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“... his travels, and relates his escape from Australia, his delayed return to Europe, and his death. Christina Bewley has tracked him through French and Spanish archives, the Home Office Correspondence and the State papers of California, but has not fully done her homework on the Scottish scene. In describing the county electoral system against which the ...”

“... John Horne Tooke enjoyed two distinct political careers, under two different names: as John Horne in the age of the American Revolution, and as John Horne Tooke in that of the French Revolution. In both identities he attracted notoriety or fame, according to the prejudices of commentators. Extolled as a champion of liberty and mocked as a mischief-maker in countless cartoons and ballads, pamphlets and newspapers, Horne Tooke was a man who was well known in his own lifetime, but who made no permanent contribution to the cause of British liberty ...”