The Sun.
London, England, 1826-01-31 00:00:00

THE 11UKE O 1 YORK.

Th. Parkb of Clerktliwell held a public meet.
ing on the 211th of May, 1R25, and Was the first to agree to an
address of thanks and congratulation to his Royal Highness
the Duke of cork, " ibr the manly and constitutional support
which, in Piarliament, and as a !ter of Parliatment, he had
given to the Protestant Throne and the Protestant Altar."—
The alpience-of one individual, who was called from home im-
mediately after the tneeting had taken place, and who, it was
desired, should accompany the address, unavoidably prevented
the presentatiOn to the. Heir Presumptive till Thursday last,
when a deputatiOn, cousiSting of Roger Staples
_Fisher, Esq.,
and other geittlemen, waited upon bis Royal Highness, and
were most gracious:y receitied.

The Rev. R. Mu. E, curate of the parish, *ho accompanied
the deputation, addressed his Royal Highness in the following

ml)eeett :---

" May it please your Royal Highness—tn consequence of
the noble stand which your Royal [lig!incite made during' the
last session of Parliament ageinst the attempted encroachments
upon the (\mathUtion—that Constitution which is the grand
palladium of our civil and religion* liberties-ewe are de-
.
puted to wait upon your Royal Highness to express our
gratitude, and to assure your Royal Highness, that while
•
the Brunswick Family are faithful to, the- cause which
placed them upon the throne of these realins, they will poe-
sees the warm attachment of all who are worthy of the Pro-
testam name-in the British empire. whatever may be insi-
nuated to the contrary by a few individuals, as de.eitute of
the principles as unworthy of the inheritance which w,:e pur-
chased for them by the blood of their forefathers. (Here the
Rev. Gentleman explained the cause of the delay in presenting
the address, and then. proceeded.) Though we come from a
remote part of the metropolis, it affords us no small pleasure
to reflect that we had the honour to 1)e the first publicly to ex.
press our sentiments on the occasion, ait& that our example
has been followed by many who occupy more important
stations. From the period alluded to more than six months
have elapsed ; and every thing which has occurred since
has tended only to heighten our admiration of your
Royal . Highness's conduct in withstanding the weak anti the
wicked—the policy of many great and geed men among our-
selves, who hive got their minds teintot wir!: the principles of
a spurious and dangerous liberality, and the united efforts of
the emissaries 'of the Church of Reline, and the factious dema.
gogues who look ultimately for anarchy, devastation, suit
plunder; so that the address which we have now the honour to
present to your Royal Highneee, And which speaks the senti-
ments of the thousands in our pari-h, who, in the short space
of three days; signed the petition to the Legislature, emanates
not only from the warm and grateful feelings excited on the im.
pulso of the moment, hut from the matured reflections of our
cooler judgments—a circumstance which we trust will not
lessen the expulsion of our gratitude in the estimation of your
Royal Highness."
Mr. R. S. Fisetza, the Chairman, then read the following
Address :--
" TO HIA ROYAL HDIHNESS THE DUKE OF YORK AND

• - ALBANY, &C. •
r` Sir,— :et
Erequent and precious have been the benefits con-
ferred upon England by the House ofßrunswick, since the au•
spiciout eta at which Your ancestors were invited to the guardian-
ship of her liberties, no member of your illustrious family has
ever puesessed claims to the gratitude of the English people
strong: r than those by which you have bound your countrymen
in an everlasting obligation.
"From your earliest youth you have cheerAilly encounter-
ed danger and toil to advance the military glory, and to en-
sure the safety of our country; and since the held of military
fame has been exhausted, and the public security from exter-
nal danger placed upon an impregnable basis by a series of
successes to which your admirable conduct of the threes of the
empire mainly contributed, you have laboured with equal zeal
to preserve unimpaired those essential parts of the British con-
siiturion which are the indispensable guards of our civil and
religious liberties.
Upon no occasion, however; has the care for the inter-
ests of the people of England, that has always characterized
your Royal line, or that zealous affection for your country by
which you individually, have ever been distinguished, been
more conspicuously displayed than in your conduct upon a late
momentous question, when, in a spirit worths of your illus.
trious anmtors, worthy of the first subject of Great Ilritain,
and worthy of the brother of the greatest Monarch of Europe,
you came forward as the champion .of the Pretestent Constitu-
tion, upon which ell our public liberties and our private happi-
ness depend, and interposed to protect from violation the most
sacred of those prerogatives of the Crown, which, administered
by your ancestors, have ever proved the tirineet bulwarks of
the rights of the people.
" Deeply impressed with the obligation imposed by such
services, your fellow-subjects, the utideraigned inhabitants of
the parish of Clerkenwell, respectfully approach your Royal
Higluiess with an
,offering of their most grateful thanks; an.l
humbly address to the throne of Divine Provitlene their earnest
prayers for the prolongation in health and prosperity of the life
of a-Prince'wbo, in, whatever situation. he may be placed,'
Will, they are conacions,.eontinne to be the 4tittql guurdian of
the civil and religious liberties of England."
To which his Royal Highness was pleased to eerily in the
following terms
"TV *flit'llsftiAßlTANTS OF THY. l'Alt18“ or CLUEKEN-
WELL.
Oehtlemen--In returning you my sincere thanks for the
honour you hiiate done me in voting thtvpresent address, I beg
to assure you; that l derive great satisfaction trona finding that
my public conduct hag merited the' approbetiim Of en respect-
able a body of persons as the inhabitants of the perish of
Cletken well. (Signed) " FREDV.RICKe"