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Collapse M:Acc0610 - Papers relating to the Cato Street Conspiracy

M:Acc0610 - Papers relating to the Cato Street Conspiracy

1 - Engraving of Robert Stewart, 2nd Viscount of Londonderry, Viscount Castlereagh (1769-1822), Foreign Secretary and Leader of the House of Commons

2 - Copy of The Courier newspaper with a letter from Arthur Thistlewood, denouncing Henry Hunt's allegations, made in a letter to the Morning Chronicle on 23 Oct, that Thistlewood was a government spy. Also publication of a letter from Edward Joseph Blandford to Thistlewood, implying that Hunt, as Treasurer of the Committee for the Penny Subscription, had misappropriated funds

3 - Report of the capture of the Cato Street Conspirators, from The Morning Chronicle newspaper

4 - Report of the arrest of Arthur Thistlewood in Chiswell Street, Finsbury, from The Morning Chronicle newspaper

5 - Reports of the inquest of Richard Smythers, police officer, killed during the capture of the conspirators in Cato Street and of the examination of the conspirators by the Privy Council, from The Morning Chronicle newspaper

6 - Brief report of further examination of the prisoners by the Privy Councillors and their committal for trial, from The Morning Chronicle newspaper

7 - Reprint of report in an evening paper on the examination of Thomas Chambers, shoemaker and follower of Henry Hunt, establishing his acquaintance with Arthur Thistlewood and that Chambers had thought Edwards was a government spy

8 - Report of the appointment of a Special Commission for the trial of the Cato Street Conspirators at Hick's Hall, Clerkenwell and the examination of the witnesses before a Grand Jury, from The Morning Chronicle newspaper

9 - Reports of proceedings of the trials at the Old Bailey of Arthur Thistlewood (in a special supplement to the Morning Chronicle newspaper), Brunt, Tidd, Davidson and Ings and sentences passed on them and the other conspirators who pleaded guilty

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