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On July 14 , of that year, the ''Constitutional Society of Birmingham'' arranged a dinner to celebrate the anniversary of the Storming Of The Bastille . Priestley, according to his own account, had little to do with it. However, his sympathies for the French Revolutionaries were notorious, and the well-organised mob seized the occasion to attack the homes of several Dissenter s, including burning his Chapel and sacking his house at Fairhill, destroying his Library and Laboratory . He and his family escaped, but his material possessions were lost and the labour of years annihilated. Priestley afterwards moved to London . EXTERNAL LINKS |