The 1794 Treason Trials, arranged by the administration of William Pitt, were intended to cripple the British radical movement of the 1790s. Over thirty...

Lott Du Cann (1964). Famous Treason Trials. Walker. S. H. Cuttler (18 December 2003). The Law of Treason and Treason Trials in Later Medieval France. Cambridge...

reformer) (1752–1832), British political reformer and an object of the 1794 Treason Trials Thomas Hardy (Royal Navy officer, died 1732) (1666–1732), admiral...

reaction in 1792–1794, when, following local sedition trials in 1792 and 1793, William Pitt the Younger initiated the 1794 Treason Trials, followed by the...

legitimising their repression of radicalism, and paved the way for the 1794 Treason Trials, in which Erskine played a prominent role. After involving itself...

the United States, there are both federal and state laws prohibiting treason. Treason is defined on the federal level in Article III, Section 3 of the United...

of the London Corresponding Society in 1794 and as one of the twelve indicted during the 1794 Treason Trials. He also compiled and published ‘’A new...

Associated with radical proponents of parliamentary reform, he stood trial for treason in 1794. He was the third son of John Horne, of Newport Street, Long Acre...

seditious libel, resulting in the famous 1794 Treason Trials. The Priestleys arrived in New York City on 4 June 1794, where they were fêted by various political...

College, Douai, settle at Crook Hall, County Durham. November – 1794 Treason Trials. 19 November – Britain and the United States sign the Jay Treaty...

1794 to discuss a further national convention as well as producing many pamphlets and periodicals. After the government repression and 1794 Treason Trials...

5 November 1824 on the anniversary of Hardy's acquittal in the Treason Trials of 1794. Cited in Robert Birley (1924), The English Jacobins from 1789 to...

Revolution, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the lead up to the 1794 Treason Trials in Britain, Political Justice argues that humanity will inevitably...

Coleridge respected Godwin for Godwin's support of those put on trial during the 1794 Treason Trials, and Coleridge owed much of his political beliefs to Godwin...

the brunt of this law, the effects of which came to a head in the 1794 Treason Trials. Johnson testified, publicly distancing himself from Paine and Barlow...

possession. There followed in England the 1794 Treason Trials and, when these collapsed, the 1795 Treason Act and Seditious Meetings Act. The measures...

Initially recruitment was slow but the invasion of Belgium and the 1794 Treason Trials caused an increase in volunteers. Further recruits were brought in...

Holborn. In 1794, with other members of the London Corresponding Society, he spent seven months in Newgate Gaol on a charge of high treason, and in 1801...

society's secretary. Hardy had been arrested in connection with the 1794 Treason Trials, and the radical reformers had been infiltrated by spies. Place came...

Scott), he had been the prosecutor in the famous 1794 Treason Trials, the defendants of which trial Hazlitt's brother John had been closely associated...

several reformers for seditious libel and treason in the famous 1794 Treason Trials. Following the trials and an attack on George III, conservatives...

be checked by the judiciary, ruling out trials by military commissions. As James Madison noted, the Treason Clause also was designed to limit the power...

Dissidents in the press. Radicals saw this period, which included the 1794 Treason Trials, as "the institution of a system of TERROR, almost as hideous in...

successfully served in the defense of three political radicals during the 1794 Treason Trials. Coleridge admired Erskine's defense and praised his refusal to accept...

Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) ISBN 978-1-137-34482-3. Judith Thompson, ed. 1794 Treason Trials Thelwall, John (1764-1834), english-heritage.org.uk. Retrieved 30...

of Terror ends November – British radicals are acquitted at the 1794 Treason Trials 1795 Austen probably writes Elinor and Marianne 3 May – Death of...

urging of William Findley, Congress modified this law on June 5, 1794, allowing excise trials to be held in local state courts. But by that time, U.S. marshal...

Hébert (1794) - wife of Jacques Hébert, guillotined as Hébertist Antoine Lavoisier (1794) – the "Father of Modern Chemistry"; guillotined for treason Joseph...

Alan (1992). The Treason Trials, 1794. Leicester University Press. p. 133. ISBN 0718514459. Wharam, Alan (1992). The Treason Trials, 1794. Leicester University...

daughter of John Crompton of Crompton Hall. Mary attended some of the 1794 Treason Trials, hearing Thomas Erskine defend John Horne Tooke. She became a close...