The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-12-09 00:00:00

THE RPM'S CrrUKT.

Yesterday his Majesty held a Court at Ilia Palace,
in Pall-urrell. A gultr4l cf bow lir. peer-ogler, try
the band of the tat regiment of foot guards, marched
into the court-pod of the Palace soon sifter two
o'clock, slid is detachment of the life guards. with
their baud of trumpets, &r. marched into Water-
loo.place about the saute nine. A numerous
assemblage of the relict were in attendance. The
officers of the Gout and the perm/nal state attend-
ants upon the King were the same as 011
cm the r.crfmon of the loyal Address of the Uor-
versity of Cambridge.
A few minutes before three 'o'clock the Lord
Mayor, accompanied by Sir Win. Curtis, Sir
Wm. Leighton, Sir Charles Flower, Aldermen
Birch, Bridges, and Ileygiste, the Recorder,
Sheriff Williams, and City Officers, arrived with a
loyal Address (runs the Court of Aldermen.
The Court was received with the go rril of
Honour presenting arm., and the band tabling
Tie Duke of York's March."
Tile Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen were
'hewn into the crimson drawing-room and anti-
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short tune after, the King being vested on
his thrones d►e.sed in a General's uniform.
rounded by the Cabinet Nlinisters, the Great Offi-
cers of State. &c. the Lord Mayor soil Court
of Aldermen were comforted intro the Royal
pressence by Mr. Mash, the Gensleinati Usher
in %Vatting, an avenue to the Throw" being formed
by the Hun. Corps of Griiilennen Penrioners. His
Lordship and the real of the Court having made
their dutiful übris4nces to the Sovereign, Sir John
Silvester (she Recorder) approached the King ■ud
read the followsi.g Address:—

TO THE NINE'S must EXCELLENT MAJESTY :
The dutiful and loyal AUK.** of the Cowl or Lord
Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Londuu.

Most Graciows Sovereign,

We, your Majesty's noesi Astern! and loyal subjects, the
Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Leaden, approach
your Royal presence with renewed assurances of our most
inviolate attachment to your sacred perms and g meat.
Impressed, as we are, with veneration for your Majesty's
Crown and dientiy, we view. with horror and detestatiou,
the unprincipled efforts of the dieaffeeted, in every direc-
tion which infatuated malice can devise. and a licentious
press promote, to withdraw the unwary sad timid from their
allegiance to their Sovereign, sad, to the result. to over-
whelm this free and happy laud with anarchy and confusion
Fur this base purpose calumnies of the most mische
tendency have been circulated against all the coastitated
authorities of the realm, with restless and unabating
rancour. The Parliament, the Courts of Judicature, the
Altar, and the Throne, as eißahlialsed by an envied mud
glorious Constiiiiteusi, have become the objects of the most '
profligate abase and omitting derision.
We feel, Sire, that to order to avert the devastation
threatened by beech a turreut of impiety sod sedition, it
becomes the bounden duty of all the liege subjects of the
realm to seated forward without delay, and avow their deter-
mination to support the prineiplem of the British Constieu-
lion, in the true spirit of British loyalty, to rally round the
Throne, sad guard the religion and lawsuit the country from
outrage and insult.
The Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London,
are therefore must anxious, Sire, to testify to the country
at large in this evil hour, their teaolulion to defend the
Monarchy, as well as the other branches of the Constitution,
against the attempts openly and iteduslrioesly made by the
instigators and abettors of sedition and infidelity, and to
their utmost endeavour in their respective stations as Ma-
gistrates, under the sairictiou of the laws' to transmit to their
children's children the blessings they bate derived from the
wisdom and b y of their ancestoss, and which they
enjoy uoder your Majesty's paternal sway.
We beg to add our must fervent prayers to the Almighty
Disposer of all Events, that your Majesty's frogs' may be
nog prosperous and happy a the affectation of a faithful,
grateful, and loyal people.
Signed, by order of the Court,
HENRY WOODTHORPE.
To which Address the King was pleased to return
the following must go-scion, Answer:
I return you my warmest thanks for this loyal and duti-
ful Address.

It is peculiarly gratifying to me to receive at this lilac
such an assurance of your unshaken attachment to my per•
sun and government, and of the feeliugs with which you
regard the attempts so unceasingly made to extirpate all
that has hitherto been held sacred amongst us, and to destroy
all the sources of British freedom, prosperity, and power.
A spirit similar to that by which you are actuated, hap-
pily predominates througtiont the kingdom ; and I well
know the implicit coufidenee which is due to the virtue and
loyalty of the great body of the nation, who are manifesting
their joist sense of the blessings they enjoy, by the most de-
cisive proofs of their zealous determination to defend mid
them.
Pf
You may rely on my constant support in the discharge of
the duties which arise out of the present extraordinary
conjuncture.
We are engaged in a common MUM, and I feel most deeply
that the honour of my Crown, and the happiness of my
Reign, are inseparably interwoven with the mainteuance of
our established Constitution, sad with the true interests and
welfare of my People.
The Loral Mayor and Court of Aldermen were
most graciously received, and had the honour to
kiss his Nlajevty's baud.
Kung save an audicece to Viscount Sid-
amudi,