Extent of Success for Radicals by 1819

Extent of Success for Radicals 

Government Response 

• Praised Manchester Magistrates after Peterloo, clearly didnt like radicals 
• Also made use of spies, oliver the spy in 1817 in the Pentridge uprising 
• War with France led to further opression, combination acts of 1799 and 1800 
• However were sometimes lenient, Acquitted all in Spa Fields in 1817 
• Tory government made it very hard, Lord Liverpool and Pitt

Extent of Radical Success

• Gave the people a voice, London Corresponding society 
• Increase in literate population meant that pamphlets promoting radicalism could…