The Trial of A. Thistlewood, William Davidson, James Ings, John Thomas Brunt, Richard Tidd, J. W. Wilson, John Harrison, Richard Bradburn, J. Shaw Strange, James Gilchrist, & Charles Cooper at Justice Hall, in the Old Bailey on Monday, April 17th and Following Days for High Treason |
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23d of February accomplice Adams Adolphus arms ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD Artillery Ground asked assassination Attorney-General back room blunderbuss Bradburn brother brought cabinet dinner called Cato-street charge Chief Justice Abbott coffin conspirators court Cross-examined crown Curwood death destroy the constitution Ditto door duty Dwyer Earl Edwards evidence examined exclaimed fire Fox-court Gray's Inn grenades guilty hand Harrison Harrowby head heard high treason indictment intended James Ings John Dobson jury knew ladder levy loft looked Lord Castlereagh Lord Chief Justice Lord Harrowby's Lord Sidmouth Lord the King Majesty's Ministers MID LOTHIAN morning murder night o'clock overt act Palen paper party person pieces of cannon pike pistol placed plot present prisoner public house RAYMOND and AGNES recollect rope round Ruthven saw Thistlewood scaffold Shilling Sixpence Smithers soldiers Solicitor-General stable stood sword thing Tidd's tlewood told took trial verdict Wednesday William Davidson Wilson witness
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Page 34 - The most forcible part of my Reply is on that head : read it attentively. I think that, of all sections of mankind, the clergy are those to whom, not only for their own sakes, but for the sake of the community, marriage should be most commended. Why, sir...
Page 5 - King containing therein that their tyrants were destroyed and that the friends of liberty were called upon to come forward as the provisional...
Page 4 - ... did compass imagine invent devise and intend to deprive and depose our said Lord the King of and from the style honour and kingly name of the imperial crown of this realm...
Page 5 - Subjects and to raise make and levy Insurrection Rebellion and War against our said Lord the King within this Realm and thereby to subvert and destroy the Constitution and Government of this. Realm as by Law established...
Page 3 - ... 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 Fleetlane. These were only opened to admit the carriages of persons...
Page 5 - That they did compose and prepare, and cause and procure to be composed and prepared, divers addresses, proclamations, declarations, and writings, containing therein solicitations, and incitements to the liege subjects of our said Lord the King, to aid and assist in making and levying insurrection, rebellion, and war, against our said Lord the King, within this realm,' and in subverting and destroying the constitution and government of this realm, as by law established.
Page 32 - He desired not to be misunderstood, as meaning under that plea to justify assassination. All he meant to argue was, that they must not take it as a necessary -consequence that the death or destruction of a whole administration involved the death and deposition of the king. If they (the jury) were of opinion that it did not involve such a consequence, the evidence on this occasion did not support the substantive treason laid in the two first divisions of the indictment. — There were two other treasons,...
Page 5 - Second, third, fourth, jifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh overt acts, same as in the first count. THIRD COUNT. That they did compass, imagine, and invent to move, and intend to levy war against the King, in order by force and constraint to compel him to change his measures and councils. First overt act. — That they did assemble, meet, conspire and consult to devise, arrange, and mature plans and means, by force and constraint, to compel the King to change his measures and...
Page 23 - Brunt called on my brother. Brunt said, that the king's death had made a little alteration in their plans. Brunt then asked my brother to meet him at Tyburn turnpike on the next evening; my brother agreed. Brunt said to Tidd, suppose we give him an outline of the plan ? Tidd
Page 32 - Would it be contended, that this removal of an administration was necessarily connected with the deposition of the monarch, and that every man who attempted to effect such a purpose would be involved in the crime of hightreason ? More violent men might think it necessary that an administration should be removed by violence.