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trial for treason, and as the evidence was clear, they were all convicted (32 St. Tr. 755). Though Brandreth was a daring en thusiast, there was a well-founded suspicion that the whole conspiracy had been planned and promoted by the government spy, Oli ver. This accusation was made by Sir Sam uel Romilly, among others.

meeting was held at Birmingham to adopt a remonstrance to the Regent. The meeting was not interfered with, and passed off quietly. At other meetings more or less in flammatory language was used, and after one or two trials for sedition the government is sued a proclamation denouncing these meet ings as illegal. Nevertheless, a meeting was

j. SCARLETT. At the beginning of the year 1819 the gov ernment was so well satisfied with the effect of its repressive measures that some of the most objectionable enactments were re pealed. Public meetings were thereby ren dered possible, though still closely restricted. In the early part of the year a large mass

called for August sixteenth in St. Peter's Field, Manchester, to elect a legislative at torney and representative for that town. From early dawn to past midnight of the ap pointed day numbers, of men, estimated at sixty thousand, marched in from the sur rounding country. Henry Hunt presided