One pennyworth of pig's meat or, Lessons for the swinish multitude. Collected by the poor man's advocate, in the course of his reading for more than twenty years. Intended to promote among the labouring part of mankind proper ideas of their situation, of their importance, and of their rights And to convince them that their forlorn condition has not been entirely overlooked and forgotten, nor their just cause unpleaded, neither by their maker not by the best and most enlightened of men in all ages
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Notes
Available online at various locations. See Google books, Gale and https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/004910016.0001.002?view=toc. Contains radical translations, as well as long fragments from Harrington republican writings, Barlow' Advice to the privileged orders and Cato's letters by Trenchard and Gordon. Pig's Meat was the reason for Spence's imprisonment in Newgate in 1794. Price one pence per issue.