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London – Piccadilly, London Corresponding Soc. Halfpenny 1795, Fable of the bundle of sticks, rev. dove flying left with olive sprig, edge diagonally milled, 29.5mm/10.43gm. (DH 286). Good Extremely Fine with full blazing mint lustre, uncommon.
The Corresponding Society, set up in January 1792, agitated for 'democratic reform' of the British Parliament. It drew largely upon artisans, tradesmen, and shopkeepers and was itself organised on a formal democratic basis. Prime‑minister Pitt saw it as an instrument of French revolutionary subversion and clamped down on it charging leading members of the group with sedition and even complicity in plots to assassinate the King. Measures against the society intensified in the wake of the naval mutinies of 1797, the Irish Rebellion 1798 and a growing
public unease and dissatisfaction with the continuation of the war with France.
The Corresponding Society, set up in January 1792, agitated for 'democratic reform' of the British Parliament. It drew largely upon artisans, tradesmen, and shopkeepers and was itself organised on a formal democratic basis. Prime‑minister Pitt saw it as an instrument of French revolutionary subversion and clamped down on it charging leading members of the group with sedition and even complicity in plots to assassinate the King. Measures against the society intensified in the wake of the naval mutinies of 1797, the Irish Rebellion 1798 and a growing
public unease and dissatisfaction with the continuation of the war with France.