A Proposal for Putting Reform to the Vote Throughout the Kingdom
A Proposal for Putting Reform to the Vote Throughout the Kingdom
Shelley Percy Bysshe
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Jones Burdett^ brought word from the London Hampden Club that he and Major Cartwright were deputed by that Club to lay before ^ See Shelley's list in Appendix. F 1 8 INTRODUCTION. the Reform Delegates assembled at the meeting the heads of a bill to be submitted to Parliament. The material principles recognized by this bill were (i) household suffrage, (2) division of counties and cities into electoral districts, each returning one member, according to population, and (3) annual elections. Major... Cartwright said that, though in favour of universal suffrage, he must admit that many " sound reformists entertained other opinions on the ground of practicability. " Cobbett spoke most con- temptuously of the Club, but excepted from his de- nunciation Sir Francis Burdett, Mr. Jones Burdett, Major Cartwright, and "that sound patriot Mr. Hallet of Berks. " ^ Henry Hunt, while endorsing Cobbett's contemptuous view of the Club, managed to carry, against him, a resolution in favour of "representation co-existent with taxation.
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