The Sun.
London, England, 1819-07-20 00:00:00

ANO lIIER SEDITIOUS AIEETING.

INTENDED MEETING AT ROCHDALE..--The fol-
-lowit47, is a Copy of the Circular !
" We whose names are hereunto subjoined,
being Inhabitants, Householders of the Town
and parish of Rochdale, conceiving the increased,
Fll d still increasing misery of our unhappy Coun-
trymen, to proceed from the corrupt state of the
House of Commons, do call a Public Meeting,
to be hcltl at Rochdale, on Monday the 26th
July, 1819, to take into consideration the most
speedy and effectual means which the Laws of
nature and the ancient Constitution of our Coun-
try furnish us with, to obtain a Reform in that
!louse, on the principles of Universal Suffrage,
Ansfual Parliaments, and Election by Ballot ; and
111:;o for the purpose of snaking a solemn Appeal
to the People of Great Britain, praying them to
j:tin us in an undertaking so laudable, and on the
success of which the future happiness of our

Conntry deperr!s.
(Signed) " James Brearly, James Driver, James Kershaw,
Wiliam Whitworth, James Oldham, Joseph Tayiuc,
Joseph Brown, and James Cocherel."
The Chair to be taken at Twelve o'clock.

FEMALE UNION SOCIETY,
ESTABLISHEO AT sTocKpoRT.

DECLARATION and RULES of the FEMALE
UNIoN SOCIETY Of STOCKPORT, from which we
c:x tract the following Resolutions, viz. :
" 1. That the members shall be classed, whh
t welye members in each class, who shall select a
leader or collector from amongst themselves every
fourteen weeks ; also, every female on becoming
a member, shall pay weekly to her collector one
penny, for the purpose of assisting our mule friends
in obtaining their object.
" 2. That a Committee of twelve be appoint-
ed, one out of each section of the General Union,
to manage the affairs of the Society, six to go out
of office every six weeks.

" 3. We collectively and individually pledge
ourselves to instil into the minds of our children
a thorough knowledge of their natural and in-
alienable rights, whereby they shall be able to
form just and correct notions of those legalized
Lwzclitti of plunderers, who now rob their parents
.of more than half the produce of their labour ;
we also pledge ourselves to stimulate our husbands,
and sons, to imitate the ancient Romans in their
courage, who fought to a man in defence of their
liberty, and our daughters and female friends to
imitate the Spartan women,, who, when their
Imsbands, sons, and offer kindred had gone out
to fight in defence of their freedom, would rather
have heard of the death of any of them, than their
deserting the standard of liberty, and who rather
fjoiced if any of their kindred fell bravely de-
tending the bulwarks of their freedom.
" 4. We solicit communication with every in-
ztitution of the kind in Great Britain, as it is by
0 general correspondence that a national union
bi sentiment can be formed.

sth and last. All cornmuniciltions to be ad
dressed to Airs. J. Hallam, Union Rooms, Union

place, Stockport."

TII14; RADICAL REFORMERS.

The time is evidently rapidly approaching when
tile loyalty, the courage, the morals, and the
rood sense of every peaceable and good subject
;:1 be put to the test. The Ukra-Reformers,
it appears, are determined to try their strength '
in Smi:hfield-market on the 21st instant ; and,
-what more immediately concerns ourselves, we
Lave been informed, that the men who would
gladly torn the world upside do vit, threaten short-
ly to visit Macclesfield ! Had we not an unshaken
confidence in the honour, fidelity, and unequivo-
cal loyalty of the great body of our fellow-towns-
men, we should dread a meeting of the Reformers
in our Borough ; but, thank God Macclesfield
has too long been nursed in the arms of religion:
its inhabitants have been too long accustomed to
enjoy the influence of good example in the higher
orders, and have been too well trained in the
schools of industry, to afford encouragement to
those itinerant knaves, who have been so long
seeding on the weekly contributions of the poor
misguided peope of some other towns in these
northern districts. Confident, however, as we
are, that the good sense of the people of Maccles-
field will prevail over the turbulence of fac-
tion, tine are pleased to observe that a cir-
cular order has been issued to the Cheshire
Yeomanry Cavalry, to be in readiness for
actual service on the shortest notice. In-
deed, it is incumbent on every town, whether im-
mediately threatened by the sons of sedition or
not, to shew their abhorrence of the deigns of
those miscreants, as well as to manifest their de-
termination to resist every attempt to disturb the
public peace, by the most vigorous measures of
active opposition to the plow of Radical Re•
formers. Jo times like these, those who are not
for their Country are against it ; those who can
tamely sit down and see their domestic peace in-
vaded, their religion and laws insulted, their very
persons threatened, deserve not the name of
Eio;lislimen. The coutemptible band of Radical
Refoimers are daily gaining strengh, acquiring
additional courage, and assuming a bolder tone—
nay, they are manifestly proceeding to overt acts
treinon and rebellion. And are we, with

t 1,14, ra,:)st
demonstrable proof that the enemies of the
Constitution have already begun the work
of demolition—are we to regard all this with
indifference ? Let us not deceive ourselve's :
we know that mischief of the most serious nature
is brewing—we know, too, from what quarter it
principally issues—we could, if it were as yet pro-
'per and necessity, almost point out the hand that
writes, the head that dictates, and the fountain
from whence flow the abominably seditious peti-
tions and resolutions which at this time inundate
the country. It is not our duty, however, to turn
informers. Let his Majesty's Attorney-General
look to it—ltt the brave Yeomanry of the coun-
try hold themselves in readiness, and all those
who have the good .of their country at heart count
not their lives dear when that country is in dan-
ger : whosoever shrinks from danger in such a
contest is a coward—whoever lends his aid, either
by his tongue, his pen, or his purse, to the Mea-
sures of the Ultra-Reformists, is a knave and a
traitor. Unless some speedy and effectual check
be put to the measures, secret and open, of the
Ultras, the time is not far distant, when it will
require more strength than the good amongst us
are possessed of to subdue the mischief that the
bad will accomplish. It is of no use to call tor
the fire-engines after the house is burnt down.—
(Moccle.field Courier, July 17.)