, and the persou never called agile, and I heard
no snore of hint. The man who ordered the tiso eu
dressed in a brown coat, alight, and rather short is
stature, white-faced, and thin. This answers Edwards's
deiced ptims.
XVIII.
luformation relative to -, an officer, roniseeted
with the establishment at Bow-street. It sprit,* doe
a Bow-street officer, was with lieorg
_Edwards
e Ed
very frequently, that the brother of Bernwards is
in some way attached to the police; --- wan
wig
when Thistles-owl was taken at the Imam at Mae
cis, near filoorfields ; - appears to have bee. "•
fluently in the company of George Edwards and his Inw
thee, and to have been acting in concert with them.
was some time back in close intimacy %Othello
notorious Curtin of the Spa.fields plot; that there Its
a system carried on between them for planderiag the
French prisoners of war; Castles used to aodertallt
provide them the means of escape, and to eomlact thew
on the road, when - was to intercept thew. ad
Castles escaped. This continued some time.
TO THE EDITOR or TEE STATESMAN%

Sta—The shameful levity and insolent lam if e`
fiance with which the Minieterial Members of the Ho"
of Commons treated the motion of Alderman Wool. es
the subject of Edwards the spy, are each as «suer
against moral feeling and decency of umanen, as one
before was exhibited in that assembly.
The condert of Alderman Wood is above all pais&
His open,manly, and intrepid endeavours la Aril trey,
bis high souse of obligation—Ms honest reprehatise
the baseness of that man, whom Ministers attempt*
screen, entitle him to the gratitude of his country
Ministers are little acquainted with the high DOM
the people of England, if they imagism that the pa/
sneers of Mr. Coming, or the pleadimp of a troy*
lawyer in the House of Commons, can stile that WWI
of lismest indignation which the Grimm of Poch a air
errant as Edwards excite. That 'Tleimleensed sad his
associates were profligate and assprjariplad mem. I • mse
who has read their own eels/alio*, will del t Waal
they ever would have combined and conspired teases*
simile Ministers, unless they bad beets iserigabd b!

Fiords, and furnished with money and with arms, few
%dieser believe. Ministers were beset even suspected
id bare known of this instigation, till ivre that they at-
wept to screen the person accused of .owls delilwrate
toeless. If Falw4rils aas simply an infortiter. and not
.5 instigator, why refuse to inquire into the part hr trtilyi
? Such an inquiry would establish a distinction.
kocern the evidence of •ti accomplice. which the law
altotsii, anti the evidence of one nho acts Upon a plan of
,sal and deliberate insttption. it appears tient the sir-.
poitions brought fora aril by Alderman 1; ood, that I
tlwarils sought out the Intuit needy and lieSprrate. and
in/1144,11s Wen, he could lied ; hr rent: ht upon their
.tetdwan„, awl 4.-4iicration, and furnished thesis a ills
71111}. money, and opportunity, for the cumnsissitin of
flat assassination %Inch he contrived. morass the
tailings of the popti:acr of London on the iletection of
sate conSisiratOr., ;111.1 on the slay of their execution ;
• .er rejoiced iu the detection and prevention of so a id:-
c 1 a project; they cheered the Dow-street officers wlsen
al. dragged 1-011%isirator. Thistlewood, frosts Ilia
...
i/ Al of esincealinent ; they were satisfied aid' the Yet-
dirt of the Jnry Melt who haul dared to ju.tifv
the Vilna of assassination. Thia feeling of cusidensoa.
honever, was eksaiigesl into our of cuisspassioli, a lien
it appeared that the se J.ir wretches had been the vic-
tims tif sedliction. If Mi %Vials that air m.„„lit„at
tirge should sympathise in the josstire of that law by
whirls tie ronspirator• %offered. !hey should Mat attempt
to screen the man who is act-used of having prompted
ti„.,„. If, iu eusploving Edwards as a spy, tioveriiiisein
meant only that he should watch the snot 111 l the row
spirstors, with a view to give such information as should
&teat the ear,intion of the intended assassination, then
tetnorn! he went Ise. owl ibis, he waa gouty of tern.
r:trry eve,' to Mitti4tett. Howrver the Ntesidiers of his
Majestf'ts Got-emitter!t ,star repose in the security of
p.twer, they mar rest asintreil that this, is tile impression
v. Web the a hole complexion of the ease novo neressa%
rHy wake, anti has •tt.atte, upon rise orial of the disin-
teres:::: tof the public.
am, &c

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held at their How. In Leadenball-atreel, un Fatoar, the
of Joe next. from Nine urlock in the Morning math
ti 4 in the Vetting, for Vt.. Met-Hun of a DIRECTOR if the
eirmin), iu the room of Sir Julia JakA, P2zunet,
drersfrd.

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LONDON:
T 'I.SDAT LVENING, NAV 30, 18!0.

We hive this mornin; received Paris Papers to the
Path instant. th Thursday, in the Chamber of Ve-
puties, the question for closing the debates nas put to
the YAW! and Carried unanimously, reserving only to
Cie Itepoiter the privileve of speaking; on Friday,
however, after he hail addressed the Chambers, several
Membe.s entered into a warm discussion, which occu-
pied them till the usual hour of adjournment ; when
tie farther con.ideration of the projet W.. 1% postponed
til! next day.
A Dern•arion of the Chamber of Peer' prrsenied to
the King, on Friday, tn•u projets adopted by them the
jr;r day.

FUNCIf Ft:Nt.'s (Vali)Ar).—Fire per Cents. 74 1.
c.—Bank Aviuns, 15151. 20c.

The meeting of the Pitt Club, on Saturday, whit
rye eonld scarcely notice ycstrrday, from the press of
al ore important nu.tter, is still deserving some re-
L.:AA. It was, it teems, hat thinly attended, and a:-
1, ini.ted to make up by elevation of rpirit what it
n..nted in extent of numbers. It is evidently sup-
pur ed now by few of its original mend,' es, except
those who coutend against the pleasures %shirts Mr.
T had deemed essential for securing the attachment
and tranquillity of our sister island. Had not the
principles that pervade the d.clit.ing society been re-
pugnant to the spirit of that portion of the kingdom,
re shculd reckon their avowal nn this important
point to bean Irish method of testifying their respect
ter their idol. The principal Cabinet Minister present
at the meeting was the one who has moat strenuously
resisted the emancipation of the Catholics: and he who
"• never accustomed to leave his seat on the wool-sack,
but on grave or urgent occasions, was induced to rise
and thank the company, in the name of his coadjutors,
n " the health of his Majesty's Ministers" was
Funk. Ihe long address he then pronounced could
not tail to refer to the condition of the country.
and to possess those traits of *homier which dis-
tinguish the disciples of the school of PITT. IHowerer
much to be regretted the complaints of commercial,
manufacturing, ■nd agricultural classes might be,
this was a state of things, the LORD CHANCELLOR is
stated to have said, which Mr. PITT foresaw as the
somequeace of the struggle in which he had engaged.
He, it seems, clearly anticipated the exhaustion that
has now succeeded our lavish exertions of strength,
aid he had therefore a sufficiency of sad occasion to ex-
claim, is his dying moments, —" Alas! my country !" '
but if that ruler of his country's destinies had actually
the foresight now imputed to him, it is unaccountable
CI, with the common sensibilities of hum:.n nature,