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Extract from Second Report From The Committee of Secrecy

9 Near the same Time, Principles of a similar Nature [to those of the United Britons MIA] were studiously promulgated by a Society of another Description, and disguised by Pretexts of a different Nature. It was proposed to meet in convivial Parties, as described by themselves, “after a free and easy Manner, and without encumbering themselves with Rules, to converse on the Subject recommended to them, to provoke Investigation, and answer Objections”. The Topics they proposed for Discussion, and recommended for Adoption, were stated to be contained in a Pamphlet published by one Spence from whom that Society had assumed the Title of Spensonians. This Recommendation, as well as several Extracts from the Work itself, will be found in the Appendix, from which it will appear that the principal Object of the Writer is to recommend the complete Extermination of Royalty, Nobility, and Property, for the Purpose of an equal Parochial Division of the Profits of Lands, as the Basis of a “beautiful and powerful new Republic.” That this was to be effected by a general Insurrection of the People, for which the Revolutionary Outrages in France, and the Mutiny in our own Fleet, were held out as laudable Examples.