Ebook An Authentic History of the Cato-Street Conspiracy; With the Trials at Large of the Conspirators, for High Treason and Murder; A Description of Their Weapons and Com

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 which, by the prompt measures directed by the privy council, who remained sitting the greatest part of night, had been happily destroyed by the arrest and dispersion of the conspirators. Before day-light the following proclamation was pla carded in all the leading places in and about London'