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Introduction. Editorial Principles. Acknowledgements. Inventory ofManuscripts. Abbreviations. RICHARD PRICE (1723-91) from A Discourse onthe Love of our Country 1789) On Representation Prospects for Reform.THOMAS WARTON (1728-90) from Poems (1777) Sonnet IX. To the RiverLodon. EDMUND BURKE (1729-97) from A Philosophical Enquiry into theOrigins of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) On Obscurityfrom Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) On EnglishnessSociety as a Contract. WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800) from The Task (1785)Crazy Kate (Book I) On Slavery (Book II) The Winter Evening (Book IV)from Works , ed. Robert Southey (15 vols., 1835-7) Sweet Meat has SourSauce, or The Slave-Trader in the Dumps. THOMAS PAINE (1737-1809) fromCommon Sense (1776) Of the Origin and Design of Government in Generalfrom The Rights of Man , Part I (1791) Freedom of Posterity OnRevolution from The Rights of Man , Part II (1792) Republicanism. ANNASEWARD (1742-1809) from Sonnets (1799) Sonnet VII. MARY ALCOCK(c.1742-98) from Poems (1799) Instructions, Supposed to be Written inParis, for the Mob in England. ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD (1743-1825) fromPoems (1773) A Summer Evening's Meditation from Poems (1792) Epistle toWilliam Wilberforce, Esq., on the Refection of the Bill for Abolishingthe Slave Trade from Works (1825) The Rights of Woman from MonthlyMagazine , 7 (1799) To Mr Coleridge. HANNAH MORE (1745-1833) fromSacred Dramas (1782) Sensibility: A Poetical Epistle to the Hon. Mrs.Boscawen (extract) The Sorrows of Yamba, or the Negro Woman'sLamentation (c.1795) (published by Hannah More as a Cheap Repositorybroadside, but not written by her). CHARLOTTE SMITH (1749-1806) fromElegiac Sonnets (1784) Sonnet V. To the South Downs from ElegiacSonnets (1786) Sonnet XXXII. To Melancholy. Written on the Banks of theArun, October 1785.