“He
raves like a mad Methodist Parson; the most ranting Actor in the most
ranting Character never made so much noise as Citizen Thelwall ...
his action seems to have been learned at the School of Mendoza [the
foremost pugilist of the period] & Co. If it had not been for the
feebleness of his Person, I sho[uld] almost have been led to suspect
that he was going to beat his audience out of doors –” Thomas
Amyot in Penelope J. Corfield and Chris Evans, eds., Youth and
Revolution in the 1790s: Letters of William Pattisson, Thomas Amyot
and Henry Crabb Robinson. Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1996, p. 138.
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