Fighting Napoleon at Home: The Real Story of a Nation at War With Itself by Paul L. Dawson

Author:Paul L. Dawson
Format: epub

Spies and Arrests

On 30 January 1798, by then its death throws, the London Corresponding Society issued an Address to the United Irishmen, declaring that ‘If to Unite in the Cause of Reform upon the Broadest Basis be Treason … We, with you, are Traitors’.¹⁰ The Parliamentary Secret Committee attributed wide success to this movement especially amongst the working class:

Many ignorant or inconsiderate persons throughout the country were gradually involved in these transactions and the influence of the destructive principles from which they proceeded was still further extended by the establishment of clubs among the lowest classes of the community which were open to all persons having one penny and in which songs were sung, toasts given and language held of the most seditious nature.¹¹

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