The National Register.
London, England, 1820-08-20 00:00:00

TO THE HAMMERSMITH ADDRESS.

" I am sensibly impressed and deeply obligee by this affec-
tionate Address from the Inhabitants of Hammersmith, amongst
whom I have my present temporary residence. I have always
rejoiced in the felicitations of neighbours, and in the charities of
neighbourhoods.
" The day on which the remains of the .Princess Charlotte
were committed to the silent tomb was a day of deep sorrow to
the nation. But, if the nation wept, it was not merely because
youth and beauty had withered, and wit and elegance had va-
nished in the grave. These were common occurrences ; but it is
not a common occurrence to see every virtue in a successor to the
throne, and in the mirror of those v.rtues to behold the nation
emerging from wretchedness, servitude, and disgrace, to free-
dom, to glory, and to happiness.
" All Europe has its eyes fixed on the present procedure in the
House of Lords. I shall have to appear before the Bar of that
House; but that House itself will nave to appear at the bar of
public opinion throughout the world. i shall have to defend
myself against their accusations; but they will have to defend
themselves against the reproaches of -individual consccnce, as
well as the impartial condemnation of the age which now is, and
of that which is to come. To have been one of the Peers who,
after accusing and condemning, affected to sit in judgment on
Queen Caroline, will be a sure passport to the splendid notoriety
of everlasting shame."

In the answer
TO THE PARISH OF ST. LEONARD, SHOREDITCH.
we find nothing differing materially from the an-
swers we have already inserted.
Several Addresses were on Wednesday presented
to her Majesty at Lady Francis's house, St. J4MCS'S
Square.
Lord Nugent and Mr. Bickford presented the
Addresses from the Borough of Aylesbury.
An Address, signed by 40,000 persons from the
Weavers of Spits!fields, was presented by the Pre-
sident and Secretary of that Society.
The private Deputation of the Married Ladies
of the Metropolis and its vicinity, proceeded from
Leicester Square, at one o'clock, and arrived at her
Majesty's residence about half-past one. The fol-
lowing is the Address:—
..TOTHE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

" iIIOUS4II4 and tensof thoTisatitsof
oar fellows-subjects are approaching your Majesty with
assurances of homage and affection—whilst Addresses
even front the remitter parts of the kingdom are laid at
your feet—permit Cs,
.your Alajratu'r Neighbours, as Wives,
and the Mistresses of Faintlira, hi and near the metropolis,
to approach yon. We are unaccustomed to public acts,
and uninfluenced by patty, feelings, yet we cannot he
excluded trom offering to your Majesty's notice, our
sympathy and devotion. Gratellil to the Constitution
under which it is our happiness to live—saved also by our
rank in the middle classes of society, trout the datigels
attendant on high rank or poverty, and protected by our
Husbands, we may hardly be supposed judges of all the
valise of your Majesty's conduct; but, Madam, we ad-
mire your magnanimity, and we adore that womanly feel.
ing which has made your Majesty treat will, contempt
every offer, the tendency of which was to complosause
your honour, and we thank you fur it in the name of our
,ex.

" Had your Majesty been treated with the respect One
to your exalted rank, our hearts would have throbbed
with ardent interest in your cause, and with love to your
person, but leaving to our linshrusils anti suns all public
expression of keling, we should base confined our's to
cost domestic circles; but now, tilaslam, the indignation
we feel for the cruel treatment of your Majesty but
every barrier between us, and we hasten to express at
your ft et the warm, the almost overwhelming interest,
with which we are inspired ; and be assured, Madam, our
judguic,its are quite as much enlisted its your .Majesty's
set vice as our kelings ; for, added to the dreadful charges
against you, are not new crimes found out by your ene-
mies, and new modes of judging theta susktiwn alike to
Clintllloll law and common sense? Under these circum-
stances, scarcely less than a miracle, we think, can pra-
ctise your justification, refused, as your Majesty has been,
every Ille/11, of testily meeting the accusations against you.
We commit your Majesty's cause to the integrity of your
own great mind ; to the zeal, to the honour, and the abi•
lity of your legal advisers, who will have fur their tewat d

a nation's gratitude, bat, above all, to our all.sceing and
inercitnl God :—to that God whom no one can prevent our
addressing, and teaching our children, in fervent prayers
for your protection.
" And now, Madam, in simplicity of style, and since-
rity of heart, we beg to subscribe ourselves,
" Your Majesty's dutiful, affectionate, and
loyal subject. and servants,"
The following is her Majesty's most gracious
Answer:—

" In this honest and affectionate Address from my
Female Neighbours, who are wives and mothers of fami-
lies, in and near the metropolis. I gratefully acknowledge
the sympathy which they express for my many sorrows,
and the indignation which they feel for my unnumbered
wrong►. The approbation of my own sex 1111 l st be ever
dear to my heart t and it must be more particularly gra-
tifying, when it is the approbation of mothers ot' families
in and near this metropolis.
" When my honour is attacked, every loyal English•
woman must feel it as an imputation upon her own. The
virtues of Sovereigns are not circumscribed in their in-
duence, or insulated in their operations. They put in
motion a wide circle of the imitative propensity in the
subordinate conditions of life. Thus the virtees of the
great become the property of the people; stud the people
are interested in preserving them front slanderous Maj.
nation.

" The present procedure against me is like a wilful
attempt, on the part of blind trenay or improvident ma.
lire, to destroy the moral character of the 510111in:by.—
To lessen this moral character in public estimation, is not
merely to degrade the Queen, but to shatter into at a
that reverential respect which gives strength to the
Sceptre and dignity to the Sovereign.
" I shall never sari ince that honour, which is the glory
of a womaii and the brightest jewel of a Queen, fur any
earthly consideration. All the possessions in the world
would be purchased too dear if' they were obtained at the
price of self.condemnation. I can never be debased while
I observe the great maxim of respecting myself.
" Lu this era of ceaseless change and of violent agitation.
when whole nations seem tossed, like individuals, on the
ocean of sturnls, no circumstances, however menacing,
shall shake the constancyjof my attachment to the English
nation, or estrange my affections from the general good
of the community. The future is wisely covered with an
opaque cloud—hut, whatever may be my destiny, I shall
cherish in all vicissitudes and persevere in all fortunes
that resignation to the Divine will, which, in proportion
as it becomes an habitual sentiment of the d, improves
all its virtues, and elevates the general character."_

The number of the names signed to the Address
was 15,452, besides which, after the Address had
been made up, about 2,000 other names were for..
warded. It is to be observed that the must scrupu-
lous exactitude has been attended to in the collec-
tion of signatures, as every person who undertook
to obtain them is well known to the Committee,
and guarantees that they are those of such persons
only as are described in the Address. These names
were collected by a few Ladies and theit friends
durinc, the short space of eight days, and may there-
fore be fairly considered as a strong specimen of the
public feeling, particularly when the number now
out of town is considered.

Extract of a private letter, dated Portsmouth,
August I 7 :-
'•
1 omen regret to have to announce to you the fol-
lowing melancholy aflair, extracted from communica-
tions from Rio Janeiro, dated June 18, 1820. The
Hon. Captain Spencer, of the Owen Gktulower frigate,
wishing to have his ship worked without too intieb se-
verity towards the men, gave the necessary orders to the
First Lieutenant. Coming on board the frigate during
the absence of Sir Thomas Hardy, who was gone to
Maldonado, and having occasion to yomplain of the
want of punctiiality to his orders, he reprimanded the
Lieutenant, who told hint it was impossible to carry on
the duty unless he was properly supported. On this
Captain ;Spencer threw himself into a violent passion,
beat to quarters, and sent every body down to the mails
deck guns, leaving himself and the First Lieutenant WI
the main deck. Captain Spencer thou drew Ilia sword,
ordering the Lieutenant to defend himself. lie remon-
strated, statipig that he was a much better sssorilsitiao
than the Captain, having had a deal of practice winke
confined as a prisoner of war in France; hot, if Capt.
Spencer was determined to fight, he would meet hint Oil
shore. Captain Spencer then called him a cow-
ardly rascal, and it is said struck his side; upon
the Lieutenant drew his sword on the delensive, and
displayed sonic coolies.. This coolness exaspetaled the
Captain, who, making a violent thzusi, usershnt film-
set old fell on the Lieutenant's swim]; shortly after
which lie died. This melancholy alfair has thrown a
great gloom Oier the eolltitenatiersol a I naval characters
at The First Lieutenant's Milne is Jas. Nf'Donahl
(the Nasy-List gives the name of Esatis). lie was for-
merly First of the Creole, then Second of the Ctrole,
from some error, and then went First of the Owen Glen-
dower about May- last. Mr. I41•1)imald was 1111(ibliiplitall
of the Penguin when she was taken by the American
Wasp. Toe 1 100. Capt. Silencer is son of Earl Spencer.
who Has also another son (the Hon. F. Spencer) a Lieu-
tenant of the Superb, Sir Thomas Hardy's
The ports were declared open on Wednesday fair
the importation of oats, the average price fin' the
six weeks ending on that day, according to the
official returns, being 275. id. It is remarkable,
that the excesses above the price at which the im-
portation is permitted is only one penny, and ac-
cording to the general supposition, has been pro-
duced principally by speculation. The etrect must
be injurious to the agricultural interest, as, in& •
pendently of the large quantities already ware-
housed in this country, the stores of Holland mud
the Baltic are filled with oats, which a few weeks
will bung to England.