The Gulf of Ruin, or a Quick Reform. Which Will You Chuse?
The Gulf of Ruin, or a Quick Reform. Which Will You Chuse?
Anon
Printed for the author (London Corresponding Society), 1795
[The Expansion of Universal Suffrage in Great Britain] 16 pages. Rare radical pamphlet arguing for a reform of the House of Commons, with universal (manhood) suffrage and annual Parliaments. A proposal of political reform in line with the writings of Charles Lennox (the Duke of Richmond) and Thomas Paine. The pamphlet ends with a radical appeal for reform, "There is no hope but from the people's legal exertion, except in the event of a civil war, if they should be driven to it, which is too dreadful to think on. Reform or revolution." The influence of the French Revolution on Britain. ESTC T35925.