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John Binns and John Gale Jones are arrested and imprisoned in Birmingham; Francis Place is sent to defend them; they will be tried for violating the "Two Bills" (for the government and the radicals, a test case). Binns is acquitted in Aug. 1800, but Jones is convicted of sedition in April 1799, although never sentenced. The cost of defending them, bail, and the missions themselves contribute to downfall of the London Corresponding Society.
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