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fact, which all men knew, was ground enough for doing that which all men wifhed. The Government had fufficient teftimony on which to found their proceedings, if no other had offered; but the united voice of the Affociations conftituted a body of evidence, which fuperfeded all need of proof. The Government did not move till the crifis was complete, and the Country was prepared to juftify them in all they did; and the fuccefs with which they were enabled to reftore quiet to the Country on that occafion, will add a fplendid paffage to the hiftory of the prefent Adminiftration, which has had the fingular felicity of uniting good fortune to unwearied endeavours for the public welfare.

It may be permitted to remark, that the late events have produced a decompofition of party that has ended in a new divifion of public men. There is now a fort of line by which the friends of the Conftitution may be diftinguished from its enemies; and those who engage in public business upon public principle, from thofe who take it up as a traffic for private ends: a like diftinction between the well affected and the ill-affected may alfo be traced in all parts of the kingdom, through all ranks of life.

People have fet themselves to make this obfervation upon the characters of men, whether public or private, and to keep a fuitable watch upon their conduct, fince the efcape they had in the month of November. The vigilance infpired by the danger of that time, it is hoped, will not foon relax. No doubt, Government will continue its exertions; individuals will not remit from the habitual attention they have lately paid to the prefervation of peace and order; the Affociations, it is certain, will renew all their vigour, whenever the public fafety fhall require it.

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With these fecurities, it is trufted the kingdom will not again be threatened, as it was last year from the month of Auguft to that of November. So reduced in number, and fo difappointed in all their projects, are the difaffected, that, it is generally believed, they could not be encouraged to undertake any thing even by the fuccefs of the French arms, on which they laft year founded fo much hope. Unless they difregard their own fafety as much as that of others, they will now remain quiet.

Let them liften to the admonition giyen them by the public justice of their country:

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"Illos, quanquam funt hofles, tamen quia nati funt "cives, monitos etiam atque etiam volo. Mea lenitas "adbuc fi cui folutior vifa eft, hoc expectavit, ut id, quod latebat, erumperet.- Qui in urbe fe commoverit, cujus ego non modo factum fed inceptum ullum, conatumve contra patriam deprehendero ; fentiet in hac urbe effe Confules vigilantes, effe egregios Magiftratus, effe fortem Senatum, effe arma, effe carcerem, quem "vindicem nefariorum ac manifeftorum fcelerum majores noftri effe voluerunt."

LONDON, JUNE 21, 1793.

CICERO IN CATILINAM ORAT. 2,

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At a MEETING of GENTLEMEN at the CROWN AND ANCHOR TAVERN, in the Strand, November 20, 1792,

JOHN REEVES, Esq. in the Chair.

The following CoNSIDERATIONS and RESOLUTIONS were entered into and agreed upon:

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ONSIDERING the danger to which the Public Peace and Order are exposed by the circulating of mischiev bus Opinions, found upon plaufible but false reasoning; and that this circulation is principally carried on by the induftry of Clubs and Societies of various denominations in many parts of the Kingdom:

It appears to us, That it is now become the duty of all Perfons, who wish well to their Native Country, to endeavour, in their feveral neighbourhoods, to prevent the fad B

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effects of fuch mischievous industry; and that it would greatly tend to promote these good endeavours, if Societies were formed in different parts of the Kingdom, whofe object fhould be to fupport the Laws, to fupprefs feditious Publications, and to defend our Perfons and Property against the innovations and depredations that seem to be threatened by those who maintain the mischievous opinions before alluded to.

Thefe opinions are conveyed in the terms-the Rights of Man-Liberty and Equality-No King-No Parliament-and others of the like import; all of them, in the fenfe imposed on them, expreffing fentiments in direct oppofition to the Laws of this Land, and fome of them fuch as are inconfiftent with the well-being of Society under any laws whatsoever.

It appears to us, the tendency of thefe Opinions is, that we are voluntarily to furrender every thing we now possess ; our religion and our Laws; our civil Government and Civil Society; and that we are to trust to the formation of fomething New, upon the principles of Equality, and under the auspices of fpeculative men, who have conceived ideas of perfection that never yet were known in the World: And it appears, that the Miffionaries of this Sect are aiming at effecting the Overthrow of the prefent Syftem of Government and Society, by infufing into the minds of ignorant men causes of difcontent adapted to their various stations : fome of which caufes are wholly imaginary, and the reft are fuch as infeparably belong to civil life; have exifted, and ever will exist, under all Forms of Government; cannot be removed by any change, and will be aggravated and multiplied, a hundred fold, by the change propofed.

It appears from Hiftory and Obfervation, that the inequality of rank and fortune in this happy Country, is more the refult of every man's own exertions, than of any controuling inftitution of the State. Men become great, who have greatly diftinguifhed themselves by the application of talents natural or acquired. Men become rich, who have perfevered with industry in the application to Trade and Commerce, to Manufactures, and other useful employments. How many perfons now of great rank and fortune, who were born without either! How many rich Merchants and Traders who began their career in the lowest employments of the Thop and counting-house!

In the progress to this advancement they have all, in their ftations, contributed their fhare towards the fhow of opulence, both public and private, which is to be feen in every part of this Island. It is by the effects of this industry, that

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the Gentleman is enabled to fupport his rank and ftation; and the Merchant and Tradefman to employ his Clerks, Jourheyinen, and Apprentices. Hence comes the price of the Farmer's corn, and the wages of Servants of every defcription. By this happy Inequality, and dependence of one man on another, employment is found for all in their feveral vocations to which they have been called by defign or accident. This Inequality and dependence is fo infinitely diverfified in this country, that there is no place upon earth where there are so many ways, in which a man by his talents and industry may raise himself above his equals. This has hitherto been thought a pre-eminent happiness that was peculiar to ourselves, and ought to be cherished it has been afcribed to the protecting influence which Property has always enjoyed under equal Laws; and it has increased of late years in a wonderful degree, by the profperity which was caused, and can only be continued by the fame influence.

We are, upon the fulleft deliberation, of opinion, that propofing to pull down this goodly fabrick, which has been gradually reared by the fucceffive virtue and induftry of all the great and good men who have lived in this Ifland for centuries, and to fubmit to begin afresh upon a new system of Equality, as it is called, feems a propofition that can be fuggefted only by the moft undifguifed wickedness, and entertained by the groffeft folly.

Becaufe, if fo wild a plan was to be carried into execution, and all men were made equal, they would from that moment begin to struggle, who should first rise above his equals ; and it is beyond all question, if there was any induftry, or any virtue; if there was peace, and publick profperity; if there was private happiness and publick, in fuch new-formed Society, there would gradually arife an Inequality of Rank and Fortune.

We forefee, from recent experiment in a neighbouring country, that in the operation of bringing to pass fuch a tranfition, the lives and properties of all perfons in this Island would be exposed to the arbitrary difpofal of selfopinionated Philofophers, and a wild and needy Mob deluded and inftigated by them; that with the introduction of Equality in Rank and Fortune, an expectation would be raifed in the Lower Orders, which muft first be gratified with plunder, and afterwards would fink into a ftate of dif appointment and abject poverty. When all were equalized, there would no longer be a fuperfluity to pay the hire of Servants, or purchase the productions of Art or Manufacture; no Commerce, no Credit; no refource for the active,

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