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 Combustible Machines and Every Particular Connected With the Rise Progress Discovery

Excerpt from 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 Combustible Machines and Every Particular Connected With the Rise Progress Discovery And<br><br>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''<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.