The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-04-28 00:00:00

.1.411 call your attention to only two of these pers.ons,
ea. James lugs and Thomas Brunt. Brunt was a
shuentaker residing in Fox-court. Dray's-inn-lane, and
there oecul•ied two rooms, in one of which he himself
resided, and in the other he applied himself to his
liis fancily ennslitted—of himself, his wife. a
so”. and to apprentice. It will not be necessary fur
tat tot carry your recollection far back to convince you
th.'t th's person had, i t cunjau with histlewood
p .•1 others, roneeivell a plot of the most diabolical
to odeney. Tiwir meetings will be shown to have tali-
r;nally been held at a public-house, called the White
Hart, situatetl is Brook's-market. Toward:. the latter
end of January, however, it was thou••ht tweessarv. for
'kr purpose of greater secret"-, to ret ))))) e the place of
a:,eeti••gtu the house where. brunt Aceonlingly,
►a prevent suspicion. a room was taken upon the same
floor where Brunt lodged, for the u..• set 1110. This
ryas IST.OSTegily taken for the purpose of following his
..renpathoot : but its veal use was, tie a pla,•e of meet-
;Hr. to perfect t:uose plans which, at the close of the
torah of January, or bo.:inning of February, the
prisoner awd his associates had so deeply catered into.
wits there that the scheme of blood and assassination
Se originally proposed and agr.ted to; anal yon will
(leadsmen. that they then determined upon a
o.leasotre unparalleled, I hope I may say, iu atrocity.
(lie Majesty's Ministers were to become the 6rst vic-
tims, anti, this accomplished, the town was to he tired
,different 'pi .riers ; the cannon at the artiller)-
gneand was 1.1 be seized, anal, amidst the tumult and
eon I.ll,:itots of the I. 101111• 11t, a Provisional liovernment
was to be formed. It loose operations the conspirators
here to direct. Ahoy deliberations, Gentlemen, took
apace at the latter end of January, and it was at one tune
saggested that the night of the Kings funeral would
1•c a lit 'opportunity fur carrying their schemes into
effect, as, lima that oreasi , the greatest part of the
troop!! would he absent from town. This plan, how-
ro.:.r. n•es sithseiptently abandoned, as it was f I
that their plans now embraced a greater variety of
..1);1• t% than many of the conspirator. had twigivally
c.o.ttemplated. The impatience of these persons to
witness the roost 0000000 :dhoti of their plans continued,
however. to increase, and. on the 19th of February,
you will find that it was definitively arranged, that no
longer delay should be suffered, hod that (el no better
opportunity intervened) the &allotting Wednesday, the
2:Sel inst., should be appointed to carry their plan•.
into effect. Having thus decided, a meetiteg was ap-
p•ai.nteel to farm a committee, upon whom the direction
1.1 these operations was to &sok e. At this, and intleel
tat all the meetings, the prisoner Thistlewomml man err•
.••ut,and you will find that he was generally theperson lay
whom the difen•nt plans were devised and pro:,ose.l.lli,o-
-tieniell. this actually him play,. on thi•
tog (Sunday) morning; and it will he proved that it
as atteetkd by the prisoner, by Brunt, logs, Harrison,
Wilson, a n.l others mentioned in the indictment —per-
whoa • names I now• only mentioned, because in
the course of the investigation it will be found that
they were all implicated I■ the lets esf each.--(Afte•r
01, ..eribing several other meetings. the Learned Conn-
coutinued.)---lientletuen, the meeting uu Tuesday,
the tad, was marked by a peculiar circumstance:
t;•coot of the name of Edwards entered the room, anal

-tared, that he had dis overed that a Cabinet dinner
a /IS to take place on the following day (Wednesday,
:;.1.) at the house of Earl Harrowbv, in (Irosvenor-
s.mare. You will, lientleuirn, be shil..ked to learn,
;io it upon receivi.og this intelligence, Druid, with an
i.viety almost ineredible, exclaimed, "That he had
i.':ttertoi disbelieved the existenee of a God, but that
he iv ,s now converted, and believed that the Almighty
f •cootred their designs, by thus causing a meeting of
Atz.ti•lers so opportunely fur their purpose. This i.e..
c:•ation was not confined to Brom alone. You will find
that the prisoner Thistlewooil was equally rejoiced. and
hulled this opportunity of effecting their object. Every
orratigement was inimeiliati•ly made, and it was de-
termined that the following netting should be marked
b.' the perpetrat' of their crime. I:entlemen, I
shonhl have stated, that, as it was ileri,,.u! unsafe for
Itront's house fo be the only place. where their arms
and grenades were deposited, arrangements hail been I
wade with a person of the m •of Tirlil (also ime of
the conspirators), by which his house also became a
oh-pot for arms. As, however, both these houses were
to far from Grosvenoir.s.ptare to be convenient for
noir purpose, it bi•catne ttio•essary to engage a nearer
plat r, and a stable and hay-hoft, in Cato-street, was
pitched upon fur that purpose. Fortunately, fientle-
so.on (as it often happens in matters of this description),
o.• of their OWII party was tom-hell with I •tion
a• the crime which he was about to assist in commit-
:• and you will foil, that on the tory day appointed I
1.6 r its perpetration, he contrived to gain all interview
with Lurd Harrowby, and revealed to him the net's-
riatos design.—(The Learned Counsel here went over
t..e whole of the transactions, which were afterwards
f.r.,,vl.lli'Alliotteel—tfavitrirtiots nearly chased the.
brief narrative, which he thought it necessary to give
of this most itefarious tratisao•tion, he (the Attorney.
.1;:orral) would ask, whether there was one of the Jury,
wt.,, airier hearing the facts he had stated, d in!
eii•ienve, could entertain a doubt of the prisoner's
joilt. lie it as at a loss to know. what answer was'
to be given to the charge so proved. Could
atty answer he attempted to be made ? And, if none
s. given by evidence, what could he given by ob-
ration t Would it be said, that the fact. tchieli they
should hear disclosed iu evidence were so absurd and
I'''"lstrUUS as to be unworthy of credit ? They must,
it. 'iced, be but judges of human nature, who did out
triceive it possible to find men of ileverate cha-
racters, of had passions, and heated imaginations,:
who would project plans that were frequently int-
Facticable, and try to carry them into effect, by
means which other men would shrink from with
tear and horror. The experience of the world proved
fast persons were to be met with, who, ponder-
it:, over their projects from day to day, worked their
r!.tids up to the saute, su as to think any undertaking
easy of arcomplishment. '1 he conspirators, in the pre-
se' r instance, fancied, perhaps, that after a blow Was
..Lei• struck, the people would come in great nurulsers,
s- join their standards. They could not, on this oc-
casion, calmly judge of men's minds ; hut the facts,'
r?..t should lie disclosed, were so clear and palpable,
• as to admit of no explanation. It was not for the Jury
t. consider, whether the plan of the' conspirators was
.o.ticable or luirracticable—that was not necessary--