The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-04-29 00:00:00

after I met him in Fleet-market. Henske,' me where we
could have something to drink ; and respecting the sofa
bedstead, he said, he thought he hail a friend that would
ry it. I took him to soy Louse, lint we could nut agree.
e came hack to Fleet-street ; he then told me there
was something zoi.• r tie done. I asked him what it
was, and lie said no good man would want to know what
was to be done before is Ira, begun. We went directly
and had sonic bread mil cheese. Ile took inc to the
White Hart, where I saw a few of my fellow-prisoners.
I asked who lie was. I nnilerstois.l Isis name was Wil-
liams ; lint I since know that it was hilwards. Ile told
n.e that it ft as lie made Thomas Paine (the statue of
Paine). at ,lr. Car ; and it was the same man that
did make it. lie afterward+ took the to another room,
where I got refreshment. 1 did not know the portico-
lam of any thing that ws• gointr to be done. I was a
stranger, and went for food. That very day he brought
me a sword to get ground for him, which I took to lb*,
entler's in mr own name ; and do von think. (gentlemen.
if I knew that any thing was going on, that I would
have left it in my own name? I often went to the maa
afterwards, for I hail no friends. On the 2311 of Feb. be'
came to me at my lodging, in Primrose-street, for my,
landlonl charged me nothing for n.y bilging, and says,
" There's something a going to he done ; do yon coma
up to the alley opposite 31r. Carlile's about six o'clock ;
I shall meet you there. I went from there up to the
room. I was there all dor, and I got some bread and
cheesse. At six I went to Fleet-street. lie was standing,
,in the alley. I aaderstantl since, from the list of wit-
ach's, shag liars in that alley. He t9ld me to wait,
. He th'en caitie nod gave me a
,eouple of bags and a Itch, and asked me to come to the
room in Pox-court. On iny going there he told me that
lie was going to pat some gin in the bags; and that it
was to be gut on the sly. That was the sole reason that
I put the bags under my coat, lest the patrol should see
them. I went with him op to St. Giles s, where he said
we were to get the gin. When we got there, he told ins
it was not there. We went up .o Oxford-street, where
he said a friend lived. Ile left me, and I waited &rhino
an hour. Ile then took the up to John-street, I believe
it was, for 1 never was there before, to the stable. Ile
told roe I wonld see some friends there; he then left me.
When ! came tinder the archway I saw Davidson ; Da•
vi.lson took me into the stable. I never was up in the
loft. I declare positively, before God, I was nut in the
stable more than tire minutes when the officers cause in t
there was only me there. Mr. lintliven then, or some-
body with carrottv whisker+, and another, went op the
ladder into the loft, and a third man came in, collared
me, and said, " you are my prisoner." Very well, I
says. Soon after he collared me, lie began heating um
with his staff, till my head swelled must dreadfully. lu•
the mean time, I heard a gun or a pistol go off in the ;
loft. When he let me go and ran out of the stable, I
followed him i!tto the street. On going into the street,
an officer went after me, and I ran all down the street. 1
met a man who struck me violently on the head with a
stick as I was going towards him. I ran from him, and
with that I was pursued, when I was stopped by • watch-
man, who beat me also. They took isle down to the
watch-house. That is all I know about the meeting. I
sin like a bullock drove into Smithfield-market to be sold.
[Here the prisoner burst into tears.] I say lam like a
bullock shove into Smithfield to he sold. [This he re-
peated with great energy.] The Attorney-Oeueral knows
the man. He knew all their plans fur two months be-
fore I was acquainted with it [still crying). When I was
before Lord Sidwouth, a gentleman said Lord Sidinouth
knew all about this for two months [still in tears]. I
consider myself murdered, if this man is not brought
forward [a more violent gush of tears]. lam willing to'
die ou the scaffold with him. He told of every thin'',
which he did himself. I don't value my lite, if I can t
get a living for my family [in still greater grief). My
life is of no use to me, if I cant bread fur my wife and
family. I have a wife and four children. I never was
in the habit of drinking, nor nothing of the sort. I
cannot describe my feelings to you about now wife and
family [ln tears]. 1 hope,before you give your verdict,
that you will see this man brought forward, or else I
consider myself a nsurdewd man. I knew nothing of
their plots; lie was the instigation of it all. I never at-
tended none of their radical ineetiugs. I hope you will
weigh well this in your minds before you return your
verdict. Adams would hang his father to get his own
neck out of the halter.—This is all I have to say.

Davidson, in his defence, stated, that from his youth
up, it had been his study to ►ead an honest industrious
life in all sobriety. He had no friends in England, bet
had a very numerous family, which was the only subject
of grief to him on this occasion ; for (now laying his
hand on a Bible before him) he could appeal to his Hod
in the most solemn manner, that he was entirely inno-
cent of the c►arge. He received the blunderbuss in
question from • Mr. Williamson, who had since gone to
the Cape of Good Hope, for whom be pledged it with
Mr. Aldous, to w►om he was known, and who gave him
him 7s. on it. He gave this toWilliamson, and the latter
gave him the ticket. It was redeemed on the 22d of
February, with money given to him for the purpose by
Edwards. !tieing out of employment, be applied to a
Mr. lioldwortity, who had known him lon, to give him
a job. when that gentleman ordered him to meet him at
the White Horse and tirootn, John-street, at six o'rloek
in the evening of the 23d. Prisoner went there, and