The first report of the Committee of Secrecy of the House of Commons, on the papers belonging to the Society for Constitutional Information, and the London Corresponding Society, seized by order of government, and presented to the House by Mr. Secretary Dundas, on the 12th and 13th of May 1794

Great Britain, Parliament, House of Commons

Published by printed by order of the House of Commons . sold by T. Chapman, No. 151, Fleet-Street, London, 1794

First edition, 8vo, pp. 43, [1]; unbound, stitched, as issued; near fine. The London Corresponding Society was a federation of local reading and debating clubs that agitated for the democratic reform of the British Parliament in the last decade of the 18th century, and the first decade of the 19th. In contrast to other reform associations of the period, it drew largely upon working men (artisans, tradesmen, and shopkeepers) and was itself organized on a formal democratic basis. Society for Constitutional Information was a British activist group founded in 1780 by Major John Cartwright, to promote parliamentary reform and promoted the work of Thomas Paine and others in favor of parliamentary reform. Seller Inventory # 66704

Bibliographic Details

Title: The first report of the Committee of Secrecy...
Publisher: printed by order of the House of Commons . sold by T. Chapman, No. 151, Fleet-Street, London
Publication Date: 1794
Edition: 1st Edition