8. That with such various grievances, urgent and unredressed--and regarding the dispositions manifested, by high ecclesiastical authorities and parties proud in rank and power, to agitate the people and the parliament by alarms for the Established Church, and to resist even the reasonable concessions so justly required--and believing that a crisis has arrived or is approaching, on which the early triumph or temporary retrogression of the rights of conscience may depend--=this Meeting= would urgently invoke Dissenters and Methodists, and all friends to liberal principles, throughout the empire, to be up and stirring--to prepare for new strifes and elections--to nominate and the return to the House of Commons only such Representatives as will vindicate those rights firmly and with zeal--and to afford to the present Administration the countenance and cooperation merited by their sacrifices and efforts for Freedom and Reform, and which may enable them to do justice to Ireland and Great Britain, by promptly correcting every ecclesiastical and corporation abuse.--And that =this Meeting= regard with decided approbation and gratitude the strenuous efforts now making in and out of Parliament to remove the taxes upon knowledge, satisfied that there is no greater obstacle than such taxes to religious liberty, as well as to religious instruction. 9. That the following ministers and gentlemen of different denominations constitute the Committee of the Society, with power to add to their numbers, and appoint all other officers: Rev. F. A. Cox, LL. D. ---- W. B. Collyer, D.D. F.A.S. ---- George Collison ---- Alexander Fletcher, A.M. ---- Thomas Jackson ---- Thomas Lewis ---- John Morison, D.D. ---- Thomas Russell, A.M. Mr. Edward Ashby William Bateman, Esq. James Esdaile, Esq. Martin Prior, Esq. Thomas Wilson, Esq. Matthew Wood, Esq. M.P. John Wilks, Esq. M.P. James Young, Esq. That cordial thanks be rendered to those by whom the duties of the office have heretofore been fulfilled--and that James B. Brown, Esq., LL. D., be requested to become Treasurer to this Institution. 10. That the Meeting avail themselves gladly of another opportunity to reiterate their grateful expressions to John Wilks, Esq., M.P., the Honorary Secretary of the Society from the formation, for the zeal and prudence he has displayed--and for the devotedness and ability with which he has often resisted intolerance and persecution, and struggled for that vital and glorious liberty, to which he has long proved himself to be entirely attached.