Verlooy’s "Projet raisonné d’union des Provinces Belgiques" had been published on 21 January 1790. The pamphlet was instantly seized by order of the Counsellor-General Prosecutor of Brabant. Verlooy was pleading for a kind of suffrage, based on ownership of property or tax assessment but which excluded few citizens of the right to vote, while allowing separated elections for the nobility and for the clergy. He also stated precisely that the deputies of the social classes would sit together in the "Grand Conseil National". Verlooy became Vice President of the "Société Patriotique", founded to take the lead for democratic action, and signed immediately after Vonck, the famous "Adresse" from 15 March 1790 requesting better representation of the population in the States. This "Adresse" would force him to run away and leave Brussels for Namur in the footsteps of Vonck, and afterwards to seek temporary shelter in Givet, Rijsel and Dowaai where he tried to reconcile the two main factions of the Brabant Revolution: the rather conservative Statists and the rather liberal Vonckists. He also brought together the exiled democrats in a new secret society: "Pro Patria".