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ROYJL AQIIATIC EXCURSION. COWES, SEPTEMBER 26, His MAJESTY this day disembarked from the Royal I George yacht, at West Cowes, amidst general enthu- I siastic shouts of welcome ) and huzzas from an im mense concourse of the Fashionable World assembled on the Parade and near the Fort. The royal barge, which bore the Kis° to the shore, was attended by the six-oared boats of the ships of the squadron, and about one hundred pilot and local boats, all dressed with appropriate colours ; and, on his MAJESTY'S ap pt'oach to the shore, the Fort fired a royal salute.— The it Ixo was conducted to Lis newly-purchased re tidence by General the Hon. Sir EDWARD PAGET, tOtJ GRANTHAM, the Hon. BERKELEY PAGET, GEO. WARD, Esq. JOHN DASH, Esq. and several other Gen tlemen; and after inspecting its state and accommo dations, teturned to the landing-place, and re-em barked in the royal barge for the yacht, under in creased acclamations of applause from the multitude, and royal salutes from the forts and ships of war.— Soon after, the royal y acht and squadron got under weigh for Spithead, and took a short cruize till five o'clock, when they will all return to Cowes Roadstead, his MAJESTY having this day engaged Lord and Lady GRANTHAM, and a select party, to dine on board.— PI spite of the equinoctials, the KING pursues his sail ing, and is deriving, we are happy to say, improved -health and look daily, from the salubrious sea• breezes of the solent waters of the Wight. The weather being so very had on Sunday, his MAJESTY could not land to hear Divine Service at Cowes, as was his Royal in tention ; hundreds in consequence were disappointed, many of whom took possession of the peWs of the Church as early as nine o'clock. The Rev. Doctor JAMES HOOK, one of his Majesty's Chaplains, was commanded to preach, but from the impossibility of the K t NO'S landing, he heard Di vine Service on board, his Majesty's Suite, the Officers of the royal yacht, and crew, all attending on deck, under an awning pre pared for the occasion. THE ARMY. rommissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Norfolk. William Wilson Lee Warner, Esq. to be Deputy Lieutenant; William Beauchamp Proctor, Esq. to be ditto ; Nicolas Style man, Esq. to be ditto; Frederick Hare, Esq. to be ditto; Ed ward Mellish, Clerk, to be ditto; Roger Freston Howman, Clerk, to be ditto; Humphrey John Hare, Clerk, to be ditto. First, or Western Regiment of Norfolk Militia. Ensign Rd. David Williams to be Lieut. vice Coils, resigned. Commission in the Warwickshire Regular Militia, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Warwick. Capt. Jos. Moore Boultbee to be Major, vice Harding, deceased. Commissions in the Dumbarton Company of Volunteer Infan try, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Dum barton. Jacob Dixon, jun. Gent. to be Lieutenant ; Robert Buchanan, Ge*t. to be ditto; Alexander Eider, Gent. to be Ensign. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. nt3toevw, Sm. 24. —Wind W.N. W.—Arrived the Hope, Gocarirr from Virginia, in thirty-three days. Sailed the Swift sure packet, with Mails for the Islands. Wtmenovn, Se.rr. 25.—The French ship L. IL of about 30 tons burhen, PARIS Master, was driven on shore on Portland beach yesterday morning, with the lou of one boy. The cargo is saved. Poarsmottvw, Sarroutzis 26.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrived the 'Borsch, Ildl, from Smyrna. Sailed the Cincinnatos, GRISWOLD, •for New York; Marcia, for St. Thomas's; May, for Sc. John's; and several others. Drat., Starr. 26.—Wind N.N.W.--Arrived and remain the - Honourable Company's ships Bombay, HAMILTON ; Hereford ":hire, hove; Marquis of Ely, lisewa utmost ; and William Pitt, GRAHAM, from China; Daphne, MA VTISON, from Calcutta ; William Bryan, URQUHART ; Sir Joseph Banks, L.tcv ; and Thetis, %imin.cros, from Jamaica; Waterloo, Pxoost, from Rio • Janeiro; Lien, lioz, from Leghorn; and Helm, Wicsom, from Atico:la. Came down from the River the Prince Blucher, Joust slos, fa- Madras and Bengal, and sailed with the whole of the uutward-hound. Put back with loss of anchor and cable, the Joseph Green, GIANNI-. The Daphne left Calcutta the 16th of May, and S. I lelena 9th August On the 4th September spoke the Grenada, from Batavia: Passed the Essex, Al AMON, off Sauget., which had put back, supposed in distress. The Mary, Li•sx, sailed about 14 days previous. Ster. lo.—Arrived the Beaufoy packet, with a llatl front (7,, shaven. GRAVESEND, Seer. 26.—Sailed the Brilliant, FENN, for Calcutta. Ait r RDEF.N, SEPT. 25.—A rrived the Letitia, CLARE, front Davis' Straits, 16 fish, 170 tuns. Srrr. 2S.—.Arrived the Ilebe, Corse:so, from Davis' Straits, 19 fi%h, :770 butts; and Iknry, PLAZTON, front' ditto, 11 fish, 420 butts,. Ct•stmt-Ilousr, Srrr. 26.—Entered Inwards :—The Active, front Oporto; Chatsworth, from Baltimore; Briton, from Que bec ; Neath Castle, from Portsmouth; Duke of York; Cer vantes; arid Lady Ridley, from Jamaica; and Union, from St. Peters'borgh.--Entered Outwards:—Rawlins, for St. Kitt's; Arm, Victoria. Tulloch Castle, Sir Godfrey Webster, and I live, for Jamaica; Belina, for Grenada; Mars, for Montserrat; Julie, for Calais; Favourite, for Port-au-Prince ; Diligence, for Dublin ; Jane, for Ilamburgh ; and Charles, for Barcelona.— cleared Outwards :—Alfred, for Pillau ; 'fiber, for llantburgh; General Murray, for Antwerp ; Aurora, for Bremen ; Friends, for Eisineur ; Elizabeth, :for Rotterdam ; Effort, and Sophia, for Stettin; and Policy, and Sir Andrew Hammond, for the South Seas. BOUNC.—Yesterday all was hustle amongst the sniffing tribe. It was given out that a rare goad fight was to take place at Wim bls•don Common, between Teesdale and Hawkins, men of light weights, but adepts in their line of business ; and the Commis !..try was followed in the morning by the Reincrites of the town. :Marches and counter-marches took place, to have the thing snug, and at length the acetdorna was fixed on a Common through Dulwich, but instead of Hawkins and Teesdale, two minor operators of the names of tikodsiard and Cunantings,peded for a stake of twenty guineas —the forma seconded by Harry Holt, and the latter by Scroggins. The men are light ones, and as adven turers who are little known, it can only be said that they exhi bitedno thinihg qualifications at the give and take. They fought for more than an hour very awkwardly, and made tine move ments in their way, but were none of the bloody-minded sort; -suffice it to say, that Cummings made a win of it. Thac.tyr and Thurn.—.l manly, although not a scientific fight, took place at Fysk-green, in liens, for 100 guineas : in which' . three rounds, which Listed 50 minutes, were fought, and they ,cave aad took most unmercifully. Thorn bad the best of rally it limn quickness, and drew first blued; but Thacker waited. steachly for his adversary, and placed tremendous heavy hits, told in much earnest, although but seldom. In one of the, operative touches, Thorn was sent to the ground, as if he was to remain there, by a right-handed body blow, which left a swel:ing like a cricket-ball—The second round was gallantly ht, and both hit themselves to a stand-still. When reco vered they unmuzzled again, and Thacker was hit down. IP the third round neither could come to time, but after three mi nims they turned to again courageously. This round lasted 18 and on Thorn being hit down he could not come again' '1 liacksa, although the winner, suffered most, and was carried off the ground. MEETING AT FREEMASONS' TATERM ADDRESS TO HER MAJESTY. Yesterday, pursuant to public advertisement, Meeting was held at this plate, of the Inhabitants, Ladies and Gentlemen, resident in London and West minster, to consider of and adopt an Address to her MAJESTY, expressive of the opinion entertained by the persons present, of the proceedings now pending against her in Parliament. The Meeting was held in the Great Room of the Tavern, which, it is calculated, will contain 4000 persons ; a considerable crowd had assembled round the Tavern, previous to the doors being opened (twelve o'clock), and, in a few minutes after the Public were admitted, the Room, with - the exception of the space reserved for the Chairman and the Mem bers of the Committee, was completely filled. Of the persons present, a great portion consisted of re spectably-dressed females. Soon after the clock had struck one, symptoms of impatience for the com mencement of business were expressed, and, Mr. Peaeson mounted the table. The hour for commencing business had new arrived, and as the Room was now as full as it could conveniently be, be would propose that a deputation should be sent to several Gentlemen whom he knew were in an ad joining room, and who intended to honour the Meet ing with their presence, requesting their attendance. This suggestion was agreed to unanimously, and Mr. Bowl's, a Gentleman present, was dispatched to request their attendance. In a short time afterwards, Mr. HOBHOUSE en tered the room, accompanied by Mr. P. MOORE, Mr. HUME, Mr. Alderman WooD, Mr. TIIELWALL, and several other gentlemen. Mr. HOBHOUSE wa. unanimously called to the Chair, and proceeded immediately to address the Met-ting. He thought it would be quite unnecessary for him to occupy their time by any preliminary re marks on the purpose for which they were assembled; it was a subject too familiar to them all to require any explanation ; but he might perhaps be allowed to remind them that this Meeting differed materially from former ones ; they were now met to declare an opinion on the charges brought forward by the ene mies of her Majesty and of the King, against the first subject of the realm, and on all the efforts they had been able to make in support of those charges. It was scarcely necessary for him to congratulate the Meeting and the country on that which he had always felt must come to pass. He had always de dared his opinion of what must be the result of an inquiry before a tribunal, such as the House of Peers, which did not possess a constitutional right to cite her before its Bar. He would not say there had not been former instances of such proceedings ; but they were instances only existing in the worst periods of our history, namely, in the reign of that tyrant, Henry VIII. but even those times, bad as they were, did not furnish a parallel to the present case ; for at that time, when the tyrant sent to demand of the Judges whether it was legal to proceed to condemn an accused party without citation, the Judges replied, they would not presume to impugn his Majesty's high authority, but they considered such a proceed ing would go to establish a dangerous precedent; and that, in their opinion, it would be better the High Court of Parliament should incline to mercy, than adhere to the strict line of justice. In the pre sent case, the Peers had not cited her Majesty, and it was only in consequence of the Petition presented by her Majesty's Legal Advisers, that she was before them at all ; and when she shewed the courage and magnanimity of mind she possessed, by going down and facing her accusers, she was charged by the scribes of the Treasury with being guilty of con summate impudence—(Applause).—Her only crime appeared to be, that she would not submit to be trampled upon, without making an appeal to the Pecple over whom she had a right to reign. Her first offence appeared to be, comi►y; here when her enemies wished her to be absent ; her second, per sisting in staying here when they wished her away ; and her third, going with unheard-of effrontery to face her accusers. He wished now to know what right the Peers had to try her at all? He had looked over the Statute of Treasons, and found there, that to conspire against the Queen was treason as much as it was to conspire against the King—( Applause). He was aware that lawyers would quibble, and at tempt to make a difference between the Queen Sove reign and the Queen Consort; but, in his opinion, and in the opinion of common sense, the Queen on the Throne was the same in either character.— Adverting again to the proceedings before the Lords, here was the King's Attorney-General, forgetting his office, and, when asked by the Peers, on whose behalf he attended? he replied, he attended for their Lordships. Thus he was their Lordships Attorney- General, and their Lordships were not only the Judges and Jurors, but the prosecutors also !—(Applomse). They might easily judge of what was to come by what was past. The Peers had refused her Majesty a list of the witnesses, and a specification of the times and places; and when her Attorney-General applied to be permitted to open the defence, he was refused permission, unless he would consent to pi'oceed im mediately with his witnesses. After this, was it pre suming too much to say she would not have a fair trial ?—(Applause, and cries of No, no !)—But it was said her Majesty was to be tried by peers, by Nobles of high birth and honour ; by Bishops too, who were every day recommending justice to all, in their ser mons : and by Judges, who were in the daily habit of administering the laws. True ; but he would read an opinion given by an eminent historian, in the reign of James L on the subject of the Bishops, as regarded the case of divorce between the Countess of Essex, and the Earl of Somerset. The historian commenced, his record on the subject as follows r—s. Needs must, when the Devil drives. Yet, knew he not (meaning Somerset) how •to handle this subject with effect, without making the King a party to this paltry and wicked business ; but this was not difficult, for the King's eye was wandering after a new favourite, as he was tired of his old one"--(Laud and reiterated shouts of applause).—The Lords were also called in, for it was well known that when a bad act was to be done, the Bishops would not remain idle lookers on. The Bishop of Winchester, it VMS a pity it was not the Bishop of Exeter, was chief actor, and for his so, I Join; his son was knighted. Was there any altera tioa an the character of the Bishops since that time? and vas it unreasonable to think the*Bishops might not always to on the side of iastice? There were 24 Bishops, and that number out of 320 was a very considerable proportion. It was stated, indeed, in ths-public Papers, that Loid Liverpool had declared, he shbuld not be hurt, let Noble Lords vote do this question whichever *way they would ; he wished they would vote according to their consciences: 'this declaration not only told a great deal, but a great deal too much, since it proved that Noble Lords did not always vote according to their own consciences, but according to the conscience of the Minister.— This assurance of the Prime Minister was far from satisfying his mind, for although Lord Liverpool said he should not feel hurt whatever way Noble Lords might vote, would his Lordship insure that other persons, who for the last twenty years had been prosecuting her Majesty, would permit any vote to pass to shelter their victim ? In this case, if a man determined to do his duty, he must be content to do it at his own personal risk and loss. He must expect to be calumniated, and to have no other reward but an approving conscience. One other re.vard, in deed, he would have, rich beyond any other in it self—he would have the applause of the generous, just, and liberal people of England, who would never suffer an innocent unprotected female to be oppressed or condemned unjustly—(Loud applause). Under all the circumstances, as they at present stood, he would ask who dared to say the charges were, in the slightest degree, made good? Who, he asked, were the witnesses brought forward ? Discarded servants; who, since they were discharged by her Royal Highness, had been in the service of the pto secutor. In the country from whence they came, one of the established maxims of justice was, that a discharged servant was never heard as an evidence against his former employer. Yet, it appeared, that the most material witness of all, he meant the cou rier, who had gone by three different names that he would tell, and many that he would not, had been a year in the Queen's service, and eighteen months in the service of the Milan Commission ; and this most important witness, with every inclination to serve his new employers, proved nothing. He would not now attempt to go through the evidence, and by his com ments weaken the effect which would be made by the Queen's Counsel, when they came to speak on it. hut having been in that country, Italy, for some time, he must observe on that part of the evidence which charged her Majesty with standing to witness Mahomet's dancing, and charged that dance as in decent. He had seen that dance a thousand times, and had seen the most modest of all females, the Turkish women, stand to look on at it and laugh ; the' e was nothing in it that any but the most depraved mind could construe as indecent. It was one of the customary dances of the country, and was far less indecent than the dancing at the Opera House in this country was—(Applause)—though it might not be so graceful. He would not talk of other parts of the evidence, but if the whole were believed, what did it prove, not a charge of morals, but of manners, and if such a charge was to be entertained, who would be sate. If any one should be so unworthy, so un manly, and unmanly it would be, as to pry into the secret and domestic conduct of the females of our own Royal Family, could any one take on himself to say materials might not be fabricated to make half a dozen Green Bags of?—(Applause).—So as to the' story of the baths—even supposing all alleged to be true, might it not be the custom of the country. He knew that at Moscow one of the favourite amuse-, ments of the Court was, at a certain period of the' year, for Noble Ladies and Gentlemen to take the warm bath together. But there was no necessity to go abroad for instances—at home, at Bath, he had seen Ladies and Gentlemen looking through the window of the Pump-room to see others of both sexes standing in the bath to be pumped upon. If this fact was stated nakedly, and without exploit*. tion, what opinion could be formed by a stranger of the conduct of a young Lady so amusing herself ; but explained, it would appear to be only a custom. It had also been said by Lord Liverpool, when talk ing of the fairness of the proceedings against the Queen, that even the witnesses who had to depose to certain facts were kept together in sets, and had no comniunication with any ether set. Now this was, an extraordinary regulation : thus suppose there were three incidents to which a certain number of witnesses were to be examined, say fifteen wit nesses, they were to be divided into three sets of five each, who were to be kept to themselves, and might easily be trained to the particular fact they went to prove. In his opinion these sets ought to be separated, and not kept together at all. Notwith standing all these regulations, he trusted the opinion of the people, and the consciences of Parliament, would procure an acquittal for her Majesty. If, however, she should be convicted by the Tribunal before which she was placed, it would not alter his opinion; nor did he believe it would alter the opi nion of the country one jot—(Loud applause).—lf be was at all inclined to blame her Majesty, it was that she had not followed the example of that unfortunate Monarch Charles I. and declared, like him, against being tried bya Tribunal not fairly and legally con stituted. He thought it was now the duty of every honest mind to come forward and congratulate her MAjesty on the result of this persecution, in which the fleets, armies, and treasures of a mighty Empire combined, had not been able to prevail against a, poor defenceless female ! He must again repeat, there' was more tyranny in the proceeding against her Ma jesty, than in that of Henry the Eighth against Queen ] Catherine, since Queen Catherine was supported by the power of her relative the Emperor; and so pro. tected, the King could not prevail on the Bishops to, pronounce a sentence against her. When her pre. sent Majesty, being only related to our own Royal _Family, was to be degraded almost without a trial— (Applause).—He was persuaded, however, that the people would not suffer this; that they would come forward, one and all, to support this deserted and persecuted female. He wouid not now detain the Meeting longer than to read them a letter he hid received from his worthy Colleague, Sir Francis Bur dett,. expressing his regret that severe indisposition prevented hi► attending the Meeting ; he had also letters from some other Gentlemen, excusing their absence, which would be read to them. A letter was then read from THOMAS WlLsow, Esq. one of the City Members, stating as a reason for not attending the Meeting, that he was absent from town. A letter from Mr. WHITBREAD, Mem ber for Middlesex, pleaded a similar excuse, A letter from the Honourable (ism I.3x.NNerr ex pressed Ws full concerrence in the object of the Meeting, and his regret that illness in his family pre, vented his being present. The object of the Meeting had his warmest wishes, and he sincerely hoped it would be followed by similar ones in .every part of the kingdom—(Applause). Mr. P. Moons rose, amid much congratulation. The Gentleman, he said, who had preceded him, had entered so fully into the merits of this question, that nothing was left for him to do but to draw a con clusion, namely, that this was a foul conspiracy, not against the Queen, but against the State ; and, as he had said in another place, he believed his Majesty's.. Ministers were at the bo:tom of it. As regarded the Queen, he would only say, that notwithstanding the artillery arrayed against her, he believed, on his con science as a Juror, she was not guilty ; and he had last night received such information, as enabled him to declare an opinion that such evidence would be brought forward in the two first days, by her Majes ty's advisers, as would place the two great chiefs against the Queen, the Loral Chancellor and Lord Liverpool, in such a situation that they would be happy indeed to be allowed to come forward and de clare that they had been imposed upon —(Appla use). —The question of the Queen's innocence and guil was now a secondary consideration; the question was now as to the existence of the State, in spite of the machinations of those men who were anxious to de. stroy our whole domesticity. He called on every one, man, woman, and child, to rise and oppose this con temptible enemy. And who, he would ask, were the contemptible enemy they were called on to oppose? Wby the Milan Commission; composed of the Vic Chancellor, who he should say, on this occasion,ought to be called the Chancellor of Vice—(Applause),-- a number of contemptible Italian witnesses, and a Colonel Browne. Who Colonel Browne was, he knew not, but he was found bribing that abominable Demote, and who would soon come forward and claim that the labourer was worthy of his hire. He called on the patriots of the country, who were well known, to step forward on this occasion and defeat this enemy against their domesticity, and thereby obtain a victory for the country, greater and mo e important than those of Trafalgar or Waterloo— (Applause).—lle had now a few Resolutions to pro pose to them, and here he must detain them with a few observations on that which related to that great officer the Attorney-General, who appeared u willing that any one should etcape. The Attorney- General, as a public officer, was an important and useful person; it was his duty to take care that the law was not violated; but here the Attorney-General had come forward to persecute the Queen in breach of all law, against the opinion of the country, and in a case where no crime had been committed that he could discover. The. Attorney-General's was ass lionourahle office, but the person who at p:esent held the office had degraded it and himself by making it a political engine—(Applause).—He felt the greatest satisfaction at seeing so respectable a Meeting, but how were their proceedings to go to the world ? Why there was only a small portion of the public here, and the walls could not speak, but there was a little engine at work which would assist them moat powerfully, namely, the Public Press—(Applartse). Give him but the Liberty of the Press, and he would defy the world—(Applause).—Here he must advert to another point. In all the recent trials, at. Yo k and other places, so anxious bad they been to cuddle up all those things, that a prohibition had been issued against publication, and one Gentleman had been fined by the Court £5OO for presuming to act con , trary to that prohibition. That Gentleman had his thanks for what he had done, and he trusted he would not pay the 12500. The House of Lords had, on this occasion, thought fit to be very liberal, and of their great goodness to permit the publication of the abos ininable disgusting evidence, which they ought to have been most careful to have suppressed ; but how had they even allowed this boon to the Public Press? Why, said their Lordships, we will admit one Gen tleman from each Paper, well knowing that you will only dare to publich just as much as we shall choose, and lio more. He trusted,however, the Public would come forward and support the Public Press, and that the Editors of Newspapers would, in future, attend to no prohibition, unlzss founded on constitutional authority. He concluded by moving a series of Resolutions.--They were seven in number. The first declined the conviction of the Meeting, that the close of the case against the Queen in the House of Lords, had fully confirmed her innocence of the charge • brought against her: The second declared, that no creditable witness, except Cautains Pechell and Briggs, had been called by the Attorney •General.— Thu third, reprobated the pay and remuneration given to the witnesses as excessive, and inconsistent with the desire to obtain honest unbiassed testimony. The fourth, strongly reprobated the conduct of the Attorney and Solicitor-General, for their mode of conducting the proceedings against her Majesty,— The fifth, declared the opinion of the Meeting, that the proceedings against her Majesty originated in a conspiracy, in which his Majesty's Ministers were deeply implicated. The sixth, declared the conduct of Ministers to be calculated to bring the Crown into contempt, and the Throne into danger; and that Ministers, for such conduct, ought to be impeached. The seventh, was expressive of applause towards the Public Press, for the manly stand it had made in defence of her Majesty. Mr. Tirenweint. rose to second the Resolutions. He said, it had been industriously circulated that he, and those who acted with him, only looked to the interests of the lower orders, as they were called, negligent of all the interests of those persons posses. sed o f rank and property. But the proceedings cf to-day had given a flat denial and contradiction to this assertion, since on this and former days they had been seen standing forward in defence of her Ma jesty and persons of all ranks and descriptions. He believed this proceeding to beta conspiracy against her Majesty nominally, but against the &ate in reality ; and that in now standing forward to support her Majesty,-the first subject in the realm, they were defending the rights and privileges of the lowest per. sons in society—(Applaxse). He had some reason to believe that other conspiracies were hatching to bring forward charges, not only of adultery, but of other descriptions.. There might be charges of esti- • ficial treasons, as well as artificial adulteries. Per. hips the charge of adultery might be converted into treason, and those persons who supported her might beimplicated in the iadictinent. But at presage he as . . • • .1