Star.
London, England, 1820-12-07 00:00:00

THE -AVENWO 'STA:

LONDON.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1820.
THE FUNDS.
PRICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK :
3 per Cent. Reduced 691/2 %
S per Cent. Cons. shut.
Si per Cent. 78% % 1/2-1 per Centl/4 87Yk
14
5 per Cent. Navy shut-5 per Cent Scrip 5 51/8
Long Annuities 18—India Bonds 255.265. pr.
Exchequer Bills Is. dis. Is. pre. 2s. dis.
Ditto small 4s. pre.
Ornnium % pre.— Do. for Payment % 7AI pre.
Cons. for Opening 701,E SA.

The friends of the Qutsw hare beheld, with pro-

per feelings, the exertions made by her enemies to
get a little white-washing effected for her persecutors)
under the name and garb of loyal Addresses to the
lEnco. But the time is gone by for effecting what
was formerly so easy—the marking of men as dis-
loyal, who will not submit to have their fidelity mea-

sured by this kind of standard, erected by the corrupt
and venal, under the pretext of being the exclusively
loyal. In times not yet long past, petty Corporation
tyrants, and self-elected Churchwardens, by merely
raising this powerful talisman, could ensure acquies-
cence, because the penalty was a mai ked excommuni-
cation, not merely from any participation in such fa-
vours and benefits as they could not only confer, but

actually create to cement their-anti•social bands, but

from the common protection which the laws owe

equally to every subject of the KING. But the times
are much changed, to the great regret 'of these ultra-

loyal men. The true value of these Addresses is
fully known, as well as their object, and both are
treated with equal contempt and scorn throughout the
Kingdom. Of what value can Addresses be that are
manufactured in the dark, by men whose opinions and
influence are not now of the weight of one feather,were
the Addresses even honest as to their object? But what is
their real object, both with the prime movers, and with
those who follow the old routine of doing whatever
they are bid--whatever they can, by their own sagacity,
discover may prove acceptable to their chop-fallen
idols? The prime movers seek Addresses to the KING
—yes, to the KING, forsooth ! but they count them
all as Addresses to Ministers as calculated to elevate
their characters and varnish over their misdoings in
the share they had in the late measures against the
QOM CONSORT of ENGLAND :—and the manufac-
turers of these exclusively-loyal Addresses so far
overrate their present importance, as really to believe
that their exertions may have some influence in keep-
ing the men in power to whom they have so long
paid homage, and by whom so many of them have
been appointed to collect taxes, or otherwise (either
in their own persons, or in those of their relatives)
benefited by a partition in their expenditure.
These quondam great wen in little communities, (if
the folly originates with there) have, on the present
occasion, committed a most egregious blunder; for
none but fools ever seek a contest, merely to expose

their own imbecility—to give evidence to all the
world into what a state of degradation and contempt
they have fallen 1 Who but idiots could ever have
conceived the idea of putting forth their impotent
labours to be weighed in the balance against the vo-
luntary, cheerful, loyal, heart-felt congratulations
pouring out at the same time in the numerous un-
bought, uninfluenced, uncontaminated, and honest
Addresses, which are sent, and sending daily,
from every City, Town, and Village, in the King-
dom, to the persecuted, much-injured, but victorious
and triumphant QUEEN, whom it was sought, by
conspiracy and perjury, to sacrifice to the most hate-
ful and detestable malignity ! We hear fsotn every
quarter (as our Readers may see from our daily co-1
lumns) of the sincere joy experienced throughout
the empire by ninety-nine out of every hundred of i
the people, at the late signal defeat of her MAJESTY'S
enemies ; and accounts, nearly as numerous, inform
tts of the loyal Addreses preparing to be sent to
that Illustrious but persecuted female; and we re-
joice that it is so, for the very efforts now making
by her enemies, spew at least the use that would
have been made by them of the silence of the people
of England on an occasion that threatened the sub-
version of our liberties, by contaminating the stream
of English jurisprudence.
Let ttie People continue, as they have done, to shut
the mouths of the enemies, net merely of the Queen,
but of the KING and of the Nation, by a due regard
to the laws in every proceeding regarding the Meet-
ings for addressing her MAJESTY, and respecting
the Addresses themselves. Let nothing disrespect-
ful, or even inconsistent with the strictest pro-
priety, be foisted into these effusions : and we beg
to state, for the information of those who are less
acquainted with forms than those who, on ail make-
able occasions, employ themselves in addressing
Ministers under the name of the KENO, that, in Ad-
,dresses to the Queen, it is incorrect in the Addressers
to say, " Your Mn.rasTy's loyal subjects," fur the
Quern herself is a,seOeci—a high one; to be sure, and
entitled to high prerogatives—but still only afellou.
suljrct with those who ale addressing the Consort of
lIIGE

Private letters from Troppau, of the 94th ult.
state vrittr satue confidetue, tit the deliberations of;