Catalogue description Folios 403-405. Letter from Thomas Rogerson, Blackburn, [Lancashire], referring to an...

Folios 403-405. Letter from Thomas Rogerson, Blackburn, [Lancashire], referring to an earlier letter where he had sent to the Home Secretary a copy of the Blackburn Political Union's rules and resolutions. He now sends a copy of an advertisement for one of the their meetings. One of the leaders of the union is George Dewhurst, imprisoned in 1809 for seditious conduct. He has between then and now been in America. The political union is keeping 'the public mind... in a state of ferment'.

Dewhurst had offered the manuscript to Rogerson to print; which he refused. Rogerson thinks it was done knowingly to hold him up to public ridicule.

Enclosed is a handbill advertising a public meeting at the Ball and Concert Room on 8 November to petition the King and the House of Commons on the stressed state of the country and 'the corrupt state of the representation'. By order of the Political Council. Printed by Hargraves, Printer, Mirror Office, Northgate, Blackburn.