Star. — London, England, 1820-09-26 00:00:00

ADDRESSES TO THE QUEEN. It had been announced that her MAJESTY wotid yesterday receive several of the Addresses which had been voted to her from various places since the closing if the case for the prosecution, and as it was antici pated that the Deputations would in some instances lie more numerous, and afford a greater display than usnal, the expectations of the people were considerably excited. The morning proved uncommonly fine, which added much to the brilliance and festivity of the scene; few, indeed, of the London folks could with stand the inducements to making a holiday. Every street and every alley opening on the line of the dif ferent processions became gradually crowded with anxious spectators. A countless multitude of vehicles r4f every description, from the barouche to the taxed cart, filled with company, and an endless throng of : , ede,trians of all classes, including a greater propor a of well-.tressed people, females in particular, is we remember to have observed on any former occasion, were seen filing along the road-from Hyde Park Corner to llrandenburgh House, which at length presented to the view one continuous moving line of t l seetators. The windows of every house were filled, ;lad moAly decorated with boughs of laurel ; and the moldier of flags, chiefly white, displayed in different 7:::ces, !:otne bearing mottoes suitable to the occasion as " Innocence Triumphant 1"--4 , Protection for (Jppreved !"—" 11EirEN- protect the Innocent P .‘ ()Li deji•nd Me Qum x 1"), greatly enhanced the - .iiety of the scene. The numbers who gained ad -I...:t:anze to the !awn and shrubbery were immense, and ecgtducted themselves in a more orderly manner ,n 1 - (rater occasion • ') !zionc appointed to convey the Addresses to Ilnindenburgh House, assembled in their respective Committee-rooms, where they were attended by vast cru. ~.s, ttho purposed to accompany them to the feet of !:or MAJESTY, with the loyal and dutiful expres si-its ol • their respect for her coutage, and their sym -1,:i:ly in her suffe.ings. The several Deputations p.0..e...ded towards Brandenburgh House, from their re.Thective Cammittee-rooms, taking various routes, a;:d g.eeted thrzaighout their progress with the nr , :t cheers, expressive of the deepest syr.ti.x.hy and warmest approbation of congregated thousands of the thinking and dell-informed of this Ev.erous and earightened people. About half-past twelve o'clock the hells of Ham mersmith Church, on the tower of which the white ensign of Britain was flyinj, ringing ont a merry peal, gave notice of the approach of the Wptitation Eraser the Ward of Farringdon Without'. The pro c:.-,sr.n was headed by Alderman IWAIT/0111g, in his pr : : •f carriage, preceded by four beadles on horse back, hearing gilt maces, and consisted of male inha hi:ants of the IVard, in 24 open landaus, drawn by Icor horses each, and ten cart iages with pairs. Ti' t following is her 3IAJESTY% Answer to their Address : " The Inhabitants of the Ward of Varringdon.Witheut have lung ,hewn themselves the friends of liberty and the enemies of t i e a .r..sslon. It gives mar, therefore, great pleasure to receive in.inisted, constitutional, and alnetionate Address from ('itiece.• el the Metropolis, whose principles are so congenial with Irla ) own. " Toe w. Weed the unexampled, sympathy which I have experience': on the part of the British People, has not only alle viat.el otj s.afferings, but has added strength to that fortitude which th. i .tzrnal sentiments of integrity would never suffer to Languish in my heart. At the same time, if Ido not feel, per hap. 1 oeght :o feel, more gratitude than resentment towards my e.tem.es, for the wrongs which they have endeavoured to beq o.a nte, when 1 consider that those wrongs are likely, a: ,cr the d.rt coon of a superintending ritOVIDINCE, to assist the N., a te• every of its constitutional rights and liberties. " .1. ....spit of Eng:avid are now strongly convinced, that the faction is nut merely attempting to deprive me of my le.reer or my HA - s, but is, through me, aiming a fatal blow at tk every individual in then: realms. My destruction wow:: pr pare the wry for the destruction .4 public liberty. My cruse, has become every man's cause. It is, indeed, the cause of all classes—of the high the low—of the Peer and the peasant—.•f the rich and tee poor: for, to which of I classes is a free Constitution not a bruefit? Or to whom is it rot a blessing to be independent and free? But, if my rights are once sacrificed ar .h.- shrine of tyranny, liberty will soon be- ; come only a name. It wiil, at least fur a time, he buried in my tomb. I; wail, inked, revive, Mr it is ao inde structible essence and, while man exists upon the earth, it cannot be entirely de stroyetl. But it may suffer a temporary extinction of its spirit, ter a i.aralris of its powers. " Aearchy is the greatest of all evils ; but anarchy Is usually the climax of bad government. Bad government sacrifices the • interests cf the many to that of the few, till the very elements of the social scheme, wanting the strong cement of the common itred, are so shattered and disjointed, that they can harlilly be fired together by any principle from within, or any power from svi:hout. The vessel of State is then cast for a time, like a scat tered wreck, upon the waters of strife. " If the People ask ow, •• Wha are we to do In the present yetil of the Counitutioo?' I answer, my people, my friends, iny children—be united, be temperate, be film. Let justice be -iotir constant guide, your regulating principk. Suffer not your s:lves to be hurried into the approbation of any measures, bcur ever cious they may seem, '64 have not justice for their be ginnine, at:d the general weitrre for their end. . . . " Lioerty be the ob.i.et of yot:r in:feigned devotion, your unbounded love; but on side of Liberty place Justice, and ca miler Ilumar ity. Without these two fair associates, Li i4 apt to become a cl:fvastating t: :ripest, or a consuming fire." At one o'clock ti:e Spitaifielas Deputation anived. Their line was headed by fourteen Gentlemen of the Committee on hoiseback, bearing -blue wands tipt gold, after whom came a barouche drawn by toir horses, bearing the grand flag of the silk we,:ve.rs, the field of crimson, with an oval shield of v - e:ite, charged with an allegorical device, both sides c:* the flag presenting the same design and colours— it is accounted the most finished and elaborate pro c:,:ztioil et the loom. Then followed a line of twenty s:./: bat ouches drawn by four horses each, the postil 11s being clo:hed in jackets of rich yellow satin. iollowing was the Answer of her MAJESTY to AJdre,- " I have much gratifi:il by'an Address so loyal and se afrectionate tp.r.i the Churchwardens, Ortrseers, and other In. labitants of the Parish of Christchurch, 3liddlesex, commonly 4: :led Ai it ' 6• • .._rod in the history of this ccontry, in which eae th; ln.ve been so universally or so power dly exclic.l as in toe pre ent. A case of individual oppression at t. Every member of the co:nmunity wha: rot (-E• ::•,t. a in th..: -ervice of the selfish faction, has made say • 'ais own c.ufferitigs and wroti,s. " my arictiops have ex.:iced 11a5 rro -4'1.:.-.1 and cordial union in the sentiments of Nat:aa, at. : , ,ursahv most glorious results. Union is • way, , ev.:: ; but union in a '.ration is might Naiou Las only to express its will to d. it :3•:...tesinen of modern times, and pir- Ittd...C. i eI . out Toro!, that they have not kept zti.d 50161 1 U:21 , i UI 1 : . •' • . • 1 . ‘4.:11.!.•...1: ;1•4• i•eLlt FT0,71%.*45iVt . .., they have bti. r r• the Nation has heal. y ••••••:.‘l,-,; it; sciem:c, aud acquit - ins a hi ...7,-r. li. • t.!:.li ..:;, they have been fixed, as if by : its 6pc:. c ii,arnaw of assent predia. L: ~ ~ dices, or have been labouring to keep otters within the eoofinee' of ignorance and superstition. In short, they ate still children, while the Nation has grown up to manhood. They are still in the leading-strings of puerile maxims, while the People have learn ed to walk erect in the light of new truths and of better principles. " My heart is tenderly touched with a sense of those miseries which the inhabitants of Spitalfielils mention as characterizing the general state of the country at the present period. Had I the power of mitigating those miseries, my gee( would be less; but, at present. I lament evils and deplore calamities fur which I cannot furnisha remedy; and I grieve the more, because I grieve in vain." This was followed by the Deputation from the Ward of Cripplegate Within, in thirty close carriages with pairs of horses, which passed through Ham mersmith at half-past one. The following is her MAJESTY'S Answer to the Address : " I am deeply obliged to the Inhabitants and Freemen of the Ward of Cripplegate-Witbin for an Address so loyal and so af fectionate towards myself, and at the same time breathing the purest sentiments of constitutional liberty. " The light of liberty was long preserved in the ark of the British Constitution, when it was extinguished, or almost extinct, in every other part of the world. It is from this light that the people of other countries have originally derived a large part of their present political illumination. Ilere the spirit of liberty was first kindled ; and hence its sacred heat was imparted to the bosoms of the wise, the generous, and the brave, in other 1 branches of the great European family. But, while other nations have been indebted to us for a portion of this heavenly fire, we have ourselves suffered the flame to become languid and weak in that temple of constitutional freedom which it once so splen didly illaminated. " It would afford me the sweetest satisfaction to be in any degree instrumental in rekindling the dying lire of national liberty, and in rendering the British Constitution what it once was—the glory of the world. In the conflict which I ant wag ing with my adversaries in defence of my violated rights, I antdefending the rights of every Englishman. If I ant successful in this conaict, the victory wi.l redound less to my on n personal satisfaction than to that which I derive from the ref -ction that the rights of individuals, and the general liberties of the nation, will henceforth be secured asrainst the domineering views of that selfish faction, which is equally an enemy to every improvement in the political condition of man in this country, and in every part of the world. " Perhaps I ought to triumph in the indignities I have expe rienced, and to rejoice in the wrongs I have suffered, as those wrongs and indignities have been the means which PROVIDENTE has employed for P iciting such a spirit in the nation as must tend to secure the rights of the people, and to enlarge the prac tical benefits of the Constitution." The next in the order of arrival was the Aldgate Deputation. It reached the church at two o'clock. Two Beadles on horseback with maces led the way, followed by a horseman bearing a large blue silk Hag, inscribed Aldgate Address," in letters of gold ; atter which came eighteen close carriages with four horses rag), conveying nearly an equal number of Ladies and Gentlemen, the former of whom were elegantly dressed, and afforded a most interest ing spectacle. Last in order, but not least in attraction, either in point of number or of brilliancy, was the procession from Paddington. As the parties severally arrived at Brandenburgh House, the Deputations were ushered into her .MA JESTY S presence, and were most graciously received, while the crowds assembled in front of the house rent the air with acclamations. The form and ceremonial of presentation observed being nearly similar in each instance, we have re served our description thereof for our account of the reception of the Deputation from Paddington. The procession for carrying up this Address was more numerous and respectable in appearance than any which has yet gone up. The coaches began to assemble at an early hour round Paddington-green. They were arranged afterwards upon the Edgeware road. Sir GERARD NOEL, Mr. P. Moose, and Mr. Hume, were greeted with loud acclamations on their arrival at the place of rendezvous. Being strongly solicited by the Committee, they alighted, and went into the mansion of THOMAS THATCHER, Esq. w:lere the Committee were assembled in one room, and a large company of the Ladies who were to attend the procession, in another. Having received the respects of this assembly they returned to their carriages. The procession then fell into line in the following order :—The carriage of Mr. THATCHER wept first: then followed six barouches, one with six, the rest with four horses, mostly grey, which con tained the Committee, the members of which bore white wands, and wore at the end of a blue ribband a large medal, the front of which was stamped with the profile of the Quees ; the Members of Parlia ment, viz. Sir G. Nom., Mr. P. MOORE, and Mr. Hume, followed next in their private carriages. Af -11 ter these came twenty-eight barouches and four, which were again followed by about sit coaches and pairs, tilled with the parishioners, the greater part being elegantly-dressed females. The procession being formed, it began to move at half-past one o'clock. It fell down from the road, which it co vered for a quarter of a mile, into one of the streets ' bids leads to the south side of Portman-square. Having gone round the square, it crossed Oxford street, and passing through the weal side of Gros venor-squ'are, and South Audley-street, came out at Hyde Palk Corner, and took the high road through Kensington and Hammersmith.. The procession was greeted with shouts by the various groupes which had formed in every station which could be occupied along the road. In consequence of the great num bers which had accompanied the previous Addresses,' it was a long time before this procession could make I its way inside the gates of the garden at Branden burgh House. At about half-past three o'clock an entry was effected, and by half-past four the com pany were all set down. As the procession ap- , proacl.ed the house, her Mantsry was seen at one of the windows bowing to the multitude of very re spectable and well-dressed people, who covered a part of the law:, and filled up all the interstices of the shrubbery immediately in front of the house. The Paddington people had two Addresses to pre sent—that of the married females had precedence. Accordingly, the Ladies formed at the upper end of the room, the Stewards keeping off the pressure from behind them. A side door opened, and I:er MAJESTY entered the room, She bowed very graciously to the assembly. The Address being presented to her, 'he 'Art it into the hands of the Rev. Mr. MARCUS, who read it in a very touching and emphatic man ner, and Mr. Alderman WooD, at her MAJESTY'S re que•t, lead her Answer. The Ladies were then permitted to kiss hands, and, drawing of as they effected this ceremony, made way for the Male Inhabitants, whose Address being also read by the Rev. Mr. MARCUS, with as mud' feeling and judgment as the former, her MA .. sunk again requested Mr. Alderman WOOD to read ;ter Answer. After the Answer was concluded; the Gentlemen passed by her MAJILSTY in the same maser AS the. Ladies had done, being also allowed the bononi or rod, not *thy to time which now is,but in that which it to kissing hands. Thi s ceremony b e i ng comp l ete d, her cisme. If I have been despitefully used; and wrongfully persteUted; 1 still h o pe to derive benefit f rom th e ev il I h ave ex p e rienced. -MAJESTY again appe are d at t h e w i n d ows , an d con . injuries are apt to r e bound up on t h e au t h or; an d t h oug h descendingly b owe d to t h e f res h mu l t i tu d e w hi c h vengeance A a ow, yet how few are there who .can ua.kmately had gathered without. avoid its slat or elude its pursuit? I should oot be a human being, if injury excited noTteling l of r:sentriyot in my breast I Mr. P. MOORS and Mr. ELLICE, being present, but lam conscious that, n n ot ot t on o j ibt ou u t rb uf n t i egAr ‘ d yn fo i r nt a h r lgh; t r ant took that opportunity of presenting the Coventry thy, but from a LE:ire ; a h l ea r rt an . qu Address, to which they received the following gra . lit ) , I ought not to suffer that feeling to rankle yo in n e l sinus Answer : ' T h e sentiment of integrity, which lias its 6x..t. rohdelice in . . • " I am particularly oidiged by this loyal and affectionate Ad dress from the Inhabitants of the Oty and County of the City of Coventry. I cannot be insensible to the tenderness kith with they lament the sad chum that death has made in my kindred relations; nor can I readily forget the warmth with which they resent the numerous indignities I have experienced. " My enemies have now made out the best case they could in support of their Bill of Pains and Penalties; but who will yen. tuft to assert that the testimony they have produced, even if Its validity avert less suspicious than it appears, is sufficient to jus. tify the Menace in the preamble sir the Bill? But the very mea sure which my enemies designed as fatal, not only to the honour of the Queen, but to the liberty of the Nation, is likely te prove favourable to both. It has united all parties, and made those sty friends who might otherwise have been my enemies. ►' Principles are indestructible; and therefore I feel a vivid assurance, that, while I contend for such,. rather than for any transient interests, I shall ultimately triumph over my enemies. The principles which are most sacred to my conscience and dearest•to my heart, are those of truth, of justice, and of liberty. Those principles are better calculated than any others to promote the general happiness of mankind; and while I maintain diens with unshaken constancy, not more for my own good than fur that of the Nation, I am convinced that, In the -onerous sup port of all classes of the community, I shall be able to oppose an invulnerable shield to the violence, the ferocity, and the ma lice of my enemies. " In this age, when knowledge is generalized and inquiry unrestrained, the power of public opinion is become so great, that every other must finally bend to its decrees. A temporary resistance may be made to the measures it suggests, or the via duct it prescribes; but as long as the Press preserves only a moderate degree of liberty, public opinion must be ultimately omnipotent ; and it is as vain to oppose its commands, as it would be to order the earth not to revolve upon its axis. " When Gon gave the power of thought to man, he evidently designed it to be free. Tyranny may fetter the legs, or hand cutethe arms, bat it cannot impose chains on the interior opera. l tions of the mind. Irmay restrain the freedom of intellectual agency, through the medium of the Press; but in the present condition of man, no restraint of this kind can well be effica cious; and my heart vibrates with joy when I reflect that ty ranny itself is on the point of expiring in almost every part of the European world. The Holy Alliance, though made for the purpose, can hardly keep it alive. Its extinction is decreed, and some member of the selfish faction may have leisure to write its epitaph." • . my soul, makes m e despise- the accus..tions of niir cLetnies. I know that the malice of my oppressor; has never yet been ten strained by any moral consideration ; but that malice has hitherto been rendered imbecile by the public indignation which it his excited on one side, and by all the b e tte r s y m p at hi es w hi c h k has roused in my efence on the other. a It cannot be supposed that the Bi.l of Pains acid Focal. ties, which has not hitherto been supported by a particle of ho nest testimony, will receive the sanction of the Legislature; but if it should, it will he found not merely to inflict the punish- Mint of degridation upon the Queen, but of servitude upon the nation: Its professed object is to deprive the Queen of her ho nour and her rights, but its real eftect will be to destroy the liberties of Englishmen." An Address was also presented from the Female Inhabitants of the Borough of Leeds, to which her MAJesry rcturneJ the following gracious Answer: " I have derived no ordinary satisfaction from the conscious.. ness that my conduct has excited the approbation of the Female Inhabitants of the Barough of Leeds and its vicinity. " In the conflict with my enemies, I have steadily adhered to my original purpose of vindicating my innocence at every risk ; and have suffered no lure, however tempting, to make me , I.,r.et that my tights are no t exc l us i ve ly m y own , b ut b e l ong to du n - common stock of public libert... If I had tamely surren dered those rights, I sr.ould have betrayed the people, for Whose good they were bestowed, And to whose generous attachment I am indebted for all that I possess. " I never could consent to make reputation an affair of mer cenary traffic. If I could have been guilty of such baseness, it woulA have rendered me totally unworthy of the title or the rank of Queen. But yet, if I would have stooped so low, and unresistingly become an accessary to my own infamy, I might have avoided this Bill of Pains and Penalties, and have had my enemies hearing testimony to the purity of my conduct, and the patriotism of my principles. " The menu FACTION who have become my accusers, have been in the habit of truckling to superior power, and of com plying with all its fickle inclinations, till they have acquired a fondness for turpitude; as persons may live in a polluted atom.: sphere till they have lost all relish for the breath of the Zephyrs; or the fragrance of the fields." An Address was presented from the Female Inha• bitants of Leicester, to which her MAJESTY returned the following most gracious Answer: _ " This Address from the Female Inhabitants of the Town of Leicester speaks the language of animated loyalty and affection. ate attachment. I accept it with much satisfaction ; and I wel-: come the spirit which it breathes, as favourable to the present and the future interests of Britain. The more enlightened, vir tuous, and patriotic the Females of this country become, the more we may cherish hopes of the moral, intellectual, and poli- tical improvement of the rising and of future generations. Our sex are the first instructors of the young; by them the first lm. pressions are made, and the first lessons taught. Their increased and increasing intellectual culture, therefore, gives us the fair prospect of more virtue and intelligence in the days that time is about to unfold. " The omission of my name in the Liturgy received the sane. tion of persons who have long been in the habit of making reli gion the pretext for their tyranny, or the veil for their selfish. "less; and who, on any other occasion, would have represented the proposal to exclude as many words or as many letters from the service of the establishment, as a most sacrilegious innova. tion, threatening the abolition of tithes, and the downfal of the hierarchy ; but an alteration in direct opposition to that spirt of charity, without which all religion is but mere hypocrisy, h. s been countenanced by the pious heads both of the Church and of the State. "'There is only one view in which I can regard this alteration with any complacency, and that is, as the Sig step in the gots' work of ecclesiastical reformation. But as the first step has been an unhallowed invasion of the charity of the sanctum y, let us hope that the next will make amends by enlarging that cha. rity, and by making the term: of union in the establishment as comprehensive as the 'pink which is breathed through the whole &Theme of Christianity. " Churchmen are, usually, more remarkable even than States men, for being behind the light of the age. They adhere too pertinaciously to ancient forms. They are unwilling to pass be yond that boundary of darkness, within which their forefathers lived; and if they ever find themselves within tha illuminating! ray of a purer light, they start back, as apparitions are said to vanish when they snuff the dawn. " Both Churchmen and Statesmen would do well, ere it be too late, to open their eyes upon the sun of another reformation that is rising upon the world. Is it not their interest, and ought it not to be their policy, to preserve all that is valuable in an- . cient systems or institutions, and to add to that value, by incor porating it with all that is excellent in the improvements of mo. dern times? This is the best way to reform what is bad, at the same time that you preserve what is good, and keep pace wish the light of the age.' Her MAJESTY returned the following most gra cious Answer to the Address of the Inhabitants of the Town of Stroud, in Gloucestershire : I receive with cordial satisfaction this loyal and affectionate Address from the Inhabitants of the Town of Stroud and its Vicinity, in the County of Gloucester. " The sympathies of the People with my wrongs and my suf ferings have been so universally manifested, as to make my ad versaries pause in their career of oppression, and politically to hesitate when they do not morally relent. " I have experienced adversity in many of its most distressing calamities, and in some of its darkest hours; but I have always found that it never has passed away without leaving•some moral benefit behind. Adversity usually compensates its immediate evils by its subsequent good, and its uses are, in numerous in• stances, so precious, that it may often be regarded as prosperity under another name. " I have been at times sunk in the depth of affliction ; but from those depths I have been raised by the invisible hand of the ALL-MINA:MN to rejoice in the dawn of happier days, and to contemplate a futurity of hope for myself and for mankind. " Whatever may have been the will of Omirtroxertex with re spect to my destiny in time past, I acknowledge it to have been • both wise and good ; and 1 trust that my safety will be protected by the same wisdom, and. my happiness be promoted by the same goodness, in the time to come. These sentinients are my cheering associates during the day, and at night they smooth the pillow of my repose. ' Her MAJESTY appeared to be in excellent health and spirits, and discovered considerable animation of countenance at some of the passages in the Ad dresses. Her MAJESTY wore a dress of deep crim son, a rich point lace tippet, a turban head-dress, with a plume of white feathers tipped with scarlet, and a tiara of rich rubies. Lady ANNE Haratvrow stood on the left of the Quaspr ; Sir WILLIAM GELL, Captaintaavarr, and Mr. Mms, towards the left of Lady ANNE HAMILTON. The crowd retained their stations in the garden until the house was almost clear of guests. The road to London continued in a thronged and busy state till late at night. Her MAJESTY expressed peculiar pleasure at the manner in which the Address from Paddington was brought up. A good , deal of damage was done yesterday to the gardens at Brandenburgh House, owing to' the vast number of perSo - ns assembled. On the other side of Kensington, a . young man; who, with several others, had placed himself behind one of the carriages of the Aldgate Procession, had his leg broken, by getting entangled with the spokes of the hind-wheel. Government, we unierstand, have purchased the Pulteney Hotel, Piccadilly, for her asrsiTy's resi dence, for which they are to pay £16,000, M inde pendent of the fuvoiture, Stc. Mr. WHITBREAD presented an Address from Bir mingham, to which he received the following Answer: I have the most unfeigned satisfaction in receiving this af fectionate Address from the People of Birmingham and its vici nity. The losses that I have sustained, during my long ab s,:nce upon the Continent have been irreparable. But, as in the constitution of the moral world, there is never any evil without some subsequent or concomitant good, I have derived no small degree of solace from contemplating the ptobable benefits of which my afflictions are likely to be productive to the people of these realms. If I had experienced no suffering, and been treated with no indignity, that union of mind and heart would never have bean seen, which now binds the nation, from one extremity to another, in the cause of legal right and of consti tutional liberty. " To my wrongs, therefore, the Nation may, ultimately, be indebted fur the recovery of its rights, and the vile attempt to effect my degradation may exalt the People to a higher pitch of freedom and prosperity. a No Queen was ever the subject of so many and such barba rous persecutions as I have experienced. But, while these persecu tions have had little effect in ruffling my serenity, or in marring my happiness, they have proved a bed of thorns to my adversaries. " The spirit of malignity is never a spirit of repose. It is the serpent gnawing the heart ; and, if there be at this moment one who, more than another, is an object of pity, for Elie suspicions to which be is a victim, or fur the inquietudes to which he is a prey—for the innumerable vexations which he is hourly, nay momentarily feeling—for the recollections of lost happiness, and of deserted virtue—for the consciousness of malice that has been rendered impotent, and of vengeance that has missed its aim— such an object of pity is, perhaps, to be seen at the head of my adversaries. The moralist of after.times, when he wants ex amples of abortive malice, or unsuccessful treachery, to give effect to his lessons, or to breathe a living energy on his page, will not long be at a loss to know from what part of our history to extract an impressive proof that cunning, malevolence, and perfidy, excite nothing but scorn, and are productive of nothing but misery." Mr. HoßirousE presented an Address from the Ar tisans, Mechanics, and Labouring Classes of the Town of Manchester; to which her MAJesTy returned the following most gracious Answer : vg I receive with great satisfaction this loyal, affectionate, and impressive Address, from so numerous, so useful, and so effi cient a part of the community as the Artisans, Mechanics, and Labouring Classes of the Town of Manchester. The true honour of the country has been in the highest degree promoted by their incomparable skill and their unrivalled ingenuity, while their persevering industry has so largely contributed towards the means of maintaining the dignity of the Throne, and the power and glory of the Kingdom. " No time nor circumstances can remove from my mind that beloved object which so vividly excites your kind condolence, and still so tenderly interests my affections. If this calamity frustrated the tond hopes of the people, how much did it deduct from the sum of my happiness, and add to the number of my woes ! It aggravated my other manifold afflictions by the inven tion of a new conspiracy, which, if it was not in its origin more detestable than the former, was certainly more formidable in Its aspect, more artful in its contrivance, more extensive in its ramifications, and more powerful in its means. My own inno cence, combined with the good sense and justice of the people, have been at once my solace and my support, under this new and terrible persecution. The conspiracy by which I have been attacked, has been already more than half vanquished by the flagitiousness of its chiefs, and the turpitude of its auxiliaries. The most artful combinations of perjury cannot long endure the piercing scrutiny of nuth. " I am happy to perceive that the industrious classes in the town of Manchester, as well as in the rest of the kingdom, regard the unconstitutional attacks upon my rights as an it invasion of their own. The Bill of Pains and Penalties, which threatens my degradation, weakens the security of that sacred tenure by which every Briton is protected in his liberty, his property, and his life. He who venerates a free Constitution will indignantly repel the Introduction of arbitrary power in any of its varied forms. " We naturally compassionate the severe privations and deep sufferings, even of the idle and dissolute ; but how much more forcibly is our sympathy excited by sack privations and suffer ings, when they are accumulated upon the industrious, laborious, frugal, and virtuous part of this exemplary community? 0 My mind has, indeed, been often agonized by the recollec tion of that dreadful day to which the industrious classes of Man chester particularly allude; but while we cannot but know that the same hand has been our common oppressor, let us, as far as we are able, bury the past in oblivion, and trust, that though these things have been, they will be no more ! Let us endeavour to calm the perturbed passions, and to heal the bleeding wounds of our distracted and lacerated country ; and, for myself, though my afflictions have been many in number, and long in continu ance, I shall think them all amply compensated, if they should at last prove the means of contributing towards the harmony, the prosperity, and the happiness-of the kingdom." An Address was presented from the Inhabitants of the Borough of Leeds, in Yorkshire; to which her MAJESTY returned the following gracious Answer " My cordial thanks are due to the Inhabitants of the Borough of Leeds for this affectionate Address. The religious sentiments I which it breathes, are such as meet with corresponding senti ments in my own mind. I reel it my duty not to dispute the wisdom, or to question the goodness of the ETIZNAL, in any even of his most afflicting dispensations. " Our views are bounded on all sides ; and we are apt to regard things only in their immediate relations to our present interests; but the &Manna Wiliam adjusts his discipline to our