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cumstances of such peculiar diffi- 
culty and embarrassment as re- 
quired his determined spirit and 
unshaken fortitude to overcome, 
and though he had to encounter 
every prejudice which art or indus- 
try could excite. 
By order of the Meeting, 
(Signed) 
Gerarp Nort Epwarps, 
Chairman. 
Association for preserving Liberty 
and Property against Republicans 
and Levellers. 
November 20. 
At a Meeting of Gentlemen at the 
Crown and Anchor Tavern, 
John Reeves, Esq. in the Chair, 
The following Considerations and 
Resolutions were entered into 
and agreed upon: 
debeenrgesa sat the danger to 
which the public peace and 
order are exposed by the circu- 
lating of mischievous opinions, 
founded upon plausible but false 
reasoning ; and that this circulation 
is principally carried on by the in- 
dustry of clubs and societies of va- 
rious denominations in many parts 
of the kingdom, it appears to us, 
That it is now become the duty 
of all persons who wish well to 
their native country, to endeavour, 
in their several neighbourhoods, to 
prevent the sad effects of such mis- 
chievous industry; and that it 
would greatly tend to promote 
these good endeavours, if Societies 
were formed in different parts of 
the kingdom, whose object should. 
be to support the laws, to suppress 
seditious publications, and to de- 
fend our persons and property a- 
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gainst the innovations and depre- — 
dations that seem to be threatened 
by those who maintain the mis- — 
chievous opinions before alluded 
to. These opinions are conveyed 
in the terms of The Rights of Man— — 
Liberty and Equality—No King— 
No Parliament—and others of the 
like import; all of them, in the 
sense imposed on them, expressing 
sentiments in direct opposition to ~ 
the laws of this land, and some of — 
them such as are inconsistent with — 
the well-being of society under any — 
laws whatsoever. It appears to us, 
the tendency of these opinions is, ~ 
that we are voluntarily to surrender 
every thing we now possess; our © 
religion and our laws, our civil go- — 
vernment and civil society; and 
that we are to trust to the forma- — 
tion of something new, upon the 
principles of equality, and under 
the auspices of speculative men, — 
who have conceived ideas of per- — 
fection that never yet where known 
in the world: and it appears that 
the missionaries of this sect are- 
aiming at effecting the overthrow 
of the present system of govern- 
ment and society, by infusing into 
the minds of ignorant men causes — 
of discontent adapted to their va- 
rious stations; some of which 
causes are wholly imaginary, and — 
the rest are such as inseparably be- — 
long to civil life ; have existed, and 
ever will exist, under all forms of — 
government; cannot. be removed ~ 
by any change, and will be aggra- — 
vated and multiplied a hundred fold 
by the change proposed.—It ap- 
pears from history and observation, — 
that the inequality of rank and — 
fortune in this happy country, is: r 
more the result of every man’s own ~ 
exertions than of any controuling 
institution of the state. Men be-— 
come 
