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MEETING.
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PARLIAMENTARY REFORM M MPOICAt. AND greMICAL LEeTt/RES.
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ATA T a MEETING of the LOYAL and INDf
A- PENDENT LIVERY of LONDON, (who aped the
Declaration of the 4th May, 1810) beld this day at the London
Tavern—

Alderman CHRISTOPHER SMITH, In the Chair,
Resolved unanimously,
That a Petition to the Court of Common Conncil he itntredl.
ate!), prepered=for the Signature of such of the Livery of laintleih,
who disapprove of the proceedings of that Assembly on the 22d•
instant, relative to granting the wig of the Guild Hall, on the Sri'
• June next, to persons caning themselves the Committee of the
Friends of Parliamentary Reform ; it appearing to this Meeting,
• thii .the Majority of eech Persons at.: neither Liverymen or
Freemen of London, and that such graur may be attended with
the most various consequences.
That the Petitions do lay for Signature at the London Tavern,
Bishopsgste-street ; and at the Louden Coffee-house, Ludgate-
hill, mall further notice.
May 23,1811.

AT a CasTifikAL MEE 'fING ui YKO A 1:d•
TAN r DISSIiItaRS rind other Erfeids to Religiose Li-
berty, at the Leyden 'ravens, litrhopsgate-strost, on hie*,
May 34th, itit i, converted to receive the Report of the Com-
mittee appointed at a former Mtetinf, to pfeveht, 4 ocro Ire.
theme effort the cocci:o4Bl piegress of a Hitt iiitrodireed into .P
'lament, by Viseouut Sidinumb, relating to the Acts for fiteligiotte
Toleration, SAMUEL MILLS, him. in the (thane
The Committee reported-- That by lire at exertions, aided ti
the generous sentiments which were universally eteited, they hal
obtained, in ed hours. 336 Petitions fthen vutous Congregations
within lite miles of the Metropolis, signed only toy Males exceed-
itig 16 years of age (exclusive of many Petitions that have bast
{subsequently received; Chit these Petitions had been presented
Ito the House of Lords on Tuesday ; and that in consequence of
I the number and 'respectability of the Petitioners—uf the attention
of his Majesty's Government—and of the enhance of many ,
;liberal-melded Piers—the mean that the Bill should be read
for the second time wit negatived Without a division, and the
Rill was consequently rejected.
Resolved, 1. That the Report of the Committee is highly tats
tisfac.tory to this Meeting; that loving Religion, Liberty, and
their Native Land, they rejoice at the speedy rejection art a 0111
which would have limited the diffusion ot Religious Light; lave
i enfeebled the energy of Freedom; and by producing Internal dile
Melons have infected upon their Coe ary a dangerous wounds
and that they particularly rejoice that this effect has resulted from
the zeal displayed by the leleads to Religious Liberty of every
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denomination—and that complete success has conferred on that
iabours an adequate reward.
2. That this Meeting congratulate Ministers and other friends
' resident in every part of the Lettere, on this meneorable result—
on the just displeasure they have manifested et the first effort of
reviving intolerance—on their consequent attention to the moms
meedatiore of the (turner Meeting—oat their hberil promises of
peeuniery aid—and on the pledges they have given of their deter-
in:n.l6oo to resist any eneroaceniects on the Acts of 'Culeretion,
said every future attempt to restrict usetel and pious Teachers
trum disseminating Ctinstian prince:les, and thereby promoting
the salvation of men.
S. Vint anxious to vindicate Protestant Dissenters from the tine
merited imputation of having acted with iiissmierity or from ca-
price, this Meeting declare that all communications atledged to
have occurred between individual Dissenters and the framer of
the Bill, were unauthorised by any body ot Protestant Dimes-
tere—and that any tavourable opinions of the measure, which
such persons an gbt avow, lave never obtained the sanction of
general approbation.
4. That the ie.:conveniences which have long resulted from the
want of union and co-operation anises Protestant Dissenters fur
the protection of their Religious Rights—the necessity which has
hi-esi deiii.nistrated for the a, eulutment of persons authorised vie
eilantie to watch apiust innovation as rhea privileges--e. well
as the constructions that have been put on the Acts of Toleration
—the assumptiun by Magistrates of judicial authority in the exe-
cution of emir of the provisions of those Acts, is to which their
power is only ministerial—the recent violent outrages uPhich have
been committed against men Meeting Howe. and Preachers in
Suffolk and Kent—and the harsh revival of the intolerant resits
shies of the Conventicle Act in Berkshire against persons, guilty
only of assembling to pray to (ion--itiduce this Meeting to re-
coinmend that a society be formed ot the Ministers ot Congre-
gations of Protestant Dissenters, and of other persons assembling
under the Act of Toleration throughout liogiend and Wales, to
defend themselves against these evils;—std that any balance of
monies which the Committee, appointed by the former Meeting,
may eventually retain, be applied by them towards the formation
and fur the purposes of such society.
5. That the same Committee be requested to prepare the plan
of such Society; to invite the concurrence . of every congregation
asseinbiling under the Acts of Toleration ; and to carry any pies
they may deem eligible, into immediate eite.3.
6. That, as expences have been unavoidably incurred to as
amount, certainly great, although anaseertained, all Gentlemen
present at this Meeting be requested to subscribe such sums as
their liberality may suggest; and that all congregations be re•
quested to Lesbian' their collective contribotions, or individual
assistance, to the 'fressurer, Robert Steven, Esq. at 101, Upper
Thames-street; or at the London Tavern, linuopsgate-street;
or New London Tavern, Cheaeside; or to air James tisdade and
Co. and Messrs. Roberts, Curia, and Co. Lombard-street ; and
Messrs. Down, Thornton, and Free, Bartholomew-lane, without
any avoidable delay ; and that the Committee appointed at the Jut
Meeting be solicited to continue to execute all the powers with
which they were theta invested, and which they have so %lethal?
employed
7. That the energetic and judicious exertions of that Commit-
tee, who have awakened with so much advantage a laudable spi-
t tit among Protestant Dissenters and the Friends to Religious
I Liberty, merit the highest approbation ;—atid present an example
fur universal imitation, whenever the ,iiialli,t itirringemeut of
the most exteustve Toleration be hereafter Attempted.
8. That She thanks ot this Meeting be presented to the Right
Hon. Spencer Perceval, for the politeness with which he attended
to the representations of their Committee; and to every Member
of his Majesty's Government, for withholding from the Bill their
important support.
9. That this Meeting cannot adequately praise the Right Hone
hark Stanhope and Grey, and Lords Holland and Erskine, fo.
their manly and eloquent opposition to the principle and prove;
sions of the bill, and for their unanswerable deteace of Rehgio
Liberty—but that they berequested to accept their warmest thanks,
10. That his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, tht Most Noble the
Marquis of Lansdowne, and the Right Honourable Earle Moira,
Lauderdale, and Rossiya, have, by their prompt and generous
assistance, excited in this Meeting the most ardent gratitude.
I i. That the Committee for guarding the Privileges of the Me-
tbotlists in the connection of the late Reverend John Wesley,
having essentially contributed to this important success by their
concurrent eficirts and cheerful co-operation, have increased the
esteem which this Meeting previously antertained,andhaveproved
themselves to be sincere triends to the hest inter acs of mankind.

RICHARD CLARKE, Soczetary.

11. hat this Meeting are also gratclul to tame Clergymen
and ether Members of the Estabhshed Church, who, by their
streuuous opposition to the rejected Bill, have evinced their un.
feigned attachment to the =due of Religious Liberty.
13. hat the attentions of the W:alstapt.l the Mayor and other
Gentlemen of gristol, and of the Motibers ktf bevessl Corpora-
tions, lave made an indelible impression on th a Meeting, a...dare
entitled to gratitude, permanent and sincere.
14. That this Meeting are most happy to renew their grate- ,
ful acknowledgments to Samuel Mills, Esq. the Chairman, ior
the liberality of principle and the prof wty of conduct which he
has manifested on the present and tet, the hornier occinuon.
15. 'l* bat the able, unwearied, and disinterested Exertions of
Manna Pollan, In. and John Wilke, E•ti the Secretaries to the
Committee, have procured for them the respect of this Meeting,
and merit universal approbation.
in. That these ReMlutious be communicated to the Noblemen
. and Gentlemen to whom they tette, and that they be printed—
advertised in the Newspapers--'and circulated at the discretion of
the Committee—and that they be also requested to cotiect and
publish all the proceedings which have occurred, that a Record
may remain to gratify contemporaneous enquiry, and to excite
sad direct the elate of future generations.

iAMLI LI. MILLS, Chairman.
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