‘Did the world ever hear of an act like this before? In the houses of America belonging to any of the friends, acquaintances or relations of these men and innumerable other houses, their names and their story are pasted on the walls, written in blood; and in the American almanacks is recorded the anniversary of the massacre of Dartmoor.’

William Cobbett, History of the Regency and Reign of King George the Fourth, 1830–34