The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-08-12 00:00:00

INGLAND, IRELAND, AND SCDTLIND.

Ilehester Jall. July %SA. ISO.
My beloved Fellow Countrymen and Fellow Conts-
trywoweo,—lf we hail not before been proud of the
name of Radicals, we most assuredly should be so now;
for, now that the corrupt and venal tools of government
have denounced their amiable and lovely Queen as a
radical, there cannot be a man or woman in the king-
dom, whose heart heats in the right place, but must
feel disgraced if they were not thought to have a title
to that appellation. Every one who is virtuous, heave,
and kind-!:earted, every one who dares to act uprightly
and honestly, every one who thinks correctly and
speaks what he thinks, is by these vermin denominated
a radical.

Within one short month, since I last had the honour
to address you, my friends, we have witnessed some
strange and momentous occurrences. It is pretty
clear, notwithstanding they have got me safe and s:otg►
in Jail, that the enemies of reform have not been rest-
ing upon a " bed roses." It is hoot more than two
short months since a woman, a persecuted and de-
fenceless, though brave and tnatchless woman, iereded
this mighty land, and, in spite of the threats of Castle-
reagh, and in defiance of the mighty Wellington, the
" greater, eaptaia tf the age," (as Brougham so re-'
peatedly and so fawningly called him to his face,) in
spite of this mighty warrior, and his mighty army,'
England has been invaded by a Womax, and she hall
marched like a second Napoleon from the distant pro-
vinees, and taken posg.ssion at once of the capital aid
the hearts of a generous people, without firing a single
shoot, or spilling one e.r.,p of blood. This brave and,
high-spirited lady has certainly gained the hearts,
and secured the support of nine-tenths of the popula-
tion of the country, male and female. You will be
aware that her polemics cre the enemies of reform, and
that those enemies have proved themselves very power-
ful and dangerous, and that by experience they have
shown that they ran, when they please, get any one
found guilty contrary to evidence, let them he ever so
innocent. You viii not tail to recollect, aid to re-
peat it when you real' this, that I was found guilty con-
trary to the clearest and most indisputable testimony f
and, in spite of that tcstiniony, was sentenced to a
punishment seldom indicted upon the most guilty. And
yon will add, that this was iwier/y done, in spite of the
opinion of the public, and in opposition to the voice of
millions, which millions had not the power of prevent-
ing my sentenve from being carried into execution;
and that those who sent sue here are the self-same par-
ties that are the persecutors of our amiable, lovely, and
brave• Queen. You will say ton, that if they wish it,
they can condemn the Queen in the same way, without
any evidetice, or even without a hearing; and the people,
although they ab or such injustice, will tatusly look
on upon a mock trial, supported by witnesses that
would not he fur one moment listened tu, even on a
queJtion where the dispute was about five shillings;
and ■ll this, although nineteen-twentieths of the peo-
ple will not believe one word of this suborned testi-
mony ; nevertheless, if the accusers ran get a court
or a jury chosen by themselves, to say the won) guilty,
that then her degradation and punishment will follow
in spite of any thing, and every thing, that can be
dune by the people.

I hare requested the Publisher to insert a Copy of
the Bristol Address which was unanimously adopted
by a Meeting of 211,001) of its Citizens, and which I
had the honour to present to the Queen, when she was
Princess of Wales. You will find me consistent I the
same man either within or without the walls of a jail.
TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS CAROLI!It, ►RINCESA OF WALES.

The Dutiful and Loyal Address of a numerous and re-
spectable Public hlemlng of the Freemen. 'Burgesses.
and Inhabitants of the City of Bristol. held on the Public
Exchange, the 99d day of March, 1813.
" May it please rut Royal Highness,
.4 We, the Freemen, Borg and Inhabitants of
the ancient City of Bristol, in public meeting assem-
bled, beg leave to approach your Royal Highness, not
in the language of unmeaning adulation, which would
be as disgusting to the dig ~111'd mind of your Royal
Highness to accept, as it would be degrading and dis-
gusting in us as Englishmen to offer ; but we beg
to be permitted, in the language of truth and sincerity,
humbly, though zealously and firmly, to assure foie
Royal Highness that we are actuated solely with the I
love ofjnstice when we declare that we entertain the
most profound respect and veneration for the character,
as scull as the most invincible attachment for the
person of your Royal Highness.—We should inflict
the greatest torture upon our feeling-a if we were to
neglect upon this occasion to congratulate your Royal
Highness, in terms the most unequivocal, npon the
development of that Conspiracy against your Royal
Highm as, which has terminated in the most glaringez-
posure of the wicked intentions of your suborned
Accusers, the discomfiture of your abandoned and per-
jured Traducer., and, at the same time, the most un-
bounded acquittal of your Royal Highness in the eyes
and hearts of every unprejudiced person in the universe.
Hut it would be impossible to govern our feelings if we
were to endeavour to express our abhorrinse• in terms
adequate to the resentment we entertain for those who
were the promoters and instigators of the false, detest-
able, and groundless nee usations against your Character,
for the base, cowardly, and creel purpose of bringing
your Illustrious Person to an untimely and ignominious
death. We were delighted with that consisted,.
rectitude of soul which inspired your Royal Ingham
with All virtuous courage to demand of the House of
Commas, that ' you may be treated as innocent, tie
proved to be guilty.' But we are far more delighted
with the result, which has proved to the whole world