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 shall have convinced you that the great and leading Reform which we so ardently desire must be derived from a different source, founded upon different principles, and carried into effect by other measures than those which have been hitherto adopted, and more particularly in this latest instance.—In any event I trust I shall have proved to you that, if I have resolutely declined taking an active part in these meetings, it was not from a disposition unfriendly to the cause of Reform, or to the principles of that Constitutional Freedom, which I deem every subject of this Country in his respective station is justly entitled to claim, and lawfully authorized to defend.

London,

May 10, 1809.