THE CHRONICLE. 
The interested supporters of the 
present abuses will thus be disarm- 
ed; for it is only by confounding re- 
form with commotion, and corrup- 
tion with the British constitution, 
that they are enabled to prolong and 
to defend their usurpations. All our 
Janguage, as you wili perceive from 
the proceedings which we transmit 
to you, has been cautious, because 
all our views are moderate. Weare 
persuaded that you have a similar 
moderation of views, and we earn-’ 
estly exhort you to a similar cau- 
tion in language. ; 
It is only indeed with Societies 
who express the same moderation 
of principles, and adopt the same 
wariness of language, that this So- 
ciety can entertain any correspond- 
ence, or promise any co-operation, 
We have publickly disclaimed what 
we condemn, as well as avowed our 
real object, and on occasion un- 
sought for by us, in conformity with 
this principle, we have been com- 
pelled to decline all intercourse with 
the Society for Constitutional Infor- 
mation in London; for though we 
neither wish to attack, nor pretend 
to dictate, we are certainly entitled 
to decline all intercourse with men 
whose views and principles appear 
to us irreconcileable with our own. 
On the particular measure which 
you suggest for collecting the opi- 
nion of the people on the subject of 
reform, we do not feel ourselves 
yet prepared to decide. In amore 
advanced stage of the business, it 
_ may become very fit matter for de- 
liberation. 
Permit us, Sir, to conclude with 
congratulating you, and likewise our 
country, on the admirable principles 
which your letter contains, and on 
the intrepid moderation which it 
entitles us to expect from you. 
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You will deprive cur enemies of 
every pretext for counterfeiting 
alarms which they do not feel, and 
of every opportunity to defeat our 
measures, by culumniating our in- 
tentions. 
In the name, and by order of the 
Committee, " 
(Signed) C. Grey, Chairman. 
To Samuel Ashton, Esq. Secretary 
to the Society, &c. in Sheffield. 
Freemasons Tavern, Saturday, 
June 9, 1792. 
At a General Meeting of the Society 
of The Friends of the People, as« 
sociated for the Purpose of obtain- 
tag a Parliamentary Reform, held 
this day, 
The following Letter, addressed to 
the Chairman of this Society, 
was read: 
John Wharton, Esq, M. P. in 
the Chair, 
“Sir, Monday Noon, June 4, 1792. 
“ After the strong Declaration. 
and Protest, which some of us. 
thought it our duty to make, at the 
meeting on the 19th of May, and in 
which we all heartily concurred, we 
might perhaps have been justified 
in adopting that line of conduct 
which we now find ourselves bound 
to pursue, immediately on the ap- 
pearance of the paper from.the So- 
ciety for Constitutional Information, 
on the 25th of that month, if we had 
not been anxious, in that moment 
of critical expectation, to check 
every symptom of disunion among 
ourselves, in the sanguine hepe that 
at the meeting on Saturday last, 
the most decisive measures might 
have been taken to obviate the fatal 
effects of that publication, 
‘You, Sir, will recollect the 
weighty objections which were made 
: to, 
