The National Register.
London, England, 1820-12-18 00:00:00

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tIELf.":C OF THE OF
MARY, ISLINGTON.
On Monday evening) a Meeting of the Parish of
Islington was held at CanonLit.y !aver", te consider
of an Address of Cononit. I . on to the Queen on
the abandonment of the Bill Pains and l'emilticA,
and an Address to the King,
,). :tying the dismissal of
his Ministers. The two gre. lionts which commu-
nicate by folding doors we tilled before the
business of the Meeting coma,: •ced.
At seven o'clock, the gentlevel of the 4:‘• e • • tee
entered the room, when Mr. SMITH stated chat he
bad received a letter. from T. Wilson, Esq. of High.
bury,who had prtmlised to take the chair, wh'e't
ter stated that he was pf.vc. ...ed from attem),;*...g to
preside by a severe cold, whit's would tlisable him
from making himself heard, hnt dud lie was willing
to bear his share of the expenees of the Meeting.
Mr. Smith then proposed that Captain Lonr,ster
should take the chair, which was unanimously
agreed to.
At the request of the Chairman, the Requisition
and the correspc.nden,e with the Churchwardens
and Vicar, the substance of which has been before
the public, were read by Mr. Tome. Three or
four persons vociferous]-- callc.l for the reeding of
the signatures to the Requisition, oat when there
vas some delay in pro lueing them, attempted to
prevent the business of the 'Meeting from proceed-
sag. This conduct produced rlies for the expulsion
of the most noisy of these persons, but we are happy
to my, that though much provocation was given, no
violence was offered. The names were read as soon
as silence was obtained, and the business was not
afterwards interrupted.
Mr. Sams then addressed the Meeting in a very
elk speech, and, after accusing the Churchwardens
of a want of directness and straitforwardness in their
scaling, with respect to the Requisition, as one of
them had at first given him to understand that the
Meeting should be called in regular form, if the
consent of the Vicar could be obtained, he bserved
that they might have taken a lesson from the Mayor
of Bristol, who had lent the Guildhall one day to a
Meeting to address the Queen, and another day for
what was called a loyal address, without deserting
his duty or compromising his principles. In the
latter of the Meetings at Bristol, as well as at many
ether loyal meetings, there were a number of truths
Drought forward to which he cordially gave his
assent; the only difference was as to the conclusion
to be drawn from the same premises, as to the catises
to which the evils which they witnessed were to be
*Whined. His opinion was, that the proceedings
against the Queen had weakened the stability of the
Throne, and that it was, therefore, one cause of the
(lingers to which the loyal addresses deplored.—
There was not, he believed, a man, who did not now
lament that the proceedings had commenced (hear,
bear !) they had tended to break down the barriers
of the Constitution, and those laws which had
fenced round Englishmen as with a wall of &dement.
Neither would any one now deny that a great ma-
laity of the Nation was in favour of the Queen.
Was there a man who would say that such protec-
tion had been afforded by the King to the Queen, as
es
a man of honour and generosity would extend to
▪ wife ? (Hear, bear.) The omission of her name
from the Liturgy hed., in all Catholic countries, the
affect of an excommunication on the minds of the
people, and no alternative was left her but to return
end to throw herself on the protection of this nation.
As to what had hammed since, he had no hesitation
in saying, that all the evidence against her was
such, that it would not have been entertained for
half an hour in an inferior Court, (Hear, hear.)—
Had the Ministers felt any strength in it, without
question, instead of a majority of nine on the third
reading, they would have had a majority of up.—
(Applause.)—By whatever quibbling they might
excuse themselves on the strength of that majority,
the Ministers knew that the middle sad industrious
slams of the community, those who worked as well
as thought, were of opinion that the evidence had
totally failed, and that to have pressed the Bill
An-tiler would have endangered the Throne.—
(Applause.).—.They knew that when a number of
men had got into a scrape, every elan put the best
face he could upon it in order to get out of it ; so
that if there were forty or fifty persons, there were
forty or fifty pretences. This was the key to the
variety of opinions among the Ministerial Lords. if
the Ministers had been wise, when the proceedings
in the House of Lords had terminated, they would
have allowed the whole matter to go to rest,
and the Queen to sink to a level with other
Royal Pemonagcs, mei have allowed her to inhabit
one of the Palaces which the King did not occupy.
This was not their course - but whatever proceed-
ings they might meditate faz the future, the Queen
laving thrown herself on the People and the Press,
it was not in their power to wealeu her security.—..
After some further observations, Mr. S. proposed the
!DR owing resolution, which was seconded end ,