The Convention summoned to London withdrew to the less frigid air of ...

The Convention summoned to London withdrew to the less frigid air of Birmingham: it was known that Lancashire was arming; regiments were recalled from Ireland, the army was increased by 7,000 men, a White Guard instituted, and Sir Russell Napier, a wise and sympathetic choice, was sent to take command of the Northern Division.

In 1839 the Charter was presented and rejected: the Convention considered a general strike and a march on London. There was no strike; no one marched, and the insurgents had to be content with a wild riot in Birmingham.

In a few weeks 400 Chartists were in prison, and the revolution ended in a splutter of musketry and a dozen men killed outside the Queen's Hotel, Newport.

Chartism, though there was some brief; fierce rioting in 1842, when the Charter was again presented and rejected, was effectively dead. It is impossible to gauge the danger of a revolution which refused to happen.