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to convince them that civil distinc- 
tions, founded on religious differ- 
ences, are the real sources of the dis- 
turbances which have so frequently 
arisen from contending sects in the 
same community; and we flatter 
ourselves that Britain, which form- 
erly took the lead in religious to- 
leration, wil] not be the Jast nation 
in the world to acknowledge the 
just claims of religious liberty; but 
that the day will arrive much sooner 
than those imagine, who reflect not 
on the present aspect and tend- 
encies of human affairs, when the 
good sense of our country will ad- 
mit us to that equal rank for which 
we contend, and when all shall cor- 
dially concur to efface the stain 
which the late outrages have fixed 
on our national character. 
«¢ Signed by the unanimous order 
of the meeting, 
Epwarp JEFFRIES, Chairman.” 
King’s Head, Poultry, London, Feb. 1. 
Address from the London Corres- 
ponding Society, and from other 
Societies in England, to the Na- 
‘tional Convention. 
ADDRESS TO THE FRENCH 
NATIONAL CONVENTION. 
From the following Societies of Bri- 
tons, united in onecommon Cause ; 
namely, the obtaining a fair, equal, 
and impartial Representation in 
Parliament: : 
Manchester Constitutional Society, 
Tuo. WALKER, Pres. 
Sam, Jackson, Sec. 
Manchester Reformation Society, 
JoHn Stacey, Sec. 
‘Norwich Revolution Society, 
Tuo. Gorr, Pres. 
Joun Cozens, Sec. 
APPENDIX TO 
London Constitutional Whigs, 
Independent and Friends of the 
People, 
Gero. Putter, Chairman. 
JAMES Bry, Sec. 
fh REO El by our united 
brethren above named, we the 
London Corresponding Society, for 
them as well as for ourselves, thus 
address you: 
7 
FRENCHMEN, 
While foreign robbers are rayag- 
ing your territories under the spe- 
cious pretext of justice, cruelty and 
devastation lead on their van, while 
perfidy with treachery bring up their 
rear; yet mercy and friendship are 
impudently held forth to the world 
as the sole motives of their incur- 
sions; the oppressed part of man- 
kind, forgetting for a while their 
own sufferings, feel only for yours, 
and with an anxious eye watch the 
ultimate event, fervently supplicat- 
ing.the Supreme Ruler of the uni- 
verse to be favourable to your cause, 
so intimately blended with their own. 
Frowned upon by an oppressive sys- | 
tem of controul, whose gradual but 
continued encroachments have de- 
prived this nation of nearly all its 
boasted liberty, and brought us al- 
most to that abject state of slavery 
from which you have so gloriously 
emerged, a few thousands of British 
citizens, indignant, manfully ‘step 
forth to rescue their country from 
the opprobrium brought upon it 
by the supine conduct of those in 
power: they conceive it to be the 
duty of Britons to countenance 
and to assist to the utmost of their 
power, the champions of human 
happiness, and to swear to a nation 
proceeding on the plan which you 
have adopted, an inviolable friend- 
ship.—Sacred from this day be 
that 
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