This event saw over 60,000 people assemble wearing blue cockades and it used the slogan "No Popery."  
The phrase "Nulla displicuit meretrix praeter Babylonicam" was used to describe the primary instigator of this event. That figure was acquitted for his actions in this event thanks to the defense of Lord Erskine. Despite attacks on the Sardinian and Bavarian embassies, the proposals supported by the perpetrators of this event were defeated by a vote of 192 to 6. This event saw the arrest and trial of some innocent bystanders at Newgate and the burning of Lord Chief Justice Mansfield's house. This event saw over 60,000 people assemble wearing blue cockades and it used the slogan "No Popery."  This event was a reaction by the Protestant Association to laws that and provided relief to Catholics two years earlier, the Papist Acts. Described in Barnaby Rudge, for ten points, name these 1780 anti-Catholic riots named after a Lord George.                         
The phrase "Nulla displicuit meretrix praeter Babylonicam" was used to describe the primary instigator of this event.
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