The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-09-15 00:00:00

PM /Di Si rri is MEETING.

Yesterday being the slay appointed for a meeting of
the inhabitant householders of the parish of Padding-
ton; at as early hour. S. Whitbread, Esq. NI.P.. Peter
Moore, Esq. 11. P., and Sir Gerard Noel. Bart. M.P., to-
gether with the geode:mien of the committee appointed
for the superintend:mem. of the meeting., assembled at
the house of TI s Thatcher, Esti. of latimmr.place.
Paddington, from whence, at about 1.2 o'clock. they pro-
resales! to the chnrch. There being no possibility ,of
accommodating the numerons c ... patly whirls had al-
ready arrived within the walls of that edifice, it was
agreed to adjourn the 'sleeting. to the tlreen, where a
spacious and.commoslions booth and hustings been
previously prepares!. We never remember to have seen
a greater display of female losaitty than we witnessed
ow this Use. son, the tetopssrary stage brims almost en.
tinily tilled with fashionable and well-dressed females.
The Orem was thronged with equipages and teeslestrians
in great numbers ; and the fineness of the weather, added
to the interesting nature of the ucca,iun, hail drawls
an immense r •ourse of 'spectator, together : the re-
spectability of their appearance, the ~.sreat order and
attention to the proceetlities observed by them, and the
universal sympathy ansi feeling ;shirt, they manifested,
were such as tonne have impressed the most indifferent
stranger with a high sense of the real state of time rib-
lie feeling among the must respectable classes 05 the
COIBI.IIII nily.
At about a flouter to one Sir Gerard Noel, Mr. WM.-
bread. Mr. Peter More, Mr. 11.ey.lomm, and the geotlenten
of the ems tttttt ittre. arrived Nom the immtatiors.
S. Whitbread. Esti. M.P. for the County of Middlesex,
was called to the ('hair.

The Cu tine t x said. it was rot will t considerable
personal inconvenience that he attended the fleeting;
but he felt highly honours-al fur the invitation, and owed
an oblige( 0 the part of the comity he had now the
pleasure to address, which could not hr easily repaid.
At all times, as well as at the present n 11111 l rut. hr should
be ready to **entire his etnevenieneas to the public ser-
vice. ft would. indeed. lw difficult for him to express the
delight he felt at the good sense and generous feeling
which the people of Paddington heal eviareil in thus
proving their hostility and abhorrence at the iniquitous
proceedings against the Queen. They were not assem-
bled to pronounce upon her Majesty's innocence or
fronts hat to pronounce upon the most odious measures
that ever disgraced any narks'. a.• I the question now
was, whether the King of Englan I might get rid of his
wife ur not.—(A laugh and applause unhappy
differences esisted in private life, anal a system of this
kind tal been pursued. for the purposes ;f !separation,
it would hr said th flat man was tired of his wife; that
he wanted In push her from his proteetiout ; and that
n hate% er might be the %tile's emir. the husband had
Oiled not 11411 much feeling. Tie. time Misname w Isms
things ware to he called by their right moues, and thesis
har measlres sle111:111.1cli the sito•t decisive opposi-
tion on the rart of the people. .'t chamee, it seemed,
had taken place in the opinion of the ,lodges upon this
important ..erasion. About two days before the adjourn.
meat, a Noble Lonl, who was the well-known supporter
of Government under all circumstances, asked the prime
Minister a optestion upon the subject of tlie Divorce
part of the Lill. It was merely for the It ratiticaf of
the euriosity of the sviellites of the Minister, and it
was 1101 I‘llooll that they were determined to support
him. %%briber it was his intention to press the Divorce
Clause or not. At that moment no answer was ortnrnetl,
butt a lung time had not elapsed before the Minister ex-
pressed his intention to omit the insertion of any clause
to that eirect. New. the Divorce part of the Bill luting
withelrarn, there were, of course, no longer any public
grounds for pretending that the Bill aimed at any pub-
lic good.— ( Applause.) This was an unjust and
cowardly mole of proceeding. .% fate of this kind
might arise tram the fart of a husband being afraid that
his own conduct would be brought to light, and a nisi)
to keep his rite mat of the way, in order, that he might
pursue that conduct %tido-nit interruption. It was well
worth the while of the fleeting to consider the cominct
of the King's Attorney-General. tier Alajestv's first
Law .lalviser asked him who sent him there; the King's
Attorney-General could not tell ; and upon Iseing asked
upon %silose authority he came. the same answer was re-
turned. Could the conduct of that very great authority.
the Solicitor-General, hue vier forgotten: Ile haul said
there certainly had Iwo) no direct midetwe of allidtery
on board ship. Now the two Captains had declared
that they observed nothing improper in her 11ajestv's
conduct, anal the erg ttttt esti of the great law authority
was, that as there was a possibility that adultery might
have been ronrinitttd, adultery actually was committed
—(laud laughter and applause.) 'ate public might
rely upon it, that those odious measures would be shirked
some nay or other by Ministers, whin were templets-by
ashamed of and fatigned by their unhappy elsolee of a
elan of persecution. Ile was, indeed. of opinion, that
as the subject was a matter of female honour anal female
delicacy. and involved the mit-slims. whether the Queen
of England was to be at the head of the sex in this
country or not, the derision upon it should lie left to a
jury of bialies.—(Applause.) The lion. Gentleman con-
cluded by observing, he should hand the first resolution
(are resolutions) to Sir Gerard Noel, Ow would leave the
pleasureof propounding it to thou.—{lmmense cheering.)
Sir Grams') Nostt. stepped forward amidst general
applause. In returning to the preliminary steps which
had been taken previously to the present proceeding, he
could not help being particularly struck with one re-
markable circumstance, vii.—the omission of her Ma-
jratv's name (ruin the Liturgy I ediately moon the
lamented death of George 111. This was a striking
matter, even in a Protestant runntry, in point of time ;
because. at the very time that the Queen. then Princess
Regent. was charged with the abominable acts impaled
to her, her name was allowed to retards is the Liturgy ;
and it did remain while breath was permilteal so remain
in the body of dor late Kimg.—(clear, her, hear!)—lt
was fortunate for those whom he addedlised that limy
lived under a ronstitntion—that their were guarded by
laws gained by our forefather; osesof the arbitrary ra-
cemes of James 11., and maimed by their valour and
their wisdom apes the ersayloties of that gloriosa revo-
Intios which seated Williams 111. tapes thr thrum.. The
illustrious wooer, whew cease they Isere met to moul-
der sod to vindicate, had Mho Nag. Lnli *erred as-
tote of her 'bootie's, ea oallor soek loos and sorb a

anstiiition, but in a Popish country abroad, where
we bad,• indeed, ambassadors. They must reeolleet that
iimbassadors were for the protection of individuals of
their respective nations ; whom they were supposed so
rompletely to shadow and defect' by their anthonty, that
sometimes even wars were declaresl if those individuals
were insulted in violation of the privileges of such am-
bassadors. But the Queen of England, while there, was
no longer under the protection of this countre ; she was
liable to the attacks of every assassin.—(Year, hear •.)
Her's was the same situation almost as Thomas a Becket's
with regard to Henry 11., when that King was abroad.
Henry complained of the man whose existence gave him
constant disturbance, and exclaimed in the hearing of
his followers, " Will nobody rid we of this person, who
gives me endless disquiet ?a The words were heard by
his servants, and, putting their o:en construction upon
them, they came over to England and assassinated a
prelate, the approach to whose shrine was still to he
seen, worn by the steps of those pilgrims who had come
front every quarter to behold it. The very same thing
might have happened to our Queen, by reason of the
abominable treatment she had received. It was owing
—and he would maintain it—it was owing solely to the
love and affection which every body bore to that excel-
, leot and injured woman—their Qnren—(Cheers)—it
was owing to their powerful and spontaneous protection
that she had not been immediately, and long before this
period, immolated by the stiletto of the assassin. For-
tunate it was for that noble lady that she journied through
those countries before the assassin was vet ready to
strike the blow. Favoured as she had been by the guar-
than and watchful care of Providence, it was well that
they had now a living Queen to address, instead of a
dead one to deplore.—(l.mill cheering.)—When the
Queen was offered by the Izovermisent !WNW. a year as
the price of her shame and her security, he was well
convinced that the offer argued no extravagance in his
Majesty's llinisters, because, bail she accepted the of-
fer, they well knew that her life would soon be snatched
away from her in a Popish country, and that their splen-
did bribe u oithl nut he to he paid her for more than six
weeks at forthes•.—(Hear. hear :)—The worthy Baro-
net concluded by moving the first resolution ; which
was seconded by Mr. Collins, and carried unani-
mously. _ . .

Mr. PETER MOORE moved the second Resolution,
which warmly praise i her Majesty's refusal of the
bribe offered to her, and her heroism in disregarding
I the threats. Ile agreed with the Worthy Chairman
and Baronet who had preceded him, in the observa-
tions they had made. Indeed, every one could be
eloquent upon t [m.o. lamentable proceedings which
had been since the Errat meeting at Mary-le-bone, the
sister parish to Paddington. propped up and supported
by additional perjury and corruption. Who was it that
directed all this ? floe Chancellor sat quietly upon his
Woolsack, waiting for the signal from :Ministers; and one
Noble Lord said iio this, and another do that, and all re-
ceive'l the character of Judges. This was nothing but a
profound mockery. lint there was, thank Boil, an appeal
to the people, olio would scoot this odious pruceetliug.
The trial was, in fact, not the trial of the Queen, but of
the 31 i niaters--(A pplan se)--w too hail themselves declared,
through the medium of Mr. Wilberforce, that scape•goat
of all Ministerial imposition upon the people, that the
proceeding was derogatory to the dignity of the Crown,
and injurious to the hest interests of the country. This
was the doctrine of the Ministers ; and if so, how came
it that they adopted a course fraught with such dreadful
consequencesl—(Loud a(pplause.)—As to the Divorce
part of the Bill lie had a few worths to say. He believed
that Ministers would be very happy of an opportunity of
divorcing themselves from the Bill altogether. Their
leorolships pretended to be regulated by Courts below,
and they applied to the Judges to give their assistance;
but there was another Court, that of Doetors' Commons.
which must he engrafted on the Bill. Their Lordship'
t he regulated by the proceedings in that Court, and
how then would they be oblige,' to act ? What was to
be the farther process amongst their Lordship ? When
the evidence was closed, they wroth! go into a Committee
and endeavour to leave nut the Divorry Clause. But that
should not be slime until the evidence of his Majesty, and
of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and of the .1 Divines
who hail signed the paper, which had been drawn np
years ago to ohm-moth the Queen, should be regularly
exaussitird—(Laughter.)—lt was a maxim with him, that
no Barrister should adopt any proceeding without having
what appeared to him to be competent proof, and how,
he begged to know, haul the Attorney-General's state-
ment been borne nut by evidence ? those proceedings
• were said by the Attornerlieneral to have been going on
lois years, and yet there is no individual charge, and
; three of those years were never alluded to in evidence.
Besides, what period had been chosen for fixing the ins-
! potation ? Why the period of her travels, when the nation
t necessarily have been in ignorance as to her move-
ments. The pulilierronlol,lie assured the Meeting, be soon
convinced by evidence of the gronnollessuess of all the
charges against her Majesty. The cry with her Majesty's
enemies was, " Why do you disturb the country :" and
threats were hell out to stop the interposition of tier
friends. But the politic, who were her friends, wanted
no escape—a defence should he made, and that upon the
first authorities, and other divorces might be made, but
not a divorce from that 11111; for if Ministers were allowed
to divorce themselves from that Bill, the Constitution
must inevitably be lost. The Honourable gentleman
then made some e go' upon the evidence of Louisa
Wilmot, and upon the general character of the Italian
witnesses, and their reailiiir” to undertake the vile otiire
fur money. He declared that the Leicestershire Militia
hail athiresaetl her Majesty ; butt the power and inclina-
' tion of their C andant to snbject them to privation's
prevented them from ackmosrlialging it; they, however,
hail nut denied it. After some observations upon the
vast her of Addresses that were pouring in from all
quarters to her Majesty, the lionourilile Gentleman coo-
-1 eluded by eapressing his Opinion, that the efforts of the
people would frastrate all the desperate efforts of the
enemies of the Queen and the Constitution—{Lund
applause.)
Mr. 01.1. tee, a parishioner, in a very sensible address,
proposed the third resolution. We are sorry for our •
I inability to give even an outline of this gentlianss's re.
marks. Much interest was eacitel by a few manly and
spirited observations of Capt. Jenkins, his Meal. This
gontleuma is the owner of several vessels, and was stated
to be atborwiste a person of respectahle property and
essaneetions. At the request of Mr. Oilier, he advanced;
and with that mixture of timidity and manliness, which
are so characteristic of a British seaman, upon an occa-
sion like the present, he spoke to the following effect :
.. Uentlemen, I arrived here only yesterday evening. I
bail net, I assure yon, the small;ost knowle'sige whatever
!of the projected assemblage of this moat respectable
' sleeting; sor die slightest idea whatever that stir name
world ever he mentioned. It has been, though; and
when I am (Idled on as a Briton, give me leave to say,
I feel an English heart within sue. I ant a seafaring
mans and have been, fur several years past, accustomed
Ito visit different porta, and towns and cities, in the
Mediterranean. I may moors- to add that I am are
quaintest with most of the British Consuls in tbe Medi-
%strums:4 and those gentlemen we mist consider as the
servants of the British nation. Preen no ono of three,
on say honour, have I
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faults of any nation; b t the levity pfethe customs and
practices of foreign eon tries generally might disgustyou, however free from 4ny offensive intention. If there 1,
be any Italian present, I would call upon him to face
me.—(Continued laughter.)—(Here the gallant captain
took elf his hat, and held it forward with an emphatic
gesture.) I would venture to say, that t would get him,
easily, to declare that this hat, which you see is tptite
black, is a green one.(A laugh.)—Hut let me tell you,
where our Queen is said to bare been, there are a great
many English gentlemen—men of honour. Let them
be called on, in Hod's name, and we may knots what
we have to trust to; but mean time, no more of this
Italian nonsense.—(Loud cheering.)—l hare been at
Genoa, Malta, Smyrna, Marseilles, Naples, Coustalpi.
nople, Ephesus—what is now called Alexandria; I hum
been in other places where her Majesty has been ; I
have mixed with high and low ; and never did I hear
one person in those parts speak except in terms of the
highest praise and admiration of the British Queen."
Captain Jenkins then retired. It would be dithcult to
express the general sympathy and favour excited by his
gallant and honest appearance. Mr. P. Moore came
forward, and, before lie conld well propose them, three
times three lusty cheers were given with true heart. in
honour of this British seaman.

Mr. Mies, Mr. Kerby, Sir Gerard Noel, the Rer.
Marcus, who read tho two addr►sses ksee resolution.).
Mr. Butler, J. lieppell, Esq.. S. C. Whitbread. Esq., m.p..
and P. Moore, Esq., M. P. successively addressed the
meeting, which then peaceably disperses!, after armiea
unanimously to the following resolutions. We must re.
peat that we never beheld a more truly respectable as.
semblage, or one more enlivened by the prestur of a
vast access►on of fetnale beauty.
The gentlemen of the committee, Sir Gerard Noel.
Bart. and M. I'., Mr. Whitbread, M. P. Mr. Peter Moore.
M.P., and others then retired to the hospitable home
of S. Fletcher, Esq., where they parto.sis of refreshmests.
It is almost unneremary to sdJ, the deportment of
the meeting was in the highest degree decorous sod
becoming.

Iet:HIT.O4CE OP TIM RC4OIXTIONt.
1. That this meeting views with disgust and indigss.
tion the unremitting and bitter persecution with which
her Majesty Queen Caroline has been pursued, and the
base endeavours to inflict on her the punishment of a
tainted reputation, contrary to that noble element of
British jurisprudence which declares every one to be
innocent till proved to be guilty.
t That this Meeting considers that her Majesty
merits our warmest thanks for that honourable exercise
of her mind, in scornfully refusing a base bribe off led
her, upon the one baud, and a still baser threat upon the
other.

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3. That this Meeting does hereby express its ahhor•
rence of the principle of the present proceeding by a
Inn of P 3411174 and Penalties arainst her Majesty, and of
the partial wanner and insolent way in which its framers
have dared to conduct it.

4. (In favour of the minority of the 6 peers.)
6. That addresses to her Majesty. one (tutu the inha-
bitant householders, and soother from the married fe-
males resident in this parish, founded upon the fore-
going resolutions, be drawn up and left for signature
throughout the parish; and that the chairman of this
meeting be requested to present the former, attended by
the members of the committee, and *itch other inliehitant
householders as shall be pleased to join him; and that
some lady, resident iii the parish, lie requested by the
committee to present Ike latter, accompanied by sattli
ladies of those who may have signed it es may be Omni
to attend.

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9. That this Meeting considers with adiuiraties the
intrepid and judicious conduct of her Majesty's comet
—taken from the examples derived front the misfits-
tional lawyers amongst our anc►stors—adorning oar own
times be their integrity, talent, and fidelity; and allord-
ing a splendid memorial to our latest posterity. Also.
that this resolution be transmitted to the respettire
parties.
10. That this Meeting do express their opinion lit re-
turning their best thanks to those truly independent
members of Parliament who have Ibis Jay honoured it
with their presence.
I I. That we cordially thank Mr. Alderman Wood for
the conspicuo•ta, active, and zealous part which lie has
manifested throughout this great national restion.
13. l'hat this Alerting cannot adjourn without thank-
ing Mr. Wakeman. the chairman of the committee, and
the original promoter of the meeting, and the meeting
itself, for their exertions.
14. That oar warmest thanks are due. and a►e hereby
directed to be made to the churchwardens of the parish,
far their kind sanction and handsome furtherance of
our wishes.
15. That the thanks of this Meeting are eminently
due to S. Whitbread, Esq., M.P., our chairman, for
the honour lie has dune as by presiding, and for his a►le
support to all the objects embodied in the foregoing
resolutions.

We understand, that Dr. Jlaculloch is sow is the
island of Dalin, engaged in verifying the experiments
of Colonel Mudge, M. Mott, Dr. Gregory, and Captain
Kater, on the figure of the earth, and in correcting
the errors arising from local attraction. We are also
inform; d, float he is occupied, tinder the direction
of
the right honourable Board of Ordnance, in 'Ailing to
the mineralogical map of Scotland, which is now
nearly completed, a survey of these islands, and that
the whole will shortly be pbblished under their
•auspices,—(!Mennen loorssol.)
'l•he long talked of improvetneuts on the North Loch
have bees commenced, with a spirit which ptonsierr
their speedy completion. A wall of nine fret is height
is now erecting around the base of the Castle rusks
from the grass-tuarket to the manse at the cud of the
loch, and when finished the welt. divkiou of the loch
will he completely enclosed. The walk in the inside
of the parapet wall along Prince's-street is already
edged with butt•woud, and parallel with tbis ODA us the
lower level, another walk has bees bid out. Labour-
ers are actively employed in levelling the ground of
the loch which we' understand ii to he converted into
a garden upon the most tasteful ausl elegant plan, sett
to add to the ot*ct, truce parts of the CaNtle rock,
where soil °An lie, are to br planted with trees.
(Edialtargh Courort)
31r. Abercrustiby, a confidential friend of the Dar
of Devonshire, at present in Lisnsorr. has recently
brought over from Cornwall an able English miner,
who is now employed in examining his D7ser's estates
on the coast of the count• Cork, in order to discover
whether any coal or minerals are situate there, se as
immediately to work those mines. and give emplor•
rent ton grant portion of the populatbns It he should
he so fortunate as to sn.•cerd lie his ararri6 What au
advantage to I reland if he alsrmisi succeed f

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LONDON:

Fatotr svimiNG, SRPTEatHER 15, 1920.

STOCK 13-CCIIANG E, One o'Cloek.

The Funds have experienced a considerable depres-
4,41 in consequence of some very heavy sales. Pub-
unpisies SKIM to be rather on the decline, with
regard to the stability of the price, which has been
iatttrl so very stationary. Consols opened yesterday
y
morning at 6n for the account, and owing to some
heart sales for money at fl7l, the price declined in
proportion, and ultimately closed at 671.
This mining another scene of-eonfusiun ensued t.
the market opened pretty still' at 67e a but some im-
mense sales sod the eagerness of the parties to get
nut cauted Consols to fall to 6tii fur the account. There
appears to be no other reason than t hese sales for the
614 though yesterday some idle reports were afloat,
that are not worth mentioning.
Ormium has been done at 3i discount, and there
being a payment to day has occasioned money to be
rather scarce. The price of Consols is now about 1;4
I.r the account, the market looking rot quite so heavy
a, it has been.

Extract of a letter (ruin Paris, dated Sept. 12
" At length the post from Bayonne is arrived, which
brin;s me the continuation of the Revolution in Por-
tutal, similar to that of Spain and Naples. My letter
from Madrid of the ath ins:., and others from Badajos,
state, that it was reported, things did not go on so
smo,thly at Lisbon as was expected ; much to the con-
trary ; a deal of blood has been shed in that
Capital. The number of slain and wounded are
com;teed at eighteen hundred. The English have been
severely treated, and have lost a number of men, as they
resisted the Authorities, and retreated into the forts,
which, after some resistance, they were obliged to
evacuate and get into Fort St. Julian ; at length, those
who saved their lives got on board shipping, and pro-
r•eded to tiibraltar. Funds, 73 f. 90 c."

Yesterday presented, in various parts of the metropo-
lis, other striking instances of the intense and general
interest which is felt by its inhabitants in favour of the
*wt. Sesid-e the meeting of the Ward of Parring-
don-without, the proceedings of which we, in the even-
in;.:, gave a report of the commencement, there was a
meeting of the Ward of Cripplegate-witliont, and a
meeting of the inhabitant householders of the opulent
and populous parish of Paddington. All these meet-
ings were as much distinguished for their manly senti-
meat and spirit, as for their respectability and numbers;
and such was the animation of the parishioners of Pad-
dington, that the chime+ in which the meeting was ap-
pointed to be hell could not contain the multitude
that was collected on the occasion, and an adjournment,
from necessity, took place to Paddingtou-green. There,
as the necessity had been anticipated, a hustings was
erected fur the use of the gentlemen who regulated the
meeting, and an extensive range of seats for the acco-
nridation of the ladies ; and upwards of eight thonzaull
of the inhabitants assembled, and entered with enthu-
siasm into the business of the day.
Consistent with the sore and envious spirit, that
has laboured to detract from the weight and importance
of those popular meetings which had previously assent-
h:ed for a similar purpose, it is highly probable the
endeavour will be renewed to diminish the impression
which these recent assemblages are calculated to
produce.

•• Destroy thr fits and sophiatry,—in vain—
" 111 matt re's at its dirt) work again."

It were an endless task to expose the ineffectual and
absurd attempts that are daily made by the Ministerial
press to decry the feeling, which has been raised
throughout the nation by the proceedings against the
QUIIEN. There is scarcely any they make that does
not re-act upon themselves, either by betraying their
dr:eptione, or invalnlng them in their confessions.
The Gorier, the other night, to throw discredit upon
the inhabitants of the parish of Kimptun, who had
trassmitted an Address to her 3IAJFIITT, represents the
popalation of that place as consisting of four princi-
pal farmers, the citrate and his father, (an independent
gentleman,) a carpenter, a blacksmith, three little shop-
keepers, and the remainder, •people of the labouring
class, rho, with the eaception of four or five, derive
their attpport from the parish poor-Goy." What a pic-
ture of an English parish ! According to this classifica-
tion, made out for the purpose of exposing them to
contenspk the great body of the Inhabitants of the
place, whist exception of sixteen individuals, are
dependent on thntlenussynary contributions of a small
minority ! A berane, or refiecting mind would have
thiaght that web a representation would have pro-
duced some other feeling this contempt. It sight
have naturally led to ask, how each a strange and
inequitable state of distribution the goods ollits hod

come to happen in this miserable village of Elapsed ?
It might have inquired whether the effect was re-
duced by local causes, or the operation of the getters!
system ; and if it were found, u It Immediately would
be, in case the inquiry were pursued, that the case of
Kitnpton was by no means singular, and that many, If
not most, of the country parishes of England were in
the same condition, it would not have given ground
for wonder, that the inhabitants of such a parish
should have given vent to their feelings in the tone
and manner which are the subjects of the Coulee's
animadversion. Is it wonderful that those in adverse
circumstances should feel for the distressed, that those
who have constantly so much occasion to bewail their
own grievances, should have an ear open to listen to
the persecutions of another? The rank in which her
lIAJZiTT is placed, renders her condition the more con-
spicuous and touching; and the circumstances by
which she is affected, " come home to every man's
business and bosom." On this account it is, that
so much sympathy in her behalf pervades every
class in the country ; and if the men of Eng-
land could have possibly been backward in tea•
tifying their sentiments on the occasion, they would
have been chanted and urged by the feelings of the
women. The aggrieved of every rank, and the females
universally, wherever they are unrestrained by rank,
feel the cause of the QUERN to be their own. What
the ladies of Edinburgh express in their Address to her
Mansry is the common senttment of the sex ; and it
is as right and proper in its principle as it is exten-
sive in its operation. " The principles and doctrines,"
say they, " now advanced by your accusers do not
apply to your case alone, but, if made part of the law
of this land, may hereafter be applied as a precedent
by every careless and dissipated husband to rid him-
self of his wife, however good and innocent she may
he : and ta render his family, however amiable, ilk.
gitimate ; thereby destroying the sacred bond of ma-
trimony, and rendering all domestic felicity very un-
certain. Such being the consequences of these princi-
ples and doctrines, your MAJLIITT'S case becomes a
common cause with all the females in this kingdom,
whose utmost efforts ouOit therefore to be lawfully
earnsttl, to prevent innocence front suffering under
the power and influence of servile and interested
persons."

That peculiar pains should have been taken by the
enemies of the Qt-ters, to restrain the expression of the
feelings of her own sex in her 31.t.ms IT'S behalf, is
not at all to be surprised at: the influence of females
is usual extensive and formidable ; and mast require
snore power than her MAJUTT'S adversaries ever can
attain to counteract. The procession of the gallant
tars, on Wednesday, was attempted to he ridiculed.
It was but " the procession of some hundred sailors!"
Call you that nothing .11,. Post f *' Call you that
nothing," asked the ill-advised KING Jassss, when his
courtiers told him it was but the cheers of the soldiers
at the liberation of the Bishops, that sounded in his
ears. The number of seamen in the procession, says
the .Uosiiiitir Post, were several handset!. Instead of
hunched let its readers know it should have inserted
doe:said. It is accurate only in relating that " the
men wore white cockades in their hats," and this intel-
ligence it comumnieates for the purpose of expressing
its surprise " where the money came from to purchase
so nsany yards of ribbon." "We wonder where the
money came from !" From the QUEEN it could not.
The large provision offered, of 50,000/. a year, she had
indignantly refused. The 10,0001. that had been ap-
plied for to defray the charge of her defence, we know
nut, even now, that her agents have received. Where
then can be the funds out of which, this sapient prin
inquires, the expense attendant on these popular move-
ments have been supplied ? Where ? Why in the
generous bosom of every genuine Englishman, In the
sympathy of every unsophisticated heart, in the gal-
lantry of every noble mind. To the venal and the
mercenary, this again may be matter of wonder ; het
ignorant as they may affect, or may really happen to be,
this is actually matter of fact. It is this, that has,
and it is nothing bat this that could have roused and
animated the entire body of the people. It is this that
met her IllsJerrir on her arrival at Dover, that has ac-
companied her in every stage of the proceedings against
her, that attends her at the pretest awful crisis of her
fate, and that will not desert her in her utmost need.
To the credit of the national character this feeling has
been frequently conspicuous in the English annals ;
and how can it be wanting, when demanded in behalf
of a defenceless, injured woman, and a persecuted
WEIN ?

As we consider that *very day brings her llaavivir
nearer to her acquittal, we scarcely thought it neces-
sary to load our columns with a repetition of the dis-
gusting evidence which has been brought against
her ; although the repetition would be merely for the
purpose of refuting it, such a refutation is perfectly
unnecessary ; for the respectable portion of the Public
have already marked the evidence with their disbelief ;
and we consider the approaching resumption of the
proceedings, under the conduct of her MAJMITT.6 able
Counsel, as nothing more than a formal act, somewhat
similar to the recording a verdict of Not Guilty, in
the ordinary Courts of Justice. Addresses to the
QUINN fro♦ all parts of the country continue to
be amiss' up to her, and those Journalists who
have been so injudicious ns to take part with

AM.

her prommutori, ate now reduced to the Mad
pitiable noisy at these Addresses. 'They call until
that it is shansefld & prejudge a legal inquiry, and
they attempt to ridicule the Addresses. These men
either have forgotten, or they are ignorant, that every
one of these Addresses is perfectly consistent with the
law ; that the laws of England not only suppose, but
even insist on the innocence of every accused, until
that accused be convicted ; that although all the mem-
bers of the Cabinet had been witnesses on this trial,
and had sworn that they had, with their own eyes,
seen all that the witnesses have deposed, still we, and
all other Journalists, and every man in the king-
dom, would have a right, by law, to say, and
write, and publish, that " the Qintex is inno-
cent." Such idle complaint, therefore, as that of
the writers we have mentioned, is indeed scarcely
worth noticing. With respect to the ridicule
attempted to be cast upon the persons who have car.
tied up these Addresses, we (who yield in loyalty to
no one of the Ktive's subjects) can only say " would to
" Clop that such Addresses had been carried up to his
" MsJesrv, on his accession to the Throne!" The
rause of the want of such Addresses, is the conduct of
those men who have abused the name, as well as the
ear of their Royal Master, and who hare thereby
caused a lukewarmness towards the Sol' FRZIUN, which

is contrary to the general feelings of the People. One
of these pretended friends of the KING loudly vaunted
in Parliament, that " his MAJESTY desired nothing
" hut that justice should be administered in the course
"of these proceedings." Of course his MAJE,TY has
no other desire, he would betray his People if he had,
and that man pays but an ill compliment to his SO•
YEREIGN, who tells the Peers " that his MAJEsTY
" dues not wish to betray his People." When-
ever a man, in an ordinary indictment, which
must be preferred in the KING'S name, makes use of
that name against the meanest subject of the realm,
it is his Ms.:rat-v.% duty to wish justice to be done,
and to promote that justice to the utmost of his
power ; and how impertinent then must it be when
a proceeding is in progress against the Kixo's own
wife, the person who, by all the laws of Goo and man,
ought to be the person most dear to him in this
w. rld—when that illustrious woman is under trial on
el charge of adultery, how impertinent must it be to
say that " the KING wishes only fur justice !" When
her NI ursTv shall be acquitted (as soon we hope she
will) of these infamous charges, there can be no
doubt the Kix° will dismiss from his presence the
men who have so basely traduced her. It will then
be the wish of all good subjects that their MsJasmes
should be reconciled, and the KING (who is by edu-
cation and practice, a perfect gentleman) will no
doubt make overtures to the QUEEN fur that purpose.
He We already bees too tong a stranger to tbootrl
domestic comforts which lay the foundations for every
happiness on this side of the grave. He is (alas !)
declining into the vale of years, and he is afflicted with
those infirmities which call most peculiarly for the at-
tentions of an affectionate wife. When his MAJESTY
shall make the overtures we have mentioned, it would
be perfectly natural for every Lady, treated as the
QUEEN has been, to express some resentment, and to
decline a reconciliation. It will then be fur all his
MAJESTY'S loving subjects, (not forgetting the
Bishops), to join their KING in addressing his
Borst. CoNsoar, in proving to her, that the
KING has been deceived, and in imploring her to
bury the past in oblivion. We will hope that
in such a case her MAJESTY will yield to the overtures
of her Consort. and the Addresses of her Subjects, and
we shall then have little doubt of their MAJzsms
passing the remainder of their lives in the enjoyment
of every connubial happiness.

Yesterday, we understand, arrived in town, a lady
and two gentlemen, all of high respectability, from
Como, as witnesses in behalf of the Queen.
A preliminary Meeting of several of the inhabitants
of the parish of St. Pancras, was held last night
at the Southampton Arms Tavern, Camden Town, to
receive the limner fr the Church-wardens, to a re-
quisition which had been presented to them for ap-
pointing a public meeting of the parishioners to Address
the Queen. 'I he meeting held last night, was intended
to have been private, but, the business having trans-
pired, the assemblage of the inhabitants became so
numerous that it was necessary to adjourn from the
assembly-ruom to the garden. The Churchwardens
having readily concurred in the objects of the requi-
sition, the resolutions proposed to be moved at the
general meeting were prepared and agreed to, and the
public meeting was announced to be held in the garden
of the Southampton Arms, on Tuesday next.
In consequence of a numerously signed requisition,
a meeting of the inhabitants of Stroud, tiloucestershire,
was appointed by the High Constable to be held yes-
terday, fur the purpose of voting an Address to the
Queen.
At a sleeting of the inhabitants of ('hipping-Sodbury,
and Its neighbourhood, holden in the Town Hall on
Friday, an Address of Congratulation to her Majesty,
was unanimously adopted.
After the Meeting of the Parishioners of Pad-
dington yesterday, the following Letter was wrings
by Sir O. Noel :
" Ts the Sheriffs of the County of Middlesex :
" We, the undersigned, Freeholders of the County of
Middlesex, duly qualified, request you will be pleased to
,call a blotting of the County, on such day as shall be
convenient for yourself, for the purpose of considering/GO
Address to his Majesty, praying that he will be plowed
to disntin his present Ministers from his presence sad
ossocils for ever. (Signed)
uItRAIRD Noat., Bart. M.P. " JOHN BONES.
P. Mootti, M. P. " Rosser Kilso.
" Joao Hisreet. • balm WADS. •
" Oststlags,.Poddingtoo. 14th Sept: lefg.r