The British have long boasted of their tradition of asylum for
political refugees, but never with more justification than in the
nineteenth century, when the legal toleration which was accorded
them in Britain was nearly absolute. Not only were fugitives of all
political complexions allowed into Britain, but there was for most
of the century no possible way - no law on the statute book - by
which they could be kept out. This, and the licence which was
allowed them to agitate and conspire were greatly resented by the
governments from which they had fled, and regretted only a little
less by many British ministers, who sometimes found it necessary to
take measures against them which were of dubious constitutional
legality, and who wished, and once tried, to amend the law in order
to enable them to do more. That effort, arising from Orsini's bomb
plot in January 1858, resulted in the fall of the government which
proposed it, and the loss by its successor of a famous state
prosecution: a failure which, as this book argues, was crucial for
the maintenance of the practice of toleration thereafter.
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