Meetings - Great Britain - Early works to 1800

As misrepresentations of the bill now pending in Parliament, for more effectually preventing seditious meetings and assemblies, have been industriously circulated, for the purpose of misleading the public; and as it has been particularly stated, that this measure is epugnant to the bill of rights, which declares the right of the subject to petition; plain man, impelled by no motive but a love of truth and justice, wishes to call the attention of the public to the real state of the case