London Corresponding Society alarm'd, cartoon
TitleLondon Corresponding Society alarm'd, cartoon
ReferenceFRAMED/058
Date
20 Apr 1798
Production date 1798-04-20 - 1798-04-20
Scope and ContentFull title: London Corresponding Society alarm'd or guilty conscience
From Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum: vol 7
"Published April 20th 1798. by H. Humphrey 27 St, Jameses Street, Aquatint (coloured and uncoloured impressions).
Six brutal-looking men, much caricatured, sit round a table in a cellar, listening with apprehensive intentness to their chairman, who reads a paper: "State Arrests—O'Conner Binns Evans Quigley". He sits in an arm-chair, a grotesque ragged creature with sleeves rolled up ; in his r. hand is a candle taken from a candle-stick on the table. Beside him is a tankard inscribed: "Tom Treason Hell-Fire Celler Chick Lane". Against his chair leans an open book: "Proceedings of the London Corresponding Society Ts Firebrand Secretary- Delegates- Forging Sam Barber Joe Dick Butcher Dissenting Nick Sheepshead Will Cut down Lary". These names belong to the persons depicted: a barber sits on an upturned tub on the chairman's l., a comb in his ragged hair, a pair of tongs leaning against the tattered hat which lies beside him. Next (l.) is a butcher, his steel hanging from his waist. All are grotesque denizens of the underworld. Two prints are on the brick wall, bust portraits of Horne Tooke and Tom Payne. Through an open door (r.) is seen a flight of stairs, steeply ascending.
The arrest of O'Connor, John Binns, O'Coigley (or Quigley), and two others at Margate, 28 Feb., led to arrests of members of the Corresponding Society in Manchester and London. Thomas Evans was arrested after Bow Street officers had surprised a meeting in a public house in Clerkenwell on the night of 18 Apr. This was a meeting of the United Englishmen which Benjamin Binns and Evans, secretary of the London Corresponding Society, had been attempting to form, bent on revolution with the help of France. On the following day the Committee of the Corresponding Society (in which, according to Place, only the refuse, with a few exceptions, remained) was arrested. On 30 Jan. 1798 an address to United Irishmen was passed by the Committee. The Society ceased to meet, and on 12 July 1799 was suppressed by name in an Act (29 George III, c. 79) against seditious and treasonable societies."
From Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum: vol 7
"Published April 20th 1798. by H. Humphrey 27 St, Jameses Street, Aquatint (coloured and uncoloured impressions).
Six brutal-looking men, much caricatured, sit round a table in a cellar, listening with apprehensive intentness to their chairman, who reads a paper: "State Arrests—O'Conner Binns Evans Quigley". He sits in an arm-chair, a grotesque ragged creature with sleeves rolled up ; in his r. hand is a candle taken from a candle-stick on the table. Beside him is a tankard inscribed: "Tom Treason Hell-Fire Celler Chick Lane". Against his chair leans an open book: "Proceedings of the London Corresponding Society Ts Firebrand Secretary- Delegates- Forging Sam Barber Joe Dick Butcher Dissenting Nick Sheepshead Will Cut down Lary". These names belong to the persons depicted: a barber sits on an upturned tub on the chairman's l., a comb in his ragged hair, a pair of tongs leaning against the tattered hat which lies beside him. Next (l.) is a butcher, his steel hanging from his waist. All are grotesque denizens of the underworld. Two prints are on the brick wall, bust portraits of Horne Tooke and Tom Payne. Through an open door (r.) is seen a flight of stairs, steeply ascending.
The arrest of O'Connor, John Binns, O'Coigley (or Quigley), and two others at Margate, 28 Feb., led to arrests of members of the Corresponding Society in Manchester and London. Thomas Evans was arrested after Bow Street officers had surprised a meeting in a public house in Clerkenwell on the night of 18 Apr. This was a meeting of the United Englishmen which Benjamin Binns and Evans, secretary of the London Corresponding Society, had been attempting to form, bent on revolution with the help of France. On the following day the Committee of the Corresponding Society (in which, according to Place, only the refuse, with a few exceptions, remained) was arrested. On 30 Jan. 1798 an address to United Irishmen was passed by the Committee. The Society ceased to meet, and on 12 July 1799 was suppressed by name in an Act (29 George III, c. 79) against seditious and treasonable societies."
Extent1 framed item
Physical descriptionDimensions (H X W): 33cm X 26cm
Persons keywordGillray, James, London Corresponding Society, Tooke, John Horne, Paine, Thomas
SubjectCartoons, Sedition, Parliamentary reform
Conditions governing accessOpen
Levelfile
Normal locationD Plan Chest Drawer 4 (Room 12)