An aspect of Pitt's 'Terror': prosecutions for sedition during the 1790s.

The article looks at the aspect of terror, which is the prosecutions for sedition, during the 1790s in Great Britain. The political trials during the decade involved prosecutions due to publication of seditious libels or utterances of seditious words. Addresses issued by radical clubs were also considered seditious libels such as the "Address of the Society for Political Information in Derby, by the County Association Movement. The blunt criticisms by James Raith at the Durham Quarter Sessions were directed against the family of the King and Queen of France. The Libel Act of 1792 was later introduced to facilitate the prosecutions for sedition. The Seditious Meetings Act and the Treasonable Practices Act extended the powers of magistrates to address such cases.