Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-06-21

lY Tor Inc purpose VI dhoi uinS 'oi''it'O r.
sons who may be imprisoned by the arbltra-
~ power given to the ministers by the law
of March last. A prospectus ola subscrip-
ton for this object was published, and from
letter addressed by nine principal deputies
to the attorney general, il seems that law
proceedings have been instituted against
some Of those who, by afhxing their sigma
lures to the prospectus, gave couhtenance
and support to this act of humanity. The
deputies require that they too should be pro-
secuted, as if any crime were committed,
they must have been as guilty asthe others.
From the PHILADELPHIA Uuion, June l6.
THE LONDON CONSPIRACY.
Since the trial of the conspirators,
and the final catastrnphr Of the plnr, the
public attention in England has been
more than ever turned to its origin and
progress. The heads OF The gang have
paid for their designs upon the gallows,
and the block /; the multitude have wit
messed the wyrnins spectacle /; and the
country has been made to shudder with
accounts in which every CirCum stance,
calculated to awe and disgust, was care
| fully set down. A sort OF re acti m
takes place in the public mind aDd
though the government plumes itself
upon the victory, there are many ma
lures that would shrink from such a
victory We cannot enter into the
hints that have been thrown out, that
the ministry instigatrd the whole plot,
and were therefore. more guilty thar
their ferocious dupes ; but we should
not be willing to take upon our hands
the actual responsibility which appcr-
tains to them. They knew these men
held secret nightly councils; they knew
all their Vaccinations, and all their de-
signs. But they waited to let them ri
pen with the heartlcss calculation that
their maturity must prove fatal to the
deIuded wretehes. 1t was not for the
ministry to check the progress of the
conspiracy by even the emission of any
circumstance upon which its consum-
nation might possibly depend-for they
even went through the ceremony of ha-
wing the dinner prepared at which they
were 10 be mastered. Thus if they
were not accessory to the conspiracy,
they at least avoided every thing that
might disturb or hinder it and if they
did not lay the snare, they took pains
that it should not be uncovered or re-
moved. They watched it as an APP
preaching triumph, which should con.
firm the necessity of their measures in
tile public estimation, and strengthen
the hands, of The government. A worse
aspect is put upon the affair by some of
the more thoruughsoing in the opposi-
ton. A fellow by the name of Ed
wards was employed by the Ministry
to act as spy-to elicit information
from the abandoned Radicals CSC term
ed) by entering into their schemes, and
obtaining their confidence. He is con-
stantly appealed to by the criminals at
the trial not only as an accomplice, bat
as tie author of all their plots, and the
instIsaior too. He they said furnished
all the money to buy their arms, for
they were pennyles, crew. lie told
item that The Ministers were to hold
this particular dinner. That he was
employed as as spy no one denies /;
ard that his character was such as to
lit him either Tor spy or conspirator
f, seems as little doubted he was not
permitted to attend the trial, nor WAS
l'histlewood allowed to produce any
! witnesses. All the circumstances lead
TO a suspicion that the Ministry en-
! ployed Edwards to excite these men,
and furnished him with money and IN
! structions; that they were in fact the in
stigators and promoters OF the conspi-
racy, through thir worthy agent. But
it is too much. We cannot believe this.
in the absence of all positive, credita.
Bile evidence. ThistlewoGd confessed
at the trial that he had resolved on
vengeance before he saw Edwards,
and the rest, except one, in their final
speech, did not deny that it was their
purpose TO destroy the Ministers so
that no one can feel amy misgivings for
tier deserved fate. Alderman Wood
has moved in Parliament to have an
Investigation with respect to Edwards,
but the Ministry will probably stiAc all
enquiry, and shield Edwards to shield