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  1. In British history, unsuccessful plot hatched
  2. in Cato Street, London, to murder the Tory
  3. foreign secretary Castlereagh and all his
  4. ministers on 20 Feb 1820. The leader, the
  5. Radical Arthur Thistlewood (1770-1820), who
  6. intended to set up a provisional government,
  7. was hanged with four others.
  8.