London and England in 1819 as Expressions of Rebellion

Late 18th and early 19th century England faced both political and economic instability at the hands of King George III. Conflicts with the future United States and later France brought into question his ability to run a country. While the government was enjoying revenue gained through taxes, the people were suffering in the streets. Concern grew after the French Revolution about the power of the people to rise up against their government. Supporters of the revolution â€Å"herald the fall of an oppressive aristocracy and the birth of democratic and egalitarian ideals, a new era, shaped by the rights of man rather than the entailments of wealth and privilege, while skeptics and reactionaries rued the end of chivalry, lamented the erosion of order, and foresaw the decline of civilization.† (7). In order to prevent a similar revolution in England, King George III issued â€Å"a Royal Proclamation banning seditious writings† in 1792. (6). Only two years later, with the susp ension of habeus corpus, people could be sent to prison without a trial. This combination made it a very dangerous time to be speaking out against the government. The threat of imprisonment or death did not stop William Blake or Percy Shelley. Both of these writers rebelled against their government: in 1803, Blake found himself facing charges of â€Å"seditious threats against the crown. With England at war with France, this was a capital offense for which the penalty could have been death.† (171). He also had â€Å"beenShow MoreRelatedFrancis Bacon15624 Words   |  63 Pagesthe readers a great pleasure. The compactness of thought and conciseness of expression was a virtue in an age when looseness in thought and language was the rule. The essays are enriched with maxims and proverbs. He supports his ideas and arguments with innumerable quotations, allusions and analogies which prove his wide knowledge and learning. The aptness of the similes, the witty turn of phrases and the compact expression of weighty thoughts are evidence enough of the brightness of his intellectRead MoreFounding Brothers9626 Words   |  39 Pagesand began to feel afraid. Hamilton was very different from Madison. He was very energetic, imposing his own personality on events in an ostentatious, out-of-my-way style. He thought that economics needed to be well overseen, and he used England, with its national bank, powerful finance ministers as a model. The others wanted the economy to run its coarse. Hamilton thought money needed to be concentrated in the hands of the select few. Hamilton liked merchants and investors, while MadisonRead MoreInstitution as the Fundamental Cause of Long Tern Growth39832 Words   |  160 Pageschanges in the economic and political institutions that paved the way for the development of property rights and limits on monarchs’ power, especially in England after the Civil War of 1642 and the Glorious Revolution of 1688, and in the Netherlands after the Dutch Revolt against the Hapsburgs. How did these major institutional changes take place? In England, for example, until the sixteenth century the king also possessed a substantial amount of de facto political power, and leaving aside civil wars related