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cure to you the advantages which 
the former had taught you to ex- 
pect; and we anticipate with plea- 
sure the moment at which you shall 
have finished your labours, and es- 
tablished a wise and equitable go- 
vernment, which must be the admi- 
ration of the friends of man, and 
‘the cause of terror and despair to 
tyrants.—Representatives of a peo- 
ple, we now honour the memory 
of our brave ancestors, who resisted 
the tyranny of Charles I.; and we 
celebrate the revolution which drove 
away his son. We cannot doubt 
the right which belongs to all na- 
tionsto resist oppression, and to give 
themselves such a form of govern- 
ment as their own wisdom may 
suggest. This right, acknowledged 
in theory, by all the defenders of 
liberty, formed the ground work of 
the revolution which we celebrate ; 
and we feel a tender joy in behold- 
ing this right of insurrection suc- 
cessfully exercised in so large a 
country as that of the French repub- 
lic. We ardently desire, that thetwo 
nations, united by nature, but di- 
vided for ages by the intrigues of 
courts and the pride of princes, 
may soon be re-united by the love 
of peace, and by the reciprocal ad- 
vantages of a commerce freed from 
every kind of restraint. We desire 
that France and Great Britain, for- 
merly rivals in the deceitful and 
fatal career of ambition, may no 
longer entertain any other spirit of 
emulation than that of striving to 
hasten the reign of liberty, of know- 
ledge, and of the happiness of man ; 
and to make the rights of men so 
respected over the whole earth, 
that the characters and distinctions 
_ of tyrant and slave may be no lon- 
*r known, except in history. 
(Signed) J. Towers, Chairman. 
“J BunsaMin Cooper, Sec. 
73 
Address of the Society for Constitu- 
tional Information in London, to 
the National Conventionin France. 
SERVANTS of a Sovereign peo- 
ple, and Benefactors of mankind! 
We rejoice that your revolution 
has arrived at that point of per- 
fection which will permit us to ad- 
dress you by this title: it is the 
only one that can accord with the 
character of true legislators. Every 
successive epoch in your affairs, has 
added something tothe triumphs of 
liberty ; and the glorious victory of 
the tenth of August has finally pre- 
pared the way for a constitution, 
which we trust you will establishon 
the basis of reason -and nature.— 
Considering the mass of delusion 
accumulated on mankind to obscure 
their understandings, you cannot be 
astonished at the opposition you 
have met with, both from tyrantsand 
from siaves. ‘The instrument used 
against you by each of these classes 
is the same; for in the genealogy of 
human miseries ignorance is at once 
the parent of oppression, and the 
child of ‘submission. The events 
of every day are proving that your 
cause is cherished by the people in 
all your continental vicinity; that 
a majority of each of those nations 
are your real friends, whose govern- 
ments have tutored them into ap- 
parent foes ; and that they only wait 
to be delivered by your arms from 
the dreaded necessity of fighting 
against them. The condition of 
Englishmen is less to be deplored ; 
here the hand of oppression has not 
yet ventured completely to ravish 
the pen from us, nor openly to 
point the sword at you. From 
bosoms burning with ardour in your 
cause, we tender you our warmest 
wishes for the full extent of its pro- 
gress and success, It is indeed a 
sacred cause; we cherish it as the 
pledge 
