The National Register.
London, England, 1813-05-02 00:00:00

TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER.

liar notice in the Strand. As the procession passed Carlton 'House
it was repeatedly cheered by a large concourse, among wiwm were
a considerable number of well dressed persons.
When the procession arrived at Kensington, the introduction
to the Palace took place with every possible honour nie Princess
of Wales possessed the power of conferring. After a very short
interval passed in the drawing.romn, the doors of the grand saloon
or dining apartments were thrown open, and the Lind Mayor, ac-
companied by the other Members of the Corporation, were an-
nounced and presented to her Royal Highness by A. B. St. Leger,
Esq. her Royal Highness's Vice-Chamberlain. After Vic cm:Rosary
obeisance on the pin of the adaresser; and a most gracious refer%
by the Princess of Wales, the Recorder read the fallowing Ad.
dress :
TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES.
"The li yil anti dntiftil Address of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen,
and Commons of the City of London, iii Common Council
assemoled :
" May it please your Royal Highness,—We, his Majesty's most
dutifid and loyal subjects, the Lind Mayor, Aldermen, amid Coln.
MOOS of the City of London, in Common Council assembled, deeply
interested in whatever concerns the honour and happiness of your
Royal Highness, and the Illustrious Canny with whom you are so
intimately allied, approach your Royal Highness to offer our sin-
cere congratulations on the signal and decisive triumph your Royal
Highness has recently obtained.
gg We have witnessed with horror and indignation the odious and •
wicked conspiracy %illicit, by malice the most inveterate,• has for
so 'flaky years been directed against your life and honour; and we
beg to assure your Royal Highness, that while we hold in the utmost
abhorrence acts so base and atrocious, we cannot sufficiently ex-
press our admiration of the diguined forbearance and magnanimity
which youtr Royal- Hignuess has manifeJted tinder a persecution of
such duration, and aggraYated by circumstances so trying and
afflicting. -.
" During the whole of this most arduous conflict we have never
ceased to ; egattl the dangerous situation of your Royal Highness
with feelings of time most list; ly sympathy ,_• andWe have beheld in
the fit titude and firmness of your Royal Highness, conviction the
most decisive of the unblemished rectitude of your conduct, whick
s not only dared, but courted the most rigid investigation; and greatly .
as we lament that your Royal Highness should have been compelled
by any combination of events to claim to be considered as innocent;
I' or proved to be guilty, _Yet we feel with your Royal Highness that
1 the period hail at length arrived when forbearance would have
ceased to have been a virtue. . i-
" We cannot, therefore, sufficiently applaud the wisdom and
, firmness displayed by your Royal ,Highness in demanding, for the
I more public vindication of your own honour, that of your Mas-
it. ions Consort, and the safety, peace, and happiness of these realms,
i au open inquiry into the base charges of your calumniators, ot an
unqualified admission of yom• innocence.
64 We siccerely oiler to your Royal Highm ss our heartfelt con-
' gratniatio..s on your complete and happy triumph over so dark and
detestiarle a conspiracy, supported as it %las by subornation and
i perjm•y ; and we are most grateful to your Royal Highm as for the
.4 proofs ne have received, in so firmly nefendieg your own honour,
1 of the anxiety you feel for the welfare and happia.ess of these king.
'films : —this conduct atiOrds to its the sitre4 pledge of the blessings
i we may expect from your Royal Highness, when it shill please
I Providence to place your Royal Highness, with your Royal Con-
I sort, on time British Throne; and we most ardently hope that the
pailful recollection of your past suffilings may be lost in the pleas.
Mg etjoyment of an unrestricted intercourse with your illuxtrions
'I daughter the Princess Charlotte; and that she, without the same
painfol occasion to exercise them, may inherit all the virtues of her
Royal Mother, and afford us the cousoling hope, that, taugna to
1 venerate the free prinvipies of the British Constitution as the hest
protection for innocence and security against oppresaion, site may,
should time period ever an ive when she may be called to preside
over the destinicS of this empire, uphold and 'wanton' our liberties,
and reign in the hearts of a free, happy, and milted people
66 Signed by order of Court, HENRY IyOODTtiORPE."
• 'flue Lord Mayor then presented a Copy of the Address to her
Royal Highness, who, having given it to her Vice Charithe, lain, reed
in a low but distinct and impressive tone, the followitmg Answer:--
« I receive, with the greatest satisfaction, the congratulations of
the City of London. Nu branch of the House W'Rrtinswick eau ever
forget to whose exertions chiefly it owes the Throne of these maims ,
and I have now peculiar reason to know the value of the Constit it t not
which those exertions purchased, becanse 1 have tumid it a ,toe pr''
tection when I had. no other defence.