Star.
London, England, 1820-12-09 00:00:00

LETTER OF MR. HART DAVIS.

" London, December 1, 1810.
" Ms. DIAZ have had the honour to receive
letter, with the information, that at a numerous and ft:spec:Ate
Meeting of my fellow-citizens, at which you were called to
the Chair, an Address to the Queen was unanimously voted,
which the Representatives in Parliament fur the City of
were requested to present to her Majesty.
" It is very painful to me to be obliged to decline a duty
which such a respectable body of my Constituents have imposed
upon me, aid I. feel it necessary, in few words, to explain
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reason of my dissent from their wishes.
" I should have felt no difficulty in transmitting this Addre:t,
conjointly with my worthy Colleague, to the 'Hon. Kep;aA
Craven, the Vice-Chamberlain of her 'Majesty ; but, as a Sir::
her of the British Parliament, I do seriously abject to pap-i
my personal respects to the Queen, until she has publicly (1..
avowed an injurious letter, written and published fn her naffs.
and addressed to our most gracious Sovereign.
" If this letter be not a treasonable act, which my legal kyr':
ledge does not permit me precisely to determine, it is notoriorly
of a character so closely bordering upon it, that no loyal subj,a
who loves and honours his King, can consider it in any otto
light than as tending and Wended to bring the King's person zni
the Monarchy of the country into contempt.
" With this conviction deeply ilnpre;sad in my mind, is ti•.,-t
one of my Constnuenta, who will nut feel that I should '-
honour those who gent me to Parliament, if, through any "=se
desire of popular applause, I should act in contradiction to
I will rest my case here, and trust fur my apdlogy to the
sense and loyal feelings of my fellow-citizens.
" I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) " RICHARD HART DAV:S.
Richargi Bright, Esq. Chairman."

WANLOCKIREAD, Nov. 30.—EARTHQUAKE.-•-T:e
weather for some time past has been remarkaYe
stormy ; heavy rains, accompanied by high winds
have prevailed, but in the end of last week and be-
ginning of this, the clouds, which had for some tine
lowered, appeared to be dissipated, and we had sera
signs of returning good weather. Tuesday mourn;
was remarkably fine, but hazy—the atmosphere sti!!,
and the clouds, when they were visible, had no par
ticular appearance. About eight o'clock A. rA....a
slight shock of an earthquake was felt at Le.a.ir;,-1
and Wanlockhead, attended with a hollow rurnblirg
'liaise. The miners, who were at work 150 fatbero
below ground, heard this alarming sound very tiis.
tinctly, and being afraid lest the works were rushirg
down, many of them left their employment, and cam.'
above ground. In the evening of the same day, ab'''
eleven o clock, a similar, or still louder scrum' ,`:''
'beard' at-the above places, but not accompanied.i,.
'any trembling or motion of the earth. These
nomena have been observed for eight or ten al"1":
eastward,. and three or four miles westward of the
places, but whether they have extended beyon,l li::
limits is not yet accurately ascertained, but it i' i''.::';
bable, that the more immediate effects of these a "
convulsions of natute,- may have already been Cr
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rienced in some distant quarter, particularly as 1:
earthquake, by which Lisbon Was almost totally t l:.
stroyed sixty-five years ago,. was very distinctly te.,
-in the -district of •Liaillrill and WanlockbeA6 —,
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