The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-09-14 00:00:00

I'4k STAtr.SMAN.

" I and not surprised the British Seathen, who are a'
titcy are brave, should I'o.l for nit
'41,4 should be iudignact at my wrongs. The
t wrongs and sufferings of a woman, and that wusioau a
Queen. must make a deep impression on their generous
hearpd.
" It is only the base and the cewarolly that can tamely
acdriesce in injustice and inhoun inity ; and i am fully
coin ince,' that insulted greatness. or depressed rani:,
can nowlieri'• liond a surer refuge, or more steady prober-
' tiny), than in the sailors awl soldiers of this country.
" As the Queen t unsurt of England, my sphere of
usefulness is small, and my means of benetitting the
community circumscribed, but as far as Lir power
• or my influence extends, all classes will ever hind in me ;
:1 sincere friend to their liberties anti a zealous advocate
for their rights."
• I 00000 osliately after the reading the answer, her Ma-
jesty withdrew amidst reiterated cheering, and the '
crowd begun to depart; but it was not till long after six
&dock that the grounds were entirely cleared. The
sailors returned to town in small parties, withomt any
regnlarity of march, and the public houses on the road
were all crowded to an overgrow with them. Through-
out the whole of the boisiness of the day, however, they
conducted themselves st respectably; and, for th'e
most part, they were very clean and decent, and in many
instances quite gay in their appearance. We understand
that they belonged] so the Merchant-service, properly so
railed, including a few 31en-of-liars' own; and that a
idmilar deputation from the Whitehaven,fee. folks is still
in agitation.
An Address was presented from the ladies of Edin-
burgh, to which Address her Majesty returned the
• following grits-ions :•••••
" I have long known, and, in severul instances, have
experienced, that the Females of Scotland are inferior
to none in the culture of their minds, in the purity of
their principles, and in the steadiness of their attach-
ments. This Address, therefore• from so many respell-
able rharacters of my own sex. in the capital of Cale-
donia, has afforded nee more than ordinary satisfaction.
" In ney progress. through life, it has 'been my first
object to retain my own self-respect, withoet w hide,
integrity can have no strong hold upon the heart. .My
next desire has been to be esteemed her those who are
themselves estimable; and whose approhation, while it
is regulated by the judgment, is spontaneous and un-
bought. If I possess the good opinion of this better
portion of the community, I WU indifferent to the vile
herd of venal traducers, or to that corrupt part of the
nation, who praise or blame nut as themselves condemn
or approve, hilt as higher authorities command. The
praise or thee blame of siteh persons, who is always to be
purchased in the market of infamy, is a matter of little
moment ; for venality is egitally c ..mptible, whether
it deals n panegyric or invertive.
The reasons whirls are employed to annul ma mar-
riapv, leave a tendency to resider every nuptial Oldies-
lion fluctuating, and insecure. The permanence of the
institution u until thus he made to depend inure on fedi-
suction Man un priariplc.
".1s far, therefore, as this Bill of Pains and Penalties
may hereafter be employed! as a precedent, it 'mist be
injurious to the mural interests of the community. I
am glad that the discriminating and intelligent Females
of Scotland are beginning to view the oplestion tw,ler
this aspect: and to regard the experiment of a new
mode of divorce, that is iodating in the House of Lords,
. as full of peril to the nation.
" The more the good sense of all (lasses of the eons.
I mmoity and of both sexes is exercised on the present
attempt to anntil'my marriage, and to effect new degra-
dation, the more they will be convinced that, Warm-iv-on
I attempt shouhl be successful, it must he hazardous in
I the extreme to the moral and political interests of the
people, to the personal comfort of individuals, and to
the general welfare of the roinninnity."

Ili Majes:y returned the full,string answer to the
Address or the Females of Exeter

"The Female ledialeitank of the ancient City of Ex-
eter, and its vicinity. leave exeiteel m}• rot-dial regard
for this affectionate Adelres.e. The charges that have
berm brotteviet apinst me are so utterly fake, that I
cannot conceive it pweiilele for any trifinnal, however
constituted. to he N., unmindful oldie saereql obligations
of truth and justice, as to tiled use guilty, with respect
to allegations, in support of which no proof has been
adduced.

"lam happy to find that the people of England eon.
eider my triumph over my enemies as necessary to the
security of their rights &nil the establishment of their
liberties. _

" I should not feel the intrepidity of innocence, or tho
consciousness of rectitude, if I did not despise the base
libels by which I have been occasionally assailed. As
far as my own internal tranquility is concerned, those
libels have never rallied the serenity of my breast, nur
caused MP a moment of uneasiness.

" I am too strong in the hardilimal of integrity to be
easily vanquished by any of the shafts which malice may
extract from its quiver to aim at my heart. Where a
free press allows different opinions to strive fur the mas-
tery, and the conflict between truth and falsehood is un-
restrained, falsehood must ultimately yield to the force
of truth."

Her Majesty returned the following Answer to the
Male inhabitants of Exeter

ileneral information and enlightened sentiments are
well known to characterise the inhabitants of the City
of Exeter, and its vicinity. This affectionate Address
proves, that with cultivated minds they unite feeling
hearts ; and that to those sympathies %thick are the or-
naments of human nature, this y add that love of liberty,
without which man, instead of an intellectual being,
aspiring to the Mavens. is only a servile reptile,
crawling upon the earth. The lore of liberty is what,
more than any thing else, ennobles man. It adds dig-
nity to his countenance ; it may be read in his eyes ;
it is visible in his attitude ; it is palpable in his steps.
It manifests itself in all he says or dues. In the social
state, it is the palm of excellence : without it man dege-
nerates into an inferior animal ; and with it he mounts
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to higher regions of civilized excellence.
" It is Liberty which gis es such an energy to the pro-
ductive powers of man, as soon converts a iieoat into al
garden. It gives a luxuriance to sterility, it imparts a
soft verdure to the rocky soil, and under it• bland influ-
ence the land of vapour anal fog assumes the serenity of
a happy clime. It is Liberty which softens the asperi-
ties of human intercourse, it smooths off the abrupt rug-,
gedness of the social scheme. It does not, for it can- i
not make the inequalities of life to disappear; but it
causes them to be be unfelt. Where Liberty prevails
the labourer smiles, and the poor man looks as erect as
the rich. Where Liberty prevails no man toils iii I Ain.
land the disparity of conditions operates only as au en- '
couragement to superior activity.
Liberty makes the greatest addition to the stock of,
• general happiness; as under a free government, not
;only no man labours in vain, but the labour of every
individual is most prolific in its result. It causes a su-
perftnity in the materials of enjoyment, fur the labour
of a free nun is always twice as productive as that of the
slave.
“ In early life I caught the lore of Liberty, and I con-
sider it as the best boon aiuongst the gifts of Heaven
to mankind.
" Though] was placed in circumstance which tend to
obstruct the avenues to truth, yet truth always hail a free
iaccess to my ear and I trust to my heart. Hence, I soon

ieardt that mankind bad rights independent of Sore-
reigns ; and all the power which Scvereigns exercise,'
is only a trust for the common nod. These notions.
which were implanted in my mind in early life, have ar-
qeired strength with increasing years ; and hence, per-
haps, I exhibit the singular spectacle of a Queen Con-
sort contending for the rights of the nation against the
enactments of power. The attempt to crush me has an
object far heyotul that of illy individual immolation. The
blow is aimed directly at the Qnrrn, but the real ob-
ject is to prepare the neck of the nation for the yoke of
servitude.
" In the question between me and my adversaries I
have never ceased to regard my own rights as the pro-
perty of the nation, and hence I have defended them
with wore pertinacity than I might have done if I had.
I viewed them only as a part of my own personal enjoy-
i ment. If the generous Roman was to consider himself
as create,' not for his own individual gratification, but
' for the happiness of his species, surely suds a sentiment
ought not to he a dead letter, but a living priuciple in
the bosom of a Christian Sovereign."
Her blajesty returned the following Answvr to the
Address from the I uliabitants of St. Sid well, Exeter:---
" I gratefully accept this affectionate Address from
the Inhabitants of the Manor and Parish of St. Sidwoill,
in the City of Exeter. I consider myself acting in the
presence of the Universal Father, and I endeavour to
measure my happiness more by conformity to His will,
than by any variable compliance with individual incli-
nation. Whatever may have been my personal afflic-
tions, I consider them designed either for the benefit of
others, or for my own ultimate advantage. Hence that
Power, whose afflicting- dispensations have caused many
torturing pang in my heart, and many a sorrowful hoar
in mr life, is the object of my devout trust and a 7
bumble adoration.

" In all trials! place a firm reliance on Ilia goodness,
without whose permission nut a sparrow falls to the
ground."
Iler I:i.j.ssty returned the followin:,7 most gracious
answer to the Ipswich Addre-s
" The Inhabitants ..f Ipswich awl its %idnity. merit
DIV cordial thanks for this gratifying testinimiy of their
affertionate retard.
" I am happy to find that the invasion of my rights is
so gener a I I y considered as an attack upon the rights of
the subject, and that the security of our national liber-
ties is thought to he entlangereil by the present uncon-
stitutional procedure in the House of lairds.
" But though the principles of liberty have been so
grossly outratred in the conduct of in.r adversaries, I
trust that those principles have still too firm a hold on
the hearts of Englishmen, to be readily shaken by the
menaces ut tyranny.
" The spirit of Liberty cannot he extinct in that coun-
try which contains the ashes of ,o many of the generous
mid the brave who sate died in its detente.

" The tienius uf I.ilwrty niLlit still invoke, and net
invoke in vain, sorb spirits as once animated the bosoms
of a Hampden, a Russell, and a Sidney. The diffusian
of knowledge has trailed to !nubility men of this noble
stamp, and to make then, abound in every class of the
tttttt Unity. sloe of the effects of buressed knowledge
must be an in.reased love of liberty; and the more
knowledge is generalised, the more it must extend the
conviction that liberty is connected with the best in-
(crests of mankind. Without iiherty all these principles
of individual enterprise and of general activity would
be paralyzed, which so much enlarge the circle of pri-
t•ate enjoyment, and so much augment the sources of
national prosperity."
The following is the Answer to the Address from
the Inhabitants. ultlie Borough of Malnisbury
lain much obliged by this affectionate Address from
the Inhabitants of the ancient Borough of 1611110)1u,-.
•` In the conspiracy that was directed against my ho-
nour anti my l►fe, in Itso6. I felt that integrity was
streegili, and innocence security. lam not at all dis-
mayed by the present conspiracy, though it is supported
by the arm of overwhelitlitiz power. Vast as are its
resources, and formidable as is if., o;:triCtPr, I am con-
vinced that it mill experience the fate of presetting simi-
lar attempts, and disgrace only the actors in this drama
of malignity and injustice.
" When nay enemies find their exertions as abortive
in the present,. as in the former conspiracies. I trust that
I shall experience an evening of rep>•.se after such a lung
day of storms. If lam to enjoy this blessing, my heart,
tells me that it will be principally owing to the generous
sympathies of Englishmen.'•

snrrE OF surrit Ai!ERIC.I.

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By an article from the l'orren di Oronoco of the
17th of June, we i►acr been furnished with chat may
be considered the official declaration of the sentiments
of the Patriot government at Angusmra, on the poli-
tical changes in Spain, and in► the oiler to which they
were expected to give rise, from the Royalist Chief,
Murillo, of a negoriation for the cessation of hostili-
ties. In that article the Patriot Government conclude
by expressly derlarinl,•, that " it appears inspracti-
tableohe extensive territory of Grath America can
never expect to reach that state of felicity whisk na-
ture appears to have intended, by any other means
than actual and unequivocal independence."
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Since the publication of that arCele, the offer of
Nlorill44 has in effect been made. Bc later accounts
fr Angostura, dated July 11th, it appear-4, that on
the night of the 7th, a Commissary, svott by 11106
arrived at that place, with devatches to the Congress
of Venezuela, now assembled at linayana, in which he
stated, that he had made the same connounication to
Bolivar, the President of the Republic, and the Vice-
President of Cundinamarca. lie proposes an armistice
preparatory to a negociation, for which purpose he
has nominated two persons to treat with the Congress.
(In the 10th the Congress tom to consider the proposal,
an 3, with open doors, it was unanimously resolved,
that thr acknowledgement ofthe absolute independence
of the Republic, could be the only basis of nego- •
riation.
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A CAVTION.—On Saturday nsorniug last, Mr. Clifton
Raker, youngest son of 31. Baker, surgeon, lines
Ditton, went oat with hi• gun in company with another
young gentleman. On stepping user a ditch •be saw a
snake, and on giving it two bleu s with the butt-end of
his gun a sprig of the hedge is supposed to have caught
the trigger : the gun went off, and lodged the whole
charge of shut in his left side. lie was taken to the
nearest public-house, and every assistance from the
medical gentlemen round the neighbourhood afforded
him, but be died late on the same ecening.
MELANCOOLT Acctoasty.—Tuesdav evening, a young
lady, of the name of Ritchett, on a visit to 3lrs. Blooms-
field, of Hatch-plate, Larreiwth, accompanied that Lady
and a party of friends to Ilse Cubitrg Thesatre a on their
return, Miss Richett being left in the parlour alone, leer
shrieks alarmed the house, and on the servant going in,
her clothes were on Are, and her hair therapy -blunt off
her head. The servant promptly threw a table cloth she
had in her hand around her, hnt the safer", who is 17
years ola, is not expected to survive. The fire must
have "alit a Innalin frock in front, as the lower part'
WAS not burnt.