ABSTRACT
Charles Grey presented a plan of electoral reform to parliament that included a limited extension of the right to vote, minor redistributions and a common election day. The plan was debated and ultimately defeated in parliament on 23 May 1797. One month later the London Corresponding Society (LCS) Executive Committee published their Thoughts on Mr, Grey’s plan of reform in which the Society outlined their objections to Grey’s ‘unjust and useless’ limited reform ideas. With the unprofitable production of The Moral and Political Magazine of the London Corresponding Society ceasing with the June 1797 issue, the LCS resumed a restricted programme of short pamphlet publications of which the text was one of the last issued by the Society. The LCS, ever folicitous to promote the great cause of Reform, on the broad basis of universal suffrage and equal representation, think it their duty at the present important crisis to address the numerous societies united with them.
