Star.
London, England, 1820-12-14 00:00:00

MEETING AT HEREPIORD TO ADM 'S
THE KING-DECEMBER 11.

In consequence of a Requisition to the Mayan of
this City, signed by the exclusively loyal men (the
Clergy, Half-pay Officers, and others connected with
them), for calling a Meeting of the Freemen and In.
habitants, on this do, for the purpose of voting a
Loyal Address to the KInG, hand-bills were issued on
Saturday last, by those Gentlemen who promoted the
Address to the QUEEN, requesting the attendance of
all who signed that Address, in order to oppose any
reflection which might be made on their proceedings
upon that occasion.
About twelve o'clock the Met -IA took plat
the Sessions Room, when the whi ie of the tam,
the Court was pre-occupied by the Requisittonis., ,
their friends, with Lord Somalis at their head, Ica ,
no room for the vast concourse who attended. ' •
ever, it very fortunately happened, that M-.
MALL, the Mayor, entered from Wit's-marsh-v.,,
and, turning to the right, went up Al-, ('our., tl 1c..•76
(over the front gate-way), and was fol;cweLl h 5
of those who signed the Address to tt- tauseN, w. .
he immediately took the Chair, unconseou,
friends were waiting for him in the Session. " ••.r,
Thus the two Parties were entirely divide.. :
having taken the Chair, that part of the Ni;..!t:: 4
would not suffer the MAYOR to leave it, ana gc:
the Sessions Room, for the accommodation of his
friends. The MAYOR being, as it were, a close pri-
soner in the hands of the QUEEN'S friends, they agreed
to his liberation only on the condition of his adjourn.
ing_to the Old Town Hall, where all parties might
be accommodated. During all this time, my Lord
SOMERS and his friends were sitting in solemn silence,
in the Sessions Room, waiting the arrival of the MAYOR.
As soon as the MAYOR acquiesced in the motion of
adjournment, most of the Queen's party moved for-
ward towards the Town Hall, and occupied positions
equally advantageous with the Requisitionists. No
opposition was intended if the Address had been
confined solely to the feeling of loyalty and attach-
ment to the King ; but if it reflected, in the most
distant manner, on the conduct of those who voted
Addresses to the Queen, or approving the conduct of
Ministers in their late disgraceful proceedings, it was
resolved to give it our most determined opposition.
The MAYOR having again taken the Chair, he pro-
ceeded to open the business of the Meeting, and was
followed by Sir HUNGERPORD HOSKYNS, Batt. who
proposed the Address, which was seconded by Dr.
HUGHES. The MAYOR then read the Address, and
the former part, expressive of their loyalty, was ap-
proved of, but the concluding paragraph was highly
disapproved of, as it alluded in substance to " the
present eventful times, which wicked and designing
men took advantage of; in order to subvert the
Throne and the Constitution of this Country." Strong
expressions of disapprobation were now manifeste'
when Colonel CooKE presented himself, and submit-
ted to the Meeting an Amendment to the original
Address, which was instantly received with the loud-
est acclamations. Its object was to express their dis-
approbation of the conduct of Ministers in their late
proceedings towards her Majesty in the Bill of Pains
and Penalties, and also a hope that they would not
again agitate the question, and disturb the tranquillity
of these Kingdoms. This Amendment was seconded
by Mr. Wooottouse, Attorney, and supported by
several other Gentlemen.
The Rev. Mr. LILLEY objected to this Amend-
ment, as being irrelevant to the object of the Meet-
ing, and insisted that it could not, and ought not, to
be incorporated with the Address, and that the Meet-
ing was called for the purpose of voting an Address
expressive of their loyalty alone.
Mr. LILLEY was attempted to be supported by
Lord SOMERS, who, on presenting himself to the
notice of the Meeting, with seeming confidence
being graciously received, excited the
hisses and groans, with cries of " off' Ste.
Lordship did not expect to be thus greeted by
inhabitants of Hereford, but they are indignant
his late conduct in the House of Peers.
continued, but his Lordship, notwithstanding,
severed in speaking, with great fury
gesture, inaudible to all but those AO
him. Mr. Lilley endeavoured several
pease his Lordship, hut in vain.
- Lord SOMERS'S son, the Hon. JAMES
alike unsuccessful; and, after a vain antra
heard, sat down, much chagrined, amidst
uproar. All we could collect from him I
if the Meeting did not agree to the origii
he would advise the Mayor to dissolve if
Mr.JAMES, attorney, in a very bold
speech, combated every argument th,
advanced by Mr. Lilley, and insisted on
of the Amendment, and of incorporatit
loyal part of the Address, which should
his Most cordial support.
. After an interval of a few minutes,
explanation between the Rev.Mr.LILLEYt
and other Gentlemen, the Mavon called
of hands for and against the Addre_s,
the whole of the persons assembled brio;
the MAYOR dissolved the Meeting,
Address to be lost; and the disappointed -
tionists and their friends retired amidst the Melo
the multitude.
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Roc.iisltkm to the MAYOII call another Meeting,
!-,,r the purpose of voting a Loyal Address to his
NIAJEsTY, in conformity with the sentiments so de-
cidedly expressed by a large majority, at the Meet-
ing held this day at the Old Town Hall, for the pur-
ose of testifying their attachment to the glorious
Constitution of these Kingdoms, as by law esta-
blished, and to express their opinion of the late mea-
-1 sures pursued by his MAJESTY'S Ministers.

!TEETING OF THE CITYBER 13. OF GLOUCESTER,
DECEM

A Requisition to the MAYOR of this City having
been signed by the Bishop, Dean, Prebendary, and
many c.f the most respectable Inhabitants, requesting
him to convene a Public Meeting of the Citizens and
Inhabitants, for the purpose of signing a Dutiful andl
Loyal Address to his MAJESTY, the MAYOR, in com-
pliance with that request, fixed such Meeting to be
holden this day, at the Shire-Hall ; and never was a
lkleeting in this City so numerously and respectably
attended, the number present being estimated at up-
wards of 1,700, including most of the first characters
in the City.
The MAYOR having been called to the Chair,
shortly addressed the Meeting, in explanation of the
object for which they were convened, and requested
that every Gentleman who offered himself to the
Meeting, might be patiently and attentively heard.
Mr. MONTAGUE then rose, and after expressing his
firm conviction, that every man of the numerous as-
sembly felt cordially attached to their King and to
their Country, and his assurance that they would all
be ready to rally round the Throne, in these times,
when the growth of infidelity, irreligion, and sedi-
tion, appeared to threaten everything that is valuable
to us all, concluded by proposing an Address, to which
he anticipated there could be no opposition.
The Rev. Dr. MICHELL, the resident Prebendary,
seconded the proposition ; observing, that the lan-
guage of the Address had his cordial concurrence.
The MAYOR having then put the question on this
Address,

Mr. Prtrurarrs addressed the Meeting, observing,
that if the Address had been confined to the expres-
sions of dutiful and loyal attachment to the King,
and a determination to support him, and maintain
our invaluable Constitution, no man would have
been more ready than himself to subscribe his name ;
for, in loyalty and attachment to his Sovereign, and
in veneration for the principles of the Constitution,
he yielded to no man ; but as the Address embraced
other topics, and, as he deemed it a libel on the
character of the City, whose loyalty no one could
suspect ; and as there was a direct attack on the
freedom of the Press, which he deemed the palladium
of British liberty, he could not consistently give his
sanction to that Address, unless the parts to which
he adverted were withdrawn.
Mr. HYETT then rose, and after pourtraying, at
some length, the miseries into which the country was
plunged, by the injudicious and unconstitutional acts
of his Majesty's Ministers, expressed his conviction,
that, although the approbation of those acts was not
openly avowed, yet that the object of the promoters
of the Address was to give a sanction to those mea-
sures. He then strongly urged, that the mass of the
population of the country were loyal and well-af-
fected, and that Ministers chose to represent as acts
of tumult and sedition the expressions of dissatisfac-
tloa which were extracted from a suffering People,
by the impolicy and the oppression of his Majesty's
Councils ; and concluded by proposing to the Meet-
ing, by way of amendment, aa Address, embody-
ing these sentiments ; and, while it expressed the
strongest assurances of loyalty and attachment to the
King and Constitution, stated the grievances which
the People endured, by the impolitic and unwise ad-
ministration by which the resources of the Empire
were frittered away.
Mr. CARTER followed Mr. HYETT at considerable
length, and after having enlarged on the topics to
which he had adverted, concluded by seconding the
Amendment.
Mr. Davis then followeJ, and, in a speech of con-
siderable length (in which he was frequently inter-
rupted by hisses), supported the original Address,
and endeavoured to combat the arguments which had
been urged against it.
The MAYOR at length put the question, when the
original Address was negatived, and the Address as
amended was carried by a majority of about fifty to
one ; and it was ordered to be transmitted to the
Representatives for the City to be presented to his

:Majesty.
ilox ACE WALPOLE'S LETTERS.—The Editor of the
Octavo Edition of this Correspondence justly observes,
that whatever difference may exist as to the literary
,-ank of HoRACE WALPOLE, his distinguished talent
as a letter writer has not been questioned; and indeed
all the excellencies that letters can pretend to, his
birth, rank, situation, and peculiar talent, well ena-
bled him to impress on them. He delighted in anec-
dote, and his Correspondence approaches as nearly to
his favourite, GRAMMONT, as Letters and Memoirs
can be expected to assimilate; and the son of old Sir
lisnrEuT had this advantage, that he came prepared,
not with the bare historical knowledge of the pre-
ceding age, Which must usually satisfy others, but,
with a minute and private history both of men and:
-things, that made it almost equally familiar to him
with his own times. This was the knowledge WAL•'
POLE himself delighted in, and this is the great and
unlivalled excellence of his Correspondence.