Star.
London, England, 1820-12-19 00:00:00

ADDRESS OF THE HIGHLANDERS.

The most novel, aid by far the most striking, was
that of the Highlanders residing in London, and de-
puted fromthe Highland Assembly. The summons was
" Come every bill-plaid, and
True heart that wears one r _ _

Their "gathering place," was the Crown and Anchor
Tavern, and they were coming from an early hour—
" All plaided and plum'd in their Tartan array."

In the number were several Gentlemen of very high
ranlkin the Army, and some connected with distir.•
guished characters in the Senate and at the Bar.—
They were all in full Highland dresses, each having
a Tartan jacket and kilt, with the plaid in rich fohh
lover the shoulder, hose, pouch, black velvet stock,
tribute
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glowinge,"
affection decorated
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mixed with ostrich feathers. A sort of collar of white
silk was worn over the plaid, and a large rosette (A
white ribbon on the breast. The procession consisted
of twelve landaus and four, all with white horses—
the postillions having white small-clothes, waistcoat;
and hats, with white cockades and buff jackets.
The scene presented, when all were.assemble,,
was, indeed, a scene to make a Highlander's heal
swell with strong feeling. The powerful tones of the
bag-pipe excited ideas and feelings in his mind asso-
ciated with all that is grand in moral courage, and
all that is tender in domestic life. The strong im-
pression upon every mind of the immediate purpose
in view—the recollection that they were about to
proceed with their congratulations to the presence of
the most magnanimous of Princesses—a Queen, ca-
lumniated and prosecuted, yet unspotted and trium-
phant; this feeling in every Highland breast gave
indescribable pathos and meaning to the music of
their native hills. It was joy mixed with sadness.—
They thought of the days that were past, when her
MAJESTY could indulge her fancy in all the brilliant
and heart-delighting visions of affection and hope:—
they thought of the bitter reverse which fate made
irrevocable, and they sighed for their QUEEN; but
they thought. again of the infamy, degradation, and
misery, into which power, craft, and perjury would
have plunged a virtuous and afflicted Quzzu, and
they rejoiced in the unexampled escape of her MA-
JESTY. Such were the mixed emotions with which
they proceded to offer congratulations to their QUEEN.
Two Highland pipers sat in the first landau, and at
half-past eleven o'clock, when the procession moved
forward, a pibroch, a waked its wild voice anew,"
and ig fir'd their Highland blood with meickle glee."
A large flag of silk plaid, *ith sky-blue streamers,
was carried in the same landau. The spectacle was
in every respect most interesting. The Tartan dress
must have awakened many a scene of mist and
mountain, glen and math, in the wearers, who evi-
dently wore their thoughts upon their faces, while
kindled eyes flashed beneath the bonnets cocked upon
their brows. The crowd assembled to see this pro-
cession was very large, and seemed to participate
jordially in the feelings of the Highlanders.
At Hyde Park-corner, Mr. and Mrs. Hums, is
their private carriage, joined the procession, and fell
into the line immediately behind the landau in which
the Address was carried. They were greeted with
the warmest cheers along the whole line of their
march from the Crown and Anchor to Brandenburgh
House. . They marched into the long gallery, with
colours flying and pipes playing. When all were
regularly arranged, and while the pipes played Stair
tuba luee toe Wallace bled, her MAJESTY entered, and
immediately turned round, and most graciously re-
cognized the Highlanders, who bowed with the pro-
foundest respect to the Quaies. Lord A. Hauttroy,
Mr. P. MOOS; Mr.WAITAMAN and Mr. HOISHOUS4
were all present in full Court dresses. Mr. Hume, ia
fall Court dress, introduced the Chairman and Mover
of the Address. The Chairman presented the Ad-
dress to her MAJESTY, who was graciously pleased
to have it read by the Mover in the Gaelic language.
It was read with equal modesty and firmness. 'ibis
was, perhaps, the first time that any King or Queen
of this country listened to an Address in that ancient
language.
antridbhu"ir. Alderman WOOD then, by her MaaEsras
I command, read the following Answer:
" It is with unfeigned complacency that I accept this artless
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1 region where the spirits of departed warriors still speak in the
' winds, swim upon the clouds, or gleam upon the hills. I am
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which I..rief gives to the faded cheek and the sunken eye. They
are natives of that land, where advirsity attracts more regard
than the smiles of fortune; where the houseless have a home,
and the friendless never want a friend. I was sure that griefs
lihc thine which I have suffered, and persecutions like those
srlikti I have undergone, would not be objects of indifference to
tot who were born and reared in that district where the brave
ara sensitive, and the sensitive brave. Their minds could not
contemplate with apathy a fond mother, roaming like an exile in
distent land, while her only child was, in vain, imploring her
presence with that look of solicitude, and that gaze of importu-
nity. that mark the parting hour. The dark crud of death soon
c..veroil her snowy breast ! Deep and general was the lament
when her heart beat no more ! Grief sat on every brow, and
face et the country appeared as if the desolating blast had
vaversed the land. Her remains needed no obsequies. Her
tomb was the tomb of virtue : affection sepulchred her memory
In every heart. _ _

$ The years that are passed, and are to be no more, are but
as thiiis that have only an ideal existence in the memory ; but
still t7tey may cause the eye to stream with tears, or the bosom
to heave with regret. The loveliness that leas sunk into the
rare is still lovely in the mind ; and in that form in which vir-
tue hs made its abode, death is nut lasting oblivion, but in-
cre:..ed and permanent reminiscence.- It is truth; it is integrity,
it i, benevolence, it is the amiable, the generous, the sincere, or,
in on • word, it is goodness, pure and hely, that converts the
mortal into the immortal, the dying into the ever-living, the
shadow into the substance, the fugitive into the fixed, time
into eternity !"
The Highlanders and their Ladies then kissed
: they were most graciously received. The
QUEEN seemed particularly pleased with a present of
a large bouquet of beautiful winter flowers, from one
of the young Ladies of the Deputation: her MAJESTY
lleld it in her hand till the whole Deputation had
passed. While this ceremony was performing, the
banners waved, and the bag-pipers played the inspir-
ing air of Scots tuba ha'e la Wallace bled.
An Address from New York was also presented.
It is signed by all the English resident there, and
sent to the care of Alderman WOOD.
Her MAJESTY wore a dress of silver lama over a
pink satin slip ; her head-dress a cap-of pink satin,
almost covered with diamonds, and surmounted by
a superb plume of white ostrich feathers. Lady A.
HAMILTON wore a robe and scarf of silk tartan, and
the Highland bonnet with scarlet and black plumes.
The following is a correct list of the Addresses
presented to her MAJESTY, yesterday :
Shipwrights - - By Deputation.
St. Anne, Westminster Ditto.
Curriers - - Ditto.
St. 31.ty, Whitechapel . Ditto.

St. Vary Rotherl
hithe
St. Anne, Limehouse - -
Letter-press Printers
Sc. 'Nlary, Islington -
Bricklayers
bliddleiex - - -

Iligh:and Society in London
Ward of Farringdon Without
___

Winchester

Rochester

Bristol

Ditto.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Ditto.

Ditto.
Ditto.

Mattis, Isle of Ely -
Ileieford -

- By .---- Earle, Esq.

(By the Mayor, Recorder,
- Town Clerk, two Aldermen,
and seven other Gentlemen.
- By Henry Bright, Eaq. M.P.
. ...

. _
- By. Samuel Wells, Esq.
- By R. Scudamore Esq. M.P.

. _ .
Path - - By Joseph Hume, Esq. M.P.
St. Mary's Chapel, Edinburgh Ditto.
Whichelsea -- - -By H. Brougham, Esq. M.P.
liampisham, Dorset - - Ditto.
ftanquhar - • - Ditto.
Wraxall - • - Ditto.
- •
Worcester - • - By J. C. Hobhouse, Esq. M.P.
Gospel Church, Potties - By Thos. Heather, Esq.
Leeds - - - By the Hon. K. Craven.
Le..denhall-street - - Ditto.
Tha .11-m - - - Ditto.
Richmond, York.hire - ,
( By Alderman Wood, for Loa
- I Duncannon, M.P.
1 By Alderman Wood, fur Sir
S:. James & St. Paul, Bristol
Wm. Guise, M.P.
riamlingham, Suffolk, in a
By Alderman Wood.
Box of Heart of Oak - -

eraubrook - - - Ditto.
Devizes - - - Ditto.
Creuiron, Devon - - Ditto.
St. 8,.,t11ph, Aldgate - - Ditto.
Corp ,:ated Trades of South }
Leith - - Ditto.
Ringmer, Sussex - - Ditto.
Lingport, Somerset - - Ditto.
New Yolk, America - - Ditto.
City of Eiy - - - Ditto.
Worth:ng - .. - Ditto.
Dundee Trades - - By J. Hume, Esq. M.P. ...
Ayr - - - By SOL Ferguson, Hart. M.P.
()mat Marlow - By the Hon. R. Smith, M.P.
Her MAJESTY delivered the following gracious
Answer to the Address from Middlesex :
" I am deeply obliged, and highly gratified, by this loyal and
Lffectienate Address from the Freeholders of Middlesex. The
malicious conspiracy, by which I have been persecuted for so
vary years, has made its last effort to accomplish my destruc-
tion ; and that effort has failed! This confederacy of malevo-
lence, perjury, and injustice, is now in-the state of the reptile,
11.. at is, languishing from the effusion of its own venom, and the
(fleet of its own bite. Public opinion never shewed its ascen-
t'.atcy in so striking a manner as in its triumph over that obnoxi-
LIS Bill, which was supported by all the direct force, and the
still more ext:nsive iLdirect influence, of the Government ; but,
in this instance, power yielded to reason, and corruption to sir-
Le and truth. Though my enemies have hitherto been van-
4r,t6htti in their open hostility, and baffled in their secret machi-
nations, they have not yet manifested a disposition to desist from
the further prosecution of their malevolent scheme. They have
not yet res:, red my name to the Liturgy; they have made no
fixed provision for the supply of my wants, or the support of my
digt.i• y ; and they have left me to encounter all the discomfort
and 1 -zonventence of an unsettled and temporary residence. But
I am convinced that, if the spirit of injustice and the desire of
oppression be still paramount in the hearts of my enemies, an
opposing sense of right, and a counteracting feeling of humanity,
will rot to wanting in the bosoms of my friends. They will, at
least, teach my adversaries that no Sovereign can have worse
counsellort than his passions, and that the Ministers of a great
nation ought not to prefer transient interests to immutable obli-
gations !"

lo arringdon-Without :
" My cordial thanks are due to the Aldermen, Common
Council, and Inhabitants of the Ward of Farringdon-Without,
f.r this loyal and affectionate Address. 'The faction that has !a-
-t ~:red with such eager pertinacity to destroy my rights, has
teen long either openly assaulting or secretly undermining those
of tLe Nation. This policy, instead of being elevated by gene-
reas sentiments, or founded on liberal principles, has been uni-
formly directed to destroy the growth or to prevent the expan-
sion of liberty. They have not only vindicated, but multiplied
the abases of ancient institutions, and have shown themselves
taetnies to all reforms that are rendered requisite by the in-
crease of knowledge, and the general improvement in the moral
::td intellectual state of man. In their late proceedings agalest
me, my adversaries shewed that they had no regard for the re-
stsaints of law, any further than they could render them subser-
vient to their despotic or interested views. They professed a
respect for rigid formula when they could render them an en-
gine of oppression; and, with all their shewy reverence for the
;.rk of the Constitution, they exhibited no unwillingness to pro-
Lae the very mercy seat by an cx post Pete law—by accusing
v•here there was no proof, and condemning where witmsses bad
Len suborned to forge the crime. Conscious that they had no
: lly in the simplicity of truth, they had recourse to the corn-
'tides of falsehood. My triumph, therefore, is the triumph of
b ad principles over bad ; and, above all, of the public weal over
tme contrasted interests of a few factious individuals. The ex-
a.nple of the signal defeat which my enemies have sustained
111, 1 trust, hereafter serve to give courage to virtue and ton-
t:dece to truth."