John Thelwall [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
… In the run up to the passing of the gagging acts William Godwin published his Considerations on Lord Grenville’s and Mr Pitt’s bills (1795), which attacked the Two Acts as unnecessarily repressive, but which along the way attacked Thelwall’s … In both the theatre protest and his history lectures Thelwall used history as a cover, to encourage sentiments which Pitt’s government had tried to outlaw. By doing so, he attempted to organize the scattered million into a coherent social …
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