Star.
London, England, 1820-09-05 00:00:00

THE QUEEN.

ADDRESSES PRESENTED TO HER MAJESTY, AT

BRANDENBURGICHOUSE.

The tide of popular feeling rushes forward with
accelerated force. The venom and the slander, the
filth and the obscenity, Which it was hoped by cer-
tain lovers of morality, would have checked the
mighty current, have been dished aside, leaving the
stream to pursue its course unimpeded and unpolluted.
To the QuEsn yesterday was a day of glorious tri.
um-ph ;to her enemies a day of woe and despondency !
Addresses have poured in fast to her MAJESTY from
.the moment she last set her foot on our shores ; but
now, when the Majoccis and the De Monts are un-
veiled, when their motives are known, and their cha-,
racters are exposed, those memorials of affection and
••iespect are redoubled. Immediately after the day
was ascertained when her MAJESTY would be at,
leiture to receive the Address of the Married Ladies
*and the Inhabitant Householders of Mary-la-bonne,
preparations were made to give the best and hand-
somest effect to the cavalcade in its progress to Bran-J
denburgh-House. Y was decided that the different'
equipages should assemble in Welbeck-street, and
its neighbourhood. Between ten and eleven o'clock
several of those Gentlemen, who took an active part

at the Public Meeting in which the Address was
voted, appeared ; the other parties to form the caval-
cade were there at an earlier hour: amongst these
were observed Sir G. Nom, Mr. P. MOORE, Lord
W. FITZGERALD, Mr. FluslE, and Mr. WHITBREAD.
As ten o'clock approached a great number of ba-
rouches and four, and a few carriages and pairs,
took their stations in the order of procession ; and at
eleven o'clock, the hour appointed for proceeding to-
. wards Brandenburgh-House, 135 equipages were ar-
ranged in line. The streets through which the ca-
valcade was expected to pass were at this time
crowded with well-dressed people, whose counte-
nances strongly indicated the pleasure which they
derived from the scene. Soon after eleven o'clock

the cavalcade moved forward amidst the cheers of
the assembled multitude; and as it • passed through
North Audler sti eet, South A udley-street, Stanhope-
street, Park-lane, Piccadilly, Knightsbridge, and Ken-
sington, it was hailed with warm and affe;tionate
gratulations. Great, however, as were the crowds
that marked its progress thus far, they were infinitely
exct • Jed by the numbers who were stationed in
Hammersmith and its vicinity. The Metropolis ap-
peared to have abundantly poured forth its thou-
sands here. Every tree was inhabited, every wall
was peopled, and a long range of carts and wag-
gons, up to the gate of the 'demesne, was let at a
very considerable price to those who did not please j
to venture farther. At one o'clock the procession

reached Hammersmith, and was received with a loud
and lively peal of the church bells. The first forty

carriages obtained easy admittance at the great gate,
opening into the grounds which surround the house;
but as they nearly filled the line of road, a long,,de-
lay took place before any of the others could be ad-
mitted. At about four o'clock the whole of the La-

dies and Gentlemen who weie immediately connected
with the presentation of the Addiess were set down
at her NlAJiisTy's residence.

At this time the scene was highly picturesque and
pleasing. A number of elegantly dressed females
appeared at the different windows of the house, but
their costume was scarcely more taAeful or more
elegant than that which was displayed by those who
paraded the grounds that ate in front of the mansion.
On such a scene the heart reposes with pleasure.—
Everything appeared to be in unison with the occa-
sion. The day was beautiful—the sun shone brightly ;
every eye was lighted up with gladness, and the eye,
doubtless, spoke the feelings of the heart. We have
been present at many rublic proceedings, but at none
do we remember to have seen more, not merely of
respectability, but of elegance. The females, many
of whom wete eminently beautiful, were dressed in
a style that would not have disgraced a drawing-
room. We speak of the younger females. The ma-
trons—and many of them were present—appeared in
a costume suited to their more advanced age. The
Ladies, almost uniformly, were attired in white,
with white ornaments in their hair or on their caps.
The Gentlemen, who-were, with a very few excep-
tions, in full (not Court) dress, wore white favours
in their breasts and hats. The appearance of die en-
tire procession was in the highest degree respectable.
Her MAJEvry was standing at the upper end of the
room as the Addressers entered, attended by Liicly
ANNE HAMILTON and Mr. Alderman WooD. Her
MAJESTY was dressed in a lilac satin dress, a dia-
dem of pearls in her hair, and had on a white lace
veil ; she looked extremely well, and curtsied most
graciously to the Ladies as they entered the room.—
Soon after four o'clock, the-Address of the Ladies
was presented to her MAJESTY by Mrs. HAYDON. To •
this Address the QUEEN was pleased to make the fol-
lowing gracious reply : ,
4. I feel a cordial satisfaction irraccepting the unfeignedly af-
fectionate Address from the Married Females resident in the
Parish of St. Mary-la-bonne.
4 Many of the most estimable characteristics of our sex, bor-
row no small degree of lustre from adversity. It is then that
those gentle virtues are must conspicuous by which we are most
adorned ; and when even loveliness itself is increased by uncom-
plaining patience and humble resignation.
" In us, it is true heroism to be meek in sorrow, and not que-
rulous in suffering.
" If the spirits of those who are no more with us be at all
conscious of what is passing in the scene they have left, I trust
that the spirit of my beloved daughter will contemplate with
complacency the serenity I have endeavoured to acquire, and
the tortitusle I have endeavoured to exercise, in trials of which
it is difficult to appreciate the severity, and, indeed, to which
few females have even been exposed.
" My departure for the Continent in 1814, was, at that mo-
ment, like an exile front all that I held dear. I left a child,
who was my mind's best hope, and my heart's best stay, ex-
pecting hereafter to see her in happier days; but, alas! I was
to see her no more ! When we parted,- we parted never to
meet again.
" I was hardly married before my circumstances became more
desolate than those of widowhood, and I seemed to have be-
come a mother only to be tortured by the privation of that in-
tercourse with my child, which was hardly ever denied to any
mother but myself. Thus the pre-eminence of my station be-
came only a pre-eminence in misery.
" If I have had any enjoyment in the changes and chances of
my chequered life, it has been principally produced by the habits'
of beneficence which I have had an opportunity of cultivating.
I claim no praise for this, for I found the practice to be agree-
able to my nature ; and if 1 had reflected on this subject, my
resolution would only have derived additional support from the
balance of pleasure, and the calculations of interest. Mere I
request you to unite with me in admiring that wise constitution
of the moral world, which makes the moat white eittlatactioa