Star. — London, England, 1820-12-09 00:00:00

Tur QUE4M Her MAJESTY will receive the following Addresses and Mon week be the üblic en nda, day M for her MAJlSTY'S da receiving will tast Addresses s till aft the holidays: Borough of Southwark--Deputation. Ward of Ablt:mate—Ditto. Goa:dining—Ditto. • St. Leonard's, Shorediteh—Ditto. elakenwell—Ditto. *F t . haws, Westeninster—Dittol, St. Paul's, Coveut- , ardeit— Ditto. Seamen — \L Stourport—Deputation. &Irby...Sir Gerard Noel, Bart. ILP: B ac kfastleigh—Deputation. king's Lynn—Ditto. Bow and Bromley—Alderman Wool Cork—Ditto. Spalding—Ditto. A numerous and respectable Meeting of the High land Assembly of London, to Address her M &Tem, was herd ye,terday evening at the Crown and Anchor Tavein, agreeably to the appointment of a former and preparatory Meeting D. CURRIE, Esq. in . the Chair. Entire unanimity prevailed, and several eeches were made, characterised by H i g hland ar t ; Llotir and 'Highland gallantry. Resolutions, expressive of abhorrence of the commencement of proceedings , against her MAJZsrv, of indignation at the evidence produced, of profound admiration of her MAJESTY'S c onduct, and of their thorough conviction that the conduct of the House of Lords amounted to a com plete acquittal, were unanimously carried. An Ad ereFs in th: Gaelic language was rapturously ap p • •• Ito le J. • llumi, EA. M.P. was present, and pro - 1.. iniSei in accompany the Deputation, who are, on Monday, the 18th, to go in procession to Branden burgh-House, in the Celtic garb, and with au .td -4 :TS) in the Celtic language. • TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. • Coventry, Dec. 6, St R—The four Gentlemen of this City, who were Stewards of the Bachdore Ball and Sapper" have, it appears, joined in a Protest, declaring, that their fraettainment " was not given in honour of the QUEEN: Messrs. Benson, CuaTts, Macau and Co. protested against her Maairm going to Saint Patti a..d the Dukes of CLARENCE, NEWCASTLS, NORTIMMEERLAND, and a few others, protested :Nain..t the withsirawnient of =he infamous Bill.. Thus . • : i Ave the Coventry Bachelors humbly imitated the imitation of your City Aldermen. All these three classes of protestant' might, however, have spared themselves the trouble; for noose who knows any thing of them . c an entertain a doubt of their senti ments oa the a ffair of the QUEEN. /t vas uniortunate for the Club of Bachelors that their Ball and Supper happened just at the period m hen the hearts of the loyal Citizeos were filled with joy at the triumph of the QUEEN. The most distill pi shed visitors at the Ball were Lord and Lady 1100 D. His Lordship (who resides within a mile of' , Coventry) is well known to have taken a decisive part in favour of the QUEEN ; and his first visit to tne City since, was when he gave attendance with Lady noon at the Ball in question. His horses and 3ivcry servants being decked with white ribbons, he was smidily recognised by the loyal inhabitants, who testifiel their approbation of his conduct herein, by the ringing of bells, and attending his carriage to and from the Ball, with bands of music and. the most enthusiastic plaudits. Lord FlooD, in taking leave of the populace, ad dressed them from his carriage in an appropriate speech, thanking them for their kind and flattering :attention, and observing that he had only done his duty, inasmuch as he was thoroughly convinced, !TOM the first, that the infamous charges brought against their Queen were void of foundation. A Gentleman (Mr. DICKENS) stepped out from among the crowd, and, in an eloquent Address, con veyed to his Lordship, on the part of the Citizens of Coventry, an assurance of the high estimation in which he was universally held, and the great plea tare and satisfaction his recent conduct had af crded them. Surely this spontaneous burst of feeling on the Fart of the people of Coventry, in favour of their long persecuted and deeply injured Queen, when compared with " the Stewards of the Bachelors' Cl , :b, omitting to drink her Majesty's health," sinks t:.e latter circumstance into nothingness. I remain, Sir, &c. VFMTAS. IMPROMPTU, o-4-ing a Protest' from four liacketors of Coventry, stating, :hat they did no drink her MajeGty% nor honour tke Ladies at the .Cacadx - s' a!i by rroper:rig a Toast. C, fic ! en each fusty 0'..1 Bzcheloes name, Who thus to the Ne.ion has publish'd I:is shame: Ncglecting 'mongst Ladles (nay—showing spleer), Ly omitting the health of our glorious Qssigll 0, !on such fu s ty old Bachelors' doings, 1; thews all their gallantry's running to rsirs ; ':b - as through London Papers to publish the case, To their names they have added eternal disgrace! The fair maiden Ladies will sure hold in scorn, Sa:h Jacobins-bred —though in Coventry born ; hp refined to the Fair See to do ample jus::ce., Ard style them in future " Tun Coultroy rcsr:cs Cc - matry, D.T. 4, 1820. 72/11:14G t 314 • Sae the &At of Satorday last. M.endav, ; the 40th ult. a fine sheep -.vas roasted w=tC.e, at Billinge, near Wigan, which, with nearly %X) weight of roast beef; and suitable vegetables, was distributed among the .poor families in the neigh ':eurhcod, order to celebrate the dismissal and less of the Rill of Pains and Penalties against her =est gracious Majesty the queen. A full band of rr.tisic, attended► by a numerous body, accompanied by flags and other decorations, enlivened the vil :age ; and a Very respectable party afterwards dined v.t r•lr. Howard's, the Stork Inn, when many loyal sc7.gs were sung, and the evening spent in the ut rr..o 17 armenv and good huniour. A. Public :Sleeting of the Inhabitants of the 80. of Kiideiminster was held on Monday last L,rrsave, Esq. in the Chair), at which various i.teAo.utions were agreed 01.0 n, censuring the whole It le of conduct adopted towards her Majesty the 3.;•.;E6:4 ; and an Address to her Maie.st congra ... .• her on her triumph. The Thanks of the li:•e•,;vg Were vr•ted to the Right Hon. Lord Fot.cv; few his constitutional opposition to the Bill of Pains l'enalzks. 7 . 11 - ESERAION, i'LNIYEn TO HAVE' ERIN PREACHED DE PORE HER MAJESTY, AT St PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, )3r IL BATIIURETI 11. D. Aacsosaooo or Xosirtcoi. TO THE LORD DISIIOV OF LLAIDAfI, Stc. Bceb London, Thursday, Nov. 30. Nit Loan—lt having appeared in the Newspapers that I came to Lnndou expressly to preach the Sermon at St. Paul's yester day, i think it right to acquaint you and the Public why and with what intentions I came. I certainly did come to town with a view to preach a Sermon on the 39th instant ; and I came at the Queen's Wish, commu nicated to me privately, but by authority; when I found that, as late u Saturday, an order had been issued from your Lord ship, as Dean of &. Paul's, that no Sermon should be preached. I did not know this tilt Monday, when I arrived in London ; and having no time to receive an answer, and conceiving that an explanation with Dr. Hughes would be useless, unless I could communicate with you, I thought any further steps from me ' might be, at the moment, only irritating and unwise. But I think it right, in my (Wen justification, to say, that whereas, in my capacity of a Parish Priest, I have, without any scruple, preached, or had a friend to 'preach for me, upon the funeral of a respectable Parishioner, and at the yearly meet ing of a Benefit Club, on St. ,Ton the Baptist's Day, I could not think that any objection would arise to adding a Sermon to the Service on the day upon which her Majesty went to St. Paul's, upon the loss of a Bill which, had it passed, would have been, I fear, the loss of the Country, and certainly the latter end of a Government of fixed and known law. That my intention, however, notwithstanding this conviction, in undertaking the task of preaching the Sermon., was to heal ) and not to irritate, I trust the composition, though necessarily hasty, which I publish, will sufficiently indicate. I never will make the Church the vehicle of insult, though I never will shrink there from a manly and temperate-exposition of my tree opinions and surely anything like feelings of per soNal animosity cannot be suspected in me towards a Ministry which numbers among its prominent members one to whom I am both nearly related by blood, and connected by.the tics of gratitude and friendship.-4 am, my Lord, very re.•pectfully. your obedient, etc. IL BATuuit.ST. PSALM CXYL is, 1). I•will receive the cup of salvation, and call u?on the cam? of the Loan. Voill pay my vows now in the presence of all his People, in the Courts of the Loan's House : even in the midst of thee, 0 Jerusalem, praise the LORD." It is a practice sanctioned by the highest religious authorities, and peculiarly consonant to the Liturgy of the Church established in this country, to return, in the presence Of the congregation of our fellow.. Christians, public thanks for, and acknowledgments of, our signal deliverance from danger, pain, or cala mity ; and it would .-ppear natural, according to the magnitude of that deliverance, and the importance of the person and circumstances connected therewith, to mark the same with a proportionate degree of ie. gard and honour. Most unquestionably " the heart knoweth its own bitterness, and a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy e' but, in considering the. secondary means employed by HEAVEN for the purposes of grace and mercy, we are naturally led to shew, in the manner of our gratitude, some recollection of the human in stru:nents thereof ; and in the actions of the creature to remember the CREATOR. And if it were these considerations alone which have led to the assembly at this day's worship, a mo derate attentive survey of circumstances might seem not only to justify, but demand,the present solemnity. few of these circumstances it is my intention here to touch, as tenderly as I can, consistently with what is due to the subject t but I will endeavour to avoid every expression which can anywhere be offer• sive, and every feeling which can irritate; while from the religious propriety itself of maintaining, in its purest action, that form and principle of government under which we were born, I shall hint at what ap pear to be the peculiar connections of individuals with public interest and safety in the occasion which as , sembles us. The general law of moral and social order, where by men are bound to bear patiently even the ills they have, rather than ay to those which they know not of, and the expediency as well as duty of waiting the course of events, under the direction of Hat who causes all things to work together for good with them that fear him—this general law seems to be clearly derived from natural and from revealed Re ligion; but the peculiar form of government under which men live, is, or ought to be, traced to an ori ginal compact, either expressed or implied, with that society in which our lot is cast, and in conformity wtth the progress of intellect, and moral and social improvement, resulting from experience and natural combinations of events. And herein lies the right merit peculiar to the British Constitution t not that it may,not be, in some parts, practically inconsistent with its professed ends ; not that it is free from in firmity and imperfection inseparable from all human things, and especially where sufficient disposition to wards repair has not been constantly evinced; but that, if suffered to operate without undue restriction, and even with connivance at some excesses, it esta blishes a corrective for any mistaken principle or dis eased action in the conduct of power, which ought ever to be directed with a regard to the general good, and the sound and honest feelings of mankind. And this corrective consists in the legitimate influence of public opinion, righting the vessel of State, as it were, in the very moment of imminent danger, and, under the favouring aid of Divtun PROVIDENCE, preserv ing both passengers and vessel from calamity. And thankful indeed, not only ought the high In dividual to be, but all who hear me, and all too who cannot hear me, if; under the agency of I'lw:et oelzee, this influence of public opinion is considered, nut only to have afforded a pause for further consideration, but to have saved that exalted Personage from ruin unmerited in the opinion of ro many millions ; and with her safety also to have preserved the original compact of a free Government from at least an ap parent violation, and averted a precedent which cer tainly, if drawn into rule, might have changed a government of hitherto known law into a complex despotism, wherein the Sovereign himself would have been only one amidst a host of masters; in name, indeed, paramount, but a victim ever after to the in trigues of bodies of men, upon whom shame, as upon an individual despot, could not operate; and who would necessarily have been led to make perpetual sacrifi:es of public interests to the collision of the passions and interests of each other. A multitude without rule and order, although in itself more grievous, yet may be ruled by awe, generally, of one sound and sage adviser . ; but factions alternately as• cendant, consolidating all the power of human go vernment, both legislative, judicial,, and executive, in themselves, and which, where they could so con solidate pawn, must be fall of unconfrienla!olefarce '64 liallmlted blaience, *bola 14 the gieftfett cala mity in which a free Goverrirtieot,could ever terminate. If, out of acknowledged reSilebtfor public opinion, we hive been preserved flom stub a result, this is ample cause for calling on the Public in unite in thankfulness towards Plaavan for it. !z Cron, Wht) ,guides the hearts of the people as Will as the esp. : duct of rulers, though sometimes fot his own grl• cions purposes in apparently different directions, not -to make the people think themselves superior to the Government, but tts link the Government, in the issue of extraordinary matters,, now and then, more closely with the affections of the people, and to re mind either, alternately, of their reciprocal obliga tions to each other: shewing Governors that they are but men among mankind ; and the People, that patience and steady, but peaceful, perseverance in honest convictions, may ever operate in the. end every reasonable purpose desired ; and that the work- I ing of free spirits together, under a Wholesome though not arbitrary controul, will finally heal in testine divisions, - without any of those evils which the history of the world too often has proved to f low ill-regulated oppositions to established rule. Go vernment itself learns to bend discreetly to _the pro bity and the feelings of a virtuous community s_and it is seen, that whatever lets or hindrances may for a moment lower like clouds, and cross the sunshine of our path ; though Monarchs, like ourselves, may be deceived ; yet " that the people tare no evil- doers" (to use the language of the book of Esther), " but they be the children- of the most high and most mighty living Coo, who hath ordered the kingdom both unto us and our progenitors in the most excel lent manner." Maws; grant the same may be the ultimate result—=however for a season deferred—of the matter, now agitating this land ; that the spirit' of order be softened by conviction into mildness ; and that another Esther may alike be comforted ! Think not that in this allusion I would break in upon the sanctuary, and especially in this sacred place, of that which, if order is to be maintained, and respect to. establis'led authority be preserved, must remain inviolable. No I if we deem the insti tutions of our country to have been shaken, it is ano ther and most just reason for thankfulness this day that the moment is gone by when the veil was ne cessarily torn from that which, by the agreement of mankind, has been so long held sacred. We, my brethren, in general, protested against this rude vio lence from the first ; and, in common with our coun trymen, implored a pause, before it was suffered to expose all that is dear to imagination and sacred in reason's eye, to that rude assault which we saw must be the consequence. 0, my brethren ! let us not lay bare the carcass of human greatness ; let us wrap it up in reverence, even as Polyxena is said to have gas thered up her robes in death, when sacrificed to the phantom of Achilles ! Say what we will, and think what we will, in a - moment of spleen, the decent and temperate splendour of monarchy takes from the rough edge of republican virtue, polishes integrity, and gives a stability and fitness to human things, which, on an extensive scale of society, cannot from any other form of Government be derived. It is mild in its true nature; it is liberal in its principles, when no stoppage of its ear to the voice of the corns =inky is contrived it is suitable to our relations above, When administered in purity ; and, though liable to imperfections, is allied to the nobler and more emiable.feeliuts of mortality. And shall not we thank MAVEN, that, by this recent deliverance,' this image of an innocent and virtuous idolatry, though rudely assaulted, has not been wholly de faced? A feeling of respect is essential to the exist ence of Monarchy. Monarchy, under the decent controul of popular rights, -is far too estimable, in the good which it produces, to be barteted for an un certainty ; and for the preservation of itd dignity by the mild influence of public opinion we ought to be grateful, as for the preservation of a parent from a state of dangerous indisposition : and do you think, if that parent bad wept, as he once did, weep, at the decease of the most amiable of Statesmen, though by power little favoured • an Israelite indeed in whom there was no guile; the friend too of those, who in a, trying hour have trodden in his paths, and proved , the wisest friends of monarchy, of justice, and their country—a parent, who I knew too even refused to eat his bread, at least for a short season, from exces sive, though manly, affliction .—do you think, that when a knower courtesy and urbanity of manners, which can only spring from a soul possessed of in ward principles of great benevolence, distinguishes that parent, whatever storms and tempests may in terpose, whatever tides of opinion and circumstance may have ebbed and flowed—do you think it not fit to rejoice that this parent is restored to that station and dignity, wherein he can alone fully exercise the functions which are the, purposes of his political existence? Many other topics might be touched upon; which, though introduced generally; yet might revive painful emotions; I shall, therefore, leave them. • - But it is not merely the tender of grateful feelings ao the ALMIGHTY by which, Iconceive,and by which every well-thinking . and candid mind must be cow vinced, that this day is intended to be made memo rable. Even in the expression of thanks I would allow there might be blended a spirit of triumph in consistent with that meekness and reasonableness, paid deep humility, with which man ought to ap proach the Throne of -Grace. No ! not for that worldly Majesty itself, which is incapable of such a wish, would I utter anything, and especially here, which could degrade the authority I am bound to support, by every means consistent with. the princi ples upon which it is founded; and which, like our selves, has a right, in all our reflecting moments ac• knowledged, to a construction the most charitable we can put upon the exercise thereof. No but I will declare, in this sacred place, that, in the attendance here of that which I believe to be a branch of 'Ma jesty insulted and injured by recent workings of mis chief, I do not see any wish to prolong those feelings which, in their duration, can only lead to the breach of public peace and private charity. 1 see, in the presence of that High Personage here, not only a justifiable and reasonably to be expected gratitude, evinced to a generous nation for a discreet exercise of their lawful and constitutional influence in her behalf; but I see a disposition, the most earns est, to conciliate those who have listened to her dead liest maligners ; and this, which I will bow' speak for her, is the language I seem to hear flour that persons age to the assembly of this day : , " I have. afforskstil spa s sufficient to ,cosiviitte • • . r . • ril liaa %%togs the Want . d 5 V t.tt 1)0- tI t . who were most itripartiallx.dismed tp tear evil a: Well as good of me. i'orAttose OrlS6 tit i> itatifs fled, I liatte added my edema- draqarafrotilieferie GOD and my totinkry, before the tribunal of my gislative jadges, I have santticeed that deeliratica of a 'conscience void of pffetice towaid Goo and man' as to the charges of my . accusers , by partaking ri these holy mysteric., from which the most suspicious natitte will hardiy appeal. . . . " Altk tour own hearts, is there anything ranit or power so fascinating, . and at the evening of a troublous and t stormy life, that I should . go to my 1 - grave, where 1 hope 0 find repose, and to be jcined again by the Saint in l-IsaireN whii.:ll so untimely Itft me, with the drag-Cintin of deliberate perjory.? Is there anything in the applause of a multitude here which can tecompense me for the lots of the . appliuse of angels in HEAVEN? 4 . 1111 I such a fool is to set dine against immeasurable eternity, and at the moment too when humanlife mane? Did I not believe eyed in Cartist as the rock of my salvation, yet is therti not something after death, a something adown that stream which carries us all towards eternity, enough m_appal the irtiaginatiou, and ai rest the progress of one who would defy wantoply the terrors of the iit% , visible : world ? • "Da yOu think that I *mild Make n (naiad g. mockery forat:ght . wliicli On this side of the grave ii left me?, if ipulltiuk so, ycu would do it yourselft and you partake nOt . of, that charity which thinketh no evil, anithoPeth 411 ihings. " Ellthat ehatity.whieh you would have, shewn td you ; by 1 - .llat apprehension of something after death; by the clearest eyideneei clk Hiss: who died for opr sins, and, rather t,hrn that our sins should be imputed to ourselves, suffered death for us; .by everything that is .honourable, that is amiable, in hureitinity ; on this solemn, this awful occasion, in the most public manner• which can be adopted, in the Metropolitan Church of this country, 1-do appeal to Ile/lynx ia confirmation of that which I have asserted before men ; and I crave the interpretation and the judr: ment of that charity which thinketh no evil.' Such, my brethren, do I conceive to be genuine interpretations of this day's solemnity ; thus do I con strue, and am persuaded truly, the feelings of that tender and affectionate, though courageous spirit, which claims our best of sympathies. 'May this olive branch be accepted 1 clay pledge be received! May He, "to whom all hearts be open, all desires known, and from whom no se crets arse hid, see fit, in the gracious dispeniatiOas of his providence, to permit this thing to do its perfect, work: And let us put up our aspirations to lIEAVEN that it may be received as justice, as charity, as the honour of Monarchy requires 1--that the day may speedily come, •tvhen,instead of the voice of remon strance and complaint, nothing may be heard but that of-confidence-in-ear-Rulers, and Unmixed con -1 gratulation on passing events ; when every Man, con sistently with his line of mingled and varied 'duty , ' may quietly seek wholl y to do his own bushiest, re serving interference in public affairs for .those mteo ' mentous intervals when. it would be a breach of duty to refrain therefrom.. And if, unhappily, that season should be for a little while.retarded, even then let us trust in that Gon still, With . a manly submission to the, powers . that be, with a manly confidence that • Gan s6ill=raise up fresh stars in the hemisphere, as he bath done lately, who shallight and sheer . us in but a:tritest paths and,tiarak; that shill in Autumn's latest evening dart forth again the genikfulluences of Spring and the rays of noontide glor 4 t: 'And let us hope, that, as there is an abundance of • counsel, and of elOquence, so there may. .virtral.enough, though tardy, to stand forward in the ranks of disc cruet and Wholesome freedom, of tbat:Oght trans. • - mitted to. us by our ancestors from distant time, un-, der the gracious providences of Rod, who tiever wilt desert the virtuous, the contrite, and the just, and - who will cause always all things finally to Work: to-, gether for the good of them that love him l - —. • . ecinesday, Dr. CAREY, the new-Bishop of Exeter; was installed, by proxy, Treasurer of the Cathedral of Exeter. . . A fatal accident occuted on Wednesday night last k at Sheerness, to a young man of he name pf Thomas Stunt, employed as a labourer in the new works card rying on at that place. It, appears, that as the rin . fortunate man was about his duty, hernissed his foot , ing, walked over the platform, and was drowned. - l-Ls body was picked up en Thursday morning, and a lantern, which he was holding at the time he fell, Y• as found firmly grasped in his hand. . . .• . Monday night last s Mr. Sturm, a t espeoatale ..I inhabitant of Eensington, was ,brought hefor!.rilr: .. Mtiatint,t., at Bow-street O ffi ce, charged .011. din., oaths of Christopher North and others, with haling • caused the death of J. May, a pattol in the employ of the trustees Of the Kensington Roads The, fol lowing are the leading circumstances of the affair s One night, at the beginnkg of last week, .the. de ceased was ' boxing in the road, near Kensington Gravel-pits, with a man named Cooley, when Mr. 'Sturm, MSc) happened to' be passing, Interfered to pact them. • Mri Sturm was very much intoxicated at the time, ai were both the combatants ; and -in ,the ~, i file the deceased:fell against the bank; .40t1 the witness above.mentioned C. North) - swore positively that he saw Mr. Sturm kick the deceased several times on the side, whilst he was down. pit the following day the deceased complained of a pain in•his side, and continued getting worse and worse uutil Monday last, when he died. It appeared also that a Mr. TucA was engaged in the beawl ; and it was stated that he also had been guilty of some foul play towards the deceased,' Cn the other side, a number of witnesses, several of them very respecta ble persons, gave a very different account of the aft fair, in which :hey entirely exculpated the accused, and attributed •the whole blame to the ungovernab:e violence cf the deceased himself. Mr. MlNStimn (the Magistrate), however, said, he should not only detain Mr. Sturm in cus tody, but should issue hi; warrant for the apprehension of the other two per sons said. to he concerned, Mr. Sturm's friends ofs fered bail to any amount, but Mr. Sturm was sent to the watch-house, to wait the Incision of a Coroner's Incniest, and warrants were issued against Cooley and Tuck. Wednesday. night an Inquest was held upon the body, before the .Coroner, at Kensington; ;tad atter several -hours: investigation, the Jury re- Aurngd a verdict, that the death of th e deciaseci was caused by his . own misconduct. . • • Rti I=- 17: k:t SC.!, nil.l lir! ors:• try. pr.l C:Cid S yte )1 .2 . • 1 1 ' , • I: • y • ,