The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the ... 2
The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the ... 2
May, Thomas Erskine, 1815-1886
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jq [^Qth Houses of Parliament, denouncing these •* tremendous bills, which threatened to overthrow the con- stitutional throne of the house of Brunswick, and to es- tablish the despotism of the exiled Stuarts." * A few days afterwards, a great meeting was held in Palace in^FaSioe Yard, with Mr. Fox in the chair, which voted an address to the king and a petition to the House of Commons against the bills.* Mr. Fox there denounced the bills **as a daring attempt upon your liberties, — an attempt t...o subvert the constitution of England. The Bill of Rights is proposed to be finally repealed, that you shall be deprived of the right of petitioning." And the people were urged by the Duke of Bedford to petition while that right remained to them. Numerous meetings were also held in London, Edinburgh, Other Glasgow, York, and in various parts of the coun- meeUDgs. ^^y^ ^^ petition against the bills. And other meet- ings were held at the Crown and Anchor, andelse where, in support of ministers, which declared their belief tliat the seditious excesses of the people demanded these stringent measures, as a protection to society.* The debates upon the Treason and Sedition Bills had been Mr Reevea'a enlivened by an episode, in which the opposition pamphlet.
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