reply,
Mr. Tierney, by commenting on the omission of her majesty's name from
the liturgy, on the rumours in circulation against her character, and on
the report of a commission sent abroad to collect evidence against her,
strove to force ministers into a direct consideration of the question;
but they still preserved a cautious silence. Other members also
endeavoured to provoke them to a discussion on the question; but they
still adhered to their text--the required supplies, and these were
suffered to pass without a division. This done, parliament was dissolved
by commission on the 28th of February.

CATO-STREET CONSPIRACY.

In his speech on the occasion of the dissolution of parliament, the
lord chancellor referred, in vindication of their late enactments, to a
sanguinary conspiracy which had just been detected, and which, he said,
was sufficient to open the eyes of the most incredulous to the dangers
of the country. The conspiracy referred to was one of the most desperate
that could have been conceived by the perverse mind of man. It had
for its object the overthrow of the government, and the irremediable
confusion of national affairs, by the assassination of the whole
cabinet. The chief leader of this plot was Arthur Thistlewood, who had
once served as a subaltern in the West Indies. He had imbibed republican
principles in America, and these had been confirmed by a residence in
France during the darkest period of the revolution. He had recently been
tried as an accomplice of the elder Watson; and when he was acquitted he
sent a challenge to Lord Sidmouth, for which offence he was sentenced
to a fine and imprisonment. On his liberation he determined to take
revenge, and that of the most ample nature. For this purpose he gathered
around him men of bold daring and reckless characters. The principal of
these accomplices were, Ings, a butcher; Davidson, a Creole; and Brunt
and Tidd, shoemakers. After a series of meetings the united band of
these desperadoes determined to destroy his majesty's ministers. Their
plan was this:--that forty or fifty of them were to commit the tragical
act under a pledge of forfeiting their own lives should their resolution
fail them; and that other detachments were to seize on the field-pieces
at the artillery-ground, and at the London Station in Gray's Inn, and
then to occupy the Mansion-House and the Bank, and to set fire to
the buildings of the metropolis at different places. This pl