The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-12-11 00:00:00

FARRINGDoN-WITHOUT MEETING.

Saturday a numerous mei-tile, of the inhabitants
of this Word was held at the Globe Tavern. is) Fleets
street, for the purpose of considering of on Address
of Congratulation to the Queen, and of • Fenno.)
to the King to dismiss his Nliiii,ters.
Mr. Alderman WA IT ism AN, on taking the chair,
read the requisition. lir reques.ed a fiir hearing
fur every person who should offer himself. and
begged the speakers on hull) sides to renientber that
violence was not strength.
Mr. FEAROW. 111 presenting himself to the notice
of the nieetitig, said lie need out apologize fur
claiming their attention upon a subject which had
been declared, by the cerise-real voice of the people
of England, to be the most important that could
occupy their deliberations, and which in interest
swallowed up all others. In cmorquence of the
indisposition of his father-in-law (Mr. Thompson),
the task of submitting to them a string of results-
hum, with the addresses and petitions, had fallen 4
ppm) I (Mr. Fearosi). From some secret cause
or other the inhabstauts of that Ward, who cons
titillated orie-fifth of the populati of this great
city, lehl, vii this occasion, contrary to the usual
.piactice, been denied by their churchwardens the
use of either St. A utlreves, St. Bride's, or St.
Sepulchre's church, tin various pretexts. lle
compliiiwd that they (the parishioners) who bud
the tosyment of all the expenses, and bore all
Ithe burdens attached tee these churches, should
be denied the indulgence of meeting its them,
seldom as it wise that they asked it. The
Speaker proceeded to call the attention of the
meeting to the very diffrrent situation they were
now in from that en which they were when they
before met on this questiois. tie remarked on
the powerful effect a Inch petitioning mid the ge-
neral discussion of the subject had produced. At
that pesind they were accused of being hasty en
the ttortarstelion of their sentiments ; but now,
when they had heard the evidence on both sides.
they could come to a rational and fair decision.
The speaker then took an able review of the pro..
feedings against the QuecA, and cotichtd.d by
observing, that the religion of the country. sod
the characterost ic panty of the female mind,
had never been so eff.ctiially undermined us by
the proceedings in (iestion.—(Heur.l—The
charges against the Quests were out of the power of
• tali I matt to efrtill, mole's they lwliesrd her to
be a bring not humus. mid he could out beliese
that even the prosecutors -ever expected them to be
implicitly credited. although evidence had been
sought by the most tremendous influence 111 the
world to support them. The views of the Isrusecutors
might be exemplified by ins old story of a tenant,
who asked his landlord to give him timber enough to
build a barn ?—" No !"—" Then," said the truant.
" will yon let me hive enough to build a pig-
sty ?"---“ Nu."—" Then will you give use enough
to build • pie ?"..." Wily you allay have that."...
" Thar," said the tenant, " is as much as 1 want.

end
her minorajeittyrtshell ' n
wioby crargiitngwai largeillyb,
thought to get some portion of their charges be-
lieved. The speaker nest commented on the con-
duct of her Majesty's judges, and said it should
be asked whether they were theme's-es pure
that oat in judgment over her. In his brief
experience he had remarked. that individuals
guilty of any specific vice, drunkenness. for in-
stance, were. in their cooler minnents, utmost
the most severe and illiberal on those charged
with the same sin. The Treasury prints had
amused themselves by making reflections on the
rook of the Queen's adherents. He would ask
these scribblers. in what classes the greatest
strength nod virtue of society existed ? If they
answered honestly, they would say in the middle
classes. The Courier told them that the Quern's
adherents were only butchers and baker*, and
men of " mean birth." It would not perhaps
be proper to ask who were the parents of Mr.
Canning, Mr. Sonthey. or any other of the
Treasury seribes. The Speaker commented et
con.ideraisle length on the loyal meeting« for ad-
dresses, and in particular on the meeting held in the
Ward o.f Cheap. These were the men who once
were uppermost, who were always foremost in the
bigoted cry for persecution, and restraints on their
fellow-citizens. It was they who set up the cry,
twenty years ago, for the murderous war against
the rising liberty of France, and of the world. It
wits this S4flll, body who, on our occasion. when
sit
individual held up his hind in the Merchant Tay-
lors' Ilall against one of their Resolutions, dragged
him tint, primped upon, nod treated I with a de-
gree of violence short only of murder. It was the same
body who met the last year to advocate the blood-stain-
ed proceedings at Manchester. 'Chet' were the rem-
nant of the Church and King men, who burnt the
bootie of the vest Dr. Priestley in Rirmisiglisin.
and obliged him to fly for his life. A: that time
they heard no complaints against the excesses of
hired tool". These men were now so fallen as to be
obliged to meet iii lurking holes and corners to hatch
these intsistires, which would not bear the I.ght.—
For these men he would quote a book, which, from
the tenor of their live% he feared they little con-
sulted. It said, that " men who do right come to
the light, because their deed. ate light; but he
that doeth evil hateth the light. because bas deeds
are evil." The speaker concluded by moving the
Resolution fur an Address.
Mr. KADLEY opposed the Resolution. He said
it twos one thing to fail in proving a person guilty,
and another to establish her innocence. He was of
opinion thin, although the prosecutors had foiled in
proving the guilt of the Queen, the defenders of the
Queen had failed in establishing her inuncroce. If
there had been contradictions in the evidence on one
side, there had been cotitradicnons en the other.
He was friendly to a change of Ministers, as they
had misled the King.
Here Mr. Alderman Waithmsn left the chair to
join the City procession. He was succeeded by
Mr. Savage. the senior Common Councilman.
Mr. Doses asked how they cocld bring them-
selves to congratulate the Queen on her bring
proved insiocetit, when the [louse of Lords had
declared her guilty.—(Violent and continued dis-
approbation.)
Mr. FEAROM said, the best answer to thi• guess-
lion was, that Lord Liverpool had abandoned the
Bell.—(Loud applause.)—The Resolution, after
some further desultory discussion, was carried,
there being about eight ar ten hands only held up
against it.
An Address to the Queen was then read and
agreed tie as was also a Petitiou to the King to
dismiss his Ministers, alter Wllle opposition Isom
hlr. Doses, who, persisting its speaking alter the
Chairman had declared loin to be out of order.
WWI finally dragged from the seat at which he
stood, aid put out of the room.

ADDRESS OF THE COMMON COUNCIL

TO HIS MAJESTY.

On Saturday the Lord Mayor proceeded from
Guildhall at two o'clock, attended by the Recorder,
Messrs. Alderman Wood and Wait litmus, Mr.
Sheriff Williams, and about tie Members of the
Common Council, to present thtifullowing Address
to his Majesty. agreed to at the last Court.
TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
" The Untiful and Loyal Address and Pet►tion of the
Lord Mayor, Aldermen, mad Commons of the City
of London, in Common Comical assembled.
" attP,T GRACIOUS SOTRIARION,
" We yi.sr Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lord
Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of site City of London, in
Common Council assembled, feeling ourselves called upon
by ihr. Xigelleir, of the times and country, beg leave must
humbly •inil respectfully to approach your Majesty, to ex-
press ty your Majesty our proftmail regret at the measures
pursued by your Majesty's Ministers, so contrary to the
spirit of the Biiiish Constittation, and to the principles of
Universal Justice, while they are subversive of the liberties
and true interests of the nation, and of the Namur and
warily of your Majesty's Throne.
"The war which exhausted time wealth and resources of the
country, has hog iliac* ierminateal, yet during a pe►iod of
profound peace we have situ no effectual retrencluseat in
the public expenditure ; but loan after loan again resorted
to, fur the support of nseless and preposterous establish-
ments, ationling the means of the subjection of Parliament
by the influence of Miuiurrial patronage, and the over.
awing of the people in the exercise of their just rights by
unconstitutional military force.
"The discontent thus created, we lament to stale, has not
heel. counteracted by your Majesty's Ministers, either by
ju►t concessions, or by such a libe►al policy, as is dire to
a free people front their governors, hut, uu the contrary, the
laws have been enforced with unprecedented severity, to the
Idisgust and alarm of your Majesty's faithful subjecir,aud
scrod uf obtainiug redress, eoerceive laws have been introduced
into the Legislature by those very Ministers, to uphold their
own mad-ailministi atom. At thesame time that the conduct of
Anklets has tended to excite the dissatisfaction of your
people, sod to exasperate that dissatisfactiou into acts of
treason, those Ministers have so neglected the curnmerciail
and agricultural interests of the nation, that it is at length
become difficult to determine which of these solutes of na-
tional prosperity is most impoverished; and although na-
me foul Petitions of your Majesty's distressed subjects from
almost every Class of industry have heist pretested ill suc-
erssive years to the several !snitches of the Legislature, yet
the people rennin without relief, or even the prospect of
relief. and your Majesty's Ministers seem as unwilling,
from indifference as from want of political skill, to apply
the necessary remedies to such complicated evils.
" It is with pain and reluctance that we allude to a sub-
int which ought never to have bees forced spear public at.
tentiun, best the unjust and demoralising proceedings adopt-
ed by your Majesty's Ministers relative to your Royal Cos-
suet, having draws forth the reprobm inn of the great body of
the people, we should be guilty of a dereliction of our duty
to year Royal Penes and lot is of the colsoiry, if we

restrained Osis *argosies of isdigualiso et ibis Regeeill oat.
rage epos the moral and religiose &Ohms of the Sham,
and 'efts', So ',permit so your blejmity Ibis miesieest
instance of their utter disregard of public justice, sod of the
homer of year Royal Family.
" The corrupt iodommeot offered to her Majesty to re.
main abroad in the stake( alined criminality falsely arced*.
ed to her—the submitting to the floor of Peers, after the
House of Coltineing bad renounced Me measure ' dirap-
poioting to the• hopes of Parliament, derogatory from the
tliguity of Ibe Crown, owl injurious to the best interests of
the empire-4Sie PAWN of the derreerfel 'abroad's,s pro-
cured smile as odious Cesseksior—the attempt to degrade
lisr Majesty. and is ►er the whole House of Bassawielt, by
' an ex poet feet. law, unconstitutional is its *store and ope.
'item —the mockery of justice, is smilers on the out band the
runts' of dream's's, Judges, and Jury in the sane per.
sone, and withilsoldiag, sus Ike other, the wane of defence,
aid all the preliminary steps leeches to these disgraceful pro.
ireediogs—the entployeoinet of foreign Mimi eeeee and Agesits..-
the biting of spies sod enrropting of menials, and the pi...lodg-
-1111
ing her Majesty by the uniorsios of h►r name in the
homy, and the withdrawing her frogs the polnic praiers
of
the people—aril lastly, after the defeat of their malignone
efforts, the arbitrary assoniptios lathe right of eosiimistog
to her Majesty, ma their own authority. an allneases 001 of
the public nuney during she sitting of Parliament, and the
advising the abrupt pturogatioa of Met Parhanterit to pre-
vent inquiry into these Iniquitous proceedings, soil to üb.
struct her Majesty's appeal to the Rep. esentaloves of the pro.
pie, are severally aim of perbilior and miitchtentits
which we feel persuaded never cook! receive your Majesty's
countenance hiss through the abuse of your Royal coati.
deuce, sod which demand the immediate dismissal of thine
uiseorthy Illioisters, theeestrivers and conductors coign foul
a conspiracy.
" We beg leave beinshly to assure your Majesty. that
these representations are dictated by our sincere attachment
to that Constitution which prated your Majesty's illigest
Family on the throne of these Realm*, by a siocere &so-
tlon to your Misplay's Pierson, slid by an anaiorn desire to
promote the future glories u( yews Reign; and is this
spirit we conjure your Majesty by an aussig I..sa change of
Counsels Dud suelonires, to missile the great f toady of the
British people, who have twig beets divided. insulted,
soil
oppressed, and which wont,' costume your Majesty oil a
Throne *reared by their just affection, and 'Twined no less
gloriows by the ho liras resources of their Mammy.

" W theirfore humbly pray rn. Majesty to dismiss
from your preselice and Counsels fur ever, those Ministers,
whose pernicious m have to long einlitnurell the
Throne, undermined the Constitution, cud blighted the
prospetity of the nation_
" Signed ky Order of Conrt,
" HENRY 11,00ESTRORPE,"
To winch his Majesty was pleased to return the
following Answer
" It has been with the most painful feeling, that i hare
heard the sentiments contained iu the Address and Petition
now presented to me by the lend hlsyor, Aldermen, and
Common Council of the City of Lundoci.
" Whatever may be the 'moires of those by whom it is
brought forward, its evident tendency is to inflame the pas-
sions, cud relates.' the judgment of the unwary and lees en.
lightened part of my suhj.ets, and thus to aggrasste all the
ditSculties with which we have to contend."

FORAIGN EVTELLIGANCE.