The National Register.
London, England, 1820-06-26 00:00:00

THE QUEEN.

The following fact is illustrative of one of the
consequences of the omission of her Majesty's name
in the Liturgy. A short time since, the directors
of a well-conducted and excellent institution, for
the relief of the aged and infirm women of good
character, desirous of availing themselves of public
benevolence in aid of its funds, by the usual method
of a charity sermon, applied to the Rev. Rector of
an extensive parish in the city. The Rev. Gentle-
man immediately granted the use of his pulpit, and
not only undertook to advocate their cause himself
by a sermon on the Sunday morning, but also pre-
vailed upon the Rev. Doctor, the lecturer at the
same church, to preach in behalf of the society in
the afternoon. In the infancy of this society, her
Majesty, then Princess of Wales, bad been solicited
to become its patroness, to which she had not only
consented, but at the same time subscribed liberally
to its funds, and to this her early countenance was
to be ascribed the subsequent patronage of the Prin-
cess Charlotte, Prince Leopold, the Duke of Kent,
and other branches of the Royal Family. The
patronage was of course acknowledged in all their
publications, and in every notice of sermons to be
preached in its behalf, the society bad uniformly
been described as under the patronage of the Princess
of Wales. The Committee suspecting no impro-
priety, accordingly in their printed notice of these
two sermons announced the society as patronised
by the Queen's most excellent Majesty ; but on a
copy of this notice, together with Ithc printed ac-
count of this society, being transmitted to the Rev.
Rector, as is usual in like cases, a few days pre-
viously to the day appointed for the sermon, he not
only expressed great surprise at the insertion of her
Majesty's name, but appeared highly indignant that.
he should be expected to notice from the pulpit the
name of a woman whom the Council had forbid him
to pray for in the Liturgy, and peremptorily refused
to sutler the sermons to be preached unless they
withdrew the notice, and circulated others, omit.
ting the Queen's name. To this act of ingratitude
and injustice the committee were most unwilling to
submit; the Rector, however, was immoveable
other notices were consequently substituted with
the omission, not only of her Majesty's name, but,
to avoid invidious distinction, of the names of all the
illustrious personages to whose patronage the insti-
tution was so highly indebted for its present
prosperity.

Mails have arrived from Hamburgh, with Papers
to the 16th, and from Flanders, with Brussels
Journals to the 20th instant. The people of Ha-
nover seem to be positive that the King will visit his
dominions on their side of the water immediately
after his Coronation here. The Palace of Herren-
hausen has been thoroughly repaired Ibr his recepe
tion. The health of Prince Schwartzenburgh is
improving, and he is now able to take little excur-
sions on horseback in the neighbourhood of Leipsic.
The Emperor and Empress of Austria left Prague
on the 6th, to meet the King of Saxony at Kere-
seinstadt. The King of Prussia, accompanied by
his sons, Prince William and Prince Charles, ar-
rived at Stralsund on the 7th, and was received wit►
every show of joy. On the 9th he set off for the Isle
of Bogen. Some exaggeration of the disturbances,
which took place in London on the evening of the
601, having reached Hamburg'', the Exchange be-
dime alarmed; but subsequent arrivals in this city
had restored confidence,—The fortifications on the
frontier of the Netherlands opposite France are
going on with rapidity. With a view to the encou-
ragement of the woollen manufacture of his domi-
nions, the King of the Netherlands had directed the
'whole of his army, the persons on all charitable
foundations, and the persons attached to his Court
and Household, to wear notlting else than cloth of
native manufacture.

On his Holiness the Pope having been informed
of the erection of the magnificent Roman Catholic
Chapel at the cast end of the town, he nut only ex-
pressed his satisfaction, but ordered a superb Chalice
to be made fur its use, of pure Mexican gold, to he
ornamented with precious stones, which it is estima-
ted will cost 50001.
A Paris Paper (The Constilutionnel), says, " We
have received a notice from an English Gentleman,
respecting an article inserted in The Journal des
Debuts on the pith, on Mr. Alderman Wood. We
are assured that this article is a miserable falsehood ;
and that Mr. Wood never did write on visiting can.),
M. Wood, Jett Lord :!hire de Loodres---(Nlr. Wood,
hale Lord Mayor of London). It may be asked what
could induce any one to throw ridicule upon
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esteemed and respectable eitixen, who enjoys a tod t.
consideration, not only at home, but in the rest of
Europe, aml who has occupied with honour the first
post in the city of London ? Is it because he pro-
fesses liberal opinions, and because he is attached to
an unfortunate Princess, who complains of bciug the
oi,j,:et of the most t,truLkus calumnies.