 Complete the following phrase:  Dissenters such as Priestley who supported the French Revolution came under increasing suspicion as scepticism regarding the revolution grew. In its propaganda against radicals, Pitts administration used the gunpowder statement to argue that Priestley and other Dissenters wanted to overthrow the government. Burke, in his famous Reflections on the Revolution in France 1790, tied natural philosophers, and specifically Priestley, to the French Revolution, writing that radicals who supported science in Britain considered man in their experiments no more than they do mice in an air pump. Burke also associated republican principles with alchemy and insubstantial air, mocking the scientific work done by both Priestley and French chemists. He made much in his later writings of the connections between Gunpowder Joe, science, and Lavoisierwho was improving gunpowder for the French in their 