The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-09-05 00:00:00

7li F; Q('RES.

Vetterday her Majesty remained at Brantlenburgh
tote for the purpose bf receiving add .
At half-past twelve o'clock a deputation from the
...04) of Camberwell arrived in a long string of car-
:.,,en, comprising fourteen open landaus, with four
louses each, besides several landsulet4, and close car-

riageg with pairs. The Address was presented and
re4d by the Clerninan of the parish in hie canonicals.
An Address was oho presented front the borough of
Bugton.

The priricipal pageant of the day, however, was the
presentation of the Addressee from " the Inhabitant
tlon.rholders and Married Ladies of the Perished' Mary-
le•huue." The cavalcade far exceeded in number and
respectability all the processons that have yet taken
place, on presenting Add to the Queen. It
v.ioild have seemed that nut only all the inhabitants of
that extensive parish had assembled on the occasion,
but that the whole metropolis had poured forth its
multitudes to swell the retinue.
At half-past nine o'clock in the morning the neigh-
b ,urhoud of Welbeck-street, where the l'otnitsittee-
t4ont is situated, was crowded with carriages; and a
great concourse of people assembled iiit foot.
At half-past eleven, every thing bring arranged, the
procession set forward. It consisted of 15fi carriages,
the greater part admit drawn by four horses each; be-
sides & great number of gigs, tilburies, &c. The streets
and roads in the line of the procession were literally
tilled with spectators. and it was impossible for the
cavalcade to move bait at a foot pace.
After leaving Weibeck-street. it proceeded by way

of North and South Audley-street, Stanhope-street,
and Park-lane, to Hydr-pa rk-corner, and thence throng,'
Knightsbridge, Kensington, &r. At Kensington-gore,
Mt. Whitbread and Lord Win. Fitzgerald fell into the
rank ; and, after passing through Kensington and
Hammersmith, the procession entered the grounds at
I3randenburgh House in the following order:—
Ten persons on horseback.
Sir Gerard Noel. Hart. M. P. in a chariot and pair.
Mr. Ha)don. Chairman of the Committee, n WI the Att.lregs
trout the Male Inhabitants: Ira. with the Id-
tire's front the Female Inhaliitanta: 1.1,1 %Ira. , the
Sceretary of the Ladies' Committee, in an open Itartmehe
and four.
Mr. Hume, M. P. in a Armin: and pair.
Mr. Whitbread. Lord Wm. Fitzgerald, and three Ladies, in
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the carriage of Lady E. Whitbread.
Mr. Peter %Wore. 111. P. In • eharint and pair.

Avery individual wore a large white favour either on
the breast or in the hat ; the addressers themselves
were tied up with bows of white cockades in their hats.
The head of this Immense cavalcade entered the
grounds about half-oast one it'rfork, and it was con-
siderably after three before the whole of the company
were set ilown.
As the company alighted they were ushered into
the grand saloon, which extends front one end of the
mansion to the other. At halt-past three o'clock, the
whole having arranged themselves. her Majesty enter-
. the saloon, attended by Lady Ha•oiltoti. Mr..% bler-
man Wood, and several foreign gentlemen; when Mr.
flayilon read the Ails:rein front tlie male inhabitants :
to which her Majesty was graciously pleased to return
the following answer
" I am under many heartfelt obligations to the Inha-
bitant Householders of the populous and opulent Parish
of St. Mary-le-bone. for this patriotic and affectionate
Address. lam more gratified by the honest sentiments
of men so enlightened and so npright, than I should be
by the most sumptuous incense of adulation from that
t•ifish and corrupt Jason, who have 'll long possessed
all the patronage and engrossed all the honours of the
State.
" In my long travels, both toy land and sea, all my
movements hate been watched by insidious emissaries ;
sod I verily believe, that if I could have mounted in the
air. I should have been followed by a balloon full of
spies. But though my character has been scrutinined
with as much inqnisitorial pertinacity as if my adver-
saries hail been composed of nothing bat eves and tears,
they have not hitherto been able to establish a single
charge to lessen my respectability, or to blur my repu-
tation. Before my adversaries menaced my destruction
11 an unconstitutional Bill of Pains and Penalties, I
had only to claim a restoration of mist just rights, or an
o7en and impartial trial of my conduct. But that Bill
I. is altered the position in whirls I stool with respect to
my enemies on the one side, and to the country on the
other. The question is not now simply, whether the
Queeii shall have her constitutional rights, but whether
tf-e destruction of the Queen shall pare the way for the
d.struction of public liberty. It is pithlic liberty which
attacked in the person of the Queen ; and the preset-
',viola of the Queen, in tier rights, is become necessary
to the preservation of the Nation and its liberties. The
alternative at present in not between one Queen and an-
other; but between liberty and servitude; between a free
Constitution and an arbitrary 4;ot-ern/sent.
" When the Statesmen of future times reflect on the
silies of their progenitors, will it not excite their asto-
rishment or provoke their ridicule, that the present
governing powers of (heat Britain should 'offer the
whole kingdom to be agitated from one end to the other,
acd the pitllic tranquillity to be endangered. in order to
tl•lermine the probabilities of an infidelity, where the
complaining party is on the confines of old age. and the
party against whom the complaint is alleged, is put the
meridian of her days? Can any man think this a snlfi-
ai.-nt reason for superseding all our established laws,
a,a all our judicial forms—for causing the Capital to
he surrounded with troops, and the House of Lords to
be fortified, as if it were in danger of being attacked by
ao enemy? What opinion would an impartial observer
form, when he beheld a judicial proceeding, or what has
the semblance of a judicial proceeding, going on under
tke cover of an armed force? While the temporal Peers,
assisted by the Counsel of Learned Judges, and sanctified
by the presence of mitred Bishops and Archbishops. are
endeavouring to eslculate the chances of, what they are
pleased to call, an adulterous intercourse, the bayonets
of the troops are glittering on the walls of the Parlia-
ment, or gleaming in the passages to that venerable
tribunal.
.4 When Senates are obliged to deliberate, or Courts
of Justice to try causes under the protection of an
armed force, it seems to indicate that those Bodies are
rot acting in unison with the sentiments and affections
of the People. The voice of the laws was of old said
to he inaudible amid the clash of arms ; but is it because
an attempt is making to set aside the laws, that recourse
is hail to a military force? These, however, are times
is which it is well understood that the Interests of the
army cap never be really distinct from the other interests
of the community.
I have often experienced the generosity of English-
men ; and by that generosity none hare been more die-
tiegnialsed than my noble-minded friends in the parish
et alt, Illary-ledione."
Mrs. Harlon then (as Secretary to the Ladles'
Limiinittee) lied the Address fruits that body. and her
sjest) made the following reply :--

" I feel a cordial satisfartion in seeepting the un-
feigns-illy affectionate Address from the married females
resolleidin the palish or St. Mary-le-bone.
" Many of the most 'estimable characteristics of one
!MX, borrow nu small degree of lustre from adversity.
It is then that those gentle virtues are most convictions,
by which we are most adorned; and when even loveli-
ness itself is increased by uncomplaining patience and
humble resignation.
" In as, it is true heroism to be meek in sorrow and
not querulous in suffering.
" If the spirits of those who are no more with us he
at all conscious of what is passing in the scene they
have left, I trust that the spirit of my beloved 'laughter
will contemplate with complacency the serenity I have
endeavoured to acquire, and the fortitude I have en-
deavoured to exercise, in trials of which it is difficult ill
appreciate the severity ; and indeed to which few fe-
males have ever been exposed.
" My departure for the Continent in ISI4, was, at that
moment, like an exile from all that I held dear. I left
a child who was my • d's best hope and iny heart's
best stay, expecting hereafter to see her in happier
days: hut, alas! I was to see her no wore! When we
parted, we parted never to meet again.
" I was hardly married thlore my circumstances be-
cause more desolate than those of widowhood, and I
seemed to have heroine a ther only to he tortured by
the privation of that interrourse wills my chill, which
was hardly ever denied to any ther lint myself. Thus
the pre-eminence of my station because only a pre-
eminence in misery.

"It I have had any enjoyment in the changes anti
chances of my chequered fife, it has been principally
produced by the habits of beneficence which 1 have had
an opportunity of cultivating. I claim •us prait-e for this,
for I have (mind the practice to be agreeable to nature:
and if I hail reflected on the stiltje:.t.mv resolution would
only have derived additional support front the balance of
pleasure, and the calculations of interest. Mere I request
you to tttt ite witlt tote in alluilring that nise constitution
of the niorrl world, which make. the most exquisite sa-
tisfaetirot and the 111114( perm happiness to arise out
of the addition which we make to the grathie4tion of
others. and to the general stork of huttnan felicity."
(loth the answers were read by )Ir. .11deratan Wnesl,
at the request of her M tjesty; and the greater pad of
the assembly had afterwards the homoir to kiss hands.
The Procession then set out, s ttttt ewhat irrecul trly
on tip.ir return to ton : and the v.: it concourse of
look n on 'lowly rinit:r.l the grounds.
.1 lie Ministerial Papers. may affect to ridicule this
demon...ration of public feeling, hoi. it displays too
plainly for denial, the impre.sion that tlp. (411eroo, who
was threitenr.ll with utter ruin if she volumed to set
feu! in Eatrighti, now rifles in triumph through the
Metropolis, and receives the Iptmaze of its inhabitants,
whale tho King retirt s to his cottage in Windsor
tireen-park.

TABLE TALK.

, From"! t cowl re and Co:. / ondon Maya:loe for Reptenaber.]

From the article under this title in the Nunaber for
the present month, which is rich and spirited on th•
stab iect of Conversation, we are induced to select the
following. extract :--

The fault of Lit • Convm•sation in reneral is
its too great ten triousnes.. It fastens upon a subject,
and will not let it go. It resembles a battle rather
titan a skirosiolt, ood maim a toil of a pleasure. Pvt.

hap. it does this from necessity, from a consciousness
of wanting the more familiar graces, the power to
sport and trifle with, to touch lightly and adorn
agreeably, every view or turn of a quesCon to puissant,
as it :irises. Those who have a reputation to lose are
too ambitious of shierinz to please. "To excel in con-
iersatinn," said an ingenious mail, " one muss not
he always striving to say good things ; to say one
good thing, one must say many ball, and more indif-
ferent ones." This desire to shine without the means
at hand, often makes men silent :—the fear of being
silent strikes us dumb. A writer who has been ac-
eusto:tteri to take a connected view of a difficult ques•
Hon, and to work it nut grasinally in all its bearings,
may be very deici.dit in that quickness and ease,
which men ofthe world. who are in the habit of hearing
a variety of opinions, who pick up an observation on
one subject, and another on another, and who case
about wire any farther than the passing away of an bile
hour, usitaily acquire. An author has studied a par-
ticular poiut—he has read, he has inquired, he has
thought a great deal upon it : he is not contented to
take it up casually in common with o•hers, to throw
out a hint, to propose an objection : he will either re-
main silent, uneasy, and dissatisfied, or he will begin
at the beginning and go through with it to the end.
He is for raking the whole responsibility upon himself.
He would be thought to understand the subject better
than others, or indeed would skew that nobody else
knows any thing about it. There are always three or
four points on which the literary motive at his first
outset in life fancies he can enlighten every company,
and bear down nil opposition: but he is cured of this
Quixotic and pugnacious spirit, as he goes more into
the world, where he finds that there are other opinions
and other pretensions to be adjusted besides his own.
When this asperity wears off, and a certain scholastic
precocity is mellowed down, the conversation of their
of letters becni"rs both interesting and instructive.
Men of the world have no fixed principles, no ground-
work of thow.rht ; mere scholars have too much an
ohject, a theory always in view, to which they wrest
every thing, awl not unfrcquently common sense
itself. Hy mixing with society, they rub off their
hardness of manner, and impracti..able, °trees
sive singularity, and retain a greater depth and
coherence of owlerstanding. There is more Po
be learnt from them than from their books.
'rhis was a remark of Rousseau's, and it is a very trot
one. In the cr,ofidetwe and anreserve of private in.
tercourse, they are more at liberty to say what they
think, to put the subject in different anti opposite
points of view, to illustrate it more briefly and pithily
by familiar expressions, by an appeal to individual]
character and p..rsonal kuowledge—to bring in tlii
limitation, to obviate misconception, to state ditficehn
ties on their own side of the argument, and ass
them as well as they can. This would hardly egret,
with the prudery, and somewhat ostentatious chime
of authorship. Pr. Johnson's conversation in Heir.
well's Lift. ix much better than his published sr._ ..
and the fragments of celebrated men, p
their letters or in anecdotes of them, are justly sew*
after as invaluable for the same reason. Mist allied
of sense there is in Oriettn's Correspondevite? We
thus get at the essence of what is captained in their
wore laboured productions, without affectation.