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Forgotten Heroes: The 1820 Radical War |
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The very next day, King was present at another meeting of important radicals in Anderston in Glasgow. It was also attended by another three men, who are now heavily suspected as being government spies: John Craig, a weaver, Duncan Turner, a tin-smith, and Robert Lees, described only as “the Englishman.” King took the initiative at this meeting and reported that a large-scale rising was imminent and that all those present should make themselves ready for armed conflict.
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The following day, on March 23, Duncan Turner unveiled plans for a provisional government and revealed a draft of a proclamation, inciting widespread revolt, that was to be posted around the city for the public’s attention. This proclamation is pivotal to the whole history of the rising, and, given that the real Committee for Establishing a Provisional Government was in jail, it seems likely that the proclamation was the work of government agents, and part of larger plan to sink the radical movement in Scotland once and for all.
Although it is possible that the committee had managed to release the proclamation from prison, or had drafted it before their capture, the events that followed mounts the evidence against King and his associates, and all points in the direction of government treachery and entrapment.
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