Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . Somedangerous revolutionists made use of the Sj)encean Philan-thropists (p. 120) to organise a conspiracy for establishing aCommittee of Public Safety and .seizing the Tower of London-Their meeting at Spa Fields was, however, an egregious a stone had been hurjed/fft the Regents carriage, when hewent to open Parliament, ^re Uovernment proceeded in 1817 tosuspend the Habeas Corpus Act. Neverthele
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . Somedangerous revolutionists made use of the Sj)encean Philan-thropists (p. 120) to organise a conspiracy for establishing aCommittee of Public Safety and .seizing the Tower of London-Their meeting at Spa Fields was, however, an egregious a stone had been hurjed/fft the Regents carriage, when hewent to open Parliament, ^re Uovernment proceeded in 1817 tosuspend the Habeas Corpus Act. Nevertheless the north wasalive with discontent. The Blanketeers set forth from Man-chester to march on London, and Captain Brandreth raisedan insurrection at Derby. Two years later an attempt to POLITICAL HISTORY. ^ Field, Jlaii- 1832] suppress a Radical meeting in ^ Peters Field, nearChester was bungled by the magistracy, and the troops, ridmgover the people, caused the so-called Pei£irkQ_JIf^^cre. IheGovermnent, which had already tailed to secure the convictionof Hone, the bookseller, for his political parodies, proceeded topass the Six Acts. They aimed at supjiressing sedition, alike on. LORD LIVERPOOL, BY JOHN HOPPXER, (By permission afthe Right Hon. F. J. S. Foljamhe.) the platform, the press, and in the field, and Lord Sidmouth, theHome Secretary, rigidly enforced them. Abroad, the military powers, under the leadership of thesentimental Czar Alexander, had formed the Holy Alliance,nominally to support Christian principles of government, butreally to keep under popular movements. It received littlesupport from Lord Castlercagh, the Foreign Secretary, and thusEngland stood more or less isolated. The long reign came to an end at last, for on January 29th,1820, George III. died. The dynasty was undoubtedly un-popular with the middle and lower classes. Princess Charlotte,the Regents daughter and the hope of the nation, had died in TheHoly Alliance. Deatbof GeorgeIII. 4 PEACE, RETR
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