The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-05-21 00:00:00

ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN FROM NORWICH

At a numerous and highly respectable meeting of the in-
habitants of Norwich, held at the large room, Maid's Head
Inn, St. Simon's, on Tuesday, the 14th of May, Mr. W. J.
Utten Browne in the chair, it was moved by Mr. S. Bignold,
seconded by Mr. J. Skipper, and unanimously agreed to,
that the following address should be presented to her majesty
by the Right Hon. Lord Abinger :
" TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

The dutiful and loyal address of the inhabitants of the city

of Norwich and its vicinity.
" We, your majesty's faithful subjects, approach your ma-
jesty, animated by the strongest feelings of attachment to
your royal person, and to those great constitutional princi-
ples the profession of which seated your illustrious ancestors
on the throne of these realms.

" When it pleased Divine Providence to call your majesty
to the sovereignty of this mighty empire, it was our earnest
prayer that He, in whose rule and governance are the hearts
of princes, would shower on your royal head abundant bless-
ings, and make your reign a source of unexampled prosperity
and glory to your free and loyal people.
" We have seen, therefore, with inexpressible regret, the
fair prospect which your majesty's accession opened to our
view clouded by events of a most disastrous character ' • we
allude particularly to the rebellion lately ranging, and still
unsubdued, in one of the most important of our colonial pos-
sessions ; to the unsettled and threatening aspect of affairs in
the East and West Indies ; to the spirit of sedition which has
manifested itself in the manufacturing districts of England ;
and to the prevalence in Ireland of a system of lawless vio-
lence and agitation, which, if permitted to continue, must in-
evitable produce, at no distant period, the most fatal and
melancholy consequences.
" We venture humbly to represent to your majesty our firm
conviction, that the advisers of the crown, whose resignation
was recently announced to parliament, are deeply responsi-
ble for these evils ; that their course of policy has tended to
endanger the stability of the monarchy, to alienate the affec-
tions of your people, and to jeopardize those interests, the
maintenance of which is essential to the welfare of the com-
munity.
" That your majesty anxiously desires to promote the hap-
piness and to protect the acknowledged and undoubted rights
and liberties of all classes and conditions of your majesty's
subjects, we unfeignedly believe ; and in that belief we im-
plore your majesty to summon to your councils those upright
and enlightened statesmen whose consistent advocacy of con-
servative principles has obtained for them the respect and
confidence of the nation, and by whose wisdom and firmness
alone the multiplied dangers which misgovernment has
created can be effectually averted. •
" We trust that your majesty will condescend gratiously to
receive the honest expression of our sentiments. We area
actuated by no other motives than fervent loyalty to your
majesty, and a patriotic love of our unrivalled protestant in-
stitutions, of which your majesty, under God, is the head,
and the sworn defender."