The London Corresponding Society, 1792-1799 Vol 2

Michael T Davis, James Epstein, Jack Fruchtman Jr, Mary Thale

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781000420050
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

This six volume set reproduces the complete writings of the London Corresponding Society (LCS) as well as other contemporary literature and parliamentary debates, and reports relating to the Society. The LCS was at the forefront of the call for political reform in the late 18th century. Volume 2 spans 1795 to 1798.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• A letter, &c. to the members of the London Corresponding Society (1795)
• 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)
• 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)
• London Corresponding Society. Copy of a circular letter to all the patriotic societies in Great Britain (1795)
• London Corresponding Society. Meeting in Mary-Le-Bone Fields (1795)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Citizens, John Binns and John Gale 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)
• Citizens, we are eager to address you on the extraordinary occurrences that have recently agitated the nation (1796)
• Debtor. The London Corresponding Society. Creditor (1796)
• 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 Stuckey, president (1797)
• 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)
• 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)
• Thoughts on Mr. Grey's plan of reform in a circular letter to the popular societies of Great Britain and Ireland (1797)
• Address of the London Corresponding Society to the British Nation (1798)
• 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)
• London Corresponding Society, held at the Bell, Exeter-Street, Strand (1792)
• London Corresponding Society, Sir, it would be with considerable embarrassment, that we should address you (1793)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• The London Corresponding Society addresses the friends of peace and parliamentary reform (1793)
• To the London Corresponding Society, associated for effecting a free and equal representation of the people in parliament (1793)
• A subscription is opened for the relief of the wives and children of sundry persons detained in prison by the late suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act (1794)
• Citizens! The critical moment is arrived (1794)
• London Corresponding Society, anniversary dinner, and general meeting, Globe Tavern, Strand, Monday 20th Jan., 1794 (1794)
• London Corresponding Society, Feb. 3, 1794. This Society having long supported with cheerfulness and ardour ... a radical reform in parliament (1794)
• London Corresponding Society. July 25, 1794. To a humane and generous public no apology will be necessary (1794)
• Articles for future regulations for the London Corresponding Society, recommended by the Executive Committee (1795)
• London Corresponding Society. At a general meeting of this Society, held on Thursday, the 12th inst. (1795)
• London Corresponding Society. General meeting, June 29, 1795 (1795)
• 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)
• To the inhabitants of London and its environs. Awake! Arise! Or be for ever fall'n! (1795)
• 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)
• To the parliament and people of Great Britain. An explicit declaration of the principles and views of the London Corresponding Society (1795)
• Address of the London Corresponding Society to the country (1797)
• Answer of the London Corresponding Society, respecting a general meeting to the friends of reform in Sheffield (1797)
• Circular letter to the united corresponding societies of Great Britain. London Corresponding Society, sitting of the Executive Committee, July 17, 1797 (1797)
• Fellow-citizen, your non-attendance at your division (together with other defaulters) has been of such serious disadvantage to the interests of our Society (1797)
• 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 31st inst. (1797)
• London Corresponding Society. This Committee having read an advertisement, inserted in the public newspapers (1797)
• London. Executive Committee, sitting of Thursday, March 23, 1797. Fellow citizens, for a long time, a despotic administration ... have enslaved our unfortunate country (1797)
• Special sitting of the Executive Committee, June 29, 1797 (1797)
• The London Corresponding Society's answer to a member of parliament's letter (1797)
• To the united corresponding societies of Britain (1797)
• Treasurer's accounts (1796–8)
• Notes