Star.
London, England, 1820-12-23 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL., DECEMBER 20:

A Requisition was this day presented to Mr. LEY-
LAND (the Mayor), very numerously and most re-
spectably signed. The object is a Meeting to consi-
der the propriety of addressing the King and the
Queen upon the recent very extraordinary public
occurrences. The Mayor received the Requisition
in a manner that shewed he knew what was due to
the calls of the Pet:ople at this important crisis, and
promised to give early notice to the ltequisitionists
of the day he should appoint for the Meeting. The
names to the Requisition comprise all those who
have taken any lead in politics, either amongst the
Whigs-or the most earnest Reformers, and thereby
exhibit aunction between those parties, which, con-
sidering the unhappy discrepancies that have here
existed between them, augurs much good to the
great cause of the country, as that cause is opposed
to the cause of the Ministers.

The Loyal Address (as it is insolently termed) was
got up at one of those Tavern Meetings, which,
when they were resorted to by the truly loyal friends
of the Constitution, were the butt of the coarse jokes
of the Corporation-men. To hear the poor carpen-
ters and rope-makers, who have been compelled to
sign it, complain, as they do without much reserve,
of- the threat, direct and indirect, that have been
used towards them, sufficiently characterises this
Loyal Address amongst the inhabitants of Liverpool.
Some intimation of these threats, as I have heard,
has been transmitted to the Board of Trade, that
they may be posted to the credit of the threateners,
to be balanced by certain facilities, &c. &c. and other
et cateras pee nuns prrescribere longum erit.
" INTENDED LIVE/MOT, MEETING.—There has not
yet been a Public Meeting in this town since the ter-
mination of the prosecution against the QUEEN. The
private cabal of interested partizans at the King's
Arms, of which the London Courier boasts so much,
has sent up its 'loyal' Address, signed by 3600 indi-
viduals out of a population of 100,000 ; and many
of those persons, we can prove, were ordered by their
employers to sign that Address, and to take their'
sons, even as young as 14, to do the same! That the
Courier should rejoice at such Ministerial support, is
to us a gratifying proof of the decaying state of his
party.—But a Piratic MEETING is now announced to
be held at the Town Hall, on Wednesday next, for
the purpose of voting a, truly lo'al Address to the
KING, on the state of the country. It is convened by
our independent and spirited Mayor ; in compliance
with a Requisition, signed by nearly one hundred
friends of freedom, whose rank and property, and
known oppc,,ation to Ministers, will give to the pro-
ceedings of this important Meeting an interest which
will excite attention throughout the country; and,
what is more, the real sentiments of the town will be
fairly and openly exhibited to his MAJESTY, under
the sanction of the Municipal Authorities."—Liver-
pool Mercury, December 22.

CLERKEN WELL MEETING.'

Yesterday a very numerous and respectable Meet-
ing of the Inhabitant Householders of Clerkeawell
Parish took place at the Workhouse;for the purpose
of Addressing the King to dismiss his Ministers for
ever, to place her Majesty's name in the Liturgy,
&c. &c. Upwards of 100 Paraioners had sent in
a Requisition to the Churchwardens, but those Gen-
tlemen refused to allow the Meeting to take place in
the Church. The Overseers of the Parish were then
applied to,..and the Workhouse was immediately
offered for the accommodation of the large body of
the Parishioners.

In order to prevent the possibility of any disagree-
able consequences arising from the admission of
strangers, several of the Rate Collectors of the
Fairish stationed themselves at the door of the Work-
house, and refused to allow any to pass in who were
not Parishioners.

The Chairman (Jona Seim., Esq.) having stated
the object of the Meeting,
Mr. NICHOLSON stood up to propose the first Re-
solution. Englishmen, he said, inherited certain
rights and privileges from their fathers, which it was
no less their duty to hand down unimpaired to their
children than it was to provide for their bodily wants.'
Those rights had not only been invaded; but threat-
ened with annihilation; and a tide of corruption and
public extravagance had flowed in upon the People,
sweeping everything before it. If the voice of the Peo-
ple were not excited against the daring impetuosity of
Ministers, the happiness and prosperity of the coun-
try would soon disappear. It bad been seen that the:
general expression of the public feeling had scared
away from the Queen those enemies who now began
to tear, that the degradation they had sought, by
false evidence, to fix upon her, was soon likely to
become exclusively their own—(Loud applause).—
The alarm had driven them to the contemptible ex-
pedient of setting their puppets to work in every hob'
and corner, to get up what they miscalled " Loyal
Addresses," and by such a miserable alliance, backed
by the means of applying a corrupt influence, they
expected to defend themselves against the publicly
expressed feelings of a wronged and indignant popu-
lation.
The Parish of Clerkenwell had not escaped,
but was doomed to hear a Chairman and a few com-
fortable Gentlemen cooped up together in private,
monopolize the loyalty of the Parish. The determina-
tion of those Gentlemen to confine themselves to a
select party, was productive of a consequence perhaps
but little expected by them—the determination of the
great body of the Parishioners to meet publicly, and
maintain their claim to the character of being loyal by

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I sitiist IopAT ailsini tire King to get rid of a set of
Men sap Were not caledlited to answer the purposes
either of Goil or man! ...:(I.:oudanitaii.se?.
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Mr. Comair reprobated the practice pursued by de-
signing men, to make the King believe that a large
portion of the People were disaffected.
Mr. HAYES said, it ss'ai with mingled feelings of
regret and Satisfaction he rooked at the large assem-
bly before.him—regret at the necessity there existed
for passing a heavy censure upbn Ministers, and satis-
faction at the fact, that while they yet had the liberty
to speak, there were assembled together so many.un-
aer ch-cumstances highly Itvounible to the cause or,
Liberty—(Applause).--There might have'been times
when there existed a difficulty in finding ont What
part of a Minister's conduct was deserving of anima&
version ; but those times had long since depailed, tihd
now the difficulty was to point out any act Of a;
nister that did not merit and meet with reprbb3tldne
Some more discussion took place, in'which the Coal
duct of Ministers, in excluding the name of her Ma-
jesty from the Liturgy, was severely condemned.
The Resolutions and Address were carried imatii-
mously ; and, thanks having been voted.to the Chair-
man, the Meeting broke up.

ASTROLOGY.

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THE STAB OF BRUNSW/Cr:

see a brilliant Star ; o.v shine,
The Star of Brunswick—CsaoLots!
Shedding sweet influence far and wide;
Our nation's glory, and our pride!
When this, our brightest Star, appoars,,
All hearts its genial influenve cheers;
While Gnoaonan-Sinus, out of sight,
Affords us scarce one ray of light;
But with a gaartde aspect blights
(Through its malefic satellites)
Our ancient usages and rights;
Tough we still hope 'twill form a Sri%
Or, in a =rue aspect, shine
With the benefit CA O.OILAMI !
Could we but see these Stars unite,
Concentrating their rays of light,
This would indeed our hopes raise high
Of an auspicious destiny ;
Though now surrounded with deep gloom,
Portentous of some dreadful doom!
Temple, Dec. 11th. ALFRED.