Index

Jon Mee

Index

Abolitionism, 31, 47, 68–69, 149, 155, 167, 191, 194, 200, 209

Account of the proceedings of a meeting of the inhabitants of Westminster, 229

Account of the proceedings of a meeting of the London Corresponding Society, 60

Adair, James (Serjeant-at-law), 176

Adair, Robert (friend of Charles James Fox), 198

Adams, Daniel (SCI secretary), 31

Adams, John, 34–35

Adams, M. Ray, 218

Addison, Joseph, 156, see also The Spectator

Alderson (Opie), Amelia, 47, 54, 58–59, 124, 127–128, 185

Alderson, James, 127–128

Aldgate Society of the Friends of the People (Bother'em Society), 74–75

Thing of Shreds and Patches, A, 34, 75

Alexander, David, 222

Alger, J. G., 216, 219

Alien and Sedition Act (1798), 165

Allan, David, 190

Allum, ‘Citizen’ [Jack?], 175–176, 178, 180, 226

American Revolution, 19, 24, 89, 103, 133, 143, 166, 175

American Universal Magazine (1797–8), 129, 165–167, 219, 230, see also Lee, Richard ‘Citizen’

Amyot, Thomas (lawyer), 124

Analytical Review, 75, 115, 134, 136–137, 220

Anderson, Benedict, 64–65

Anderson, John William (magistrate), 140

Andrew, Donna, 55, 199, 231

Andrews, Sir Joseph, 207

Answer to Three Scurrilous Pamphlets, An, 135–136, 219, 221

AntiJacobin Review and Magazine, 206

Archer, Lady Sarah, 144

Argus, 7, 87, 113, 116, 119–121, 125, 193, 197, 214, see also Perry, Sampson

Arnaud, E. B. (Portsmouth loyalist), 204

Ashley, John (LCS member), 188, 210

Assassination of the King!, 212

Association for the Preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers (Reeves Association), 40, 83–84, 174, 181, see also Reeves, John

Bailey, ‘Citizen’ (member of Friends of Liberty), 43

Prince Brothers’s Scarlet Devils Displayed, 212

White Devils Un-Cased, 212

Ballard, T. G. (bookseller), 127

Baltimore Telegraph, 219

Banks, Sir Joseph (scientist), 180–181

Bannister, Jack (comedian), 218

Barbauld, Anna, 44, 198

Civic sermons to the people, 54

and school (Suffolk), 205

Barker, E. H. (scholar and editor)

Parriana, 189

Barker, Hannah, 214, 219

Barlow, Joel, 48

Barnes, John (LCS member), 174, 218

Barrell, John, 1, 21, 25–26, 46, 49, 88, 96, 98, 145, 155, 161, 198–200, 210–212, 217, 222, 226–229, 233

Barrymore, Earl of (Richard Barry), 200

Baxter, John (LCS member), 22–23, 94, 105, 108, 201

New and impartial history of England, 5

Resistance to Oppression, 5, 108

Beaufort Buildings, 54–55, 105, 175, 181, 184

Beaumont, J.T.B. (Telegraph journalist), 103, 125

Beefsteak Club, 131

Bell, John (bookseller), 114, 117, 213

Bennett, James, 152

History of the Dissenters, 205, 226, see also Bogue, David

Sacred Politics, 71

Translation of Elijah, 205

Bentham, Jeremy, 108

Fragment on Government, A, 213

Bernard, John, 129, 131

Retrospections of America, 219

Retrospections of the Stage, 214, 219

Bewley, Christina, 205

Bill of Rights, 140–141

Binns, John, 62

Biographical and Imperial Magazine, 169, 171

Birch, William Y. (printer), 230

Black, Robert, 219, 222

Blackstone, William, 108

Commentaries on the Laws of England, 95, 99–100, 181

Boaden, James, 213

Bogue, David (evangelical minister), 68–71, 150–152

Great Importance of having Right Sentiments in Religion, 203

History of the Dissenters, 226, see also Bennett, James

Reasons for Seeking a Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts, 203

Thoughts on the Necessity and Means of a Reform in the Church of England, 204

Bogue, John (trial witness), 203

Bon Ton Magazine, 136–137, 215

Bone, John (LCS member), 15, 21, 28–29, 32, 43, 101, 103, 106–107, 143, 164

Reformers no Rioters, 102–103, see also Crimp Riots (1794)

Bonner, Charles, 115

book clubs and reading societies, 7–8, 23, 27–28, 32, 38, 82, 92, 210

Mitcham Book Society, 8, 31, 62

Borough (Southwark) Society of the Friends of the People, 71, 74, 173–175

Boston Gazette, 195

Boyle, Patrick

General London guide, 226

Bradley, James E., 203

Breillat, Thomas (pump-maker and LCS member), 58, 96

Brewer, John, 21

Brightwell, Cecilia, 200

Brissot, Jacques-Pierre and ‘Brissotism’, 76–77, 175–176

British Apollo, 215

British Citizens (radical society), 195, see also Aldgate Society

British Club, 15, 51, 76, 122, 217, see also White’s Hotel

British Constitution Invulnerable, 135–136, 220, 225

British Critic, 143

Brothers, Richard (millenarian), 158

Brunton, Anne (actress and wife of Robert Merry), 113, 119, 123–125, 200, 217

Brunton, John (father of Anne Brunton), 124

Bryant, Thomas (minister), 68

Buchan, Earl of (David Steuart Erskine), 36–37

Buckle, Henry (Norwich radical), 31

Bugg, John, 193, 204

Burdett, Francis, 62

Burgh, James, 89

Burke, Edmund, 37–38, 95, 118, 133–134, 146, 195, 220

Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, 133

Letter to a Member of the National Assembly, 133

Reflections on the Revolution in France, 116, 224

Burks, Joseph (LCS member), 102–105, 108, 200

Burns, Robert, 3–4

Byron, Lord George Gordon Noel, 199

Cabinet of Curiosities, 218

Cabinet, 162

Cadell, Thomas (bookseller), 217

Carey, Mathew (American publisher), 219

Carpenter, Thomas

American senator, 166

Carr, John (trial witness), 203

Cartwright, Major John, 13, 89, 192, 205

Chalmers, George (loyalist)

Life of Thomas Pain, 191

Chalus, Elaine, 199

Chappelow, Leonard, 217

Charles II, King, 178

Charlotte, Queen, 138, 144, 179

Chase, Malcolm, 228

Chénier, Marie-Joseph, 127

Chernock, Arianne, 59

Christie, Thomas, 75, see also Analytical Review

churches and chapels, 169

Adelphi chapel, 153

Crown Court chapel, 65–67, see also Hardy, Thomas

Providence chapel, 153

Circumstantial History of the Transactions at Paris, 122

Clark, Anna, 199–200

Clark, Peter, 202

Clayden, P. W., 214

Club of Thirteen, 78, see also Literary Fund (Royal)

Cobbett, William, 15, 113, 129, 165, 219, 230

as ‘Peter Porcupine’, 129, 230

Bone to Gnaw for the Democrats, 230

Coffee houses, 45, 49, 57, 85, 168, 174, 192

New London coffee house, 140

Percy, The, 48–49

Coghlan, Margaret (actress and courtesan), 143–144

Memoirs of Mrs Coghlan, 143–144, see also Pigott, Charles

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 13–14, 62, 98, 147, 182, 186–187

Conciones ad Populum, 98

The Friend, 191

Collier, John Dyer (journalist), 62

Colman, George the Elder (theatre manager), 231

Colson, Percy

Strange History of Lord George Gordon, 224

Combe, William, 220, see also Hanger, Colonel George

committee of secrecy, 102

Second report, 82, 209

Comus, Monsieur (conjuror), 217

‘New Philosophical Deceptions’, 180

Conventions, 11, 22, 77, 88–90, 94–96, 98, 100–102, 176, 181–182, 185–186, see also National Convention of France

anti-convention legislation, 95–96, 100, 107

Edinburgh conventions (1793), 25, 31, 96, 174, 180

Cook, John (seventeenth-century judge)

Monarchy no creature of god's making, 227

Cooper, Stephen (secretary of Friends of Liberty), 106

Cooper, Thomas (Manchester radical), 128

Corfield, Penelope, 189, 217, 229

Cotlar, Seth, 11, 61, 64, 84, 166, 230

Courier, The, 7, 125

Courts and sessions

King's Bench, 141

Liberty of the Savoy, 181

Old Bailey, 140

Warwick assizes, 220–221

Westminster Quarter Sessions, 229

Cozens, John (Norwich radical), 209

Crimp Riots (1794), 102, 202

Critical Review, 169, 227

Crosby, Benjamin (bookseller), 223

Crosby, Mark, 209

Cruden, William (minister), 65–66, 203

Daer, Lord (Basil William Douglas), 71–72

Dalrymple, General William, 136, 144

Dart, Gregory, 191

Darwin, Erasmus

Botanic Garden, 181

David, Jacques-Louis, 123

Davidson, ‘Citizen’ (printer), 102

Davis, Michael T., 46–47, 193–194, 212, 230

De Certeau, Michel, 45, 190

Death and Dissection of Pitt satires, 125–127, 160–161, 218, see also Merry, Robert

Debating societies, 21, 43, 45, 47, 54–56, 59, 63, 156, 168–172, 174, 186

Capel Court, 40, 174

City Debates, 56

Club of female literatae, 59

Female Congress, 55

La Belle Assemblée, 55–56

Philomath Society, 128, 142, 197, 231

Physical Society, 171–173, 195

Society for Free Debate, 63

Debating societies premises, 43

Beaufort Buildings, see Beaufort Buildings

Coachmakers’ Hall, 55, 59, 63, 169–171, 174, 231

Compton Street, 174–175, 178, 180

Haymarket, 56

King's Arms, Cornhill, 55–56, 58

Park Tavern, 174–176

Three King’s Tavern, 175

De Fleury, Maria (Calvinist writer), 150

Divine Poems, 225

Devonshire, Duchess of (Georgiana Cavendish), 224

Dickey, Matthew (trial witness), 203

Dickinson, H. T., 19

Dignum, Charles (singer), 81

Dilly, Charles (bookseller), 67, 203

Dinmore, Richard Junior (Norwich radical)

Brief Acount of the Moral and Political Acts of the Kings and Queens of England, 30

Crimes of the Kings and Queens of England, 230, see also Lee, Richard ‘Citizen’

Domestic space, 10, 12, 44, 49, 54–55, 57–59, 183, 185, 187

Douglas, Jane, 165

Duchan, Judith, 235

Duck, Stephen, 212

Duffy, Edward, 227

Dumouriez, Charles-François du Périer (French army general), 218, 222

Dundas, Henry, 84, 138

Dunlap, William (American theatre pioneer), 219

Durey, Michael, 165, 194, 203, 219, 230

Dybikowski, James, 206–207

Dyer, George (author), 43, 147

Complaints of the Poor People of England, 225

Dissertation on the Theory and Practice of Benevolence, 223

Eagleton, Terry, 32

Eaton, Daniel Isaac, 11, 13, 21, 25, 31–34, 40–41, 58, 94, 97–98, 102–103, 142, 144–145, 147, 154, 171–172, 180–181, 192, 200, 218, 227, 233

King Chanticlere, see Thelwall, John

Pernicious Effects of the Art of Printing, 39–40

Philanthropist, The, 233

Political Classics, 11, 34, 190

Politics for the People, see Politics for the People

trial, see trials

Eaton, Henry, 231

Eaton, Susannah, 10, 58

Eberle, Roxanne, 200

Edinburgh Review, 152

Edwards, George (Literary Fund committee member), 76

Edwards, Gerard Noel (MP), 174, 232

Eley, Geoff, 16, 22, 32, 192

Elstee, John (of Chigwell), 207

Epstein, James, 45, 82, 97, 190, 194, 197–198, 222

Equiano, Olaudah, 68–69, 204

Interesting narrative, The, 68

Erdman, David, 206

Erskine, Thomas, 36, 49, 85–87, 141, 144–145, 174, 176, 181, 233

Este, Charles (journalist), 125

Ethic epistles, 222

Eton College, 132, 135, 142

European Magazine, 122, 213

Evangelical Magazine, 47, 67, 150–152, 154, 156, 227

Evans, Chris, 217, 229

Evans, John

Sketch of all the Denominations of the Christian World, A, 67

Explanation of the Word Equality, An, 88–89

Extermination, or an appeal to the People of England, 34

Eyre, James (Chief Justice), 23, 202

Fairclough, Mary, 37, 196, 211, 231–232, 235

Faithful narrative of the last illness, death, and interment of the Rt. Hon. William Pitt, A, 60, 105, 228

Featherstone, David, 190

Fellowship Society, 66, see also Walne, George

Felsenstein, Frank, 199

Feltham, John

Picture of London for 1802, The, 153

‘Female Society of Patriots’, 10, 59–60

Fennell, James (actor), 128

Fenwick, John (translator)

Memoirs of Dumouriez, 223

Festival of Humour, The, 225

Field, Joseph (LCS member), 30

Field, William

Memoirs of … Parr, 189

Fitzgerald, W. T. (Literary Fund committee member), 51

Sturdy Reformer, 51

Five Excellent New Songs, 208

Fleming, Tara-Lyn, 235

Flower, Benjamin, 147

Principles of the British Constitution Explained, 225

Foley, Rev. (of Stourbridge), 228

Ford, Richard (of Treasury Solicitor's office), 43

Fox, Charles James, 22, 26, 49–50, 52, 56, 90, 117–118, 131–133, 135–137, 141, 143, 146, 161, 174, 206, 229

Fox–North coalition, 63

Francis, Sir Philip (reformist politician), 90, 220

Fraser, Nancy, 195

Frend, William, 200

Friends of Liberty, 106, 108, 218

Friends of the French Revolution, 50, 117

anniversary dinner (July 1791), 50

Friends of the Liberty of the Press, 56, 87, 174, 235

Whole Proceedings at the Meeting of the Friends of the Liberty of the Press, 209, 232

Frost, Eliza, 10, 48

Frost, John, 15, 48–49, 122, 139, 214

trial, see trials

Gagnier, Regenia, 201, 205

Gale Jones, John (LCS member), 59, 184

Sketch of a political tour, 45, 58–59

Garnai, Amy, 218

Gazetteer, 5, 118, 152, 171, 189, 215, 217

Geddes, Alexander, 235

Gentleman’s Magazine, 119, 189

George III, 27, 29, 41, 104, 108, 116, 137, 155, 158–164, 179

George, Prince of Wales, 135, 137–138

Gerrald, Joseph, 3–4, 13–15, 23, 59, 86–87, 94, 96–98, 100, 108, 139, 142, 147, 174, 180, 187, 206, 214, 216

Convention the Only Means of Saving us from Ruin, 29, 94–95, 207

trial, see trials

Gerraldiana, 97–98, 211

Gessner, Saloman (Swiss poet)

Death of Abel, 156

Gibbs, Warren, 231

Gifford, John, 75

Gifford, William

Baviad, 118

Maeviad, 118

Gillray, James

London-Coresponding-Society alarm’d, 45

Gilmartin, Kevin, 11–13, 40, 196, 205, 213

Ginter, Donald E., 214

Goddard, Florimond (painter), 208

Godfrey, Samuel (attorney to Lord George Gordon), 195, 202, 206

Godwin, William, 4, 11, 43–44, 47, 54, 57, 59, 82, 86, 96–97, 99, 106, 108–109, 115, 117, 121–124, 127–128, 139, 142, 168, 170–171, 185, 188, 196, 212, 234

Caleb Williams, 231

Considerations on Lord Grenville's and Mr. Pitt's bills, 54, 184–185

Cursory Strictures, 223

Enquiry concerning political justice, 77, 99, 124, 127, 134, 166, 171, 174, 181, 184, 197, 208, 230

Goodrich, Amanda, 14, 191

Goodwin, Albert, 188, 193, 199, 205, 209–210

Goodwin, Thomas (seventeenth-century divine)

The French Revolution foreseen, in 1639, 67, see also Bogue, David

Gordon Riots (1780), 63, 66

Gordon, Alexander (trial witness), 203

Gordon, Lord George, 63, 65–66, 69, 75, 139, 155, 185, 195, 198, 206, 225

trial, see trials

Gosling, Edward (spy), 200

Gothicism, 118, 127, 138, 145, 147, 183

Grande, James, 217–218

Green, Georgina, 94, 192–193, 201, 213, 231–232

Gregg, Alexander (trial witness), 203

Grenville, Lord (William Grenville), 161

Grey, Charles (MP), 72, 74–75, 90, 94–95, 121, 137, 173, 205

Grove, Thomas (minister), 153

Substance of a sermon, The, 226

Groves, John (spy and solicitor), 45–46, 100, 199

Guest, Harriet, 50–51, 54, 59, 198, 200, 214, 227

Gurney, John (lawyer), 8, 37, 41, 103, 145, 181, 184, 200, 233

Gurney, Joseph (court stenographer), 200

Gurney, Martha (bookseller), 200

Habeas Corpus Act, 56–57, 211–212

Habermas, Jürgen, 12, 32, 45, 192

Haig, Robert, 189, 200, 218

Hamilton, Duke of (Archibald Douglas), 189

Hammersley, Rachel, 193

Hampden, John, 13

Hampsher-Monk, Iain, 20, 220

Hanger, Colonel George, 136, see also Combe, William

Happy Reign of George the Last, 164

Hardy, James (trial witness), 203

Hardy, Lydia, 10, 47, 57–58, 64, 68, 71, 73, 153–154

Hardy, Thomas, 3–4, 8–9, 13–14, 19, 21–23, 25, 28, 31–32, 35–36, 38, 46–47, 59, 61–75, 78–79, 84, 91–92, 95–96, 102, 105, 109, 125, 149–150, 153–155, 162, 166, 181, 186–187, 192–194, 208–209, 216, 233

‘History of the London Corresponding Society’, 73–74, 201

Memoir of Thomas Hardy, 62–63, 66–67, 71, 73, 153, 193, 203–205

pseudonym ‘Crispin’, 62

trial, see trials

Hargreaves-Mawdsley, W. N., 127, 189, 213

Harling, Philip, 196

Harrington, James

Oceania, 25

Harris, Bob, 205

Harris, Thomas (theatre manager), 119, 231

Harrison, John, 208

‘Harum Skarum’, Account of a Debate, 202

Hatfield, E. F.

Poets of the Church, 150

Hawes, Robert (LCS member and printer), 81–82, 104, 107, 212, 225

Hawles, John

Englishman's Right, 30–31, 66, 93

Hazlitt, William

‘On the Difference between Writing and Speaking’, 178

Henderson, William (trial witness), 203

Hillier, John (tallow-chandler and printer), 58

History of Two Acts, 225, 229

Hive of Modern Literature, 218

Hodgson, Richard (LCS member), 27–28, 30, 99, 101–104, 106–107, 184

Hodgson, William (physician and LCS member), 140–143, 200, 224

Case of William Hodgson, 222

Proposals for Publishing by Subscription … the Female Citizen, 60

Hodson [Hodgson], E. (LCS member and printer), 226

Hog’s Wash, see Politics for the People

Holbach, Baron d', 145

System of Nature, 29, 142–143, 147, 223, see also Pigott, Charles and Hodgson, William

Holborn Society, 75

Holcroft, Thomas, 103, 121, 123–125, 127–130, 139, 142, 211, 213, 217, 234

Narrative of facts, A, 105

Road to Ruin, 119

Holt, Daniel, 223

Home Office, 45

Hone, William, 21

Honeyman, Valerie, 189

Horne Tooke, John, 5, 22, 24, 26, 36, 48, 52–53, 56, 61, 73, 105, 119, 122, 125, 170, 183, 198, 206

Horne, Melvill

Three letters, 205

How, Samuel ‘Cobbler’ (seventeenth-century ‘ranter’)

Sufficiency of the Spirit's Teaching, 153

Hume, Joseph (radical politician), 192

Huntington, William (Calvinist preacher), 153, 226

Hurford Stone, John, 75–76

Hurry, Ives (cousin of Amelia Alderson), 58–59

Huzzey, Richard, 191

Iliff, Edward Henry (actor and writer), 43, 108–109, 197

Angelo, 197

Summary of the duties of citizenship!, A, 108, 164

improvement, 3, 15–16, 23, 36, 38, 43, 47, 52, 93, 168

Inston, Kevin, 191

Jacobin Club (France), 138

Jardine, Major Alexander (friend of Godwin), 75, 115

Jebb, John (minister and reformer), 22

Address to the Freeholders of Middlesex, An, 193

Jeffrey, Francis, 152, 187

Jeffreys, Baron (George Jeffreys) (judge), 141

Jerningham, Edward (poet and playwright), 213

John Horne Tooke Stripped Naked and Dissected, 105

Johnson, Joseph (bookseller), 67, 115

Johnson, Samuel

Dictionary, 181

Johnston, Kenneth R., 193

Jones, Brad, 65

Jones, Whitney R. D., 207

Jordan, J. S. (bookseller), 84, 153–154, 221

Joyce, Jeremiah (minister and SCI member)

Mr. Joyce’s arrest, 105

Junius, 137, 225

Karr, David, 82, 194

Keane, John, 205, 209

Kearsley, George (bookseller), 143

Kemble, John Philip (actor), 233

King, John (financier), 128, 197, 215, 217

Kluge, Alexander, 195

Knights, Mark, 202, 209

Knott, Sarah, 223

Knox, Vicesimus (writer)

Elegant Extracts, 230

Kropf, C. R., 196

Laclau, Ernesto, 11, 191

Lafayette, Marquis de (Gilbert du Motier), 38

Lauderdale, Earl of (James Maitland), 86, 119

Lee, Richard ‘Citizen’, 5, 14–15, 28, 32, 43–44, 47–48, 57–60, 69–71, 104–105, 107–108, 127, 129, 143, 149–169, 194, 218

bookshops, see Print shops and bookshops

compilations, 160, see also Pigott, Charles and Gerrald, Joseph

Blessings of War, 228

Rights of Kings, 160, 228

Rights of Man, 148, 228

Rights of Princes, 164, 228

Voice of the People, 148, 160, 228

Warning to Tyrants, 148, 228

pseudonym ‘Ebenezer’, 5, 150, 225

publications

American Universal Magazine, see American Universal Magazine

Death of Despotism and the Doom of Tyrants, 154

Essay on Man, 61

Flowers from Sharon, 151–156

Gospel of Reason, 157, see also Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

King Killing, 162–164, 228, see also Pitchford, John

On the death of Mrs. Hardy, 57, 73, 105, 154

Pig's Meat poetry, 154

Poems on Various Occasions, 161

Political Curiosities, 227, 230, see also Gospel of Reason

Proposals for publishing … sacred to truth, liberty, and peace, 227

Songs from the rock, 69, 154–162, 205, 218, 227

Tythe and Tax Club, 158–160, 180

trial, see trials

Leeds, Duke of (Francis Osborne), 75

Lefebvre, Henri, 190

Lemaitre, Paul Thomas (alleged Pop-gun plot conspirator)

High treason!!, 218

Letters on the Present State of England and America, 198

Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien, 188

libel and seditious libel, 9–10, 21, 23, 29, 31, 37, 40–43, 49, 60, 77, 84–85, 87, 120, 138, 140, 144–145, 160, 164, 181, 210, 221

Linebaugh, Peter, 14, 204

Literary Fund (Royal), 5, 51, 62, 75–79, 115, 122, 189–190

anniversary dinner, 78

Littlejohn, Robert (LCS member), 81, 122

Lloyd, John (of Tewkesbury Society), 92

Lloyd’s Evening Post, 216

Locke, John, 39

London Chronicle, 215, 222

London Corresponding Society (LCS), 1–15, 19–32, 35–36, 38–40, 42–48, 51–53, 55, 57–59, 61–75, 78–84, 87–108, 119, 121, 125, 127, 141–143, 149–150, 152–153, 155, 164, 167–169, 172–178, 180–185, 187, 189, 195, 218, 220, 222, 228–229, 234

and constitution debates, 11–12, 26–29, 91–92, 100–102, 106–107

and regional societies, 2, 8, 19, 92–93, 98, 188

meeting places, 9, 42–47

Beaufort Buildings, see Beaufort Buildings

Bell, The, 46

Chalk Farm, 97, 100

Cock and Crown, 45

Copenhagen Fields, 162, 185

Globe Tavern, 96

Marquis of Granby, 79–81

Spitalfields, 96

publications

Account of the seizure of Thomas Hardy, 58, 212

‘Address to the King’, 94

Address to the Nation, 30

Address … to the other societies of Great Britain, 8, 198

At a general meeting on Monday the 14th of April, 1794, 211

At a general meeting … on Monday the 20th day of January, 1794, 210

London Corresponding Society, The Addresses and Resolutions, 202

London Corresponding Society, held at the Bell [Resolutions], 72–73

Narrative of the proceedings … on Monday 29th June, 1795, 107

Politician, see Politician

Report of the Committee … of the constitution, 27, 91, 99–101, 210

Speech of John Wharton, 199, see also Wharton, John

London Missionary Society, 67

London Reforming Society, 28–30, 106–107

Report of the Committee to the London Reforming Society, 194

London Society of the Friends of the People, 72, 75, 173

London Tavern, 81

Lord Chamberlain, 116

Lord Mayor of London, 56

Lottes, Gunther, 27–28, 52, 91–92

Loughlin, Martin, 192, 211

Louis XVI, King, 24, 41, 94, 116, 137, 162, 179

Luttrell, Lady Elizabeth, 145

Lynam, George (spy), 65, 206

Macan, Thomas, 139

Macbean, Peter (trial witness), 203

Macdonald, Archibald (Attorney General), 85–86

MacDonnell [sometimes MacDonald], D. E. (editor), 59, 127, 139, 189

Mackintosh, James, 103, 213, 215

Madan, Martin (Calvinist Methodist), 225

Maitland, Thomas (brother of Earl of Lauderdale), 86

Malinowski, Bronisław, 188

Manchester Corresponding Society, 93

Manogue, Ralph A., 192

Marat, Jean-Paul and ‘Maratism’, 138, 176

Margarot, Maurice, 25, 30, 67, 72, 78, 90–96, 104, 123, 180, 201

trial, see trials

Marie Antoinette, Queen, 58, 147

Martin, John (solicitor and LCS member), 31, 105, 140

Marvell, Andrew, 40

Matthews, J. (bookseller), 153

Mazzinghi, Joseph (composer), 215

McCalman, Iain, 12, 189, 194, 197, 202, 222, 225, 228

McCann, Andrew, 183, 187

McCue, Daniel, 193–195

McMaster, William (associate of Thomas Hardy), 66

Mee, Jon, 214, 218, 226, 231, 233, 235

Memoirs of Mrs. Billington, 220

Mercier, Louis Sébastien (dramatist), 7

Fragments of Politics and History, 201

Merry, Robert, 4, 11, 13–15, 23, 51, 75–76, 95, 113–131, 139, 142, 145, 157, 162, 175, 183, 186, 200, 219

pseudonyms

Della Crusca, 113, 129, 156–157, 217, 230

Tom Thorne, 113, 119–121

writings

‘Elegy upon the Horrors of War’, 123

Fenelon, 123–124, 127, see also Chénier, Marie-Joseph

Laurel of Liberty, The, 114–117, 119, 121, 206

Lorenzo, 118

Magician No Conjuror, 118–119, 125–127, 217, see also Mazzinghi, Joseph

Ode for the fourteenth of July, 50, 117–118

Pains of Memory, 124, 129

Picture of Paris, A, 115–116, 118, see also Bonner, Charles and Shield, William

Pittachio series, 125, 127, 180, 215, 218, see also Pittachio satires

Poetry of the World, 213

Réflexions politiques … adressées à la république, 122

Wounded Soldier, 127

Metcalfe, William (spy), 102–103

Millar, John, 95

Milton, John, 86, 170, 226

Comus, 183

Mitford, John (Solicitor-General), 202

Montesquieu, 86

Monthly Magazine, 120, 122, 127, 219

Monthly Review, 115, 118, 125, 127, 157

Moore, Matthew (LCS member), 30, 94, 211

Moral and Political Magazine (1796–7) (London Corresponding Society), 7, 78–81, 197

Moral and Political Society, 225

Curses and Causes of War, 208, 225

Moran, James, 196

More, Thomas, 34

Morning Chronicle, 48, 82, 118, 193, 217, 220, 222, 224, 226, 232

Morning Herald, 132

Morning Post, 117, 174, 214, 217, 219, 223–224, 234

Mornington, Lord (Richard Colley Wellesley), 164

Morris, Captain Thomas, 75

Morton, Thomas (playwright)

Columbus, 199, 231

Mosley, James, 196

Mr. St George: A True Story, 218

Muir, Thomas, 25, 180, 201

Munro [Monro], Captain George (spy), 45–46, 48, 79–80, 217

Murray, Andrew (LCS member), 207

National Assembly of France, 114, 116, 121, 133

National Convention of France, 11, 48, 76–77, 94–95, 101, 121–122, 137

Negt, Oskar, 195

New, General and Complete Weekly Magazine, 233

Newell, T. (cousin of Thomas Hardy), 202

Newman, Ian, 3, 46, 190, 192, 195

Newton, Richard, 139

Peep into the State Side of Newgate, A, 222

Promenade on the State Side of Newgate, 139, 142

Soulagement en Prison, or Comfort in Prison, 139

Norfolk, Duke of (Charles Howard), 26–27

Norwich Revolution Society, 90

Norwich Society for Political Information, 90

Nott, John

Appeal to the inhabitants of Birmingham, 208

Oldfield, John R., 194, 204

Oliver, Thomas (trial witness), 203–204

Oracle, 121, 216–217

O'Shaughnessy, David, 197, 223

Oswald, John (revolutionary soldier), 76

Otway, Thomas

Venice Preserved, 114, 178–179

Paine, Thomas, 9, 11, 24, 32, 36–37, 48, 50, 61, 64, 75–77, 84–87, 95, 106–107, 109, 117, 119, 121, 123, 133–137, 194, 198, 212, 218, 220

Age of Reason, 29, 70, 79, 164

Common Sense, 7

Letter Addressed to the Addressers, 24, 73, 87, 221

Rights of Man, 20–22, 35, 50, 61, 73, 75, 84–85, 87, 89, 121, 131, 153, 166, 174, 190–191, 221

trial, see trials

Palmer, John (postal reformer), 42

Parkinson, James (Old Hubert) (surgeon and radical), 94, 102–103, 171

Pearls Cast Before Swine by Edmund Burke, 34

Revolutions without Bloodshed, 102

Vindication of the London Corresponding Society, 102

Parolin, Christina, 190, 197

Parr, Samuel (schoolmaster), 3–4, 96, 122

Parsons, John (bookseller), 154, 195, 218

Parssinen, T. M., 209

Pattison, William (Norwich radical), 217

Pearce, John (LCS member and attorney), 99–100

Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, 167, 230

Perry, James (editor), 4, 152

Perry, Sampson, 7, 21, 87, 116, 119–121, 123, 214–215

trial, see trials

petitioning, 13, 31, 58, 63, 66, 90–91, 94–96, 161, 164, 202, 210

Philanthropic Society, 75

Philp, Mark, 7, 91, 155, 191–194, 204, 209

Picture of the Times, 223

Pigott, Charles, 4, 13–14, 23, 123, 127, 131–149, 157, 160, 162, 183, 194, 202, 213

as ‘Louse’, 131–132, 135, 146

writings

Female Jockey Club, 4, 144–145, 221

Jockey Club, 84, 87, 131, 134–139, 143–145, 224

Memoirs of Mrs Coghlan, 143–144

New Hoyle, or the general repository of games, 143

Persecution!!!, 141–142, 222, 224–225, 233

Political Dictionary, 131, 145–147, 221, 228

Strictures on … Burke, 133–134, 142

System of Nature, see Holbach, Baron d'

Treachery no Crime, 134, 139–140, 142, 224

Pigott, Harriet, 219

Pigott, Robert, 131–134

Liberty of the Press, 219, 225

New Information and Lights, 133

Pigott, William, 222

Pig's Meat (1793–5), 24, 81, 103, 105, 154–155, 157, 196, 208, 226, see also Spence, Thomas and Lee, Richard ‘Citizen’

Pindar, Tommy Junior (pseud.), 104

Pinetti, Signor Giuseppi (conjuror), 119

Piozzi, Hester Thrale, 114, 124

Pitchford, John (Norwich radical)

‘On Tyrannicide’, 162, see also Lee, Richard ‘Citizen’

Pitt, William, 11, 13–14, 20–22, 32, 48, 63, 95, 105, 108, 119–120, 125, 157–158, 160–165, 193, 195, 218, 220

Pittachio satires, 14, 105, see also Merry, Robert

Pitti-Clout & Dun-Cuddy, 127, 162

Place, Francis, 3, 21, 26–28, 35, 38, 44, 48, 54, 62, 82–83, 91, 189, 202

Autobiography, 35, 47, 83, 193, 197

Pocock's Everlasting Songster, 53, see also toasts and toasting and songs

Political Correspondence, or, Letters to a country Gentleman, 115

Political Miscellanies, 119, 125

Politician (London Corresponding Society), 7, 23, 25, 102–104, 182, 217

Politics for the People (1793–5), 24, 34, 40, 97, 103, 155, 172, 211, 224, 227, see also Eaton, Daniel Isaac

Poole, Steve, 201

Pop-gun plot, 104, 218

Pope, Alexander, 40

Portsmouth Society for Reform (Portsmouth ‘Friends of the People’), 204

Powell, [Mrs] (wife of James Powell), 43–44, 47–48, 54

Powell, James (informer), 43–44, 57–58, 105, 154, 156, 164, 210

Narcotic and Private Theatricals, The, 197

Preston, Thomas (LCS member), 21

Life and Opinions, The, 36

Price, Leah, 35

Priestley, Joseph, 115, 119, 215

Priestman, Martin, 223

print magic, 1, 8–9, 11, 29, 33–42, 85, 109, 117, 167–168, 171, 173, 182

print shops and bookshops, 20, 45, 55, 58–59, 148, 192

Debrett, John, 192

Eaton, Daniel Isaac (Cock and Swine), 10, 13–14, 200

Gurney, Martha, 200

Lee, Richard ‘Citizen’ (Chestnut Street), 166

Lee, Richard ‘Citizen’ (Tree of Liberty), 14, 148–149, 158, 160, 162, 227–228

Ridgway, James, 192

Temple Yard, 80

Prisons and imprisonment, 4, 10, 24, 45, 47, 50, 56–58, 60, 95, 98, 103–105, 132, 135, 141, 144, 153–154, 164, 181–182, 234

Edinburgh, 58

King’s Bench, 120

New Compter, 140

New York jail, 165, 230

Newgate, 58–59, 63, 66, 138–140, 142–143, 145, 165, 197–198, 224

Paris, 123

Privy Council and Councillors, 31, 52, 58, 100, 212, 226, 231

Prophetic Vision, or Daniel's Great Image, 226

Protestant Association, 31, 63, 66, 69, 155

Public Advertiser, 132–133, 222

Radcliffe, William (editor, husband of Ann Radcliffe), 189

Ramsey, William (shorthand writer), 233

Rancière, Jacques, 188

Raven, James, 35

Rawdon, Lord (Francis Rawdon Hastings), 207

Rediker, Marcus, 14, 204

Reeves, John, 10, 83–84, 88, 179, 181

Reid, William Hamilton, 4–5, 83, 143, 150, 152–153, 164, 169

‘Hum! Hum! A New Song’, 5, 189

Rise and dissolution of the infidel societies in this metropolis, 5, 223, 226

Rendall, Jane, 206

Report of a Debate on Universal Suffrage, 220

Revolution of 1688, 21, 82

Revolution Society

Abstract of the history and proceedings of the Revolution Society, An 208

anniversary dinners, 81–82

Rhees, Morgan John (Baptist minister), 167, 230

Richardson, Samuel, 147

Clarissa, 147

Richmond, Duke of (Charles Lennox), 24, 62, 90, 95, 194, 204

Richter, Henry (engraver and painter), 143

Richter, John (LCS member), 97, 99, 101, 105, 234

Ridgway, James (bookseller), 50, 87, 133, 136, 138–139, 143, 192, 194, 203, 215–216, 219, 223, 233

Rights of the Devil 162

Ritson, Joseph, 181

Robespierre, Maximilien, 15, 123, 138, 175

Robinson, George (bookseller), 125

Roe, Michael, 193, 201, 216

Rogers, Nicholas, 219, 221

Rogers, Rachel, 206–207, 210, 216

Rogers, Samuel, 4, 117, 123, 125, 127, 129, 142, 215, 217–218

Roland, Manon, 76

Rolliad, 189, 215

Romaine, William (Calvinist minister), 225

Rose, George (politician), 120

Rose, Jonathan, 35

Rous, George (MP), 117, 198

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 11–12, 134, 224

Confessions, 147

Émile, 157

Social Contract, 11, 34

Royal Proclamations, 45, 84, 171, 174

Rushton, Edward (abolitionist), 167

Russell, John, 141, 180

Russell, William, 141

Saltmarsh, John (seventeenth-century preacher)

Free Grace, 226

Sands, Robert (of Perth), 2

satire, 9, 39–40, 49–50, 63, 77, 87, 105, 113, 118–120, 122, 125–127, 132, 135, 148–149, 157, 160–162, 214

Scott, John (Attorney General), 164

Scottish Friends of the People, 95

Scottish ‘Martyrs’, 3, 21, 147, 180

Scottish Presbyterianism, 4, 15, 65–66

Scrivener, Michael, 199, 201, 235

Sedgwick, Thomas (singer and actor), 214

Seed, John, 203

Selkirk, Earl of (Dunbar Douglas), 72

Sennet, Richard, 190

September Massacres, 121, 137

Seward, William, 198

Sharp, William (engraver), 100

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 23, 48, 114, 117, 124, 131, 137, 161–162, 174, 215, 229, 232–233

Shield, William (musician), 115

Siddons, Sarah, 114

Sidney, Algernon, 13, 34, 141, 180

Sinclair, Charles (SCI member), 59, 96, 124

Siskin, Clifford, 190–191

Skirving, William, 95–96

trial, see trials

Smith, John (LCS bookseller), 30, 97–98, 102–105, 154, 200, 212

Smith, Martin John, 215, 217, 221

Society for Constitutional Information (SCI), 3, 5, 7–9, 11, 13, 22–25, 31, 40, 43, 48, 51–52, 72–77, 84, 90, 96, 100, 105, 119–121, 125, 173, 182, 209, 216

anniversary dinner (May 1794), 26–27, 51–52

Society for Moral and Political Knowledge, 5

Society of the Friends of the People, 72, 74–75, 87, 90, 121, 137, 173, 217, 220

Proceedings of the Society of the Friends of the People, 216

Solomonescu, Yasmin, 201, 232, 235

songs, 3, 5, 8, 10, 12, 26, 28, 31, 34, 52–53, 78–84, 102, 118, 168, 176, 189, 199, 231

Songster’s Companion, 214, see also songs

The Spectator, 192, see also Addison, Joseph

Speech at the Whig Club, A, 49–50, see also Fox, Charles James

Spence, Thomas, 25, 81, 89, 103, 105, 157, 200, 208, 218

‘Examples of Safe Printing’, 41–42

land plan, 25, 89

trial, see trials

Spenser, Edmund

Faerie Queene, The, 42

spies and surveillance, 26, 28–29, 43–46, 49, 54, 57, 78, 84, 101, 123, 142, 165, 178, 183, 197

St Clair, William, 190

St John, Andrew (friend of Charles James Fox), 198

Stanhope, Earl (Charles Stanhope), 36–38, 40, 101

Steedman, Carolyn, 188

Stephens, Alexander (biographer), 119, 192, 215

Sterne, Lawrence, 116, 172

Steven [Stevens], James (minister), 65, 67–68, 150, 154, 203

Stevenson, John (trial witness), 203

Stewart, Dugald (philosopher), 205

Stockport Friends of Universal Peace and the Rights of Man, 90

Sturt, Charles (MP), 162–164, 225

Suarez, Michael, 190

‘Such Things Are’ (Moral and Political Magazine), 197

Sun, 50

Swift, Jonathan, 40

Symonds, H. D. (bookseller), 87, 122, 138–139, 154, 194, 197, 203, 221, 223, 233

Symonds, Thomas, 52

Tasso, 156

taverns and alehouses, 3, 12, 43–47, 49, 53, 55–57, 64, 76, 85

The Bell, 8

The Cock and Crown, 45

The Crown and Anchor, 26, 50, 51–52, 117

The King's Arms, Cornhill, 56

Taylor, [Mrs], 200

Taylor, George, 116

Taylor, John (bigamist and spy), 99, 178–179, 199, 211, 213, 228, 231, 233

Taylor, John, (journalist and oculist), 115, 117, 127

Records of My Life, 213, 218

The Telegraph, 7, 115, 127–128, 218

Admirable Satire on the Death … of Mr Pitt, 160–161

Terry, Garnett (bookseller), 153

Test and Corporation Acts, 31, 67, 151

Tewkesbury Society, 2, 8, 92–93, 95

Thale, Mary, 55, 199

theatre and theatres, 9, 13, 45, 57, 113, 116, 118, 168–169, 180, 185, 192, 218

Covent Garden, 115, 118–119, 178, 199, 206

Drury Lane, 206

Haymarket, 231

Opera House, 114

Royal Theatre, Haymarket, 179–180

Thelwall, Cecile

Life of John Thelwall, 53, 169, 171–173

Thelwall, John, 1–2, 4–5, 8, 10–11, 14, 20–21, 23–24, 27–28, 36–39, 43–44, 47, 53–57, 59, 61–63, 71, 73–74, 82–83, 86–88, 92, 97–99, 101, 104–106, 109, 142, 147, 150, 152, 156, 167–187, 189, 191, 197, 200–201, 205, 210, 212, 214, 218, 226

lectures, 39, 54, 141, 174–188, 228, 231

Essay on Animal Vitality, 172, 180

King Chanticlere, 40–41, 172, 180

On Prosecutions for Pretended Treason, 211

On the moral tendency of a system of spies and informers, 175, 180, 183

Sketches of the history of prosecutions for political opinion, 37–38, 184, 233

trial, see trials

writings

Biographical and Imperial Magazine, see Biographical and Imperial Magazine

Daughter of Adoption, 62, 211, 235

Incas, 169

Incle and Yarico, 169, 199

Mr Thelwall’s Letter to Francis Jeffray, 235

Mr Thelwall’s reply to the calumnies, 235

Natural and Constitutional Right, 105, 181–182, 186, 209, 232

Ode to science, 231

Orlando and Almeyda, 231

Peripatetic, 56, 172, 174, 180, 184

Poems Chiefly Written in Retirement, 186–187, 201

Poems on Various Subjects, 169

Poems Written in Close Confinement, 182–184

Rights of Nature, 38, 171, 186–187

Sober Reflections, 235

The Tribune, see The Tribune

Thelwall, Susan, 10, 53–59, 174, 183, 231, 234

Thompson, E. P., 3, 12, 20, 62, 150, 188, 235

Thompson, Josiah (minister), 67

Thompson, Judith, 187, 201, 231, 235

Thomson [Thompson], George (music collector), 3

Thomson, James, 156–157

Thomson [Thompson], Robert (LCS songwriter), 3, 5, 78–84, 87, 122, 201

Burke's Address to the Swinish Multitude, 81

God Save the Rights of Man, 78–81, 89

Tribute to Liberty, 10, 53, 79–82, 193, 207

Thomson [Thompson], Sarah, 58

The Times, 56, 116, 118, 144–145, 179, 198, 214, 223–224, 229

Toast Master, 52–53, see also Toasts and toasting

toasts and toasting, 3, 8, 10, 12, 26–27, 49–50, 52–53, 78, 82–83, 140, 210

Tomahawk, 214

Tooke, John Horne, 233

Topham, Edward (editor), 114–115, 206

Towers, Joseph (Dissenting minister), 103

Townly, William (editor), 104

treason, 1, 9, 21, 31, 65, 69, 88, 101–102, 108, 160–161, 164, 176, 181–182, see also trials

Treasury Solicitor, 43, 58, 68, 84, 138, 150, 153, 178, 204

trials, 23, 43, 78, 89, 102, 141, 200

Belcher, James, 221

Eaton, Daniel Isaac, 13, 37, 40–41, 89, 224, 232

Frost, John, 49, 141

Gerrald, Joseph, 96–97

Gordon, Lord George, 90

Hardy, Thomas, 65, 90–91, 155, 203–204, 206, 226, 233

Lee, Richard ‘Citizen’, 225

Margarot, Maurice, 96

Paine, Thomas, 40, 49, 84–86

Perry, Sampson, 120–121, 209, 215

Skirving, William, 96

Spence, Thomas, 40

Thelwall, John, 23, 104, 158, 176, 180, 182, 212, 233

treason trials (1794), 4, 21–23, 43, 52–53, 58, 61, 82, 88, 92, 98–99, 102–105, 124–125, 129, 154, 160, 173, 178, 180, 194, 226

Yorke, Henry ‘Redhead’, 191

The Tribune (1795–6), 184, 188, 196, 211, 232, 234–235

True Briton, 193, 213, 217, 229

True Copy of an Extraordinary Indictment dropped by an Attorney General, 60

Turner, Daniel (Baptist minister), 67

Turner, David (president of Westminster Forum), 47

Short History of the Westminster Forum, A, 197, 202

Two Acts (1795), 1–2, 5, 12, 16, 20, 22, 38–39, 45, 108, 129, 141, 149, 161–162, 168, 184, 187

Twomey, Richard J., 230

United Friends of Religious and Civil Liberty, 107, 225, 229

United Societies, Norwich, 90

University of Cambridge, 142

Trinity Hall, 132

University of Edinburgh, 205

Upton, Thomas (informer), 102

Vaughan, Felix (attorney), 103

Vellum, Jack (brother of Susan Thelwall), 232

Vincent, David, 196, 208

Volney, 107

Ruins of Empire, 164, 166, 230

Wagner, Corinna, 54

Wahrman, Dror, 189

Wakefield, Gilbert, 223

Spirit of Christianity, 231

Walne, George (LCS member, Thomas Hardy's brother-in-law), 23, 30, 32, 67, 94, 201

Divine Warrants … of the Fellowship Society, 66–67, see also Fellowship Society

Walpole, Horace, 115

Walsh, James (Bow Street Officer), 55

Walvin, James, 191, 194, 204

Warner, Michael, 13, 34–35, 39, 70, 190, 195–196

Warner, William, 8, 190–191

Warning to judges, 105

Washington, George, 230

Watson, Robert (LCS member and Lord George Gordon's secretary), 147, 202

Life of … Gordon 202, 224

Watts, Isaac (Independent minister), 170

Weinstein, Benjamin, 204

Wells, Becky (actress), 114

Werkmeister, Lucyle, 119, 200, 209, 218

Wharton, John (MP), 52

What Makes a Libel? A Fable, 41, see also Eaton, Daniel Isaac

Wheeler, James

Rose of, The Sharon: A Poem, 151

Whelan, Tim, 200, 225

Whig Club, 49–50, 52, 56, see also Speech at the Whig Club

Whim of the day, 214, see also songs

White’s Hotel, 121, see also British Club

Whitehall Evening Post, 223

Whole proceedings on the King’s commission, 222

Whyman, Susan, 196

Wilberforce, William, 68

Wilde, John (professor), 135–136, 138

Wilkes agitation (1760s), 21, 32

Williams, ‘Citizen’ (engraver), 102

Williams, David (political theorist), 11, 75–78, 95, 115, 117, 192, 213

Lessons to a young prince, 77

Letters on political liberty, 207

Observations sur la dernière constitution de France, 77

Royal Recollections of a Tour to Cheltenham, 207

Williams, Helen Maria, 44, 213

Williams, John, 216

Wilson, Kathleen, 193

Wilson, Walter, 203

History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches, 67

Winterbotham, William (Baptist minister), 66, 194

Historical … view of the Chinese Empire 194, 203

Selection of Poems and Moral Sacred, A, 214

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 124, 213

Rights of Woman, 60, 161

Woolley, Joseph (stocking-maker and autobiographer), 188

Wordsworth, William, 62, 186–187

‘Salisbury Plain’, 127

World (news paper), 51, 76, 113, 115, 117, 119, 123, 208

Worrall, David, 116, 194, 197, 215, 218

Worship, William (LCS member and engraver), 102

Yateman, Matthew (apothecary), 48

York, Duke of (Prince Frederick), 137, 143–144

Yorke, Henry ‘Redhead’, 15, 191

Thoughts on Civil Government, 29

Young, Edward, 156–157

Young, Philip, 223

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