The people could not bear the facts, which had been disclosed to them by the Abridgement of the Evidence.

They were not satisfied, many of them, with the mere abstinence from sugar; but began to form committees to correspond with that of London.

The first of these appeared at Newcastle upon Tyne, so early as the month of October.

It consisted of the Reverend William Turner as chairman, and of Robert Ormston, William Batson, Henry Taylor, Ralph Bainbridge, George Brown, Hadwen Bragg, David Sutton, Anthony Clapham, George Richardson, and Edward Prowit.

It received a valuable addition afterwards by the admission of many others.