The Committee became increasingly detached from the working people of London in the same proportion as Place’s sense of “self-approbation” and his dislike of the demonstration and the hustings grew.1 This was, in part, an inevitable outcome of the situation in which the Radicals of 1807 were placed. Anti-Jacobinism was by no means dead. Cobbett broke through the censorship almost by accident, and there was scarcely any other regular Radical press.
