The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-09-22 00:00:00

ST. P.4NCIIAS MEKTING
TO ADDRESS THE QUEEN.

A meeting of the Inhabitants (including the Nlar.
tied Ladies) of this populous Parish, was held yes.
terday, at the Southampton Arm., Camden Town,
for the purpose of considering of so Attires, of
Condolence and Congratulation to her Majesty the
Queen.
There is a very spacious garden at the bark of
the House, around the sides of which are placed
boxes, as at Vauxhall and other places. On the
northern side, just in front of these holes, were two
spaces, covered with au awning for this occasion,
one fitted up with Kats rising one above another
for the accommodation of the Ladies; the other
was the platform ou which the speakers and chief
paroshioners were to stand.

By twelve o'clock the place prepared for the
Ladies was filled with as respectable an assemblage
of women, to all appesraru•e, us was ever beheld.
The men stood without these spaces, exposed to
the westher, which proved to be little favourable to
the objects of the Meeting. The Chair was slot
taken lull • considerable time after one o'clock had
elapsed.

Mr. FROST then stepped forward, and apologised
on behalf of the Committee for detaining them so
limo., (specially as the weather threatened- to be so
taivourable. Some Gentlemen of eininelice, who
were expected, had not yet arrived. He prayed
further indulgence.—(Applanses.)
A few minutes more elapsed, mid then the Gen-
tlemen came out from the building, secended the
platform, mid the business commenced.
Major CARTWRIGHT was, on the motion of Mr.
G. JONES, voted Chairman. He !prayed their
excuse fiir any defects in his conduct, while presid-
Mg, as he had left a rick chair to attend. He would
proceed to business without more comment.
Mr. P. Moore said, that in the absence of an
honourable and far more able friend, who was pre-
vented from attending by indispositioti, lie had
been requested to move the first resolution on the
subject which had drawn together so numerous and
respectable an assembly. lu doing this, he would
not trouble them with too many observations on
the importance and illurtrisity of that object, or on
the very Illustrious Personage who was the chief
subject of it. One and ell his hearers must by this
time have become as well acquainted with the sub-
ject, and with every separate bearing of it, as him-
self. Stating bi• sentiments, therefore, as conciselt•
as lie could, and being influenced to do so by the
weather, which promised no very agreeable addition
to their day's business, he should leave it to others
to descant more largely, as the subject might re-
quire ; and, first, he• wished to pay a tribute, (cloth
we. eminently due to the gentlemen of that piers,
without the assiatance of which, it was his conviction,
that the constitution would hare been gone, the
laws virtually annulled, public liberty entirely with-
draw,,, a'ul the country given over to complete ty.
runny. Let them never lorget the anxiety which
had been and was always in fact displayed by
land rulets to abridge the power : •' If 'we
do act ruin the press," said Curdle:ll Wolsey
to Sir Thomas More, in the reign of that beastly
and lewd monarch, Henry the Eighth, "the preps
will quickly ruin us." Had it not been fur the
press in present times. the laws would bare been
got rid of, the constitution would have been got
rid of, the liberty of meeting in public, as they
were doing, withhold, iiiid an illustrious Queen
convicted and punished by a form of trial forbidden
by the spirit of the cuinditution. And what-made
men afraid of the power of the press ?—corruption.
Good men had no fears of the liberty of the press
men did not dread it. He called on them
our and all to support the liberty of the press.
It would stick by them when all the other parts of
the constitution failed. Let him have his choice
between preserving Tiisl by Jury and the Liberty
of the Press—he, would give up Trial by Jury, and
say. Irt me have the Press, end with that I under-
take to keep the world in order." Adveiting to
the more immediate object of Ihe meeting, and the
proceedings which had caused it, he deprecated a
trial by political Judges—they were all sAf-will—
they,, could act on discretion—they had uo true
of precepts or of duty to guide them—whatever
they determined was law, though it might kr
to the la•tiug disgrace of the country. Be.
fore such a bibunel was pending, not the trial
of the Queen, but that of public liberty, and of
the rights of property. He begged them to mark

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