The trial of John Thelwall, on a charge of high treason: containing the whole of the proceedings of each day at the Old-Bailey. Also the acquittal of John Augustus Bonney, Jeremiah Joyce, Stewart Kydd, and Thomas Holcroft

[Thelwall, John]

Dublin: P. Byrne, 1794. Paperback. Pp. [407]-504, disbound tetxblock, edges trimmed in rebinding without loss of text.

Thelwall was charged along with John Horne Tooke and Thomas Hardy for giving lectures protesting the arrest of other radicals. Although he was acquitted, after prime minister William Pitt the Younger's Gagging Acts of 1795 Thelwall's lectures avoided censorship by moving from contemporary political commentary to the history of ancient Rome.

Cat.No: 285084

Price: $175.00