The Treason Trials, 1794

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The Treason Trials, 1794

Alan Wharam

Leicester University Press , Distributed in the United States and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1992

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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In the last decade of the 18th century Britain, like every other country in the western world, was fascinated and appalled by the French Revolution and its aftermath. The great fear was of the spread of the "contagion" of revolution. Conspiracies were uncovered, or invented, by the government of the day: links between Irish, Scots and English freethinkers, rebels and revolutionaries were uncovered or imagined. The greatest apparent conspiracy against the King was investigated and tried in 1794. These trials were a watershed in English legal history. The distinction between dissent and treason was defined, and the definition of treason hammered out in the heat of a capital trial at the High Court has stood for two hundred years. This is the first full account of one the central events in the modern political history of England and the legal history of the English-speaking countries. In includes a detailed biography of the major participants - judge, lawyers, defendants and witnesses - and provides a distinguished lawyer's appraisal of the procedures and verdicts.

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  • The background - reformers and revolutionaries
  • the new societies and the rights of man
  • revolution, regicide and war
  • seditious conspiracy
  • over the border
  • the Scottish martyrs
  • the road to treason - the rights of swine and the king's head in a basket, Sheffield blades, loyal Lambeth, Chalk Farm and the Crown & Anchor, the French connection
  • the arrests
  • rivals in law - Jack Scott and Bessy, Tom Erskine (sailor and soldier), law and politics, dress rehearsal
  • the tower
  • the trials of Watt and Downie
  • the trial of Thomas Hardy - the case for the Crown
  • the trial of Thomas Hardy - the case for the defence
  • November 5th
  • the trial of John Horne Tooke - the case for the Crown
  • the trial of John Horne Tooke - the case for the defence
  • the end of the trial of John Horne Tooke
  • unfinished business
  • the aftermath - the cordwainer and the hoary traitor, Lord Eldon and Lord Erskine, Eldon Hardy and the Great Reform Act
  • epilogue. Appendices: the Treason Act 1351
  • the courts and the legal profession
  • "Ca Ira" and "La Carmagnole".

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