Richard Smithers was killed by its leader when the Bow Street Runners and Coldstream Guards attempted to arrest the men linked to it.
Richard Smithers was killed by its leader when the Bow Street Runners and Coldstream Guards attempted to arrest the men linked to it. Its exposure was the result of an infiltration by George Edwards, and John Brunt and Richard Tidd were among the five men executed for it. The plan was for a group of armed men to storm the house of Lord Harrowby during dinner, with James Ing insisting on taking the severed head of Lord Sidmouth in a sack. It was organized by a group of Spencerean Philanthropists led by a former instigator of the Spa Field Riots, Arthur Thistlewood, who was acting out of anger for the Peterloo Massacre. FTP, identify this 1820 plot to murder the entire British cabinet, named for the avenue near which its planners met.
Richard Smithers was killed by its leader when the Bow Street Runners and Coldstream Guards attempted to arrest the men linked to it.
{Cato Street} Conspiracy