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tions, to pay delegates to go into the 
country, and to defray the expence 
of printing their affidavits; and their 
principal purpose was to overturn the 
present. system of government, and 
to destroy the royal family. The 
persons belonging to these socicties 
were to be divided into companies ; 
each consisting of ten men, with an 
eleventh, who took the command, 
and was called captain of the com- 
pany of ten. ‘The next order was, 
that the oldest captain of five com- 
panies, took the command of these 
fifty men, and was called the colo- 
nel of that sub-division. Encou- 
ragements were hed to get as 
many recruits as possible, and cards 
were to be distributed through the 
country for that purposeé.—On the 
12th of November, at the Flying 
Horse, at Newington, he first met 
col. Despard, at which meeting, it 
was recommended to the col, to 
have a regular organization in Lon- 
don ; to which he objected, because 
it lay under the eye of government ; 
but in the country it was necessary, 
and, he believed, general, particular- 
ly at Leeds, Shetheld, Birmingham, 
and the other great towns, and now 
was the moment. He then said 
that the attack was to be made upon 
the parliament house, and that the 
king must be put to death. He 
further said, that he had weighed 
the matter well, and his heart was 
callous. After the destruction of the 
king—the mail coaches were to be 
stopped, as a signal to the people in 
the country, that the revolt had 
taken place in town. He then de- 
sired Windsor to meet him, in order 
to consult about the best manner of 
taking the tower, and securing the 
arms. He observed to the witness, 
that they had been deceived as to 
the number of arms in the bank, 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1803. 
there being only 600 stand there, and 
that they had taken out the ham- 
mers to nender them useless. 
He then privately informed wit- 
ness, that the king must be put 
to death the day he ~vent to the 
house ; and then the people would 
be at liberty. He said he would, 
himself, make the attack upon his 
majesty, if he could get no assist- 
ance, on the Middlesex side of the 
water, 
John Embly, another witness, de- 
posed nearly to the same effect, but 
more circumstantially. He met col. 
Despard at the Flying Horse, who 
said, that it seemed the wish of a 
great number of people, that an cf- 
fort should be made to endeavour to 
recover some of their lost liberty ; 
that a considerable force, he had 
been given to understand, was ready 
to act, constituted by great numbers 
of the army and great numbers of 
the people, particularly in Birming- 
ham, Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield, 
and other great towns; and that, in 
London, and near it, people were 
every where ripe, and anxious for the 
moment of attack; that the attack 
must not be made in London and 
the country on the same day, but 
that, by stopping the mail and stage 
coaches, it would be a signal to the 
country. He clenched his right 
hand, and swore that no good 
would be done, unless the whole 
family were secured, which might 
be effected by shooting the fore horses 
of the king’s carriage, which must 
of course stop, and then seize the king 
directly, as he returned from the 
parliament house, which he would 
do with his own hand. <A subse- 
quent plan, was to Joad the great 
gun in the park, with four balls 
or chain-shots, and fire it at the 
coach in which the king return- 
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