The assault may have been a follow-up to the Cato Street conspiracy, whose supporters believed ( wrongly ) that the hangman was a surgeon.
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Thereby all momentum was lost, as more desperate souls turned to worn out cloak-and-dagger schemes, which surfaced in the Cato Street Conspiracy.
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Domestic tensions ran high at the start of the decade, with the Peterloo Massacre ( 1819 ), the Cato Street Conspiracy ( 1820 ), and the Radical War ( 1820 ) in Scotland.
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He is immortalised in the lyrics of The Beatles song " Being for the Benefit of Mr . Kite ! " Another famous black Briton was William Davison, a conspirator executed in London for his role in the Cato Street Conspiracy against Lord Liverpool's government in 1820.
