ABSTRACT
The chapter explains an explicit Declaration of the Principles and Views of the London Corresponding Society (LCS). To the parliament and people of Great Britain was issued at a time when the LCS led a national campaign against the Treasonable Practices and Seditious Meetings bills, which the government introduced as a means of repressing the reform movement. With the government justifying the introduction of this legislation on the grounds that the LCS and its leading protagonists were encouraging and arousing subversive behavior among the people, the Society issued this declaration on 23 November 1795 as a public rejoinder to the accusations. The LCS feels the aweful importance of the situation in which their own efforts in behalf of liberty, and the arbitrary measures of an encroaching administration have conspired to place them. The LCS feels also that the affairs of this long harassed and distracted, nation have arrived at a most momentous crisis.
