ABSTRACT
The constitution and regulations of the LCS also remained an item of discussion among members, causing 'the dissentions that have so long continued to distract those Patriots who are associated for the salutary purpose of a Reform in Parliament'. Personal antagonisms and differing agendas within the LCS led to Division 12 seceding in March 1795 to form the London Reforming Society and the following month saw the formation of the Friends of Liberty on 6 April 1795 comprising members of Division 16. On 20 July 1795, the Friends of Liberty requested 'the privilege of being allowed to conjoin their exertions with The London Corresponding Society to procure so salutary & indispensible an object' as a reform in parliament. According to the LCS it was 'on the correlative exertions of each other' that the group existed and functioned.
