Welsh Responses to the French Revolution

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ISBN: 9780708324899 | 0708324894
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The French Revolution inflamed public opinion in Wales just as it did throughout the world. Welsh Responses to the French Revolutiondelves into the mass of periodical and serial literature published in Wales between 1789 and 1802 to reveal the range of radical, loyalist, and patriotic Welsh responses to the Revolution and the Revolutionary Wars. This anthology presents an English-language selection of poetry and prose published in the annual Welsh almanacs, the English provincial newspapers published close to Wales's border, and the three radical Welsh periodicals of the mid-1790s, all alongside the original Welsh texts. An insightful introduction gives much-needed context to the selections by sketching out the printing culture of Wales, analyzing its public discourse, and interpreting the Welsh voices in their British political context.

List of Figures	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xvi
List of Abbreviations	p. xvii
Editorial Principles	p. xix
Introduction	p. 1
Selection of Documents
Welsh almanacs
An astrological prediction	p. 73
A loyalist address in the wake of the Fishguard landing	p. 75
A patriotic song	p. 76
A poem on Thomas Paine as the instrument of God's vengeance	p. 80
William Pitt's tax on dogs	p. 86
The Hereford Journal
An account of the history of the eisteddfod	p. 88
The Welsh discovery of America	p. 89
A petition from Carmarthen town for abolishing the slave trade	p. 89
A declaration of loyalty from Talgarth, Breconshire	p. 90
A declaration of loyalty from Dissenting ministers of three counties in west Wales	p. 92
The execution of Marie Antoinette	p. 93
Rioting in west and north Wales	p. 94
Rioting at St Clears, Pembrokeshire	p. 96
A report of an organized protest in the Forest of Dean	p. 97
Paternalistic action for the relief of the poor in Cardiganshire	p. 98
An account of the French landing at Fishguard	p. 99
A letter about the French landing at Fishguard	p. 100
A letter explaining the meaning of 'Jacobin' and 'Jacobinism'	p. 102
A letter defending the public fast-day in support of the war	p. 103
A report from a Cardiff trial for sedition	p. 105
A report from a Merthyr Tydfil trial for rioting	p. 106
The Shrewsbury Chronicle
A report and letter on rioting	p. 109
A letter reporting loyalist ritual in the town of Aberystwyth	p. 110
Celebrating the coming of age of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn	p. 111
Further celebrations of the coming of age of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn	p. 112
The editor confirms his loyalist stance	p. 113
Loyalist celebrations	p. 114
A blacksmith and a tailor examine 'democrate'	p. 116
A loyalist poem	p. 116
Two Welsh loyalist poems on peace	p. 118
The Act for Raising Men for the Navy	p. 119
A poem on Bala lake	p. 120
The Methodist response to the Fishguard landing	p. 120
An appeal for Welsh unity against the French	p. 121
A report of Irish refugees landing in Pembrokeshire	p. 123
The Carmarthenshire militia	p. 123
A St David's Day poem	p. 124
The Ancient British Fencibles	p. 125
A Welsh poem on the attempted assassination of the king	p. 126
The Cardiff Volunteer Cavalry	p. 128
Rioting in Chirk	p. 128
The execution of two rioters	p. 129
The Salopian Journal
The editors defend the new paper against accusations of Jacobinism	p. 130
The Supplementary Militia Act	p. 131
Reports of the French landing from the London Gazettes	p. 133
A letter on the trial of the Dissenters accused of assisting the French at Fishguard	p. 135
The Chester Chronicle
A report of the Gwyneddigion eisteddfod of May 1790	p. 137
The burning of Thomas Paine's effigy	p. 138
A declaration of loyalty	p. 139
An anti-war poem	p. 141
A loyalist poetic competition	p. 144
A threatening letter and the editor's reply	p. 145
An anti-war poem from Denbigh	p. 146
Two anti-war letters	p. 148
Advertisement for a radical Welsh periodical	p. 152
Two letters from a Flintshire magistrate on the price of grain	p. 155
A Welsh anti-fast-day hymn with translation	p. 157
A poem claiming the Duke of Norfolk for Wales	p. 159
The Fishguard landing	p. 160
A satirical Welsh litany	p. 161
A patriotic appeal	p. 164
A Welsh elegy for David Samwell	p. 167
St David's Day celebrations	p. 169
A letter on allegations of atrocities in Ireland	p. 171
Adams's Weekly Courant
An ode to Anglesey	p. 172
The burning of Thomas Paine's effigy	p. 173
Rioting in Denbighshire	p. 174
A Latin loyalist poem from Anglesey	p. 175
The Fishguard landing	p. 176
An appeal for the reinforcing of coastal defences	p. 177
Cylch-grawn Cynmraeg
First instalment of an essay on government	p. 179
Religious liberty	p. 185
Prince Madog's speech on leaving Wales	p. 185
The search for the descendants of Prince Madog in America	p. 187
News from the Continent	p. 188
The Enlightenment of the Welsh	p. 193
Against the Established Church	p. 205
America's example to the world	p. 210
Home and foreign news	p. 212
A poem denouncing the traitor Dumourier	p. 218
The execution of Marie Antoinette	p. 219
The demise of the periodical	p. 221
Y Drysorfa Gymmysgedig
Ecumenical appeal by the editor	p. 225
A fast-day prayer	p. 226
A fast-day hymn	p. 229
A prayer for liberty	p. 234
A poem in praise of the Welsh language	p. 235
A sermon on the early church	p. 236
Y Geirgrawn
A letter from America	p. 246
An attack on Seren tan Gwmmwl	p. 255
In defence of Seren tan Gwmmwl	p. 266
News from the Continent	p. 274
A Welsh version of the 'Marseillaise'	p. 275
An attack on Seren tan Gwmmwl with a response by the editor	p. 279
An address in praise of the periodical	p. 284
A response by the author of Seren tan Gwmmwl	p. 287
An anti-war poem	p. 293
Select Bibliography	p. 309
Regular Bardic Names of Welsh Poets and Authors	p. 317
Index	p. 319
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