The National Register. — London, England, 1820-08-20 00:00:00

s- ,7O 1 INEM..-_ PROCESSIONS WITH THE ADDRESSES TO TIIE QUEEN. The village of Hammersmith on 'l•nesday pre•'nted a 'retie of bindle and aainniiion•tiever beim e Isilo‘%ll lit its inhabitants, ;it'd which %%ill not .nun he effaced from their teuu•nthrancc. At an early hunt the road flout London was tin tinged with persons of till classes, equesti bins and pedestrians, and as the morning. ailt the nimilleis increased In an I 1101 molls .antoillit. Extra coaches were employed, and veLicks of e%cly description, heavily laden, were scot hurrying to the point of attraction. Plioldlesex Electors, in ahem :15 carnage*, most of them drawn by font Wises, and beaded by Parkins in his state carriage, passed at a little alter twelve o'clock, :ilia arrived at Hammer /Milli n fee. mimtte,. bettile nee, %%bete they hulled 101 3 short time, and then proceeded on to Blandellblirgil House. The sprited inhabitants of thi s village bad not been backward in their preparations for the iceeplion of Hie Ler.idon visitors, and the celebration of the day. Flags bearing sal 101 IR devices were seen waving from the dif ferent Inns and private houses, and the windows weir. lined %vie,' well dressed women, who with animated coun tenance% was rd their while handke lade's, and smiled a pleas ii welcome to those who were hastening to pay their doiliC.l homage to their beloved Queen! The bells of the churches %vie tinging merrily, the • obildi ea of " I.atniet's Charity School," in their best at tit e, wile drawn lip on the wall of the pi Meipal church ,:id leading to Itranilimhurgh House, while occasional salutes were flied finial smite small cannon placed in the neighlintirhood for the purpose. Hammersmith and the . . rand w the Queen's residence contained at this time many thousand persons, and it was with difficulty that the Mid- Memel( procession could move on atter its temporary halt. The Procession advanced slowly to the house, anti alighted at the right hand door, where the Gentlemen of the De potation weir received by her Majesty's servants, and conducted up stints to the grand drawing-room, which is very spacious, and well suited to such an occasion. When the Gentlemen had all entered, and remained a few mo ments. her Majesty walked into the room, accompanied by Lady Anne Hamilton and Mr. Alderman Wood, and bowed graciously to the Deputation. The Address of the Freeholders was then teed by Mr. Sheriff Parkins, and her Majesty was pleas, il to return a most gracious; an swer alter which the Gentlemen of the Deputation had the honour of kissing her Majesty's hand. Amongst those who composed the Deputation ' we recognised P. Moore, and S.C. Whitbread, Esry M.P's. Alderman Waithman, 111 r.Haydon, Mr. Hall. Mr. Boydell, etc. ecc. The ceremony having been gone through, a signal was given from the window, and the whole crowd gave nine cheers, which was followed by loud clapping of hands, and a Royal Salute Iron, the Artillery helot e-mentioned. In a few moments her Majesty appeared at the windows, and the sight of her was the signal for another hoist of enthusiasm limn the assembled multitude. Her Alajesty bowed several times, and smiled in tbe most condescend ing manner, and the people seemed almost beside them selves with joy. The Deputation then slowly retired, with the exception of Mr. Moore and Mr. Whithreados Ito remained to support her Majesty while she received the other Adele es,CS. A fter that of Middlesex had been presented, the one from the Inhabitants of St. Leonetti's, Shored it eh, was read to her Majesty, and must graciously received and answered. The Deputa tMo limn that Parish came in car, iages, at tended by the Beadles, in their liveries and silver staves. After a short pans., the Deputation, bearing the Address from the " thinking and industrious class of the commit- iiity," arrived at the door, headed by Mr. Gast, the Chairman of the Alerting. These persona were respect ably dressed, and wore while favours, some of them carrying wands. The Address was borne by Mr. Gast, and on the outside the figures 39,370, denoting the number by whom the Address had been signed. To prevent contusion and the admission of too great a number of persons, tickets had been given to about sixty, and none hut those who had them were admitted. When they reached the Drawing-room, Mr. Gast read the Address, and the. Deputation was received with peculiar marks of condescension and affability by her Majesty. They had the honour, after the answer of the Queen had been delivered, of kissing her Majesty's hand, and they then departed. Her Majesty then again appeared et the window, and was similarly greeted by the crowd I she remained a considerable time, bowing, and occasionally conversing with Messrs. Moore and Whitbread. She appeared to pay* marked attention to the latter Gentleman. The last Address was that from the inhabitants of Hammersmith, which was brought tip by about twelve of the principal inhabitants, in carriages, attended by the beadles and other officers. They were ushered to her Majesty's presence by Mr. Alderman Wood, and the Address was received by her Majesty with her usual pleasing condescension. These Gentlemen also had the honour of kissing her Majesty's hand. The crated now began to disperse, and in a short time the grounds were cleared, although the people seemed to depart very reluctantly. During the %%hole of the alter noon and evening the guns contiotied to fire, and the brill rang merry peals, and op to a late hour the village was all life and gaiety. The whole business passed off without any accident, at least, that we could learn. The following are the most important passages in her Majesty's answers to the Addresses presented to her yesterday forenoon at Brandenburgh House : My frank and unreserved disposition may, at tiniest, have hid my conduct open to the misrepresentations of my Conscious that my motives are pure, and my heart upright, I have never sought any refuge even from the infuriated le of malignity in the coverts of duplicity, or in the obscurities of fraud. lam what I seem, and 1 seem what lam. And although calumny, aided by perjury, is now making its last desperate attack upon my bharacter. yet I feel no fear, except it be the fear that my character should nut be sufficiently investigated. I challenge every inquiry. I deprecate not the most vigilant scrutiny. st My life has,been a life of trial. But what trial is there which I have yet undergone that ha- not elevated my character and humbled that of toy enemies? During a period of twenty-rive years I have been exposed to the most persecuting inquisition.— In privi-te life virtue is thought to bloom like the primrose in the shade ; but I have been placed in circumstance where temptation operates with double force, and where vice assumes the most fas cinating lures; and yet what credible proof has yet been pro duced that I ►ave once erred from the path of moot:vice "(l THE NATIONAL REGISTER " The Freeholders of Middlesex could not make use of expres sions more gratifying to my pride or more sacred to my soul s than by telling me that I occupy in the affections of the people that place which the Princess Charlotte ao eminenently possessed. It inspired me with that sort of hallowed eestacy when I perceive how much and how tenderly this generous nation still cherishes her venerated mt fiery. " The voice of the peaple, which has been generally expressed in favour of toy integrity, Mi..; cheered are in the most trying circum stances, and if I were to meet the farad moment of my et piration on the mot row, it would still mullet. ple:isure in mMe tars. V. hen the Freeholders of Aliadlesex congratulate me upon having such fair associate s as Ttiall and Justice in my train. I mu,t implore the Author of all paid, that as they have Leen my solace in time past, they may r‘anain my inseparable companions through life, and not forsake MC even in the tomb." TO THE MECHANICS. " The industrious classes of the nation constitute the vital energy of the State. In the great fabric of Society they are the strength at the bottom, which supports the ornament at the top. —The productive powers nt• the .stuntry are its real powers. For out of what other source is consumption supplied ?—What else is it that multiplies gratifications of all kinds ? To what else is influence indebted ter its splendour, or beauty for its decorations ? W here rank is measured by usefulness, no reflecting mind ~will say that the industrious classes occupy the lowest step in the ascent of honourable ambition, or inestimable fame. " There have been times, and perhaps those times may still be, when the hard earned btead of the long-toiling peasant or mechanic is insufficient tin his numerousfatuily, when the penury of the day has berm succeeded by the inquietude of the night, and when day and night have been only a sad succession of pining wietchedniiss and hopeless woe. That order of things which, in a large portion of the community, necessitates the acquisition of subsistence by the sweat of the brow, is the institution of Provi dence for the benefit of man; but who does not see that it is not owing to the wisdom of the Deity, but to the hard heartedness of the Oppressor, when the sweat of the brow during the day is fol• lowed by the tear of affliction at its close, when the labour of the hand only adds to the aching oldie heart, and what ought to be a source of joy is an aggravation of calamity. Hut, if these things have been, I may perhaps be permitted to hope that they will ere long be only as the troubled sceuery of a dream; and that happier times are approaching, when commerce will crowd our rivers, trade be busy in our streets, and industry sniffing in our fields. TO THE HAMMERSMITH ADDRESS. " I am sensibly impressed and deeply obligee by this affec tionate Address from the Inhabitants of Hammersmith, amongst whom I have my present temporary residence. I have always rejoiced in the felicitations of neighbours, and in the charities of neighbourhoods. " The day on which the remains of the .Princess Charlotte were committed to the silent tomb was a day of deep sorrow to the nation. But, if the nation wept, it was not merely because youth and beauty had withered, and wit and elegance had va nished in the grave. These were common occurrences ; but it is not a common occurrence to see every virtue in a successor to the throne, and in the mirror of those v.rtues to behold the nation emerging from wretchedness, servitude, and disgrace, to free dom, to glory, and to happiness. " All Europe has its eyes fixed on the present procedure in the House of Lords. I shall have to appear before the Bar of that House; but that House itself will nave to appear at the bar of public opinion throughout the world. i shall have to defend myself against their accusations; but they will have to defend themselves against the reproaches of -individual consccnce, as well as the impartial condemnation of the age which now is, and of that which is to come. To have been one of the Peers who, after accusing and condemning, affected to sit in judgment on Queen Caroline, will be a sure passport to the splendid notoriety of everlasting shame." In the answer TO THE PARISH OF ST. LEONARD, SHOREDITCH. we find nothing differing materially from the an swers we have already inserted. Several Addresses were on Wednesday presented to her Majesty at Lady Francis's house, St. J4MCS'S Square. Lord Nugent and Mr. Bickford presented the Addresses from the Borough of Aylesbury. An Address, signed by 40,000 persons from the Weavers of Spits!fields, was presented by the Pre sident and Secretary of that Society. The private Deputation of the Married Ladies of the Metropolis and its vicinity, proceeded from Leicester Square, at one o'clock, and arrived at her Majesty's residence about half-past one. The fol lowing is the Address:— ..TOTHE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. " iIIOUS4II4 and tensof thoTisatitsof oar fellows-subjects are approaching your Majesty with assurances of homage and affection—whilst Addresses even front the remitter parts of the kingdom are laid at your feet—permit Cs, .your Alajratu'r Neighbours, as Wives, and the Mistresses of Faintlira, hi and near the metropolis, to approach yon. We are unaccustomed to public acts, and uninfluenced by patty , feelings, yet we cannot he excluded trom offering to your Majesty's notice, our sympathy and devotion. Gratellil to the Constitution under which it is our happiness to live—saved also by our rank in the middle classes of society, trout the datigels attendant on high rank or poverty, and protected by our Husbands, we may hardly be supposed judges of all the valise of your Majesty's conduct; but, Madam, we ad mire your magnanimity, and we adore that womanly feel. ing which has made your Majesty treat will, contempt every offer, the tendency of which was to complosause your honour, and we thank you fur it in the name of our ,ex. " Had your Majesty been treated with the respect One to your exalted rank, our hearts would have throbbed with ardent interest in your cause, and with love to your person, but leaving to our linshrusils anti suns all public expression of keling, we should base confined our's to cost domestic circles; but now, tilaslam, the indignation we feel for the cruel treatment of your Majesty but every barrier between us, and we hasten to express at your ft et the warm, the almost overwhelming interest, with which we are inspired ; and be assured, Madam, our judguic,its are quite as much enlisted its your .Majesty's set vice as our kelings ; for, added to the dreadful charges against you, are not new crimes found out by your ene mies, and new modes of judging theta susktiwn alike to Clintllloll law and common sense? Under these circum stances, scarcely less than a miracle, we think, can pra ctise your justification, refused, as your Majesty has been, every Ille/11, of testily meeting the accusations against you. We commit your Majesty's cause to the integrity of your own great mind ; to the zeal, to the honour, and the abi• lity of your legal advisers, who will have fur their tewat d a nation's gratitude, bat, above all, to our all.sceing and inercitnl God :—to that God whom no one can prevent our addressing, and teaching our children, in fervent prayers for your protection. " And now, Madam, in simplicity of style, and since rity of heart, we beg to subscribe ourselves, " Your Majesty's dutiful, affectionate, and loyal subject. and servants," The following is her Majesty's most gracious Answer:— " In this honest and affectionate Address from my Female Neighbours, who are wives and mothers of fami lies, in and near the metropolis. I gratefully acknowledge the sympathy which they express for my many sorrows, and the indignation which they feel for my unnumbered wrong►. The approbation of my own sex 1111 l st be ever dear to my heart t and it must be more particularly gra tifying, when it is the approbation of mothers ot' families in and near this metropolis. " When my honour is attacked, every loyal English• woman must feel it as an imputation upon her own. The virtues of Sovereigns are not circumscribed in their in duence, or insulated in their operations. They put in motion a wide circle of the imitative propensity in the subordinate conditions of life. Thus the virtees of the great become the property of the people; stud the people are interested in preserving them front slanderous Maj. nation. " The present procedure against me is like a wilful attempt, on the part of blind trenay or improvident ma. lire, to destroy the moral character of the 510111in:by.— To lessen this moral character in public estimation, is not merely to degrade the Queen, but to shatter into at a that reverential respect which gives strength to the Sceptre and dignity to the Sovereign. " I shall never sari ince that honour, which is the glory of a womaii and the brightest jewel of a Queen, fur any earthly consideration. All the possessions in the world would be purchased too dear if' they were obtained at the price of self.condemnation. I can never be debased while I observe the great maxim of respecting myself. " Lu this era of ceaseless change and of violent agitation. when whole nations seem tossed, like individuals, on the ocean of sturnls, no circumstances, however menacing, shall shake the constancyjof my attachment to the English nation, or estrange my affections from the general good of the community. The future is wisely covered with an opaque cloud—hut, whatever may be my destiny, I shall cherish in all vicissitudes and persevere in all fortunes that resignation to the Divine will, which, in proportion as it becomes an habitual sentiment of the d, improves all its virtues, and elevates the general character."_ The number of the names signed to the Address was 15,452, besides which, after the Address had been made up, about 2,000 other names were for.. warded. It is to be observed that the must scrupu lous exactitude has been attended to in the collec tion of signatures, as every person who undertook to obtain them is well known to the Committee, and guarantees that they are those of such persons only as are described in the Address. These names were collected by a few Ladies and theit friends durinc , the short space of eight days, and may there fore b e fairly considered as a strong specimen of the public feeling, particularly when the number now out of town is considered. Extract of a private letter, dated Portsmouth, August I 7 :- '• 1 omen regret to have to announce to you the fol lowing melancholy aflair, extracted from communica tions from Rio Janeiro, dated June 18, 1820. The Hon. Captain Spencer, of the Owen Gktulower frigate, wishing to have his ship worked without too intieb se verity towards the men, gave the necessary orders to the First Lieutenant. Coming on board the frigate during the absence of Sir Thomas Hardy, who was gone to Maldonado, and having occasion to yomplain of the want of punctiiality to his orders, he reprimanded the Lieutenant, who told hint it was impossible to carry on the duty unless he was properly supported. On this Captain ;Spencer threw himself into a violent passion, beat to quarters, and sent every body down to the mails deck guns, leaving himself and the First Lieutenant WI the main deck. Captain Spencer thou drew Ilia sword, ordering the Lieutenant to defend himself. lie remon strated, statipig that he was a much better sssorilsitiao than the Captain, having had a deal of practice winke confined as a prisoner of war in France; hot, if Capt. Spencer was determined to fight, he would meet hint Oil shore. Captain Spencer then called him a cow ardly rascal, and it is said struck his side; upon the Lieutenant drew his sword on the delensive, and displayed sonic coolies.. This coolness exaspetaled the Captain, who, making a violent thzusi, usershnt film set old fell on the Lieutenant's swim]; shortly after which lie died. This melancholy alfair has thrown a great gloom Oier the eolltitenatiersol a I naval characters at The First Lieutenant's Milne is Jas. Nf'Donahl (the Nasy-List give s the name of Esatis). lie was for merly First of the Creole, then Second of the Ctrole, from some error, and then went First of the Owen Glen dower about May - last. Mr. I41•1)imald was 1111(ibliiplitall of the Penguin when she was taken by the American Wasp. Toe 1 100. Capt. Silencer is son of Earl Spencer. who Has also another son (the Hon. F. Spencer) a Lieu tenant of the Superb, Sir Thomas Hardy's The ports were declared open on Wednesday fair the importation of oats, the average price fin' the six weeks ending on that day, according to the official returns, being 275. id. It is remarkable, that the excesses above the price at which the im portation is permitted is only one penny, and ac cording to the general supposition, has been pro duced principally by speculation. The etrect must be injurious to the agricultural interest, as, in& • pendently of the large quantities already ware housed in this country, the stores of Holland mud the Baltic are filled with oats, which a few weeks will bung to England. iiiin•miimimisinllllllliloo