Star.
London, England, 1820-09-18 00:00:00

rtiE QUEER.

The following is a copy of the Address from the
Female Inhabitants of the City of Bristol and its
Environs:

" To her mast Excellent and Gracious. Majesty, CA auto:, Queen
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
" The most humble, loyal, and affectionate Address of the
Ladies and Female Inhabitants of the City and County
of Bristol, and its Environs.

" Ma:bast—Permit us to offer you out congratulations on be-
holding yod once more in the midst of your faithful and affec-
tionate People; to express our sympathy, as Females, for the
Fit u Ation in which your Ala.issyr is placed by the machinations of
artful,vicious, and evil-designing nien ; and also to commiserate
your Marna: for your unmerited per.ecution and sufferings.
" Accept, lov'd Wets, thy female'subjects'
Who in poetic strains most fervent pray !
To 11r-iota's grand MoNaften shall our pray'rs nand,
That Truth an Justice may thy cause defend.
Thy presence we approach with love Joccre,
And all thy virtues zealously revere!
64 Oh ! may'st thou triumph o'er thy nuru'rous foes,
And on fair Albion's Throne eujuy repose !
Oh ! may thy persecutors, who have dar'd
Thy name to tarnish, meet their just reward!
Nay they from pow'r and'confidenee be hurl'd ;
The sport and scorn of the surrounding world!
The bitter cup they fill, may they enjoy !
Nay it to them is'erhow, without alloy !
Whilst thou in ev'ry virtuous breast shalt reign,
• The glory of Britannia's wide domain ;
Thy precepts pure around her daughters twine,
Aed ev'ry action of thy life divine.
Whilst thou, sevir'd by thy lov'd People's care,
For years unnumber'd earthly blessings share ;
And when the brittle thread of life is spun,
Nay Angels guard thee to an heav'nly home!
" These, the effusions of the Female heart,
We humbly to your Maass= impart !"
(Signed by 14,111• Females.) .
Her IWAJESTY'S Answer

" My heart gratefully receives this testimony of affectionate
regard from the Female Inhabitants of the City and County of
Bristol.

The tender sympathy of my own sex with my griefs and my
wtongs, must ever be most acceptable to my soul. The rights
of every woman in the United Kingdom are deeply implica,ed in
the vindication of my rights. If an adultery can be established
by remote inference, and a divorce grounded on that inference,
pleas for divorce will be indefinitely multiplied. The ceaseless
irritations of jealousy, or the irvidious suggestions of malignity,
will never be in want of materials to establish the guilt of any
individ u 3 I.

" No innocence can long be secure when shadowy suspicions,
or vague probabilities are made sufficient to prove criminality.
But crimes which consist of specific acts are not devisable things,
and cannot consequently be brought within the confines of con-
structive proof.
" In my case, my adversaries have negatived their own alle-
gations by the depravity of their own witnesses, and the palpable
insufficienc yof their own evidence. Much has already appeared
to chew, and more will hereafter be added to prove, that the
charges which my enemies have brought a-,ainst me, are the
mere fictions of a conspiracy that is unparalleled in the annals
of malignity and mrpitude."
Answer of her MAJESTY to the Address from the
Provost, Magistrates, Burgesses, Tra esmen, and
Citizens of the Burgh of 11ontrosc, presented by. Jo-
SEPH HUME, Esq. M.P. for Montrose:
44 I request the Provost, Magistrates, sod Burgesses of Guild,
Trades and Citizens of the loyal Burgh of Montrose, to accept
my cordial thanks for this affectionate Address.
" The sympathy of persons so enlightened and respectable,
exhilarates my spirits and enlivens my mind.
44 Good principles are often established in bad times ; and the
abuses of tyranny sometimes proves favourable to the recovery
of liberty. The present unconstitutional attack upon my honour
and my rights will, I trust, in its results, co-operate with other
causes in improving the decayed fabric of the Constitution, and
in adding to the general stock of liberty and of happiness.
" The Provost, Magistrates, Burgesses and Citizens of Mon-
trose, have had ample experience of the disastrous consequences
that must, sooner or later, be visible in those institutions in
which reformation is delayed. Sovereigns who seldom like to
part with any power that has come within their grasp, will not
readily be impressed with the urgent necessity of reforming in-
veterate abu.es, and of going before, rather than of lingering
behind, the light of the age. But in these times, if reforms
arc not tiegun quietly from within, they will ultimately be
forced from without; and both justice and policy, which can
never be disjoined, concur in recommending the adaptation of
ancient establishments to the increased light and the advanced
ci'eilization of modern times.

" The Inhabitants of Montrose enjoy a degree of political in-
dependence, and of municipal liberty, which few of their coun-
trymen possess. For this possession they are principally in-
debted to their own manly and constitutional exertions; and, if
other Burghs have not been equally successful in obtaining the
slime advantages, I still cherish the hope that the cause of Re-
form in Scotland will finally triumph over its opponents.
0 When his Majesty's Government thought p.oper to strike
my name out of the Liturgy, their conduit was most unwar-
rantable; for, as I had never been tried, the legal presump-
tion was, and the moral conclusion ought to have been, chat I
was Innocent.
" If the Government could thus dispense with any of the
forms of the Liturgy, with respect to the Queen, why might
they not dispense with other forms. and, in short, imitate the
example of Scotland, which has exhibited such a splendid proof
that the religion and the morals of a people are not at all depen-
dent on the ceremonial of an expensive Establishment?
" As l'aovwxscx semetimes hangs the greatest weight 'Ton
the smallest threads, I may perhaps be an humble instrument in
promoting some gracious purpose of the DIVINZ
Whatever may be mly destiny, I shall rejoice if my sufferings
L can in any way contribute to the national prosperity."

Answer of her MAJErrY to the Address from the
Young Men, Inhabitants of the City of Hereford :
" I derive much pleasure from this Address from the Young
Men, Inhabitants of the City of Hereford.
" Youth is the season of generous sentiments, and when every
set of injustice and inhumanity excites the most vivid indignation.
" The You..g Men of Hereford have proved that their sym-
patldes are powerfully interested in favour of their much in-
jured %seen.. Indeed lam convinced that, among the Youth
of the three Unlct.4l Kingdoms, there is hardly a heart that does
not beat in my favour, or a hand that, if it were requisite, would
r.ot he raised in my defence. I may have enemies among the
conTpt and the venal; but I can have none amongst those over
whom the vitiating influence of the Selfish Faction has not 'et
spread the mildew of depravity, or cankered that independence
which is natural to-youth.'
" Benefiucate is virtue's imperial crown; but beneficence
- must be rogulated by the means of the individual. It is di&
cult to know which is most to blame--the selfishness of youth or
the prodigality of age. Both are odious in themselves at any
tf ; and when they are respectively attached to these periods
oflife, they bays a double incon.,pruity. It is wise to be econo-
mists both of money and oar time. The first preserves us from
dependence, and the last renders life our own.'
lier MAJESTY returned the following Answer to
the Address of the Females of Exeter :

The Female Inhabitants of the ancient City of Exeter and
its vicinity have excited my cordial regard fur this affectionate
Address. The charges that have been !nought against me are
so utterly false, that f cannot conceive it possible for any tribu-
nal, however constituted, to be so unmindful of the sacred
obligations of truth and justice as to find ate guilty with respect
to allegations in support of which no proof bas been adduced.
" I aw happy to find that the people.of England consider my
triumph over my enemies as necessary to the security of their
rights and the establishment of their liberties.
" I should not feel the intrepidity of Innocence, or the con-
sciousness of rectitude, if I did nut despise the base libels by
which I have been occasionally assailed. As far as my own in-
ternal tranquillity is concerned, those libels have never.rutfied
the serenity of my breast, nor caused me a moment of uneasi-
ness. I ant too strung in the hardihood of nay integrity to be
easily vanquished by any of the shafts 4ft:ch 'Milieu may extract
front its quiver to aim at my heart. Wht7e a free Press allows
different Viitioas to suivt; fur the mastery, an 4 the cenDiet be: