[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)

2021 ◽  
pp. 253-261
Author(s):  
Michael T. Davis ◽  
James Epstein ◽  
Jack Fruchttnan ◽  
Mary Thale
Keyword(s):  
The People ◽  
London Corresponding Society

Was there a Law of Sedition in Scotland? Baron David Hume’s Analysis of the Scottish Sedition Trials of 1794

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atle L. Wold
Keyword(s):  
Leading Role ◽  
The People ◽  
London Corresponding Society

This chapter examines debates over whether the crime of ‘sedition’ had any meaning within Scots law, focusing on David Hume's analysis of the sedition trials of 1794. In 1794, Maurice Margarot of the London Corresponding Society was charged with the crime of sedition. Margarot was one of the very few English delegates who had been present at the so-called British Convention, held in Edinburgh in 1793. Together with his fellow Englishman Joseph Gerrald, and William Skirving of the Edinburgh Friends of the People, Margarot had taken on a leading role at the Convention. It was for this that he had been put on trial. The chapter considers how Margarot's trial initiated a discussion about sedition as a crime under Scots law and discusses the use of ‘authoritative writings’ on Scots law in the trials, along with Hume's views about the trials.

The Influence of the Industrial Revolution (1760–1790) on the Demand for Parliamentary Reform

1922 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 101-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gwen. Whale
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
Society Of Friends ◽  
The People ◽  
Parliamentary Reform ◽  
London Corresponding Society ◽  
Executive Responsibility ◽  
The Revolution

The Whig interpretations of the English Constitution based on the doctrine of executive responsibility to Parliament, as established by the Revolution of 1688 and Locke's vindication of that event, were crystallised and defined by eighteenth-century political practice, eulogised and expounded by Montesquieu and Blackstone, and asserted and elaborated by Junius and Burke. But they were subjected to criticism at least two decades before the Revolution in France stimulated political speculation and inspired demands for reform. Long before the outburst of reforming enthusiasm expressed in the activities of the Revolution Society, the London Corresponding Society and the Society of Friends of the People, which was kindled by the opening episodes of the French Revolution, there was in England a well-established movement for parliamentary reform.

John Thelwall and the Eighteenth-Century Radical Response to Political Economy

1991 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iain Hampsher-Monk
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
The People ◽  
John Thelwall ◽  
London Corresponding Society ◽  
Medical Colleges ◽  
The Revolution

John Thelwall was born in 1764 in Covent Garden, London. The son of a silk mercer, he was unsuccessfully apprenticed to his father after leaving school at 13, and then successively, an apprenticed tailor, and an articled legal clerk; but he failed to impress at any of these, apparently reading during working hours. Turning to his pen, he published two volumes of poems and became literary editor of the Biographical and Imperial Magazine. Speaking at the Coachmakers' Hall, he caught the attention of John Home Tooke, who offered to send him to university. But by this time he was already enthusing about the revolution in France and had joined both the whiggish Society of the Friends of the People, and the more down-market London Corresponding Society. In the midst of all of this, and getting married, he attended some courses on anatomy and medicine at one of the London medical colleges.

Big Copyright Versus the People

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Skladany
Keyword(s):  
The People
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