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to Mr. Cooper's admission as a 
member of the Association, the 
specific ground of those objections, 
and the declared resolution of some 
of us to renounce our cennection 
with the Association on that very 
account: And, as we cannot distin- 
guish between the appointment of 
that gentleman to correspond with 
the Jacobins at Paris, and the ex- 
press avowal of a similar corres- 
pondence actually carried on under 
the hand and signature of Mr, Cart- 
wright, we are at a loss to conceive 
upon what principle the one should 
have ceased to belong to the Asso- 
ciation, which did not equally de- 
mand the exclusion of the other. 
“No step of this sort appears to 
have beentaken; retaining the same 
opinion of the propriety of a parlia- 
mentary reform, agreeably to those 
principles which alone induced us 
to engage in the Association, and 
which we have repeatedly declared 
to the public, we feel what is due to 
our own consistency of conduct ; 
and under this impression, we think 
it incumbent on us to withdraw our 
names from a society, which, by 
continuing such connections, will, 
in our opinion, frustrate the attain- 
ment of those very objects for which 
alone the Association was instituted, 
and to which alone its attention 
ought to directed. 
*“* We have, Sir, the honour to be 
** Your most obedient 
‘© and humble servants, 
(Signed) “ Joun Russet, 
“« WittramM BAKER, 
s¢ J. C. CURWEN, 
“« Duptey Norn. 
“© J, CouRTENAY. 
« To the Chairman of the As- 
sociation for oblaining a 
Parliamentary Reform.” 
APPENDIX TO 
Resolved unanimously, That if it 
had occurred to any Member of this 
Association, that Major Cartwright 
ought to have been excluded on 
Saturday last, it would have been 
an act of public duty in such Mem- 
ber to have brought forward a mo- 
tion for that purpose. 
Resolved unanimously, That no 
one of the gentlemen who have as- 
signed the continuance of Major 
Cartwright in the Society as their 
sole reason for quitting it, did at- 
tend at the general meeting on Sa- 
turday last. 
Resolved unanimously, That it 
does not appear upon what reason- 
able ground the five gentlemen, who 
have now quitted the Association, 
could have entertained a “sanguine 
hope” that measures, which even 
they did not think fit to recommend, 
should have been proposed by others 
in their absence. 
Resolved unanimously, That at 
the meeting of the 19th of May, the 
name of Mr. Cooper was voluntarily 
withdrawn by the gentleman who 
had originally proposed him, be- 
fore any objection had been pub- 
lickly made, or anv thing whatever 
had been said in the Society upon 
the subject. 
Resolved unanimously, That this 
Society have entered into no con- 
nexions whatsoever, inconsistent 
with their declared principles; but, 
on the contrary, have publicly de- 
clined all intercourse with another 
Society, whose views and objects 
appeared to them irreconcileable 
with the real interests of the people, 
and the genuine principles of the 
constitution, 
Resolved unanimously, That if this 
Society had in any instance contra- 
dicted, or departed from the declar- 
ed principles and objects of their 
institution, 
