The National Register. — London, England, 1813-05-02 00:00:00

1 , MAY 2. TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES. , • We, tLe inhabitant householders of the city and liberties of Westminster' legally assembled, beg leave to approach your Roya l Hi g hness with anaffectionate Address, • We participate with our fellow subjects (the citizens . of Lon• don) in sentin•ents of undiminished esteem foryour Royal Highness, and ofjust indignation at the foul conspiracy, which it is now ap pare:it has Leta long carrying on against your Royal Highness's b o nonr and lire. We admire the patience, forbearance; and twig nat:oa vith which your Royal Highness has submitted, for so lung a time, tb neglect and reproach as humiliating as undeserved, even to the very verge of acquiescence in calumnies the most foul, scan dalous, and false. Your Royal Highness was compelled, at length, to vindicate your own hontair, involving that of your Royal Daugh ter, our future Sovereiga. And we congratulate your Royal High nos. on the magnanimity and wisdom which prompted you to.de maul, in the face of the nation, from the two Homes of Parliament, that jiistice to which ti n most humble is entitled, " either to be proved guilty. or treated as innocent." We are fervently of opi muon, that throe who advised the .clitiration of a beloved and attic. Inmate Dam , hter irons such a Mother, had any thing in view, rather than the good of the illustrious object of your Royal Highness's warme-t mid best affections, or of the country over which she is destined to rude. But we are unable to express our grief and asto. I:kiln - mot, at the cruclq, njustiro, and insolence, with which your Roy J I s's aiipeal was withheld from the House of Lords; or at the co:3 and reluctant reception it met with from a corrupt majority of the House of Commons ; and we assure . your Royal llt nine s , tom. upon this, as Upon most other ocrasions, the senti ments of that. corrupt majority arc no Ways in conformity with those -of the. people ; and we flatter ourselves your lbyal Highness will mot, fiom so inadecputte a criterion, estim-te the feelings ofa loyal generous nAtion. We ardently hope the treatment your Royal es. has rceeked, will deeply impress on the mind of every Viinkniz man, this great_ this indisputable truth,—that, without an linnust Muse of ('ommons, justice can no more be insured to the highest thrum to the lowest individual in the land. " We a‘surc your loyal Highness, that regard for our country, as «t 11 for that di f rt nee we hoar vont. Royal Highness, will make us ready at all times to ,give your 'Royal Highness proof of our at taelument and dt votion, and of out: anxious solicitude for your ‘vel tare, hiippine:s, and honour. k Sigiied) " ARTHUR MORRIS, High Bailiff." HER ROYAL HIGIINESS's ANSWER. " I return :At my sincere thanks fur the regard towards tne so cxpressed.in the Aildicss. Upon this, as other important oeca4ms, the sentiments of Westminster are in unison with those or the NV hole country. ‘. Permit me to add, that there can be no donlit, that the refusal of Parham:lit to eittert,nn the goestion only originate:l in a eon ietiou that my intile. nce stood above all swpieton, and in appre kehsion that liailtainco:ary interference might delay the restoration to my daughter's society, so universally desired." CITY ADDRESS. Wednesday the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, the Aldermen, Sheriffs, aril Coalition Council of the City of London, proceeded in tkie usual order from Guildhal to Kensington Palace, to present to her Royal Highness the Princess ofWales, their address of congra titlati:m on her late One hundred awl six Members set out in the procession from Guildhall, anti several others tell into the line of march in Cheap-. side, Ludgate-hill, and Fleet-street. The Aldermen who attended, were Aldermen iunbe, T. Smith, J. J. Smith, Domville, "%Your!, Croodluliere. and tirygate. The whole number, including the Re corder, the Sheriffs, the Chamberlain, Town Clerk, Comptroller, Remembrancer, Solicitor, the City Counsel, Secondaries, and other t)thecer., that fisted the procession, amounted to nearly 150, and their ca:riages covered a long space of ground. Notwithstanding the badness of the weather, the windows of the streets through which the procession passed were graced with elegant females, and the Cant-paths were occapieli by very considerable nnuthers. Se eral flags, with the ‘vortk, " The Princess of Wales," were sus pended from windows on the line of passage, and one with the motto " Hold to the Laws," talefully Arc-m . 40, attracted you TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER. liar notice in the Strand. As the procession passed Carlton 'House it was repeatedly cheered by a large concourse, among wiwm were a considerable number of well dressed persons. When the procession arrived at Kensington, the introduction to the Palace took place with every possible honour nie Princess of Wales possessed the power of conferring. After a very short interval passed in the drawing.romn, the doors of the grand saloon or dining apartments were thrown open, and the Lind Mayor, ac companied by the other Members of the Corporation, were an nounced and presented to her Royal Highness by A. B. St. Leger, Esq. her Royal Highness's Vice-Chamberlain. After Vic cm:Rosary obeisance on the pin of the adaresser; and a most gracious refer% by the Princess of Wales, the Recorder read the fallowing Ad. dress : TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES. "The li yil anti dntiftil Address of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London, iii Common Council assemoled : " May it please your Royal Highness,—We, his Majesty's most dutifid and loyal subjects, the Lind Mayor, Aldermen, amid Coln. MOOS of the City of London, in Common Council assembled, deeply interested in whatever concerns the honour and happiness of your Royal Highness, and the Illustrious Canny with whom you are so intimately allied, approach your Royal Highness to offer our sin cere congratulations on the signal and decisive triumph your Royal Highness has recently obtained. gg We have witnessed with horror and indignation the odious and • wicked conspiracy %illicit, by malice the most inveterate,• has for so 'flaky years been directed against your life and honour; and we beg to assure your Royal Highness, that while we hold in the utmost abhorrence acts so base and atrocious, we cannot sufficiently ex press our admiration of the diguined forbearance and magnanimity which youtr Royal- Hignuess has manifeJted tinder a persecution of such duration, and aggraYated by circumstances so trying and afflicting. -. " During the whole of this most arduous conflict we have never ceased to ; egattl the dangerous situation of your Royal Highness with feelings of time most list; ly sympathy ,_• and We have beheld in the fit titude and firmness of your Royal Highness, conviction the most decisive of the unblemished rectitude of your conduct, whick s not only dared, but courted the most rigid investigation; and greatly . as we lament that your Royal Highness should have been compelled by any combination of events to claim to be considered as innocent; I' or proved to be guilty, _Yet we feel with your Royal Highness that 1 the period hail at length arrived when forbearance would have ceased to have been a virtue. . i " We cannot, therefore, sufficiently applaud the wisdom and , firmness displayed by your Royal ,Highness in demanding, for the I more public vindication of your own honour, that of your Mas it. ions Consort, and the safety, peace, and happiness of these realms, i au open inquiry into the base charges of your calumniators, ot an unqualified admission of yom• innocence. 6 4 We siccerely oiler to your Royal Highm ss our heartfelt con ' gratniatio..s on your complete and happy triumph over so dark and detestiarle a conspiracy, supported as it %las by subornation and i perjm•y ; and we are most grateful to your Royal Highm as for the . 4 proofs ne have received, in so firmly nefendieg your own honour, 1 of the anxiety you feel for the welfare and happia.ess of these king. 'films : —this conduct atiOrds to its the sitre4 pledge of the blessings i we may expect from your Royal Highness, when it shill please I Providence to place your Royal Highness, with your Royal Con- I sort, on time British Throne; and we most ardently hope that the pailful recollection of your past suffilings may be lost in the pleas. Mg etjoyment of an unrestricted intercourse with your illuxtrions 'I daughter the Princess Charlotte; and that she, without the same painfol occasion to exercise them, may inherit all the virtues of her Royal Mother, and afford us the cousoling hope, that, taugna to 1 venerate the free prinvipies of the British Constitution as the hest protection for innocence and security against oppresaion, site may, should time period ever an ive when she may be called to preside over the destinicS of this empire, uphold and 'wanton' our liberties, and reign in the hearts of a free, happy, and milted people 6 6 Signed by order of Court, HENRY IyOODTtiORPE." • 'flue Lord Mayor then presented a Copy of the Address to her Royal Highness, who, having given it to her Vice Charithe , lain, reed in a low but distinct and impressive tone, the followitmg Answer:-- « I receive, with the greatest satisfaction, the congratulations of the City of London. Nu branch of the House W'Rrtinswick eau ever forget to whose exertions chiefly it owes the Throne of these maims , and I have now peculiar reason to know the value of the Constit it t not which those exertions purchased, becanse 1 have tumid it a ,toe pr'' tection when I had. no other defence. THE PRINCESS fIF WALES. WEST*INSTEIt ADDRESS. Q 77 , 711. I VA 'l4ni