The National Register.
London, England, 1816-05-06 00:00:00

TILE LSITF.D KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

The dutiful and loyal Address and Petition of the Lord
MaN or, Aldermen, and Commons or the City of London,
in Common Council assembled.
MAT IT PLEASE TOPIt IIOTAL HIGHNESS,

We, his Majesty's must dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lord
Ablerusen, and Commons of the City of London, in
Common Council assembled, humbly approach your Roy al
Highness with renewed expressions of attachment to your Royal
Person and Family; and at the same time to express the deep
wrrow and affliction we feel at the intellitrence received of the
persecutions and sufferings ut• the Protestants in the South of
France.

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Among the glorious and virtnotts causes for which our Ances-
tors hive struggled and bled, in no instance have their exertions
been more successful, nor their success more dear to us, than
in the overthrow of that fabric of superstition, bigotry, and
tyranny, by which the 'tuition mind lad been so long enthralled,
and in the establisl ait of that sacred principle,m hicb confirms
to every matt the right to worship his Creator according to the
dictates of his own conscience. . .

Having claimed and acted upon this principle for ourselves,
and keling that it is au inherent right eipially appertaining to
every individual of every talon, we have learned, with no less
grief than abhorrence, that the spirit of intolerance had again
broken out; and that our Protestant Brethren in the South of
France have suffered the must cruel and atrocious persecution,
whereby their plact s of yorship have been closed, their pro-
perty pillaged and destrhyetl, and numerous lives have been
sacrificed.
That although we deprecate any interference in the internal
concerns of other nationg, we cannot regard it friendly interpo-
sition kr the prevention litetedeities so disgraceful to
htnan-
lute, as a violation of that principle, much less so under the
relative and peculiar cirtannstances of both countries.
For recollecting that It has been in an Pullin to degree by
British valour, Bi dish truest:re. and British blood, that the late
changes in the (lover 1111 l ent of France have been effected, and
that the avowed object °look immense sacrifices was no less to
rescue the People of France from tyranny and oppression, than
to Mini d peace to stirremoding States ; and bearing in 'Mud that
by the Constitutional Charter the King of France guaranteed
full and perfect religions liberty, and that your Royal Highness
has in the Treaty et/minded with his Majesty's Allies at Paris
in Nkovember last. eapressed sour conviction." That the repose
of Europe is essentially interwoven with the confirmation of
things founded out the maintenance of the Royal A litliortr)., and
of the Constitutional Charlet," we cannot but ti el, that under
these eireimistanee3, mid such sole •ugactiiii ills, the eha.
raeter anti hotionr (~1* this country loudly deniand Rim we
should, in the most decisive and energetic terms, protest
against these dreadful entninities, which have so long bet
committed.
It is, therefore, with feelings of the deepest regret that we
perceive the bright prospect of peace, freedom, and happiness,
so suddenly overeas: Scarcely had his Majesty Lam. .y I
resumed the reins. of Government, thou ft:1'06011S stud oa:titled
persons, limier pretence of superior loyalty, and mole pure
commenced a ti e riot's attack upon their fellow subjects;
anti those persons, w hose only offence was their difference in re-
ligious opiiiion, and who had ever been employed iu diffusing
light and knowledge among them, were the limt victims of their
cruelty and superstition.
Under circumstances so distressing, feeling with gratitude
the high degree of religious liberty we enjoy, purchased and
sealed with the blood of oar forefathers, contii meil and esta-
blished at the glorious Revolution of JOSS, we should be un-
worthy of such advantages, were vie not, in the most solemn
and earnest manner, to entreat your Royal Highness to exert
your utmost influence to suppress that unhappy spirit of per-
secution which has lately manifested itself, alike contrary to
the Constitutiettal Chat ter of France, and those enlightened
principles oh Toleration entertained by voile Royal Highness.
We, therefore, humbly pray your Royal Highness will be
pleased to adopt such measures as may best tend to suppress
these enormous evils. Signed by Older of the Court,
HENRY IV OODTHt fit PE.
To which Address and Petition his Royal Highness returned
the following most various Answer:—
The just sense entertained by his alajesty's subjects of the
value and importance of Haig' Toleration is necessarily cal-
culated to excite in their minds strong feelings of uneasiness
and regret at any appearance of the wium of it in other nations
of the world.
In such feelings, when called for and justified by the occa-
sion, I shall ever participate; and, whilst 1 lament the circum-
stances which led to your Address, I derive great saiistaction
from the persuasion, that they ate in no degree to bv attributed
to an indisposition on the part of the Crovernment of Fiance to
...third to the freedlolll Of Religious Wurahip the benefit ut' its
promised protection and support.

TO NIS ROYAL. MOUNTS, THE PRINCE OF WALT!, RFGLET OF
THE UNITED AIM:DWI OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
The humble, loyal, and (Wahl Address of the Lord Mayor,
Aldermen, and Commons of the City of Loudon, in Com-
mon CA1111161743114( inbled,
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL lIICHNESS,
yle, his Makstyls dutiful and faishful subjects, the Lord
Mayor, /Weinrich, and Comonows of the City of Loudon, in
,Comninit Council assembled, humbly approach your Royal
iiigiluCKS with renewed expressions of loyalty to our helot ed
So, et ei.m, And of zealous attachment to your Royal Highness's
Perstm, and to the illustrious House of rto oinswick.
We oeg lease to offer to your Royal lilt:lines', our heartfelt
congratulations, that the unparalleled evortiotos of our Country
and of ,dtr Allies have, under the signal favour of 1/it hoe Pro.-
violence entailed your Royal Highness, by flue Treaties lately
concluded at Parts with his most Christian Majesty the King
of ',ranee, to put an cool to the miseries and calamities inse-
parable I row a state of hostility ; and so speedily to restore to
the people of these realms, the inestimable biessiugs of au ho-
nourable peace,.
We have felt, * common with the rest of his Majesty's sub-
.;ecte, the imperious necessity which called for the exertions of
the whole British people, against a power which threatened
the independence and tranquillity of every neighbouring
State; and we have viewed with teelings of the warmest ad-
miration, that character of intrepidity, heroism, and modera-
don, which has uniformly distinguished the British runs;
.111,1 whirl' in the late everanemoruble campaign has 'walled
to the recollection ut' Europe the proudest achievements ut
our ancestors.
We trust that the experience of the late dreadfill calamities
will not be lost ; and tom Mot :lig a long period at tranoithility,
it will be uuiversally felt that the true grtatntea of Prawns

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and the real happiness of nations are only to be secured by a
steady adherence to justice and moderation. and to those sa-
cred principles ofrattonal and well-regulated !Hardy, to which
Great Britain, under the illustrious House of Brunswick,
has been indebted for the prosperity and the glory of her em-
pire.

We congratulate your Royal Highness on the conclusion of a
Treaty which holds out to humanity a solemn pledge of the
great Powers of Europe—the prospect of a speedy and entire
abolition of the African Slave Trade —a security for the re-
payment of a part of the expenditure occasioned by the late
renewal of hostilities—fur the discharge of the just claims of
British subjects on the Government of France, and provides,
by a series of precautions, justified by necessity and dictated -
by experience, for the future safety and repose of Europe.
Whilst we feel grateful to Divine Providence for these dis-
tinguished benefits, and fur the exalted rank which the moral,
political, and military character of our country has attained, .
we are not insensible to the difficulties and embarrassments,
uhirli are, as we trust, the temporary, though painful result of
a return to a state of things interrupted by so tong a period of
exertion and of warfare.

In the removal of these difficulties, we rely with confidence
upon the wisdom and firmness of your Royal Highness and of
Parliament, and upon the energy and resources of the British
Empire; and we trust that such steps will be taken as by a
speedy and necessary redtiction of every branch of the public
expenditure, as far as (after the late glorious suceesses) the
safety of the nation will admit: and by a steady perseverance
in the reduction,during peare,of the National Debt, may adorit
to your Itoy al Highness the means of strengthe • the public
Credit,and the grateful opportunity uf alleviating [helm" diens
of a generous and loyal People.
That your Royal Highness may long live in the hearts and
affections of a free, prosperous, and united nation, is the ardent
prayer of Lis Majesty's faithful subjects, the Citizen; lot. Lon-
don. Signed by order of the Court,

HENRY WOODTHORPE.
To which Address it Rnyal Highness was graciously pleased
to return the following Answer:--

I thank you fur this loyal and dutiful Address; I accept with .
great satisfaction your cougratulatimP. upon the conclusion of
peace, on terms lionourahle and advantageous to this country
and to Europe. It may justly he regarded as the adequate re-
sult of a victory, which, under the favanr of Divine Provi-
dence, is chiefly to be ascribed to the my:indicted exertions .
of British valuer; and as the well earned reward of that elms;
racteristic fortitude and public spirit whu•h was so eminently
displayed by all classes of bis Majesty's subjects on the recur-
rence of hostilities.

Thirstlay a court of Common Council was held at
Guildhall; when John Wontner and Nevell Browne were
elected, from a list of nine candidates, as Marshals for
the City of London, in the room of Holdsworth and
Nabler, resigned.
Friday at a Court of Common Council, an Address was
voted to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, on the
marriage of the Princess Charlotte of Wales with the
Prince of Cobourg. A similar Address was voted to the
Queen ; compliments of congratulation were likewise
voted to the Princess Charlotte of Wales and the Prince
of Cobourg.