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subscribe more than two guineas, 
nor less than two shillings and six- 
pence. 
That, for the better carrying into 
execution the above purposes, a 
~ committee be formed, consisting of 
the rector, churchwardens, sides- 
men, and overseers for the time 
being, together with any number of 
other persons not excceding fifty, 
who shall meet from time to time, 
to take such measures as shall be 
judged necessary. That any nine of 
the said committee be a quorum 
empowered to act, 
Resolved, ‘That the unanimous 
thanks of this meeting be given to 
the Reverend Dr. Courteney, for 
the zeal and candour which he has 
exhibited on the present occasion, 
by proposing resolutions which ap- 
pear to be so perfectly well-calcu- 
lated for procuring the peace and 
security of the inhabitants uF the 
parish of St. George, Hanover- 
Square. 
By order of the meeting. 
H. Courteney, Chairman, 
{All the parishes in the metro- 
polis, as well as in the vicinity, and 
almost all parts of the kingdom, 
held similar meetings. ] 
Resolves of the Convention of Bur- 
gesses relative to the Scottish Royal 
Burghs, in Convention, Edin- 
burgh, July 26. 
Mr. Grahame, of Gartmore, in 
the Chair, 
~. Resolved HAT the con- 
unanimously, vention of bur- 
gesses, met for the purpose of 
obtaining from the wisdom and 
justice of the British legislature a 
reform in the internal government 
of the royal burghs of Scotland, 
APPENDIX TO 
think it their duty at this time, to 
declare that they entertain the 
most loyal attachment to their 
most gracious Sovereign and his 
illustrious family, the deepest sense 
of the superior excellence of the 
‘British constitution, and the most 
firm and inflexible determination 
to maintain for ever the princi- 
ples on which it is established, and 
to defend it from every innovation 
by which it may, in the slightest 
degree, be hurt or injured.— 
That in planning and promoting 
a reform in the internal govern- 
ment of the royal burghs of Scot- 
land, the burgesses consider them- 
selves as having acted in strict con- 
formity to the principles they have 
thus avowed. Every system of po- 
litical government, supreme or sub- 
ordinate, is liable to decay and a- 
buse, and can only be ‘effectually 
preserved by a wise and temperate 
correction of those defects which 
time, corruption, or improper de- 
viations from original principles, 
have introduced. The constitution 
has wisely placed the power of re- 
medying these evils in the hands of 
the legislature, and the burgesses 
consider those as the best friends 
of the constitution, who, in a tem- 
perate and respectful manner, 
lay before parliament the abuses 
which prevail in the department to 
which they belong, and humbly 
suggest the constitutional means 
that occur to them, as the most 
likely to remedy the existing griev~ 
ances, to restore such part of our 
happy constitution to its original 
purity and vigour, and to prevent 
the destructive consequences that 
must infallibly result from the cor- 
ruption or failure even of the small- 
est member of the great machine of 
government. That although, from 
the misrepresentations of the ene- 
mies 
