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We must again take the liberty of impressing on
those partisans of Ministry throughout the country,
who are busying themselves in manufacturing Ad-
dresses to. the KING, in opposition to those which
have been presented to her MAJESTY, the propriety
of stating plainly and unequivocally what the facts
or sentiments are which they wish to lay at the foot
of the Throne. Every Address which we see, with
the fictitious appellation of " Loyal" attached to it,
is nothing but a collection of equivocal expressions,
which may as well be applied in condemnation as in
praise, or of courtly phrases, as stale as servility it-
self, and quite as unmeaning, in a moral sense, as
the Bishop of LONDON'S saintly piece of foolery, that
the " Kara can do xo wrong!" In the Ministerial
Gazettes of this morning, for example, we have pre-
sented to us, byway of news, and so everything of
the kind undoubtedly is, an Address, which is said
to be from " the Parish of Clerkenwell ; a Decla-
ration, which is styled " the Ward of Bread-street
Declaration ; and another Declaration, said to be
from " the Inhabitants of St. Dunstan's in the East;
although notoriously and undeniably every one of
them has been the fabrication of a mere knot of indi-
viduals, called together in the most private and secret
manner, like a Parish Meeting in a watch-box'
without the knowledge or participation of the inhabi-
tants at large—all of which Addresses or Declarations
are pleased to assume the title, par excellence, of'
46 Loyal," but from which we defy the whole body of
the Ku m's Ministers, even with the assistance of the
QUEEN'S friend and encomiast, Mr. CANNING, to ex-
tract a single expression which can be of the smallest
practical advantage to their public reputation.—
The Clerkenwell Loyalists say, that they " view,
with the most painful feelings, the endeavours making
to excite a spirit of discontent and disaffection through-
out the kingdom." But why do they not say by whom
these endeavours are making ? Who knows but, at
an after period, these Vicar of Bray Gentlemen may
turn round and tell us, that it was the endeavours of
his MAJESTY'S Ministers to which they alluded—the
persecution of his Ma.rany's injured Consort more
particularly, which had spread discontent and disaf-
fection throughout the kingdom, with a rapidity and to
an extent unparalleled in its history—and that it was
from nothing but a feeling of delicacy, and a depend-
enceon the LUNG'S own shrewdness for taking the hint,
that. they had not added to their pointed reprobation
a supplication to his MAJESTY to dismiss these wicked
Advisers from his Counsels? If they have not
some such lurking intention, why did they not at
once avow, in plain set terms, that there has been no-
thing, in all the history of our Government, since the
persecution of the seven Bishops, which they so much
admire for its morality and consistency, as the
threats and bribes with which Ministers endea-
voured to prevent the Quilt,: from returning to this
country, her home by marriage and by attachment—
nothing which they could reverence more for its con-
stitutional justice and equity than the Bill of Pains
and Penalties which Ministers brought forward
against her MAJESTY, when, despising their threats,
and far above their bribes, she threw herself on the
protection of the English People, and dared the ut-
most fury of her enemies—nothing more calculated
to promote the interests of morality and social order,
and to rally all who wish them well, around the
Throne, than the flood of filth and abomination which
Ministers poured forth on the country, in the despe-
rate hope of achieving a dastardly triumph over the
innocent and suffering, yet undaunted and dauntless
object of their hate ? Why, we ask, do these 44 Loyal
Addressets" not avow some such sentiments as these?
Whatever else they may say, is absolutely saying
nothing. It is on these points, among many others
that a vast majority of the British People are agreed
in reprobating the conduct of his MAJESTY'S Mi-
nisters, and loudly calling for their dismissal ; and
unless the partisans of Ministers are prepared to ap-
plaud and defend them on every one of these points
in the most open and undisguised manner, they
will serve their patrons best by preserving that silence
which is the best solace of shame and disgrace.
We might extend our remarks to the other passages
of the Address from which we have quoted, as also
to the language of the two other Addresses; but it
would, in truil►, be a task of supererogation. Every
sentence and expression is in the same vague and in-
definite style—nothing clear or positive is to be ex-
tracted, except this only, that the Addressers would
lain praise Ministers, if they could. Again, we say,
to all such " Loyal" Addressers, let them applaud-1