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It wes intensified by the "humiliations" which the Liberal
Government was hold to have imposed on Britain.
The League overlapped with the Patriotic
Association in membership and included a good many
Conservative M. pn. In 1884, it wan attempting to secure
signatures to petitions caking for the rescue of Gordon.
The n: tention of all Imperialists was occupied in trying
to prosaurige the Government into sending a Gordon relief
expedition to the Suden. In February 1884, the Patriotic
Association organised a London meeting at the Guildhall,
After a requisition containing ten thousand names had been
presented to i t . fowler, the Lord Mayor, by a deputation
led by Ashmead Bartlett.
(2)
There was a further meeting
in St. James Hall on let March at which three thousand people
were reported to be present,
(3)
and a third on 8th May$
where the speakers were almost all Conservative I!. Ps. and
even the Times conceded that it was probably not without
a "pity
purpose".
(1) Janet Ile hobby Pr , kitte
(2)
nc n_ 9 16th }'obruary 1884.
(3) Ibid$ 8th March 1884.
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3rd March 1884.
(Z) The, Times. 9th May 1814.
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