ADDRESS OF THE BRASS FOUNDERS AND BRAZIERS.
CAROLINE QUEEN OF ENGLAND.
TO HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY QUEEN CAROLINE.

MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY,

We, the operative Workers of Brass (so denominated from the days of King Solomon), do most humbly and dutifully approach your Most Gracious Majesty, to offer our Congratulations on your Majesty's return to your loyal and affectionate People and Dominions, after so perilous a tour in three quarters of the habitable globe; and to express our Condolence on the loss your Majesty has sustained by the decease of so many near relations during your Majesty's absence from this land; more particularly those who were the means of soothing and protecting your Gracious Majesty from the snares of an intriguing party, who were ever on the alert to mislead and degrade your Majesty in the eyes of your affectionate and loyal people. No inducement will ever erase from our memories the grief we sustained, and conceptions we formed of the distress of mind it must have caused your Most Excellent Majesty, when acquainted with the loss of your most amiable and beloved Daughter, the pride and hope of Great Britain; and, subsequently, our late good and aged Sovereign; both of whose virtues will be handed down as an example to succeeding generations, till time shall be no more.

We further beg leave to express our abhorrence and disgust at the unconstitutional means resorted to and pursued by your Majesty's enemies, to traduce your honour, violate your Majesty's rights as Queen of these Realms, and bring royalty into contempt, by erasing your Majesty's name from the prayers of the Established Church, which has thrown so deep a stain on the Christian faith of these Kingdoms that it is almost irrecoverable.

Moreover, to show our indignation of the unparalleled means established to pursue your Gracious Majesty over three parts of the civilized world, as the victim of their persecution; but we trust the ALMIGHTY will be pleased to arm your Majesty with fortitude to bear up against the numerous dangers that threaten your Royal Person, and unfeignedly hope, from the superior strength of evidence produced in defence of truth and justice, supported by the eloquence and ability of your Majesty's Advocates, that the whole of the proceedings against your Most Gracious Majesty's honour, will be defeated, and form in some degree a parallel to the triumph of the great orator of Rome and his colleagues, who so boldly dared to frustrate the designs of the enemies of their country.

THOMAS CHENEY, CHAIRMAN.

ROBERT DOWDING, SECRETARY.

DAVID BICKHAM IRWIN, TREASURER.

Presented this thirtieth Day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty.

(Signed by 800 Members of the Meeting.)

To which her Majesty returned the following Most Gracious Answer :

I GRATEFULLY accept this loyal and affectionate Address from the Brass Founders and Braziers.

If my adversaries had been studiously desirous of promoting their own downfall, they could not have taken more efficacious methods to effect that purpose, than by the inveterate hostility which they have shown to the honour and dignity of the Queen. Men may differ about Liberty, or may attach different ideas to the name; but all men condemn oppression, and hate the oppressor.

I have now been greeted, and that not formally or ceremoniously, but warmly and affectionately, by Industry, in almost all its modes of existence and diversities of operation. There is hardly a branch of trade, of which the members have not united to animate my spirits by their tender sympathy, and to cheer me by their promises of support in every peril and adversity. If praise be most acceptable from the praise-worthy, no Sovereign can be more highly extolled, than by the affectionate approbation, and the heart-felt homage of the most industrious part of the community.

The strong marks of popular regard which I have experienced, will, I hope, teach Sovereigns that the best way to secure the affections of their Subjects, is to be, not only in profession, but in principle, a friend to the liberties of the People. If Sovereigns would study to promote those liberties, they would receive that genuine unsophisticated homage, in the consciousness of which they would find more unfeigned satisfaction, and more certain security, than in accumulated fortresses, or in bristling bayonets. The members of the Holy Alliance might have spared themselves the pains of uniting for the preservation of their power, if they had been sufficiently good or wise to consider the Liberty of the People as their safeguard, and their affections as the most certain means of preserving every existing dynasty.

ORDER OF THE PROCESSION.

Gentleman on horseback

Four Constables

Banner—" The Address of the Brass Founders and Braziers," surmounted by Crown and Hammer
Large Mitre in white ribbon

Man in Brass Armour, on horseback, bearing the Address in a brass case, mounted with Crown and Truncheon, attended by four Pages in Brass and Copper Helmets, with Truncheons

Band of Music

Banner—Large Star, in brass; beneath, "Hail, Star of Brunswick!" the Muses bend to thee."

Chairman, Treasurer, Secretary, and Committee, all with brass wands, surmounted with Stars

Flag—Founders' Arms

Body of Members, with various brazen devices, &c.

Two Banners—"Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord." "Disloyal! No!" She's punished for her Truth; and undergoes more Goddess-like than Wife-like"

A superb large Crown on Cushion
Body of Members, as above

A large Extinguisher

Banner—"They say all's Savage but at Court; let this disprove it"

Band of Music

Banner—"The Queen and her Rights"

Man in Steel Armour, on horseback attended by four Pages in Brass and Copper Helmets, with Truncheons

Banner of Velvet, with inscription in brass letters: —

"Truth—' The Times.'"

"Good Morning."

Body of Members

A Brazen Bull, trampling on a Green Bag

Body of Members

Large Banner, with Two Crowns—"As it should be"
Two Mitres, in white ribbon

Body of Members

Banner—"The Queen's Guards are Men of Metal"

Band of Music

Body of Members.

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