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Is it relevant if there was a genuine threat or not and if not why |
No, the government responded as if there was one in order to make sure that a rebellion couldn't arise. |
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Why could there have been a threat |
Ideas spreading from France |
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How did the membership of radical groups change in 1792 |
Previously there were subscriptions so it was only the rich. Shefield Consitutional Society waved their fee 2500 member in 6 months 1/10 in the town. Groups spread LCS - founded by Hardy - spawned hundreds of affiliates. First time there were active working class men taking part in organised political activity of own accord |
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Crisis |
1. Reports of imminent insurrection in London in December 1792. 5. Part II sold at 6d and spread to towns and cities from North Wales to the Scottish Highlands. 6. Part II prompted the King to issue a Proclamation against Seditious Writings in May 1792:‘We cannot see without indignation, the attempts which have been made to weaken in the minds of his majesty’s subjects, sentiments of obedience…and attachment to the form of government.’ |
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How could it have benefitted Pitt |
Cracks in opposition as Portland Loughborough and Windham were far more aristocratically minded and anti democratic and would back him. Whilst Fox was toasting 'equal liberty to mankind' and grey formed an association to push for parliamentary refrom Many conservative whigs didn't agree and the whigs split |
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How did Pitt manipulate it |
Secret Service accounts reveal that in the early 1790s the Government spent about £5000pa on press subsidies and that the two most alarmist newspapers, the Sun and True Briton, were both started with ministerial help in 1792-3. |
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How did the government attempt to console |
fter 1794, Govt. bought up overseas wheat * Measure criticised by free-marketeers
Extra money spent on poor relief (in an attempt to keep poor out of the workhouses) but Whitbread’s calls for minimum wage thrown out of parliament. |
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Who backlashed against radicals |
Loyalists |
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How did loyalists backlash |
Mass of printed literature, including: * Hannah More’s Repository Tracts (sold more copies than Rights of Man)* Canning’s Anti-Jacobin newspaper, issued every Monday from 1797 * Paley’s ‘Reason for Contentment’ 1792 * Around 2,000 branches in existence * Earl Fitzwilliam threatened a Quaker member of the Sheffield SCI with eviction * Thos. Beddoes was denied the Chair of Chemistry at Oxford University * Unitarian Wm Frend was unable to live in at Jesus College, Cambridge * Minor public office holders were forced out of their jobs. |
