ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a work which was published on 14 June 1798 and represents the last printed pamphlet of the Society. The London Corresponding Society (LCS) originally intended publishing this text before May 1798 when the Maidstone treason trials were staged. The Address asserts the legality of the Society’s activities and the reform focus of its agenda as well as explicitly disassociating the LCS from James O’Coigley, the United Irishman who was convicted of treason and executed on 7 June 1798 at the age of thirty-six. The document is signed by John Simpson, as president of the LCS, and George Pickard, as secretary of the Society, but no details of its authorship or publication are known.
