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		Thomas Paine's Rights of Man, published in 1791, a brilliant and bitter attack on the British constitution from the Jacobin point of view, sold by tens of thousands.
		Revolutionary societies with high-sounding names were established, of which the most con- spicuous were the Revolution Society, the Society for Consti- tutional Information, the London Corresponding Society, and the Friends of the People.
		The prisoners were accused of high treason, their chief offence consisting in their attempt to assemble a general convention of the people, ostensibly for the purpose of obtaining parliamentary reform, but really—as the prosecution urged—for subverting the constitution.
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	Encyclopedia: Thomas Muir (revolutionary)
		Thomas Muir (often known as Thomas Muir of Huntershill) was born on August 25, 1765.
		Muir was expelled from the university for trying to have John Anderson reinstated as a member of staff.
		Muir represented many poor clients who couldn't afford legal fees and became a critic of the legal system which he felt was skewed in favour of the rich at the expense of the poor.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Thomas-Muir-(revolutionary) (575 words)

	AT&T Worldnet Service - Directory
		Muir soon developed a reputation as a lawyer who was willing to appear in court on behalf of poor clients who could not afford to pay a fee.
		As unofficial leader of the revolutionary Radicals, he encouraged the formation of small groups that could meet in local public houses and argued that all land should be nationalised.
		A revolutionary, he became involved in radical politics after the Peterloo Massacre and became a member of the Spencean Philanthropists.
	www.att.net /cgi-bin/webdrill?catkey=gwd/Top/Reference/Encyclopedias/Subject_Encyclopedias/Spartacus_Educational/Reform_of_Parliament (6381 words)

	Siol nan Gaidheal - Thomas Muir: the Dawn of Democracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		Thomas Muir, a barrister, who had become a member of the Honourable Faculty of Advocates in 1787 aged only 22, was the leading light of the Glasgow society.
		It was therefore due to Muir that communications were opened with the French that led to their appointing Citoyen Pétry as "agent de la marine et du commerce" in Scotland in October 1792 to report on the conditions there.
		Muir was against regicide and felt that he must join a group of republicans, including many Americans, who were trying to persuade the National Assembly not to pronounce the death sentence.
	www.siol-nan-gaidheal.com /pastmuir.htm (1881 words)

	Scottish Republican and Reformer Thomas Muir
		Thomas Muir, a Glasgow barrister with a reputation as a man of principle, had helped organise many of the societies.
		Thomas Muir, the Scottish Republican and Revolutionary, was born in Glasgow, 24th August, 1765, the son of "bonnet laird", James Muir.
		Muir completed his study at Edinburgh under Millar, passed his Bar exams and was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates at the age of 22.
	www.geocities.com /joe_middleton_sco/thomas_muir.htm (3141 words)

	Scotland Guide - Scottish History - Thomas Muir
		Thomas Muir is the subject of a song by Adam McNaughton, sung often by Dick Gaughan.
		After sentence, Muir was taken to the Tolbooth and on 14 November put on board the Royal George bound for London.
		After many adventures Muir eventually reached France, where he was given a hero's welcome at Bordeaux, and thence conveyed to Paris where the Revolutionary government held a banquet in his honour.
	www.siliconglen.com /Scotland/11_16.html (2308 words)

	Pace e Bene: Books on Nonviolence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		Thomas Merton, "Gandhi: The Gentle Revolutionary," in William H. Shannon, ed., Passion for Peace: The Social Essays (New York: Crossroad, 1997), 202-209.
		Thomas Merton, "Blessed Are the Meek: The Roots of Christian Nonviolence," in Angie O'Gorman, ed., The Universe Bends Toward Justice: A Reader on Christian Nonviolence in the U.S. (Philadelphia, PA: New Society Publishers, 1990), 195-202.
		Thomas Merton, "The Wisdom of the Desert," The Wisdom of the Desert (New York: New Directions, 1970, 3-24.
	www.paceebene.org /resources/resoindx.htm (8486 words)

	Hepburn+O'Neill Family History - Muir Family References - Colonial Maryland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		Ann Thomas Muir (24 Mar 1752 -) Archives of Maryland: Proceedings of the Council of Maryland Friday 11th July 1777 Adam Muir appointed & Commissioned Naval Officer of the sixth District in the room of Mr Campbell Deceased.
		Shirley is a descendant of Jean Muir Hepburn).
		Thomas Hicks and John Hicks of Dor Co to James Muir of Worcester County: "Partnership" on the north side of Nanticoke River, on the west side of Chickacoon Creek, adj.
	www.himandus.net /ofh/hepburn/muir/muir_01_family_refs.html (3308 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for 1790s
		The term derives from the seating arrangement of the French revolutionary parliament (1790s) in which the conservative representatives sat to the presiding officer's right.
		In the 1790s a group of Thomas Jefferson 's supporters called themselves 'Democratic Republicans' or 'Jeffersonian Republicans' to demonstrate their belief in the principle...
		Redefining the past: revolutionary architecture and the Conseil des Batiments Civils.
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	History of Nova Scotia; Book.2; Part 4; Ch. 1. "Nova Scotia And The Napoleonic Wars."
		The rioters, in support of the revolutionary movement that was just then in full bloom in France, wore blue cockades in their hats.
		In 1793, for example, the "Reform-martyrs," of whom Thomas Muir (1765-99) was one, were put on trial; and being found guilty were transported to Botany Bay.
		Thomas Holcroft, Horne Tooke, Thomas Hardy, John Thelwall and others were brought to trial on the charge of high treason, and acquitted amid much excitement.
	www.blupete.com /Hist/NovaScotiaBk2/Part4/Ch01.htm (4355 words)

	The Scotsman - Critique - Handful of Rogues: Thomas Muir's Enemies of the People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		Early in Handful of Rogues, a passionate portrayal of the Scottish reformers clustered around Thomas Muir of Huntershill in the late 18th century, Hector MacMillan worries that these brave men (and they were almost all men) might not only suffer posterity's condescension, but find themselves wiped off history's slate altogether.
		Muir's story was indeed heroic, and all the more so because he was no Robin Hood.
		His legal calling was set to be both prosperous and honourable - the latter because Muir applied himself early to that most decent of advocacies: a defence lawyer specialising in political and human rights cases.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /critique.cfm?id=26292006 (723 words)

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		His compatriot, Thomas Muir of Huntershill, for example, was a professional advocate and fervent champion of the common man, and, in 1793, he was charged with sedition and was found guilty of distributing Paine's "The Rights of Man," which had been banned the previous year.
		Muir was deported and sentenced to 14 years in Botany Bay, leaving Scotland, and most especially its more radically-minded citizens, in shock.
		As the optimistic revolutionary zeal deteriorated into the bloody Reign of Terror of the Jacobins in the France of the 1790s, the fall into anarchy was regarded by the ruling classes as a valid reason for banning popular democracy.
	www.martinfrost.ws /htmlfiles/gazette/burns_magnet.html (2940 words)

	TheGlasgowStory - 1770s to 1830s - Personalities
		Muir, a lawyer, was convicted and transported to Australia.
		Until the 1820s the Government was determined to curb manifestations of support for French revolutionary ideas, but the massive working-class demonstration in favour of political reform, held in 1816 on the Thrushgrove estate of James Turner (1768-1858), was a significant challenge to the prevailing order.
		Glasgow was the birthplace of a number of creative writers, including poet Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) and journalist and biographer John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854), although their success was achieved in Edinburgh.
	www.theglasgowstory.com /story.php?id=TGSCH (1163 words)

	Scottish Politics in the Late Eighteenth Century
		The great landowners were increasingly remote from their fellow Scots, both on their own estates and in society as a whole, but they cocooned their political position using an elaborate apparatus that depended on wealth, privilege, patronage and a weighted legal system.
		Thomas Muir, a middle class, educated son of a wealthy Glasgow merchant and himself an Edinburgh Advocate, read an address that he had received from a similar Irish body, The Society of United Irishmen.
		For his speech to the Friends of the People Convention Thomas Muir was charged with sedition.
	sites.scran.ac.uk /ada/documents/castle_style/bridewell/scottish_politics_and_the_bridewell_designs.htm (2582 words)

	History of Delaware County by W.W. MUNSELL - 1797-1880
		THOMAS BURROW, who for many years was a successful lumberman and farmer, was born in the town of Middletown; he moved to this town in 1848, and died in November, 1878, aged sixty-six years.
		THOMAS EDWARDS, farmer, was born in Ireland in 1843, and came to Delaware county in 1861.
		HENRY MUIR was born in Scotland, in 1796, and came to New York city in 1817, and was married to Charlotte, daughter of Thomas Turnbull, in 1832.
	www.dcnyhistory.org /books/munand.html (21621 words)

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		Wollstonecraft's life was harsh, but she was luckier than the greatest of her French counterparts, Olympe de Gouges, who outraged the all-male revolutionary authorities with her Declaration of the Rights of Women, and also by suggesting that King Louis' life might be spared.
		Revolutionary fervour was even greater in Scotland where, in 1793, radical advocate Thomas Muir was sentenced to 14 years' transportation to Australia for daring to argue for constitutional change - or, as the Crown put it, sedition.
		In August, a revolutionary commune was formed in Paris, and a new elite emerged, including Georges Danton and Camille Desmoulins.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Millennium/0,2833,-1792,00.html (894 words)

	Scottish Independence Guide: History: A short guide to Scottish History
		Among the leaders was a young lawyer from Glasgow, Thomas Muir.
		Muir later escaped with the help of American and Spanish captains and was eventually lived in the French Republic.
		Muir's transportation inspired Robert Burns (1759-1796) the Ayrshire poet, to write the patriotic song 'Scots Wha Hae' commemorating Bannockburn which was banned as seditious.
	www.scottishindependence.com /history.htm (8777 words)

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		Gillespie School Watson's Colley/ G Candlish, Thomas Guthrie (1803.1873), Marcus 1~.
		In the Grange repose the ashes of Chalmers, Guthrie and Lee, Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Sir Hope Grant, Hugh Miller and the and Lord Dunfermline.
		Although it suffered at the hands of revolutionary fanatics in 1688, the damage was confined mainly to the external ornament, and the chapel, owing to restoration in judicious taste, is now in perfect condition.
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	Scotland - A Concise History - British Scotland
		Members of these crafts were famous for generations for their interest in radical politics, and around anvil and bench, loom and last, many an impromptu debating society flourished; discussing public events, recent publications and their own social condition.
		Emerging as a leading figure in the Convention was the young Glasgow lawyer, Thomas Muir, who had already gained a reputation by circulating pamphlets and analysing their contents at meetings of 'Friends' in many towns and villages.
		Muir was the first victim of this policy; and, for circulating and encouraging the study of Tom Paine's Rights of Man, he was adjudged guilty of sedition and sentenced to be transported to Australia for fourteen years.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/Scotland/chap11.htm (3854 words)

	Boosey and Hawkes: The home of contemporary music
		Robert Maclennan first raised the idea of a Thomas Muir opera, and I was immediately attracted by the story of his life, but there was something more to it, and Muir soon came to represent an enigma.
		However, it was Muir’s personal side which interested me the most, and this required some creative elaboration to provide an underlying emotional thrust to the drama.
		When we are introduced to Muir in the prologue, we see a man at the end of his life - he is unattractive, bitter and impatient.
	www.boosey.com /pages/cr/news/further_info.asp?newsid=53&LangID=1 (1029 words)

	White Meadow Lake - History
		Iron was an important factor in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812 and the Civil War.
		It is quite certain that he and Thomas Miller, another landowner in the White Meadow Tract, built a forge at White Meadow, since in 1769 a mortgage was given by John and Aaron Bigalow on one half of the forge "which was built at a place called White Meadow".
		It was from the Stickle family that Col.Thomas Muir, who came to operate the Mt.Hope Mine shortly after 1814, purchased the White Meadow Tract, including the White Meadow and Guinea Forges.
	www.whitemeadowlake.org /history.htm (5289 words)

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		Various writers (H. Chapman, Francis Place, Thomas Falconer) contributed articles and various publishers were employed, the pamphlets supported various radical proposals and frequently attacked "taxes on knowledge" with Roebuck always serving as editor.
		Muir and Palmer had both been sentenced to transportation for circulating seditious literature.
		The pamphlet was probably prepared by John A. Roebuck, but much of it was from the pen of William Tait, magazine editor and treasurer of a campaign to raise funds for a monument to the martyrs.
	twister.lib.siu.edu /cni/letter-r1.shtml (5466 words)

	MBR: Children's Bookwatch, August 2003
		Thomas Taylor's The Loudest Roar (043950130X, $15.95) tells of a small tiger who loves to sneak up on folks and roar.
		John Muir: America's Naturalist is a picture book created and illustrated by Thomas Locker for the express purpose of biographically informing young readers naturalist John Muir's wisdom and values with respect to wilderness preservation.
		John Muir: America's Naturalist is a true work of art, and would make an impressive, popular, memorable contribution to school and community library collections.
	www.midwestbookreview.com /cbw/aug_03.htm (6041 words)

	The 1798 rebellion and the origins of Irish republicanism - Indymedia Ireland
		Revolutionary Irish republicanism was moving towards an increasingly sectarian nationalism which would remove British rule from 26 counties at the cost of cementing divisions between catholic and protestant workers and the partition of the island.
		The failure of the rebellion is explained by the inevitability of revolutionary movements being betrayed by informers.
		Thomas Dixon and his wife then brought 70 men into the town during the night "from the northern side of the Slaney" and plied them with whiskey.
	www.indymedia.ie /article/82684 (14889 words)

	Radicalism in Scotland
		This trend came about as the moderate middle class left the movement, usually fearful of or disgusted by the radical shift, usually emanating from the better-off sections of the lower class which were involved in the Friends, the weavers in particular.
		So, the groups' main leaders, which were among the upper classes, were progressively arrested and silenced, such as the case of the lawyer, Thomas Muir, who was transported to Botany Bay, or retreated into anonymity to avoid being branded revolutionary.
		A secret revolutionary movement, little is known to this day as to how wide membership was and how much sympathy they managed among the general populace.
	www.hfienberg.com /scots/scotradical.html (2161 words)

	A Short History of Australia - Part 2
		Thomas Peel, a relative of Sir Robert Peel, was the prime mover in the new scheme.
		The failure of Thomas Peel's Swan River experiment occurred at a time when much interest was being taken in England in systematic colonization.
		The Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars had thrown Europe into disorder for a quarter of a century, and parallel with them went the creation of the great change in conditions of manufacture which is known as the industrial revolution.
	www.janesoceania.com /australia_history/index1.htm (10683 words)

	University of Glasgow :: Avenue :: Issue 35 :: Under southern skies: Glasgow's links with South America
		One of the earliest was Thomas Jarvis, son of a merchant in Antigua, who graduated MA in 1741, before returning to the island to become Chief Judge and President of the Island Council.
		Thomas Muir of Huntershill, the son of a Glasgow merchant, graduated MA from the University of Glasgow in 1782 and became an advocate in 1787.
		Named a member of the Directory in the Scottish Republic, which Scotland proposed to set up after the planned Revolutionary invasion, Thomas Muir died in 1799 and was buried in France.
	www.gla.ac.uk:443 /avenue/story.cfm?id=27&category=feature (3521 words)

	Rogue Valley Independent Media Center
		However the United Irishmen also developed links beyond France, in particular with the Society of United Scotsmen, Thomas Muir one of their leaders was an honoury United Irishman.
		This off course follows a pattern, the EU and US have also lent their weight to the Oslo accord which as well as sponsoring the so-called ‘road map’ for the middle east and the numerous attempts to bring an end to the ongoing insurgency of ETA in the Basque country.
		Essentially it is in the interests of the US and EU to remove any disruption or obstacle which these revolutionary national liberation movements might pose to their political and economic agenda.
	rogueimc.org /en/2005/07/4941.shtml (2175 words)

	The 1820 Rising - The 1820 Rising
		One such sympathiser was the Glasgow lawyer, Thomas Muir, who encouraged the study of these revolutionary writings; who established contacts with reform sympathisers in Ireland - the United Irishmen - and who played a prominent role in the 1793 Convention of the Friends of the People in Edinburgh.
		Publicity, and events in Europe, had produced a greatly heightened sense of excitement and had increased the influence of the more extreme reformers; and the 1793 Convention was seen by the increasingly worried government as being a seditious gathering.
		For his part in its deliberations, and for his reform activities, Muir was eventually arrested, tried and sentenced to 14 years in the penal colony in Australia.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/1820/1820_rising.htm (7133 words)

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