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Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin: Comprising the Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, of the Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, the Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, the Earl of Carlisle, and Others.

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Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin: Comprising the Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, of the Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, the Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, the Earl of Carlisle, and Others.

English poetry; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Poetry; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1789-1820

[THOMAS MUIR, the younger, of Hunter’s Hill, a promising young
  advocate of the Scottish Bar, and of nigh respectability, was tried
  at Edinburgh, 30th and 31st of August, 1793, before Lord Justice
  Clerk (Braxfield), Lords Henderland, Swinton, Dunsinnan, and
  Abercromby, for Sedition. The weightiest charge against him was that
  of “_lending_” a copy of Paine’s _Rights of Man_ to a person who
  begged a reading of that popular book. He was found guilty, and
  sentenced to fourteen years’ transportation. On the 17th of the
  ensuing month, the Rev. THOS. FYSHE PALMER, a Unitarian Minister of
  Dundee, and an ex-fellow of Queen’s College, Cambridge, was tried at
  Perth for publishing a seditious Address, and sentenced to seven
  years’ transportation. On their arrival at Woolwich, in a revenue
  cutter, they were put on board separate hulks, and assisted at the
  common labour on the banks of the river. MUIR, soon after his
  arrival in New South Wales, effected his escape, in an American
  vessel, to South America, whence he proceeded to Spain. During this
  voyage, in an action with a British frigate, he received a wound in
  the head, from which he recovered; but on his arrival at his
  destination, he was imprisoned by the Spanish authorities, until, on
  the application of M. de Talleyrand in the name of the then
  government of France, he obtained his release. He then went to
  France, and died at Bourdeaux [or Chantilly] in 1799; aged 33.
  PALMER served out his seven years, but died on the homeward voyage.

  Other Trials soon followed. At the close of December, 1793, MR.
  SKIRVING, MR. GERRALD, and MR. MARGAROT were tried at Edinburgh on
  similar charges of seditious practices, and were all sentenced to
  fourteen years’ transportation. The former two died soon after
  reaching New South Wales. MAURICE MARGAROT, who appears to have
  conducted himself throughout with the most abandoned and shameless
  profligacy, was the only one of these convicts—his fourteen years
  over—who ever set foot again in Britain.

  GERRALD was a man of very superior ability, and a favourite pupil of
  Dr. Parr’s, as is mentioned by De Quincey in his famous essay on
  that noted Whig pedagogue.

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Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin: Comprising the Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, of the Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, the Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, the Earl of Carlisle, and Others.

English poetry; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Poetry; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1789-1820

[THOMAS MUIR, the younger, of Hunter’s Hill, a promising young
  advocate of the Scottish Bar, and of nigh respectability, was tried
  at Edinburgh, 30th and 31st of August, 1793, before Lord Justice
  Clerk (Braxfield), Lords Henderland, Swinton, Dunsinnan, and
  Abercromby, for Sedition. The weightiest charge against him was that
  of “_lending_” a copy of Paine’s _Rights of Man_ to a person who
  begged a reading of that popular book. He was found guilty, and
  sentenced to fourteen years’ transportation. On the 17th of the
  ensuing month, the Rev. THOS. FYSHE PALMER, a Unitarian Minister of
  Dundee, and an ex-fellow of Queen’s College, Cambridge, was tried at
  Perth for publishing a seditious Address, and sentenced to seven
  years’ transportation. On their arrival at Woolwich, in a revenue
  cutter, they were put on board separate hulks, and assisted at the
  common labour on the banks of the river. MUIR, soon after his
  arrival in New South Wales, effected his escape, in an American
  vessel, to South America, whence he proceeded to Spain. During this
  voyage, in an action with a British frigate, he received a wound in
  the head, from which he recovered; but on his arrival at his
  destination, he was imprisoned by the Spanish authorities, until, on
  the application of M. de Talleyrand in the name of the then
  government of France, he obtained his release. He then went to
  France, and died at Bourdeaux [or Chantilly] in 1799; aged 33.
  PALMER served out his seven years, but died on the homeward voyage.

  Other Trials soon followed. At the close of December, 1793, MR.
  SKIRVING, MR. GERRALD, and MR. MARGAROT were tried at Edinburgh on
  similar charges of seditious practices, and were all sentenced to
  fourteen years’ transportation. The former two died soon after
  reaching New South Wales. MAURICE MARGAROT, who appears to have
  conducted himself throughout with the most abandoned and shameless
  profligacy, was the only one of these convicts—his fourteen years
  over—who ever set foot again in Britain.

  GERRALD was a man of very superior ability, and a favourite pupil of
  Dr. Parr’s, as is mentioned by De Quincey in his famous essay on
  that noted Whig pedagogue.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin: Comprising the Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, of the Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, the Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, the Earl of Carlisle, and Others.

Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin: Comprising the Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, of the Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, the Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, the Earl of Carlisle, and Others.

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