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one which we can propose, and the 
only one to which we will give our 
concurrence. Whenever that ob- 
ject is obtained, our Association is 
at an end:—we go no farther. The 
people then will possess a more per- 
fect organ to express their senti- 
ments, and a power to correct those 
abuses, which we call subordinate, 
and which we believe to proceed 
principally from the present depra- 
ved state of the representation of 
the people in parliament. 
Resolved, Vhat the above reso- 
lutions, proposed by the Commit- 
tee, be agreed to, and adopted by 
the Society, and that the Committee 
be instructed to publish the same. 
Signed by order of the Committee, 
Wittram Baker, M.P. 
Chairman. 
Friends of the People. 
At a General Meeting of the Soci- 
ety of The Friends of the People, 
associated for the Purpose of ob- 
taining a Parliamentary Reform, 
held at the Freemasons Tavern 
on the 2d of June, 1792, 
Sir John Throckmorton, Bart. 
in the Chair: 
ORDERED, That the following 
Letter, and the Answer, of the 
Committee of this Society, be 
printed and published. 
“Committee of the Society for 
Constitutional Information at 
Sheffield, to the Committee of 
the Honourable Society, enti- 
tled The Friends of the People, 
in London. 
“‘ Gentlemen, 
‘¢ It is with infinite pleasure we 
have read and considered your ad- 
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dress and declaration from your ge~ 
neral meeting on the 26th of April 
last. The principles therein set 
forth by so large a body of the most 
respectable and worthy characters, 
are sufficient. testimony and confir- 
mation to us, that so honourable a 
Society, by signalizing themselves 
in support of the laudable and ge- 
neral cause of the community, will 
render themselves most truly wor- 
thy of that high and benevolent 
appellation by which they are al- 
ready known to us, The Friends ef 
the People. 
‘¢ Your sentiments, your motives, 
and vour plan of obtaining a reform 
of the abuses of governmentare per- 
fectly in unison with our ideas: itis 
our business (to which we have al- 
ways confined our endeavours) to 
instruct the people in a temperate 
and peaceable manner in the neces- 
sity of such areformas you pointout, 
but have never yet attempted to a- 
dopt or point outany particularmode 
of obtaining it, further than you will 
observe by the inclosed, believing 
that in due time, men of more re- 
spectable charactersand greater abi- 
lities would step forward. To such 
we have always had an eye, and up- 
on such we have ever meant to rely 
for our government, and the adop- 
tion of the most eligible plan of a 
morefreeandequal representation in 
the House of Commons, and the re- 
moval of the great abuses and impo- 
sitions by measures altogether inad- 
equate to the interest and welfare of 
the nation in general, and to the 
mechanical and laborious part of 
the community in particular, 
«It is therefore with the highest 
degree of satisfaction that we behold 
such a respectable body stepping 
forward in so laudable, so just, and 
sogoodacause. You have our warm- 
est 
