William Pitt the Younger there is much evidence of a "popular conservative movement" that rallied in defense of King and Country. Evans wrote there were about 200 prosecutions of "radicals" suspected of sympathy with the French revolution in British courts in the 1790s, which was much less than the prosecutions of suspected Jacobites after the rebellions of 1715 and 1745. However, the spy network maintained by the government was efficient. In Jane Austen's novel "Northanger Abbey"-which was written in the 1790s, but not published until 1817-one of the characters remarks it is not possible for a family to keep secrets in these modern times
Northanger Abbey (2007 film) say "Northanger Abbey" was made to be a television movie and commented that it was more fun than the book. The "San Francisco Chronicle's" David Wiegand wrote ""Persuasion" is a bigger challenge to try to squeeze into 90 minutes, the real difference between that film and "Northanger" is the latter's consistency of high-quality performances, a careful and attentive adaptation by Andrew Davies and solid direction by Jon Jones." Writing for "The Daily Telegraph", James Walton observed ""Northanger Abbey" was a perfectly acceptable costume drama – but not one that ever really caught fire." Simon Hoggart, writing for "The Spectator", commented