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Cato Street Conspiracy

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698:"1. Conspiring to devise plans to subvert the Constitution. 2. Conspiring to levy war, and subvert the Constitution. 3. Conspiring to murder divers of the Privy Council. 4. Providing arms to murder divers of the Privy Council. 5. Providing arms and ammunition to levy war and subvert the Constitution. 6. Conspiring to seize cannon, arms and ammunition to arm themselves, and to levy war and subvert the Constitution. 7. Conspiring to burn houses and barracks, and to provide combustibles for that purpose. 8. Preparing addresses, &c. containing incitements to the King's subjects to assist in levying war and subverting the Constitution. 9. Preparing an address to the King's subjects, containing therein that their tyrants were destroyed, &c., to incite them to assist in levying war, and in subverting the Constitution. 10. Assembling themselves with arms, with intent to murder divers of the Privy Council, and to levy war, and subvert the Constitution. 11. Levying war." 497: 634:, who had worked for Lord Harrowby, went to find more details about the cabinet dinner, a servant in Lord Harrowby's house told him that his master was not at home. When Davidson told this to Thistlewood he refused to believe it and demanded that the operation commence at once. John Harrison rented a small house in Cato Street as the base of operations. Edwards kept the police fully informed. Some of the other members had suspected Edwards, but Thistlewood had made him his top aide. 650: 708: 354: 343: 332: 321: 310: 254: 381: 371: 771:. After the bodies had hung for half an hour, they were lowered one at a time and an unidentified individual in a black mask decapitated them against an angled block with a small knife. Each beheading was accompanied by shouts, booing and hissing from the crowd and each head was displayed to the assembled spectators, declaring it to be the head of a traitor, before placing it in the coffin with the remainder of the body. 567: 36: 533:
The conspirators planned to assassinate the cabinet which was supposed to be together at a dinner. They would then seize key buildings, overthrow the government and establish a "Committee of Public Safety" to oversee a radical revolution. According to the prosecution at their trial, they had intended
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In the resulting brawl, Thistlewood killed Bow Street Runner Richard Smithers with a sword. Some conspirators surrendered peacefully, while others resisted forcefully. William Davidson was captured; Thistlewood, Robert Adams, John Brunt and John Harrison slipped out through the back window, but were
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During the trial, the defence argued that the statement of Edwards, a government spy, was unreliable and he was therefore never called to testify. Police persuaded two of the men, Robert Adams and John Monument, to testify against other conspirators in exchange for dropped charges. On 28 April most
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MP accused the government of purposeful entrapment of the conspirators to smear the campaign for parliamentary reform. Although there is evidence that Edwards did incite certain actions of the conspirators, the idea is not supported by modern historians. However, the otherwise pro-government
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on the morning of 1 May 1820 in front of a crowd of many thousands, some having paid as much as three guineas for a good vantage point from the windows of houses overlooking the scaffold. Infantry were stationed nearby, out of sight of the crowd, two
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Historian Caitlin Kitchener has used the theoretical framework of wound culture to examine the visual culture that was produced as a response to the incident. This included prints, newspaper illustrations and other publications.
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noted that "the London-Irish community and a number of trade societies, notably shoemakers, were prepared to lend support, while unrest and awareness of a planned rising were widespread in the industrial north and on Clydeside."
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E.g., in a letter delivered to Lord Harrowby on the day of execution, conspirator William Davidson stated that "Mr Edwards was the man who gave me the money to redeem the blunderbuss, which Adams carried away to Cato-street".
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in London. The police had an informer; the plotters fell into a police trap. Thirteen were arrested, while one policeman, Richard Smithers, was killed. Five conspirators were executed, and five others were
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magistrate, and George Ruthven, another police spy, went to wait at a public house on the other side of the street of the Cato Street building with twelve officers of the
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in 1816. Thistlewood came to dominate the group with George Edwards as his second in command. Edwards was a police spy. Most of the members were angered by the
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Edwards had presented the idea with the full knowledge of the Home Office, which had also put the advertisement about the supposed dinner in
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Thistlewood thought the act would trigger a massive uprising against the government. James Ings, a coffeeshop keeper and former
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The conspirators were called the Spencean Philanthropists, a group taking their name from the British radical speaker
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How widespread the Cato Street conspiracy was is uncertain. It was a time of unrest; rumours abounded.
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1820). On top of the maypole are the heads of Brunt, Davidson, Ings, Thistlewood and Tidd.
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The London building where the conspirators were discovered which is today marked by a
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Poetry and Popular Protest: Peterloo, Cato Street and the Queen Caroline Controversy
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in 1815 further worsened the economy and saw the return of job-seeking veterans.
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were present, and eight artillery pieces were deployed commanding the road at
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Original Documents from the Cato Street Conspiracy at the National Archives
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The treasonous plot is the subject of many books, as well as a play,
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Milsome, John. "Arthur Thistlewood and the Cato Street Conspiracy."
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Conspiracy on Cato Street: Liberty and Revolution in Regency London
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Print from May 1820 showing establishment figures dancing around a
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Hard economic times encouraged social unrest. The end of the
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1820 planned assassination attempt on UK Government ministers
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Malcolm Chase, "Thistlewood, Arthur (bap. 1774, d. 1820)",
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Alan Smith, "Arthur Thistlewood: A 'Regency Republican'."
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The execution of the Cato Street conspirators, 1 May 1820
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Smith, Alan. "Arthur Thistlewood a Regency Republican,"
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that had been passed two months before. However, in the
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The British government used the incident to justify the
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to form a provisional government headquartered in the
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in 1974 for its association with the conspiracy. The
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in 1820. The name comes from the meeting place near
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Revolutions during the 1820s

London
George III
Six Acts
Government
Conspiracy
Assassination
United Kingdom
Tory Party
Bow Street Runners
Coldstream Guards
Informants
George IV
Robert Jenkinson
Dudley Ryder
Richard Birnie
Frederick FitzClarence

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