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It is told of Mark Wilks, the brother of Matthew, and the grandfather of our London Mark Wilks, that when a deputation went from Norwich during the Thelwall and Horne Tooke trials, when, if the Castlereagh gang had had their will, there would have been found a short and easy way with the Dissenters, and came back on the Sunday morning, entering the place after the service had commenced, that he called out, ‘What’s the news?’ as he saw them enter. ‘Acquitted,’ was the reply. ‘Thank God!’ said the parson, as they all joined in singing
Thelwall had cut the concern, and set up in another line, that of a fashionable teacher of elocution.
He took a decided part with the Pitt administration; and in 1788, he was appointed solicitor-general, and knighted; in 1793, he rose to be attorney-general, and in the following year he conducted the trial of Hardy, Tooke, and Thelwall, for treason. Erskine was opposed to him; and the prosecution failed, though the speech of the attorney-general occupied nine hours in the delivery.
His long rambles among the hills by day and night, regardless of the weather; his habit of talking to himself; his intimacy and his constant conferences on unknown subjects with Coleridge, whose radical ideas were no secret; his friendship with Thelwall the republican, who came to reside in the neighbourhood; the rumour that the poet had lived in France and sympathized with the Revolution all these were dark and damning evidences to the rustic mind that there was something wrong about this long-legged, sober-faced, feckless young man.
My very dear friend, ... John Thelwall is a very warm-hearted, honest man; and disagreeing as we do, on almost every point of religion, of morals, of politics, and philosophy, we like each other uncommonly well. He is a great favorite with Sara. Energetic activity of mind and of heart, is his master feature.
In 1794, his sympathy with ideals of the French revolutionists caused him to be involved with Hardy, Horne Tooke, and Thelwall, in a charge of high treason; but when these were acquitted, Holcroft and eight others were discharged without trial. Holcroft earned also by translation.
Coleridge's character of Thelwall Letters from Charles Lamb Mr. Coleridge's lines to Joseph Cottle Sara's lines to the same Three Sonnets, by Nehemiah Higginbotham Coleridge, Lloyd, and Lamb, quarrel Lamb's sarcastic Theses to Mr. Coleridge Coleridge goes to Shrewsbury on probation Mr. Coleridge receives an annuity of L150 from the Messrs. Thomas and Josiah Wedgewood Letters from Mr.
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