The London Corresponding Society, 1792-1799

by Davis,Michael T

• ISBN13: 9781851967346
• ISBN10: 1851967346
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This 6 volume set reproduces the complete writings of the London Corresponding Society as well as other contemporary literature and parliamentary debates, and reports relating to the Society. They make fascinating reading and are of great interest to scholars and students working in a number of fields in the humanities, including history, politcal science and literary studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	xv
Preface	xvii
Chronology	xix
Introduction	xxv
Abbreviations	xlix
Note on copy texts	l
Address from the London Corresponding Society to the inhabitants of Great Britain, on the subject of a parliamentary reform (1792)	1	(10)
Address of the London Corresponding Society to the other societies of Great Britain, united for obtaining a reform in parliament (1792)	11	(16)
Joint address to the French National Convention, 27 September 1792 (1792) [original English version]	27	(4)
Joint address to the French National Convention, 7 November 1792 (1792) [reprinted version issued in 1793]	31	(6)
Letter of Thomas Paine, to the people of France: Published and distributed gratis by the London Corresponding Society (1792)	37	(10)
Letter to the Right Hon. Henry Dundass, Secretary of State for the Home Department. By the London Corresponding Society, united for the purpose of obtaining a reform in Parliament (1792; 2nd edition 1794)	47	(10)
The London Corresponding Society's address and regulations (1792)	57	(18)
The London Corresponding Society's addresses and resolutions (reprinted and distributed gratis) (1792)	75	(10)
The London Corresponding Society to the nation at large (1792)	85	(10)
A letter of thanks addressed by the London Corresponding Society, to Philip Francis, Esq. M.P, for his able speech in parliament, on the 10th of April, 1793, upon the Stockbridge Election Bill; together with his answer (1793)	95	(10)
Address to the nation, from the London Corresponding Society, on the subject of a thorough parliamentary reform...hold on Monday, the 8th of July, 1793 (1793)	105	(12)
An explanation of the word equality (1793)	117	(6)
Extracted from the appendix of a pamphlet entitled Peace and Union, Recommended to the Associated Bodies of Republicans and Anti-Republicans, by William Frend (1793)	123	(6)
Extracted from the Morning Chronicle, June 1st, 1793, the speech of John Wharton, Esq. M.P in the House of Commons, on his motion on the constitution; printed by order of the London Corresponding Society and distributed gratis (1793)	129	(10)
The Englishman's right: a dialogue between a barrister at law and a Juryman... By Sir John Hawles...Reprinted by the London Corresponding Society (1793)	139	(50)
Universal suffrage and annual parliaments. Report of the sub-committee of Westminster; appointed April 12, 1780, to take into consideration all such matters, relative to the election of Members of Parliament (1793)	189	(20)
A letter of thanks from the London Corresponding Society, to the Right Honourable Thomas Skinner, Lord Mayor of London. For His Lordships upright conduct in dispensing with military attendance on a late occasion (1794)	209	(4)
A seasonable caution from the London Corresponding Society, to their follow citizens, and the public in general (1794)	213	(2)
Address of the London Corresponding Society, united for the purpose of obtaining universal suffrage and annual parliaments, to the various patriotic societies of Great Britain (1794)	215	(6)
An account of the seizure of Citizen Thomas Hardy, secretary to the London Corresponding Society; with some remarks on the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act (1794)	221	(12)
At a general meeting of the London Corresponding Society...on Monday the 14th of April, 1794...the following letters were road (1794)	233	(10)
Constitutional maxims, extracted from A Discourse on the Establishment of a National and Constitutional Force. By Charles Lord Hawkesbury. London: printed 1757. Abridged and reprinted by order of the London Corresponding Society (1794)	243	(14)
Fast Day as observed at Sheffield (1794)	257	(16)
London Corresponding Society. General Committee, 5th June, 1794 (1794)	273	(4)
London Corresponding Society. Nov. 19th 1794 The Committee gratefully acknowledge the contributions (1794)	277	(10)
Reformers no rioters. Printed by order of the London Corresponding Society (1794)	287	(10)
Report of the Committee, appointed to revise and abridge a former report of the constitution, of the London Corresponding Society (1794)	297	(16)
The address Published by the London Corresponding Society, at the general meeting, held at the Globe Tavern, Strand, on Monday the 20th day of January, 1794...to the People of Great Britain and Ireland. To which are added, the King's speech at the opening of the present session of ``His Parliament'' (1794)	313	(18)
The report of the Committee of Constitution of the London Corresponding Society (1794)	331	(20)
The speech of Earl Stanhope, in the House of Peers, on February the 19th, 1794. With the resolutions of the London Corresponding Society thereon (1794)	351	(8)
The speech of Earl Stanhope in the House of Peers on his motion to prevent His Majesty's ministers from interfering with the internal government of France. April the fourth, 1794 (1794)	359	(14)
Notes	373	(130)
A letter, &c. to the members of the London Corresponding Society (1795)	1	(10)
A letter from His Grace the Duke of Richmond, to Lieutenant Colonel Sharman, chairman to the Committee of Correspondence appointed by the delegates of forty-five Corps of Volunteers, assembled at Lisburn in Ireland. With notes by a member of the Society for Constitutional Information (1795)	11	(18)
Account of the proceedings of a meeting of the people, in a field near Copenhagen-House, Thursday, Nov. 12; including the substance of the speeches of Citizen Duane, Thelwall, Jones, &c. With the petitions to the King, Lords, and Commons...on the subject of...a convention bill (1795)	29	(18)
London Corresponding Society. Copy of a circular letter to all the patriotic societies in Great Britain (1795)	47	(4)
London Corresponding Society. Meeting in Mary-Le-Bone Fields (1795)	51	(14)
Narrative of the proceedings at a general meeting of the London Corresponding Society. Second edition, revised and corrected...on Monday the 29th of June 1795 (1795)	65	(18)
Proceedings of a general meeting of the London Corresponding Society, held on Monday October the 26th 1795: in a field adjacent to Copenhagen-House, in the county of Middlesex (1795)	83	(22)
The correspondence of the London Corresponding Society revised and corrected, with explanatory notes and a prefatory letter, by the Committee of Arrangement...published for the use of members (1795)	105	(90)
The state of the representation of England and Wales, delivered to the Society, the Friends of the People, associated for the purpose of obtaining a parliamentary reform...Revised, compressed, and reprinted by the London Corresponding Society, 4th May 1795 (1795)	195	(36)
Citizens, John Binns and John ('Tale Jones, the citizens we deputed to visit the popular society at Birmingham, are speedily to take their trial on a charge of seditious conduct (1796)	231	(4)
Citizens, we are eager to address you on the extraordinary occurrences that have recently agitated the nation (1796)	235	(6)
Debtor. The London Corresponding Society. Creditor (1796)	241	(6)
A narrative of the proceedings at the general meeting of the London Corresponding Society, held on Monday, July 31, 1797, in a field, near the veterinary college, St. Pancras, in the county of Middlesex. Citizen Thomas Stukey, president (1797)	247	(34)
Citizens, we lay before you an abstract of the pecuniary transactions of the London Corresponding Society, from the 7th of July to the 31st of December last (1797)	281	(10)
The London Corresponding Society, in order to gratify the desire the public must naturally feel to know what are the particular accusations preferred against Citizens Jones and Binns...present them with copies of the indictments found against each (1797)	291	(6)
Thoughts on Mr. Grey's plan of reform in a circular letter to the popular societies of Great Britain and Ireland (1797)	297	(8)
Address of the London Corresponding Society to the British Nation (1798)	305	(6)
Proceedings of the General Committee of the London Corresponding Society, on the 5th, 12th, and 19th of April, 1798, relative to the resistance of a French invasion. Stated in a letter to a friend: intended to have been inserted in the Morning Chronicle (1798)	311	(14)
London Corresponding Society, held at the Bell, Exeter-Street, Strand (1792)	325	(4)
London Corresponding Society, Sir, it would be with considerable embarrassment, that we should address you (1793)	329	(4)
Reform in parliament. London Corresponding Society, April 11, 1793. A petition to be presented to the Honorable the House of Commons praying for a radical reform in the representation of the people; now lies for the reception of signatures (1793)	333	(4)
The Berry-bush. Written by J. Field, and sung on Monday July the 8th 1793 at the Crown and Anchor, Tavern, Strand. At the first General meeting of the London Corresponding Society (1793)	337	(4)
The following petition was presented to the House of Commons, by Phillip Francis, Esq. May 6, 1793, from the London Corresponding Society. Ordered to lie on the table (1793)	341	(4)
The London Corresponding Society addresses the friends of Peace and parliamentary reform (1793)	345	(4)
To the London Corresponding Society, associated for effecting a free and equal representation of the people in parliament (1793)	349	(6)
A subscription is opened for the relief of the wives and children of sundry persons detained in prison by the lace suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act (1794)	355	(4)
Citizens! The critical moment is arrived (1794)	359	(4)
London Corresponding Society, anniversary dinner, and general meeting, Globe Tavern, Strand, Monday 20th Jan., 1794 (1794)	363	(4)
London Corresponding Society, Feb. 3, 1794. This Society having long supported with cheerfulness and ardour...a radical reform in parliament (1794)	367	(4)
London Corresponding Society. July 25, 1794. To a humane and generous public no apology will be necessary (1794)	371	(4)
Articles for future regulations for the London Corresponding Society, recommended by the Executive Committee (1795)	375	(6)
London Corresponding Society. At a general meeting of this Society, held on Thursday, the 12th inst. (1795)	381	(4)
London Corresponding Society. General meeting, June 29, 1795 (1795)	385	(4)
To the British nation. The reply of the London Corresponding Society to the calumnies propagated by persons in high authority, for the purpose of furnishing pretences for the pending Convention Bill (1795)	389	(6)
To the inhabitants of London and its environs. Awake! Arise! Or be for ever fall'n! (1795)	395	(4)
To the members of the London Corresponding Society. Committee room, December 31, 1795. Citizens, after the resolutions of various divisions ... it appears to us inexplicable that a few individuals should attempt to dissuade particular divisions from meeting (1795)	399	(4)
To the parliament and people of Great Britain. An explicit declaration of the principles and views of the London Corresponding Society (1795)	403	(4)
Address of the London Corresponding Society to the country (1797)	407	(4)
Answer of the London Corresponding Society, respecting a general meeting to the friends of reform in Sheffield (1797)	411	(4)
Circular letter to the united corresponding societies of Great Britain. London Corresponding Society, sitting of the Executive Committee, July 17, 1797 (1797)	415	(4)
Fellow-citizen, your non-attendance at your division (together within other defaulters) has hen of such serious disadvantage to the interests of our Society (1797)	419	(4)
London Corresponding Society. Notice is hereby given, that a general meeting of this Society, and other friends of parliamentary reform in London ... will be held on Monday, the 31'' inst. (1797)	423	(4)
London Corresponding Society. This Committee having read an advertisement, inserted in the public newspapers (1797)	427	(4)
London. Executive Committee, sitting of Thursday, March 23, 1797. Fellow citizens, for a long rime, a despotic administration ... have enslaved our unfortunate country (1797)	431	(6)
Special sitting of the Executive Committee, June 29, 1797 (1797)	437	(4)
The London Corresponding Society's answer to a member of parliament's letter(1797)	441	(6)
To the united corresponding societies of Britain (1797)	447	(4)
Treasurer's accounts (1796-8)	451	(52)
Notes	503
The Politician, nos. 1-4 (1794-5)	1	(34)
The Moral and Political Magazine of the London Corresponding Society, Volume the first (1796)	35	(344)
Notes	379
The Moral and Political Magazine of the London Corresponding Society, Volume the second (1797)	1	(240)
Notes	241	(66)
[Youth, pseud.], An address to the London Corresponding Society held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand, Monday, July 8, 1793; being an answer to a pamphlet entitled An Address to the Nation, on the Subject of a Thorough Parliamentary Reform, &c. (1793)	1	(10)
An address to the inhabitants of Great Britain and Ireland, in a reply to a printed report of the London Corresponding Societies (1794)	11	(72)
Anonymous
A vindication of the London Corresponding Society (1794)	83	(18)
James Parkinson
Revolutions without bloodshed; or reformation preferable to revolt (1794)	101	(6)
James Parkinson]
[Society for Constitutional information), Proceedings, &c. of the Society for Constitutional Information (1794)	107	(10)
A congratulary epistle to the London Corresponding Society, on their late general meeting, in St. George's Fields. By a friend to liberty (1795)	117	(6)
Anonymous
Remarks upon the principles and views of the London Corresponding Society (1795)	123	(24)
Anonymous
A summary of tile duties of citizenship! Written expressly for the members of tile London Corresponding Society; including observations on the contemptuous neglect of the Secretary of State, with regard to their late address to the King! (1795)	147	(30)
Edward Henry Iliff
The decline and fall, death, dissection, and funeral procession of his most contemptible lowness the London Corresponding Society; who took his departure from this world on the 18th day of December 1795 .... by the author of ``The Funeral of Mrs. Regency (1796)	177	(64)
Anonymous
Answer of the friends of reform in Sheffield, summoned to take into consideration the letter of the London Corresponding Society, on the subject of a proposed meeting, to petition the King to dismiss his ministers (1797)	241	(6)
Reply of the friends of liberty in Sheffield, summoned to take into consideration the answer of the London Corresponding Society, respecting a general meeting (1797)	247	(6)
[Hampden, pseud.), Ministers the cause of the miseries and disaffection of the people: addressed to the British nation. By Hampden. These thoughts occurred to the author on reading the reply of the people of Sheffield, to the London Corresponding Society (1797)	253	(10)
[Nottingham Corresponding Society), The proceedings at a general meeting of the Nottingham Corresponding Society, held in the market place, on the 31st of July, 1797, in pursuance of a requisition from the London Corresponding Society, requesting ``All the affiliated bodies to meet on the same day''. Intended as an appendix to the London Society's narrative, &c. (1797)	263	(10)
The origin of government, compatible with, and founded on the rights of man, with a few words on the constitutional object of the Corresponding Society. The whole addressed to the common sense of every Englishman (1797)	273	(34)
Sampson Ferry
Notes	307	(34)
First Report from the Committee of Secrecy of the House of Commons respecting seditious practices (1794)	1	(13)
First report of the Lords' Committee of Secrecy respecting seditious practices (1794)	14	(1)
Second report from the Committee of Secrecy of the House of Commons respecting seditious practices(1794)	15	(100)
Second report of the Secret Committee of the House of Lords respecting seditious practices(1794)	115	(10)
Debate in the Lords on the report of the Secret Committee respecting seditious practices (1794)	125	(4)
Debates on the Treasonable Practices and Seditious Meetings Bill (1795)	129	(158)
Report from the Committee of Secrecy of the House of Commons relative to the proceedings of different persons and societies in Great Britain and Ireland engaged in a treasonable conspiracy (1799)	287	(41)
Debate in the Commons on the report from the Secret Committee relative to seditious societies (1799)	328	(8)
Report from the Lords Committee of Secrecy relative to a treasonable conspiracy (1799)	336	(5)
Notes	341	(12)
Appendix	353	(14)
Index	367