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	Reference Encyclopedias Subject Encyclopedias Spartacus Educational Reform of Parliament (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Cato Street Conspiracy - Offers information on the event including bibliography and comments on each work.
		Involved in the Cato Street Conspiracy, he was found guilty of high treason and sentenced to death.
		Their information led to the arrest several members of the Spencean Philanthropists, a group who were involved in the Spa Riots and the Cato Street Conspiracy.
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	Hyman Associates - Corporate Strategy, Strategic Advice, Advisory Services, Business Development, Business Advice
		The Cato Street Conspiracy: The building in which Hyman Associates is situated was home to a failed plot to slaughter the entire British Cabinet whilst they sat for dinner at nearby 44 Grosvenor Square, known as The Cato Street Conspiracy.
		The conspiracy was almost certainly the work of the corrupt Home Office.It had been known for some time that by His Majesty’s Government that an attempt to assassinate his Majesty’s ministers was mediating, and that Arthur Thistlewood was at the bottom of it.
		Cato Street was chosen for the conspirators to arrange proceedings, to collect force and to arm themselves due to its proximity to the outlet from London, closer than any other of the Cabinet Ministers’, and escape from town would have been easier.
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	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Conspiracy
		Conspiracy, collusion of two or more people in an offence.
		A crime exists in the agreement to commit the offence, and it need never in fact be...
		Cato Street Conspiracy, an attempt to assassinate the British Cabinet.
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	THISTLE - LoveToKnow Article on THISTLE
		ARTHUR (1770-1820), the principal instigator of the Cato Street conspiracy, a plot formed to murder many British ministers in 1820.
		With some associates he hired a room in the neighboring Cato Street, collected arms and made ready to fall upon Harrowby's guests.
		However the authorities had been informed of the plot, probably by one of the conspirators named George Edwards; officers appeared upon the scene and arrested some of the conspirators; and although Thistlewood escaped in the confusion he was seized on the following day.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TH/THISTLE.htm (1414 words)

	Brit Lit Interactive Chapter 5 -- Romanticism Perspectives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Coleridge was amused that their talk of the philosopher Spinoza was reported as references to "Spy Nozy," but actual radicals suffered severer consequences, for the government was also deploying agents provocateurs to incite them into capital offences.
		These infiltrators played a major role in plotting the Pentridge Rising of 1817 and the Cato Street Conspiracy of 1820, a scheme to murder cabinet ministers (a prime minister had been assassinated in 1812) and stage a coup d'étât.
		"Cato Street" was "exposed" and its radical conspirators hanged or sent to prison in Australia, but the ultimate conspirator had been the government.
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	Literary Encyclopedia: Cato Street Conspiracy
		The Cato Street Conspiracy is the name given to a plot to murder the entire British Cabinet at a dinner to be held in the Earl of Harrowby’s house in Grosvenor Square, London on the 23
		Of the eighteen men who met in Cato street five were publicly hanged outside Newgate prison on May 1st 1820, six were transported to Australia for life, and the remaining “conspirators” were either rewarded or released due to their status as spies, agent provocateurs, or men who had turned King’s Evidence.
		The Cato Street conspiracy occurred because the British Government wished privately to create, and then publicly crush a small rebellion in order to dampen thoughts of insurrection by radicals disgusted by the Six Acts, high taxes, unemployment, lack of representation and the recent Peterloo massacre.
	www.litencyc.com /php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1507 (1439 words)

	Cato Street Conspiracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Cato Street Conspiracy was an attempt to murder all the British cabinet ministers in 1820 Britain.
		John Harrison rented a small house in the Cato Street as the base of operations.
		On February 23, Richard Bimie, Bow Street magistrate and George Ruthwen, another police spy, went to wait to a public house on the other side of the street of the Cato Street building with twelve officers of Bow Street Runners.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/cato_street_conspiracy_1 (745 words)

	The Cato Street Conspiracy: 23 February 1820
		Their beliefs were a strange mixture of radical socialism and violent republicanism; the sanity of some of them may be questioned.
		One of the main players at both Spa Fields and in the Cato Street Conspiracy was Arthur Thistlewood.
		The Cato Street Conspiracy was the last major attempt at insurrection in the post-war period.
	www.victorianweb.org /victorian/history/riots/cato.html (685 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: General Information (Car-Cg) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Catechisms were quite rare, until the format was adopted by the computer industry in the form of the FAQ (frequently asked questions).
		The Cato Street Conspiracy was a plot to murder British ministers in 1820.
		Arms were collected in a hired rendezvous in the neighbouring Cato Street.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /A32.HTM (1802 words)

	The National Archives \| Exhibitions & Learning online \| Black presence \| Rights
		After his arrest, one of the conspirators, James Ings, described how the plan was that he would be the first to enter the room at Lord Harrowby's house, armed with a pair of pistols, a cutlass and a knife.
		The presiding judge responded '...you may rest most perfectly assured that with respect to the colour of your countenance, no prejudice either has or will exist in any part of this Court against you; a man of colour is entitled to British justice as much as the fairest British subject'.
		When sentences on the Cato Street conspirators were passed, five of the conspirators were transported.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /pathways/blackhistory/rights/cato.htm (596 words)

	Cato Street Conspiracy
		Edwards told Stafford of the plan and Richard Birnie, a magistrate at Bow Street, was put in charge of the operation.
		After the experience of the previous trial of the Spenceans, Lord Sidmouth was unwilling to use the evidence of his spies in court.
		The premises in Cato Street, which will be ever memorable for the events of which they were the scene, was visited by several thousand persons.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRcato.htm (2695 words)

	The 1820 Rising - The 1820 Rising (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		And, from that day to this, the law is frequently harder upon conspiracy to commit an action than it is upon the action itself.
		Thus it was that Andrew Hardie, member of the Castle Street Union, set off at the head of his 30-strong force carrying his half-card towards Condorrat, where, holding the other half of the card, there was waiting John Baird.
		In Eglinton Street were the 7th and 10th Hussars (less, no doubt, the 16 troopers with Lt Hodgson).
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	The Northern Highlands in the Nineteenth Century - No. XV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Last night the town of Elgin was brilliantly illuminated, and numbers of the inhabitants paraded the streets with torch-lights to celebrate the present election of Magistrates and Town Council." This was probably a reaction against the Strathspey Raid.
		The illumination was very partial in the principal streets of the town, the thick blaze being confined to the west side of the river and the different suburbs.
		Fire-works and huzzaing completed the circle of the ordinary accompaniments of illumination; and if the people were occasionally a little loud in their exultation, it all passed off very well on a night consecrated by them to enjoyment.
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	February 23th (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A combination of mean men was then formed, with a view to the effecting a revolution by means of sanguinary violence.
		Months before the development of the plot, it was fully known to the ministers, who, according to the wretched.
		We here learn also that a nutmeg was occasionally used for the like purpose; it was set in silver, decorated with stones and pearls, and was evidently an object rare and highly prized.
	www.thebookofdays.com /months/feb/23.htm (2448 words)

	Law Reports and Trials
		The Cato Street Conspiracy was a plot to assassinate the British cabinet and so overthrow the government.
		The conspirators rented a disused stable in Cato Street (hence the name given to the conspiracy) from which to launch their attack, and it was during their last meeting there before the planned attack that they were arrested.
		The leader of the conspiracy, Arthur Thistlewood, stabbed and killed one of the arresting policemen.
	www.law.unimelb.edu.au /lrc/pub/lhro/lawreports.cfm (623 words)

	Moving Here \| Catalogue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Text and image of William Davidson from the book 'An authentic history of the Cato-Street conspiracy; with the trials at large of the conspirators, for high treason and murder; a description of their weapons and combustible machines; and every particular connected with the rise, progress, discovery, and termination of the horrid plot.
		On 23 February 1820 the gang waited in a hayloft in Cato Street, not far from Grosvenor Square.
		However, the police was informed of the conspiracy and the trap was set.
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	1820 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		February 23 - The Cato Street conspiracy is exposed.
		March 15 - Maine is admitted as the 23rd U.S. state.
		May 1 - Last hanging drawing and quartering in Britain – Cato Street conspirators for treason (only hanged and beheaded) (See Capital punishment in the United Kingdom.)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1820 (597 words)

	Marcus Porcius Cato -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Cato was born of plebeian stock and fought as a military tribune in the Second Punic War.
		In the large estates, or latifundia, of the Roman Empire, the organization of work was quite complex, and a hierarchy of supervisors came into existence.
		Cato also outlined the work organization for a...
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		The Old Bailey: The Old Bailey Proceedings Online Project is creating a fully searchable digitised collection of all surviving editions of the Old Bailey Proceedings from 1674 to 1834 and making all 100,000 trials available on the internet free of charge for non-commercial use.
		Cato Street Conspiracy: On 22nd February 1820, Arthur Thistlewood discovered that several members of the British government were going to have dinner at Lord Harrowby's house at 39 Grosvenor Square the following night.
		History of Judicial Hanging: In Britain hanging was the principal form of execution from Anglo-Saxon times up to abolition of the death penalty in 1964.
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	Reference Encyclopedias Subject Encyclopedias Spartacus Educational London in the 19th Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Board of Trade - Specialized department in London that oversees and regulates commerce.
		Bow Street Office - Location of a court house in London which housed the city's first group of constables.
		Cato Street Conspiracy - Cross-linked description of a plot in 19th century England to assasinate a few cabinet members and overthrow the government.
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	Victorian London - Districts - Streets - Cato Street
		The scene of the "Cato-street Conspiracy," of Arthur Thistlewood and his associated to murder the Ministers of the Crown, as they sat at dinner at Lord Harrowby's, 39, Grosvenor-square, on the 23rd of February, 1820.
		The building in which the conspirators met was a stable, belonging to General Watson.
		His motives are not well known; but his chief designs were against Lord Sidmouth and Lord Castleraugh.
	www.victorianlondon.org /districts/catostreet.htm (275 words)

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		His most famous case was his involvement in thwarting the Cato Street Conspiracy masterminded by Arthur Thistlewood.
		A stable in Cato Street, a short distance from Grosvenor Square, was chosen as a rendezvous for the assembling conspirators.
		George, the officer bearing the warrant for the arrest of the conspirators, was one of the first to enter the loft above the stable.
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	Cruikshank (1820) Cato street conspirators: A correct narrative of the events which led to the detection of the ...
		Cruikshank (1820) Cato street conspirators: A correct narrative of the events which led to the detection of the conspirators that assembled in Cato Street, Edgeware Road, for the purpose of murdering the ministers, on the 23d of February, 1820, concerted by Arthur Thistlewood, and a number of disaffected persons...
		Smithers and the verdict of wilful murder against the whole of the conspirators that were assembled
		Cato street conspirators: A correct narrative of the events which led to the detection of the conspirators that assembled in Cato Street, Edgeware Road, for the purpose of murdering the ministers, on the 23d of February, 1820, concerted by Arthur Thistlewood, and a number of disaffected persons...
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	Arthur Thistlewood - Cato Street Conspiracy - Spa Fields Riot - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Arthur Thistlewood was born in 1774 in Tupholme, Lincolnshire, in England and died May 1, 1820.
		London revolutionary who in 1820, a time of economic distress and radical unrest in England, organized the Cato Street Conspiracy to assassinate all the members of the British Cabinet.
		The police heard of Thistlewood's plot to murder the Cabinet members, and, on the evening of the 23rd, as Thistlewood and several armed accomplices were preparing to leave a room in Cato Street for Grosvenor Square, officers appeared and arrested some of them.
	www.eurekatimes.net /1820-Arthur_Thistlewood.htm (286 words)

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		Phrases that include CATO: cato cathartic, cato street conspiracy, cato the elder, cato the younger, marcus porcius cato, more...
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		It was abolished, and a single oath prescribed to all members by the 29, 30 Victoria, c.
		Catiline's Conspiracy Lucius Sergius Catilina, B.C. 64, conspired with a large number of dissolute young nobles to plunder the Roman treasury, extirpate the senate, and fire the capitol.
		Cato-Street Conspiracy A scheme entertained by Arthur Thistlewood and his fellow-conspirators to overthrow the Government by assassinating the Cabinet Ministers.
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	Romantic Circles: Scholarly Resources--Notes to The Shelley Chronology--Carl Stahmer
		On Saturday, 9 November, Harriet leaves the public house at 23 Chapel Street in which she has recently taken up lodgings by five o'clock in the afternoon and is never seen alive again.
		February 1820: Cato Street conspiracy to Kill the English ministry foiled (leaders executed 1 May).
		They met in a loft in Cato Street, where they were attacked by the Bow Street Runners.
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