The political clubs renewed their clamours for a more extended system of representation freed from corruption, and protested against Pitt’s new enactments; the London Corresponding Society called another public meeting, at which the premier is said to have shown symptoms of alarm. Gillray’s engraving of a meeting of “Patriotic Citizens at Copenhagen House,” November 16, 1795, satirizes the order of agitators and their disciples as the dregs of the people, which he represents them to be. This demonstration, which was largely attended, was held to protest against the “Seditions Bill” for the protection of the king’s person, for which, it was argued, ample provisions were already legalized. Petitions to both Houses were prepared, and remonstrances numerously signed. This situation is embodied in the picture of the assembly. The orator, Thelwall, is holding forth to an audience which is more picturesque than distinguished. Platforms are arranged at intervals as rostrums for the speakers, at one of which a butcher is enlarging on “The Rights of Citizens.” The proprietress of a halfpenny gaming-table has labelled it, “Equality and no Sedition Bill.” An emissary of Thelwall’s is offering the remonstrance to sweep-boys for signature; and the autographs attached thereto, though notorious, are hardly such as to command the respect of parliament--“Jack Cade, Wat Tyler, Jack Straw, etc.” After the elections of 1784 parliament was entirely in the control of Pitt. It met, wrote Horace Walpole, “as quietly as a Quarter Session,” the opposition seemed quelled, or driven to despair.