Welsh Responses to the French Revolution : Press and Public Discourse, 1789-1802.

List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Editorial Principles; Introduction; An astrological prediction; A loyalist address in the wake of the Fishguard landing; A patriotic song; A poem on Thomas Paine as the instrument of God'svengeance; William Pitt's tax on dogs; An account of the history of the eisteddfod; The Welsh discovery of America; A petition from Carmarthen town for abolishing theslave trade; A declaration of loyalty from Talgarth, Breconshire; A declaration of loyalty from Dissenting ministers of threecounties in west Wales.

The execution of Marie AntoinetteRioting in west and north Wales; Rioting at St Clears, Pembrokeshire; A report of an organized protest in the Forest of Dean; Paternalistic action for the relief of the poor in Cardiganshire; An account of the French landing at Fishguard; A letter about the French landing at Fishguard; A letter explaining the meaning of 'Jacobin' and 'Jacobinism'; A letter defending the public fast-day in support of the war; A report from a Cardiff trial for sedition; A report from a Merthyr Tydfil trial for rioting; A report and letter on rioting.

A letter reporting loyalist ritual in the town of AberystwythCelebrating the coming of age of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn; Further celebrations of the coming of age of Sir WatkinWilliams Wynn; The editor confirms his loyalist stance; Loyalist celebrations; A blacksmith and a tailor examine 'democrate'; A loyalist poem; Two Welsh loyalist poems on peace; The Act for Raising Men for the Navy; A poem on Bala lake; The Methodist response to the Fishguard landing; An appeal for Welsh unity against the French; A report of Irish refugees landing in Pembrokeshire; The Carmarthenshire militia.

A St David's Day poemThe Ancient British Fencibles; A Welsh poem on the attempted assassination of the king; The Cardiff Volunteer Cavalry; Rioting in Chirk; The execution of two rioters; The editors defend the new paper against accusations of Jacobinism; The Supplementary Militia Act; Reports of the French landing from the London Gazettes; A letter on the trial of the Dissenters accused of assistingthe French at Fishguard; A report of the Gwyneddigion eisteddfod of May 1790; The burning of Thomas Paine's effigy; A declaration of loyalty; An anti-war poem; A loyalist poetic competition.

A threatening letter and the editor's replyAn anti-war poem from Denbigh; Two anti-war letters; Advertisement for a radical Welsh periodical; Two letters from a Flintshire magistrate on the price ofgrain; A Welsh anti-fast-day hymn with translation; A poem claiming the Duke of Norfolk for Wales; The Fishguard landing; A satirical Welsh litany; A patriotic appeal; A Welsh elegy for David Samwell; St David's Day celebrations; A letter on allegations of atrocities in Ireland; An ode to Anglesey; The burning of Thomas Paine's effigy; Rioting in Denbighshire; A Latin loyalist poem from Anglesey.

This ground-breaking anthology presents loyalist and radical poetry and prose from the newspapers, almanacs and periodicals current in Wales from the outbreak of the French Revolution in1789 to the Peace of Amiens in 1802, together with an extended introduction and two maps.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-316) and index.

Texts in English and Welsh.

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