Star.
London, England, 1820-08-12 00:00:00

111 Z QUERY.

8111FFIRLD MEETING.

SHEFFIELD, AUGUST 10.

The lor g- projected Meeting for voting an Address
to the QUPEN, took place yesterday, in our spacious
Town-Hall, and was most numerously and respect•
ably attended. • The Hall was, in fact, crowded
almost to suffocation in every part, and many hun-
dreds were unable to obtain admittance. Yet all wa:
conducted with the greatest order and decorum, and
not the slightest accident occurred.
THOMAS RawsoN, Esq..that veteran in the cause
of Reform, and staunch asserter of the Rights of the
People, was called to the Chair, by the unanimous'
yoke of the Assembly. He opened the business of the
:Meeting in a most excellmt speech, and concluded
by moving a series of spirited Resolutions, which
were passed without a dissentient voice; and an Ad-
dress. founded on them, was unanimously adopted.
The following is a copy :

" TO it r% MA:KITT CABOLINZ, QKIDEN CONSORT OT VIM MAJZSTY
TO,•GB IT. EMI OT TUE ONITID KINGDOM OT ORR V! BRITAIN

AND IRELAND, &C.
"The loyal and dutiful Address of the Inhabitants of the Town

and Vicinity of Sh,ffield, in the County of York :

" We, your Majesty's most faithful subjects, beg leave to ap-
proach your Majesty, with unfeigned professions of affection for
your floynl person, and to congratulate your Majesty on your
return to this country—a Country that now calls you Queen—
am! wi,ich we regret that yonr Majesty should ever have left.
" In addressing you on this occasion, permit us to assure your
Itlajesty, that the many deprivations you have sustained have
leached a chord in our hearts, and bound us to your Royal per-
son by the tenderest del of sympathy.. Since your first arrival
to this country, :real and various afflictions have befallen you:
the prop and stay of your illustrious House has been withdrawo
by the hand of Death—his late Majesty, George tha Third,
your most gracious friend and powerful protector, no.v slum-
bers in the grave,—and that mantid spirit who called you Mother
—she on whom a Nation's hopes and highest expectations were
Sxed, and whose untimely death filled every heart with mourn.
it ;;., and evail eye with tears, can no longer solace you with her
aiiect:on !
" Sincereiy lamenting those deprivations to which your Majesty
bi:s been subjected, we offer you our condolence; and, under
the new affliction that now assails ycu, we heartily and most
unfeigrv:dly pray that your Majesty, aided by the affections of
a loyal pelple, may finally triumph over your accusers, and
ui b shame the fsolishness of evil men. We heartily disapprove
of, and sincerely condemn, that spirit of hostility which has
bet too evidently characterised the strange proceedings
tutccl against your Majesty; and the mode is which they have
hitherto heuil carried on we regard as harsh, oppressive, and
repugnant to the liberal spirit of that Constitution under
which we live.

" In this tree expression of our condolence, our wishes, and
opinions, permit us to assure your "Majesty of our admiration
of the magnanimous conduct you have invariably displayed,
under circumstances and charges revolting to your nature, and
which, we arc fully persuaded, nothing but a feeling et con-
scious innocence could have enabled you so nobly to sustain."

There are many hundreds of able-bodied men in
this town at present receiving Parochial relief, being
out of employment; a threat was held out to them,
that if they attended the Meeting yesterday, their
pay would be stopped, and their names struck off
the Parish books.

The Bailiffs of the city of Litchfield having declined
to convene a Public Meeting, with a view to aer;ress
the QUEEN. an Address was drawn up, representing
the opinions of the Requisitionists and others, and is
now in course of signature. " The number of the
Requisitionists,".says the Litcifleld Mercury," is equal
to the usual signatures of such documents in this city,
where numbers are not the point looked at. We have
authority to deny, that the name of one was added
without his knowledge or consent.' There were not
the names of any persons affixed to it of lower and
very inferior stations in life: It is stated that the
Bailiffs refused their assent, on account of the de-
s,-riction of persons' who signed the Requisii ion : and
they were further of opinion, that it was t impro,per
in any way to interfere in the proceedings now pend-
ing respecting the QuEEN. What perfect conjurors
and heroes would this scribe make of the City Bai-
liffs ! If the latter objection had any weight with
them, it were enough, without insulting the people
with invidious comparisons of respectability : the Bai-
liffs were incapable of it : they are tradesmen them-
selves—highly respectable ones—who vec uld stern to
taunt their neighbours with epithets of inferiority."