Star.
London, England, 1820-08-28 00:00:00

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The Bela* Addled to the Qtr. Kea is arrived, and
iral be piresebted by Sir FRANCIS BUEDiTT and Mr.
ROanovsL
Yesterday, At tlyo o'clock, C. F. PALMER and J. B.
!dolma., ~rs. the..Membert for the 116intigh of
Reading, attended at Brandenbnrgh Hotise, and pre;
tented to her Majesty the QUEEN the I.4lt)wing Ad-
dress, signed by Upwards of 2,000 inhabitants. The
Meeting was held on Monday last :
TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT
le MAT IT rt.smin roux isArerrr,
" We, the undersigned Inhabitants of the ancient Borough of
Reading, approach your Majesty's presence in all humility, re.
'mace, and afftctiun, to express ens most sincere feelings of
joy and gratdlation upod your Majesty's return to this kingdom:
" With equal sincerity we condole with your Majesty upon.
the various afflictions which, under the dispensations of M-
une Parelorsca, your Majesty has experienced during your re-
gretted absence; and more essentially do we bewail the death
of our late venerable and revered Monarch, and the premature
ddmise of your illustrious and ever.to-be-hunented daughter, her
Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte, on whose rising virtues
and amiable qualities the fondest hopes of 9ritain rested.
" However grievous these events, and-Amatarer your Ma-
jesty's principles and feelings may in Warr ways be outraged,
we still flatter ourselves that in aid of yaw Majesty's native for-
titude of mind you may derive some solace, anneedegrte f con-
solation, from the knowledge that the vast majority of a dutiful
and affectionate people most truly sympathize in your distresses,
and feelingly deplore every cause which your Majesty wan have
for unhippiness.-
" We who have now the high honour to address your Ma-
jesty, will yield to none of our fellow-subjects in loyal attach-
ment to our King, nor in the zealous desite to uphold the prin.
eiples of our invaluable Constitution ; but in these drys, when
knowledge and-a just perception of their political rights, is fast
spreading among all classes, when in fact an awful conflict seems
beezistletween intellect, truth, and justice on one hand, and
power, corrnption, -and prejudice on the other, we are not so
ignorant as to mistake the arbitrary and revolting misdeeds of
evil advisers for the wholesome decrees of justice and wisdom ;
nor are we disposed to admit that a headlong devotion to the
Ministers of the day is the only true criterion of loyalty. •
" On more than one occasion, many of us have had the mi-
sery to witness, and utinvailingly to raise our voices against,
Truisms of the King's Ministers, which we have deemed harsh,
intolerant, oppressive, and unconstitutional. But we can most
truly assert, that no one ..rent has filled our n.iods with stets
alarm and disgust as thL proceedings which have taken place,
and which are now in progress, against your Majesty, with the
view, as it should seam, to deprive your Majesty of your honour
and character as a woman, and of your rank and privileges As
our rightful Queen.

" From your Majesty's firmness and magnanimity in refusing
to make any compromise of your honour and t:ignity—from yore
Majesty's intrepid and undeniably just claim of a fair, open, and
impartial trial—and, above all, from a recollection of the result
of the investigation of the former atrocious conspiracy against
your Majesty's life and aonour, we-are strongly disposed to be.
lieve in your Majesty's entire innocence.
" On the former occasion, indeed, the vile calumnies were
fortunately, alleged in a specific and tangible shape ; they were
susceptible of being, as they fully were, completely negatived
and scattered to the winds of Heaves'. Now, on the contrary,
by the course adopted, all is left vague, indefinite, and unct rain,
as to time, place, and other important poir.ts, most essentiA for
your Majesty to have full and early notice of ; and the necessary
information, to obviate the difficulties which your Majesty in
your defence has thence to encounter, being withheld.
" We cannot but feel some disquietude and appreher:ion lest
from charges fashioned in such insidious guise, (and which pos-
sibly will be sustained, or attempted to be sustains d, as hereto-
fore, by the ment.acious fabrications of unprincipled witnesses),
your Majesty's sacred character, however pure and blameless,
may not escape contamination and unmerited obloquy. Most
earnestly do we deprecate so deplorable a result, and entreat
that your Majesty will be graciously plea,ed to accept our fer-
vent prayers that you may finally triumph over your townies
by a complete refutation of their charges, and an en:l(l%lre of
their machinations, so that your Ali jesty's honour and fame,
like gold seven times tried, may, by the severity of the ordeal,
become but the more pure and lustrous; and that pair Majesty
may lung live in hcneur, happiness, ..t.d tranquillity, trig' If g in
the hearts, and enjoying the full confidence and affectionate at-
' tachment, of a loyal people."
To which Address lies Majesty the QUEEN was
graciously pleased to .ettirii the lea :owing Answer :
" The patriotic Inhabitants of th: ancie-t Borough of Read-
ing have given me a strong proof of their attachment js this af-
fectionate Address. All institutions which --re made for such a
mutable being as man, ought to vary with his character and
habits, and should adapt themselves to his progressive improve-
meat in political knowledge, and in knowledge of o her kinds.
Those truths which were formerly confined to a kw, are now
open to the perception of the many. Political knowledge is in
great measure generalized.

" Our idea; are now substituted for the vague ibrases of past
times. The captive has burst his intellectual cnains. The naind
is relieved from its long thraldom to feudal prejudices, ..nd a
spirit has arbor which will not endure servitude under doy of
its imposing forms.
" As Government cannot stop the Aar& of intellect any more
than they can arrest the motion of the tides, or the course cf the
planets, it behoves them to yield in time to that force of oidnirn
which must be finally irresistible; and to conduct it, ere it he
too late, to those results which, without endangering the public
tranquillity, are in unison with the light of the age, and condu-
cive to the best interests of civilized man.

My adversaries have all along treated me as if I were insen-
sible to the value of character; for why else should thry have in-
vited me to bring it to market, and let it be estim.tted by gold ?
But infamy is not with me an affair of arithmetical calculation.
A good name is better that riches, for I dread nc.t poverty, but
I loath turpitude, and I think death preferuble to shame."

FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.
At the Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn-street : Mr.. Sandford and
family, from Bath.
At,Bnuiet's Hotel, keleester-square : Baron de Spreugtper4
ten, from Sweden.
At the Royal Hotel, St. James's-street t Sir Hassey and Lady
Vivian and family, from their seat in Hants; E. Ker, Esq. from
his seat in Yorkshire; the Rev. Mr. Evan, from Bath.

DEPARTURES.
From Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square : Lady Combermere
to Tunbridge Wells; Hon. Mrs. Leeson, and Mr. And :\ es. W.
Haile, to the Isle of Wight.
From the St. Petersburgh Hotel, Dover-street : Mr. and
Mrs. Gouldsmid and family, for their seat, Wostwood-halls
Staffordshire. •
A numerous Meeting of the Merchants, Manufac-
turers, and Traders of the Town of Birmingham,
was held on Frid3y, at the Public Office, in that
town, to hear a Report of a Committee appointed at
a former Meeting, and again to Petition Parliament
upon the general Distress of the Manufacturing
Classes, praying the Legislature to enquire into, and
endeavour to remove its cause. Mr. TuosfAs RY-
LAND, Mr. PHRDON, Mr. RIDoUT, and Mr. RICHARD
SPOONER, severally addressed the Meeting; the
Report was agreed to, and Resolutions entered into
for furthering the object of the Meeting. It was
stated in one of the Resolutions, that the wade of
the town of Birmingham was reduced to the most
deplorable state, the manufacturers not beins able to
supply their workmen with mole than three or tour
days' work a week; and that one-fourth of the work.
ing classes had been reduced to the necessity of sup-
porting their existence by relief from the l artsh. It
was also stated that respectable housekeepers, who
formerly had their regular joints of meat, were now
reduced to buy smaller quantities, such as pounds
and half-pounds; and that the poorer sort were obliged
to purchase scraps and small portions, such as penny-
worths and two-penny-worths of bulipclis liver, far
their wretched subsistence.

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