card Conspiracy. In the mean sent. I am of a different opitime you may depend upon it that nion. it is impossible for this wind to blow over! It must bring down something or somebody; and, take this to your comfort, that you have raised it yourselves.

WM. COBBETT.

PLACARD CONSPIRACY.

The man that could openly defend that system was too far gone in political wickedness ever to retrace his steps. It was a thing that showed clearly that the man who did it was under the restraint of no principle whatever.

However, sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. The reader will judge from the following account of the proceed→

This conspiracy is a very pret-ings at Bow-street and at the ty companion piece to the Cato- Home Office, of the nature and street conspiracy. It makes natu-extent of the placarding conrally a part of the spy system, o- spiracy. I have inserted at the penly avowed by Canning, and as bottom of it, a letter from Mr. openly defended by Mr. Brough-DENIS O'BRYEN. I suspect, and am, at the very time when he I have always suspected, that knew the Queen to be beset the Radicals had no hand whatby spies, and also at the very ever in the proclamation, which time when he was preparing finally led to the recent befor his trip to St. Omers; or, headings and transportings in rather, at the very moment when Scotland! I watched narrowly he was negociating with the to see, whether any printer, ministers the terms upon which the Queen was to be kept out of England. There are some men soft enough to be taken in by a little bombast; and the Queen is so popular; so justly beloved and admired, that there are men found to say, that this defence of the spy system, on the part of Mr. Brougham, and laid upon the heads of conmay be overlooked for the pre-spirators in London! Let this

publisher, or bill-sticker was detected in that affair! Not one! How could this have happened, if the Radicals had been the authors and promulgators of the proclamation? Oh! let but the blood of those brave Scots

men be brought fairly home,

be done, and we shall then seeing, is a very satisfactory comour way clear! mentary on this rumour. Con

ture movement might possibly have been a very unlucky movement for them; and, the taking

The intention of the conspi-spirators are not always the rators upon the present occa-wisest men in the world; and, sion seems to have been, to pro- therefore, we are not to conduce what, in their bloody slang, clude, that the checking of the is called a premature movement; conspiracy ought not to be hailand thereby to obtain a re-ed by themselves as a most action, as they call it. They lucky accident. Their premahave been waiting for a re-action from the moment that the Queen arrived in London. They now see that there is no hope of the Queen to the Tower is, I of a bloodless re-action; and, imagine, a thing much more therefore, they are for creating easy to talk about than to some pretence, some excuse, perform. It is very certain something or other that shail that those who have brought justify a suspension of the laws, the Queen to trial, would never a creating of a hub bub, in the have attempted such a thing,' midst of which, the people may if they had known what they be frightened from their sup-now know. Not to have beport of the Queen, gun the thing at all would have There had been, for many been best. To have stopped at days, a rumour on float, that the any given stage of the proceedQueen was to be taken up for ings would have been better sedition or treason, and COM- than to go on, just as it would MITTED TO THE TOWER! have been in the proceedings of This rumour was on float for the Boroughmongers against many days before the conspira- the Reformers. But, men, with cy was discovered. The dis-power of dubious duration in covery of the conspiracy; or, their hands, are like a losing rather, the nature of the pla- gamester with money in his cards, and particularly of one, pocket: neither of them ever which, as I hear, was forthcom-stops till the last stake is gone. :

I shall now insert the Bow- beset with such terrible danstreet proceedings and Mr.gers; it is immerged in such O'Bryen's letter, with this ob- unfathomable difficulties, that it servation only, that the reader must either yield up the ghost ought to look very attentively at once, or make some most at the conduct of Baker the outrageously desperate effort to Bow-street magistrate, and at prolong its existence even for a that of Williams his old ac-quarter of a year. It is useless quaintance and friend. The to reason with the thing any reader should look also very longer. It is become perfectly attentively at that which took mad. It has neither rule for its place at the office of our friend, conduct nor light to guide it. Sidmouth, author of the me-Through the thickest darkness morable circular letter, author it now and then gets a glimpse; of the letter of thanks to the but it is a glimpse like that Manchester magistrates, and which some poet describes as prime author of so many things being given by the flames of which will long live in our re-hell to the sinners that are apmembránce. These things, Iproaching towards the most mean these conspiracies, do not horrible part of the infernal take me, and they ought not to abodes.

take my readers, by surprise.

This is a subject upon which I have always foretold that the one is apt to be tempted to thing (for by what name I know diverge from one's path. I now not to call it) would take des-return and lay before my readperate plunges towards the ers a transcript, or rather reclose! I always said that it print, of those proceedings of would lay about it; and that which I have been speaking, woe be unto him who came and from which I have detained near it in its agony. It is now them too long.

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DISCOVERY OF THE MANUFAC- is the niece and daughter-in-law
TURE OF SEDITIOUS AND
TREASONABLE PLACARDS..

(From the Times,)

THINKS.

of another King; and without preaching any doctrine tending to civil convulsion, the historical BOW STREET, MONDAY, OCT. 9. truth is undeniable, that EngIt is already known to the land never was greater or happublic that a poor and ignorant pier than in the golden days boy, Adderfield, was on Satur- of good Queen Bess,' and the day last brought to this office, glorious ones of Queen Anne. charged with circulating hand-Some among the most remorsebills of the most treasonable less of Queen Caroline's enecharacter. The spirit and de- mies might bear in mind that sign of this publication will best there is an express act of parappear from its own terms:- liament which makes it penal to question the right of the na"EVIL BE TO HIM WHO EVILtion to limit the succession to the throne. Whilst the wife, "The Queen's friends, when-with the magnanimity of a ever, and however assembled, Semiramis, is propounding a will not content themselves system that must shortly rewith empty professions, but give generate this enslaved land, solid proofs of their zeal by and crush the tyrant while it effectually promoting the sub-rends the chain,' the husband scription for such a service of is playing the Dandy. Nero plate as may be worthy of this fiddled when Rome was burnnoble country; and show her ing.' Majesty's nefarious persecutors Never will the generous that it is not in the power of an hearts of Englishmen, after the infamous government, a corrupt plan has been so promulged of judicature, or bribed majorities--supplying to her Majesty that of execrable perjurers, suborn-plate, which, though denied to ers of evidence, or malignant the niece of George the Third, conspirators to shut the hands has been made a boon to her of the people of England after newspaper traducer-never will they have opened their hearts. the public, whose annihilated Eternal disgrace would be liberties are sure of resuscitastamped upon the nation if this tion in the providential inmeasure did not thoroughly strumentality of this noble-mindsucceed. Mighty events are ed Princess (of which, by the probably in the womb of time. way, a recent glorious acquittal Except from the meritless ac- even in one of those right arms cidents of sex and primogeni- oftyranny, called courts of law, is ture, what claim has the King auspiciously portentous); never upon the nation which the will the British public permit Queen does not possess in com- the dishonour to her mon with him? She, as well as which would be inseparable he, is only third in generation from failure of the subscription from one King of England; she for the plate. Subscriptions

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continue to be received at the now suffering for their past following places, viz. :— well-proved virtues in the cause. "Messrs. West, 329, Strand, Scaffolds have been the melane wire-worker; Parr, Russell-st. choly lot of some. Others ar Covent-garden, tailor; Ireland, languishing in chains and dunHolborn-bridge, hosier; Cahuac, geons. A few weeks only, unBlackman-st. Borough, publish- less the nation be roused in er; Dennison, West-Smithfield, time, will see two more of our cutler; Watling, opposite the foremost champions laid in Adelphi, Strand, publisher; basest bonds' by the corrupt Whitaker, Surrey Coffee-house, judgment of ermined fiends. Union-st. Borough; Benbow, A long pull, a strong pull, and à 269, Strand, printer; being the pull altogether, may save us original receiving-houses: also all. Let the regenerators of by Mrs. Carlile, Fleet-st.; and their country discard all petty by all the other subsequently jealousies, and keep in mind the added members of the commits motto of that brave people which, by a glorious revolution, cast off a tyrant's sway, and established independence:---Concordia res parvæ crescunt, discordia maxume dilabuntur.”

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"Trustees.-The Duke of Leinster; the Earl of Oxford; Lord William Fitzgerald;

"And the following Members of Parliament and Gentlemen: When Mr. Minshull, one of the Sir G. Noel, Sir F. Burdett, Sir Bow-street magistrates, was R. Wilson, Sir J. Newport, Sir proceeding to fine this unfortuH. Parnell, Hon. D. Kinnaird, nate tool in the hands of others, Alderman Wood, Peter Moore, Mr. Pearson proposed to get the Esq., Joseph Hume, Esq., J. C. person who employed him apHobhouse, Esq., Charles Cal-prehended. Having sworn that vert, Esq., Edward Ellice, Esq., he had traced the fabrication to Major I Williams, Alderman an individual, and having obThorpe, Mr. Sheriff Waithman. tained a warrant to apprehend "N. B. All friends to the glo- him, he accompanied Vickery, rious Revolutions of Spain, the officer, to his house, and had Portugal, Naples, Sicily, and to him taken into custody on Sununburlesqued liberty in Eng- day morning. land, will not fail to attend the Crown and Anchor dinner on the 2d of October. Sir R. Wilson, M. P., K. M. T., T. and S. St. G., St. A., and B. E. in

This morning (Monday) considerable curiosity appeared to have been excited by the subject, Mr. Hume, M.P., Sir Gerard Noel, M. P., Major Cartwright, and the chair. several other gentlemen, camé "A passing word on the gene-into the office soon after ten rat cause.---Even in their festi-o'clock. Sir Robert Baker and vities the resisters of the detest- Mr. Birnie were the magistrates able government which enslaves this once free nation should not forget those who are

present; Mr. Minshull soon af terwards took his place. There happened to be but little night