Anti-Catholicism Catholics, and his replacement by a Dutch Protestant. For decades the Stuarts were supported by France in plots to invade and conquer Britain, and anti-Catholicism persisted. The Gordon Riots of 1780 were a violent anti-Catholic protest in London against the Papists Act of 1778, which was intended to reduce official discrimination against British Catholics. Lord George Gordon, head of the Protestant Association warned that the law would enable Catholics in the British Army to become a dangerous threat. The protest evolved into riots and widespread looting. Local magistrates were afraid of reprisals and did not issue the riot act. There
London Evening Post Meres died in 1761, his son (also John) took over the business. The younger Meres was called before the House of Lords in 1764 to explain a "vague and slightly anti-Scottish remark" regarding Lord Hertford. After Richard Nutt died in 1780, the paper also reportedly folded, though there are archives of the paper in the same name that date past 1780. John Miller (c. 1744-1807), who was printer of the "Post" in 1770s, was charged with libel five times and at times jailed for it; he later moved to South Carolina in 1783 and started newspapers there. London Evening Post