The National Register.
London, England, 1813-04-18 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

ADDRESS TO THE PRINCESS OF WALES.

Monday being appointed for the Livery of the City of London to
present their Address of Congratulation to her Royal Highness the
Princess of Wales, the City Marshals, with their customary at-
tendants, led the procession, which consisted cf the Lord Mayor, iu
his State-carriage ; the Sheriffs ; Alderman Combe, Wood. Good-
behiwe, Ileygate, the Town Clerk, and City Officers ; with about
sixty carriages, containing the Deputation of the Livery.
The expectation was universal that the procession would have
gone to Kensington-palace by Ludgate-hill, Fleet street, the Strand,
pall-mail, St. James's-street, and Piccadilly ; hut, to the very great
disappointment of the immense population collected in these parts,
and to the surprise of the Livery, it moved, by the direction of the
Lord Mayor, who chose a very different route, by Skinner-street,
Holborn, and Oxford street, tiroierli Hyde-park, to the Palace.
In the Park, however, which coutained au assemblage no less re-
spectable than numerous, no dissappointment occurred. The car-
riages, horsemen, and spectators on toot, were numerous beyond all
precedent, and the procession was greeted, as it passed, with the
most enthusiastic shows and plaudits.
About eleven o'clock the Princess of Wales, attended by Ladies
Charlotte Lindsay and Charlotte Campbell, had left Montaune-
house, Blackheath, for Kensington-palace, where her Royal High-
ness arrived at a quarter past twelve o'clock. The people had
begun to assemble round the Palace by eleven ; and several police
officers were employed for the purpose of preserving order. The
crowds that continued flocking through Kensington-gardens had a
pleasing etkct, when seen from the Palace between the trees, the
day being so fine, and the sun shining so remarkably bright.
On the arrival of the procession at Kensington palace, a commu-
nication being made to the Lord Mayor that her Royal Highness
was ready to receive his Lordship, the Sheriffs, Aldermen, aiol Li-
very, they alighted, and were intiodneed into the State-room. Her
Royal Highness was attended by Lady Anne Hamilton, and several
more of her Ladies, and the Lord Mayor, Sheriff's, &e. having
made the 111Ftlai obeisance, the following address was read by the
Town-clerk :
TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES.
Me humble Address of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Livery of the
City of London, in Common assembled.
" May it please your Royal Highness!
" We, his Majesty's loyal subjects, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen,
and Livery of the City of London, in Common-hall assembled,
bearing in mind those sentiments of profound veneration and ardent
affection,. with which we hailed the arrival of your Royal High-
ness in this sentry, humbly beseech your Royal Highness to re-
ceive our assurances, that in the hearts of the Citizens of London,
those sentiments have never experienced diminution or change.
" Deeply interested in every event connected with the stability of
the Throne of this Kingdom under the sway of the House of Bruns.
wiek,—tenderly alive to every circumstance affecting the pm sonal
welfare of every branch of that illustrious House,—We have telt
indignation and abhorrence inexpressible, upon the disclosure of
that foul and detestable conspiracy which:by perjured amid suboro-
col traducers, has been carried on against your Royal Highliess't.
honour and life.
" veneration for the laws, the moderation, the forbearance,
the frankness, the magnanimity, which your Royal Higlinms has so
eminently displayed under circunistimces so trying, and during a
persecution of so long a duration—these, while they demand au
cepeos.ion of our imbounded applause, cannot fail to excite in ns
a confident hope, that under the sway of your illustrious and be-
loved I)a.n cm- children will enjoy all the benefits of so height
an example and we litunble beg permission most unfeignedly to
assure your Royal Highness, that, as well for the sake Of our c(11111-
try, as from a sense of justice and of duty, we shall always feel,
and be ready to give proof, of the twist anxious solicitude for your
Royal Highness's health. prosperity, and happiness."
The Address was then delivered to her Royal Highness,
who read the following Answer :
" I thank you fur your loyal and Areetionste Address. It is to me
the greatest consolation to learn, that during so many years of un-
merited persecution, ;lOW itlistandiug the active and in rseveriui
dbsemivation of the most deliberate calumnies against me, the
kind and favourable sentiments with which they (lid me the homier
to approach me on my arrival iu this country, have midergone
neither diminution nor change in the hearts of the Citizens of
Loudon.
Yhe sena of iudiguation and abhorrence you express against the

tool and detestable conspiracy, which by perjured and suborned
traducers has been carried onligainst my life and honour, is worthy
of you, and most gratifying to me. It must be duly appreciated by
every rranch of that illustrious House with which I am so closely
connected by blood and marriage; the personal welfare of every
one. of whom niumt have been affected by the success of such atro-
dons machniations.
" The consciousness of my innocence has supported me through my
long, severe, and unmerited trials : your approttation of my con-
duct under them is a reward for all my sufferings.
" I shall not lose any opportunity I may be permitted to enjoy, of.
encouraging the talents and virtues of my dear daughter, the
Princess Charlotte ; and l shall iwpress upon her mind my fill sense
4)t the obligation conferred upon me by this spontaneous act of your
justice and generosity.
"She will therein clearly perceive the value of thaffree Constitu-
tion, which, in the natural course of events, it will be her high
destiny to preside over, and her sacred ditty to maintain, which.
:Mows no one to sink under oppression; and she will ever be bound
to the City of London in ties proportioned to the strength of that
filial attachment I have had the happiness•uniformly to experience
1.10111 her.
" Re assured that the cordial and convincing proof you have thug
given of your solicitude for my prosperity and happiness, will be
• cherished in grateful remembrance by me to the latest moment of
my•life; and the distinguished proceeding adopted by the first city
of this great empire, will be considered by pos:mity as a proud
memorial of my vindicated honour."
Her Rosa' Highness read the answer with great propriety,
feeling, and dignity ; and some particular passages, upon which
any comment would be. unnecessary, were marked %%WI peculiar
sentiment and emphasis.
Immediately after the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs had kissed her
Royal Highness's hand, and while the Livery were pressing forward ..
to enjoy the same honour, she seemed slightly agitated ; but she
almost instantaneously recovered herself, and exclaimed, " I beg.
Gentlemen, that you ‘vill not hurry : you will have plenty of time."
The apartment in which her Royal Highness received the deputa-
tion of the Livery was so very dose to the Gardens, where thou.
sands were assembled, that many persons near the windows could
see her Royal Highness's person distinctly.

On Wednesday, Mr. Hen►y Hunt waited on the Princess of
Wales, at Montague House, Blackheath, with an Address from tltta
.fie. of the City of Bristol, of a similar purport to that
frOM the Livery of Lotid,ii : her Royal Highness being indisposed,
the Address was delivered to the Lady in Waiting, Leidy Charlotte
Lind Fay, who, by command of the Pi ineess, returned the ti►llowing
written answer
:
« 1 return my best thanks to the Freemen, Burfesses, and tuba
hitants of the City ot Bristol, who have been pleased to send me
this handsome testimony of their appr,,hatioti of my conduct, and
their congratulations on the failure ot that conspiracy which w.is
wickedly cinari wed, by pet ured and suborLvd traducers, ag4iost
my life and honour."

TV ESnIINSIT,II. 1111 ETiN G.

A most mtmerons mctetintz of the inhabitants of Westminster WU'
on Thursday held in Palace-yard, for the purpose of eousiderinf.y, tiie
propriety of voting ..111 A tker•ti to the Princess of Wa es, eongratu-
latii:g her Royal Highness on the t'ailure of the late fool and amnions
conspiracy formed against her honour and her lite. The Address
was moved by Mr. Wishart ; and Sir Fraueis B-alett and Lord
Cochrane w-ere ordered to present the s:.me.—T!i.:l4 s were voted to
Mr. Coel!rane Johnstone, Mr. XVlrithr, ad, Sir Itordett, and Mr.
Alderman Wood, for their ow lions on behalf' of the
ME. JON L•'; Dt• ristorned thanks in the name of hiA brotl)er,
who was cin fined to his room, and nearly to his bed, by sevele
Hints& lie should, however, with their permiir.ion, read a letter
which he had addressed to them :

" April ti, 18:1,
GENTLF:MEN, I ant exceedingly mortired at wy ihabi i;y
dironeil to attend the Meeting of the Lbl.a!)itant, of the C
and Libertie:‘ of IVestminster, convened en this iirportant ocea-i4.e.
both because it is my duty, and because, that %vi,iela r :rt v ac comps
oies my duty in other places,--pleasure and sitti-factiho— %%veld
have accompanied me on this. Gent lemeu, there iu.‘f.
Oceinioli width appeared to we more calculated to cul; fort'
manly feelings, and that love of justice, for i he people
Country,have been ever rental kiehi.e. iu pratetJ the VP'

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