The National Register.
London, England, 1820-08-13 00:00:00

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THE, QU4EN.
The followinr, Address front Norwich has been
presented to her Majesty :
" to tAr Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.
The dutiful Address of the liilialiitants of Norwich,
in Common hall assembled, this 2d day of August.
ss We, his Majesty a faithful subjects, the inhabitants
of the City of Norwich. beg leave to approach your Ma•
jesiy with our sincere condolence on the deaths of your
illustrious Daughter and our late Sovereign, and to otter
to your Majesty our cordial congratulations on your Ma-
jetty's return to this kingdom ; and at the saute tome to
express our admiration of your' Majesty's conduct, in
firmly and courageously resisting the bribes and threats
which were offered to your Majesty, for the purpose of
inducing your• Majesty to sacrifice .your honour, and to
forego your just rights As the Queen of England.
Havytig begn alwaylded to.cmisider it as an undis-
puted maxim of our law, that nobtie should be regarded
and treated as guilty till fairly 'triad, and proved to be so,
LtiZ cotriader the omission of your Majesty's
name in the Liturgy—the refusal to send a yacht to con-
vey your Majesty to this country—and to provide a place
of residence suited to your Majesty's exalted rank and
station—as a cruel and wanton outrage upon your Ma-
jesty's feelings; and as a manifest proof, that your Ma-
jesty saccosers are actuated rather by a spirit of persecu-
tion,.than by a desire of rendering impartial and substan.
thiljustice. • •
A. We assure your Majesty that the appointment of a
seetet committee to inquire intocharges against your Ma- •
jesty, grouhded on the suspicious contents of a green
bag, and the introduction upon this es-parte evidence of
a bill of pains and penalties, for the purpose of degrad-
ing and divorcing your Majesty, are proceedings which
we view with the greatest alarm and disgust, as being
utterly abhorrent from the genuine principles of the
British constitution, and as tending to the subversion of
the liberties of the people.
" It also appears to us that the refusal to specify time
or place, when and where the crime alleged against your
Majesty is asserted to have been committed, coupled
also with a list and description of the witnesses in sup-
port of the accusation, is a still further violation of the
principles of justice and the maxims of English juris-
Erudence, and, therefore, calls upon us as men, and as
nglishmen, to protest against this unworthy and un-
generous proceeding, and to tender to your Majesty the
assurance of our deep sympathy in the struggle which
your Majesty has to sustain against your enemies ; and
out hope and trust, that as before, so again your Majesty
will come out of the contest victorious, with the clear
possession of your honour as a womaii, and the full re-
cavery of your rights as Queen.
(Signed on behalf, and at the request of the Meeting.)
" B. Lemma, Alderman."
To which her Majesty returned the following most
gracious answer:-
1 gratefully acknowledge my obligations to his
Majesty faithful subjects, the inhabitants of the city of
Norwich, for this affectionate address. The voice of
sympathy is always soothing to the ear, but it is heard
with double complacency when it is known to issue
front the heart. I sin convinced that in this sympathetic
tribute of regard for my insulted honour, and my violated
rights, the inhabitants of Norwich have expressed only
those sentiments which affection breathes front their
generous hearts.
" The accumulated indignities which I have expe-
rienced have had au affect quite contrary to the expec-
tations of my enemies; they have rendered me an object
of public regard in a higher degree than I could other-
wise have been. My reason approves and my piety
reveres that instinctive propensity which there is in the
human heart to succour the oppressed. Of this propen-
sity no page in history furnishes a brighter examide than
that which the British people have exhibited in favour
of their persecuted Queen. Its proportion as my enemies
have endeavoured to effect my abasement they have con-
tributed to my exaltation. They have degraded nobody
but themselves. Their malice has beeti my protection,
and their obliguy has become my panegyric.
" W nen my adversaries had recourse to a bill of pains
and penalties, they offered an involuntary testiationy
to my ocence; for, if I had been guilty, my guilt
might have heen established by a more legal and less
circuitous process. But knowing that my integrity was
my security as long as they remained within the confines
ofour constitutional sanctuary, they !taped with profane
daring over that sacred boundary, and a:2 now labouring
to annihilate my honour as a woman, and my dignity as
a Queen, by a procedure which trust in' its consequenct•s
be perilous to the vitalinterests.ot individual and general
liberty. 1 amt now, therefore, struggling not more for
raw own good-than for that of the country. 'The goes-
tioti at this moment, is not merely whether the Queen
shall have her rights, but whether the rights of any
individual in the kingdom shall be free front violation.
'44 Themaxims of English jurisprudence have always
Ititherto• been favourable to the accused. Perhaps nay •
accusers, who are also to be my judges, thought that t hey
were acting in conformity to those maxims, when, after
spreading the accusations against nie over a peri‘d of
six years, and a space almost equal to that of a whole
Continent, they refused any specification of the times
when, and the places where, the charges were laid, after
they had previously condescended not to grant any list
of the witnesses by whom these charges were to be sup-
borted. A generous enemy never commences the cons-
at by previously wresting front his adversary every
instrument of defence. But is not the conduct of my
enemies a proof that they think their own cause weak
stud mine strong? Why else do they labour with a soil
of trembling cowardice to cripple my powers of resist.
ance ? Is not this tacitly to tell the world that my in-
tegrity is their dread, and my accusation their shame ?"

The fixed population of l'aris has increased to
657,172 persons. In Paris the number of women
►e greater than that of the men by nearly one-fifth.