Weeks before this event happened, its principal had a tailor sew an inside pocket into his coat, an act relied upon to refute his claims of insanity.
A piece of popular folklore claims this event was foretold nine days earlier in a dream by a wealthy Cornish mine owner named John Williams. In a namesake book, Andro Linklater claims this event was a conspiracy hatched by local businessmen. The ambassador Lord Granville Leveson-Gower was blamed for causing this event. Due to allegations surrounding the disappearance of a ship in the White Sea, the man responsible for this event had earlier spent years imprisoned in Archangel and St. Petersburg. Weeks before this event happened, its principal had a tailor sew an inside pocket into his coat, an act relied upon to refute his claims of insanity. This event, carried out by the Liverpool merchant John Bellingham, resulted in its target being succeeded by the Earl of Liverpool. For 10 points, name this May 1812 incident in which the reigning British prime minister was assassinated.
A piece of popular folklore claims this event was foretold nine days earlier in a dream by a wealthy Cornish mine owner named John Williams.
assassination of Spencer Perceval [or equivalents like “killing Perceval”]