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 termination of the horrid plot

by George Theodore Wilkinson

The prisoners all expressed their wish to that effect.

Mr. Shelton then addressed Thistlewood, and informed him that he would be put upon his trial for high-treason on Monday morning, at nine o’clock.

The prisoners were then all taken from the bar, with the exception of Wilson, who remained to make affidavits to the pleas which he had tendered.

The Attorney General then adverted to the necessity of assigning Council to the prisoners under the terms of the statute.

The Lord Chief Justice desired that the names of the Council selected by the prisoners might be stated to the Court.

Mr. Harmer immediately announced, that Mr. Adolphus and Mr. Curwood were to be the Counsel for the first six prisoners, including Arthur Thistlewood; and that Mr. Walford and Mr. Broderick would conduct the defence of the remaining five.

The Lord Chief Justice directed that the Council named should be assigned accordingly.

The additional pleas of Wilson were then brought into court by Mr. Harmer, and the prisoner was sworn to their contents.

The Lord Chief Justice.—Let the pleas be received. His Lordship subsequently announced, that the Attorney-General had filed his replication to the pleas in question.