Part joke, part wishful thinking, Spence identifies the British Jacobins and their French counterparts as supporters of a partial, purely political Rights of Man, and presents his own Plan as a complementary solution to the social and economic needs of France and the world.
The two appended poems are by Peter Pindar, pseudonym of John Wolcot (1738 - 1819), doctor and satirical poet. Peter Pindar's Collected Works were printed in five volumes in his own lifetime; these have minor differences in punctuation and occasionally phrasing with the versions of the poems published by Spence.
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- A Fragment of an ancient Prophecy
- Resignation; an Ode to the Journeyman Shoemakers, by Peter Pindar
- Ode to Burke, by Peter Pindar