The National Register.
London, England, 1820-08-14 00:00:00

THE QUEEN.

The following. Address from Norwich has been
presented to her Majesty :
" lb thr Qateoes .dust ECCE/Illifi MOPSII/.
" The dutiful Address of the InitalMants of Norwich,
in Cototovit oall tin, 2.1 day or August.
" We, In: M .jetty s 144111-U1 subjects, the intiabitaiits
of the City of Norwich, beg leave to approach your Ma-
jesty wini our siterere co.ololetiee on the deaths of your
illostritnis Utuginer and our late Sovereign, aiel to rifler
to your Alaiesiy our c irdi it congraiiiidtloll•: on your Ma-
jesty's mum to this kingdom ; and at lie S1111:2 tittle to
express our admiration of your Majesty's conduct, in
firmly and con ageously resisting tile bribes and toreats
which were offered to your Majesty, for the purpose of
inducing your Nlajesty to sacrifice your honour, and to
forego your just rights a. the Queen of England.
" Having been always led to consider it as an lis-
rotted tioaxim of our law, that no one should be regarded
and treated as guilty till fairly tried, and proved to be so,
we c moot but consider the omission of your Majesty's
name in the Liturgy—the refusal to send a yacht to con-
vey/our Majesty to this country—and to provide a place
of residence suited to your Majesty's exalted rank and
statism—as a cruel and wantote outrage upon your Ma-
jesty's feelings; and as a manifest proof, that your Ma-
jesty's accusers are actuated rather by a spirit of persecu-
tion, than by a desire of rendering impartial and substan-
tial justice.
" We assure your Majesty that the appointment of a
secret committee to inquire into charges against your Ma-
je-ty, grounded on the suspicious coutents of a green
bag, and the idtroduction upon this exparle evidence of
a hill of pains and penalties, for the purpose of degrad-
itig and divorcing your Majesty, ale proceedings which
we view with the greatest alai in and disgust, as being
utterly abhorrent from the genuine principles of tile
British constitution, and as tending to the subversion of
the libetties of the people.
" It also appears to us that the refusal to specify dine
or place, when and o here the crime alleged against your
Majesty is asserted to have bean cot d, coupled
al.o with a list aml 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-
prudence, and, therefine, calls upon us as men, and as
Englishmen, to protest against this unworthy and un-
generous proceeding, and to tender to your Majes‘y the
assurance of our deep sympathy in the struggle which
your Majesty has to sustain against your enemies ; and
our hope and trust, that as before, so again your Mojesty
will come out of the contest victorious, with the clear
possession of your honour as a woman, and the full re-
envy of your rights as Queen.
(Signed on behalf, and at the request of the Meeting.)
" B. 'Amax, Alderman."
To which her Majesty returned the following most
gracious answer :
" 1 gratefully acknowledge my obligations to his
'Majesty faithful subjects, the inhabitants ut 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 ads convinced that in this sympathetic
tribute of regard for toy insulted howl's, and lily violated
rights, the inhabitants of Norwich have expressed only
those sentiments which affection breathes trout their
generous hearts.
" The accumulated indignities which I have expe-
rienced have had an affect quite contrary to the expec-
tations of my enemies; they have rendered toe an ouject
of public regard in a higher degree than 1 could other-
wise have heen. My reason approves and toy piety
reveres that instinctive propensity which there is in the
human heart to succour the oppressed. Of this propen-
sity 1/0 page in history furnishes a brighter example than
that which the British people have exhibited in favour
of their persecuted Queen. In proportion as my enemies
have endeavoured to effect toy abaseineut they have con-
tributed to my exaltation. Too)! It ive degraded nobody
but themselt es. Their malice has been my protection,
awl their obliquy has become my panegyric.
" Wnen my adversaries hail recourse to a bill of pains
and penalties, they offered an titers:lunacy testimony
to toy innocence ; fir, if 1 had been guilty, my guilt
might have been establisbed by a more legal and less
circuitous process. But knowing that my integrity was
my security as long as they remained within the confines
of our constitutional sanctuary, they leaped with profane
daring over that sacred boundary, and are now labouring
to annihilate my honour asa woman, and toy dignity as
a Queen, by a procedure which must in its consequences
be perilous to the vital interests of individual and general
liberty. lUM now, therefore, struggling not more for
my own good than for that of the country. The ques•
toil at tilts moment, is not merely whether the Queen
shall have her rights, but whether the rights of any
individual the k ItgAinn shall be free front violatimi.
" The maxims of Euglish jurisprudence hate always
hitherto been lavourable to the accused. Perhaps toy
accusers, who are also to be my judges, thought that they
were acting in conformity to those III:MIMS, when, alter
spreading the accusations against me over a period of
six years, and a space almost equal to that of a whole
Continent, they refused any speedicatioo of the times
when, and the places where, the charges were laid, after
they had previously condescended not to grant aoy
Itt
of the witnesses by whom these charges were to be sup-
ported. A generons enemy never cu tttttt owes the com-
bat by previously wresting from his adversary every
instrument of detence. But is not the conduct of toy
enrnli:s a proof that they think their own came we.ils
and thine stating? Why eke do they labour with a son
of to-mining cowardice to cripple my powers of re, st-
ance? Is not this tacitly to tell the world that toy iit-
tegrity is then dread, and my accusation then shame 1•'

The fixed population of Paris has increased to
657,172 persons. In Paris the number of women
is greater than that of the men by ne;:t!y one-fifth.

THE NATIONAL REGISTEit.

ARRIVAL OF THE SETTLERS AT ALCOA BAY.
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The John transport arrived at Portsmouth late on
Tuesday night from the Cape of Good hope. The
John took out 600 settlers for Algoa Bay, princi-
pally from Lancashire. The passengers were se-
verely attacked with the measles on the voyage
out, but from the great attention pail them, they
soon recovered from its effeets. The following
is a letter from one of the settlers who went out:—

•• My (.ear Final I—Ace:lu a flurried Stalelllelll actor
situ Anon, as far as 1 have experienced ii. We arrived
at Algoa lily, after a tedious passage from En4land,
during which we experienced sufficient proofs of the
vi-ry excellent arrangements of the Government for our
comfort. 1 have brio' up the country as far as G,a-
ium's Town, and a more delightfol one cannot he ex•
pressed. The first landing at Algoa Bay is a little un-
pleasant, ocemiotied by a continued surf, but once landed
your greatest difficulty is over. You then apply to the
proper officer, who has a surveyed Government plats
before him of the intended settlement, marked out in
lots, of from lot) to 10,000 acres. Especial care is
taken that every lot has a grind spring of water and well
wowed. You are then asked the number of followers
you have, each Wing allowed tun acres. This being
ascertained, the quantity of land you want is sought for
on the Government map, without any partiality. Au
authority is then given yon to take possession. Too
much praise cannot ne given to the Governor for those
arrangements. If you have hot brought waggons, they
can be procured of the Boors, with a trans of oxen, and
off you set. The settle i.ent is about 190 miles from the
sta. You pass a good Dutch farm every 15 or to miles.
The governm•to sell you a good tent fur two guineas,
which you s t up every night, making a blazing fire,
Alinpuitdol by your tram, sleep in the greatest
safety. We found on our arrival several respectable fa-
milies already housed. One gentleman, who brought
out an iron I, was housed, with all his family, in
uiree days and nights, by Indgmg his roof on stumps of
trees, phsiering up the sides, and giving it a good white
washing, which had a most comfortable and novel
effect. The climate hne is so good that you have four
tun* a year. By way of expesiment, we planted some
potatoes just after a rain, and they appeared in three
days. l'he road tip to the Settlement is very good, and
excellent pasturage every where for your caitle ; plenty
of water and • her. 'fell 'Pont to be sure to bring out
a waggon; as also some vine slips of the best kind,
which are scarce. Tobacco will grow here very well.
About 3000 of us have arrived. Lieutenant Charles
Church, the Government Agent, not satisfied with the
kindness he sheaved us out board the ship, accompanied
us part of the way up the country. I should have said
the Government will victual at sixpence a head till you
provide yourself."

THE NEW REGULATIONS AT BILLINGSGATE
MARKET.

Several of the oyster-boat proprietors, and others
interested in the trade, appeared before the Lord Mayor,
to answer the complaint of Mr. Mitchelson, the Under
%%later Bailiff, mid several other officers of Billingsgate
Market, wl:o charged them with disobedience to the
Lord Mayor's orders, which directed that an existing
cause of great public inconvenience should be removed.
The Lord Mayor, who had the assistance of Alderman
Atkins upon this occasion, said the City Lands Cont-
'Mite had, after a great deal of deliberation, resolved upon
prescribing a more limited jurisdiction to the oyster pro
prietors as to the landing. 'filjt Comurittee had, he was
convinced, the public interest in view in reco 111111 l coding
the regulation, and the defendants must find their own
advantage eventually in the arrangement.
The proprietors, one and all, declared that the alter-
ations alluded to was not sought for by the public,
although it might be attended with some advantage to
those who were most anxious to have it effected. They
thought it an extreme severity, that after having laboured
fur many years at the trade, all at mice such a check upon
their profits should be given. In tact, it' his Lordship
persisted, the business could not be dune, and the inutile
would suffer a very serious inoctivenienee ; besides that,
the proprietors would sustain irreparable injury from the
stoppage of the trade, the boats at a distance not being
to be come at in proper time for sale, and the commodity
being very perishable.
Alderman Atkins said, the boats should be arranged
in regul.tr order in the dock, and as one boat was dis-
charged, another should take its place. By this plan
the buyer could easily go from boat to boat to chose
oysters, instead of being obliged to take thew at the dis-
cretion of the cobbers or agents.
The proprietors said, it was Impossible that such a plan
could succeed, the dock being very small, and the arrival
uloyster-boats very great every wonting. They were wil-
ling to prevent all mcouvemence to the market, by sending
the oys ers round by atrk-house-lane. One of them de-
elartd that he had paid 10)1: a week for the tnetage—
Another, that he had laid out, in two seasons, 35,0001.
and a third, that he had, since he •need trade, laid
out I 30,000!. in oysters alone. They begged that,
instead of putting the order into execution, In° ladders
would be allowed to them Irom the side of the Market to
he boats, by which the disadvantages thty laboured
tinder lon some time would be ranched, and the public
uenefitied.
The Lord Mavor said he was determined that the
experiment should be tried, and was a 01 titian that it
wrotlil be sueLesscril. The proprietors at the sante hole
lunild hive alt possible facilities 01 lauding.
The Proprietors w lauds ew, dct !au mi.; that the greatest
I' cooltusiont would like 14.0ce, expressong their
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On Tuesday afternoon a communication was mode
from the Secretary of State's Oth,e to the Police
Magistrates, requesting that none of tlictu would be
ab►eut film town on the 17th inst.'

FROM TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
LORD CHANIBERLAIN'S OFPICR, Auo. 8.
Orders for the Court's going into mourning. on Sunday slat,
the 13th instant, fur her late Royal Highness the Dimhou of
York, viz.—
The Ladies to wear black silk. plan muslin or long lawn.
crape or love hoods, black silk shoes, black glued gloves. and
black paper tins.
Undress—Black or dark gray unwatered tabbies.
The gentlemen to wear black cloth, without buttons on tho
sleeves or pockets. plain muslin or long lawn cravats and weep.
ern. black swords and buckles.
Undress—Dark gray frocks.
The Court to change the mourning on Sunday, the tSth trig..
viz.—
The ladies to wear black silk. fringed or plain linen, whits
gloves, necklaces and ear-rings, black or white shoes. as and
tippets.
Undress—White or gray lustrings, tabbies. or damasks.
The gentlemen to wear black. full trimmed, fringed or plain
linen, black swords and buckles.
Undress—Gray frocks.
The Court to change the mourning further on Thursday the
31st instant, viz.—
The ladies to wear black silk or velvet. coloured ribands. fans
and tippets, or plain white, or white and gold, or white and silver
stuffs, with black ribands.
The gentlemen to wear black coats, and black or plain white.
or white and gold. or white and silver stuff waistcoats, full trim-
med. coloured swords and buckles.
And on Sunday the 3d of September next the Court to go out
of mourning.
ADMIRALTY OFFICE, Auo. 8.

His Majesty does not require that the Officers of the Fleet or
Royal Marines should wear any other mourning, on the paint
melancholy occasion, than a black crape round their left arms
with their uniforms. JOHN BARROW.
FOREIGN OFFICE, Atte. 7.
The King has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. Percy
Clinton Sidney, Viscount Strangford, G.C.B. (late his Majesty's
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court
of Stockholm). to be his Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary at the Sublime Ottoman Porte.
The King has also been pleased to appoint Tenick Hamilton,
Esq. to be Secretary to Ins Majesty's Embassy at the Sublime
Ottoman Porte.
The King has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. Witham
Vesey Fitzgerald to be his Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Stockholm.

•
HORSE GUARDS, AUGUST S.
His Majesty doss not require that the Officers of the Army
should wear any other mourning. on the present melancholy
occasion. than a black crape round their left arms with their
uniforms.
By command of his Royal Highness the Commander in Chief.
H. TORRENS, Adjutant Gisigest.