ABSTRACT
Reform permitted altogether new social layers and new Radical viewpoints to find expression. Dundee celebrated the election of Kinloch, one of the Scottish Radicals who had been put under the ban of the law in 1819, and Cork City that of Dr. Baldwin, the medical Radical Repealer who added to his other interests one in the Cork Mercantile Chronicle. Sheffield returned in James Silk Buckingham one of the most unusual men in the first Reformed Parliament. Successively sailor, printer, bookseller, merchant captain, and Oriental trader, he had passed on to issue a Calcutta newspaper whose bold attacks on East India officialdom had led to his expulsion. The “organic reform” which Conservatives, whether of Whig or Tory complexion, most feared was the liberation of the voter from the “legitimate influence” of property by means of the Ballot.
