OF THE CATO-STREET CONSPIRACY; WITH THE TRIALS AT LARGE OF THE CONSPIRATORS , FOR High Treason and Murder; A DESCRIPTION OF THEIR WEAPONS AND COMBUSTIBLE MACHINES, AND EVERY PARTICULAR CONNECTED WITH THE RISE, PROGRESS, DISCOVERY, AND TERMINATION OF THE HORRID PLOT. With Portraits of all the Conspirators, taken during their Trials, by Permission, and other Engravings. By GEORGE THEODORE WILKINSON, Esq. Editor of the New Newgate Calendar Improved. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THOMAS KELLY, 17, PATERNOSTER

To those, who are accustomed to look with an observant eye upon the causes which lead to the fall and destruction of nations, the present epoch offers materials for their most weighty consideration. They have seen their country involved in one of the most destructive and arduous contests ever recorded in its annals; they have seen the combined force of the civilized world directed against its very existence; they have witnessed its unexampled and glorious struggle; the loyalty and patriotism of

Among all the wild, wicked, and visionary schemes of which we have seen the rise and fall, in this age of infidelity and disaffection, none can be compared with that of which we are about to give the frightful history, for extravagance in its origin, ferocity in its details, or fiend-like triumph in its anticipated consummation. It is an event which must for ever blot with disgrace the fair page of British history, and it exhibits an awful and humiliating view of the state of degradation to whic

Place this quarter sheet, (a) containing Address , &c. immediately between the Title and the Preface, and insert the Plates in the following order, viz.: OF THE Cato-Street Conspiracy, &c. &c. On the morning of Thursday the 24th of February 1820, the metropolis was thrown into the greatest consternation and alarm, by the intelligence, that, in the course of the preceding evening, a most atrocious plot to overturn the government of the country, had been discovered, but whi

FOR HIGH TREASON. SESSIONS HOUSE, OLD BAILEY, SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1820. This being the day to which the Court had been adjourned for arraigning and receiving the pleas of the eleven prisoners, against whom Bills of Indictment for High Treason had been found, the proceedings commenced. At ten o’clock precisely, the Commissioners entered the Court, preceded by Mr. Sheriff Rothwell; they were, the Lord Chief-Justice Abbott, the Lord Chief-Justice Dallas, the Chief Baron Richards, and Mr. Justice Ri

First Day, April 17, 1820. The interest excited by this trial was strongly manifested by the assemblage of a crowd in front of the Sessions-house, as early as seven o’clock. Previous to this time a numerous body of the civil force had arrived, and were stationed in such situations as to control the multitude. For the purpose of preventing the interruption arising from the passage of carriages and carts through the Old Bailey, rails were erected at the two ends, next Ludgate-hill and Fleet-lane.

SESSIONS-HOUSE, OLD BAILEY. First Day, Friday, April 21, 1820. At eight o’clock in the morning the jurymen, who had been summoned, arrived at the Sessions-house, and, at nine, Lord Chief Justice Dallas, Chief Baron Richards, Mr. Justice Richardson, and the Common Sergeant, took their seats. The prisoner, James Ings, was then put to the bar; he seemed to labour under strong feelings of agitation and had none of that firmness of aspect which he displayed on the former days: he was dressed in a sui

SESSIONS-HOUSE, OLD BAILEY. First Day, Monday, April 24, 1820. At nine o’clock in the morning, the Lord Chief Baron Richards, Mr. Baron Garrow, Mr. Justice Richardson, and the Common Serjeant, took their seats. The prisoner, Brunt, was then put to the bar. He was decently dressed in coloured clothes, and had with him several papers, some of which were closely written upon. He looked rather paler than before, but preserved his accustomed composure. Mr. Shelton proceeded to call over the names of

SESSIONS-HOUSE, OLD BAILEY. First Day, Wednesday, April 26, 1820. At ten minutes after nine o’clock, Mr. Baron Garrow, Mr. Justice Best, and the Common-Serjeant, took their seats on the bench; the Attorney-General, Mr. Gurney, and Mr. Bolland, and the prisoner’s counsel, Messrs. Adolphus and Curwood, appeared in Court at the same time. After a short consultation between Mr. Curwood and the Attorney-General, Mr. Harmer quitted the Court, and proceeded to commune with the prisoners in the gaol. Du