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" Friends of the People, associated for the purpose of obtaining a Reform in Parliament. "
The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26 - Page 185
1824
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Public Characters

1799 - 614 pages
...that can keep the millions in subjection to a few lords in ermine. On the formation of the Society of the Friends- of the People, associated for the purpose of obtaining a parliamentary reform, which also happened in 1792, Major C. became a member; and that he was not either...
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The Pamphleteer

Abraham John Valpy - 1813 - 600 pages
...supported in .it by several members, who were usually hostile to his administration. At a general meeting of the FRIENDS OF THE PEOPLE, associated for the purpose of obtaining a parliamentary reform, April 26th, after approving of and adopting unanimously, an address to the people...
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The Representative History of Great Britain and Ireland: Being a History of ...

Thomas Hinton Burley Oldfield - 1816 - 418 pages
...Earl of Oxford has declined. •i . OF THE HEPRESENTATION Of SCOTLAND. THE Report of the Committee of the Friends of the People, associated for the purpose of obtaining a reform of Parliament, contains such a correct and simple statement of the origin and present state of the...
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Speeches of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: (Several ...

Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1816 - 452 pages
...201 h April, 1792. At a General Meeting of the Society established on the llth iust, under the title of THE FRIENDS OF THE PEOPLE, associated for the purpose of obtaining a Parliamentary Reform, William Henry Lanibton, Esq. in the Chair, .Received a report from the committee...
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The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year ...

William Cobbett - 1817 - 800 pages
...in Parliament^ Mr. Grey then presented the following Petition, signed by the members of the society of The Friends of the People, associated for the purpose of obtaining a Parliamentary Reform: To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain, in Parliament assembled. The...
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Plan of Parliamentary Reform, in the Form of a Catechism, with Reasons for ...

Jeremy Bentham - 1817 - 438 pages
...supported in it by several members, who were usually hostile to his administration.* * At a general meeting of the FRIENDS OF THE PEOPLE, associated for the purpose of obtaining a parliamentary reform, April 26th, after approving of and adopting unanimously, an address to the people...
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Annual Register, Volume 35

Edmund Burke - 1821 - 758 pages
...Freemason's Tavern, Saturday, May 25, 1793. AT an extraordinary and numerous Meeting of the Society of the Friends of the People, associated for the purpose of obtaining a Parliamentary Reform, held this day, EB CLIVE, esq. in the chair, Resolved, That the following address...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 21

Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 580 pages
...petitioners, with singular clearness and force, and expressed in admirable language. It was presented by a Noble Person, now one of the chief lights of...propositions are laid down as the basis of a reform, \\lucb, to my recollection, have never yet been disclaimed, either on the part of the petitioners,...
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, Volume 15

Walter Scott - 1824 - 938 pages
...the most advised and authentic exposition of the principles of Parliamentary reform, that ever has been submitted to the consideration of this House...a Reform in Parliament." In that petition, certain dietine! propositions are laid down as the basis of a reform, which, to my recollection, have never...
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The Life and Correspondence of Major Cartwright, Volume 2

John Cartwright - 1826 - 462 pages
...hazarded without a foresight of consequences. No. VII. Vol. I., page 191. REGULATIONS of the Society of THE FRIENDS OF THE PEOPLE, associated for the Purpose of obtaining a Parliamentary Reform. I. Resolved, That the title of this society be, " THE FRIENDS OF THE PEOPLE,...
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