The Cabinet. By a Society of Gentlemen
Contributions
- Amelia Opie (née Alderson)
- author
- Anonymous (242)
- translator
- author
- Y. (John Pitchford)
- translator
- author
- William Taylor
- translator
- author
- I.L.
- translator
- Z. (Thomas Starling Norgate)
- translator
- Alcanor (William Youngman)
- translator
- A Society of Gentlemen
- editor
- J. March (Charles Marsh)
- publisher
- Jeremiah Samuel Jordan
- bookseller
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- Decree on the rising in a mass translation
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- Essay on the happiness of the Romans (from the Italian of Il Caffé) translation
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- Love and patriotism translation
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- On education. Translated from the French of Helvetius translation has paratext
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- On the causes that have hitherto retarded the progress of morality translation
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- Partition treaty between the courts in concert, concluded and signed at Pavia, in July, 1791 translation
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- Sketch on the life and character of Machiavel. Section IV translation has paratext
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- Sketch on the life and character of Machiavel. Section V translation
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- Sketch on the life and character of Machiavel. Section VI translation
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- The Temple of Ignorance (Translated from Il Caffé) translation
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- What government is best adapted to the research of truth. Translated from Brissot translation
Summary (extracted citations)
From the Preface by T.S. Norgate: "No work in the English language, perhaps, ever appeared to the world under circumstances more inauspicious and depressing than the Cabinet... the giant arm of a ferocious and unrelenting despotism threatened destruction to the defenders of liberty and truth".
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Notes
Url is to the last of three volumes.
Fortnightly literary and political journal printed in Norwich by Charles Marsh (J. March), and also sold in London by J.S. Jordan. The front page depicted a pike of liberty with Phrygian cap and the motto 'Libertas'.
This innovative venture attempted to sustain a reform culture. It published not only political articles, discussing constitutional change (one author advocated votes for women) but also poems and general essays. It was an ambitious project to launch in a city of 37,000 inhabitants. The successful Whig journal, the Edinburgh Review, founded in 1802, was published quarterly within the much larger Scottish capital with a population of 82,000. It voluntarily ended in 1795, during a time of political clamp-down. A weekly reform-supporting newspaper, The Iris, which was edited by one of the Cabinet's main contributors, William Taylor, followed in 1802, but did not last long.
Penelope Corfield and Walter Graham have identified a number of its contributors, including: William Taylor (G?), John Taylor (Clio & H.D.?), Charles Marsh (X), Amelia Alderson (later Opie) (N), Olaudah Equiano (Othello?), Mary Wollstonecraft (L.R.?), William Youngman (Alcanor), John Pitchford (Y), P. Meadows Taylor (P.S.R.), William Dalrymple (O.O.O.), Thomas Starling Northgate (Z), Henry Crabb Robinson (H.C.R.), Anne Plumptre (A.C., A.B.?), Dr Edward Rigby (W), William Pattison (Rusticus), Thomas Drummond (G?) and William Enfield (Homo). Also Sir William Jones and possibly, Mary Hays. The following contributors remain unidentified: I.L., Philolethes, A, P.P.A., Civis, D., P.E., C.G., H, Honorius, ONEIR, Gwilym Dyfed, C, O.S., S.S., and U.S.
The political contributions were mainly by Charles Marsh, who doubled up as its printer and later became the MP for East Retford, John Pitchford, Dr William Enfield, James Stuart Taylor and William Youngman.
See Penelope J. Corfield, "The case of The Cabinet: did Mary Wollstonecraft join the Norwich radicals?", in The Times Literary Supplement (1997, Issue 4903).
Walter Graham, "The Authorship of the Norwich Cabinet 1794-5", in Notes and Queries vol.162 (1932), pp.294-95.
Charles Boardman Jewson, 'Jacobin City. A Portrait of Norwich in its Reaction to the French Revolution, 1788–1802' (1975).
Albert Goodwin, 'The Friends of Liberty', pp.375-79.
Gina Luria Walker, 'The idea of being free: a Mary Hays reader', p.215.
https://biblio.co.uk/book/cabinet-society-gentlemen-society-gentlemen/d/1276599525.