At an early time leaders of the party in opposition were present; but after the outbreak of the French Revolution public meetings came to be used mainly by the working classes, and were regarded as seditious.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
First came an Act of 1794 to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, then in the following session another to prevent seditious meetings, and, finally, a statute of 1799, which suppressed the London Corresponding Society by name, and any others that were organised with branches.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
But it is hardly conceivable that the Government could have listened to charges brought by a man whom they had driven from the country for his seditious practices.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto