The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-11-29 00:00:00

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QUEEN CAROLINE AND LADY ANNE HAMILTON.

During the hat trying period of the life of the much wronged
Queen Caroline, the Araaas of Sheffield had proposed to pre-
sent her Majesty with a testimony of their respect and sympa•
thy. Before, however, their design could he accomplished,
her Majesty's lifobad been saeriffeed to her sufferings; and the
piece of silver plate which these worthy men had intended to
offer to the Queen having been in an advanced state of prepa-
ration, they at length resolved, and- it had undergone the al-
terations which a change of circumstances had rendered neces-
sary, to present it to Lady Anne Hamilton, as a personage who
for faithful attachment and zealoes service to her Majesty,
was the most fit and worthy, to posaeis this memorial of their
feelings for her illustrious Mistress.

The piece of Otte is a Roman Vase, richly embossed, et the
capacity of eight quarts, weighing ICIEIoz. fOdwts.; an which
is engraved ti.e following inscription:—

This Vase
was presented by the
Artizans of Eihellleld
to
LADY ANNE HAMILTON,
as a testimony of the
high admiration of her
faithful services and firm attachment to
Her late Most Excellent Majesty,
Caroline Amelia Elizabeth,
Queen of England, and Consort to
His Present Majesty King George IV.
1893.

The Vase was on Wednesday last presented to Lady Anne
Hamilton, at her residence, Charlotte Row, New Road. Mary-
lebone, by a small deputation oftht: Artizans of Sheffield, who
at the same time delivered to her Ladyship the following Ad-
dress

" MADAM—We, the Artisans of Sheffield, mos• respectfully
beg leave to solicit your Ladyship's acceptance of this present,
as • testimony of our high admiration of ydur Lady-
ship's unshaken s,lelity and firm attachment to our
late illustrious, much injured and greatly lamented
Queen. Animated by respect for the honour and welfare
of our country. we would gladly cast a veil over that page
of our National History which contains a record of the Cruel
anti unprincipled conduct of the enemies of her late Majesty;
hut the reverence we feel for her memory, an attachment to
the laws of our country, and the high contempt we have for
power when it overleaps the bounds of civil and political se-
curity, and breaks doe n the barriers raised by our forefathers
to protect the innocent from injustice and oppression, impe-
riously cull upon us to express the detestation excited in us
by the persecuting spirit which marked the whole proceedings
against her late Majesty the Queen Consort of the Soverign of
these Realms. In the persecution of the late Queen, we have
beheld with deep regret, fortitude goaded by the basest means,
benevolence abused by the blackest ingratitude, honour offend-
ed by the most infamous hypocrisy, confidence betrayed by
the most consummate duplicity, Majesty contemned sad No-
bility insulted for the specific purpose of act ,omplishing her
Majesty's degradation, whose sufferings through life were
sufficiently severe to excite the sympathy of a whole nation.
Convinced by past experience, that all men affect society ac-
cording to the extent of the circle of life in which they move,
both with respect to the power they possess, and the example
their conduct affords ; constepteetly we were surprised to see
men illustrious in birth, and renowned for talent exerting their
influence to destroy the happiness and stein the reputation of
that noble Personage whose demands for justice, and whose
fortitude under circumstances of unparalleled difficulty, ap-
palled the most inveterate of her persecutors.
" We offer you, Madam, our most sincere thanks, for your
anxious solici:wle for her late Majesty's welfare, at a time
when she had been deprived other domestic comforts, deceived
by those nn whom she rested her eoofidence, and hunted
through Europe by those whose duty it was to hare shielded
her from harm. At this afflicting period of her life she found
a consolation in your generous attention to her interests, but
in the lest and most severe hour of her trial it required the
extraordinary exertions of her own noble spirit to repel the
linjest and foul aspersions east upon her character by her ene-
mies, and resting her confidence on the rook et her own inno-
cence, she, to the disgrace and confusion of her powerfel foes.
did meet them at the Bar of the English Rouse of Lords.—
Madam, when the destroying hand of time shall have 5-rept
off the stage of life whole g lions of men, and levelled
with the dust the monumental marble raised to perpetuate the
deeds of men, the prosecution of her Isle Majesty will then
appear a spot on the historic page, the worst for what it soils,
the same volume that bears to posterity an account of the in-
famous proceedings against her late Majesty will announce to
them your sted fest friendship through life, and by your indefa-
tigable attention to her welfare soothing the pillow of stale- '
lion to the latest boar of her *Werner."

Her Ladyship receited the Deputation with the kindest at- I
tention, and returned to their address the following answer:—
"I am deeply indebted to my good friends, the Artigans of
Sheffield, for the beautiful Vase, with which they have thought
fit to commemorate my bumble services to her late Majesty.—
Those services ware, at the time, what my heart dictated, and
my conscience approved.

"Others may have surpassed me In the energy of their zeal in
favor of my Royal Mistress; hut I will not readily resign the
palm to any Indisinterested ardour df affection, and unshaken
constancy of attachment. The artizans of Sheffield have for-
cibly expressed their sentiments of the numerous wrongs which
the ever memorable Queen Caroline so long and so patiently
endured. lem unwilling to dwell on that subject. I cannot
revert to it without the most painful recollections. It was not
in the noble nature of her late Majesty to breathe one wish of
vengeance, or to suffer one sensation of animosity to rankle in
her breast. She knew that a Divine Agency presided over the
progress of human events; and the confidence she felt in this
consolatory truth, threw a heavenly sunshine over her dying
hour. If the people of England lament her loss, as of one,
who, with the most amiable sensibilities of her sex, had a mind
that could comprehend and a heart that could cherish the gene-
ral interests of mankind; if they mourn over her premature
grave, as of one who hailed with delight the dawn of freedom
among the enslaved nations of the Continent, and was en ad-
vocate for the utmost practical extension of civil and religious
liberty in this enligb'ened country. we may still reflect with
complacency that her generous spirit- is now for ever regime
from that troubled scene, which, for wise purposes, constituted
so large a portion of her mortal life. Her sufferings are past;
her sorrows have vanished ; her many indignities can no more
I be renewed; lout as long as Englishm►n shrink from the prac-
tice of oppression ►nd kindle with tits love of liberty, hareem
will be cherished and her memory revered,"

By the French Mail yesterday, Gibraltar Chronicles
were received to the 7th inst. They ■rc entirely barren of
every intelligence of any general nature. By prirate
letters from the same place, we learn, that the number of
Refugees, notwithstanding the departure of many for the
United States and England, was still great. Commerce
remains in a state of great depression at Gibraltar, the un-
settled state of Spain causing a great stagnation of business
there. The arrival of wheat, dour, and provisions from
all parts, had been very numerous, and in consequence sales
were effected with difficulty and at considerable loss. Many
of the cargoes of salt provisions had bun reshipped for
England.

FRIGHTFUL Swam—Last night an inquest was held
at the Coach and Horses, High Street, Shauwell, before J.
W. Untein, Esq. Coroner,fon the body of Mr. John Reading,
taken out of the river Thames, near New Crane Wharf, on
Wednesday last. From the evidence, it appeared that the
deceased had on the night of the sth instant jumped into
the river, near Execntion Dock, from a boat which be had
engaged to put him across, and that when the body was
examined, a wound like a cut was discovered in the
throat, which had been covered with an old newe-
-1 paper. On stripping the body. the pockets of
the clothes were found to be filled with stones,
and in one of them was a razor with some papers,
which led to the discovery of the rank and connections of
the deceased. He appears to have been an officer of the
Spartan frigate, aid to have left his home at Plymouth, in
such a state of mental derangement that his friends were
apprehensive of the most fatal consequences. The Jury,
after hearing the evidence, found a verdict that tlip deceased
had drowned himself, while of unsonad mind.

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