The National Register.
London, England, 1820-11-06 00:00:00

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—Here we treated the persecution of your Majesty selOt
have ceased. Bat we will not harrow up your feedings by
calling to remembrance events, which the heaviest mink.
Hen known to humanity, enabled your Majesty's enemies
to prednee and to pervert to their owe malevolent per.
poses. Powerful as were those ecemies, possessing the
whole authority of the State, they ventured not, at that
time, to carry into effect their evil designs, bat were ear
pelted to wait until death had deprived your Majesty of
the possibility of protection.—Driven into foreign lands,
we have seen your Majesty surrounded by treacherous
spies t your most innocent and huniable actions perverted:
and every effort made to c.alennalate =aided and
character, and to represent thous as in and detest-
able. Your Majesty's enemies became se (maidens is
their success, that they did not hesitate to act epos the
scandalous reports they bad themselves preyepted, and
to punish, by depriving year Majesty of your ritera
offences which they bad themselves impaled, wi
justice or truth.
" Magnesialessly your Majesty braved year swain
and challenged them to the proof. Yon approached these
shores—you' struck terror into your foes. Judging by
their own base and sordid souls, they proffered emoneeme
bribes if you would consent to your dishoseur. Year
conscious Neocene* rejected their vile offer. mud We
plunged them into insurmountable dithcalties.—Toe primed
to retract, they commeuced proceedings against year
honour, hypocritically pretending they did met dosimes
from kindness to your Majesty, to affect your life. Whet
bas been the result Every whew they have
produced to prove the overcharged wad eseedeleeli
allegations of the unknown and unavowed premolar'', is
a proceeding such as has never, even is the most tyres.
nice! times of our history, been paralleled, has either by
bites nal contradictions or opposite testimony of respect-
able and credible witnesses bete proved to have been
false and perjured.—Not only this; bet the gross and
infamous conduct of your Majesty's prosecutors in pro-
curing and suborning evidence, so long as it was permitted
to be investigated, became every day more and more
manifest and notorious.

Her Majesty's most gracious Answer was read by
Mr. Hume, anti was as follows:
" My cordial thanks see doe to the inhabitants of doe
parish of St. Mary, bliogtoo, for this loyal and offectioeate
Address.

"It my adversaries has felt any regard for a free 0110.
vermnetit, they would never have set mide all Me forme
of the Couitittition, and trampled en all the rights of Jodi.
',ideals, fur the purpose of gratifying the wishes Mr
power, or ministering to the appetite of r ge.
" My enemies have new done their worse, am, we are
at liberty to contemplate the case they have attempted is
establish, and the effect they have produced. •'
" Never was there so mnch assertiemned so l itle proof s
such au accumulation of criminatisig remnikm and sack a
vacuity of even speciosa evidence I ' • • • • •
" ii we take away from this mountain of asseasallen aU
the circumstances that have been misrepreseated, all the
minutia that have been exaggerated, what de we leave it,
but an iutleted mass of the most palpable • falsehoods and
glaring perjinimi that ever were heaped together try power
instigated by unmitigated inaligaily, fed mated by
trubouuded wealth!
" in the midst of the many painfloi eircnnistences
elected with this unparalleled proceeding, there is one, ins
which I may congratulate the country: It has produced
‘a degree of eschewal thloagliont the coinnannity, of the
Meet eirtenue and estaibling hind: it has called forth the
most gessi.rOisi 'sentiments, and the most disinterested
efforts.. All tbstgreat:pliatipleir, regard.for which most
elevates the liemeg egnergettc, are n, the side of ads o
Troth, dnilrEe, Mid Humaritry, sad ItreOwliiels
they never tail to eceormaessy,:—Libinty-sessinarshalled
litt•We entsclunlasy,asseinsl Falsehood, Cruelty, and 00.
PttgisiOaii, • The bait principles of human nature use cull-
i.llicting against the' worst- It is hot a mixed question, iu
which these is any obscuration of the wrong, or any
ambiguity with respect to the right, le is wet a question
of casuistry, wind, may confound .the simple•end puzzle
liar *lst,. I. a case of isislividual ottpstusios. in k%
po.cr•r is 141imallog so trample, upon tight. HWIICIPIIII 'lit
mosal sentiments of the people me. ors sae side of the
Llisecu. '1 Ile Almighty has, from the toemlasiou et the
world, issued his prohibition against ipineuelp. add he has
inscribed it in tory legible characters vs the guinea
bean."

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" If, then, admitting for a inonteat that the forme( pro-
ceeding has afforded your Majesty the mesas end *dram-
tages which the law pressures are available to the way
least and unimportant of its subjects, such and so close
have been its results, bow great mast be the abhorrence
excited by the attempts of those who, having framed this
conspiracy, have, even with the violation of all the ferias
and laws by which innocence is, or by she Cosstitation
ought to be, shielded front oppression sad injeatice, been
unable to *Outmode.. may, the slightest. qt toe
dons which they have fuhniaatedi against year Majesty's
conduct and character.
" We beg leave, therefore, most cordially to emsgretn.
late your Majesty on this most full and perfect defeat of
those of your Majesty's enemies, who, ersefoondlog all
distinction and citcutustance on an occasion one of the
most awful that ever interested and endangered the ppeeaace
and happiness of a nation, have to the utter astoaisYnteet
of mankind, assumed and exercised the hitherto hacenspe-
tible functions of Prosecutors, Accusers, Judges, and
Jason, and who have dins treated with contempt, and
done their utmost to destroy, the first principles of their
country."
To the above Address were attached 4,376
signature*.

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