d either parted
with it, or at the present day are eager to part with it for a
consideration. In order to get the Whigs into power, and themselves
places, they brought the country by their inflammatory language to the
verge of a revolution, and were the cause that many perished on the
scaffold; by their incendiary harangues and newspaper articles they
caused the Bristol conflagration, for which six poor creatures were
executed; they encouraged the mob to pillage, pull down and burn, and
then rushing into garrets looked on. Thistlewood tells the mob the Tower
is a second Bastile; let it be pulled down. A mob tries to pull down the
Tower; but Thistlewood is at the head of that mob; he is not peeping from
a garret on Tower Hill like Gulliver at Lisbon. Thistlewood and Ings say
to twenty ragged individuals, Liverpool and Castlereagh are two
satellites of despotism; it would be highly desirable to put them out of
the way. And a certain number of ragged individuals are surprised in a
stable in Cato Street, making preparations to put Castlereagh and
Liverpool out of the way, and are fired upon with muskets by Grenadiers,
and are hacked at with cutlasses by Bow Street runners; but the twain who
encouraged those ragged individuals to meet in Cato Street are not far
off, they are not on the other side of the river, in the Borough, for
example, in some garret or obscure cellar. The very first to confront
the Guards and runners are Thistlewood and Ings; Thistlewood whips his
long thin rapier through Smithers' lungs, and Ings makes a dash at
Fitzclarence with his butcher's knife. Oh, there was something in those
fellows! honesty and courage--but can as much be said for the inciters of
the troubles of '32. No; they egged on poor ignorant mechanics and
rustics, and got them hanged for pulling down and burning, whilst the
highest pitch to which their own daring ever mounted was to mob
Wellington as he passed in the streets.

Now, these people were humbugs, which Thistlewood and Ings were not. They
raved and foamed against kings, queens, Wellington, the aristocracy, and
what not, till they had got the Whigs into power, with whom they were in
secret alliance, and with whom they afterwards openly joined in a system
of robbery and corruption, more flagitious than the old Tory one, because
there was more cant about it; for themselves they got consulships,
commissionerships, and in some instances governments; for their sons
clerkshi