Government Response
nTraining Prevention
Act:
Any person attending a gathering for the purpose of training or drilling liable to
arrest. People found
guilty of this offence could be transported for 7 years.
nSeizure of Arms Act: Gave power to
local magistrates to search any
property or person for arms.
nSeditious Meetings
Prevention Act: Prohibited the holding
of public meetings of more
than fifty people without the consent
of a sheriff or magistrate.
nMisdemeanours Act: Attempted to reduce the delay in the administration of justice.
nBlasphemous and
Seditious Libels Act: provided much stronger punishments, including banishment for
publications judged to
be blasphemous or seditious.
nNewspaper and Stamp
Duties Act: Subjected certain radical publications which had previously avoided stamp duty by publishing opinion and not news, to such duty.
Response?
Overreaction
Sensible