... protests. However, most popular discontent arose as a consequence of the agricultural and industrial revolutions, a massive population increase, the French Revolution, the wars with France and the transition from wartime to peacetime conditions after 1815. Revolutions normally break out when the government loose control and fail to take effective measures to deal with the unrest and disturbances, whether organised or spontaneous. Liverpool's government's fears of insurrection were not completely unfounded however small the number of potential revolutionaries and however unrealistic their plots may have been. An example of this is the Huddersfield rising in June 1817, which attracted several hundred men who believed that their meeting would lead to a national insurrection. Also, Spenceans like Thistlewood needed no encouragement in their attempts to copy the French Revolution, and in 1820, along with nine other revolutionaries, Thistlewood planned to murder the entire cabinet. Luckily, a government spy discovered their plot ...

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