1794 Treason Trials
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The 1794 Treason Trials, arranged by the administration of Prime Minister William Pitt, were intended to cripple the British radical movement of the 1790s. Over thirty radicals were arrested; three we
Thomas Paine; a painting by Auguste Millière (1880), after an engraving by William Sharp after a portrait by George Romney (1792)
John Horne Tooke
James Gillray's cartoon of Thelwall speaking at Copenhagen Fields on 26 October 1795
William Pitt the Younger
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William Pitt was a British statesman who served as the last prime minister of Great Britain from 1783 until the Acts of Union 1800, and the first official prime minister of the United Kingdom from Jan
1794 Treason Trials
…The 1794 Treason Trials, arranged by the administration of Prime Minister William Pitt, were intended to cripple the British radical movement of the 1790s. Over thirty radicals were arrested; three were tried at the Old Bailey for high…
Portrait by John Hoppner, c. 1806–10
William Pitt the Younger
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William Pitt in 1783, by George Romney