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lief, and, on that ground, to justify 
the representatives of the people 
in refusing to admit evidence of 
_ their truth and reality. 
Resert Grauvame, President. 
John Ewen, Secretary. 
Subscription towards the succour of 
the People of Poland. 
Mansion-Housc, 10th of August, 
1792. 
Committee of Trustees for ma- 
maging the proposed Subscrip- 
, tion towards the Succour of the 
People of Poland, viz. 
The Right Hon. J. Hopkins, Lord 
Mayor of London, Chairman. 
J. W. Anderson, Esq. and Harvey 
C. Coombe, Esq. Aldermen and 
Sheriffs of Londonand Middlesex, 
William Smith, M. P. Clapham, 
Surry; &c. &c. 
A ee committee enter on the du- 
4 ties entrusted to them with the 
cheerful confidence of success. En- 
glishmen estimate truly the value of 
the object for which the king and 
people of Poland so arduously, so 
gloriously contend. Every sympa- 
thetic emotion was gratified by the 
principles and the conduct of their 
revolution. ‘* The means were as 
striking to the imagination as sa- 
tisfactory to the reason, and sooth- 
ing to the moral sentiments. In 
contemplating that change, huma- 
nity has every thing to rejoice and 
to glory in; nothing tobe ashamed 
_ of, nothing to suffer. It was ef- 
fected mh a policy, a discretion, 
an unanimity, and a secrecy, never 
before known on any occasion.’ — 
Such is the description given by a 
distinguished writer before this sys- 
tem of order, and strength, and 
peace, provoked the hostility of 
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foreign powers. The mind can- 
not conceive an attack upon. any 
sovereign people more outrageous 
to the rights of nations, more re- 
pugnant.to justice. Every nation 
upon earth is interested in the fate 
of the Polish people; but the hearts 
of Englishmen swell with indigna- 
tion, They recall the long con- 
tinuance of their own struggle 
for their own constitution, and wish 
the people of Poland to accomplish 
the happiness which they finally ob- 
tained, without the calamities that 
led to it. To participate in their 
cause is an English sentiment; for 
freedom is in its nature social and 
beneficent. It has no motive to 
be selfish; for its own strength is 
increased by extending to others 
the blessings it enjoys. With what 
rapturous sensations then must not 
Britons concur with the efforts 
made by a virtuous King at the 
head of a gallant people, to deliver 
them from a foreign yoke, and to 
plant liberty and the arts in the 
room of slavery and barbarism! It 
is for government to take measures 
for the empire; but, without 
trenching on its functions, individu- 
als may bear testimony to distressed 
merit, may assist it by their purses, 
and may discountenance its perse- 
cution by the weight of their names. 
It is not every day that private men 
can do good to nations, or have the 
satisfaction, when doing it, of think- 
ing that it must indirectly contri- 
bute to the safety of their own 
country. — Such an occasion now 
presents itself to the becoming 
pride, the patriotism, the benevo- 
lence of Englishmen; and Jet no 
man be deterred. by an idea that 
succour will come too late to be 
effectual. — Ten millions of men 
united in the cause of their native 
G3 home, 
