over the next twenty years, baxter’s name crops up among other radicals in london in a variety of official records and reports from government spies. thus in 1798 he was a member of a debating society and in 1799 he was arrested with members of the united irishmen during a raid on the ‘nags head’ public house. he was noted attending margarot’s funeral in 1815 and in the following year was listed on the satirical broadside ‘’the polemical fleet’’ where he was given the nickname ‘impregnable’. in 1817 he was involved in organising political discussion groups at the mulberry tree public house..