That the following address to the people of Great Britain be printed and published:

THE immediate duty of this society is to state briefly to the people of the kingdom, for whose benefit we have acted, in what situation the cause of reform, and they who are engaged in it, are left by the late transaction in Parliament. In so good a cause, it is honourable to have contended, and with a firm conviction that on its success depend the happiness and liberties of the nation, we can never suffer ourselves to despair. We are not deterred or disappointed by the present decision of the house of commons, for neither is this decision final, nor is it a question, in which we were particularly entitled to expect, that truth and reason would be supported by superior numbers. We are not discouraged by this defeat. It would, indeed, be a ground of discouragement to us, if we could believe that the people of England were really unwilling to promote a change in the construction of the house of commons, or indifferent about it. Such, however, is the conclusion drawn by our opponents, from the silence of the principle cities and counties on the present occasion. We trust

that we shall be furnished with a practical answer to this objection by numerous and strong declarations and petitions from a great majority of the kingdom. These are the means and the only means by which we expect or desire to succeed. If the country in general will unite with us in demanding a reform of Parliament, we have no doubt of its being obtained in a regular parliamentary way, without hazard of any kind.・ If, on the contrary, it should appear, after a fair and sufficient trial of the disposition of the country, that the measure has utterly lost its popularity, and that the nation, whether adverse or indifferent, will not take an active part in support of it, then, indeed, it will become us to abandon all thoughts of an useless vexatious perseverance in so deserted a cause; and having appealed to the highest tribunal, by which a national question can be determined, that of the people themselves, we must submit with patience to their ultimate decision. duals may adhere to their principles, but it will be in vain for them to persist in their endeavours. The duty that survives hope will never be performed with energy or effect. On the other hand, some circumstances encourage us to persevere. We have reason to believe that the intervention of the war with France, and the alarms, whether well or ill-founded, which have prevailed throughout England, during the last winter, and which we have no doubt were excited and inflamed for the special purpose of checking the disposition of the country in favour of a reform, and of calumniating the characters of those who promoted it: These,

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