ABSTRACT
Early 1796 was a tumultuous time for the London Corresponding Society (LCS). Four of its members were indicted for the so-called pop-gun plot to kill George III, and in the wake of the repressive the Two Acts, which adversely affected membership numbers, the Society was forced to nervously readjust its activities and organisation. Provincial reform groups also laboured under the new legislation and it was for the purpose of reassuring their country counterparts that the LCS published this address. Distributed to those reform societies in correspondence with the LCS, it outlines how the Society had reorganised its structure to comply with the provisions of the Two Acts: Tut do not think, Citizens, that because they obey laws that are not inconsistent with the peaceable pursuit of their object, they relax in their zeal Society invite citizens to pursue their common cause in the same spirit’.
