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

GREENWICH MEETING.

At half-past seven o'clock on Thursday evening,
I Meeting of the inhabitants of Greenwich took place
at the Vestry-roma and adjourned from thence to the
National School, for the purpose of considering the
propriety of presenting an Address to her MAJESTY.
The Meeting —as convened in pursuance of a Requi-
sition very respectably signed, and addressed to the
Churchwardens. The adjournment to the National
School took place in consequence of the attendance
of persons being greater than the Vestry-room was
calculated to contain. There were nearly .500 per-
sons present. .
Mr. Jon NI CRICK, Senior Churchwarden, took the
Chair, and briefly stated to the Meeting the object
for which they had assembled, in pursuance of the.
terms of their Requisition, to which he trusted they
would, in the course of their proceedings, strictly
confine themselves.

Mr. P. l'Ensiz then moved that an }lambic Address
be presented to her Majesty,-expressive of the pleasure
felt by the inhabitants of Greenwich upon her return
to England, lamenting the proceedings which had
been instituted against her, and confidently antici-
pating that she would establish her innocence. It
also expressed the gratitude felt by the inhabitants of
Creenwich, from the high and. benevolent example
which had been set by her Majesty during her resi-
dence in their neighbourhood.
Air. GILES seconded the motion in a short speech,
in which he paid a warm tribute to the Queen's cha-
racter.—The Address was unanimously agreed to.
A motion was then made, that the Address be
laid on the table of the Vestry for signatures, prepa-
ratory to its presentation. To this motion Mr. PRATT
moved, as an amendment, that the Governor, Chin ch-

wardens, and the other principal Parish Officers, sign
the Address in the behalf of the Meeting.
This Amendment was immediately adopted.
The VICAR of the Parish, who had been invited
to take thr! Chair, addressed a letter in reply to the
invitation, which was read At the Meeting. In this
letter he declined attending, and assigned as his rea-
son the incompatibility of his religious functions with
an attendance at any political discussion. '
Thanks were then proposed to the Vicar, but the
motion was rejected by the Meeting, there being
only five hands held up for it.
The CHAlttmAx was thanked for his conduct in
the Chair. The Requisitors received a similar com-
pliment; and a letter wa; ordered to be addre-sed to
Lady Ann Hamilton, for the purpose of taking her
Majesty's corn inathis respecting the time of present-
ing the Address.

An Address has been presented to the QUEEN from
Norwich, to which her MAJESTY returned the follow-
ing most gracious Answer:
" I gratefully acknowledge my obligations to his Majesty's
fiithful subjects, the Inhabitants of the City of Norwich, for
this affectionate Address. The voice of sympathy is always
soothing to the ear, but it is hoard with double complacency
when it is known to issue from the heart. lam convinced that
in this sympathetic tribute of regard for my insulted honour
arid my violated rights,. the Inhabitants of • Norwich have ex-
rressed only those sentinieuts which affection breathes from
their generous hearts.

" The accumulatvl indignities which I Skye experienced have
had an effect quite contrary to the expectations of my enemies;
they have rendered me aisohject of public regard, in a higher
degree than I could otherwise have been. •Aly r-,ason approves
and my piety reveres that instinctive propensity which there is
in the human heart to succour the oppre4sed. Of this propen-
sity, no page in history furnishes a bnghter example than that
which the British People have exhibited in favour of their
persecuted Queen. In proportion as my enemies have endea-
voured to effect my abasement, they have contributed to my
exaltation. They have degraded nobody but themselves. Their
malice has been ow protection, and their obloquy has become
riy panegyric.
" When my adversaries had recourse to a Bill of Pains and
Penalties, they offered an involumary testimony to my inno-
cence; for, if I b..1:1 been guilty, my guilt might have been esta-
blished by a mm: legal and a less circuitous process. But know-
ing that my integrity was my security as long as they remained
wrhin the conti.tes of our constitutional sanctuary, they leaped
with profane daring over that sacred boundary, and are now
labouring to annihilate my honour as a woman, and my dignity
as a Queen, by a procedure which must; in its consequences, be
perilous to the vital interests of individual and general liberty.
I am now, therefore, struggling not more for my own good than
for that of the country. The question, at this moment, is not
merely, whether the Queen shall have her rights ; but whether
the rights of any individual in the kingdom shall be free from
violation?

" The maxims of English jurisprudence have always hitherto
favourable to the accused. Perhaps my accusers, who are
al::u to be my jidget, thought that they were acting in confor-
mity to those maxims, when, after spreading the accusations
against me over a period of six years, and' a space almost equal
to that of a whole Continent, thet refused any specification of
the times when, and the places where, the charges were laid,
after they had previously condescended not to grant any Est of
the witnesses by whom these charges were to be supported. A
generous enemy never commences the combat by previously
wresting from his adversary every instrument of defende. But
is not the conduct of. my, enemies a proof that they think their
own cans weak and mine strong? Why else do they labour
with a sort of item tiling cowardice to cripple my powers of re-
sistance? Is not this tacitly to tell the world that my integrity
is their dread, and my accusation their shame?"

The QUEEN is to receive the Address of the Free-
holders of Middlesex, at Brandeuhurgh House, on
Tuesday. ►text, at one o'clock; that of the Artisans,
at two; and that of the Inhabitants of Hammersmith
at three. '

The Address of the married Ladies of the Metro-
polis and its vicinity will be received by her MA-
JESTY on Wednesday next, at two o'clock, at the
house of Lady FRANCIS, in St. James's-square. A
vast number of most respectable Ladies have signed,
and are signing, this Address.
The Address from the Inhabitants of the City of
Worcester to her Majesty the QUEEN is signed by up-
wards of 200 I;ersons. Colonel DAVIES, one of the
City Members, has undertaken to present it; Lord
DEERIIUItST has declined to do so.

It is remarkable that scarcely any. of what are
called the-Radical Towns have voted Addresses to
the QUEEN : they have been scut, in most instances,
from the seats of the Clergy ; from York and Can-
terbury ; from Gloucester and Worcester; and from
other borough towns, which never voted Petitions on
Radical Reform. _ _ _

I ler MAJESTY will sleep at the house of Lady
FaaNcis, in St. James's-sin:ire, on Tuesday night,
and will proceed from thence daily to the house of
Lords. The Q %EN made application to Ministers
for several houses which she would have liked; but
as objections were made to her occupying them,
Lady Ifitatiets offered the use of the above house to
her MAJESTY, as long as she voight require it.
A handsome carriage is building for her MAJESTY,
which will be ready by the 17th, with elegant brass,
harness for six horses. New liveries are also prepar-
ing for her MAJESTY'S servants.
AVe understand that the preparations made in the
houses in Cotton-garden, are for the reception of not
less than sixty or seventy Italian witnesses. They are
to be conveyed to the place by the River, and pre-j
cautions are taken, by stationing of gun-boats, against
all annoyance in their passage, and to prevent-ail
access to them after their arrival.
The corps d'eliii of the Italian witnesses arrived
this forenoon at Cotton-yard. Six of them reached
Parliament-stairs, in a ship's boat with a pair
of rowers. They appeared of the lower class of fo-
reigners. Two of them wore what are commonly
called foraging-caps, the rest wore the ordinary.
broad-brimmed hat, with dirty great-coats. These
are the first occupiers of the Coronation-kitchens.
They seemed as if after a journey, and the gate at
Parliament-stairs was instantly on their arrival opened
for their admission. The boatmen did not land, bu
rowed uff immediately after disembarking their pas-
sengers. All the gates and avenues of both Houses
of Parliament are kept quite close this day. ll=
is no ingress except by an order from Sir nigOlltti.
TYRRWIII TT.
In the year 1814 or 1816, and when it was recorded in
of the Newspapers, that, owing to thebadness of the wheat, the
poor in some districts of the Netherlands were afflicted tea* a
dreadful disorder resembling gangrene, the crops were not only'
bad, but so scanty, that multitudes of the poor fed on grass and
herbage, which was mainly productive of that afflicting disorden.
It was at this period of scarcity that her Majesty the Quaint
caused the starving peasantry of the adjacent villages, and num-
.ben of unemployed weavers and mechanics from the city of
Como, to be employed in constructing a bridge, over which her
Mossy,/ gained access to her vineyard from the gardens of her
villa, without having to pass the main road; and in forming an
irregular toad on the rock, which was the southern object, op-
posed to the vineyard, which beautified the norther; acclivity
from the lake. On this walk, which, through a series of fanciful
curvatures and lines, formed a passage to the rock's summit, het

MAJESTY indulged her taste in works of rude sculpture, such as
the rude and inexperienced artists she employed could produce ;
the subjects chosen being for the most part suggested by the na-
tural imagery of the cliffs, and which required the least aid of
the chisel to complete. The rock was thus converted into tem-
ples and statuary, and fortifications, which, however rudely
executed, presented objects of.majestic grandeur and wonder to
those who amused themselves on the banks of the lake, or ven-
tured in barks for pleasure on its bosom. Among the cottager.
who lived within a few miles of het Majesty's villa, were some
poor widows and Candies of females, who could not be employed
in works of this nature: to these money and provisions were
given. But also among those who, attracted by the fame of her
Alwastsra's charities in this afflicting season, did not fail to lay
their petitions before her, w few British emigrants, whose
appeals were always favoured with a ready and attentive ear,
and whose wants were the subject of a more peculiar solicitude.
The wife of an artisan of the name of Cogou, then in ail re-
sp:•cts, like a widow, living in a foreign country, her husband
'following his trade hi Sr. Mary's Wynd, Edinburgh, and occa-
sionally returning to visit his family, at this time engaged the
notice of her Maarsrv. Her MAJESTY gave to Mrs. Comet a
Napoleon, Valued at two louis-d'oe. or about .£2 British, and in-
vited her to come often to the l'alace. This pension was re.
peated monthly for five months—until her Maissior set out for
Pesaro.—Edinburgh Siar.