Napoleon Series Archive 2017

Peterloo

True, but then not everyone who was incensed (at the time) supported all the claims of the protestors

Cruikshank’s cartoon of the “Massacre at St. Peters (sic) or Britons STRIKE HOME”
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/massacre-at-st-peters-or-britons-strike-home
was indeed driven by his opposition to the government but not support for “universal suffrage or the scum uppermost” which he considered “in plain English … Revolution”
http://cruikshank.ucla.edu/items/show/1155
“A free born Englishman” was probably more driven by the press-gagging elements of the Six Acts than prohibition of outdoor meetings, organized opposition and pressure for extensions of the franchise (given the subject has a home, lost it through taxation and will now go the debtors prison).
https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1648373&partId=1&images=true

See volume one of the following
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/george-cruikshank%27s-life-times-art-in-2-volumes/author/patten-robert-l/
Other used booksellers are available
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