WI: Cato Street Conspiracy sucessful

In 1820, Prime Minister Lord Liverpool and his cabinet are murdered by liberal revolutionaries lead by Arthur Thistlewood. The Spencean Philanthropists attempt to set up a provisional government run from the Mansion House and mimic the French Revolution. What happens next? How does this effect the stability of Britain, even if it fails to produce a lasting Republic?
 
The new King was very unpopular, so an initial swelling of support from the commoners of London is likely if they move quickly and arrest the King. The trouble is they have no support from either the Army or the Navy, so no way to fight the troops at Horseguards and Chatham.

I guess we would see the whole thing collapsing into street fights, as the army moves to quickly re-instate the status quo.

One interesting note is that William IV may have taken the throne earlier and so a more progressive king would be at the helm maybe overseeing an earlier Reform Act etc.
 
The new King was very unpopular, so an initial swelling of support from the commoners of London is likely if they move quickly and arrest the King. The trouble is they have no support from either the Army or the Navy, so no way to fight the troops at Horseguards and Chatham.

I guess we would see the whole thing collapsing into street fights, as the army moves to quickly re-instate the status quo.

One interesting note is that William IV may have taken the throne earlier and so a more progressive king would be at the helm maybe overseeing an earlier Reform Act etc.

If they kill the King we get the Duke of York as Frederick I, 1820-27. William then succeeds him.
 
For this to work, George Edwards, who historians seem to agree was an agent provocateur, would have had to have had a sudden change of loyalties.
 
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