Excerpt from John Thelwall: A Pioneer of Democracy and Social Reform in England During the French Revolution When it comes to noticing the immediate influence of the French Revolution upon England in the years following 1789, the facts at first sight seem to con tradict all probabilities and expectations. Owing partly to the excesses and the ill-advised aggressive ness of the French, partly to a quickening of the traditional hatred between the two countries, the direct influence of the French Revolution in England was an all but universal rise of anti-revolutionary feeling, a panic of the property-owning and govern ing classes, the temporary suspension of constitutional securities, and a five-and-twenty years' interruption in the onward march of political progress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.