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THE Cato Street Conspiracy named after the meeting place where the conspirators met near Edgware Road in the West End of London was an attempt to murder all the British Cabinet ministers and the prime minister Lord Liverpool in 1820.
Most of its members were angered by the economic depression and political repression of the time and planned to assassinate the Cabinet, which on the night of February 23 was supposed to dine together in Lord Liverpool’s Grosvenor Square house.
They would then seize key buildings, overthrow the government and establish a committee of public safety to oversee a radical revolution.
23 February 1820: the Cato Street Conspiracy unravels
The Bow Street Runners burst in on the Cato Street conspirators, frustrating their plans to massacre the entire Cabinet, on this day in 1820.
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Life was tough for workers in the first two decades of the 19th century. Farmers left their fields for the factories in increasing numbers, only to be joined, after 1815, by soldiers returning from the Napoleonic Wars. Food supplies came under pressure and prices began to rise. It didn t help that the government was unsympathetic to the plight of ordinary people. Rebellion was in the air.
Arthur Thistlewood sensed the time was right to foment revolution. Having previously failed to seize the Bank of England, he and his band of self-styled Spencean Philanthropists set out to overthrow the government. They learned that Lord Harrowby was to host a dinner for the entire Cabinet on Wednesday, 23 February 1820, at his home in Grosvenor Square. Thistlewood was to knock on the fron
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