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.

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