… House at a mass open air meeting attended by up to 200,000 people, protesting against the government on a variety of issues. Image Legend James Gillray, ‘Copenhagen House’, © The Trustees of the British Museum, BM 140572001, 1795. Shortly … and Dissent: Thewall Elocutionary Project”, John Thelwall: Critical Reassessments, ed. Yasmin Solomonescu, special issue, Romantic Circles: Praxis Series 12 (September 2011); … has argued, throughout his career Thelwall did not ‘simply act in the name of ‘the people’, but wrestled with difficult issues of how to create and address a ‘public’ for a democratic culture’. 9 At the core of this lifelong attempt to …