The second part contains, at great length, the TRIALS of all the executed conspirators, and the disposal of the other persons arrested, with a variety of additional particulars relative to the plot. The accounts of the execution, and decapitation, which are given with great correctness and fidelity, will be found interesting and affecting, and the APPENDIX contains sketches of the lives and conduct of the executed criminals, together with a copious history of the proceedings relative to that base and infamous individual GEORGE EDWARDS, the Spy and instigator to Treason. The work is confidently submitted to the public, in the earnest hope that it may be found so serious a comment on the intentions and ultimate views of sanguinary and designing men,--who traverse the country, intruding themselves into all classes of society, with specious plans of reform in their mouths, but, in reality, with revolution, massacre, and plunder in their hearts,--that every honest man, and every Christian, may be induced to shun their councils as he would a pestilence, and to adopt for his motto and rule of conduct the truly-British sentiment of our forefathers, “FEAR GOD AND HONOUR THE KING.” TO THE BINDER. Place this quarter sheet, (a) containing ADDRESS, _&c._ immediately between the Title and the Preface, and insert the PLATES in the following order, viz.: Portrait of Thistlewood to face Title-page. View of the Premises in Cato-Street 10 Portrait of Adams} ---- Hyden } 109 ---- Monument 167 ---- Tidd 325 ---- Davidson 339 ---- Ings } ---- Brunt } 378 The Execution 385 HISTORY OF THE Cato-Street Conspiracy, _&c. &c._ 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 placarded in all the leading places in and about London:-- LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY, _Thursday, February 24, 1820_.