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London Science and the Seditious Meetings Act of 1817

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Ian Inkster
Ian Inkster
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Department of Economic History, University of New South Wales, PO Box 1, Kensington, NSW, Australia2033
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The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , July 1979 , pp. 192 - 196
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Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1979

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1 For the debate on the social and historical significance of such disturbance see Thompson, E. P., The making of the English working class, London, 1963Google Scholar; Donnelly, F. K., ‘Ideology and early English working-class history: Edward Thompson and his critics’, Social history, 1976, 2, 219–38CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Donnelly, F. K. and Baxter, J. L., ‘Sheffield and the English revolutionary tradition, 1791–1820’, International review of social history, 1975, 20, 398–423.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 The Observer, 26 05 1817.Google Scholar

3 Pellew, George, Life and correspondence of Henry Addington, First Viscount Sidmouth, 3 vols., London, 1847, iii, 163–206.Google Scholar

4 e.g. The Times, 15 02, 5 03, 5 05 1817Google Scholar; 21 January, 6 February 1818.

5 Quoted by Thompson, op. cit. (1), p. 651.Google Scholar

6 The Times, 14 05 1817.Google Scholar

7 Parliamentary debates (Hansard), 1817, 35, 1217–18.Google Scholar

8 Ibid., p. 944.

9 Ibid., pp. 851–2.

10 The Times, 16 01 1817.Google Scholar

11 Ibid., 10, 22, 29 January 1817; 10 January, 4, 6, 10 February 1818.

12 Parliamentary debates, 1817, 35, 1109.Google Scholar

13 Ibid., 1817, 36, 17–21.

14 The Times, 5 05 1817.Google Scholar

15 Parliamentary debates, 1817, 35, 1222–9Google Scholar; 1817, 36, 93–4, The Times, 27 02, 25 04 1817.Google Scholar

16 The Times, 20 05 1817.Google Scholar

17 The society was purely scientific in nature, and was expertly guided and inspired by the scientist John Tatum, of Dorset Street, a well known metropolitan lecturer. See Nicholson's journal, 1807, 16, 81–2Google Scholar; 1807, 17, 149–51; 1807, 18, 80, Philosophical magazine, 1809, 34, 237–8Google Scholar and The Times, 5 05 1817.Google Scholar The CPS was one of several associations formed in London during the first decade of the century, other including the Southwark Philosophical Society, the London Chemical Society, and the Hackney Literary and Philosophical Society. For further information on these and the CPS see Ian Inkster, ‘Science and society in the metropolis: a preliminary examination of the social and institutional context of the Askesian Society of London, 1796–1807’, Annals of science, 1977, 34, 1–32.Google Scholar

18 Parliamentary debates, 1817, 36, 83–7.Google Scholar

19 Ibid., p. 86.

20 The Times, 26 04, 5 05 1817.Google Scholar

21 Parliamentary debates, 1817, 36, 84Google Scholar; Liverpool mercury, 9 05 1817.Google Scholar

22 Quarterly review, 1816–1817, 16, 225–78, 511–52.Google Scholar The effect of the Bill on the provincial setting is further examined in a paper in preparation entitled ‘Science beyond the pale—the effect of the Sedition Bills from the 1790s to the 1820s’.

23 Parliamentary debates, 1817, 36, 1034–85, 1087–8Google Scholar; The Times, 14 02 1817.Google Scholar