Lord Sidmouth
When police arrested Thistlewood after the Spa Fields meeting, he had already bought tickets to travel to the United States. Thistlewood wrote to the Home Secretary Lord Sidmouth in 1817 to demand reimbursement. When Sidmouth failed to respond, Thistlewood challenged him to a duel and was imprisoned in Horsham Jail for 12 months.
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“The LORD said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and wait there; and I will give you the tablets of stone, with the and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction.””
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 24:12.