Star.
London, England, 1820-08-30 00:00:00

A numerous and highly respectable Meeting of the Inhabitant
Householders and Married dies of the Parish of St. Mary-
la-bonne took place yesterday, for the purpose of addressing the
Qum, and taking into cons ration the proceedings now pend-
ing against her hie/new in the House of Lords. The Meeting
was held at Mr. Coea's Coach-manufactory, in Great Portland-
street. Temporary galleries had been erected around the court,
or coach-yard, for the accommodation of the Ladies who might
attend, and these were completely filled with vie U-dressed fe-
males. The square court in front of the hustings was crowded
to excess, and many hundreds of persons whom that space could
not accommodate were obliged to stand in the street. The win-
dows looking into Mc. Cole's yard, and even the tops of the
houses, were crowded. The scene, indeed, was one of the most
brilliant and imposing description. It was graced by the pre-
sence of elegance and beauty. The fathers of families, reseect-
able matrons, young and lovely women, attended by their pa-
rents, heathers, and friends, presented a spectacle at once gra-
tifying and imposing. We scarcely need add, that such a Meet-
ing was conducted with the utmost good order and propriety.—
About one o'clock Sir Guinean Nose, accompanied by Lord
WILLIAM FITZGERALD,. Member for Kildare, and brother of the
Duke of Leresena,•Mr. Hume, 81. P. Mr. Warnamen, M.P.
Mr. Peru MOORE, M.P. and a long train of respectable Gentle-
• mm, entered the Meeting ; they were preceded by a number of
the Committee with white wands, and were received with the
most enthusiastic applause.
Mr. Harms read the Requisition which had been presented
to the Churchwardens of the Parish, signed by upwards of 300
Householders. This Requisition, he said, had been carried to
Lord Kenyon, the other Churchwarden being out of town;
but his Lordship had thought proper to decline complying with
the Requisition. The Committee had therefore been obliged
to exert themselves to obtain a Meeting without the sanction of
the Churchwardens, and he was happy to state that Sir Gerard
Noel had agreed to take the Chair.
Sir GIIKARD NOEL stepped forward, amid loud expressions of
approbation. In accepting the honour which they were dis-
posed to confer on him, it was not necessary for him to explain
the motives by which he was actuated, because, in a public let-
ter, he had already expressed his sentiments on the subjectwhich
they had assembled to consider. lie considered the present
fleeting one of the most agreeable description; for they were
not Assembled to discuss any doubtful point of the Constitution,
bet to support the Constitution of the land, as established on
the principles of the Revolution, and as explained by all Whip
from 1688 down to 1794. They had the consciousness of meet-
ing there in the most magnanimous manner—(leyeause)--and
they had also the pleasure of knowing that they appeared in sup-
port of an injured individual, and that individual the Queen of
Great 13ritaiii—edieitause).—They might well join in the peti-
tion, " 0 Loan, we pray thee to save us, especially from our-
selves ;" and on that Meeting he called, and on the whole Na-
tion, to save the country from the present Administration.
Mr. Ileste then presented himself, and was received with
;crud cheers. Ile said he had been requested by the Committee
te submit the fine of the Resolutions to the notice of the Meet-
ing, and he kit the greatest pleasure in coming forward to meet
b., many of his fellow.parishioners—(..lpplayse). They had met
together this day in the cause of jeszice, to clear up the character
of their Queen, greatly and unjustly aspersed. It would no
doubt be said that they were met as a parry ; but for himself he
was proud to say he was a party man, and that he belonged to
that party which was hostile to the measures of injustice--(" Sl
ate we aft.") lie hoped that no one in that Meeting was going to
err :teener an opinion whether Quern Caroline was innocent or
spiky. That some sort of trial should take place he thought
eeseetially necessary for her own sake, after the attempts which
La years had been unceasingly made to injure her ; tor this con-
spiracy to traduce her character had been going on for many
years. It was, therefore, impossible that on coming back to
this country she could it down without demanding a fair trial ;
but was it to be endured, that in a couatry like England, she
should be trampled on and oppressed as ii she had been round
guilty ?—(.lepinitse). If he were to give ail °pillion on her con-
did, he would ask whether it did not, at the first blush, con-
vince every honest and unprejudiced man that she must be inno-
cent ?—(elpflouse). Had she been backward to meet her ac-
cept:re ?—(" nu.") Had she evinced one symptom of that
fear which a consciousness of guilt seldom fails to inspire?—
(" No, no.") There was no nerd to mince the matter: look at
the conduct of the King to his wile from the time she first came
to this country. Was she not driven out from her own house
v. ith her child in her ants? had they not themselves on a for-
mer occasion semi the same sort of infamous perjury against her
that was now produced? When they bad seen her triumph over
those perjuries, and remain here among them during the heyday
of her life, were they to believe that when she grew an old wo-
man and went to the Continent to live, she at once became
what her enemies represented her, the most abandoned of her
sex? lie would not give credence to it, and he would advise
every one to guard against believing so monstrous an absurdity.
But he would let her Majesty speak for herself. In her letter
to the King, which they must all have read, she said," from the
very thtesbold of your .Majesty's mans:on the niotber of your
child was pursued by spits, conspirators, and traitors, employed,'.
encouraged, and rewarded, to Ly snares for the feet, and to plot
against the reputation aed life of her whom your Majesty had IJ
recently said :so solemnly vowed to honour, to love, and to
cherish." This was perfect truth, and he therefore appealed to
• them if her Majesty was not in a situation that demanded from
them, as a duty, every support they could give—every support
that could .be derived from the expression of public opinion?
They knew that the object of the Queen in leaving this country
was to put an end to that heart-burrieg, that abominable feel-
ing, as he must call it, un the patt of the individual who should
have been bee protector, which, had she remained iu England,
would have been the cause of unpleasant contention between
the father and the daughter. Giving her credit, then, for the
motives which includd her to go abroad, look at what had taken
place ! Calumniators bad been employed to traduce her charac-
ter in every part of the world ; and hear what she said on that
subject : " When to calumniate, revile, and betray me became
the sure path to honour and to riches, it would have been strange
indeed it calumniators, revilers, and traitors, had not abounded;
your Court became much less a scene of polished manners
and refined intercourse, than of low intrigue and scurrility.
Spies, Bacchanalian tale-bearers, and foul conspirators, swarmed
in those places which had before been the resort of sobriety,
virtue, and honour. To enumerate all tits privations and mor-
tifications I had to endure, all the insults that were wantonly
heaped upon me, from the day of your elevation to the Regency
to that of my departure for the Continent, would be to describe
every species of personal offence that can be offered to, and every
pain short of bodily violence that can be Inflicted on, any human
being." The evidence of the last few days chewed that our
Ambassadors at Vienna, at Wurtemberg, floc. bad been em.
ployed in collecting evidence against her—had consented to de-
mean themselves by asking the lowest question of chamber-
maids and merdsh--.(Cries V"" Shame!")..—This was what had
been asserted seven months ago by the Queen in her letter to
the King ; and little did her enemies think It would be proved
by the evidence of their own hired witnesses. He had no doubt
that her Majesty's Counsel would prove still further that the
most abominable means had been used to procure persons to
give evidence against her; and then he would leave it to the
People of this country to judge whether she should have been
condemned beforehand by those individuals who had procured
this evidence by the money which the People contributed ?--
(Applause).—Under such a system, was there a Nobleman in
the country who could be sure of retaining his head in safety on
his shoulders ? The case came home to every subject in the
land, and there was no individual in the kingdom who was not
loudly called on to exert himself against such an illegal, disgust-
log, and tyrannical proceeding. The mothers of families would
feel how tender and delicate the female character was, and how
soon it might be blasted by calumniators, especially when assisted
by all the influence of wealth and power. Let them consider
what was likely to be the consequence of a person's being sent
out to Milan, with unbounded funds at his disposal, to procure
evidence against the character of a worrier, where at any time a
man might be hired for a few francs to assassinate another. He
spote what was known to every one acquainted with that part
of the world ; and when it was considered that such witnesses
lad been for several years drilled on their lesson, it was not to
be wondered at if they should make up at last a formidable tale.
When spies had been employed so long, and wretches had been
brought from Italy, hotbed to swear to the moat disgusting tales,
was it wonderful that such an array should be formidable to fe-
male character ? The cant about the State, and the danger to the
nasality of the country, was easily seen through ; for every one