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Ladies had done, being also allowed the bononi or rod, not *thy to time which now is,but in that which it to
kissing hands. This ceremony being completed, her cisme. If I have been despitefully used; and wrongfully persteUted;
1 still hope to derive benefit from the evil I have experienced.
-MAJESTY again appeared at the windows, and con.
injuries are apt to rebound upon the author; and though
descendingly bowed to the fresh multitude which vengeance A a ow, yet how few are there who .can ua.kmately
had gathered without. avoid its slat or elude its pursuit? I should oot be a human
being, if injury excited noTtelingl of r:sentriyot in my breast I
Mr. P. MOORS and Mr. ELLICE, being present, but lam conscious that,nnotot
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took that opportunity of presenting the Coventry thy, but from a LE:ire ; ahlearrtan.qu
Address, to which they received the following gra . lit), I ought not to suffer that feeling to rankleyo
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sinus Answer:'The sentiment of integrity, which lias its 6x..t. rohdelice in
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" I am particularly oidiged by this loyal and affectionate Ad-
dress from the Inhabitants of the Oty and County of the City
of Coventry. I cannot be insensible to the tenderness kith
with they lament the sad chum that death has made in my
kindred relations; nor can I readily forget the warmth with
which they resent the numerous indignities I have experienced.
" My enemies have now made out the best case they could in
support of their Bill of Pains and Penalties; but who will yen.
tuft to assert that the testimony they have produced, even if Its
validity avert less suspicious than it appears, is sufficient to jus.
tify the Menace in the preamble sir the Bill? But the very mea-
sure which my enemies designed as fatal, not only to the honour
of the Queen, but to the liberty of the Nation, is likely te prove
favourable to both. It has united all parties, and made those
sty friends who might otherwise have been my enemies.
►' Principles are indestructible; and therefore I feel a vivid
assurance, that, while I contend for such,. rather than for any
transient interests, I shall ultimately triumph over my enemies.
The principles which are most sacred to my conscience and
dearest•to my heart, are those of truth, of justice, and of liberty.
Those principles are better calculated than any others to promote
the general happiness of mankind; and while I maintain diens
with unshaken constancy, not more for my own good than fur
that of the Nation, I am convinced that, In the -onerous sup-
port of all classes of the community, I shall be able to oppose
an invulnerable shield to the violence, the ferocity, and the ma-
lice of my enemies.
" In this age, when knowledge is generalized and inquiry
unrestrained, the power of public opinion is become so great,
that every other must finally bend to its decrees. A temporary
resistance may be made to the measures it suggests, or the via-
duct it prescribes; but as long as the Press preserves only a
moderate degree of liberty, public opinion must be ultimately
omnipotent ; and it is as vain to oppose its commands, as it
would be to order the earth not to revolve upon its axis.
" When Gon gave the power of thought to man, he evidently
designed it to be free. Tyranny may fetter the legs, or hand-
cutethe arms, bat it cannot impose chains on the interior opera.l
tions of the mind. Irmay restrain the freedom of intellectual
agency, through the medium of the Press; but in the present
condition of man, no restraint of this kind can well be effica-
cious; and my heart vibrates with joy when I reflect that ty-
ranny itself is on the point of expiring in almost every part of
the European world. The Holy Alliance, though made for the
purpose, can hardly keep it alive. Its extinction is decreed, and
some member of the selfish faction may have leisure to write
its epitaph."

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my soul, makes me despise- the accus..tions of niir cLetnies. I
know that the malice of my oppressor; has never yet been ten
strained by any moral consideration ; but that malice has hitherto
been rendered imbecile by the public indignation which it his
excited on one side, and by all the better sympathies which k
has roused in my efence on the other.
a It cannot be supposed that the Bi.l of Pains acid Focal.
ties, which has not hitherto been supported by a particle of ho-
nest testimony, will receive the sanction of the Legislature; but
if it should, it will he found not merely to inflict the punish-
Mint of degridation upon the Queen, but of servitude upon the
nation: Its professed object is to deprive the Queen of her ho-
nour and her rights, but its real eftect will be to destroy the
liberties of Englishmen."
An Address was also presented from the Female
Inhabitants of the Borough of Leeds, to which her
MAJesry rcturneJ the following gracious Answer:
" I have derived no ordinary satisfaction from the conscious..
ness that my conduct has excited the approbation of the Female
Inhabitants of the Barough of Leeds and its vicinity.
" In the conflict with my enemies, I have steadily adhered
to my original purpose of vindicating my innocence at every
risk ; and have suffered no lure, however tempting, to make me,
I.,r.et that my tights are not exclusively my own, but belong to
dun- common stock of public libert... If I had tamely surren-
dered those rights, I sr.ould have betrayed the people, for Whose
good they were bestowed, And to whose generous attachment I
am indebted for all that I possess.
" I never could consent to make reputation an affair of mer-
cenary traffic. If I could have been guilty of such baseness, it
woulA have rendered me totally unworthy of the title or the
rank of Queen. But yet, if I would have stooped so low, and
unresistingly become an accessary to my own infamy, I might
have avoided this Bill of Pains and Penalties, and have had my
enemies hearing testimony to the purity of my conduct, and the
patriotism of my principles.
" The menu FACTION who have become my accusers, have
been in the habit of truckling to superior power, and of com-
plying with all its fickle inclinations, till they have acquired a
fondness for turpitude; as persons may live in a polluted atom.:
sphere till they have lost all relish for the breath of the Zephyrs;
or the fragrance of the fields."
An Address was presented from the Female Inha•
bitants of Leicester, to which her MAJESTY returned
the following most gracious Answer:
_ " This Address from the Female Inhabitants of the Town of

Leicester speaks the language of animated loyalty and affection.
ate attachment. I accept it with much satisfaction ; and I wel-:
come the spirit which it breathes, as favourable to the present
and the future interests of Britain. The more enlightened, vir-
tuous, and patriotic the Females of this country become, the
more we may cherish hopes of the moral, intellectual, and poli-
tical improvement of the rising and of future generations. Our
sex are the first instructors of the young; by them the first lm.
pressions are made, and the first lessons taught. Their increased
and increasing intellectual culture, therefore, gives us the fair
prospect of more virtue and intelligence in the days that time is
about to unfold.
" The omission of my name in the Liturgy received the sane.
tion of persons who have long been in the habit of making reli-
gion the pretext for their tyranny, or the veil for their selfish.
"less; and who, on any other occasion, would have represented
the proposal to exclude as many words or as many letters from
the service of the establishment, as a most sacrilegious innova.
tion, threatening the abolition of tithes, and the downfal of the
hierarchy ; but an alteration in direct opposition to that spirt
of charity, without which all religion is but mere hypocrisy, h. s
been countenanced by the pious heads both of the Church and
of the State.
"'There is only one view in which I can regard this alteration
with any complacency, and that is, as the Sig step in the gots'
work of ecclesiastical reformation. But as the first step has
been an unhallowed invasion of the charity of the sanctum y, let
us hope that the next will make amends by enlarging that cha.
rity, and by making the term: of union in the establishment as
comprehensive as the 'pink which is breathed through the whole
&Theme of Christianity.
" Churchmen are, usually, more remarkable even than States-
men, for being behind the light of the age. They adhere too
pertinaciously to ancient forms. They are unwilling to pass be-
yond that boundary of darkness, within which their forefathers
lived; and if they ever find themselves within tha illuminating!
ray of a purer light, they start back, as apparitions are said to
vanish when they snuff the dawn.
" Both Churchmen and Statesmen would do well, ere it be
too late, to open their eyes upon the sun of another reformation
that is rising upon the world. Is it not their interest, and ought
it not to be their policy, to preserve all that is valuable in an-.
cient systems or institutions, and to add to that value, by incor-
porating it with all that is excellent in the improvements of mo.
dern times? This is the best way to reform what is bad, at the
same time that you preserve what is good, and keep pace wish
the light of the age.'
Her MAJESTY returned the following most gra-
cious Answer to the Address of the Inhabitants of
the Town of Stroud, in Gloucestershire :
I receive with cordial satisfaction this loyal and affectionate
Address from the Inhabitants of the Town of Stroud and its
Vicinity, in the County of Gloucester.
" The sympathies of the People with my wrongs and my suf-
ferings have been so universally manifested, as to make my ad-
versaries pause in their career of oppression, and politically to
hesitate when they do not morally relent.
" I have experienced adversity in many of its most distressing
calamities, and in some of its darkest hours; but I have always
found that it never has passed away without leaving•some moral
benefit behind. Adversity usually compensates its immediate
evils by its subsequent good, and its uses are, in numerous in•
stances, so precious, that it may often be regarded as prosperity
under another name.
" I have been at times sunk in the depth of affliction ; but
from those depths I have been raised by the invisible hand of
the ALL-MINA:MN to rejoice in the dawn of happier days, and
to contemplate a futurity of hope for myself and for mankind.
" Whatever may have been the will of Omirtroxertex with re-
spect to my destiny in time past, I acknowledge it to have been •
both wise and good ; and 1 trust that my safety will be protected
by the same wisdom, and. my happiness be promoted by the
same goodness, in the time to come. These sentinients are my
cheering associates during the day, and at night they smooth
the pillow of my repose. '
Her MAJESTY appeared to be in excellent health
and spirits, and discovered considerable animation
of countenance at some of the passages in the Ad-
dresses. Her MAJESTY wore a dress of deep crim-
son, a rich point lace tippet, a turban head-dress,
with a plume of white feathers tipped with scarlet,
and a tiara of rich rubies. Lady ANNE Haratvrow
stood on the left of the Quaspr ; Sir WILLIAM GELL,
Captaintaavarr, and Mr. Mms, towards the left
of Lady ANNE HAMILTON.
The crowd retained their stations in the garden
until the house was almost clear of guests. The
road to London continued in a thronged and busy
state till late at night.
Her MAJESTY expressed peculiar pleasure at the
manner in which the Address from Paddington was
brought up.
A good, deal of damage was done yesterday to the
gardens at Brandenburgh House, owing to' the vast
number of perSo-ns assembled. On the other side of
Kensington, a. young man; who, with several others,
had placed himself behind one of the carriages of the
Aldgate Procession, had his leg broken, by getting
entangled with the spokes of the hind-wheel.
Government, we unierstand, have purchased the
Pulteney Hotel, Piccadilly, for her asrsiTy's resi-
dence, for which they are to pay £16,000, M
inde-
pendent of the fuvoiture, Stc.

Mr. WHITBREAD presented an Address from Bir-
mingham, to which he received the following Answer:
I have the most unfeigned satisfaction in receiving this af-
fectionate Address from the People of Birmingham and its vici-
nity. The losses that I have sustained, during my long ab-
s,:nce upon the Continent have been irreparable. But, as in the
constitution of the moral world, there is never any evil without
some subsequent or concomitant good, I have derived no small
degree of solace from contemplating the ptobable benefits of
which my afflictions are likely to be productive to the people of
these realms. If I had experienced no suffering, and been
treated with no indignity, that union of mind and heart would
never have bean seen, which now binds the nation, from one
extremity to another, in the cause of legal right and of consti-
tutional liberty.
" To my wrongs, therefore, the Nation may, ultimately, be
indebted fur the recovery of its rights, and the vile attempt to
effect my degradation may exalt the People to a higher pitch of
freedom and prosperity.
a No Queen was ever the subject of so many and such barba-
rous persecutions as I have experienced. But, while these persecu-
tions have had little effect in ruffling my serenity, or in marring
my happiness, they have proved a bed of thorns to my adversaries.
" The spirit of malignity is never a spirit of repose. It is the
serpent gnawing the heart ; and, if there be at this moment one
who, more than another, is an object of pity, for Elie suspicions
to which be is a victim, or fur the inquietudes to which he is a
prey—for the innumerable vexations which he is hourly, nay
momentarily feeling—for the recollections of lost happiness, and
of deserted virtue—for the consciousness of malice that has been
rendered impotent, and of vengeance that has missed its aim—
such an object of pity is, perhaps, to be seen at the head of my
adversaries. The moralist of after.times, when he wants ex-
amples of abortive malice, or unsuccessful treachery, to give
effect to his lessons, or to breathe a living energy on his page,
will not long be at a loss to know from what part of our history
to extract an impressive proof that cunning, malevolence, and
perfidy, excite nothing but scorn, and are productive of nothing
but misery."
Mr. HoßirousE presented an Address from the Ar-
tisans, Mechanics, and Labouring Classes of the Town
of Manchester; to which her MAJesTy returned the
following most gracious Answer :
vg I receive with great satisfaction this loyal, affectionate, and
impressive Address, from so numerous, so useful, and so effi-
cient a part of the community as the Artisans, Mechanics, and
Labouring Classes of the Town of Manchester. The true honour
of the country has been in the highest degree promoted by their
incomparable skill and their unrivalled ingenuity, while their
persevering industry has so largely contributed towards the
means of maintaining the dignity of the Throne, and the power
and glory of the Kingdom.
" No time nor circumstances can remove from my mind that
beloved object which so vividly excites your kind condolence,
and still so tenderly interests my affections. If this calamity
frustrated the tond hopes of the people, how much did it deduct
from the sum of my happiness, and add to the number of my
woes ! It aggravated my other manifold afflictions by the inven-
tion of a new conspiracy, which, if it was not in its origin more
detestable than the former, was certainly more formidable in
Its aspect, more artful in its contrivance, more extensive in its
ramifications, and more powerful in its means. My own inno-
cence, combined with the good sense and justice of the people,
have been at once my solace and my support, under this new
and terrible persecution. The conspiracy by which I have been
attacked, has been already more than half vanquished by the
flagitiousness of its chiefs, and the turpitude of its auxiliaries.
The most artful combinations of perjury cannot long endure the
piercing scrutiny of nuth.
" I am happy to perceive that the industrious classes in the
town of Manchester, as well as in the rest of the kingdom,
regard the unconstitutional attacks upon my rights as an it
invasion of their own. The Bill of Pains and Penalties, which
threatens my degradation, weakens the security of that sacred
tenure by which every Briton is protected in his liberty, his
property, and his life. He who venerates a free Constitution
will indignantly repel the Introduction of arbitrary power in
any of its varied forms.
" We naturally compassionate the severe privations and deep
sufferings, even of the idle and dissolute ; but how much more
forcibly is our sympathy excited by sack privations and suffer-
ings, when they are accumulated upon the industrious, laborious,
frugal, and virtuous part of this exemplary community?
0 My mind has, indeed, been often agonized by the recollec-
tion of that dreadful day to which the industrious classes of Man-
chester particularly allude; but while we cannot but know that
the same hand has been our common oppressor, let us, as far as
we are able, bury the past in oblivion, and trust, that though
these things have been, they will be no more ! Let us endeavour
to calm the perturbed passions, and to heal the bleeding wounds
of our distracted and lacerated country ; and, for myself, though
my afflictions have been many in number, and long in continu-
ance, I shall think them all amply compensated, if they should
at last prove the means of contributing towards the harmony, the
prosperity, and the happiness-of the kingdom."
An Address was presented from the Inhabitants of
the Borough of Leeds, in Yorkshire; to which her
MAJESTY returned the following gracious Answer
" My cordial thanks are due to the Inhabitants of the Borough
of Leeds for this affectionate Address. The religious sentiments I
which it breathes, are such as meet with corresponding senti-
ments in my own mind. I reel it my duty not to dispute the
wisdom, or to question the goodness of the ETIZNAL, in any
even of his most afflicting dispensations.
" Our views are bounded on all sides ; and we are apt to
regard things only in their immediate relations to our present
interests; but the &Manna Wiliam adjusts his discipline to our