The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-09-26 00:00:00

~~. - _ THE QUEEN. Her Majesty received a great number of Addresses at Brandenburgls House yesterday . . The circumstance created the same interest as usual. 'lle road from town pas covered with people on foot, and in vehicles of all sort.; an immense crowd as sem'oled in the grounds of the house; flags were dis played front the steeples of the village, churches, and the windows of many houses, the bells were rung, and t annuli were fired continually throughout the day. It is trite, the heavy shower in the morning rather damped the joyousness of these proceedings ; but when at length the sun shone forth with renewed splendour, the etowil again pressed forward with In treased ardour for the scene of action till the demesne at Brandenbnrgh House was thronged almost to suf focation. The crowd too, on the whole, was of a much wore respectable complexion than upon any former occasion. A strong party of the Bow-street patrole were in attendance as usual, together with the whole posse comitaters of Hammersmith, and the adjoining villages; but, notwithstanding their utmost vigilance, the shrubberies, fences, est:. suffered much farther damage. The Addresses began to arrive about half-past twelve o'clock ; and each deputation as it came up had as immediate andience, their carriages drawing off the the while on to the lawn; and thither the company had to follow them as their respective audiences were over, thereby preventing the confusion which has heretofore been occasioned by the carriages coming to the door to take up. The first Address, in order of their arrival, was one from Birmingham, and if we may judge front the cir cunsference of the roll of parchment, it must have a very lengthy list of names. This Addres• was brought by Major Cartwright, Mr. Wooler, and another per son, whose name we did not learn. They came in a private carriage with a livery, and the Major wore a Naval Captain's full uniform. The Address from the Ward of Farringdon-Without was the next. 'I he deputation was preceded by the Ward Officers on horseback in their official dresses ; then followed Mr. Alderman Waithman (wearing his scarlet robes in his private carriage, accompanied by two of his wins, and thirty-one open lambus, mostly with four horses each, and containing the Common- Councilmen of the %Ward in their violet gowns; the Liverymen, &c. with many of their wives and daughters, brought up the rear. An Address from Stroutlwater in Gloucestershire was next presented by Mr. Thoutaa Mills, the High Constable of the place, and two other persons. They arrived in a very gay private carriage with four horses. the drivers wearing jackets of sky-blue satin, and the whole decorated with a profusion of enormous white cockades. The Spitalfields address followed ; the deputation ozettpying twenty-four open landaus with four horses each, and the whole of the postillions in yellow satin. 13 ore the leading carriage in this procession was displayed a large silk banner of very costly and curious workmanship—the device emblematic of Britannia encouraging the Genius of Spitalfields, we presume. Mr. Hobhouse and Mr. Whitbread, brought down the Manchester Address. Mr. Ellice and Mr. Peter Moore following with the Address from Coventry. Mr. Hume also brought down an Address, we un derstood, from Dundee. The Address front the Ward of Cripplegate-Within was the next inoreler, and the deputation accompany ing it filled twenty-eight carriages, with pairs. The Aldgate Ward Address, with an equally nu merous string of carriages, but mostly with four horses, nas next in order. They were preceded by the Ward Officers with their maces, &c. and a person on horseback bearing a blue silk flag, inscribed " Aldgate Address." The last and most splendid procession of the day was the one with the Paddington Address. It com prised a line of at least fifty open carriages and four, led by the Committee in three open carriages, with six handsome grey horses in each. 'I he whole of the Committee were in full dress with cocked bats, wands, Ise. and they all wore Mr. George Mills's new medal of the QueeN, suspended round the shoulders by broad garter blue ribbons. The other marriages were all filled with persons of the most respectable appear sect, and a large proportion of them were females, generalty very elegantly and fashionably attired. The male Address brought by this Deputation was present - ed and read by the Rev. Mr. Marcus, and the female one was presented by Mrs. Thatcher, wife of Thos. hatcher, Esq. of Manor place, Paddington, and read by the above Bev. Gentleman. Re understand that an Address was also presented from Tiverton, in Devoaahire, and two from Leeds, one from the male and the other front the female in- IsalAants. Her Majesty was attended by her Chamberlain', S'r W. (Jell and the Hon. K. Craven, Lady Hamil ton, several distinguished Foreigners. Mr. Aide Wood read the whole of her Majesty's Anew' Her Majesty appeared in excellent health als cheerful, and she repeatedly appeared at the windy s in the coarse of the day, when she was always received with the must enthusiastic acclamation by the immense crowds assembled in front of the man sion. It was nearly six o'clock in the evening before the Paddington Deputation were all re-seated in their carriages. Her Majesty returned the following answers to the respective Addresses presented to her TO TUX ADDRUS FROM ?RR WARD Or PARRINOnoy- WITUOCT. The Inhabitants of the Want of Farringdon Without • have long 'howls themselves the friends of liberty and ' the enemies of oppreasion. It gives me, therefor, great pleasure to receive this animated, eonstitntional, and af fectionate address from citizen' of the metropolis, whose principles are so congenial with env soul. The warm, indeed the unexampled sympathy which I have experienc.d on the part of the British people.* not only alleviated my sufferings, but has added sire to that fortitude which the internal sentiments of into . gritv would never suffer to languish in my heart. At the same time, if I do not gel, perhaps I ought to feel more g ratitude than resentment towards my enemies, for the errougs which they have endeavoured to heap span we, when I eonaider stoat those wrongs are likely, under the diseetioa of a superintending Providence, to assist • THE STATESMAN the nation in the recovery of its constitutional rights and liberties. The people of England are now strongly convinced that the ISELVISH FACTION is not merely attempting to deprive me of my honour or my rights, but is, through me. aiming a fatal blow at the rights of every individual in these realms. My prosecution would prepare the way for the destruction of public liberty. My cause, there fore, has become every man's cause. It is, indeed, the cause of all classes, of high and the low, of the Peer and the peasant, of the rich and the poor ; for, to which of these classes is a free Constitution not a benefit? or, , to whom is it not a blessing to be independent and free? But if Inv rights are once sacrificed at the shrine of tyranny. liberty will soon become only a name. It will, at least for a time, be buried in my tomb. It will, indeed, revive; for, it is an indestructible essence: and, while men exists upon the earth, it cannot be entirely destroy -1 ed; but it may anger a temporary extinction of its spirit, or a paralysis of its passers. Anarchy is the greatest of all evils; but anarchy is usually the climax of bad government. Bad govern ment sacrifices the interests of the many to that of the few, till the very elements of the social scheme, wanting the strong cement of the cow good, are so shattered and disjointed. that they can hardly be held together by any principle from within, or any power from with out. "The vessel of the State is then cast, for a time, like the scattered wreck upon the waters of strife. If the people ask me "What are we to do in the pre. sent peril of the Constitution:" I answer; my people, my friends, my children—be united, be temperate, be firm. Let justice be your constant guide, your regd. lating principle.--Suffer not yourselves to be hurried into the approbation of any measures, however specious they may seem, that have not justice for their begin ning, and the general welfare fur their end. Let liberty he the object of your unfeigned devotion , your unbounded love ; but on one side of liberty place justice, and on the other humanity. Without these two fair associates, liberty is apt to 'become a devastating tempest. or a consuming fire. TO TIE ADDRESS FROM TIE WARD OF CRIPPLE4IATC WITHIN :- I am deeply obliged to the Inhabitants and Freemen of the Ward of Crapplegate Within, for an Address so loyal and so affectionate towards myself, and at the same time breathing the purest sentiments of constitu tional liberty. The light of liberty was long preserved in the ark of the British Constitution, when it was extinguished, or almost extinct in every part of the world. It is from this light that the people of other countries have origi nally derived a large part of their present political illu mination. Here 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 ether 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 consti tutional freedom which it once so splendidly illuminated. It would afford me the sweetest satisfaction to he in any degree instrumental in rekindling the dying tire of national liberty, and in rendering the British Constitu tion what it once was, the glory of the world. In the conflict which I am waging with my adver saries in defence of my violated rights, I am defending the rights of every Englishman. If lam successful is this conflict, the victory will redound less to my owe pore sonal satisfaction, than to that which I derive from the reflection that the rights of individuals, and the genera liberties of the nation will henceforth be secured against the domineering views of that slum raccton, which is equally an enemy to every improvement in the poli tical condition of man in this country, and in every part of the world. Perhaps I onght to triumph in the indignities I have experienced, and to rejoice at the wrongs I have suffered, as those wrongs and indignities have been the means which Providence has employed fur exciting such a spirit in the nation as must tend to secure the rights of the people. and to enlhrge the practical benefits of the Constitution. TO THE IPITALFIELDI ADDRESS. I have been much gratified by an Address, so loyal and so affectionate, from the Churchwarilens,Ov and other Inhabitants of the parish of Christchurch , Middlesex, commonly called Spitalkids. There is no period in the history of this country, in which the feelings of the people have been so untver. sally or so powerfully excited as in the present. A case of individual oppression has interested every beast. Every member of the community, who is not enlisted in the service of the selfish faction, has made my wrongs and sufferings his own snfferinge and wrongs. The sympathy which my afflictions have excited has produced a degree of close and cordial union in the sen timents of the nation, which augurs the most glorious results. Union is always strength, even in a few; but union in a nation is might irresistible. An united na tion has only to express its will to have it obeyed. The great fault in the Statesmen of modern times, and particularly of oar own country, has been, that the, have not kept pace with the increased knowledge and ; improved sentiments of the age, While the nation has I been progressive, they have been stationary, or even retrogaile. While the nation hiss been making migble strides in political science , and ac q uirin g a fitness fu r more liberal institutions, they have been fixed, as if by the spell of enchantment, in the narrow circle of an cient prejudices, or have been labouring to keep others within the confines of ignorance and superstition. In short, they are still children, while the nation has grown am to manhood. They are still in the leading strings lif puerile maxims, ;chile the peope bass learned to walk erect in the light of new trut l hs, and of better' principles. My heart Is sensibly touched with a sense of those miseries which the inhabitants of Spitalfields mention as characterising the general state of the country at the present period. lied I the power of mitigating those miseries my grief would be less; but, at present. I la ment evils and deplore calamities, for which I cannot furnish a remedy; and I grieve the more, because I grieve in rain. TO THE ADDRESS 'ROM 71ta LADIES OP tantrum. This Address from the Female Inhabitants of the Town of Leicester speaks the language of animated loyal and affectionate attachment. I swept it with tench satisfaction, and I welcome the spirit which it breathes as favourable to the present and future interests of Bri tain. The more enlightened, virtuous, and patriotic the females of this country become, the more we may che rish hopes of the moral, intellectual, and political im provement of the rising and of future generations. Our glut are the first instructors of the yontig. By them the Best impressions 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 sanction of persons who have lung been in the habit of making religion a pretext for their tyranny, or the veil for their selfishness; and who, on any other occasion, would have represented the propene to exclude as many words or as many letters from the service of tbe esta blishment, ao• most sacrilegious innovation, threaten ing the abollgoo of tithes, and the downfall of the hierarchy ; bnt, am altartstloa la direct opposition to this spirit of charity, whims Alai all religion Is bet mess mummery, has been countenanced by the pions heads both of the Church and of the State. There is only one view in which I can regard this al teration with any complacency, and that is, as the first step in the good work of ecclesiastical reformation. But as the first step has been an unhallowed invasion of the charity of the sanctuary, let us hope that the next will make amends by enlarging that charity, and by making the terms of union in the establishment as comprehensive as the spirit which is breathed through the whole scheme of Christianity. Churchmen are, usually, more remarkable even than Statesmen, for being behind the light of the age. They adhere too pertinaciously to ancient forms. They are unwilling to pass beyond that boundary of darkness, within which their forefathers lived ; and if they ever find themselves within the 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 he too late, to open their eyes upon the sun of another reformation that is rising upon the world. Is it not their iuterest and ought it not to be their policy, to pre serve all that is valuable in ancient systems and institu tions, and to add to that value, by incorporating it with all that is excellent in the improvements of modern times? This is the best way to reform what is bad, at the saute time that you preserve what is good, and keep pate with the light of the age. TO THE ADDRESS FROM TIVERTON. I am much obliged by this tribute of loyalty and at tachment from the Inhabitants of the ancient Town and Borough of Tiverton. It is very cheering to me to find that the sad variety of afflictions which I have experi enced, so deeply interest their generous sympathies. Sly accession to the dignity of Queen Consort of these realms might have been accompanied with happier cir cumstances, as far as my own personal tranquility is concerned ; but I lay aside all selfish feeling in my re gard for the good of the community. That good will, I trust, be ultimately promoted by the e vils I have suf fered; and the wrongs by which I have been assailed. This hope throws a ray of comfort over my soul ; it en livens the passing hour, and it brightens the obscurity of my future destiny. To 111 K ADDAERS FROM TICE INHABITANTS OF THE ROROUGH OF LEEDS. My cordial thanks are do' to the Inhabitants of the Borough of Leeds for this affectionate Address. The religious sentiments which it breathes are such as meet with corresponding sentiments in my own mind. I feel it my duty not to dispute the wisdom , o r to q uestion the goodness of EyeeNAL, in any even of his most afflicting dispensations. Our views are hounded on all titles ; and we are apt to regard things only in their immediate relations to our present interests; but the SUPREME WISDOM adjusts his discipline to oar good, not only in the time which now is, but in that which is to come. If I have been despite fully used, and wrongfully persecuted, I still hope to de. rive lienelit from the evil J have experienced. All injuries are apt to rebound upon the author ; and thong h Vengeance is slow, yet how few are they who can ultimately avoid its shaft or elude its pursuit ? I should nut he a ft ttttt an being, if injury excited no feeling of re► sentment in my breast; hut I am conscious that, not only out of regard for a higher authority, but from ads. sire not to disturb my own internal tranginility, I ought not to stutter that feeling to rankle in my heart. The sentiment of integrity, which has its fixed resi derice in my soul, makes me despise the accosations of my enemies. I know that the malice of my oppressors has never yet been restrained by any moral eimmidera tieeii ; but that nialice has hitherto been eendeved Who. rile by the public indignation which it has excited me one side, and by all the better sympathies which it hea l re l ted in my defence on the other. t cannot' he supposed that the Bill of Pains and Pe nalties, which has not hitherto been supported by a par-I tide of honest testimony, will receive the sanction of the Legielatnre ; but if it should, it will be found not merely to inflict the punishment of degradation upon the Queen. but of servitude upon the nation. Its proisseed object is to deprive the Queen alter honour and het rights, hut its real effect will be to destroy the liberties of Englishmen. TO TDE ADDRESS OP THE FEMALE it:HABITANTS Or THE 1101101:611 OF LEETS. I have derived no ordinary satisfaction from the con sciousness that DIV conduct lies excited the approbation of the Female Inhabitants of the Borough of Leeds and Its vicinity. In the conflict .rith my enemies, I have steadily ad hered to my original puresse of vindicating my inno cence at every risk; am' have suffered no lure, however tempting, to make me forget that my rights are not ex elusively my own, but belong to the common stock of public liberty. If I had tamely surrendered those rights. 1 should hive betrayed the people. for whose good they were Lestowetl: and to whose generoes attachment 1 as indebted fore/Mat I possess. I never could consent to make reputation an affair al mereenary traffic. 111 could have been guilty of such' tenseness, it wuniti h iv.. rendered use totally unworthy of tile title or 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 Penaltit s, and have lad say enemies hearing testiosouy to the purity of my conduct, and the pa. triotiem of my principles. The stmeisti FACTION who have heroine my aceuseeiN have been, in the habit of trnekling to superior power, and of complying with ail its fickle inclinations, they have actinireti a fondness for turpitude; as all may live in a polluted atmosphere tai! they lose all relish for the breath of the Zephyrs, or the fragrance of the Itch's. TO THE RIRMINOM•M ADD4ISE. I have the most unfeigned satisfaction in receiving this affectionate Address from the people of Birmingham sad its vicinity. The loss that I have sustained, during my long ain 'Mice upon the Continent, have been irreparable. Bet, 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 contrast.' plating the probable benefits of which my afflictions are likely to be productive to the people of these realms. If I bad experienced no suffering, and been treated with no indignity, that union of mind and heart would some hoe been seen, which now binds the nation, from low ellltemity to another, in the cause of legal right, and of moestitutional liberty. To my wrongs, therefore the nation may, ultimately 14 indebted for the recovery of its rights, and the vile tAlempt to effect my degradation may exalt the people tos higher pitch of freedom and prosperity. ;Po Queen was ever the subject of so many and such bekbarons persecutions as I have experieeseed. r z i while these persecutions have had littl e elect in 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. 111 is the serpent gnawing the heart ; and, if there be at this moment, one who. more than another, is au object of pity. for the suspicions to which he is a victims, or the inquietudes to which he is a prey—for the istuesehrrillt vexatious which he is hourly, nay momentarily feeling— for the moolloctions of lost happiness, and of diverted virtew—for the consciousness of manes that i l i Zalts teetered impotent, and of tearoom th at has ha •k t•l ►• aim—inch an object of pity is. perhaps, to be seen at the head of my adversaries. The moralist of other tiros. when he wants examples of abortive malice, or unsus. cessful treachery, to give effect to his lesswis, or to breathe a living energy on his page, will not !on; hr It a loss to know from she part of our history to extras t an impressive proof that conning. aisle% Optic... and perfidy, excite nothing but scorn, and are produeti‘ e ui nothing but ntisery. ,To Tut anuaess VIAOM E L MIURING CWIES OM rim Town OF asAvutx,eca. I receive with great satisfaction this loyal, affection ate, and impressive Address. from so numerous, so nay fttl, and so efficient a part of the community as th e Artisans, Mechanics, and Labouring Classes of t:se Town of Manchester. The true honour of the maitre has been in the highest degree promoted by their in. comparable skill and their unrivalled ingenuity, uhiie their persevering industry has an Largely rontributed towards the means of maintaining the dignity of t: Throne, and the power and glory of the kingdom. No time nor circumstances can remove from my m;nd that beloved object which so vividly excites ywir kind condolence, and still so tenderly interests my affertioei. If this calamity frustrated the fond hopes of the pes4e, how murk did it deduct from the sum of my Isappines,, and add to the number of my woes! It aggravated ini other manifold afflictions by the invention of a new col spiracy, which, if it was not in its origin more dews'. able than the former, was certainly inure formidable la its aspect, more artful in its contrivance. more extensive in Its ramifications, and more powerful in its means. My own innocence, combined with the good sense sod 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 born attacked, has been already more than half vanspislied by the flagiti ousness of its chiefs, and the turpitude of its knxiliaric‘. The most artful combinations of perjury cannot loug endure the piercing scrutiny of truth. I am happy to perceive that the industrious classes i n the town of Manchester, as well as in the rest of the kingdom, regard the unconstitutional attack upon ley rights as an illegal invasion of their own. The Bill of Pains and Penalties, which threatens my slegradatio... 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 pun, r in any of its varied forms. We naturally compassionate the'c ore privations and deep sufferings, even of the idle and dissolute; hat bow much more forcibly is our sympathy excited by such pri• rations and sufferings, when they are aceuninlated upon the industrious, frugal, and virtuous part of this earls plary community. My mind has, indeed, been often agonised by the re collection of that dreadful day to which the industrious classes of Manchester particularly allude ; but while we cannot but know that the same hand has been our *vm. mon oppressor, let us, as far as we are able, bury the past its oblivion, and trust, that though these thing, hare been, they will be no more! Let us entices our 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 continuance, I shall think them all amply eouspensatell, if they should at last prove the means of contributing towards the harmony, the prus perity, and the happiness of the kingdom. . TO TIII AI.DIIISS rnom coveNvor. lam perticularlyohlicad by this :oval and affectionate . Address from the Inhabitants of the I.:lty and Cavity of the City of Coventry. I cannot b e isaensible to the tenderness with which they lamest the sad chasm tii.l: death has made in my kindred relations; nor ran I readily forget the warmth with which they resent the namerons indignities that I have torperieoced. My enemies have now made oat the best ease they eonld in support of their Bill of Palos anti Peoalties: but who will venture to assert that the testimony they have produced, even if its validity were less sesplehot. than it appears, is sufficient to justify the menace in the preamble of the Bill 7. But the very measure which my enemies designed as fatal not only to the honour of the Queen, but to the liberty of the nation, is likely to prove favourable to both. It has united ..11 parties, and made those soy 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 fur any transient interest., I shall nitimstely traffnph over my enemies. The principles whirls are most sacred to my conscience and dearest to uty heat'. are those of troth, of justice, sod of liberty. Tluoe, principles are better calculated titan any others to pr,. mote the general happiness of mankind; and while I maintain them with unshaken constancy, not more for my own good Bum for that of the nation, I ate coi lwinced that, in tho generous 'import of all classes of t h e community, I shall be able to oppose au invulnerable shield to the violence, the ferocity, and the malice of my enemies. In this age, when knowledge is generalized mid in quiry nnrestrained, the power of public opiaion is be come fie great, that every other most finally bend to its decrees. A temporary resistance may be mid• to the alelkillreA its soncests or the cotittnet it prescribes; hat, I as low as the Press preserves only a tuaderate degree of illsetty. pabile opinion most be ultimately omnipo tent ; *oil it is as vain to op vac its commands as it would be to order the earth not to revolve tiros' its alio. When flop gave the power of thoillit to man, he evidently designed it to be free. Tyranny may fetter the legs, or handealf the arms, two it cannot impose chains on the interior operations of the mind. It may restrain the freedom of intellectsial agency through the medium of the Press; Ism, in the present condition of man, no restraint of any kind ern well he ethcacioas; and my heart library* with joy a hen I reit* Sit tyranny itself is on the point of expirilg in shoot every pert of the European world. i'he Holy /Mame, though made for the purpose, can hardly keep it alive. Its eztinction is decreed: ani some members of the FACTION may have leisure to write its epitaph. COURT Or CHANCERII.—The Sittings of this Conrt are appointed by the Leril Chancellor to take place on Wednesday the lit day of November nest. the Ail lowing notice has been given 'as to the manaff which his Lordship will dispatch besiness:--Oftlired sudsy the Ist of November be will bolsi the ir't Seal, and hear Motions. .011 Thursday be 14114 1 r' sf Appeals from the Vice-Chancellor nod she Meta y of the Rolls. On Friday he will hear Dealattega ad Exceptions, and on Saturday La trill hear MOdarlae- On the Moaday following Term commences , ma 114 Lordship will then be obliged t* sit is Linvslutl ie Hall, there being no Court-morn in Westasiatter'l liv fur him at present. —The Sittings of the Vlce-tio' caller will commence on the same day, and the SO ° , of the Rolls will sit un the evening of Tursiliol4 31st of 0, t 'her. 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