Subsequently there had been the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror and it appeared that any reform would be accompanied by violence, which Pitt's government set out to pre-empt by increasingly punitive measures.
随后爆发了法国大革命及其恐怖统治，这样的事件似乎证明任何改革都必将伴随着暴力，皮特政府便开始通过越来越多的惩罚性措施来预防暴力事件的发生。