Star.
London, England, 1820-09-15 00:00:00

FURTHER PARTICULARS.

Yesterday, a most numerous Meeting of the Inha-
bitants of the V% and of Farringdon Without, took
place at St. Bride's Church, Fleet-street, Mr. Alder-
man WAITIIMAN in the Chair, to consider the pro-
priety of addressing the QUEEN, on the subject of the
charges now pending against her in Parliament.
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business of the day,
took occasion to observe that he felt in- this, as in all
other cases, that it was his duty to pay attention to
the wishes of the Ward ; and under that impression,
he had convened the present Meeting. He had taken
no share whatever in getting up the Requisition; but
•he was happy to say, that his own feelings went with
the subject. of it—
.' Mr. Tnomrsos then rose. •The objects of the
Meeting had been stated to them from the Chair;
they were to address her most gracious Majesty, to
condole with her on the losses which she had sustained
in the deaths of her amiable and lamented daughter,
the Princess Charlotte, and ' his late Majesty King
George 111 The friends- of liberty (and the friends
of the Queen were the friends of liberty), had often
been taxed with wishing to cause a Revolution; but
he fur one would repel the charge with indignation,
for if there was any party aiming at so base an ob-
ject, it was that set of men, whose conduct of late
had been little short of involving the country, en-
trusted to their care, in all the horrors of a civil war
—(Hear, hear!).—The Reformers were not the sup-
porters, or encouragers of such a system as this ; if
they had been in power, rieither the King nor his Minis-
ters dare have ventured on the step they have now
taken ; but it was in unison .with the rest of the con-
duct, and was one of those imbecile measures that
had of late years issued from the British Cabinet.—
But what was the effect produced by such mis-go-
vernment ? %Sly, that the country was fast approach-
ing to a state from which it shortly must extricate
itself. This was one of the benefits arising from that,
precious compact, known by the name of " The Holy
Alliance; or, the Kings of Europe run mad !"--
Oue could not now look to the pages of a New tpaper
without expecting to read the details of some mili-
tary revolutionthe•overthrow of some legitimate,'
long-established dynasty. A few months had been
pregnant with such events, and we now behold
Spain, Naples, and long-enslaved Portugal, volun-
tarily freeing themselves from this wretched policy,
by means of the very weapons which had been in-
tended for its defence—(Applause).—Prussia and
Austria were yet in the back ground ; but the latter,'
it must be confessed,. was' busied in sending her im-
perfect troops to boarding-school, with a view of
1 controuling the independence, and abridging the
liberties, of a neighbouring State—(Langliter and
applause).—Such then were the effects produced by
i the measures and the counsels of that Administration,
who, as a finishing stroke to their bad policy, had
advised the trial of the Queen of England—(Hear,
hear).— The worthy Gentleman then adverted at con-
siderable length ro the peculiar situation in which her
Majesty stood. Deprived of the common protection

,•Ilote.e the Hospital forincurahles. Whether it would
of the law—a proteCtion afforded to the mlanest
would i . itself, he could not. undertake to say ;but he
subject, it was sought to deprive her of all her rights so thew
their L a
whileclsh is
the
eoupledr
ppressrtrhoe.
of
apssaeirots, thataoa Penalties,if
and privileges, on the ground of misconduct; but
he would ask (and he would ask it without wishing ~ w
n
to offend) had her husband's actions been inquired • 1
. pounced her Majesty innocent, they would only
de-
sinto ?• what was his misconduct ?---I Land and tumid- ' d
tolgmra e. themselves in. the estimation of every.lionest
Mons applause).—He had married her Majesty
extricate himself from very many dilficsilties ; threatenedbut•ani"tiielLiounitryr arid hurry on that crisis, which
with
volution—(Applauses). Mr. Thompson
no sooner were those difficulties removed, than his •
• concluded with proposing a.Resolution, declaratory
Majesty transferred those affections which 'ought to of the purpose of. the Meeting, to present an Address
be exclusively his wife's, to another, or at least he to the Queen, in conformity to the terms of the
• was pleased to bestow upon her much less attention Requisition.
than could he expected at so early a period of their Thistt,) •
esinion was carried unanimously. The
marriage. It. had been suggested that their Address Address,
. which was then read, was particularly dis-
was late; but he would say it was just in the very -
tineuished for
.-.energy of thought and elegance of
nick of time; they had heard the disgusting state- composition.
ment of the Attorney-General, (who, for this once, Mr. EDWARDS, who seconded
fh the motion for the
seemed ashamed of the businesshe was employed adopting '
forwoarad e Address,. said, that he was urged to
and held down his head, till the pnor man,was every come upon this occasion by those feelings
minute desired by my Lord' Eldon to keep it up!)---• which he thought
.o must actuate every Briton who
(Laughter).—And they had heard of the respectable 'should be anli! anxious, that whatever might be the mis-
', testimony with which he had attempted to support conductmisters or of Parliament in the transac.
that statement. • All Italy had been raked for evidence lion whichof. gave rise to this Meeting, it should be
ti. the Queen's guilt. A Leach and a filthy Cook kit( '
to the world and to posterity, that the British
had been sent over to prepare the precious banquet ! People 'wn
e
..ii id riot sanction the deed—(Loud applause).
----[A Gentleman here observed that it was highly'.
r....Nwlerdit.ustratethe character
. of Italian witnesses, he
'indecorous, eyen by way of joke, to name individuals
This
anecdoteL.with respect to one of the Laza-
who might have been professionally compelled to act roni,
in this business. A loud hissing followed, and ress, and
iisroaza,r:nit appeared before a Priest to cop- '
trembling anxiety and extreme
concluded that he had some very
Mr. Thompson Pao 1 this person endeavoured byarirns
!agitation, themP pitst
to address tile Meeting. The Chairman at Fargtli I sc....rious'delin uenr es
to disclose.
DBut lo! it was only
restored silence, promising that every Gentleman that he had eaten c Y
~ meat on a Fast ay. " From your
should be patiently heard in his turn, but that Mr. agonized mann -el , sat the Priest, " I thought that you
-Thompson was then in possession of the privilegej. lead something
worse to confess, and I think so still.
—Mr. THOMPSON continued: Without saying any Come, have you ever been a Bravo, and let yoirself
thing of Signior Majocchi, .this precious Pair had out for the purpose of committing assassination ?
o
sought out, and sent over here, for the improvement Have • ) u ever perpetrated murder or robbery, or
of honest John Bull, the Saquis, the Sachinis, the
have you borne
false witness?"—(Applause). " Oh
&Milanis the Devilianas, and every other iana the • `}
yes, frequently," replied the Lazarom, " but I do not
could find ready to meet their own views ; but al- make such things.
Now
allthe matters cf conscience." (Applause).
though those gentry could very well revile their be- n
fwitnesses against the Queen were
-nefactress, our Queen, yet on their cross-examina- of this veryLazaroni, and after this anec-
tion, they could only say—Non 'id ricordo l—(A
--P- dote, need he classo
ask a car.did Public, what degice of
plause). But he believed on their arrival in Italy credit was due to
l such persons.'—(App/ouse). The
they would have a different story to tell, as far as it Solicitor-General; with ail his great talents, had not
regards their reception here—(Applause). The Queen been ab'e, he believed,. to persuade any considerate
had been represented at once as the most cautious and man that such witnesses ought to be credited, and
incautious of women. If the evidence was to be taken therefore the hope was quite vain that-the Learned
aka criterion, it would seem that she was careless of Gentleman'swhich, with all the evidence,
her reputation when in the presence of her Italian was sent. forthspeech,
to rankle
l in the breast of the Public
domestics ; but when in the presence of the English, before theQueencou el be prepared for her defence,
she had the address or cunning to behave in the most had, in fact, producedi. no impression injurious to the
exemplary manner. The difficulty is easily solved, cause of her 1 ajesty.
when it is recollected at what a princely rate the The Address
was
then put from the Chair, and
Italians were paid for their evidence ; but the carried without am dissentient voice.
only two Englishmen produced would not be Mr Da .. APER, r. PATTER, and several other Gen-
bribed, and they spoke the truth. They must all i
t eaten, addressed the _ Meeting at considerable length, have heard of her Majesty's Chamberlain, Bergami. and with
This person was said to be essential to her very The
motion
effect,
ionAltrs then put and carried unanimously t
existence, and to have such influence over her, as it ' That Mr.
deserved the Thanks of
is known a beloved object can exercise over the fe- the Meeting, for his cnolnadnucltYinaitthe Cnhair, u. for his um.
male heart : but how did the Queen'shew this ? how form conduct in public life." • "we
did her Majesty-act?—why she came to England, The worthy ALDERMAN then addressed the Meet-
which was equal to an interdiction never to see that ing, thanking their for the honour which they had
man again. Nor could the princely bribe offered at conferred upon him.. He begged to say a few words -
St. Omer's, nor the humble solicitations of the Senate, upon the subject of the Meeting. So much had been
induce.her to abandon that resolution. Was this the so ably said, as to the et propri yof presenting the
conduct of a guilty woman ?—(No ! no!)--Would Address which the Meeting had adopted, and so
she not have preferred the additional allowance of much discussion had taken Place upon the same sub-
£.so,ooo, with a Palace, and an introduction at fo- ject elsew-here, that he felt it would be extremely dif-
reign Courts, together with 'the additional induce- ficult to urge anything new. But in support of his
meat of her paranioufs society, to coming here, own opinion, he thought it right to mention, that the
daring her accusers face to face ?—(Cheers).—Now, People were called upon to come forward on thi oc-
haying said so much as to the Queen's innocence, casion, not only for the vindication of the cause of
which he conceived to be evident, he would add, her Majesty, but for the maintenance of their own
that if she were even guilty, she would be deserving just privileges; and if the People would express their
rather of sympathy and compassion, than of degra- opinion in decided terms, he had no doubt that that
dation or condemnation—( Applause)—He appealed expression would -Still serve to shield the Queen
to those who heard him, as mothers or fathers, if a against the final attack that was made upon her honour .
profligate should marry one of their daughters merely The expression.of public opinion, indeed, which had
with a view to pay his debts—that lie should dismiss taken place upon this subject, had already had the
her soon afterwards, notwithstanding his solemn effect most sensibly to subdue the tone of her Ma-
pledge at the altar to be faithful to her during life— jesty's accusers--(Applause).—That opinion alone
that, after dismissal, he should contrive to banish her could afford her any prospect of justice. There were,
to a foreign land, where she should be surrounded no doubt, some, but he fully believed very few indi-
with his spin—that he should leave no effort untried viduals who thought the-Queen guilty. But whether
to render her mind uneasy, and to aggravate-her guilty or innocent, he 'felt himself called upon to
condemn the manner in which she was tried. That
persecution—that he should manage so as to arrest
from her that great strong-hold of female purity, involved a stretch of arbitrary power,- against which
every intelligent, unbiassed man in the country must
the consciousness of a good character ; that he should
succeed in depriving her of society at home, and lirotest. If, indeed, such a course of proceeding were
tolerated against the meanest wretch In society, no
protection abroad, While he furnished her with a
considerate man could feel himself safe. ' But what
large fortune to spend, and while he himself lived
in the commission of adultery every day, whether must be the alarm when such a course was pursued
they would condemn her as a criminal, if betrayed against the rightful Queen of this country ?(Applause4)
1 into any aberration, or look to him with the ab.
1
It behoved all meth who regarded their right or theirsafety, safety, to raise their voice against such k system of horrence that was due to the acme of baseness,
to 'the-very climax of human villainy ?—(Applauses). prosecution. But what was the chatieter of the
evidence against the Queen? Notwithstanding the ,
According to the Sacred Book, which all Christians
various charges put forth by the King's Attorney- '
professed to revere, it was said by JESUS himself,
" whoever shall put away his wife, saving for the General, not' one witness of either rank or character
was brouiptht to support them-4.4ppiauses)—No.
, cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adul- •
' "fire principal witnesses might well be regarded as
tery —(Applauses)--yet, among all the Addresses,
I
the very refuse of society, in morals as well as in
not one had appeared from the Clergy upon this sub-
ject; neither from the Clergy connected with the do- station; and yet the Queen was compelled to submit
minion of the Archbishop of Canterbury, nor one for some weeks to all the imputations cast upon her
word from those who called themselves the Preachers by such witnesses before she could be prepared for
her defence. WAS this consonant to British justice?
of Christianity, to say that punishment should be ap-
But was it consonant to common justice in any quay.
plied rather to the guilty cause, than to the mere ef:
.fiel—(Applause).—lf the Clergy did not come for; ter of the world, not to let her hear the names of the
witnesses in due time hearse her trial, as well as a
ward on this occasion, to maintain the language of
specification of the charges against her, and of the
their own Sacred Book, he had no hesitation in say-
daces where she had committed the crime of which
ing, that they would do more to injure the cause and I
character of Christianity than ever could have teen she was charged ? If she did not feel herself inno-
cent, the refusal of those claims preferred' by her
accomplished by Voltaire, Rousseau, Mirabeau, Paine.
Counsel would be the less grievous, because a guilty
or Carlite, or any other persons who had ever writ-
person might easily imagine scenes where the charges
That the Queen was fully acquitted in the judgment
ten or published against that creed—(Applause).—
would lie. But, -in refusing the list of the wit-
of the country, he had not the smallest *doubt, what-
nesses, she was precluded frpm inquiring about their
ever might be the decision of the House of Lords.—
character—so that her Counsel could derive no ad van-
For some time back, the people had Wen so much i rage from cross-examination, unless a witness should
occupied in considering and exposing the corrup-
happen to contradict or expose' hinaself-;--(Cheers).
lions of the House at Commons, that they had --
, Such contradiction-and exposure, fortutiatefffor the '
seldom taken 'any look at the Lords—(Applause).!ends of justice, had been the case-with respect to the
Ile remembered Lord Cha:ham to have called that principal whine see against the Queen. 'rimy we.e

therefore stripped of afl credit, by merely betraying
their own character, and hence the Queen stood ac-
quitted in the estimation of the country. Every man
of common sense now saw, and every man of com-
mon candour was ready to acknowledge, that her
Majesty had been treated with as great cruelty and
injustice as any human being had perhaps ever exile-
r fenced—(Applause).—Such an acknowledgment was,
indeed, as often to be heard from some of the usual
supporters of the Ministers as from other people. But
no man, who desired to have a charactev himself,
was found forward to impeach the character of the
Queen. Yet he feared, as had before been said else- I
where, that it would be too much to expect a just
decision from such a Tribunal as that before which
the Queen was at present under trial. Who could,
indeed, entertain that expectation, when it was con-
sidered that all the Peers owed their titles to the Mo-
narch, that many were holding places at his will,
and receiving pay during his pleasure—(Applause).
How, then, was it to he supposed, that a Tribunal
thus constituted, would determine against the wish
of their benefactor, and in favour of here who was so
mach the object of his prejudice?—(Applause).—lt
had been wisely and humanely said, that it were
better one hundred guilty persons should escape, than.
that one innocent person should suffer. But a directly
contrary doctrine appeared to be in view with the
persecutors of the Queen. If, then, her Majesty alone
were concerned in such a case, he should feel himself
bound to support her. But the cause of public jus-
tice and liberty was also involved on this occasion,
and it therefore behoved all friends to liberty and
iustice to stand by the Queen, in oppositibn to the
eutaldishmeet of a most dangerous precedent. The
accusers of the Queen pretended that the State was
concerned in the prosecution of her Majesty. But the
my crime she appeared to have committed,.was that
of setting her foot on British scil. Yet, if she would
only go back again, she might have fifty thousan.;
rounds a year, with perfect impunity for her alleged
offence against the State! But what was this offence?
Py the State he understood the Public, and he called
upon every one of the Public to give the lie to the
Queen's enemies, by declaring that he did not desire her
prosecution. But Ministers themselves gave the lie
to this assertion, by collecting troops around London
to prevent the Public from opposing the proceedings
against the Queen. Nay, Ministers expressed an ap-
prehension before those proceedings commenced,
that they would produce a ferment, or popular cla-
mour, as they call it, so that they had assembled an
army round the Metropolis to suppress a ferment of
their own creation—(Applause). The besotted Mi-
nisters had, indeed, done everything in their power
to promote Revolution, and that, too, through a mi-
litary force. They seemed to have learned nothing
from the recent examples in different parts of Europe.
They saw soldiers employed to suppress disaffection,
standing forward themselves to produce revolution.
But those lessons were lost upon them, and not con-
tent with the distress and irritation suffered by the
people through loss of trade and pressure of taxes,
Ministers appeared resolute to irritate and afflict the
country still more by the painful business about the
Queen, by dispensing with the laws of the land, by
making an es post facto law to answer a particular
purpose, and by alarming all the friends of justice
and liberty. He had said at another place, and gave
offence by so saying, that Anne Boleyn was mur-
dered. But, he believed, that if the same public
spirit was evinced in the reign of Henry VIII. that
was at present in motion, that Princess, whom all
historians had pronounced innocent, would not have
been the victim of a tyrant's caprice. The public
spirit of the country at present would, he hoped, save
the Queen from ruin, and vindicate the character of
the present generation in the eyes of the would and of
posterity—(Load applause).
Thanks were voted to the Mover and Seconder of
the Address, as well as the Churchwarden, for the
use of the Church, and each in return shortly ad-
dressed the Meeting.
Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN promised to let the in-
habitants of the Ward know when the Queen could
find leisure from her numerous engagements to re-
ceive the Address.
The Meeting adjourned at half•past Three o'clock.