The intention was for the participants, who were mainly Lancashire weavers, to march to London and petition the Prince Regent over the desperate state of the textile industry in Lancashire, and to protest over the recent suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act.
In 1794, Richard Sheridan used the reading of the bill to raise the subject of the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act.
He stood by Cobbett when the latter man left for the United States on the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act in 1817.
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16 May — Habeas Corpus Act restricts the right of English courts to issue writs of habeas corpus in British colonies or dominions.